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Kramer posted:V can't teleport either. It's a conjuration spell, which is his barred school. Yes but with a little help from her newfound infernal friend she might. Wouldn't surprise me at all if V shows up at the party all full of power and hatred and starts mercykilling everyone who surrenders.
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Kramer posted:V can't teleport either. It's a conjuration spell, which is his barred school. Yeah, but V is going to feel a lot better when he can actually help out Haley, instead of just further slipping into insanity.
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Vanadium posted:Yeah, but V is going to feel a lot better when he can actually help out Haley, instead of just further slipping into insanity. BrainWeasel posted:But then there'd be no plot! This is exactly what I meant. We as the readers know that V has split off from Elan and Durkon and is on a slippery slope to a dangerous place. Haley has no reason to suspect this -- as far as she's concerned everyone's together and V is normal as ever. Which is why her priorities in her message went 1) Durkon, rez please and 2) "Love to Elan." This is dramatic irony at work, folks; the old and well-traveled trope of a message arriving just after the nick of time.
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Oct 24, 2008 23:58
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I hope Durkon can shoot off a Sending to V to get him/her back. 
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Hey guys, isn't it about time for a new strip? Click here for the full 725x933 image.
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Sefer posted:Hey guys, isn't it about time for a new strip? Man, Rich knows his DnD, right down to PC's magically regaining HP when they double check their stats.
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Oct 31, 2008 12:45
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Sefer posted:Hey guys, isn't it about time for a new strip? That was a really good update. The first to actually make me laugh in a while!
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Oct 31, 2008 18:49
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What a fine surprise to come home after Halloween to! (I trust you goons who celebrate US-sanctioned annual costumed revelry also had a good time) I swear, it's like the strip exists purely to break the fourth wall. I love Celia's "Look, we ALL know what I'm pulling. Just go with it." e: ...and, yep, Haley's cut does in fact shrink when she checks the rules. Good eye, Cuchulain. LuchadoresDelNixon fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Nov 1, 2008 |
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Cuchulain posted:Man, Rich knows his DnD, right down to PC's magically regaining HP when they double check their stats. Of course, you can't wait too long or else stat cheks won't always work.
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Nov 2, 2008 07:51
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Guys guys guys comic
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Nov 6, 2008 14:17
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It's like he's reading this thread, taunting me.
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Nov 6, 2008 15:25
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I love the idea that Shojo has nothing better to do with his afterlife than visit Mr. Scruffy and torment Belkar.
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Pope Guilty posted:I love the idea that Shojo has nothing better to do with his afterlife than visit Mr. Scruffy and torment Belkar. I think the idea we are supposed to get is that he is going to life the Mark of Justice, so we can get Belkar killing all the other bad guys in the next page or something. Knowing OOTS, this is probably not what is going to happen at all.
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mango sentinel posted:It's like he's reading this thread, taunting me. Burlew has actually changed course on the comic in the past if he knows that people have anticipated his direction. I seriously doubt that he reads this thread though, 95% of the stuff we say comes up on his forums.
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Ashcans posted:Burlew has actually changed course on the comic in the past if he knows that people have anticipated his direction. I seriously doubt that he reads this thread though, 95% of the stuff we say comes up on his forums. Which is pretty dumb... 'Oh no I laid out the foreshadowing in such a way it made the plot make sense and people are anticipating what will happen all excitedly!' BETTER PULL SOMETHING ELSE OUT OF MY rear end.
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Gally posted:Which is pretty dumb... 'Oh no I laid out the foreshadowing in such a way it made the plot make sense and people are anticipating what will happen all excitedly!' BETTER PULL SOMETHING ELSE OUT OF MY rear end. It's just like a real DnD game!
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Ashcans posted:Burlew has actually changed course on the comic in the past if he knows that people have anticipated his direction. I seriously doubt that he reads this thread though, 95% of the stuff we say comes up on his forums. I thought he said that he actively avoids reading speculatin just because he knows he would get that urge if he knew someone predicted it and wants to avoid that?
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Donraj posted:I thought he said that he actively avoids reading speculatin just because he knows he would get that urge if he knew someone predicted it and wants to avoid that? In his forum, all speculation must be spoiler-tagged and I think, confined to a single thread.
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Does this mean that we might get some sort of actual character advancement in Belkar? I wonder if he'll take a level in a different class to represent that. Possibly rogue, to make him generally more clever skill-wise.
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Vicissitude posted:Does this mean that we might get some sort of actual character advancement in Belkar? I wonder if he'll take a level in a different class to represent that. Possibly rogue, to make him generally more clever skill-wise. Ranger-Barbarian-Rogue? Isn't that spreading his killing points too thin?
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He's already a ranger with low Wisdom who didn't bother to put points in Survival or call an animal companion. I'd say character optimization isn't Belkar's strong suit.
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Halloween Jack posted:He's already a ranger with low Wisdom who didn't bother to put points in Survival or call an animal companion. I'd say character optimization isn't Belkar's strong suit. How would Survival help him kill? How would calling an animal companion help him kill?
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animal companion would be useful, look at all the fun he's had with Mr Scruffy, and he's just a regular housecat
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Calaveron posted:How would Survival help him kill? How would calling an animal companion help him kill? I believe animal companions can flank your opponent, making them easier to kill. Depending on what you get it might even be able to find things to kill. If he does decide to call an animal companion, I can see it being Mr. Scruffy. House cats can kill commoners after all. Survival not so much.
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If he takes a level of Rogue, Mr. Fluffy flanking with him would net him +1d6 worth of Sneak Attack.
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Calaveron posted:How would Survival help him kill? How would calling an animal companion help him kill? Animal companions can flank, trip, grapple, or help him ride/fly after it. Can't kill what you can't track down.
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Did any of the background books ever explain why Belkar chose to become a ranger in the first place? Was it just for the two-weapon fighting skills?
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DoctorTristan posted:Did any of the background books ever explain why Belkar chose to become a ranger in the first place? Was it just for the two-weapon fighting skills? Belkar's origin is him in jail complaining about being bored and lasts a page or two. So, no.
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I'm not sure what to think of this one. Artistically, I will say that I love the background of the comic. Plotwise, I dunno.... I guess we'll have to see where it goes from here.
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Yea, I like the arrangement and the presentation, but that sure is a lot of  that I'm not sure I see the point of. On the other hand I'm glad its not a 'Meanwhile, back in...' interrupt, so I'm happy to run with it.
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Ashcans posted:Yea, I like the arrangement and the presentation, but that sure is a lot of
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The 6th panel is pretty drat awesome.
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I like it. I think this is going to address the "Hurr I'm Belkar better stab me some things" one-dimensional psychopath that people have been complaining about. And it's done in a humourous way too. Characters maintain a level of interest by growing and evolving, Belkar growing to realise he needs to fake this is kind of like a meta-growth. He's metagaming social interaction.
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I forsee a touching scene where he tells Haley he is sorry for being such a psychotic pain in the rear end, and everyone is really impressed with how much he has grown as a person. And in the next panel he is going to stab another gnome in the face, just out of sight of everyone else.
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Amused Frog posted:Characters maintain a level of interest by growing and evolving, Belkar growing to realise he needs to fake this is kind of like a meta-growth. He's metagaming social interaction.
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Scopedog posted:Although this is also Burlew building a backdoor into the character. This way, he can have Belkar turn into a good guy--but if he ever gets bored with good-guy Belkar, he can have him just suddenly be evil again and say "oh, I was faking it all along". I don't think he would turn Belkar good, though, is the thing. Belkar is a one-joke character, which doesn't lend itself to character development, but if you don't develop the character, you write yourself into a corner when you run out of fresh approaches to that one joke. Additionally, one-joke characters run the risk of being left behind by the rest of the cast when they grow -- this would have already happened if not for the Oracle's memory charm. This is a clever way to expand Belkar's character without betraying Belkar's character. It's perfectly possible to be Chaotic Evil and still do seemingly Good acts - not getting arrested and executed is ultimately in one's best self-interest, and live allies repay debts better than dead targets. If Belkar ever started acting Good or Neutral without being acutely self-aware of his selfish motives, nobody would buy it, so it's not going to happen. He's not going to "turn good" -- he's just graduating from Joker-style villainy to Lex-Luthor-style villainy.
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Can't wait to see the "new" Belkar. Obviously he won't be rainbows and puppy dogs, but I'm expecting to at least see some "I've learned my lesson, I'll behave from now on" type stuff while continuing his usual shtick from the shadows. There's a lot of potential for comedy when the new evil V meets up with him too.
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I know you guys have been panting for it even though you never discuss the comic anymore but you can see the Gobliiiiiiins guy drawing the comic LIVE: http://www.justin.tv/thunt (except not right now). At his normal rate of publishing I'm guessing that's about one line per 4 hours.
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 607  "Dill Resistence." Heh.
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