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More to the point, the wait for new installments was more excruciating before the internet. Apparently thralls of fans would lurk at the docks in New York asking passing sailors from England the latest details in the gripping tale; spoilers, the character they loved died horribly. Ho ho ho! A small child, do well in a Dickens work? Preposterous! At least we get our kung fu dinosaur resolutions without a transatlantic journey. This century is pretty OK.
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Wolfsheim posted:Good show, Rich. I'm wondering if Tarquin is going to give chase, or be impressed enough by their dramatic escape that he just lets them go. The whole point was to piss of Elan enough to make sure he will return and kill Tarquin one day. Trying to kill his friends does a pretty good job of that.
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Oct 9, 2013 07:57
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Yes, Elan. Yes they are awesome.
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Oct 9, 2013 08:03
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Was I the only one who teared up a little seeing the Order back together, kicking rear end, and riding off into the sunset on the back of a dinosaur?
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Oct 9, 2013 08:24
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I'm sure 50 people have the answer to this, but why is Haley flying? When did this happen?
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Geshtal posted:I'm sure 50 people have the answer to this, but why is Haley flying? When did this happen? V had a single flight spell left; Haley got it.
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Oct 9, 2013 09:25
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Flying rogue is the best kind of rogue. They should make it a habit and let Haley go all X-com from now on.
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Oct 9, 2013 10:32
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Eifert Posting posted:Flying rogue is the best kind of rogue. They should make it a habit and let Haley go all X-com from now on. Screw it, how hard could it be to get six [something] of permanent flight and just zip around through the sky for the rest of the strip.
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Oct 9, 2013 10:38
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MikeJF posted:Screw it, how hard could it be to get six [something] of permanent flight and just zip around through the sky for the rest of the strip. quote:Boots of Levitation quote:Boots, Winged Back when they arrived in the Western Continent they were dropping about those figures on buying magic items, I believe. (In case you were wondering, difference between flying and levitation: levitation is only 20 feet upwards, no horizontal movement, and you get a penalty to attacking.)
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NihilCredo posted:Not hard at all, if the DM allowed fairly unglamorous items straight from the basic rulebooks. One of the Azure Paladins had flying boots as well, before going insane in the fight with Xykon, so they're in the game world.
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Oct 9, 2013 12:56
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Rich Burlew via twitter posted:I just drew a halfling riding a dinosaur, accidentally proving Ebberon was cooler after all. Well played, Keith Baker.
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Oct 9, 2013 13:53
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Reading the latest strips I've been noticing how creepy Durkula looked, just staring at things in every panel looking emotionless. Then it hit me that it actually was what Durkon always did.
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Oct 9, 2013 13:55
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greatn posted:Well played, Keith Baker. Hahahaha. Oh Rich.
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Oct 9, 2013 14:33
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Blackheart posted:Reading the latest strips I've been noticing how creepy Durkula looked, just staring at things in every panel looking emotionless. Then it hit me that it actually was what Durkon always did. I'll throw out a random prediction: if the T-Rex doesn't get zapped or psioned or whatever, Durkula will want to snack on it in a day or two. This will further piss off Belkar (and possibly involve a joke about how Constitution drain lets Durkula drink more than his own volume in blood in under a minute).
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Oct 9, 2013 14:46
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Two other things I noticed about that strip 1) V hitting all the pterosaur riders with chain lightning in a previous strip turned out to be important - the last few panels show the sky is clear, and Tarquin doesn't have anything that can pursue them. 2) Elan is so excited when his dinosaur chomps the other one 
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Oct 9, 2013 15:55
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Why do I have a bad feeling that the reason we haven't seen Tarquin for a few strips is because he's busy reaching up his sleeve...
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Oct 9, 2013 15:55
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That was the most metal strip since the Therkla memorial. 
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FMguru posted:2) Elan is so excited when his dinosaur chomps the other one Belkar's dinosaur, thank you. 
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Oct 9, 2013 16:59
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Image sure does count for a lot. The Order is, collectively, far more dangerous than a Tyrannosaurus (quite a few of them individually), but it's still three stories of screaming dinosaur that finally sets the redshirts running.
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Oct 9, 2013 17:10
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The army was more scared of Tarquin than the Order. See a few strips back where they refused to fight Elan. They'd rather die than fight back. But I guess that the Order + T-Rex is scarier than Tarquin. 
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Oct 9, 2013 17:40
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I love the panel where they come across the other Tyrannosaur rider. Their expressions - Belkar's murderous intent, Roy's war-weary consternation, Elan's panic, Durkon's...well, Durkon face.
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Oct 9, 2013 18:18
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I like how Elan's solution to class imbalance in 3.5e is to just not give a gently caress about it and have fun anyway.
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Oct 9, 2013 19:42
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Colonel Cool posted:I like how Elan's solution to class imbalance in 3.5e is to just not give a gently caress about it and have fun anyway. What do the GitP forums think about this? It is the antithesis of grognardery.
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Silento posted:What do the GitP forums think about this? It is the antithesis of grognardery. Considering that the GitP forums had people who complained that Elan took Hold Poison instead of Cure Light Wounds or whatever because there were only 2 situations where curing poison would be used, and a counted large numer where characters were injured, it would be the optimal choice, I wouldn't hold out my hopes
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KATY PERRY posted:Considering that the GitP forums had people who complained that Elan took Hold Poison instead of Cure Light Wounds or whatever because there were only 2 situations where curing poison would be used, and a counted large numer where characters were injured, it would be the optimal choice, I wouldn't hold out my hopes For a long while the only forum I could visit at work as the GitP forum. They are not a people that take to subtlety, nuance, or character growth easily.
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KATY PERRY posted:Considering that the GitP forums had people who complained that Elan took Hold Poison instead of Cure Light Wounds or whatever because there were only 2 situations where curing poison would be used, and a counted large numer where characters were injured, it would be the optimal choice, I wouldn't hold out my hopes Wow.... They even have a in comic convention on why he didn't take cure light wound.
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Wasn't it Mass Cure Light Wounds he gave up for Cure Poison? Oh... oh no! I am the Grognard now!
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I hope they keep the dino forever. One pet made Belkar better overall, two will make him even greater. Would be kind of hard to do a dungeon crawl with a two story reptile though.
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Cornwind Evil posted:Why do I have a bad feeling that the reason we haven't seen Tarquin for a few strips is because he's busy reaching up his sleeve... Nah, this is the dramatic exit from the book for the Order and Tarquin is just going to make a face saving exit (only to return in the last book as a dangling plot thread that is going to be chopped off). World Famous Whore posted:I hope they keep the dino forever. One pet made Belkar better overall, two will make him even greater. The Tyrant Lizard is doomed, I'm afraid. He's going to be offed early into the next book to show how dangerous one of the tough monsters around the next gate are. However, that will send Belkar into a killing rage...
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KATY PERRY posted:Considering that the GitP forums had people who complained that Elan took Hold Poison instead of Cure Light Wounds or whatever because there were only 2 situations where curing poison would be used, and a counted large numer where characters were injured, it would be the optimal choice, I wouldn't hold out my hopes I wonder how long it will be before one of them  s out about how Belkar should kill the cat and take the dino as his new companion.
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Random Stranger posted:Nah, this is the dramatic exit from the book for the Order and Tarquin is just going to make a face saving exit (only to return in the last book as a dangling plot thread that is going to be chopped off). Nothing could make me happier than him showing up in the finale only to be one-shot by side-villain Zykon during some pontification about power.
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terminal mehmet posted:That was the most metal strip since the Therkla memorial. I was thinking what, nothing could be that but then I looked back in the archive.
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O-Chul's description of how he got Xykon's spell list is also pretty metal.
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DoctorTristan posted:I wonder how long it will be before one of them He can't until level 32. ( )
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Random Stranger posted:The Tyrant Lizard is doomed, I'm afraid. He's going to be offed early into the next book to show how dangerous one of the tough monsters around the next gate are. However, that will send Belkar into a killing rage... Not even. They've got no way to get the big lizard from the Western Continent where they are now to the Northern Continent where they need to be to catch Xykon and Redcloak. They're going to set him loose in the desert and go Wind Walk to try and catch up.
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Could they wind walk the dinosaur? Wind walk the dinosaaaaaaauuuuuur? Boom boom shack a lack a lack a boom. Boom book shack a lack a goomba.
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greatn posted:Could they wind walk the dinosaur? Wind walk the dinosaaaaaaauuuuuur? Dimension Door Get on the floor Cast Wind Walk on the Dinosaur!
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Wind Walk lets you carry one extra creature (besides yourself, of course) for every three levels. Presuming that Durkon is around level 15 he can get five other creatures, which would be the rest of the Order but not, alas, the dinosaur.
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jng2058 posted:Wind Walk lets you carry one extra creature (besides yourself, of course) for every three levels. Presuming that Durkon is around level 15 he can get five other creatures, which would be the rest of the Order but not, alas, the dinosaur. Couldn't he cast it on the Dinosaur which then carries Belkar? He's well within its light load.
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The problem with Wind Walk is that you transform into an insubstantial mist form that gets blown around by magical wind. That makes it hard to carry things.
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