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Carrasco posted:Yeah, he's basically acted directly against their interests twice already. First time was an accident, second time was a bluff, who knows what'll happen the third time. Was that spell a Suggestion or a Dominate Monster? If it's the latter, you get a saving throw if you're compelled to do something against your nature. Assuming Redcloak betraying Xykon is good for the good guys, the MITD will be compelled to eat him at the worst possible moment for the world's survival. If the MITD's nature forces a new saving throw and prevents him from doing something evil like that, wouldn't that be a huge dramatic moment for him? Especially if his mentor O-Chul is there to see it, which, O-Chul is right there.
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Ponsonby Britt posted:Was that spell a Suggestion or a Dominate Monster? If it's the latter, you get a saving throw if you're compelled to do something against your nature. Assuming Redcloak betraying Xykon is good for the good guys, the MITD will be compelled to eat him at the worst possible moment for the world's survival. If the MITD's nature forces a new saving throw and prevents him from doing something evil like that, wouldn't that be a huge dramatic moment for him? Especially if his mentor O-Chul is there to see it, which, O-Chul is right there. It was one of the rare moments where they don't explicitly call out the spell as it's cast, but it's almost certainly Suggestion, since Dominate Monster would imply he's been under Xykon's direct telepathic control this entire time, which is extremely unlikely. Although I'm not sure Suggestion lets you make a long term post-hypnotic kind of trigger either, so it might just be dramatic license. Or some spell Xykon specifically created to make people betray their allies when they're last expecting it, because it would be funny. Which I wouldn't put past him.
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Rygar201 posted:That Warg has the highest wisdom out of the entire cast. That's kinda concerning, given Wargs/Worgs are Wis 14 base. Hmm. Worg cleric. Ever happened?
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Bloodly posted:That's kinda concerning, given Wargs/Worgs are Wis 14 base. Maybe? http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2lkn2?Worg-Charecter-advise-please
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So, MitD is much smaller than usual for its species because its young, and "majestic" looking. Does this hint help identify it?
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Carrasco posted:It was one of the rare moments where they don't explicitly call out the spell as it's cast, but it's almost certainly Suggestion, since Dominate Monster would imply he's been under Xykon's direct telepathic control this entire time, which is extremely unlikely. Although I'm not sure Suggestion lets you make a long term post-hypnotic kind of trigger either, so it might just be dramatic license. Or some spell Xykon specifically created to make people betray their allies when they're last expecting it, because it would be funny. Which I wouldn't put past him. Also, Dominate Monster wasn't one of Xykon's level 9 spells as seen in http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0670.html
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Poison Mushroom posted:Xykon's Moderately Escapeable Forcecage Chekhov's Conspicuously Placed Loaded Firearm
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Was the Suggestion bit ever in the actual comic or in a side-story?
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Taerkar posted:Was the Suggestion bit ever in the actual comic or in a side-story? It's not in the main comic as far as I know
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Taerkar posted:Was the Suggestion bit ever in the actual comic or in a side-story? I'm pretty sure it's in Start of Darkness.
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Still say MitD is a young http://www.lomion.de/cmm/nigmarbe.php .
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I still love that a single githyanki spelljammer accidentally found a way to the Dark Sun world and just went  and left
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I can't decide if I even want to know what the Monster In The Darkness is. That gag's been going on for so long now that the payoff can't possibly be worth it, at best it'll send us to the Monster Manual to go "Oh, right, he's one of X, I guess that makes sense." A shadow under an umbrella is how we've known him, would it be a problem if he just saw out the rest of the comic like that?
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Colonel Cool posted:Still say MitD is a young http://www.lomion.de/cmm/nigmarbe.php . EXCUSE YOU, scrub, but the Nightmare Beast has red eyes, and the MITD has yellow ones. *snort* I hardly think anyone, even Rich, would dare to take that kind of artistic license, they'd be decried as a hack immediately. If you would care to take a loo at my carefully groomed excel sheet cross-referencing every strip and comment made by Mr. Burlew along with every splatbook made on a high fantasy setting's creatures you'll see that the Nightmare beast is one of six thousand eighty one creatures the MITD clearly isn't.  Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my GITP thread to mock people for miscalculating average damage probability in strip # 613...
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Colonel Cool posted:Still say MitD is a young http://www.lomion.de/cmm/nigmarbe.php . How does it hold the umbrella? Also, it's Dark Sun. Is that something Rich can freely use like the rest of the standard 3rd edition stuff?
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MitD seems like it's gained a couple of points in INT.
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Kajeesus posted:O-chul has the cloak. Lien is protected by her ring of water breathing. But she gave him the ring! MikeJF posted:I feel like that's the kind of thing a lot of DMs would tell you to gently caress off on. That's the sort of thing a DM would say "Okay wise guy, now point out the rule on how you STOP drowning". There isn't one.. Cuntellectual fucked around with this message at 00:17 on May 22, 2016 |
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You guys are otherthinking it. Contingency: Dominate Monster
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A.o.D. posted:in a jokulhaup. I think you made that word up.
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Shaking lemur butt posted:MitD seems like it's gained a couple of points in INT. I feel like it always had plenty of INT, but it's been steadily moving up from a total lack of WIS.
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I think its pretty dumb, actually, which is why it continually relies on whoever else is around for instructions and moral judgment calls. It's gotta be getting wiser, though, because its doing that less and less.
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It was a child. It's growing up.
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It could tell the ritual was half a ritual at a glance. It was obliterating O'chul at Go. It's intelligent, just unwise.
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MikeJF posted:It could tell the ritual was half a ritual at a glance. It was obliterating O'chul at Go. It's intelligent, just unwise. I think people have pointed out that that could also mean it's psychic.
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DolphinCop posted:it's a frumious bandersnatch. there's no doubt I don't think Rich uses anything from Pathfinder in the comic. http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/bestiary3/bandersnatch.html
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Shugojin posted:I still love that a single githyanki spelljammer accidentally found a way to the Dark Sun world and just went Where's this mentioned?
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Anatharon posted:I think you made that word up. That would make him both very old and Icelandic. Not that there's anything wrong with either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6kulhlaup
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Who What Now posted:Where's this mentioned? I think I read it in this thread somewhere but hell if I can find the story it's from so it might be wrong.
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Who What Now posted:Where's this mentioned? It comes up in the Planeswalkers' Handbook, where it mentions that "portals leading [to Athas] are extremely rare, and spells that allow interplanar travel fail more than half the time. Recently, the githyanki attempted to reopen one of the few permanent portals to this world from the Astral, but their efforts were thwarted by the natives". I'm sure there's a more detailed description out there somewhere--in particular I'm pretty sure Spelljammer mentions that it's impossible to travel there by space as well, because its crystal sphere has no openings and is opaque--but it definitely is canon.
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Arhas really loving sucks, doesn't it?
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"Nod, get treat." is the funniest thing I've read in this strip in a long time.
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Rich really is okay!
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Can we drop the main plot and just follow these guys around for a few hundred comics?
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Greyview is my new favorite character. 
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Quick, Look up every special attack of every monster! You heard the roach!
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W.T. Fits posted:Greyview is my new favorite character. Yeah, same.
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W.T. Fits posted:Greyview is my new favorite character. I cannot believe I only now just realized that his name is also his outlook on life. 
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"Grim spectre of noogie hangs like a shroud over us all."  Also, Redcloak getting a head rub is
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