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Robot Bastard posted:Maybe "Hey Dad, guess what? You gotta one-shot a Lich or you just piss him off. Pissed-off Liches are not good news. And guess what the sword you gave me DOESN'T DO?" Roy's father wanted him to become a wizard, though. The sword was never his idea.
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Robot Bastard posted:Seriously. "Well gee whiz, Dad, I saw about fifty dead Paladins jump up and beat Xykon's rear end even though they were ghosts, I guess you were just too busy to join in?" It seemed fairly heavily implied that only Sapphire Guard paladins could ghost rush Xykon due to their honor bound oath and whatnot. Roy's dad isn't a paladin. I wonder how Roy's mom is doing since her husband is off gallivanting with lawful floozies.
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I don't think Roy's mom is bound by the Blood Oath, so she's up in LG heaven proper playing chess or something while Eugene is free to hit all the not-quite-LG-enough floozies
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Sep 18, 2007 10:40
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Man, I'm hoping that Roy picks up some Wiz. The man deserves, nay, demands to be throwing some swordsage power up in this.
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Sep 19, 2007 09:11
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New strip is up!  Man I've been dying to get to do that. Also, I only just got the joke in the second center panel. Man Redcloak is evil.
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Sep 19, 2007 13:15
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Ashcans posted:Also, I only just got the joke in the second center panel. Man, Redcloak is evil. Yeah, at first I thought it was a take-a-number joke. Does this mean that he'll suddenly re-incorporate?
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Sep 19, 2007 14:02
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Parahexavoctal posted:Yeah, at first I thought it was a take-a-number joke. Me too. What am I missing?
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Sep 19, 2007 14:59
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Phanatic posted:Me too. What am I missing? "Does a 21 save?"
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Sep 19, 2007 15:04
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Heresiarch posted:"Does a 21 save?" Oh man, that is awesome.
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Sep 19, 2007 17:18
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It's those kind of little touches that really make me appreciate Burlew's work. Also because I'm sure that everyone that has played DnD (or something similar) has had the moment where they realised they forgot a bonus, item, or miscalculated damage past the point where it can be fixed. I feel for you, priest-guy-whose-name-I-forgot.
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Sep 19, 2007 18:46
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Ashcans posted:It's those kind of little touches that really make me appreciate Burlew's work. Also because I'm sure that everyone that has played DnD (or something similar) has had the moment where they realised they forgot a bonus, item, or miscalculated damage past the point where it can be fixed. I feel for you, priest-guy-whose-name-I-forgot. drat it, my Templar would still be alive if we hadn't gotten those attack of opportunity rules wrong.
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ignore this post, I'm an idiot
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Weren't you guys going to start a new thread when the strip started back up again?
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Sep 20, 2007 00:48
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Ouch. I think that Roy has one big advantage over his father in this case. He has a corpse, and people at least trying to revive him. I can imagine the dialog between his dad's old party. "So, our wizard just died." "Ayup" "We got some diamond dust from that last quest. Want to go get him revived?" "What? Hell no! That's drinking money you're talking about!" "Yeah, he was a prick. Well, I call dibs on the magic items." "Son of a bitch." See my point? At least Roy has some friends trying to get him back.
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Sep 20, 2007 09:19
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Pretty sure Roy's dad died of old age anyway.
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Sep 20, 2007 16:44
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Yeah, that's in On the Origin of PCs.
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Sep 20, 2007 17:48
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Wait, Roy's dad died of old age? What the heck was he doing with his life? Just hanging around waiting for his son to become a strong enough mage to take on a lich? Why is he so hard on Roy if HE didn't even try to break the curse?
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Hedgehog King posted:Wait, Roy's dad died of old age? What the heck was he doing with his life? Just hanging around waiting for his son to become a strong enough mage to take on a lich? Why is he so hard on Roy if HE didn't even try to break the curse? Eugene did try, but only succeeded in half-assing both sides of his life, adventuring and fathering, to the point where he failed at both. But yeah, Roy owes him a good punch in the face.
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NutShellBill posted:Eugene did try, but only succeeded in half-assing both sides of his life, adventuring and fathering, to the point where he failed at both. And he made that oath after getting drunk one night, not immediately after watching the death while trapped in Otiluk's (sp?) sphere.
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terminal mehmet posted:trapped in Otiluk's (sp?) sphere.  Otiluke's Resilient Spherein case anyone was wondering and all.
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Sep 21, 2007 04:42
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I am still a firm believer in the fact that Eugene was a massive prick of a dad, and not that good of a wizard. In Start of Darkness, he is given a great opportunity to kill Xykon, with One-eye's help. One-eye doesn't like him, at all, and decides to try to get Eugene to help destroy him. However, he simply turns it down and walks off. I still don't see why his son has to suffer because his dad was a retard, anyways. But that's them blood oaths for ya.
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The Werle posted:A level of wizard and a ridiculously high chance of spell failure due to all his armor? I kind of doubt it. I don't remember if FF's a verbal spell or not. I know True Strike is, though, and that's a hellaciously useful spell for anyone with a combat class. (Stood me in good stead all through Neverwinter Nights.) And besides, don't they make rings of Feather Fall? Finally, Roy's dad is a dick.
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Daneaxe posted:I don't remember if FF's a verbal spell or not. It is.
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terminal mehmet posted:It is. Really its the only way it would be useful, because if you think about the mechanis of somatic components (or worse, material) you realise that you would hit the ground before you got through it. I mean, even yelling is sort of optimistic for a lot of falls.
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J.A.B.C. posted:I am still a firm believer in the fact that Eugene was a massive prick of a dad, and not that good of a wizard. Eugene didn't take the blood oath seriously until he died, and then found out that the gods took it far more seriously than he did. It wasn't until then that he told Roy about it, as a ghost. It wasn't that he ignored it for years because he wanted to dump it on Roy, he just didn't get how important it really was.
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J.A.B.C. posted:I am still a firm believer in the fact that Eugene was a massive prick of a dad, and not that good of a wizard. What's really interesting is that when Roy questioned Eugene about why he never went after Xykon, Eugene said that he just couldn't find him anywhere, and if he'd actually gotten a lead he would've been off like a shot. Roy criticized him for not caring about his family at all and Eugene said nothing about it. In Start of Darkness, it's shown that Eugene actually did find out exactly where Xykon was, but he didn't go after him because he didn't want to abandon or endanger his family.
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Yeah, I thought that was a nice touch. Eugene knows Roy wouldn't buy the truth, so he's giving him a lie that he knows Roy will believe.
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Sep 22, 2007 02:48
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New comic.
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KaLogain posted:New comic. And a host real quick in case the website falls. http://xs119.xs.to/xs119/07386/OotS487.gif
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Sep 22, 2007 05:18
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I can't think of any way Roy can see Miko though which is sort of a disappointment.
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Ferrinus posted:These are exactly the kind of strips I wanted Roy's death to lead to Seriously. OOTS really needed to get away from the attempt at plot, and focus more on snarking about D&D. (That's what killed "Knights of the Dinner Table" for me.)
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Hahahaha! Eugene got told to sit down and shut up while his son has the chance to go into the afterlife. Ironic justice, in perfect form and function.
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J.A.B.C. posted:Hahahaha! Yeah, is it me or did that archon seem to imply that Eugene wasn't lawful good?
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Soonmot posted:Yeah, is it me or did that archon seem to imply that Eugene wasn't lawful good? Nah, it was a reference to the facade Eugene set up to trick the leaders of Azure city.
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In 484 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0484.html), what's the Cloister thing Xykon did with the headband? And what does that have to do with the "off the grid" comment he makes? Can't figure that one out.
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terminal mehmet posted:In 484 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0484.html), what's the Cloister thing Xykon did with the headband? And what does that have to do with the "off the grid" comment he makes? Can't figure that one out. He's magically hiding the city, basically making it so people won't pay attention to it and that kind of thing. Like the TARDIS!
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Fuego Fish posted:He's magically hiding the city, basically making it so people won't pay attention to it and that kind of thing. Like the TARDIS! I thought people don't pay attention to the TARDIS because no one actually takes the time to examine a locked blue phone booth looking thing. Also doesn't it get stolen every now and then anyway?
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Soylentbits posted:I thought people don't pay attention to the TARDIS because no one actually takes the time to examine a locked blue phone booth looking thing. Also doesn't it get stolen every now and then anyway? Considering all the places that the Doctor used to go to, it's gotta have some capacity for altering people's perceptions. Anyway, you understood what I meant.
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Fuego Fish posted:Considering all the places that the Doctor used to go to, it's gotta have some capacity for altering people's perceptions. It's supposed to camouflage itself but the chip for that broke. The ninth doctor mentions once how most people are too self absorbed to notice a mysterious blue box that's popped up in an alleyway so it works out for him. The few people that do notice tend to be villains who have to be defeated or companions he has fun adventures with. Still I do get what you mean so I'll stop mentioning Doctor Who in this thread. Why do all heaven employees look like Kree? Is blue just a standard lawful deity color or what?
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