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greatn posted:How did those two not get attacks of opportunity on her while she flew in? They said she couldn't do it for that very reason a few strips ago. DM forgot in the excitement.
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They already used up all their AoOs on Belkar. Whoops!
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Yeah, he provoked one for picking up the shield (which is why they both swing at him at once after he picks it up). Luckily, he had a shield so his AC carried him through it.
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Dec 6, 2008 20:39
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You know, this particular comic, and the comments just above, are a very good way to demonstrate how combat in D&D is actually much more fluid and active than the rules imply.
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Don't know where else to put this but on the off chance that anyone cares the last few pages of Goblins have been pretty loving freaky.
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Affi posted:Don't know where else to put this but on the off chance that anyone cares the last few pages of Goblins have been pretty loving freaky. Are we meant to understand what's going on there, because I really don't.
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Kojiro posted:Are we meant to understand what's going on there, because I really don't. I realized long ago that the author of Goblins was trying to tell a high-energy, fast-paced story... With the slowest update schedule on a regular comic that isn't actually dying that I've ever seen. Maybe I'll wait to see if he ever actually finishes the story and then read it, but until then, I'm not gonna bother.
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Kojiro posted:Are we meant to understand what's going on there, because I really don't. blah blah, random magic, blah. Long battle blah. I'm not sure why he thinks showing us all these guards just defending their city (so they think) getting killed in horrible ways is a good way to spend weeks upon weeks of updates.
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Gally posted:blah blah, random magic, blah. Long battle blah. There's probably a few things he's trying to show. * The goblins are pretty buff when they're trying to be * The shield is an incredibly powerful, yet incredibly dangerous artifact * A large chunk of "how does each goblin deal with stress/danger" Seriously, if you think that the only purpose for these pages is to show guards getting killed, then . . . I'm not really sure what to say. Also, I think comments of this type are absolutely hilarious less than a month after: terminal mehmet posted:It's almost as if the author spent the time carefully putting the pieces in places to make a better story instead of jamming the main plot down our throats. Good thing no one ever complains about that. How quickly we forget 
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Dec 8, 2008 20:33
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What is this goblin thing?
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This thing.
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Commissar posted:What is this goblin thing? Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes
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ZorbaTHut posted:There's probably a few things he's trying to show. Though if Big Ears smacks Complains upside the head and never wants to see him after this, it'll be a decent set up.
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Dec 8, 2008 22:48
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ZorbaTHut posted:
Yeah, I don't mind that about most things; BUT, the goblins update schedule is ridiculously slow. I do enjoy how kinetic his art is, though.
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Gally posted:Oh no, I get what he's TRYING to do. Its just failing, at least for me. I figured out the shield was very powerful a few pages ago, and yes the goblins can kick rear end. This now reads like he came up with a few AWESOME RANDOM ways for guards to bite it and we get to see them all. This last one really seemed pretty unnecessarily gruesome, too. I get the point already!
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What's funny about Goblins is that the Goblins in question are basically totally useless without the Super Magic Artifact That Kills Absolutely Everything. They could have been equally effective just by smacking the shield on a wall and then throwing it down into the middle of the bad guys. Actually, you know what? "Goblins" is an example of what happens to a campaign after the DM gets bored and gives the players a major artifact on a whim, without thinking of how it would fit into the campaign or how he's going to deal with it. The campaign turns into "look how many dice I can roll in one attack!" and "let's keep playing until we've rolled every result on the table", and then it turns boring and everyone quits. "Goblins" finished the first and is halfway through the second. (Actually, it's possible to extract some amusement from "Goblins" by reading the message board and watching people try to figure out what all those magic effects really are in D&D...)
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Scopedog posted:
Maybe. Sometimes having crazy poo poo happen all around the character when they're small and weak is pretty fun, as long as you keep focus on the characters and let the effect the outcome in a meaningful way. My favorite example of playing where that happened to me was a 7th Sea campaign where we had our big fight, which powered up an NPC who them went ballistic on an enemy fleet and the GM proceeded to tell us about it for 10 minutes as a way to end the campaign. If we hadn't succeeded, then we could have skipped story time. That's about it. Something like OotS is much better in that it lampoons all this stupid poo poo that happens in games while still being fun, even if the plot is in 20 different threads right now... which also happens in games. We are SO getting trolled.
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I like the "Are you bringing the pickles?" line from Belkar in the latest strip.
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New strip. Nice hair, Hales.  Click here for the full 727x933 image.
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Anomalous posted:New strip. *sigh* Nice strip. No wait, this foreshadowing, so that the future events are more exciting! Some sort of hair related events.
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Dec 10, 2008 03:38
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Awesome. I am such a sucker for weapons treasure.
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I like his single silver trophy.
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LuchadoresDelNixon posted:Awesome. I am such a sucker for weapons treasure. Seriously. I was trying to identify what the different weapons might actually be even though it's a stick figure cartoon.
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quote:Huh. Well, I guess he's really not going to be needing what we're taking anymore. Best line of the strip.
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terminal mehmet posted:Seriously. I was trying to identify what the different weapons might actually be even though it's a stick figure cartoon. Crossbows, Composite bows and normal bows?
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Affi posted:Crossbows, Composite bows and normal bows? And the green ones obviously do acid damage, etc.
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Kind of interesting to look back over the last few comics; they're in Pete's den, which is where he had been talking the guarding thieves into letting him go and wait out the fight. He also told the cleric he had been coming back to save him. If they had let Pete into that room and access to his weapons, he probably could have torn a few of them up with his archery. I guess we'll never know whether he was planning a double-double-cross or was really going to let them all die.
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ZorbaTHut posted:I like his single silver trophy. That was one of the first things I oticed too and it got a pretty good chuckle out of me.
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Ashcans posted:Kind of interesting to look back over the last few comics; they're in Pete's den, which is where he had been talking the guarding thieves into letting him go and wait out the fight. He also told the cleric he had been coming back to save him. If they had let Pete into that room and access to his weapons, he probably could have torn a few of them up with his archery. I guess we'll never know whether he was planning a double-double-cross or was really going to let them all die.
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Nosy_G posted:Interesting - I think that would have been something that the character might have possibly done. Still, it was a dick move to sell out all those people. I'm having trouble verbalizing how inconceivably stupid that plan would have to be, between letting his friends he fully intends to save be ambushed, and then apparently aspiring to kill the entire thieves guild.
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shadysight posted:I'm having trouble verbalizing how inconceivably stupid that plan would have to be, between letting his friends he fully intends to save be ambushed, and then apparently aspiring to kill the entire thieves guild. Yeah. It's much more likely he was just wanting to get in there to ward off whoever won should they be against him.
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shadysight posted:I'm having trouble verbalizing how inconceivably stupid that plan would have to be, between letting his friends he fully intends to save be ambushed, and then apparently aspiring to kill the entire thieves guild. If anything I would just guess that he had a flash of conscience about betraying the cleric (who apparently helped him a bit) and was thinking of bailing him out - I don't think he had any real interest in the party members. On the other hand, it doesn't seem like Pete made the best choices in life, so maybe he just had a terrible plan!
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shadysight posted:I'm having trouble verbalizing how inconceivably stupid that plan would have to be, between letting his friends he fully intends to save be ambushed, and then apparently aspiring to kill the entire thieves guild. I think his main goal was to get his eyes back, but it may be that he planned to help them after selling them out for his eyes. Of course, if he planned to take on the Guild afterwards anyway, he probably could have gotten a spell from his cleric friend or something at some point...
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You know, I never thought about how Icy Burst would taste. Fiery would be cinnamon of course. And I suppose acidic would taste like spinach.
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Shocking burst tastes like SURGE. Unholy tastes good.
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Halloween Jack posted:Shocking burst tastes like SURGE. Mello Yello.  What's an axiomatic weapon do? Spout cliches all over the place?
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It's lawful. +2d6 damage to chaotic creatures. As opposed to "anarchic."
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"My last breath... is also my mintiest..."
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Halloween Jack posted:It's lawful. +2d6 damage to chaotic creatures. As opposed to "anarchic." Also, one negative level if wielded by chaotic characters.
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