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Also that gnome is dead. Not only are you a racist, you can't even tell a live gnome from a dead one. Ignorance honey-pot successful, you are my fly!
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I hope the Belkar finds target(s) in the brothels by being propositioned because one of them has a thing for halfling men.
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JustV posted:New comic: I hear that Skin-too-soft helps keep stirges away.
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jesus christ this strip is going no where why are we getting amway jokes shouldn't we have wrapped this up 5 months ago?
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HKR posted:OH GOD, HUMOR IN MY HUMOR-BASED WEBCOMIC! It's too bad Haley couldn't find a real Rogue's Guild to join/take over/rob blind. Maybe since this is war-torn desert region they're all assassins, and too smart to advertise?
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HKR posted:jesus christ this strip is going no where why are we getting amway jokes shouldn't we have wrapped this up 5 months ago? See, sometimes in this comic strip, they tell jokes.
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I'm beginning to think that what some of you people want is just for him to post a single word document containing his entire outline of the story, start to finish, in lieu of trying to tell that story by posting comic strips.
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Mar 31, 2010 04:37
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But it better not have too many words in it.
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And it better be loving hilarious. EDIT: But not waste too much time with maudling jokes.
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Is he referring to any specific picture from the First Edition? I only started D&D with 3rd.
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Brannock posted:Is he referring to any specific picture from the First Edition? I only started D&D with 3rd. Just imagine a black and white line drawing of a woman with messy hair and some sort of fantasy bikini, surrounded by dots.
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Cabbit posted:I'm beginning to think that what some of you people want is just for him to post a single word document containing his entire outline of the story, start to finish, in lieu of trying to tell that story by posting comic strips. No, I'm actually cool with Rich telling a story by posting comic strips. It was pretty neat back when he used to do that! edit: I hate it when a fanbase refuses to tolerate criticism. I like this comic, I really do, but literally nothing has happened for the last 4 strips now, and it's getting old. And yeah, I know that there have been longer "nothing happens" lulls in the plot already. Those got old, too. 
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Mystic Mongol posted:Just imagine a black and white line drawing of a woman with messy hair and some sort of fantasy bikini, surrounded by dots. I actually looked at a D&D player's guide after a few years of doing Warhammer stuff, and instantly saw where the stereotype came from. Literally every drawing of a woman, be it busty adventurer or busty demoness or busty tree, was utterly ridiculous. What was even weirder was that all the books talked about the player character being a "she" by default, which struck me as just a little bit creepy. Ashenai posted:edit: I hate it when a fanbase refuses to tolerate criticism. I like this comic, I really do, but literally nothing has happened for the last 4 strips now, and it's getting old. And yeah, I know that there have been longer "nothing happens" lulls in the plot already. Those got old, too. This thread is just getting over a huge bank of stupid criticism that lasted the entire length the Party was in the desert, so everyone's a little tense.
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Do all people spend so much time reading comic strips they don't enjoy? Or is this just a goon thing?
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I think regular people just end up reading Hagar or Andy Capp in the newspaper because they're on the train home and have nothing else to do, but they probably don't go to a forum and find a thread dedicated to the comic in order to complain about Andy beating his wife.
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Ashcans posted:I think regular people just end up reading Hagar or Andy Capp in the newspaper because they're on the train home and have nothing else to do, but they probably don't go to a forum and find a thread dedicated to the comic in order to complain about Andy beating his wife. To be fair, she is sort of asking for it.
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Nilbop posted:What was even weirder was that all the books talked about the player character being a "she" by default, which struck me as just a little bit creepy. ... 
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This comic was hilarious, I don't know what people are complaining about. 
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oobey posted:Do all people spend so much time reading comic strips they don't enjoy? Or is this just a goon thing? Not everyone reads only things they find flawless.
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Android Blues posted:This comic was hilarious, I don't know what people are complaining about. I agree! Totally looking forward to the other party-members failures to find anything out in their respective fields.
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Noia posted:... What the majority of players are males playing male characters, aren't they?
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HKR posted:jesus christ this strip is going no where why are we getting amway jokes shouldn't we have wrapped this up 5 months ago? 
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Cliff Racer posted:What the majority of players are males playing male characters, aren't they? At the time the books were written 'She' was the more common gender neutral pronoun.
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In the later books they used the pronoun that corresponded to the sample player character they provided. At least for Base Classes and PrCs.
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Switching off between 'he' and 'she' is not an uncommon writing practise in a lot of instructive texts, in RPG books especially it has been the norm since the nineties. It would behoove critics of this to remember that the generic 'he' as used in older books is not masculine, but rather the closest thing English then had to a gender neutral pronoun (I am sure you can see why this is sort of ridiculous!). So, like, alternating he and she is a nice intermediary between dudecentric he-ism or whatever you wanna call it and wacky new age pronouns like xie and zhe, or the flow-breaking, unpronounceable awkwardness of s/he.
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Android Blues posted:Switching off between 'he' and 'she' is not an uncommon writing practise in a lot of instructive texts, in RPG books especially it has been the norm since the nineties. It would behoove critics of this to remember that the generic 'he' as used in older books is not masculine, but rather the closest thing English then had to a gender neutral pronoun (I am sure you can see why this is sort of ridiculous!). So, like, alternating he and she is a nice intermediary between dudecentric he-ism or whatever you wanna call it and wacky new age pronouns like xie and zhe, or the flow-breaking, unpronounceable awkwardness of s/he. Or the use of the plural "they"! English language chat itt
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One could also use this form, should one wish to annoy the piss out of others.
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Amused Frog posted:Or the use of the plural "they"! Then you run across problems with the pluralization of the pronoun not matching the pluralization of the rest of the sentence.
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Sefer posted:Then you run across problems with the pluralization of the pronoun not matching the pluralization of the rest of the sentence. That said, 'they' is my pick for indefinite pronoun. It can have a non-plural meaning, it just has to be used in that sense enough - and it sort of already has been, so.
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What the fu
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Ashenai posted:No, I'm actually cool with Rich telling a story by posting comic strips. It was pretty neat back when he used to do that! You must've hated the 90% of the strip's archives that's just them loving around/on a sidequest/etc. Android Blues posted:That said, 'they' is my pick for indefinite pronoun. It can have a non-plural meaning, it just has to be used in that sense enough - and it sort of already has been, so. Is this argument happening? Like, seriously?
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Sefer posted:Then you run across problems with the pluralization of the pronoun not matching the pluralization of the rest of the sentence. Yeah, I know. I was adding it to the list of pronouns that have problems when people try to use them as a non-gender specific pronoun.
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Just go with "it." Let's not be romantic, characters are things, after all.
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D&D comic book nerds debating grammar. What is the world coming to?
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terminal mehmet posted:D&D comic book nerds debating grammar. What is the world coming to? we're all hosed
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Amused Frog posted:we're all hosed This is news to you?
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Wolfsheim posted:Is this argument happening? Like, seriously? Oh, tush. This argument is always happening, there's no need to take exception.
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I think what some people are saying is that this strip was entertaining, but could have been handled as a one-panel gag in a larger strip where the team discusses their next move. Roy: OK, team, what have you got? Others: whatever Haley: The "rogues" around here are dyslexic and tried to sell me cosmetics. There, whatever, write a better quick joke about people who misspell "rogue." I don't think this particular joke benefited from being drawn out into a whole strip, unlike, say, that old one with people selling potions below cost. I know this stuff balances out well later in book form, but right now, the strip with Elan and all the DnD dick jokes bought enough goodwill on the nerd humor front; I want to see something go somewhere after so many strips languishing in Azure City. AGAIN. Yes, there was humor in those strips, but I don't give two shits about Redcloak and I think there was enough to establish his character and relationship with Xykon before this last detour. The strip's got 6 Player Characters on which to lavish attention already.
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