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I'm kind of hoping they pick up the lizardfolk to replace Durkon if he dies in this arc. I'm starting to like him. EDIT: I doubt it will happen though.
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Jul 24, 2010 16:13
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I like the fact that dwarves refusing to die the straw death go out and pick fights with trees for a glorious honorable death  .
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Haha. Redcloak mentioned Xykon had disappeared on some mysterious errand a while back. I like that all he's doing is trying to hit up the Oracle for some tips. Wonder if the Oracle is out because he specifically doesn't want to help Xykon?
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Mylan posted:Wonder if the Oracle is out because he specifically doesn't want to help Xykon? Might still be dead. I doubt a god would act so overtly as to raise him right on the spot. It'd probably send a prophetic dream to another priest to go and do it.
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Vicissitude posted:Might still be dead. I doubt a god would act so overtly as to raise him right on the spot. It'd probably send a prophetic dream to another priest to go and do it.  the oracle's alive, though. He pre-booked a lizard priest to raise him.
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Jul 25, 2010 16:56
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Wasn't it strongly implied in this very strip that the oracle deliberately went out so that Xykon couldn't ask for anything?
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Jul 25, 2010 17:15
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Cliff Racer posted:Wasn't it strongly implied in this very strip that the oracle deliberately went out so that Xykon couldn't ask for anything?
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Cliff Racer posted:Wasn't it strongly implied in this very strip that the oracle deliberately went out so that Xykon couldn't ask for anything? The same panel as the one featuring Xykon posted:Her followers prefer to hang around in dark caves or hidden valleys, rather than get too involved with world politics. Seems a fairly clear-cut explanation as to why the Prophet just "happened" to be out.
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CapnAndy posted:Which, as much as it's being presented as an apolitical act in the strip, is a very strong declaration of support by Tiamat for the Order of the Stick. She's got no problem with her Oracle telling the Order everything they want to know to beat Xykon, and when Xykon shows up the Oracle is not home? That's just a very diplomatic "gently caress you". Of course it's this way. The entirety of the gods (Dark One excepted) don't want anyone loving with the Snarl, so obviously they'd help someone trying to shut this crap down.
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Shugojin posted:Of course it's this way. The entirety of the gods (Dark One excepted) don't want anyone loving with the Snarl, so obviously they'd help someone trying to shut this crap down. The evil gods are kinda sorta on the dark ones side though. I bet the oracle wasn't there because Xykon would've killed him and trapped his soul.
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Affi posted:The evil gods are kinda sorta on the dark ones side though. I bet the oracle wasn't there because Xykon would've killed him and trapped his soul. it was rat and tiamat that told the dark one of the snarl in the first place
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Rumda posted:it was rat and tiamat that told the dark one of the snarl in the first place Yeah, after he independently discovered its existence they were the ones who told him that it is far, far best to just leave the thing alone. And he didn't listen, so it makes sense that they would work against him.
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Shugojin posted:And he didn't listen, so it makes sense that they would work against him. I'm curious as to how the whole V-Causing-Black-Dragon-Genocide thing is affecting Tiamat's interest in this whole thing.
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Nosy_G posted:I'm curious as to how the whole V-Causing-Black-Dragon-Genocide thing is affecting Tiamat's interest in this whole thing. I think the IFC seemed to smooth it over, although who knows what will happen.
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I'm kind of seeing it as the IFC convinced Tiamat to at least be patient and wait to kill V once Xykon is stopped.
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What we know is that Tiamat knew enough to immediately lay blame at the IFC's feet (where it belonged!), and they got her to calm down by promising a genocide of Good-aligned dragons that would be five times greater. Which, according to them, was a pretty good deal because that poo poo was gonna happen anyway, as a side effect.
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DoctorTristan posted:
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CapnAndy posted:What we know is that Tiamat knew enough to immediately lay blame at the IFC's feet (where it belonged!), and they got her to calm down by promising a genocide of Good-aligned dragons that would be five times greater. Which, according to them, was a pretty good deal because that poo poo was gonna happen anyway, as a side effect. Which book were these strips published in? I don't remember any of this in the website stuff.
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Cliff Racer posted:Which book were these strips published in? I don't remember any of this in the website stuff. http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0668.html This and the previous strip, where Tiamat calls the IFC office.
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 New StripHemipenes... 
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Jul 28, 2010 23:52
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Whose. Whose. Look whose get out of jail free card
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Jul 29, 2010 01:43
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ooo, look whose a big ol grammar nazi
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Jul 29, 2010 03:12
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Huh, apparently Belkar's ranks in Profession (Gourmet Chef) are canon after all.
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NEW STRIP!
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Jul 31, 2010 03:45
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I totally want Malak and Bounty Hunter Lizard to join the party. 
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Elan's thought processes make me  . Also, I approve of Nyr-Azul's progressive use of social networking.
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Kotor, Paladin of Marduk is smackin' dragons, yo. Kotor, Paladin of Marduk has updated his location. Kotor, Paladin of Marduk joined the group Need a Rez.
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Technogeek posted:Kotor, Paladin of Marduk is smackin' dragons, yo. I thought that was pretty cute, too.
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Jul 31, 2010 12:58
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The latest comic posted:Dewey decimal system strictly enforced. Perfect.
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Soonmot posted:I thought that was pretty cute, too. I was tempted to include Nyr-Azul, Priest of Tiamat in that list, but I wasn't certain it was related.
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Technogeek posted:I was tempted to include Nyr-Azul, Priest of Tiamat in that list, but I wasn't certain it was related. I bet it is. He was smacking dragons.
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Technogeek posted:I was tempted to include Nyr-Azul, Priest of Tiamat in that list, but I wasn't certain it was related. Kotor, Paladin of Marduk is smakin' dragons, yo. Kotor, Paladin of Marduk has updated his location. Nyr-Azul, Priest of Tiamat has updated his location. Kotor, Paladin of Marduk joined the group NEED A REZ. Clearly Nyr-Azul used Macebook to hunt Kotor.
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I know its an old trope, but explain to me why clerics cannot use edged weapons.
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There was an old story about priests not technically being allowed to shed blood, so warrior-priests such as Adhemar le Puy or Odo of Bayeaux carried maces or clubs when they went into battle. Of course that makes no sense since braining someone with a mace will probably splatter some blood anyway, but since blunt trauma is better for injuring someone through heavy armor it's likely war leaders who were also clerics did arm themselves that way (along with a bunch of other knights in the army).
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The D&D cleric wasn't added to the game out of any notion of making the included classes more holistic; it was added because there was a need for it. There was a vampire recurring villain, so they whipped up a militant cleric character who was a mixture of those guys Piedmon Sama mentioned with Abraham Van Helsing. That's why clerics can use magic with armor, wield weapons but not sharp ones, and good clerics can repel undead although aberrations or oozes would make just as much sense.
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The way I understood it was that clerics were ostensibly healers, teachers and priests: i.e. not warriors. It would be perfectly reasonable for one of them to carry around a big heavy ceremonial mace of office, but not a sword since a sword has only one purpose.
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Umbra Dubium posted:The way I understood it was that clerics were ostensibly healers, teachers and priests: i.e. not warriors. Except there are ceremonial swords too that are more useless than ceremonial maces or scepters or whatever in killing people. No, it's basically what Piedmon Sama said.
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Umbra Dubium posted:The way I understood it was that clerics were ostensibly healers, teachers and priests: i.e. not warriors. This is from an old Forgotten Realms book. Pool of Radiance, I think. Man, I wish I'd spent all that money on Apple stock instead of D&D books when I was in high school. 
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