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So I just read Start of Darkness the other day. I think there were two pretty big "oh poo poo" moments. One when you realize that Xykon is a whole lot smarter than anyone's been giving him credit for, and one where Right-Eye calls Redcloak Redcloak.
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Neito posted:So I just read Start of Darkness the other day. I think there were two pretty big "oh poo poo" moments. One when you realize that Xykon is a whole lot smarter than anyone's been giving him credit for, and one where Right-Eye calls Redcloak Redcloak. I love Start of Darkness and almost hate myself for finding a graphic novel based on a webcomic so great.
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I can't recommend Start of Darkness enough. Not only does it give you pretty god drat important backstory, but its simply an amazing read.
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Amused Frog posted:I love Start of Darkness and almost hate myself for finding a graphic novel based on a webcomic so great. Why is it any more invalid a graphic novel than, say, Scott Pilgrim? Just because it's also a webcomic? Great is great, no matter what. Also, I may be a bit late to this party, but after reading SoD, I'm pretty sure that the ritual Tsukiko was studying was the ritual from Redcloak's plan.
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Neito posted:Also, I may be a bit late to this party, but after reading SoD, I'm pretty sure that the ritual Tsukiko was studying was the ritual from Redcloak's plan. Seconding that Start of Darkness is an amazing read. My big "oh, poo poo" moment was the sickness that infected Xykon. What a kick in the balls!
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XkyRauh posted:She's a pretty bizarre class to begin with--Mystic Theruge or whatever--does this mean she could cast the thing all by herself? Is this a scheme to get Redcloak out of the picture? Or is she going to cast the Arcane part, in lieu of Xykon? Miss Zombie Fucker is clearly Xykon's lackey. Right now she might just be studying The Ritual because Xykon is curious, but its pretty clear that replacing Redcloak with her is going to at least come up in conversation with Xykon at some point. If that happens Xykon gets control of the Snarl, instead of The Dark One, leading to a Redcloak and Order of the Stick Team-Up.
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Tinyn posted:Miss Zombie Fucker is clearly Xykon's lackey. Right now she might just be studying The Ritual because Xykon is curious, but its pretty clear that replacing Redcloak with her is going to at least come up in conversation with Xykon at some point. If that happens Xykon gets control of the Snarl, instead of The Dark One, leading to a Redcloak and Order of the Stick Team-Up. Doubtful. The ritual (at least how I read it) seems to put the gate under control of The Dark One, regardless if the divine caster who plays a part is a bearer of the Crimson Mantle or not. Either A) Xykon's going to find out it doesn't let him totally control a god-killing monster and he's going to gently caress Redcloak's poo poo up, or B) He's not going to find out and accidentally complete The Plan, regardless.
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Maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that the Order will end up going through one of the gates or at least learning a bit more about the world that was revealed to be beyond them at the end of the last arc. Remember, anything written in crayon is a story and might not have happened the way it was said in Start of Darkness or the main story.
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This page is reading like released classified documents.
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Neito posted:While we're talking about the books, is "On The Origin of PCs" worth picking up? I suppose it gives a bit on Durkan, Roy and IIRC Roy's father but its no where near as good as SoD. I lost my copy awhile ago and haven't felt the urge to get a new one.
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Start of Darkness is great. I feel that I ought to buy the main strip compliation books, but even though there's lots of bonus content they are really expensive. Fake Edit: I just looked up international shipping on ookoodook. Set of all four books comes to $160 = £100
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XkyRauh posted:She's a pretty bizarre class to begin with--Mystic Theruge or whatever--does this mean she could cast the thing all by herself? Is this a scheme to get Redcloak out of the picture? Or is she going to cast the Arcane part, in lieu of Xykon? I think she could do either side, but the ritual requires 2 casters, regardless. So unless there's 2 of her, she'll need either Xykon or Redcloak. Guess which one's more likely.
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Sorry to get off topic here, but it looks like the stars have aligned and granted us a new update. Kinda boring one, though Belkar saves it at the end.
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Does being drunk have any effects in combat in 3.5? Because if a nearly-inevitable ballroom blitz breaks out, I wouldn't want to be in front of a drunk archer.
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That won't happen, Tarquin has to condemn Roy and Belkar to death in front of Elan at the games tomorrow.
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DrakePegasus posted:Does being drunk have any effects in combat in 3.5? Because if a nearly-inevitable ballroom blitz breaks out, I wouldn't want to be in front of a drunk archer. There were never any officials rules for being drunk, at least not in the main books, but I think most people houseruled it as a bonus to strength and fear defenses, but a penalty to wisdom, intelligence, dexterity, etc.
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DrakePegasus posted:Does being drunk have any effects in combat in 3.5? Because if a nearly-inevitable ballroom blitz breaks out, I wouldn't want to be in front of a drunk archer. Not unless you take levels in Drunken Master, I don't think. Each bottle they consume reduces Int and Wisdom by 2, and lets you bump up either Strength or Con by two. It'd be a pretty easy stand-in to have everyone take the negative without reaping the positives like Drunken Masters do.
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Cabbit posted:Not unless you take levels in Drunken Master, I don't think. Each bottle they consume reduces Int and Wisdom by 2, and lets you bump up either Strength or Con by two. It'd be a pretty easy stand-in to have everyone take the negative without reaping the positives like Drunken Masters do. I played a Drunken Master once. It owned.
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ConfusedUs posted:I played a Drunken Master once. It owned. Yeah, I imagine so. You get to down whole bottles of hard liquor in a single move action and turn them into potions of fire breathing, for gently caress's sake.
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Every drink you take beyond the first per hour makes you take a Fort save vs it's toxicity. If you fail, you take a -1 to Dex and Wis. If you pass, you're good. Each drink beyond the first that hour applies a -1 penalty to the save, then -2, then -4 and so on. If you reach 0 Wis, you pass out. If you reach 0 Dex, you fall down, but remain in blurry consciousness. I just read the Arms and Equipment guide on the can yesterday. 
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Vicissitude posted:Every drink you take beyond the first per hour makes you take a Fort save vs it's toxicity. If you fail, you take a -1 to Dex and Wis. If you pass, you're good. Each drink beyond the first that hour applies a -1 penalty to the save, then -2, then -4 and so on. If you reach 0 Wis, you pass out. If you reach 0 Dex, you fall down, but remain in blurry consciousness. I have that too, and I was going to post just that :P In my last campaign, a half-orc barbarian and a human rogue had a drinking contest. Guess who won.
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KOraithER posted:In my last campaign, a half-orc barbarian and a human rogue had a drinking contest. Guess who won. The bartender. 
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Hot Lead Allergy posted:The bartender. Oh lawdy, that made me laugh more than it should. 
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KOraithER posted:In my last campaign, a half-orc barbarian and a human rogue had a drinking contest. Guess who won. A Barbarian's CON would likely win them more of the saving throws, but the penalties to DEX and WIS would hurt more. The Rogue would lose more of the saves, but could probably take more hits to their DEX before falling down. I'm actually not sure which is worse off.
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Umbra Dubium posted:A Barbarian's CON would likely win them more of the saving throws, but the penalties to DEX and WIS would hurt more. Dexterity's not going to save you from liver cancer, so the barbarian is the clear favorite.
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Android Blues posted:The rogue has a superior knowledge of debilitating poisons. Having an intimate familiarity with metallurgy doesn't make you bulletproof.
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Cabbit posted:Having an intimate familiarity with metallurgy doesn't make you bulletproof. Clearly you don't "get" metallurgy.
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Android Blues posted:The rogue has a superior knowledge of debilitating poisons. Does the rogue plan to poison the barbarian?
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Mystic Mongol posted:Clearly you don't "get" metallurgy. I laughed way too hard on that one!
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Nuns with Guns posted:Does the rogue plan to poison the barbarian? If they're using lead mugs, he won't have too.
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oh hey what's this Mainly Belkar being Belkar but it wouldn't surprise me if there actually was a way to do the tiger thing.
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A Wizard in a recent campaign I ran made magic arrows for our party archer that would summon wolves after striking a target. But I'm positive that was just a joke about people being gullible. Also drat that update took a long time. VVV Bonus to throwing stones and using slings. VVV Cuchulain fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Sep 8, 2010 |
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Is there a long-running joke about halflings with pebbles I'm missing, or am I trying to read too deep into it?
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Neito posted:Is there a long-running joke about halflings with pebbles I'm missing, or am I trying to read too deep into it? Halflings have a bonus at throwing stones, and they're generally described as being deadly shots with them. I wonder if Burlew plays ADOM?
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Neito posted:Is there a long-running joke about halflings with pebbles I'm missing, or am I trying to read too deep into it? Halfling Skip-Rock thrower is one of the time honored character optimization builds, where a halfling with nonmagical, specially made rocks can do berzerker class damage at range to multiple targets with touch AC attacks against targets potentially around corners.
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Donraj posted:Halflings have a bonus at throwing stones, and they're generally described as being deadly shots with them. Also there's a prestige class hosted on his site that's the Halfling Rock-Skipper. Basically you get more bonuses to throwing/shooting rocks and also get social bonuses with other halflings. Major bonuses to those of the interested sex as well. Yes, it is one of the countless kinda cool yet mechanically meh-at-best prestige classes, notable only for the fact that this one was fanmade, as opposed to being a WotC sub-par prestige class (of which there were millions.) Also on the same site is the word-lich, who is like a regular lich only his phylactery is a book which he keeps updated. Also he can edit himself via changing the wording of the book. Also he doesn't count as undead for purposes of turning/smiting/etc. This is far more common: the Utterly Busted Fanmade Prestige Class.
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Umbra Dubium posted:A Barbarian's CON would likely win them more of the saving throws, but the penalties to DEX and WIS would hurt more. Given the fact that the penalty to the saving throw increases exponentially, any bonus to CON will rapidly cease to matter, leaving the Rogue with the only mathematically relevant advantage. Once you're on drink number six, I don't care how much CON your Barbarian has; you've still got a -16 penalty to that Fort check.
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