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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? If I remember correctly there's a scene in Lord of the Rings (Extended) where two halflings take out like half a dozen upgraded orcs by throwing small stones at them.
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Mystic Mongol posted: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. How does it measure up to the War Hulk/Hulking Hurler build that involves throwing a lead sphere that's seven feet in diameter?
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inthesto posted:How does it measure up to the War Hulk/Hulking Hurler build that involves throwing a lead sphere that's seven feet in diameter? Poorly, but the Hulking Hurler can hit anyone on a touch ac attack against 5 and destroy planets. You've set the bar a little high here. Also, that was an iridium sphere.
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Also, pebbles are abundant and portable in mass quantities.
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Lord Commissar posted:Also, pebbles are abundant and portable in mass quantities. Well, if you're going to judge a build by how effective it is without enormous piles of magical geegaws, I guess wizard comes out on top. Exactly the same as with enormous piles of magical geegaws.
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Renoistic posted:If I remember correctly there's a scene in Lord of the Rings (Extended) where two halflings take out like half a dozen upgraded orcs by throwing small stones at them. Yeah the whole halflings are great with slingstones/thrown rocks comes from Bilbo going to town on the giant spiders in The Hobbit. Although to be fair Tolkien put that in because he wanted a David vs. Goliath allusion.
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New Comic Apparently that's Oliver J. Dragon, from Kukla, Fran and Ollie, a TV puppet show that ran from 1947 to 1957.
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Sep 13, 2010 03:46
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Now this video makes slightly more sense! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1avf8jlAsU
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Sep 13, 2010 03:56
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Meh, if he wanted to make a pop culture reference he totally missed out on making a crescent fresh one.
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Gassire posted:Meh, if he wanted to make a pop culture reference he totally missed out on making a crescent fresh one. Thats Ollie the dragon, from Kukla, Fran and Ollie. When we broadcast television in black and white it was popular. It ended in 1957, but when I was a little boy we saw reruns through the 1960s on one of the two television stations we could receive in the mountains. (Yeah, get off my lawn) The two gladiators are OLD thats the joke.
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Ze Pollack posted:Word-lich: 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. "Updated my Journal."
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Sep 14, 2010 03:49
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New comic! So many Sending gags.
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Sep 16, 2010 08:18
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Man. Chaotic chickpeas. Wait till breakfast. Lawful waffles.
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sansuki posted:Man. Chaotic chickpeas. Wait till breakfast. Lawful waffles. I'll get the tennis racket.
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 Hey guys! New strip! Now someone explain the joke to me?
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CapnAndy posted:Now someone explain the joke to me?
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CapnAndy posted:
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CapnAndy posted:Now someone explain the joke to me? In 1st and 2nd edition, the longer lived races like Elf and Dwarf eventually experienced a limit cap on certain classes, like an Elf could only become, max, a level 12 wizard. This was to explain that the reason the entire universe isn't ruled by level 100 elderly elves is because they hit some inexplicable wall of knowledge and never move past it. Humans didn't have this. Human supremacy.
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crime fighting hog posted:In 1st and 2nd edition, the longer lived races like Elf and Dwarf eventually experienced a limit cap on certain classes, like an Elf could only become, max, a level 12 wizard. This was to explain that the reason the entire universe isn't ruled by level 100 elderly elves is because they hit some inexplicable wall of knowledge and never move past it. Rule Most Likely To Be Houseruled Away, in my experience. Doubling and then tripling XP required per level was popular. Although I think at some point in the flood of 2nd Ed addon books, probably in the High Level Campaigns book, they decided that 30th level was the cap for everyone, even humans. That's just As Good As Ya Can Get. Meanwhile publishing daily spell tables up to 32 in the Complete Wizard's Handbook. TSR.
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Oh he stuck his tounge out! How rude!
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crime fighting hog posted:In 1st and 2nd edition, the longer lived races like Elf and Dwarf eventually experienced a limit cap on certain classes, like an Elf could only become, max, a level 12 wizard. This was to explain that the reason the entire universe isn't ruled by level 100 elderly elves is because they hit some inexplicable wall of knowledge and never move past it. I believe in 1st edition basic the elf could only be the equivalent of a fighter/mage, and limited to level 9(?). Dual classes weren't invented then - you couldn't choose a race and a class, the class determined the race. 'Elf' and 'Halfling' WERE classes.
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Yeah, in Basic D&D, the fighter, cleric, mage, and thief classes were all automatically humans, and they could reach the 36th-level epic cap. Elves topped out at 12th, dwarfs at 10th, and halflings at 8th, or something like that, and if you wanted to improve beyond that there were some weird rules in the book. At this point, we're talking about the 1977 rules and the old-school red D&D box with the Larry Elmore art all over it.
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Wanderer posted:At this point, we're talking about the 1977 rules and the old-school red D&D box with the Larry Elmore art all over it. Which if you haven't seen yet is out on the shelves again but with a cut-down version of 4th Edition in it.
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Is it just me, or does Haley look really oddly drawn in that last panel?
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CapnAndy posted:I realize that this strip isn't technically the dictionary definition for Chaotic Good, but it really loving ought to be. See, 4th edition? It's not that hard! I wonder if future Mrs. Tarquin X has Mysterious Circumstance Insurance.
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Looks like things are coming to a head. I've enjoyed the strip since they arrived at the city, but Haley and V action leave me all atwitter 
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I like how shocked "future Mrs Tarquin #10" looks when she exits the chamber and how fast she is actually running away when the General is busy talking to Elan.
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Nosy_G posted:Is it just me, or does Haley look really oddly drawn in that last panel? Unibrow.
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#750 Order Up
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What is it that Durkon is trying w/ that scroll/parchment? Is that something related to Draketooth I dont remember?
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Elan really does have the best dad ever.
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The Werle posted:What is it that Durkon is trying w/ that scroll/parchment? Is that something related to Draketooth I dont remember? I think he's editing down a sending to be the right amount of words.
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Cliff Racer posted:I think he's editing down a sending to be the right amount of words. If you only follow Durkon in the very, very confusing left to right order he seems to ask the lizard cleric for advice on the spell after his first attempt, so I imagine it was something a bit more complicated than that. Manyorcas fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Oct 13, 2010 |
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I really like the (nearly) wordless strips like these.
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Man, I see one of two things happening with Durkon here, and both are depressing as hell. 1) He develops a true and deep friendship with this cleric, then realizes he has to kill him. It tears him apart. 2) He has a crisis of faith and does something seriously dick like V did a few arcs back. It tears him/others apart.
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Manyorcas posted:very, very confusing left to right order Yeah, I didn't notice the sun at the top first dictating time. Probably should have had thicker vertical and thinner horizontal dividers or something.
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