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squibble posted:I don't know when you got that Av but it is AWESOME. About a day after the comic came out. I figured it would be best to hurry. And thanks! 
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This comic is so weirdly inconsistent. You get all those awesome Tarquin strips in pretty quick succession, then wait a week plus for this. I don't mind wordy strips at all, but the words here don't really do anything, it's just bizarrely drawn-out let's go bust out my dad, also lol I wasn't gonna pay the ransom. That's like one panel's worth of plot and an aside joke, not an entire comic. Do we really need like half a strip detailing her ingenious plan to pay the ransom then steal it back when it's now not even gonna happen? Also I wish they'd just stop doing sex jokes. They are awkward and don't work.
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I think it's backgrounds that take the most time. The Tarquin stuff was like, a railing.
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wiegieman posted:I think it's backgrounds that take the most time. The Tarquin stuff was like, a railing. Really? The backgrounds in the most recent strip are like, 30 minutes tops in Adobe Illustrator. Burlew uses copy-pastes for his characters, I really don't think the art is what's holding it back. He was probably just scripting out the next part of this arc.
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Plus it *is* the week before Christmas. I don't know about you, but I've been busy as hell lately.
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Dec 29, 2010 02:18
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Tarquin is the best evil genius ever 
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Dec 29, 2010 02:48
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Yes. Yes he is.
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Dec 29, 2010 03:25
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I would buy the entire manual if it existed.
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Dec 29, 2010 03:38
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It does. Google "Evil Overlord" list.
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Dec 29, 2010 03:44
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If I ever have to make an employee handbook, I'm including that. Definite love for this strip.
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Dec 29, 2010 04:17
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Xykon who?
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Dec 29, 2010 05:07
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Tried zooming in on the mid-week games poster but was disappointed.
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Dec 29, 2010 05:22
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Once again, proving that genre awareness is the most deadly superpower of all.
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New strip! All I want to say by way of commentary is that once in a Star Wars campaign, I rolled a massive critical success when using Force Suggestion. The crew of an entire Star Destroyer was thus convinced that our ship was in the area because we were delivering a pizza somebody on the planet below had ordered. Never underestimate the power of a dumb lie backed by really good rolls.
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I am the Moon! (let's see how many people also read the TGD forum...)
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Jan 7, 2011 20:15
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Bobulus posted:I am the Moon! (HE IS THE MOON)
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*smokes a fatty and rides the smoke up to bobulus*
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Bobulus posted:I am the Moon! 
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CapnAndy posted:...I don't drat shame (you are the moooooooooon)
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You may be the moon, but that doesn't mean I have to do what you tell me to.
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Starts here as an argument as to why bards suck so much, and just steamrolled from there. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3098558&pagenumber=218&perpage=40#post371989051
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It works like this, if you want to tell a lie, you make a Bluff check. If the lie is pretty much impossible to believe, the target gets a +20 to the attempt to see through it. Glibness gives a +30 to the check, which means that if the target is as good at seeing through lies as you are at telling them (which is really difficult, because it's a lot easier to find bonuses to increase your ability to tell lies than your ability to detect them), you will still come out ahead most of the time if you're telling an impossible lie. If it's merely implausible, it's all but guaranteed. And at epic levels, things get even sillier where you can jump straight into Jedi Mind Trick. Thanks to Glibness, lying is more effective than telling the truth.
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No no, I knew how it works. I just didn't get the TGD reference to being the moon.
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Oh hey, grognards.txt got good again.
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I just realized those two guards foreshadows not only some action at the palace in a bit, but also that they'll be appearing in it as well.
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anchorite posted:
I love the look on Roy's face in the last panel. He's so smug.
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The smuggest. This arc had been great, I do wonder when it is going to move on though, it feels like a long time since anything happened with the main quest. Not necessarily a bad thing but I've kind of forgotten what they are even supposed to be doing anymore, something about gates or whatever?
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Kuno posted:The smuggest. They have to prevent Tarquin from ruling the world. Good luck with that.
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Kuno posted:The smuggest. Who the hell cares, this whole thing owns!
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Things are obviously coming to a head here. Haley sent those first two guards to the palace; Tarquin is going to know exactly what's going on the second they show up and I guarantee you his Sense Motive scores are as astronomical as Haley's Bluff. She won't be able to lie her way past him.
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Well, the potion's effects stopped changing her voice when she entered the Anti-magic field (note the loss of color in her speech bubble). I'm not clear enough on my D&D rules if that negated the potion, or the effects of the potion. In other words, if she leaves the anti-magic field now, before the potion wears off, does she get the effect back?
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Antimagic fields only suppress effects, so yeah, she does. That's what the "half an hour" line is about, too.
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I hope this is all leading up to the point where Elan compensates for not being able to out-swordfight his father by bringing a singleclass, high level fighter to the rematch.
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I have to say that Burlew must be one helluva DM. His solution to the wizard problem is splitting the party.
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Red_Mage posted:I have to say that Burlew must be one helluva DM. His solution to the wizard problem is splitting the party. Which, incidentally, only works because the wizard can't teleport...
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Ashenai posted:Which, incidentally, only works because the wizard can't teleport... Well, it's not his fault the fundamental rules of reality were changed since he chose his prohibited schools.
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CapnAndy posted:Things are obviously coming to a head here. Haley sent those first two guards to the palace; Tarquin is going to know exactly what's going on the second they show up and I guarantee you his Sense Motive scores are as astronomical as Haley's Bluff. She won't be able to lie her way past him. Glibness gives you a +30 to Bluff rolls to lie.
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Zereth posted:No, that's the thing about Glibness. The bonus you get to your Sense Motive to see through a completely blatantly false lie, like "The sky is green" when the blue sky is in your field of view, is +20. And unless Tarquin is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay higher level than Haley is, her Bluff score is likely fairly close to his. It's easy to pump Bluff even without taking ranks in it. It's hard as hell to pump Sense Motive any higher. That's not to say he won't figure it out, of course. Haley hasn't bluffed against Tarquin yet, so he's free of the effects of her potion.
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