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That axe has such a characteristic shape that if it was Thog's or any other familiar character's, Burlew wouldn't have needed to bother putting a helm on them either. It's a setup for a big reveal alright but I'm gonna guess it's more along the lines of "holy poo poo it's easily identifiable creature X with STR 38!"
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It's a Dire Wolverine. EDIT: Dragonblooded.
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Apr 11, 2011 17:56
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Why did Belkar want to help out the bounty hunters? I don't remember him fraternizing with them at all.
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Nilbop posted:Thog's axe was two-headed and symmetrical last time we saw him in Greyport or whatever, but let's face it, that helmet's there to conceal a big reveal and it'd be a perfect segue in to introduce Nale to spice up something that has gone pretty much "to plan" for all parties. Vaarsuvius's mate, Soul Spliced with the three most dangerous assassins / melee fighters the nether planes have to offer.
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Apr 11, 2011 18:16
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It's Miyo Miyazaki come back from the dead as a Blackguard.
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Apr 11, 2011 18:46
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I really, really don't understand why Belkar wanted to save the bounty hunters. I hope that gets explained.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:I really, really don't understand why Belkar wanted to save the bounty hunters. I hope that gets explained. Maybe he just wanted to do something nice for Roy? But he also would never want to let Roy know he'd do anything nice for anyone.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:I really, really don't understand why Belkar wanted to save the bounty hunters. I hope that gets explained. He has been trying to be a better person, or at least pretend to be a better person convincingly enough to fool his way out of poo poo.
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Colonial Air Force posted:It's a Dire Wolverine. Awakened Dire Badger Frenzied Berserker
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Apr 11, 2011 20:43
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I think they're just his kinda people. Watch out for their buds, be tough, be one step faster and smarter than the chumps trying to drag them to justice? If Belkar doesn't like them, he doesn't like anyone. Which is option two, of course.
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Apr 11, 2011 20:48
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Also he got to turn an Allosaurus loose on a bunch of authority figures. How could he ever pass up that chance?
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My Lovely Horse posted:That axe has such a characteristic shape that if it was Thog's or any other familiar character's, Burlew wouldn't have needed to bother putting a helm on them either. It's a setup for a big reveal alright but I'm gonna guess it's more along the lines of "holy poo poo it's easily identifiable creature X with STR 38!" But what's easily identifiable, is capable of ripping somebody's head off with its bare hands, AND is apparently a Medium biped? I can't think of any monster that fits that description, which argues that it has to be character- or plot-related. The problem is, most of the plot has happened on the eastern continent, and that's where most of the characters are from. I don't think it's plot-related; Draketooth couldn't kill somebody with bare hands (and anyway an illusionist would make a lovely gladiator, either they'd be so weak as to die instantly or so strong as to easily escape), and I don't know anyone else who's been teased at who would know anything about the gate. Several characters' side stories (Haley, Elan, possibly V?) involve characters who could conceivably be in the west, but none of them would be scary, bare-handed gladiatoral combatants. I don't know who it could be other than Thog. (Or, in an extremely implausible but badass reveal, some sort of neutral-aligned death knight made out of Right-eye.)
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Ponsonby Britt posted:But what's easily identifiable, is capable of ripping somebody's head off with its bare hands, AND is apparently a Medium biped?
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I'm sticking with my "It's Draketooth" theory until I get proven wrong.
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Can't it just be a dude in an iron maiden? That's a pretty scary way for the champion to show up.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Can't it just be a dude in an iron maiden? That's a pretty scary way for the champion to show up. It's the half ogre with a spiked chain from chapter 2. He is finally making his triumphant return.
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CapnAndy posted:I'm sticking with my "It's Draketooth" theory until I get proven wrong. It would work well with Elan's dad's 'I know about Draketooth' evasive answer, but I have a hard time imagining a rogue with a battle-axe. I'm going to go with 'That dwarven barbarian from Draketooth's party that everyone thinks is dead', just for the spin it would put on the story.
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Bulrew has given the champ too much buildup to NOT be a comedy reveal. 37 straight wins? Killed a stone giant with class levels? Ripped a guys head off? My guess was going to be Roy's girlfriend, Celia. But they're pretty clearly calling the champ a "He". That half-elf member of the linear guild Pompey's still around, right?
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Apr 12, 2011 04:42
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We want Thog! We want Thog!
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I simply cannot wait until it's revealed that the champion is just another minor character that has never been in the story before and empty quote everyone in this thread. It'll be like reading the crazy theories posted on the OotS message board.
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Elves suck because of how weird pointy ears look on stickmen. Half-elves doubly so. Also elves suck.
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Kramer posted:Bulrew has given the champ too much buildup to NOT be a comedy reveal. 37 straight wins? Killed a stone giant with class levels? Ripped a guys head off?
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HKR posted:I simply cannot wait until it's revealed that the champion is just another minor character that has never been in the story before and empty quote everyone in this thread. It'll be like reading the crazy theories posted on the OotS message board. Well in that case I'd like to point out that I don't *actually* believe the Champ to be Miko Miyazaki brought back from the dead as a Blackguard. I mean, clearly it's the Flumph.
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It's Drakentooth.
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It's the MitD.
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I was hoping until now that the Champ would actually be a disguised Tarquinn but I don't think we're going to get that.
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Pope Guilty posted:Faerun is not the setting of fourth edition, it's some entirely new world. Sorry, got confused. FR's apparently the RPGA setting. Either way. D:
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I thought Faerun was the setting, or what was all that I heard about "Returned Abeir"?
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Faerun is a continent in the forgotten realms setting.
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Nilbop posted:I thought Faerun was the setting, or what was all that I heard about "Returned Abeir"? Faerun and Returned Abeir are both Continents in the Forgotten Realms. Returned Abeir is a continent that was phased back into existence in the newest edition of the setting. Primordials live there or something.
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The semi-official name for the 4e core setting is the "Points of Light" setting. It's completely separate from any previous setting and borrows liberally from all of them.
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Lurdiak posted:The semi-official name for the 4e core setting is the "Points of Light" setting. It's completely separate from any previous setting and borrows liberally from all of them.
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A quick litmus test: Read what 4ed did to the planes. Does this make you angry? No: gently caress YOU! Yes: drat STRAIGHT! What are the planes? : OK fine go back to having sex or whatever.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:A quick litmus test: I, too, miss the plane of salt.
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^^^EDIT: See exactly my point.Toussaint Louverture posted:A quick litmus test: MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Apr 13, 2011 |
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MadScientistWorking posted:^^^EDIT: See exactly my point. Baator is now a planet and the most all-consuming war in creation ended because "we moved over here."
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FUUUUUCK I AM SO ENRAGED THAT THERE IS NO LONGER A PLANE OF DUST!!! THEY HAVE LITERALLY RAPED D&D TO DEATH!!!! Even the 4e planes are stupid, but they are marginally less stupid than the motherfucking Great Wheel and its 16 loving afterlifes all tied to alignment.
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Whatever untermensch you can type it and pretend I'll read it if that makes you feel better about being wrong. 
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You're Chaotic Good, therefore your ideal afterlife is chilling out in a forest for eternity. That makes perfect sense.
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