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navyjack posted:I misted up a little. Over a stick-figure dwarf. I'd really like Rich to take a swing at some non-graphic fiction, he's got some chops for it, maybe. Either that or get an artist that's as amazing at art as Rich is at writing and do a Kickstarter for a proper one-off graphic novel. I would buy the poo poo out of something like that.
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Rich has demonstrated many times that he's a skilled writer. If you dig around, you can find some of his non-stick art and he's skilled in that department as well (the sketches of Nale and Thog in the Cliffport arc are by him). I'd genuinely like to see some of his prose or what he'd create in a one-off graphic novel.
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I feel like Burlew has a strong and popular future ahead of him in whatever creative direction he chooses to go.
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How many strips in a row is that now?
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Mildly interesting trivia: #877 has the same title as #333 ("The Bright Side"). I think it's the first repeat title in the comic archive, too.
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NihilCredo posted:Mildly interesting trivia: #877 has the same title as #333 ("The Bright Side"). I think it's the first repeat title in the comic archive, too. Oh christ, I just went back and read #333 and it's not a coincidence, either. Rich is a bastard.
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NihilCredo posted:Mildly interesting trivia: #877 has the same title as #333 ("The Bright Side"). I think it's the first repeat title in the comic archive, too. No, the first repeat title was "Breakfast of Champions".
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MikeJF posted:Oh christ, I just went back and read #333 and it's not a coincidence, either. Jesus, that strip is incredibly  
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Ursine Asylum posted:The most recent kobold seemed aware of what was going on while dominated. More interesting would be "How much would Durkon need to bribe Belkar to keep it under wraps"? You are assuming new vampire Durkon won't eat Belkar. Durkon will be thirsty and he has Belkar held there under his power
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Carrasco posted:By D&D rules, Thor is Chaotic Good. He can't be CG since Durkon is (was  ) LG and clerics can only be one step off from their deity.
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Effingham posted:I've always maintained Varsuvius is a male because, being such a pedant and know-it-all, it would drive "her" insane to have a grammatically masculine Latin name. That never bothered Venus. inthesto posted:Rich has demonstrated many times that he's a skilled writer. If you dig around, you can find some of his non-stick art and he's skilled in that department as well (the sketches of Nale and Thog in the Cliffport arc are by him). Rich used to have a more traditional-looking webcomic on wizards.com. It had a short run. The URL was http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=rpga/hq/polyffs1 which of course no longer works. The pictures are still on the server and can be reached directly, from rpga_hq_polyffs1_picMain_en.gif to rpga_hq_polyffs5_picMain_en.gif. Alternatively you can see the five strips rehosted on imgur:      peak debt posted:He can't be CG since Durkon is (was The Forgotten Realms setting had some exceptions to that rule for certain deities ("this god is CG but has an order of LG paladins anyway; this god is CE but some clerics still worship him as if he were LN like his predecessor" etc.) so maybe similar house rules exist in the stickverse. After all, Thor wouldn't have many Dwarven followers otherwise.
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This may sound absurd, but I think there is a chance for Durkon to make it out of this merely dead. His comment of how he couldn't be counted on just demands for Belkar to save the day, specially since no one will ever see it. So I say he breaks domination and manages to do something that prevents Durkon from being raised as a vampire (like cutting of his head) before being beaten by Malack, who know has plenty of room in his Hit Dice for him.
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There's a myriad of ways to prevent his vampirification, going by most vampire lore and by various D&D rules. I really don't like the way this ended. The code word to dispel his spell was really lame, and completely unnecessary since blood drain is not a negative energy effect. I think you could have skipped that and just had the grapple and blood drain. It just seemed like a bit of unnecessary deus ex machine. If Durkon is vamped, I like that he actually might be more powerful than Malack. greatn fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Mar 4, 2013 |
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It wasn't Deus Ex Machina, Malack thinking ahead enough to include a backdoor in the spell he helped research was a clever way to pull the carpet out from Durkon and cast their previous friendship in a different light. Just because on a technical rules level Death Ward might not actually be the right spell for blocking vampirification doesn't mean it wasn't an effective little bit of drama.
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Malack referred to it as a 'blessing from Nergal'. It's possible it's a special variety of vampirism that counts as a death effect (coming from a death god and all), and so was blocked by the Death Ward.
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Maybe Malack doesn't vamp him out of respect and honor for their friendship?
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I doubt that these things are mutually exclusive for him.
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Fried Chicken posted:You are assuming new vampire Durkon won't eat Belkar. Durkon will be thirsty and he has Belkar held there under his power Actually that's not necessarily true. quote:A humanoid or monstrous humanoid slain by a vampire’s energy drain rises as a vampire spawn 1d4 days after burial. (note: energy drain = claw attacks that cause negative levels. Con drain is what you get from bloodsucking.) So as a DM I would rule that it takes 1d4 days like the energy drain version, since 'instead' seems to imply that the type of creation is the only difference, and it makes sense IMO; but I think a DM could potentially read it as "if you use Con drain they return immediately", particularly if they were just very quickly checking the rules before plotting down their comic. Calaveron posted:Maybe Malack doesn't vamp him out of respect and honor for their friendship?
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1d4 days after burial no less, which could be a while.
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greatn posted:1d4 days after burial no less, which could be a while. ... ok, how does that sound: both Malack and Belkar never get to explain to the OotS what happened to Durkon (in the former's case because he has no reason to, and in the latter's case because he dies. Or any other reason.) In grief and remembering the prophecy, Roy and co. bring Durkon's remains to their rightful resting place in his dwarven home, since they're on their way anyway to look for Kraagor's Gate. 1d4 days later, Durkon rises as a vampire, all hell breaks loose. Obvious holes in the above plot: why wouldn't they manage to resurrect him, why wouldn't they notice the bite marks.
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greatn posted:1d4 days after burial no less, which could be a while. I don't think that's a loophole any sane DM would let you get away with,
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NihilCredo posted:Obvious holes in the above plot: why wouldn't they manage to resurrect him, why wouldn't they notice the bite marks. The first one's easy: he has to consent to the resurrection. If coming back means he can't go home, he might just refuse.
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Niton posted:The first one's easy: he has to consent to the resurrection. If coming back means he can't go home, he might just refuse. Well, technically anything he'd do after resurrection would be posthumously!
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Do 3.5 clerics have access to any teleportation or travel spells? Malack might be able to whisk himself to an undisclosed location with vamp Durkon (Durkula?) in tow?
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Getting in late on domination chat, it's generally assumed that unless you give your target a command, they act as they normally would. One of the PCs in my game is a telepath psion, and he's currently using a dominated cardinal as a sort of Manchurian Candidate, since one of the huge benefits to the spell is that you get to know what the target is experiencing. Also, "By concentrating fully on the spell (a standard action), you can receive full sensory input as interpreted by the mind of the subject, though it still can’t communicate with you. You can’t actually see through the subject’s eyes, so it’s not as good as being there yourself, but you still get a good idea of what’s going on." So if nothing else, he might just keep Belkar dominated to keep tabs on the rest of the group for the next 2 weeks.
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Simian_Prime posted:Do 3.5 clerics have access to any teleportation or travel spells? Malack might be able to whisk himself to an undisclosed location with vamp Durkon (Durkula?) in tow? Word of Recall could take them back to a designated safe location, probably Malack's study back in the palace. It'd mean he couldn't get back to the scene to help Tarquin out though so it seems a bit unlikely.
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Telling someone is dominated is a measly DC 15 sense motive check though. Even when doing normal things they seem out of it.
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peak debt posted:He can't be CG since Durkon is (was Clerics of Oghma in FR can be any alignment, as a counter example. Maybe Thor just allows "any good" or something else along those lines. Not a big deal.
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greatn posted:1d4 days after burial no less, which could be a while. They're already in a tomb, you could say he is buried already...
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Oxxidation posted:Snake kills humble dwarf. You magnificent, horrible, bastard.
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Niton posted:The first one's easy: he has to consent to the resurrection. If coming back means he can't go home, he might just refuse. I can't imagine Durkon refusing to come back when he knows what's at stake (no vampire pun intended).
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Effingham posted:You magnificent, horrible, bastard. Okay, I give up, can someone please explain this reference to me and why everyone loves it so much?
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Cat Mattress posted:Rich used to have a more traditional-looking webcomic on wizards.com. It had a short run. The URL was http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=rpga/hq/polyffs1 which of course no longer works. The pictures are still on the server and can be reached directly, from rpga_hq_polyffs1_picMain_en.gif to rpga_hq_polyffs5_picMain_en.gif.
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Dallan Invictus posted:Okay, I give up, can someone please explain this reference to me and why everyone loves it so much? Have you ever read the Harry Potter books? EDIT: bigpolar said it better. Renoistic fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Mar 4, 2013 |
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Dallan Invictus posted:Okay, I give up, can someone please explain this reference to me and why everyone loves it so much? It is a near homonym for a spoiler for a series of popular children's books and movies revolving around wart-covered members of the suidae family and hairy ceramic craftsmen.
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I saw the first one, read the second one, played the videogame of the third one, saw the fourth one, read the fifth one, and saw part two of the seventh one, I don't get the reference. Oh, ok it rhymes with Snape kills Dumbledore.
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bigpolar posted:It is a near homonym for a spoiler for a series of popular children's books and movies revolving around wart-covered members of the suidae family and hairy ceramic craftsmen. And now I need the pig joke explained 
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Soup du Jour posted:Having done a quick readthrough of most of the recent comics, I'd forgotten all about the "the rift is in Girard's buttcheeks" deal. Wonder how that'll shape up, seeing as we must be getting close to the actual gate at this point in the story.
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Cat Mattress posted:That never bothered Venus. Nice to know he's been always doing the  faces.
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pinegala posted:And now I need the pig joke explained Basic biology, specifically classification nomenclature : Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. All hogs (and pigs) are in the family suidae. For instance, the complete nomenclature for the giant forest hog is: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Artiodactyla, Family Suidae (subfamily Suinae) , Genus Hylochoerus, Species meinertzhageni.
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