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Could you guys please make/go to another thread to talk about Erfworld? The only thing it really has in common with OotS is that it's a fantasy webcomic linked from the same website.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:25
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No one needs to make a thread about Erfworld. But point taken. How would the rules work regarding Roy disrupting that guy's Horrid Wilting? All I know of D&D combat is from Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, where you actually have to sit there for a minute to cast a spell. But I thought in tabletop D&D, everyone just played out their own turn in sequence.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:34
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If you're in melee and they're not defensive casting you get a free attack on them that can potentially disrupt casting. Alternatively if you win intiative you can ready an action to go off later than it normally would when some condition happens. In this case it might be "I hit Miron with a sword as soon as he tries to cast anything".
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Nov 10, 2013 16:37
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Phenotype posted:How would the rules work regarding Roy disrupting that guy's Horrid Wilting? All I know of D&D combat is from Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, where you actually have to sit there for a minute to cast a spell. But I thought in tabletop D&D, everyone just played out their own turn in sequence. If you take damage while casting a spell, you need to make a concentration check to let the spell go off. The turn in D&D is a sequence but it's all supposed to be happening semi-simultaneously. A full round, once everyone has their turn in the initiative, is 6 seconds actual time.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:40
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Anyone can hold an action, though. I suspect the feat that Roy learned from his grandfather either does bonus damage to spellcasters you interrupt or adds to the Concentration check the caster has to make to try and get the spell cast despite being hit.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:41
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Yeah, from what (little) we've seen so far, it looks like it lets him ignore defensive casting, and then makes the caster's concentration check either impossible or a lot harder. At least, that'd probably be the easiest way to template it.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:43
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^^^^^^ Argh! It could also prevent casters from casting defensively around him, allowing him to make an Attack of Opportunity against adjacent casters no matter what.
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Nov 10, 2013 16:44
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Who What Now posted:^^^^^^ There's a feat called Mage Slayer that does exactly that. Since you can't turn it off by a naive reading of the feat, the character I had with it got a lot of panicked reactions wandering around a Wizard college once.
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Nov 10, 2013 17:25
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The first time he actually used it he ran through what his grandpa told him, he said something like "visualize the magical energies flowing around the caster" or something like that, and something about the apex of the spell maybe. I think he's literally just cutting the spell in half before they can finish casting it.
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Nov 10, 2013 22:40
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Usually when someone asks if Rich is okay it summons a new comic within a couple of days, but still nothing. It may be time to break out the Goblins 
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Nov 10, 2013 22:54
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Wolfsheim posted:It may be time to break out the Goblins
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Nov 10, 2013 22:57
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Calm down, everyone.  New Comic, #929: Through
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Nov 10, 2013 22:59
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So did Tarquin knock Durkin out of that dispel or did he lose his protection from sunlight? As to the rest, drat, just drat.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:03
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Oops. Well that's a problem.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:04
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Oh. That... Was not what I was expecting!
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Nov 10, 2013 23:04
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Glory of Arioch posted:Calm down, everyone. Holy poo poo. Never count Tarquin out. Although I don't think Elan has ever felt closer to Roy.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:04
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Durkola could be pretty screwed right now. As we witnessed with Malack, vampires caught in sunlight don't get a lot of time to save themselves in, and D just blew his standard action failing to renew the spell.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:04
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With his own sword, too. Christ, what a dick. I'm guessing that it's gonna be dusk soon, which leaves Durkon to murder the gently caress out of some psion lady. EDIT: The sky is even darker than the last strip. Any moment now.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:04
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So I can't help but notice that Haley wasn't one of the people explicitly disabled in this scene. Her boyfriend and her leader-pal both just got stabbed and I'm pretty sure that gives her a +20 circumstance bonus to wrecking someone's poo poo.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:06
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Man. I haven't seen someone so willing to cut off their own nose to spite their face like this in fiction in a long while.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:08
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Holy poo poo, just mentioning Goblins worked! And nice fake out with Belkar, too.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:12
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ImpAtom posted:So I can't help but notice that Haley wasn't one of the people explicitly disabled in this scene. Her boyfriend and her leader-pal both just got stabbed and I'm pretty sure that gives her a +20 circumstance bonus to wrecking someone's poo poo. From Tarquin's standpoint, she's just the girlfriend. You'll recall that he considers his wives, and most women in general based on that Drow story a while back, to be pretty disposable. I suspect that little blindspot is about to Sneak Attack poor Laurin into next week, with Crystal's girl-slaying sword no less, to free up V and Durkula.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:17
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V still has a habit of not listening to her familiar, I see.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:17
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Brannock posted:V still has a habit of not listening to her familiar, I see. V could have been dazed by Laurin's attack, which prevents a character from taking any actions on their turn.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:34
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Ouch, with Roy's sword too. That's like, super symbolic or something. I'm not sure exactly symbolic of what, just overall symbolic.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:35
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So 928 was "Go," 929 is "Through." Will we get "The" and "Gate?" 
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Nov 10, 2013 23:36
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Luckily for Durkon it is now dusk. Jesus Christ with that gate. No one is going through that gate! They are miles away from the gate!
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Nov 10, 2013 23:38
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Kajeesus posted:EDIT: The sky is even darker than the last strip. Any moment now. greatn posted:Luckily for Durkon it is now dusk. Unless the sun works differently in D&D I doubt it will set in the 6 or so seconds that Durkula has left. But I guess a cast of "accelerate sunset" could do it.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:45
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trucutru posted:Unless the sun works differently in D&D I doubt it will set in the 6 or so seconds that Durkula has left. But I guess a cast of "accelerate sunset" could do it. I think it is already dusk. As in not enough sunlight to kill him anymore. May not be the letter of the law, but creative license and all that, there is very little sun now. I know in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for example, vampires can go outside when the sky is orange like that, Spike does it a few times.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:50
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No, he's pretty definitely smoldering in panel 5.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:54
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Ouch. Didn't Nale stab Elan right through the chest like that the first time, too? Albeit from behind.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:55
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Kajeesus posted:With his own sword, too. Christ, what a dick. Durkula needs a whole hour to get spells back, but he might be safe from exploding from sunlight.
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Nov 10, 2013 23:56
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I think the rule is vampires are harmed by direct sunlight, so if the disc of the sun dips below the horizon then Durkula will be okay (from sun related deaths at least) even if there is still light. Of course plot-wise I'm fairly sure Durkula will make it out of this
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Nov 10, 2013 23:57
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XkyRauh posted:So 928 was "Go," 929 is "Through." Will we get "The" and "Gate?" I can only imagine it is something like this. Only question is, since both this and last strip managed to line up with what was occurring, will they manage to keep up the naming convention ("The" will be quite tricky.) Its possible that we'll just get "it" next update and that will be that.
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Nov 11, 2013 00:03
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Cliff Racer posted:I can only imagine it is something like this. Only question is, since both this and last strip managed to line up with what was occurring, will they manage to keep up the naming convention ("The" will be quite tricky.) Its possible that we'll just get "it" next update and that will be that. OOTS DOWN OVER WSTRN CNTNT (breaking bad reference) Holy crap this has been an intense arc. If he manages to top this then I'll be surprised; he's racking through the subplots. Then again surprising people is kinda Rich's bag. sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Nov 11, 2013 |
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Nov 11, 2013 00:22
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Those of you talking about D&D time and turns, Tarquin just took 3 uninterrupted standard actions, soooo...
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Nov 11, 2013 00:29
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Eifert Posting posted:Those of you talking about D&D time and turns, Tarquin just took 3 uninterrupted standard actions, soooo... Maybe they're still dazed from the spell?
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Nov 11, 2013 00:31
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I'd say whipping V into Durkon was one standard action, some combat maneuver, Then stabbing Elan and Roy was another round, but that'd still leave another standard action in kicking Belkar. Do yeah he basically does whatever.
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Nov 11, 2013 00:34
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Eh. Turn 1: He whips V, Durkon and Laurin take their actions, the rest of the team are still stunned from Laurin's blast thing. Turn 2: He kicks Belkar. Durkon and Laurin probably whip wrestle off panal. Elan probably shakes off the stun but can't do anything useful so he wastes his turn body shielding Roy. Rest of the team is still dazed. Turn 3: He stabs them. Roy is still clearly dazed by the swirly thing over his head so the others probably are too. I think most of the Order was just out of action, giving Tarquin free reign to take a bunch of turns in a row.
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Nov 11, 2013 00:41
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greatn posted:I'd say whipping V into Durkon was one standard action, some combat maneuver, Then stabbing Elan and Roy was another round, but that'd still leave another standard action in kicking Belkar. Or he has a Belt of Battle, one of the most common magic items on a savvy player's buy list. It gives extra actions per day, costing various number of charges by type.
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