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razorrozar posted:Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the inspiration. Man remember sticks to snakes? You could totally get your Moses on as a cleric.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Man remember sticks to snakes? You could totally get your Moses on as a cleric. That's a spell in the D&D side scroller arcade game. Chronicles of Mystra was released on xbox live last year, great fun.
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Nov 29, 2013 09:56
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Man remember sticks to snakes? You could totally get your Moses on as a cleric. I don't think any of my clerics ever got a snake staff, but they all wanted one. 
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Nov 29, 2013 11:23
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prefect posted:I don't think any of my clerics ever got a snake staff, but they all wanted one. Man the art was the best thing about the 1st ed books. 
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Nov 29, 2013 13:38
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Man remember sticks to snakes? You could totally get your Moses on as a cleric. They got rid of sticks to snakes? This is heresy! edit: Phew. Seldom Posts fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Nov 29, 2013 |
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Nov 29, 2013 14:37
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Seldom Posts posted:They got rid of sticks to snakes? This is heresy! Pathfinder ended up bringing it back though, so all's well that ends well.
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Nov 29, 2013 16:09
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Robviously posted:Pathfinder ended up bringing it back though, so all's well that ends well. poo poo, seriously? I guess a stopped clock is right two times a day, because that decision is ideal.
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Nov 29, 2013 21:08
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When trying to figure out just how many of the original cleric spells were biblical I was thinking to myself, "I'm pretty sure no one in the bible used Flame Strike." Well... 2 Kings 1:9-12 posted:Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king says, Come down. But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, O man of God, this is the king's order, Come down quickly! But Elijah answered them, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
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Nov 29, 2013 22:54
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My fav is the guy who used summon nature's ally to have a pack of bears maul a bunch of kids who were mocking his bald head. Druids are dicks in the OT.
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Nov 29, 2013 22:57
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LightWarden posted:Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. "Yeah, they tempted God, and then they burst into loving flames." 
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Nov 29, 2013 22:58
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I also love how the king apparently didn't give a poo poo about his soldiers.
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Mikl posted:I also love how the king apparently didn't give a poo poo about his soldiers. This is true of most kings in the OT, even ones aligned with God. David said he'd rather all of his soldiers die if it meant his traitor son lived.
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Nov 29, 2013 23:32
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Cat Mattress posted:My fav is the guy who used summon nature's ally to have a pack of bears maul a bunch of kids who were mocking his bald head. Druids are dicks in the OT. Same guy as Flame Strike guy. He was really an rear end in a top hat, kind of!
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Nov 29, 2013 23:34
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Mikl posted:I also love how the king apparently didn't give a poo poo about his soldiers. Well think about it, one case of divine intervention is probably pretty rare, but two in a row is just ridiculous. Flame never strikes the same place twice.
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 933: Getting a Little Carried Away Man, everyone would be dead if Laurin did anything other than restraining them for Tarquin, huh. Otherkinsey Scale fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Nov 30, 2013 |
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Nov 30, 2013 00:49
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You know, that IS Tarquin's major problem.
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Nov 30, 2013 00:52
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Haha this is great way to end the fight. Julio is the best. While I like this arc, I hope it is truly over now. This is a really good stopping point, and any more would cheapen this last scene.
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Incoming Tarquin total meltdown scene in the next strip?  Something tells me that parting shot from Julio is going to get to him more than, y'know, almost being impaled with a loving harpoon....Great, now I have the mental imagery of Tarquin actually getting hit, then engaging in a sword fight with Julio as the line is being pulled back to the airship.
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Nov 30, 2013 01:08
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I've been wondering this for a bit. Are those dots around Laurin's head ioun stones? I can't think of anything else they could be, unless there's some psionic power that gives you floating dots. Kirby's Mental Pencil, perhaps.
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razorrozar posted:I've been wondering this for a bit. Are those dots around Laurin's head ioun stones? I can't think of anything else they could be, unless there's some psionic power that gives you floating dots. Kirby's Mental Pencil, perhaps.
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The Leper Colon V posted:Yeah, they're almost certainly Ioun Stones. There was some slightly spergy talk earlier in the thread about how the subject might be explained if she was defeated and they got looted. I think they're psionic power stones or cognizance crystals. Power stones store a power and are essentially psionic scrolls, cognizance crystals store psionic power points and are kind of like pearls of power.
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The Leper Colon V posted:Yeah, they're almost certainly Ioun Stones. There was some slightly spergy talk earlier in the thread about how the subject might be explained if she was defeated and they got looted. Yeah, and judging from the colour (as best I can tell; they're really loving small in every page she appears in) they appear to be red, orange and green and looking at the possibilities I'd guess she's getting +2 to intelligence (red), +1 caster level (orange) and either +5 temporary hit points or a +1 competence bonus on her attack/save/skill rolls (green). Mr.Pibbleton posted:I think they're psionic power stones or cognizance crystals. Power stones store a power and are essentially psionic scrolls, cognizance crystals store psionic power points and are kind of like pearls of power. I don't power stones usually float around the user's head like Ioun Stones, but that's probably something you could write off as just a visual touch. Cognizance Crystals are also considerably larger so that seems unlikely. Zellyn fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Nov 30, 2013 |
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Nov 30, 2013 01:29
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What's stopping Laurin from just opening a wormhole onto the airship?
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Glory of Arioch posted:What's stopping Laurin from just opening a wormhole onto the airship? At the moment I'm going to guess she's PISSED. Tarquin dragged her and the other guy out to the middle of the desert with an army and accomplished absolutely nothing but losing the army. Tarquin won't let it go. I doubt Laurin sees it the same way.
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razorrozar posted:At the moment I'm going to guess she's PISSED. Tarquin dragged her and the other guy out to the middle of the desert with an army and accomplished absolutely nothing but losing the army. Tarquin won't let it go. I doubt Laurin sees it the same way. If she refuses to play her part, she's not getting her favor. No one upholds a broken deal.
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ikanreed posted:If she refuses to play her part, she's not getting her favor. No one upholds a broken deal. She also doesn't get her favor if she dies. teleporting onto the private warship of a near epic level character and his crew, which is currently probably healing a party of near epic adventurers, when you've been casting all day and you're a party of two doesn't seem like particularly good odds. Particularly when the person who wants to do it has shown incredibly poor judgement and is clearly fixated.
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She could just lie and say she's out of MP or whatever it is Psionics use. I doubt Tarkie has been counting.
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RIP flying carpet.DoctorTristan posted:She probably can't open a portal onto a moving vehicle. If you get that wrong things could be tricky.
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I hope you assholes are happy because thanks to your FFVI discussion I had Locke's theme playing in my mind for this comic. (it was awesome)
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Yeah, I think that parting shot is the way to wrap things up in the short term. They'll do what they need to quick, like do something about Haley's dad, then Julio will give them a lift to the Northern Continent. With this kind of finish, there's decent odds of Tarquin getting chumped in a not-satisfying-to-his-sense-of-drama way on the way back from the debacle, like Sabine appearing or what have you. I'm particularly fond of the idea of Sabine replacing Tarquin and proceeding to ruin his reputation, although that might be tricky to pull off.
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2 Kings 1:9-12 posted:Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king says, Come down. But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, O man of God, this is the king's order, Come down quickly! But Elijah answered them, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. Honestly, it's the phrasing here that kills me: "If I am a man of God, let God wreck all their poo poo." Then God wrecked all their poo poo.
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Capfalcon posted:Honestly, it's the phrasing here that kills me: It's basically shitthatdidn'thappen.txt, Biblical Edition.
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MarquiseMindfang posted:She could just lie and say she's out of MP or whatever it is Psionics use. I doubt Tarkie has been counting. She may BE out of Psionic Points! She's been Wormholing all over the place, Disintegrated Nale, did some kind of Mass Psionic Blast, a couple of regular Psionic Blasts, AND had two whole levels worth of PPs drained outta her by Durkon! She's gotta be running low by now!
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Capfalcon posted:Honestly, it's the phrasing here that kills me: Even better, it happens twice in a row. Apparently taking out 50 men with FIRE FROM THE loving SKY didn't get the message across the first time.
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Zonekeeper posted:Even better, it happens twice in a row. Apparently taking out 50 men with FIRE FROM THE loving SKY didn't get the message across the first time. Well, if he was a Vancian caster, he could only do it so many times per day...
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Zonekeeper posted:Even better, it happens twice in a row. Apparently taking out 50 men with FIRE FROM THE loving SKY didn't get the message across the first time. Hey, you never know, that first time could've just been a fluke.
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Running theme in the bible. People are always looking at glorious burning words in the sky and saying, 'I dunno, it could have only been the once.'
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Mystic Mongol posted:Running theme in the bible. People are always looking at glorious burning words in the sky and saying, 'I dunno, it could have only been the once.' Hey, they're just following the scientific method. If you can't repeat it, you can't be sure.
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