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I've learned so much about about Crohn's disease!
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Potsticker posted:I've learned so much about about Crohn's disease! Like the fact that it's speculation that he has it.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:04
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MonsterEnvy posted:I kind of hate this thread right now. It's legitimately the worst thread in BSS in my opinion. It's all the weird, entitled webcomic bullshit compounded with the more tedious parts of Dungeons and Dragons discussion.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:31
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And yet here we all are, posting.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:50
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MonsterEnvy posted:Like the fact that it's speculation that he has it. Better discussion than D&D Alignments, Goblins, Earfworld, running joke about Rich being okay, Bad Business Acumen and Cloacas.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:53
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Cabbit posted:It's legitimately the worst thread in BSS in my opinion. It's all the weird, entitled webcomic bullshit compounded with the more tedious parts of Dungeons and Dragons discussion. You know, this is Something Awful, not Something Positive. Not everything out of everyone's mouth has to be sunshine and hugs, and its okay to bitch about things that frustrate you or speculate on things tangentially related to the topic. It is even okay to disagree on things. This is a rather tame thread, in my opinion, with a handful of people saying "Man everyone is mean."
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Dec 18, 2013 07:13
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Something Positive is a different lovely comic.
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Dec 18, 2013 07:16
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Phenotype posted:It takes some people differently than others. I have Crohn's, and *knock wood* I've been more or less fine for a good few years. I'll have diarrhea, minor stomach pain here and there throughout the day, and I often get full really fast as soon as I start eating, which is actually kind of annoying when you've just made an awesome meal. That said, when I have flareups or before I found a good regimen, it can be seriously unlivable for days at a time. Constant nausea and multi-hour-long pain spasms in your gut that would have me lying in the fetal position, unable to do much else, until they randomly subsided or I finally said gently caress it and went to the ER. And people with more severe cases never find a regimen that can stop this from happening constantly. I do feel for Rich if that's what's going on when he's off for weeks. This is because Crohn's disease is not an actual single disease. It describes a family of similar/related diseases. Otherwise known as a "a variety of diseases in which, for one reason or another, your immune system tries to obliterate a non-specific amount of your digestive tract". So yeah you may know someone who has it, but their experience is not an upper OR lower boundary on what to expect. Captain Oblivious fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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Dec 18, 2013 07:38
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Potsticker posted:Better discussion than D&D Alignments, Goblins, Earfworld, running joke about Rich being okay, Bad Business Acumen and Cloacas. I would take Alignments and The Rich being okay joke over everything else that you posted and the stuff that has been on the last several pages.
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Dec 18, 2013 08:06
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MonsterEnvy posted:I would take Alignments and The Rich being okay joke over everything else that you posted and the stuff that has been on the last several pages. 
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Dec 18, 2013 08:23
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Is there some kind of D&D class that's known for using magical items, but doesn't have any magical abilities of their own?
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Dec 18, 2013 08:24
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Is there some kind of D&D class that's known for using magical items, but doesn't have any magical abilities of their own? Rogue?
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Dec 18, 2013 08:27
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Is there some kind of D&D class that's known for using magical items, but doesn't have any magical abilities of their own? Artificers would probably count. This is also easily the most effective way to play Rogues once you start running into things that are immune to sneak attack. Use Magic Device is a ridiculously good skill. You need healing? Buy some dirt cheap wands of Cure Light Wounds and heal everyone between fights etc.
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Dec 18, 2013 08:28
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Is there some kind of D&D class that's known for using magical items, but doesn't have any magical abilities of their own? Well Fighters, I guess.
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Dec 18, 2013 08:30
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Pope Guilty posted:Well Fighters, I guess. Don't some of the people who dislike 4th Ed complain that 4th Ed's Encounter / Daily system amounts to giving Fighters "magic"?
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Dec 18, 2013 09:09
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Those people are dumb.
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Dec 18, 2013 09:11
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So, how much time has passed in that world since the OotS joined up? It's what? Two years? Roy was dead for 6 months, I know. It's easy for us to look at Belkar's character growth(real or faked) and know the difference. To Roy and the rest, it's only been a few weeks of the "new" Belkar
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Dec 18, 2013 09:39
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The Leper Colon V posted:Gee, I sure hope Rich's computer is okay. I hope Rich's feelings are okay from all the bad people saying mean things about him being dumb enough to not invest, like, a couple thousand out of his one million dollars received on a working computer
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Dec 18, 2013 10:18
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Wolfsheim posted:I hope Rich's feelings are okay from all the bad people saying mean things about him being dumb enough to not invest, like, a couple thousand out of his one million dollars received on a working computer This is what I am getting tired of can you stop it.
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Dec 18, 2013 11:10
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How long does Durkon's meditation take?
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Dec 18, 2013 11:50
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Wolfsheim posted:I hope Rich's feelings are okay from all the bad people saying mean things about him being dumb enough to not invest, like, a couple thousand out of his one million dollars received on a working computer "Shut up," he suggested.
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Dec 18, 2013 11:54
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I felt like this thread was going downhill, but then I started picturing everyone as 14 year old girls being catty to eachother, and that made it a lot funnier to read 
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Dec 18, 2013 12:11
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MikeJF posted:How long does Durkon's meditation take? an hour
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Dec 18, 2013 12:27
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jsoh posted:an hour So he's probably useless for a while. Roy might bust in on casterfightcasterfightcasterfight potioned up, though?
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Dec 18, 2013 12:30
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MikeJF posted:So he's probably useless for a while. Roy might bust in on casterfightcasterfightcasterfight potioned up, though? Yeah, if he made it below deck and started meditating before the fight started back up again, Durkon's sitting this one out. To fix broken bones magically, you specifically need Regeneration, which is a cleric spell, so Haley's out. Roy and Belkar can theoretically turn back around and rejoin the fight as soon as they notice the loud fight noises/remember they were just running away from a psion spamming teleport, but I'm willing to bet Tarquin's dealt with before that happens. e: I mean, there's nothing in the rules stopping Durkon from just cancelling his prayers for spells to rejoin the fight, and the only time the concept of off-handedness ever comes up in 3.5 is when you're attacking with two weapons so by the book Haley can just get up and start swinging her sword left-handed without so much as a penalty, but let's be real here. e2: Broken bones aren't covered in the DMG either, so super-technically she could just hold her bow in her busted arm 
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Dec 18, 2013 13:22
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Presumably the broken arm is the result of some obscure feat Tarqin took. It would be really un-Tarqin for him to do something in combat that had no effect.
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Dec 18, 2013 13:40
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Wittgen posted:Presumably the broken arm is the result of some obscure feat Tarqin took. It would be really un-Tarqin for him to do something in combat that had no effect. I can't think of anything off-hand that specifically calls out broken bones, but it's been a while and I guess even if it didn't exist in a book it doesn't make it not true in this comic. But I think mainly this is that 'if I wanna do something cool, the rules can screw' at work, because an arm at exciting new 90 degree angles is more visually striking than the character simply lying on the ground with stars over their head. It wouldn't even be the first time this scene for Haley.
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Dec 18, 2013 13:48
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It's not a feat per se, Tarquin has just been playing a lot of Batman: Arkham Dungeon Crawl and learned it from that.
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Dec 18, 2013 13:50
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Wittgen posted:Presumably the broken arm is the result of some obscure feat Tarqin took. It would be really un-Tarqin for him to do something in combat that had no effect. Something like taking a level of fighter? I'll be here all week folks.
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Dec 18, 2013 13:51
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Heatwizard posted:I can't think of anything off-hand that specifically calls out broken bones, but it's been a while and I guess even if it didn't exist in a book it doesn't make it not true in this comic. But I think mainly this is that 'if I wanna do something cool, the rules can screw' at work, because an arm at exciting new 90 degree angles is more visually striking than the character simply lying on the ground with stars over their head. It wouldn't even be the first time this scene for Haley. It feels like the kinda thing a DM would deal with on-the-fly out of sheer obviousness even if it's not specifically in the rules.
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Dec 18, 2013 13:54
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MikeJF posted:It feels like the kinda thing a DM would deal with on-the-fly out of sheer obviousness even if it's not specifically in the rules. Order of the Stick doesn't HAVE a DM, though.
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Dec 18, 2013 14:03
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Heatwizard posted:e2: Broken bones aren't covered in the DMG either, so super-technically she could just hold her bow in her busted arm I find it absolutely ridiculous that D&D can have books upon books about grappling but no rules about what happens when you grapple someone hard enough to break their bones.
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Dec 18, 2013 14:23
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Probably just the "Shaken" status.
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Dec 18, 2013 14:25
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I'd probably say it roughly translates to ability score damage or something.
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Dec 18, 2013 18:03
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I think my biggest beef with tarquin taking forever to die is that, I want more durkon. He never had much plot to begin with. Now he has a major turning point, but first we need to spend 20+ comics on tarquin. He hasn't even got New spells yet. And we got like 4-6 squares about the team's reaction.
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Dec 18, 2013 18:10
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Dec 18, 2013 18:12
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That's because we're in the action sequence at the end of the book. Just like there wasn't much pause for contemplation at the end of the Siege of Azure City, there isn't going to be much off time here. The implications of Durkula will be pretty big in the next book, mark my words.
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Dec 18, 2013 18:48
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Shwqa posted:I think my biggest beef with tarquin taking forever to die is that, I want more durkon. He never had much plot to begin with. Now he has a major turning point, but first we need to spend 20+ comics on tarquin. He hasn't even got New spells yet. And we got like 4-6 squares about the team's reaction. I really did like Belkar's reaction when talking to Roy. "What about Durkon? That is Durkon. No, it isn't! It's Durkon enough." I felt that exchange really showed some character growth. Do you think the Belkar of two years ago, would have been that concerned about a vampire?
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Dec 18, 2013 18:54
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Johnny Aztec posted:Do you think the Belkar of two years ago, would have been that concerned about a vampire? Maybe one that half ate him.
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