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Brony Hunter posted:Oh hey, there's a lot of new posts here, I wonder if there's been an upd- I went through the same thing, but the current discussion is way better than the usual derails. Still, I hope Rich is ok.
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To be fair, MunchkinLawyer's Spergy Story Killer is pretty much the entire point of 3.5e D&D.
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Colonel Cool posted:To be fair, MunchkinLawyer's Spergy Story Killer is pretty much the entire point of 3.5e D&D.
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Sefer posted:I went through the same thing, but the current discussion is way better than the usual derails. I'm reminded of something that started on Something Awful: Zoofights. Each time it returned it got more and more involved, with the contributions becoming better and more elaborate, but even as that happened the makers got jobs, got married, and eventually they simply became too busy to have horribly warped animals fight each other in fancy art (as they were doing it for free in their spare time) and the whole thing just petered out and died. Rich actually makes SOME money from OOTS, but yeah, this strikes me as the same rough thing. Between art updates, who knows what else real life responsibility, and whatever illness he might have, this is the norm now, it seems. It's been nearly a year and there's been a total of 30 comics. It's probably best to prepare for spergy indulgence and rambling to kill time for years to come. Which... Colonel Cool posted:To be fair, MunchkinLawyer's Spergy Story Killer is pretty much the entire point of 3.5e D&D. Considering this, should be expected. A spergy system that someone used to tell a spergy story? It's sperg cubed. We're probably lucky we don't all start spontaneously making GBS threads hamburger meat. Cornwind Evil fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Mar 9, 2015 |
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Mar 9, 2015 21:45
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Christ, I just thought an artifact tongue for liches/undead would be funny.
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Mar 10, 2015 00:12
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 Rich is ok! Wow, the gnomes really are too dumb to live.
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Poil posted:
Well, it looks like that won't be a problem for much longer. A lesson in what +Int -Wis looks like in action.
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Maybe the weak points of monsters that have been stitched together from the flesh of the dead are not part of the standard Gnomeland Security curriculum either.
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Carrasco posted:Maybe the weak points of monsters that have been stitched together from the flesh of the dead are not part of the standard Gnomeland Security curriculum either.
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I'm not the only one hearing the 6 Million Dollar Man noise there, am I?
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Senior Woodchuck posted:I'm not the only one hearing the 6 Million Dollar Man noise there, am I? Not anymore. God, it fits perfectly.
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Poil posted:The gnome who actually knew enough not to use lightning should maybe have told the others? That is also +Int -Wis in action.
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Gnomes are the worst. Also Gnomes are -2 Strength +2 Con.
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At the start of the gnome plot I was really hoping Belkar was going to go on a gnome murder spree. I'll settle for Crystal though I GUESS.
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Hypocrisy posted:Gnomes are the worst. It depends on the subrace. These seem like Krynn Tinker Gnomes to me. +2 Intelligence, +2 Dexterity, -2 Wisdom, -2 Strength. Okay, so I'm reaching.
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Okay, I got a giggle out of 'Gnomeland Security'. How is this species still surviving in a world full of D&D monsters and evil sorcerers though? Are they like the Good version of goblins, created to be extremely squishy and dumb fodder for evil adventures?
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Zoe posted:Okay, I got a giggle out of 'Gnomeland Security'. How is this species still surviving in a world full of D&D monsters and evil sorcerers though? Are they like the Good version of goblins, created to be extremely squishy and dumb fodder for evil adventures? well, they have their own island, so they aren't easily accessed. These are also NPCs. I would assume actual PC adventurers would be a little more capable.
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Cat Mattress posted:Once you go that road, you can as well make a spell to make you feel the taste of coffee 24/7. I don't want to start this derail again but OMG this would be amazing and I would totally research it.
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Zoe posted:Okay, I got a giggle out of 'Gnomeland Security'. How is this species still surviving in a world full of D&D monsters and evil sorcerers though? Are they like the Good version of goblins, created to be extremely squishy and dumb fodder for evil adventures? Maybe you missed the part where their no-name, faceless NPC guards have a goddamn lightning cannon at their disposal? I mean, provided you're not facing an army of evil plot golems, that's probably going to dissuade your average cut-purse or tin-pot dictator.
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Lightning cannon is probably pretty good against most things.
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Angela Christine posted:Lightning cannon is probably pretty good against most things. What if that jerk druid with all the resist elements spells shows up with his bloody trees?
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Senior Woodchuck posted:I'm not the only one hearing the 6 Million Dollar Man noise there, am I? I got that too.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:What if that jerk druid with all the resist elements spells shows up with his bloody trees? Harpoon him.
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Angela Christine posted:Lightning cannon is probably pretty good against most things. For someone without a working knowledge of the Monster Manual, what does lightning do to a golem? I just remember most spells not working on them at all in Baldur's Gate.
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Phenotype posted:For someone without a working knowledge of the Monster Manual, what does lightning do to a golem? I just remember most spells not working on them at all in Baldur's Gate. Speeds up flesh golems just like you see in the strip.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:What if that jerk druid with all the resist elements spells shows up with his bloody trees? Overcharge the lightning cannon so that the sonic boom shatters the trees. Duh.
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Phenotype posted:For someone without a working knowledge of the Monster Manual, what does lightning do to a golem? I just remember most spells not working on them at all in Baldur's Gate. It energizes them. Lightning + golem of stitched together corpse bits = hyper flesh golem. It's a Frankenstein reference. It's okay, it took me a bit to put together in my mind, too. Like, who even uses flesh golems, anyway? Stone and steel are way better, and clay is easier.
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Cthulhuchan posted:Like, who even uses flesh golems, anyway? Stone and steel are way better, and clay is easier. I have a Witch PC in a Pathfinder game constructing one out of the body parts (using gentle repose on them of course) of notable foes we've dismembered. While the Golem is not mechanically ideal, it has been fun telling NPCs about it and then implying they have a limb that would make a great addition. So I guess that's one use for them.
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I'm using "Gnomeland Security" in my next D&D game. Sorry, players.
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978 - Rage Against the Lightning of the Dead
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He just screwed up the URL. http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0978.html
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Yeah, yeah, I missed the .html, it's fixed it now.
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Well that's kind of dark.
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And it's your own drat fault, Crystal. You brought this on yourself, and as you lack the capacity to see that, living or semi-dead, your best option is for Haley to make you really most sincerely dead.
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I don't think we're meant to sympathize with Crystal's viewpoint in this. It's a nice touch that Bandana and Haley went all-out to save the gnomes.
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I'm just relieved that the comparatively sensible gnome survived, even if the one with the loudspeaker is probably just a stain on Crystal's boot now. Anyway, I feel Crystal is at least a slightly tragic villain now. Her one-dimensionality means it's hard to take too seriously, but having her consciousness forcibly reinserted into a stitched-together version of her corpse, minus her free will, plus apparently being in constant pain--that would be a really disturbing fate to anyone who was remotely sympathetic. But regardless of how we felt about her, Haley felt twinges of guilt about killing her in cold blood--if only in the sense that she thought Elan would judge her for it. So she's going to be pissed at Bozzok for putting Crystal through this (not to mention squandering the resources that could have been used to resurrect all the low-level thieves she killed). In short, that long-overdue plotline is about to be cut off for good.
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Dolash posted:I don't think we're meant to sympathize with Crystal's viewpoint in this. It's a nice touch that Bandana and Haley went all-out to save the gnomes. Seeing that made me sympathize with Crystal a lot more. Man I hate gnomes.
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