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Sanford posted:I have no idea why Haley can fly, at the end there. Why is she flying? e: actually no everyone else's answer is better, ignore sebmojo fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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This same joke (sorta kinda) was made back in strip 151: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0151.html
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Apr 28, 2015 09:44
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Honestly if I were rich enough in D&Dland I'd have fly on myself 24/7. Climbing staircases is so dull.
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Apr 28, 2015 10:10
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The easy (and correct) solution is to be a mage. Eventually, you can just bypass the entire "traversing physical space" issue.
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Apr 28, 2015 11:40
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 New Strip! 982: Respirate in Peace Ha ha, the expression on that guys face in the last panel... I wonder if that might make Roy slightly more suspicious.
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May 4, 2015 12:49
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Vamp-Durkon's playing a dangerous game. What if the head cleric comes out of the temple and says "I've heard you needed a resurrection and grabbed some diamonds on the way over, let's start the ritual right away"? The priests being blindfolded, Vamp-Durkon can't cheat his way out via hypnosis like last time.
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May 4, 2015 13:10
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Mikl posted:Vamp-Durkon's playing a dangerous game. What if the head cleric comes out of the temple and says "I've heard you needed a resurrection and grabbed some diamonds on the way over, let's start the ritual right away"? The priests being blindfolded, Vamp-Durkon can't cheat his way out via hypnosis like last time. Yeah, I'm assuming that's part of the set-up. Something'll will happen that he can't hypnotize his way out of, and he'll be forced to improvise. We'll learn more of what he's capable of, and perhaps another seed of doubt will be planted in Roy's mind. If Durkula was just gonna Dominate his way through a string of gnome temples, we'd be seeing it in... whatever the comic book version of a montage is.
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May 4, 2015 13:19
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don't clerics typically have fairly good resistance against run-off-the-mill domination stuff?
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May 4, 2015 13:36
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V. Illych L. posted:don't clerics typically have fairly good resistance against run-off-the-mill domination stuff? Will is a high save and wisdom is a primary stat, but considering the DC is based on 10+half of durkon's HD+charisma score, it's a bit high for low level characters to manage.
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May 4, 2015 13:43
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ikanreed posted:Will is a high save and wisdom is a primary stat, but considering the DC is based on 10+half of durkon's HD+charisma score, it's a bit high for low level characters to manage. Yeah, but if you're high enough to cast Resurrection shouldn't you be in good shape?
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May 4, 2015 13:58
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I guess the "learn to fake a living voice by breathing" trick that Malak was using takes a bit of practice to get the hang of.
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May 4, 2015 14:41
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I though Durkon had somehow checked (or been told by Hel) that there are no clerics that can cast Resurrection in the town. But maybe I remember this wrong.
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May 4, 2015 15:43
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tonberrytoby posted:I though Durkon had somehow checked (or been told by Hel) that there are no clerics that can cast Resurrection in the town. The clerics seem to think their head cleric can do it. Otherwise they would have said that none of them could do it.
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May 4, 2015 16:06
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Doesn't Durkon need True Resurrection? They have to dust him before they can bring him back, and without a body, I think True Resurrection is necessary. On this page, though, Roy says they have the corpse, which would mean just resurrection would do.
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May 4, 2015 16:33
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tonberrytoby posted:I though Durkon had somehow checked (or been told by Hel) that there are no clerics that can cast Resurrection in the town. He did some scouting the first night they were in town, I believe. I'm wondering if this section will end up with Durkula being driven out of the party, since his prophecy indicates he'll probably still be dead when he gets to the Dwarven lands. If this temple does have a priest that can cast Resurrect, he'll have a real problem trying to avoid actually getting killed and raised without making Roy too suspicious to suspend disbelief.
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May 4, 2015 16:40
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Wittgen posted:Doesn't Durkon need True Resurrection? They have to dust him before they can bring him back, and without a body, I think True Resurrection is necessary. On this page, though, Roy says they have the corpse, which would mean just resurrection would do. Nope. Resurrection just needs a piece of the body. Vampire dust would do. True Resurrection doesn't need anything at all.
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May 4, 2015 16:47
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Kruller posted:I'm wondering if this section will end up with Durkula being driven out of the party, since his prophecy indicates he'll probably still be dead when he gets to the Dwarven lands. Not really, "posthumously" could be taken as "after he's died", it doesn't exclude coming back to life afterwards. As opposed to, say, Belkar's prophecy. There's not much to interpret in "his last breath ever".
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May 4, 2015 17:49
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Mikl posted:Not really, "posthumously" could be taken as "after he's died", it doesn't exclude coming back to life afterwards. That would be a double layer of unhelpful, so it IS something the Oracle would say...
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May 4, 2015 17:59
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V. Illych L. posted:don't clerics typically have fairly good resistance against run-off-the-mill domination stuff? Yeah, but vampire domination is a gaze attack. These gnomes are blindfolded.
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May 4, 2015 18:00
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It could also turn out that the gnome island is technically Dwarven land, so the prophecy has already been fulfilled.
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May 4, 2015 19:09
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nimby posted:It could also turn out that the gnome island is technically Dwarven land, so the prophecy has already been fulfilled. He hasn't brought death and destruction yet. No, Crystal's short-lived rampage doesn't count because if any can claim to have brought it, it was Haley.
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May 4, 2015 20:37
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Burlew, please don't use "feels" or other horrible Internet bullshit in your otherwise excellent strip.
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May 4, 2015 22:53
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Network Pesci posted:Burlew, please don't use "feels" or other horrible Internet bullshit in your otherwise excellent strip. I hate to break it to you but 'feels' is a thing that is pretty readily making its way into general lexicon. My mother used it the other day and she isn't remotely an internet person.
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May 4, 2015 23:02
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ImpAtom posted:I hate to break it to you but 'feels' is a thing that is pretty readily making its way into general lexicon. My mother used it the other day and she isn't remotely an internet person. Also: Gnomes are irreverent and annoying. Cuchulain fucked around with this message at 23:07 on May 4, 2015 |
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May 4, 2015 23:05
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I still say permitting the gnome killing rampage would have been the good aligned thing to do.
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May 4, 2015 23:14
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I agree, the last speech bubble in this particular strip is the worst thing ever written and gently caress Burlew for even thinking about it.
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May 4, 2015 23:28
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"Fantasy literature is ONLY worthwhile for what it can tell us about the real world; everything else is petty escapism." Actually this is the worst thing Burlew ever wrote, if he wrote it, but I don't know for sure. I saw it in the signature of somebody with a pony avatar and 10000 posts on the OOTS forums, so I'm not condemning Burlew for it.
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May 4, 2015 23:43
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Network Pesci posted:"Fantasy literature is ONLY worthwhile for what it can tell us about the real world; everything else is petty escapism." No I remember that conversation. He actually did say that, back during one of those endless Familicide debates I believe, and yes it's complete bullshit.
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May 4, 2015 23:49
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Rich Burlew - kind of a douche.
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May 4, 2015 23:56
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Whoops, actually it looks like it came up in a Redcloak thread. I must just remember it getting quoted somewhere in the V one. Right here. He puts it another way too: 'no fiction is meaningful if its lessons cannot be applied to the world that we, real actual humans, live in.' Which might be phrasing that's easier to swallow. Due to the thread title I can't blame him for being generally pissy there, I just don't like the implication that a story has no value unless there's some clearly spelled out Moral Message there like it's a Saturday morning cartoon or whatever, or that simply being entertaining isn't a good enough reason for a webcomic to exist.
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May 5, 2015 00:09
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Rich is an rear end in a top hat. Learning to separate the artist from the art is a crucial life skill.
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May 5, 2015 02:29
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Art is about the world in which the artist and audience live. There aren't any others.
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May 5, 2015 04:40
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Zoe posted:Whoops, actually it looks like it came up in a Redcloak thread. I must just remember it getting quoted somewhere in the V one. But if being entertaining was a requirement, how would you explain Gunnerkrigg's existence?
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May 5, 2015 04:47
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Zoe posted:Whoops, actually it looks like it came up in a Redcloak thread. I must just remember it getting quoted somewhere in the V one. Good stories are about people, not about cool worlds and neato magic systems, I think is his point.
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May 5, 2015 04:55
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Mikl posted:Not really, "posthumously" could be taken as "after he's died", it doesn't exclude coming back to life afterwards. Wait a minute, this strip just conspicuously brought up vampires not breathing. Maybe Belkar is going to become a vampire 
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May 5, 2015 05:07
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Belkar becoming undead is pretty much the accepted interpretation of the prophecy, because it's just so specific. So much so that I hope Rich is planning to subvert the expectation somehow, or it's gonna be a repeat of the big reveal that Malack is a vampire! when everyone had that figured out pretty much as soon as he started talking about his special diet.
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May 5, 2015 08:10
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I'm betting it'll be like the Miko situation where Belkar will die and we'll get a fakeout of him being turned into a vampire or something. Seems more Rich's style to play it straight while making a cheeky reference to the speculated loopholes, like with the arrow at the siege of Azure City or the Oracle trying to claim Belkar indirectly killed various people.
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May 5, 2015 09:29
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Belkar with vampire powers would be pretty bad- this isn't World of Darkness, so Belkar's use of Int as a dump stat isn't going to make his hypnosis powers lovely.
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May 5, 2015 09:34
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Pope Guilty posted:Belkar with vampire powers would be pretty bad- this isn't World of Darkness, so Belkar's use of Int as a dump stat isn't going to make his hypnosis powers lovely. On the plus side it wouldn't change his personality much. He's already "use the skulls of your enemies as a litter box" evil. After dealing with The Mark and whatnot he's even developed enough enlightened self interest to keep his evil impulses under control, to the point some readers started wondering if he's really still evil (he is). He understands how to suppress strong evil impulses better than any of them. None of that would help if all vampires get possessed by evil spirits, but if he was still in control of himself becoming a vampire could make very little difference. Except that he'd no longer be able to enjoy food; a terrible curse for a gourmet hobbit.
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Pope Guilty posted:Belkar with vampire powers would be pretty bad- this isn't World of Darkness, so Belkar's use of Int as a dump stat isn't going to make his hypnosis powers lovely. I'm pretty sure Wisdom was his dump stat, although I doubt his Intelligence is very high either.
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