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rocketrobot posted:Highly questionable in that it's done poorly. I was amazed at how it went from that to amazing in 4 panels. Yeah I would have written the comic off based on the first few pages if people hadn't been going on and on about how incredible K6BD is.
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Stand Still Stay Silent is cool, really gorgeous and updates at an mind boggling rate.
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Brannock posted:Yeah I would have written the comic off based on the first few pages if people hadn't been going on and on about how incredible K6BD is. If you guys just mean how awkward it is I'm pretty sure that's intentional because Allison is a lesbian
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I tried to read K6BD but gave up pretty quickly. It wasn't the "awkwardness" it was the boringness. Good art just couldn't make up for a story that seemed to be going no-where.
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Saraiguma posted:If you guys just mean how awkward it is I'm pretty sure that's intentional because Allison is a lesbian Citation needed? To be fair I can be pretty bad at reading between the lines.
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I find both "Our Little Adventure" and "Will Save World for Gold" to be acceptable.
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Cliff Racer posted:I tried to read K6BD but gave up pretty quickly. It wasn't the "awkwardness" it was the boringness. Good art just couldn't make up for a story that seemed to be going no-where.
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Poison Mushroom posted:Seconding this. I actually only found out about Skullkickers literally today, and I feel like it's something I should have know about years ago. I was telling a friend of mine about the series and I described it best as "If you and I were the only PCs and had a DM that encouraged our terrible terrible plans by not just getting us killed for trying to have fun."
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What exactly do we think the last panel is?
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http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/vampire.htmD&D 3.5 posted:Energy Drain (Su)
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Rygar201 posted:What exactly do we think the last panel is? Level drain, I'd imagine.
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Ah, we finally found out what 'that jutsu' is.
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I did loving love the warrior dudes stunned reactions to the Spellsplinter feat (which is apparently way the gently caress better than Disruptive or Spellbreaker from Pathfinder) Wrecan  or maybe 
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YggiDee posted:Citation needed? To be fair I can be pretty bad at reading between the lines. She's really very clearly uncomfortable having sex with her boyfriend and appears to be doing so only to fit cultural expectations, also in the pre-k6bd mspa forum fanventure her internal narrative all but shouts I AM EXTREMELY GAY AND EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THAT FACT, but honestly even in just the 'canon' story there's more than enough subtext to paint her as a lesbian
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I'm always a sucker for events in stories where characters are recognized for things that they actually did on-screen.
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"And I'm just now noticin' tha obvious allegorical construct!"
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my dad posted:"And I'm just now noticin' tha obvious allegorical construct!" Durkon has been so much fun this arc. I love it.
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I wonder if Roy will really strike down Durkon. I wonder if any of the bystanders knows about how vampiric possession works.
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At least one of them should, if one of the random Clerics in Gnomergan did.
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Rygar201 posted:I did loving love the warrior dudes stunned reactions to the Spellsplinter feat (which is apparently way the gently caress better than Disruptive or Spellbreaker from Pathfinder) Wrecan's right: no fighter alive knew that move. Roy had to learn it from his dead grandfather's spirit.
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ConfusedUs posted:Wrecan's right: no fighter alive knew that move. Roy had to learn it from his dead grandfather's spirit. Oh I know, it's just he sort of storytelling stuff I go nuts for as a player. I'm a sucker for narrative rewards.
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Given that the Order knows Xykon's spell list, and they KNOW he's energy drain happy, I simply cannot believe that Roy, of all people, hasn't invested in something to protect himself from negative energy attacks. On the other hand, if he has, then Durkula is probably out of tricks.
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He was counting on Durkon's new spell for protecting against that sort of thing.
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ultrafilter posted:He was counting on Durkon's new spell for protecting against that sort of thing. I also refuse to believe that roy wouldn't except some kind of one on one fight. Seeing as he has faced that challenge before.
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Shwqa posted:I also refuse to believe that roy wouldn't except some kind of one on one fight. Seeing as he has faced that challenge before. He's ALSO already had to deal with someone draining his levels when he fought Sabine, surely he would have learned from that fight to maybe invest in a defence against it.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:He's ALSO already had to deal with someone draining his levels when he fought Sabine, surely he would have learned from that fight to maybe invest in a defence against it. ultrafilter posted:He was counting on Durkon's new spell for protecting against that sort of thing.
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But both when he was fighting Sabine and Xykon's flying circus Durkon was nowhere near and didn't protect him other than by a few buffs before he jumped the zombie dragon. Surely he's smart enough to realize that he can't completely rely on someone being there to protect him. He even died because he couldn't get a level 1 spell on him.
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There's not much you can do to protect against level drain that doesn't involve someone casting powerful spells on you. There's only so far magic items can go. As a fighter, Roy really just has to not get pegged and rely on his good attack bonus to help him win the fight even with some negative levels. e: like, the advantage is definitely to Roy here, unless Durkula gets a few more lucky hits in and drains him so much they're on an even footing in melee combat. But a cleric with no magic weapon bonuses is gonna have a hard time, in general, landing attacks on a fighter.
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Android Blues posted:There's not much you can do to protect against level drain that doesn't involve someone casting powerful spells on you. There's only so far magic items can go. As a fighter, Roy really just has to not get pegged and rely on his good attack bonus to help him win the fight even with some negative levels. Isn't the issue that the level drain means Roy can't use his spellsplinter feat?
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Android Blues posted:There's not much you can do to protect against level drain that doesn't involve someone casting powerful spells on you. There's only so far magic items can go. As a fighter, Roy really just has to not get pegged and rely on his good attack bonus to help him win the fight even with some negative levels. I dunno, Nale seems to have figured out a way.
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chippocrates posted:Isn't the issue that the level drain means Roy can't use his spellsplinter feat? Level drain doesn't remove feats - just reduces HP, attack bonus, and saving throws (and effective level and spells, but those don't matter here).
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The problem of relying on a friendly buff to protect against a Lich's Energy Drain spells is that you're always exactly one epic level dispel magic away from vulnerability. The thing is, at this point, Roy knows most of what Xykon is capable of. If he doesn't have a permanent magical item protecting him from negative energy, then he doesn't deserve to win this or any other fight, because he is inexplicably dumb.
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At which point he'd be exactly one Mage's Disjunctuon away from losing that protection. gently caress, dispel magic could turn it off for 1D4 rounds anyway. There's only so much you can do against no save level drain.
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Rygar201 posted:At which point he'd be exactly one Mage's Disjunctuon away from losing that protection. gently caress, dispel magic could turn it off for 1D4 rounds anyway. There's only so much you can do against no save level drain. Yeah, but for dispel to shut it down, you have to target that item specifically. A general area dispel can shut down everyone's highest level cast buff (probably negative energy protection) in the area. A targeted dispel at Roy would only take down all the spells cast on him, but leave alone permanent magical items. For Xykon to shut down an item, he'd have to a) guess correctly that it exists and b) know what it is. Also, Xykon is a sorceror, not a wizard, so he probably doesn't have Disjunction. He might have it, but he hasn't shown it yet, and those spells known are a limited quantity. The point is that a magic item that protects against negative energy is the absolute best course of action here, and Roy would be dumb as hell for not having acquired one.
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Even Nale had to rely on potions, and he was sleeping with a literal succubus. I can't imagine Roy would have had the opportunity to procure anything of the sort.
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