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Zoe posted:Gnomes aren't people. Racists deserve gnomercy.
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Cat Mattress posted:Racists deserve gnomercy. 
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Oct 8, 2016 17:46
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The Belkster's new moniker sounds a bit prophetic, considering what some have been waiting for.
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Oct 8, 2016 20:00
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Dolash posted:Not really any way around his lifetime of sins, though. That's not fair, we have a character with a lifetime worth of sins all in a single moment, and we at least get to see what abject and sincere remorse is. We'll see about repentance, but V and Belkar draw a strong contrast. If you notice in the latest strip, Belkar still feels as though ending sentient life is a positive aspect of his adventuring.
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Oct 8, 2016 20:05
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I'm pretty sure that Belkar's development isn't about his alignment shift but about him becoming an actual character. He began as the dude who joins your group and just wants to stab everything and doesn't think or care about anything but is now gradually developing to being a guy who ACTUALLY RPs and gets invested in the world. Where he goes when he dies is less important about the fact that he goes from a guy who stabs random people to someone actually invested in the world.
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Dolash posted:Belkar once just murdered a random innocent gnome in front of Haley because he hadn't gotten to murder anyone in a while, then ate the guy's chocolate bar. What was he supposed to do? Just leave the chocolate bar? Who would enjoy it then? No one. Belkar was just thinking logically.
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Not eating the chocolate bar would be reducing the net happiness in the world and would therefore be an evil act.
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Oct 8, 2016 22:08
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A big part of me wants to see Belkar rules lawyer his way into the chaotic good afterlife by successfully arguing that no number of lives he ended could outweigh giving his life to save the entire world. It's mathematically correct but is also directly spitting in the eyes of every good person who ever worked hard at maintaining their alignment and made it into a good afterlife.
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Oct 8, 2016 22:10
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Best he can hope for is an eternity chasing frog people
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ImpAtom posted:I'm pretty sure that Belkar's development isn't about his alignment shift but about him becoming an actual character. He began as the dude who joins your group and just wants to stab everything and doesn't think or care about anything but is now gradually developing to being a guy who ACTUALLY RPs and gets invested in the world. Where he goes when he dies is less important about the fact that he goes from a guy who stabs random people to someone actually invested in the world. I'd describe the difference as this: he used to look for excuses to hurt people, now he looks for reasons.
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Rumda posted:Best he can hope for is an eternity chasing frog people What? Is that for real? Sign me up!
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Oct 8, 2016 23:07
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ikanreed posted:I'd describe the difference as this: he used to look for excuses to hurt people, now he looks for reasons. Yeah, this feels like it
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reignofevil posted:It's mathematically correct but is also directly spitting in the eyes of every good person who ever worked hard at maintaining their alignment and made it into a good afterlife. Let's not pretend that wouldn't be his favorite part.
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Oct 9, 2016 01:03
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Rygar201 posted:Yeah, this feels like it
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Oct 9, 2016 01:07
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Maybe the Chaotic Good afterlife doesn't care too much about all those alignment rules, man. Maybe they just let in whoever they think would be cool and fun.
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Oct 9, 2016 01:23
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I think that right now Belkar is headed for pandemonium, and the best he could ever hope for is Ysgard, but for someone like him, maybe that's not so bad. Feasts and fights every day until you die, and tomorrow you get to start all over again.
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A.o.D. posted:I think that right now Belkar is headed for pandemonium, and the best he could ever hope for is Asgard, but for someone like him, maybe that's not so bad. Feasts and fights every day until you die, and tomorrow you get to start all over again. Is that not actual paradise for Belkar?
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Tenebrais posted:Is that not actual paradise for Belkar? Yes, that was my point.
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Asgard or Achreon would probably be the most enjoyable for Belkar. Asgard more. (Acheron also has the fighting thing. But it's more about blood thirsty armies clashing against each other, and then when someone kills another else their strength is refreshed and they become temporatly stronger so they can continue killing.) Achreon is also the lawful side of the wheel so Belker would never be able to get there.
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They're probably not dumb enough to mutiny in the middle of a Giant attack, but that would be just the OotS's luck.
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Oct 14, 2016 21:05
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Man, I am really not feeling a mutiny subplot at this stage of the game.
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Oct 14, 2016 21:07
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I love the fashion guy, and I hope he says while not-quite-gold-coat chick and not-quite-fuschia-hair girl get left behind.
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Oct 14, 2016 21:13
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Rich really needs to toggle on the spellchecker in Illustrator or whatever he uses. homework: write a joke reply to this post that plays on the ambiguity between orthographic spelling and magical spells
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Oct 14, 2016 21:18
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This definitely reeks of when the campaign gets too high level and you're running out of balanced encounter ideas. "Uh, this time you run into... fifty frost giants?"
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Man, I am really not feeling a mutiny subplot at this stage of the game. I kind of agree, it's tough to really invest much in the airship crew. I can appreciate Rich wanting to set up a conflict on the ship to add some tension and get rid of the ship later (maybe stranding the heroes or removing their means of escape), but it's too much of a slow burn and the crew are so beneath the notice of the actual main characters their situation doesn't feel that relevant. I can't tell if they needed to be fleshed out more with a few more turns in their story (so the "there will be a mutiny later" sign won't have been flashing from the start) or less and just have the crew be generic background characters with one discontent foreshadowing scene closer to the actual mutiny.
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greatn posted:This definitely reeks of when the campaign gets too high level and you're running out of balanced encounter ideas. Except it makes perfect sense given the context of the Gods' Moot and the developments therein?
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NihilCredo posted:Rich really needs to toggle on the spellchecker in Illustrator or whatever he uses.
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Oct 14, 2016 22:32
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Given the stakes, I wouldn't find a mutiny very believable. I think this is more of a setup for the crew to bail after they reach their destination -- not because "hurr screw saving the world my own life included" but because the ship is a wreck now and by the time they're done repairing it the whole godsmoot business will be done already, one way or the other.
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Cool, didn't know Chain Lightning could hit 9 targets.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Cool, didn't know Chain Lightning could hit 9 targets. Yeah, it's apparently as many as you have caster levels. Though it halves the damage each time, so the last one is just getting tickled. Unless I'm reading it wrong, and each person it chains to get's half damage. I guess it depends on if it's like a sunburst or a line for the secondary bolts, I think it could be read either way.
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seaborgium posted:Yeah, it's apparently as many as you have caster levels. Though it halves the damage each time, so the last one is just getting tickled. Unless I'm reading it wrong, and each person it chains to get's half damage. I guess it depends on if it's like a sunburst or a line for the secondary bolts, I think it could be read either way. quote:This spell creates an electrical discharge that begins as a single stroke commencing from your fingertips. Unlike lightning bolt, chain lightning strikes one object or creature initially, then arcs to other targets. It's pretty clearly the former - the damage is explicitly stated as being half of the full damage, and if it were a line the requirement would be for each target to be within a certain range of the previous target, not of the primary target. That said, I've always seen it depicted as a bouncing line in video games and other art, probably because it looks cooler.
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It's halved for every hit in a lot of other games so the mix up is understandable.
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NihilCredo posted:That said, I've always seen it depicted as a bouncing line in video games and other art, probably because it looks cooler. That's probably a holdover from 2nd edition where Chain Lightning was explicitly based on ricochets and you could TPK by casting it in a narrow corridor.
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One of these days someone will figure out a fake link that looks like an oots url but redirect to goblins. Never change V, V's great.
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I dunno, "intellectual" characters that do the overly wordy "if my calculations are correct" spiel when solving a problem have always annoyed me. At least V has the sense to keep things concise when in immediate danger.
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Oct 24, 2016 17:48
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Huh, I only just noticed that Rich is now drawing Blackwing's bracelet.
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IMJack posted:I dunno, "intellectual" characters that do the overly wordy "if my calculations are correct" spiel when solving a problem have always annoyed me. At least V has the sense to keep things concise when in immediate danger. V is noted as talking too much and not getting enough done in the time they were talking.
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IMJack posted:I dunno, "intellectual" characters that do the overly wordy "if my calculations are correct" spiel when solving a problem have always annoyed me. At least V has the sense to keep things concise when in immediate danger. I tend to hate characters like that, but V is an excellent example of doing it right, particularly post-Faustian V. There were definitely some stinkers in the earlier books though.
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