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On Twitter, Rich has also pointed out the Ookadook is having a sale on some of the books. I'd try to pick up a couple, but the cheapest shipping for two books to the UK was $72.50, so I hope others are more able to obtain reasonable postage prices!
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Nov 27, 2020 16:27
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The dead rat head is a nice classic RPG joke. Every game I've played the group ends up hauling around trash for years of game-time. Often it was heads! Missing the trap (as Team Evil has presumably done) is embarrassingly sloppy, but maybe they all see the end-game as so close that they've become focused on how they're going to betray each other.
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Nov 27, 2020 16:33
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Where is that rat skull from? I vaguely recall it coming up in an earlier strip, where nobody wanted it and it was left unclear where it wound up, but have no idea when or where it would have happened.
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Nov 27, 2020 17:06
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I just reread the archive, and I can pretty confidently say it's never come up before. It's more of a joke about how Haley has a million bags of holding crammed full of all sorts of stuff that might conceivably come in handy one day.
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Nov 27, 2020 17:27
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Like she says in panel 8.
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Nov 27, 2020 17:30
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paradoxGentleman posted:wait what Only thing I can think is that Belkar didn't get to finish hiding their trail.
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Nov 27, 2020 17:31
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XkyRauh posted:Only thing I can think is that Belkar didn't get to finish hiding their trail. Belkar didn't get in the Telapathic Bond cause he was outside covering the trail. Now the sneaky Ranger who's one of the vanguard of checking poo poo out is the 1 person who can't talk with the others.
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Nov 27, 2020 17:44
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Mniot posted:The dead rat head is a nice classic RPG joke. Every game I've played the group ends up hauling around trash for years of game-time. Often it was heads! In 3.5 only Rogues can detect magic traps, so it makes sense that Team Evil has absolutely no idea it's there.
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Nov 27, 2020 17:45
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Belkar didn't get in the Telapathic Bond cause he was outside covering the trail. Now the sneaky Ranger who's one of the vanguard of checking poo poo out is the 1 person who can't talk with the others. 
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Nov 27, 2020 17:50
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Belkar didn't get in the Telapathic Bond cause he was outside covering the trail. Now the sneaky Ranger who's one of the vanguard of checking poo poo out is the 1 person who can't talk with the others. lol I thought the same thing, and then double-checked and Rich made very sure to cover this
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Nov 27, 2020 17:50
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Ah, but does Belkar have his Protection from Evil active?
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Nov 27, 2020 17:56
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As my DM likes to say. "I'm sure it'll be fine."
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Nov 27, 2020 18:01
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How would the telepathy interact with the soul splice?
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Nov 27, 2020 18:04
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I am suspicious of telepathic radio silence from Belkar.
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Nov 27, 2020 18:11
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I am suspicious of telepathic radio silence from Belkar. Yeah the bit at the end frames it like he can't hear them at all. Which is why I assumed he didn't actually get affected by it.
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Nov 27, 2020 18:13
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hahaha I only realized this after reading the OotS forums but boy Redclock, sure is a shame about this dungeon having a magical defense only detectable by Rogues! If only you had one on your side!
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Nov 27, 2020 18:17
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After so many Detect Evil attempts Belkar got a metal plate installed in his skull which preemptively blocks it. It also blocks all telepathic communication.
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Nov 27, 2020 18:23
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Soup du Jour posted:hahaha I only realized this after reading the OotS forums but boy Redclock, sure is a shame about this dungeon having a magical defense only detectable by Rogues! If only you had one on your side! RIGHT? Then they'd have an EYE for this situation. Very useful!
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Nov 27, 2020 18:36
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It's going to turn out that the MitD has been able to see it all along but didn't tell anyone because it assumed they all could see it
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Nov 27, 2020 18:45
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Telepathic Bond works on the caster + one extra creature per three levels. We see the following use it in the strip: V (Not counted) Roy Elan Haley Durkon Blackwing (Does the familiar count as an extra person) V is about lvl 15, right?
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Nov 27, 2020 19:18
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Belkar clearly got hit.
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Nov 27, 2020 19:21
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ultrafilter posted:Belkar clearly got hit. yes
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Nov 27, 2020 19:24
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Taerkar posted:(Does the familiar count as an extra person) 3.5e SRD posted:Share Spells Emphasis mine. So, Blackwing is definitely further than five feet away, but that seems to be more Rich ignoring a minor rule in favor of a better story, rather than forgetting one. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Nov 27, 2020 |
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Nov 27, 2020 19:27
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e: nevermind, misread what was being referred to.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Where is that rat skull from? I vaguely recall it coming up in an earlier strip, where nobody wanted it and it was left unclear where it wound up, but have no idea when or where it would have happened. It's an extra strip from the book, it was pawned off to Haley by Squeaky after Kandro died against the worm.
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Taerkar posted:Telepathic Bond works on the caster + one extra creature per three levels. V was able to cast Mind Blank twice, which I'm pretty sure means V's exactly level 15, unless they cast a fourth level 8 spell at some point during the vampire showdown. mmkay posted:It's an extra strip from the book, it was pawned off to Haley by Squeaky after Kandro died against the worm. Ohh, that's the one. Thanks, that was gonna bug me otherwise.
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Nov 27, 2020 19:57
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:V was able to cast Mind Blank twice, which I'm pretty sure means V's exactly level 15, unless they cast a fourth level 8 spell at some point during the vampire showdown. Between stat bonuses and school speciality, I don't think you can be certain either way.
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We know V is an Evoker, and I dunno the specific intelligence benchmarks for bonus spells, but I’m pretty comfortable assuming V gets one bonus spell for level 8 but not two. I guess it’s possible V is level 16 with a suboptimal int stat or has more slots but decided that there was another level 8 spell with more tactical merit than shielding a third party member from domination effects, but I doubt it.
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Nov 27, 2020 20:23
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I don't think V has suboptimal INT. If anything they dumped WIS.
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Nov 27, 2020 22:55
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The forums Geekery thread has had V at level 16 for years now. And the Ioun stone should add another caster level on top. (The Forcecage V casted lasted 34 hours and all)
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Nov 28, 2020 00:17
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The line about "suboptimal" INT comes from that one page with the Mind Flayer preferring Roy over V but I doubt Roy has more than 18 (or 20, given V being an Elf) INT.
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SKULL.GIF posted:The line about "suboptimal" INT comes from that one page with the Mind Flayer preferring Roy over V but I doubt Roy has more than 18 (or 20, given V being an Elf) INT. I think the joke there was supposed to be about Roy's brain being a more well rounded flavour. Durkon mentioned that Roy had the spread to be cleric or paladin, so Roy's mental stats are overall high whereas V obviously does not have good charisma or wisdom.
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Charisma is sweet, Wisdom is savory, Intelligence is umami
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I think wisdom isn't so much savory as just filling, which is why the thing saw Durkon as a bowl of some sort of bland porridge. Sticks to your ribs, but not much else to recommend it. eta: also why Roy's brain meal came complete with starchy potato as well as the turkey, whereas V's was just the savory burger without much extra to fill you up. Lychnis fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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Nov 28, 2020 08:58
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In the moment when he killed his brother, Redcloak made the correct choice - his brother was going to die anyway. His mistake was things getting to that point in the first place.
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my dad posted:In the moment when he killed his brother, Redcloak made the correct choice - his brother was going to die anyway. I'm not really sure that's true. Xykon did have immunity to the backstab, but if Redcloak had hit Xykon with that Distingrate instead of Right-Eye, that fight could have gone differently. Xykon was just tauntning Redcloak about "a backstab either way could have turned it", but I think a cleric powerful enough to throw around 6th level spells suddenly flipping on him would have, in fact, changed the fight. Especially if Redcloak had prepared Protection from Negative Energy, Xykon would have been completely screwed if Durokon had that.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:I'm not really sure that's true. Xykon did have immunity to the backstab, but if Redcloak had hit Xykon with that Distingrate instead of Right-Eye, that fight could have gone differently. Xykon was just tauntning Redcloak about "a backstab either way could have turned it", but I think a cleric powerful enough to throw around 6th level spells suddenly flipping on him would have, in fact, changed the fight. Especially if Redcloak had prepared Protection from Negative Energy, Xykon would have been completely screwed if Durokon had that.
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When I am doing manual labor, my mind is usually just running constantly in the background. I was thinking about the Crystal-Golem scene , and how if she was slightly less insane, she would be a neat weapon agaisnt Team Evil. Stick her in a Bag of Holding until time. But anyway, Sometime after the events of Greysky city Bozzok had Grubwiggler ressed and had him create a special Flesh Golem out of Crystal's corpse. Instead of using that money to res the guild members, as per the new contract https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0974.html In this strip: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0619.html You see where they make a deal between Haley and the Theives guild, and goes into why it would be bad to kill Bozzok at that time. Anyway, Bozzok is dead now, so Greysky city is probably in chaos right now as that power vacuum tries to be filled.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Anyway, Bozzok is dead now, so Greysky city is probably in chaos right now as that power vacuum tries to be filled. That halfling second-in-command sorta guy looked pretty savvy. I bet he had a contingency plan for this.
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