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greatn posted:You can't just respec your specialization like that can you? I thought that was a lifelong choice. You can do anything you can convince the DM to approve.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2015 01:00 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 23:28 |
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Rand Brittain posted:That's one explanation but Angel himself explicitly says that he thinks it was a sign that somebody Up There actually does care, sometimes. It wouldn't be the first time either, with the Snow in Sunnydale incident the year before.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2016 15:44 |
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Pope Guilty posted:Lien, I think. Lien, yeah. http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0473.html
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 17:05 |
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Carrasco posted:What's the title referring to? The title of a couple comics ago, "Sound Reasoning". Lien's reasoning at the end of that strip is that this was a new enemy unrelated to Xykon.
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# ¿ May 16, 2016 18:01 |
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Old Xykon: New Xykon:
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2016 21:44 |
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red plastic cup posted:Didn't the Frost Giant Demigod vote to end the world? That could be why they gathered up. Yes, with a cryptic reason to boot. Likely someone is calling in a marker.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2016 20:46 |
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YggiDee posted:... I've been misreading 'Dim Sun' as 'Dim Sum' on that page for an embarrassingly long time now. Now that I think of it a D&D story based on the Dark Sun campaign setting makes way more sense than a D&D story about Asian Cuisine would. Be honest, though: don't you kind of really want the latter now? Because i certainly do.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2017 12:25 |
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LupusAter posted:Does the fact that it's called anarchic water mean that Loki is Chaotic first, Evil second? (To be fair he might not be Evil at all, not sure if we have any indications on the matter.) or Hilgya is CN - if I remember right, in 3.x you could be one step removed in alignment from your deity, even as a cleric of such.
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2018 23:48 |
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Possible variation on that - oracular visions exist in this world, so she could have gained knowledge that he would need it at one point, and arranged a group like the clerics that raised the Oracle to cast it on him at a specified condition. (Maybe she saw him sitting on that throne/chair as an undead?) Don't know how Durkon would know that, though. Have to workshop this theory a bit.
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2018 18:44 |
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edit: beaten like a vampire in the way of a pissed-off halfling. Rich is still OK, and Durkon isn't staying on the bench! (hopefully) You just knew it was coming but still good to see. I also really like Durkon in this mentor role.
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# ¿ Aug 7, 2018 15:30 |
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Indeed, he is! and Hilgya skates by on being lovely and evil again. Nice way to end the year
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# ¿ Dec 31, 2018 19:03 |
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Hell, wasn't one of the (Cliffport? Azure City?) cops gay, as well? (and able to nonchalantly talk about it as well, instead of a whispered "don't tell anybody, but...")
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2019 21:02 |
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This is Xykon, though. He'll have picked up the key to controlling the Snarl a few years ago but chunked it into storage because he couldn't use it on the TeeVo.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2019 20:24 |
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Llab posted:I was extremely hoping for a magical railgun that used peasants as ammunition I mean, there's no reason another peasant couldn't be the object.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2019 18:02 |
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The table itself is true neutral. It has to be in balance, otherwise everything's gonna fall over. It accommodates all alignments of actions done on top of it. Also, metal folding chairs are Chaotic Good instruments of Justice.
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2020 05:01 |
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maltesh posted:Being run by a Non-monster race is a protection against attack or invasion. For who, exactly? We've seen that not work well for multiple nations in this comic.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2020 19:14 |
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Acerbatus posted:What on earth is treasure PSTU? P was random coins, S was potions, T was scrolls (why not S?), and U was 'jackpot!' that only a few monsters had . At least, if this stack overflow article is right.
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 22:59 |
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Dias posted:is that poo poo tolkien's fault? i assume every fantasy trope is tolkien's fault Nah, pretty much nothing in LotR has weird apostrophes. I think the linguist and history professor in him would have revolted.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2021 07:03 |
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The obviously true conclusion is the party is still trapped in the illusion in the desert! It shows people their ideal "happy ever after", right? But what they accepted as what the illusion was showing them was so easy to get out of it didn't count at all! The proper "happy ever after" for not only a bunch of adventurers but the protagonists of an epic is much more hard-fought, fraught with failure and sacrifice, and doesn't have them win until the last possible opportunity. Like... What's happening now! That's a properly epic illusion!
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2021 18:26 |
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killerwhat posted:Thor’s ringtone is Can’t touch this - Hammer time Not just that - that's Thor's ringtone *for Durkon*. He set a special one so that he wouldn't miss his calls!
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2021 16:05 |
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Yeah, that was my takeaway from Carrot and Vetinari's conversation as well. "Ankh-Morpork doesn't need a king, so I'm not gonna be. If it ever does? I'll be here. Until then, I'm just gonna help people."
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2021 20:22 |
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Thanks to someone talking about the beginning of this thread, I started reading through it (I think a similar rule to "Don't click on an OOTS link unless you're prepared to read 50+ strips" applies here), and I just got the joke about V and Pompey's names after someone pointed it out. 15 years later. Son of a *bitch*.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2021 18:56 |
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blastron posted:Past… present… future… unbound by alignment, in this single perfect comic! Does that mean Basic D&D is actually the hardest one to get through?
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2021 14:06 |
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Cup Runneth Over posted:according to Jeffrey it is bigger than Games in terms of active users, apparently by a large margin "Goons are terrible" taken to its final form, really.
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2021 20:11 |
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Verus posted:I am now having a small existential crisis after realizing that 8-bit theater ended almost twelve entire years ago. Jesus Christ. And they never did find the Armoire of Invincibility...
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 05:46 |
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I don't think Eugene is capable of actually learning. He's dead. It certainly seems possible though that Roy's sister's personality was heavily influenced by her father's, especially since she followed in his footsteps, unlike Roy. This is kind of where I'm at, tbh. I could also see the scenario where Eugene has started contacting her somehow as well, and thus has been in her ear about things more recently.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2023 17:44 |
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Yeah, I can't remember if it was here or in the strip itself, but I remember the debate about "This seems more like a rogue's tomb/gate defense than Kraagor's, and didn't we just see this?" This seems like a much more fitting monument.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2023 17:01 |
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My first OOTS was iirc #122 - a friend showed it to me as "what happens when adventurers come to town". After 20 years, this is still pretty much the only webcomic I recommend to people.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2024 23:43 |
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Reminds me of the "follow the bouncing ball, kids" trick and drat that was rough
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2024 20:28 |
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ZearothK posted:Wait, which RPG models velocity? The HERO system can do this! Just spend the next 6.5 hours coming up with the correct model to use for your calculations and not only can you accurately model velocity but you'll also be able to determine exactly when your players completely lost interest and wandered off to do something else.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 15:19 |
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This is the point where, as the DM, you turn to the offending player, mutter something along the lines of "Congratulations. The moon, as an inanimate object, is not trying to Hide. You successfully Spot it." and threaten to start throwing erasers at them if they bring it up again.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 16:29 |
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Taciturn Tactician posted:The target not intentionally hiding is not sufficient to automatically succeed a Spot check. You can rule circumstance as the DM since there is a "sometimes" in there, but "it's not hiding so you see it" isn't an automatic property of how Spot works. This is exactly what the eraser is for. EDIT: Rogue AI Goddess posted:The sun has a lot of hit dice to add to its check to light the moon up. Without the sun, the moon is indeed hard to spot. This is also a really good answer!
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 17:05 |
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Randalor posted:"... IS THE MOON A GOD drat CREATURE? You know what, gently caress it. Give me one second..." New "one weird adventurer trick": Find any mimics in a room by attempting to Spot every object with a character with a massive penalty.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 18:14 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 23:28 |
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That was only the case with Nuitari the black moon, yes.
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:49 |