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What a very cozy and friendly show. With kill shots. Back when I played Dungeons & Dragons, I always preferred the 8 Hour Rests over actual dungeon delving.
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The 'respawn' aspect of the dungeon could be terribly abused. We already know that there is some kind of institutionalized service that collects and stores the bodies of adventurers killed in the dungeon. That can't be a free service. Do the adventurers buy AAA collection and resurrection insurance before delving? Are these crews basically taking corpses hostage until the nearest of kin can pay a fee? What if no one can pay the fee or the corpse was a loner? Can you resurrect a stranger and then claim some kind of peerage or indenture over them until they repay the cost?
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Mar 8, 2024 21:02
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I do find it interesting that there seems to an expected code of honor when stumbling upon the bodies of other adventurers. The newbie group seemed particularly incensed when they thought their treasure had been stolen by whoever positioned their bodies.
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Mar 8, 2024 21:21
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Jerkface posted:Given the talk about reputation amongst adventurers with Namari the non-criminal ones probably abide by common etiquette since the island is not that big and word would get around. The treasure a corpse had would be used to pay for resurrection fees and corpse retrieval and stuff so robbing a body could be seen as pretty rude and potentially threatening. The danger we've seen present in the dungeon likely engenders a spirit of cooperation because you don't wanna make a world where if you died then someone stole your loot you'd be hosed. Exactly. The original writer does a fantastic job of subtle show don’t tell story telling. Now that I think about it, The Revenant was basically a parable about not loving with a man’s respawn point. Edit: also, ie dogs in the dungeon, why aren't there more stories with adventurer's using dogs? A couple big, well trained mastiffs or hounds would be incredibly useful in a dungeon delve. Hell, why couldn't you train a trap or ambush monster sniffing dog? Chilchuck could be mostly replaced with a terrier of some sort. Marsupial Ape fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Mar 8, 2024 21:43
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:Are you saying you think kobolds and dogs are the same..? The Goofy/Pluto Dilemma
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Mar 9, 2024 04:53
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Kwyndig posted:Also most terriers don't have hands and so can't pick locks. That's the downside of trying to replace your half foot with a small but loyal dog. That’s why you keep a collapsible ten foot pool in your pack. Whatever the dog hits on, just jab it with the stick. Same diff. I have a lot more faith in dogs in dungeons than you guys. Like most real predators, ettercaps and owlbears would just get freaked out and retreat from a couple wildly barking mastiffs, even though it could technically kill them. I mean, we used dogs to hunt megafauna. As a basic human technology, the domesticated dog is a massive force multiplier. And you can put little saddle bags on them and they love it!
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Mar 10, 2024 15:04
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I stopped taking you seriously when you said dogs can’t detect ghosts.
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Mar 10, 2024 15:46
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Asterite34 posted:Detecting them isn't the problem, they're right there, they glow in the loving dark, it's just that biting a ghost does jack poo poo Barking at unseen threats is the whole point. Pulling on your chain and joking around aside, the whole point of having a dog with you is early warning threat detection. Nobody shits on bomb stiffing dogs because they can’t disarm the bomb they find. You’re just happy they found the hidden bomb. I’m not a dog person, but I am a human prehistory nerd, and dog domestication is a massive technological boon. Besides their utility in hunting, the biggest boon of having dogs in your hunter/gatherer camp is that start barking and pointing when bad poo poo gets too close to the perimeter. The actual problem would be dungeons filling up with packs of feral dogs because they’re the ones that survive party wipes. I also have an argument for dungeon delving murder donkies, if you really want to make a list.
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Mar 10, 2024 16:04
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Next you’re going to tell me that Senshi shouldn’t have a truffle pig buddy.
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Mar 10, 2024 16:15
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What if the pig had a name and a swishy little tail? Marcille would protect it with her life while also still dreaming about bacon. Murder donkey wise, I’m just saying a Kunga could probably carry your stuff and stomp a goblin to death.
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Mar 10, 2024 16:30
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Making the orcs Javelina-Men and not just generic Pig-Men is a very fun and elegant choice.
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Mar 10, 2024 17:04
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The first anime I ever came across in the genre of “MMORPG-meta as wordbuilding” was “The Tower of Durga”. The ones are explicitly “we’re trapped in a video game” or just unabashedly using game terminology in a fantasy setting put me off, but every so often you do get a wonderful execution like this.
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Mar 10, 2024 19:10
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Wait. Would Goofy be a kobold or a gnoll?
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Mar 11, 2024 14:36
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Everytime I use the pellet grill I dedicate the aromatic smoke to Zeus.
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Mar 15, 2024 20:19
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Kwyndig posted:Maybe that's what OP wants, did you consider that? I hope it's a swan.
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Mar 16, 2024 02:53
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Kwyndig posted:Personally I'd go with the shower, I wanna see this horndog get creative. How do you think the shower happens? The swan has to fly over you! Use logic!
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Mar 16, 2024 03:09
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Is it safe to eat dragon? The meat of apex predators is supposed to be full of heavy metals, ala mercury and tuna fish. Everything in the food chain gets concentrated in the biomass of the predators. Apparently, the T-Rex would have been full of cadmium. Dragons have to be loaded with magic lead or whatever, especially with all the adventurer gear that passes through their digestive systems. Imagine the diarrhea from all those mixed up potions.
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Mar 17, 2024 03:26
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Kwyndig posted:Just don't eat its liver. That was going to be my next comment. There’s paleontological evidence that Homo Erectus was such a turbo-predator that they were giving themselves vitamin A poisoning because they ate so much predator liver. I think about these things like a normal person.
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Mar 17, 2024 05:06
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Mr. Lobe posted:This seems like something Laios would know and think about Do you think they had to fight any giant tape worms or other parasites when they inspected the dragon’s intestine? I’m enough of a bastard to work up a random encounter table for poo poo like that.
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Mar 17, 2024 15:45
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Flukes are definitely going on the parasite encounter table.
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Mar 17, 2024 16:03
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Begemot posted:Clearly, dragons maintain too high an internal temperature for any large parasites to survive. I accept this logic.
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Mar 17, 2024 16:25
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I honestly apologize for over analyzing a work of fiction to the point that I manifested actual real life monster eating.
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Mar 18, 2024 15:11
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Who the gently caress wears open toed shoes into a dungeon? Don’t even think about crushing injuries…think about all the stuff that will get in-between your toes.
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Mar 20, 2024 18:08
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Sander posted:Marcille and Senshi both have their toes out. Marcille: I should get a pair of fun and practical galoshes! Senshi: JAM! JAM! JAM!
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Mar 20, 2024 19:46
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Excellent episode. Besides everything to love about it, I like the implicit "show don't tell" of how the logic of magic works. I'll say my weirdest observation first there is a 'blink and miss it' shot during the resurrection that makes the hole in dragon and the symmetry of its intestines reminiscent of a birth canal and spread thighs. I read a lot poo poo about Neolithic anthropology and now I see the pubic triangle imagery every where. I think this is cool, good, and rad. It may also be a gruesome parody of the natural birthing process. Either way, we are all born in blood. The only way this could have been more mythologically perfect is if her brother or her consort had physically exhaled the breath of Life back into her. I could also get into the practice of excarnation, but I only get so far up my own rear end Any way, Marcille deservers her own Waterhouse painting. 
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Mar 21, 2024 19:41
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amigolupus posted:So what you're saying is that Marcille should have kissed Falin to breathe life back into her. Marcille wouldn't be the first goddess to storm hell to resurrect her dead consort from literal pieces. It's a "hero's journey" that needs more play time, honestly.
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Mar 21, 2024 21:13
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Also, big 90’s Showtime serialized soft core porn vibes this episode, too. Not complaining. It’s actually refreshing in an anime.
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Mar 21, 2024 22:09
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cant cook creole bream posted:We're halfway through the season. Obviously, it's just about climbing back up now. https://youtu.be/hpeN3aJX55U?si=m0UabiINiTyUbt5N
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Mar 21, 2024 22:17
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Marcille’s pharmakeia is strong.
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Mar 22, 2024 15:37
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Me being a rules lawyer concerning how healing magic appears to work: I'm fine with healing magic requiring a zero-sum transubstantiation of animal flesh into humanoid flesh. That is how it is supposed to work. Arguing that you're just "converting equivalent calories" to resurrect a destroyed body doesn't mean you're utilizing mass animal sacrifice to bring back a dead person. How is healing magic any less bloodthirsty than 'forbidden' magic? Are these live stock locally and humanely sourced? I hope the Resurrection Guild has somekind of kosher guidelines for their sourced livestock. I'm a miserable nerd. Anyway, my assumption is that Felin is now supercharged because, indeed, dragons probably have lead-poisoning levels of mana in their flesh. Apex predators concentrate heavy metals. Dragons probably concentrate mana. Honestly, slaying a red dragon to resurrect your dead magic user to be even more powerful is some dark-rear end wizard poo poo to do. So, I guess the time travel elf is right to have suspicions without context.
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Mar 22, 2024 19:54
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I’m assuming the castle village is all Winchester Mystery House because magic is making the buildings repair themselves in a haphazard manner. Like a sci-fi self repairing sidewalk that never stops. I suspect that the castle wasn’t that huge when it was buried and has been expanding on an ungoverned kernel or whatever. Like some Castle Greyhawk poo poo.
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Mar 23, 2024 00:29
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Marcille just wants to braid Falin’s hair and talk about horses. Girl pall stuff.
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Mar 23, 2024 05:14
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Chilchuck is a grown rear end man. You respect short kings!
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Mar 24, 2024 17:03
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The cut-off jeans skirt is a choice.
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Mar 24, 2024 20:55
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Technically, Laois would be the twink of the two.
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Mar 25, 2024 01:12
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Laois is just happy his best friend Marcille is also best friends with his sister. Isn’t that fun?
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Mar 25, 2024 01:18
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That castle is full of winged lion imagery like Minoan ruins are full of bull and labrys images. Is that going to pay off or is it just good consistent worldbuilding?
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Mar 26, 2024 00:03
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Oh, I'm sorry, did we just see dogs used for threat detection and gear toting in a dungeon? I demand recognition! Goofy observation the orc lady "mommy birding" the medicine into Laois' mouth is very much that 'goddess exhales life into her consort' imagery I was talking about, last time. Thumb tacking a possible relationship between the two, later? Also, being flanked by two large dogs is classic Artemis/Hectate/Mistress of Animals goddess imagery. See also: Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love" album cover.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:24
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Arc Hammer posted:Well not everyone has a mollusk sword to detect danger and dogs have excellent hearing and smelling Don't you gaslight me with my own reasoning!
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The tonal shift is that there are now stakes instead of steaks.
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Mar 29, 2024 15:32
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