Lime Green Boots

[Grytorm]

I wanted to know, is the Lime Green Boots joke a reference to something? Or did it start in the comic? I am wondering because I saw Lime Green Boots of Speed in the 5e DMG. And it made me smile a bit.

[Peelee]

I wanted to know, is the Lime Green Boots joke a reference to something? Or did it start in the comic? I am wondering because I saw Lime Green Boots of Speed in the 5e DMG. And it made me smile a bit.

Just a color Haley found atrocious. The 5e books are likely a reference to the comic.

[kivzirrum]

I wanted to know, is the Lime Green Boots joke a reference to something? Or did it start in the comic? I am wondering because I saw Lime Green Boots of Speed in the 5e DMG. And it made me smile a bit.

That's SUPER cool if the 5e books are referencing the comic.

[Lurkmoar]

Where exactly did you see it? The only things that my search engine are kicking out are topics here in this forum, Boots of Speed, or things in D&D that have the words lime, green, boots or speed in them.

[JDL]

The picture of the Boots of Speed on page 146 is lime green.

http://s8.postimg.org/en8pc1s1x/Boots_of_Speed.png

Coincidence or subtle reference? You decide.

[littlebum2002]

Rich retweeted someone (see the feed on the left toolbar) who thought that Flumphs being in 5e was a shoutout to Rich. That is entirely possible, as Rich is a big name in the D&D community, and it is also entirely possible that the Boots of Speed were colored lime green as a shoutout to him as well.

Or, it's possible that both are coincidence.

[Keltest]

I figure theyre either a shoutout to Rich and OOTS, or Rich was referencing some official early edition artwork of boots of speed that the DMG is also referencing.

[Storm_Of_Snow]

I figure theyre either a shoutout to Rich and OOTS, or Rich was referencing some official early edition artwork of boots of speed that the DMG is also referencing.
It would have to be a really early piece of artwork - the first reference to Haley's boots of speed was in 2008 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0573.html).

[Keltest]

It would have to be a really early piece of artwork - the first reference to Haley's boots of speed was in 2008 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0573.html).

*cough* (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0003.html)

You may want to check your dates.

[jere7my]

It would have to be a really early piece of artwork - the first reference to Haley's boots of speed was in 2008 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0573.html).

I'm amused by the idea that 2008—when 4th edition came out—is "really early" in terms of D&D.

That said, there is, to my knowledge, no canonical color artwork showing boots of speed in any edition before the first appearance of Haley's boots of speed.

[littlebum2002]

It would have to be a really early piece of artwork - the first reference to Haley's boots of speed was in 2008 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0573.html).

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I may need a bit of clarification here.

You're saying that, in order for a reference to be made in a strip written in 2003 (even earlier than your date of 2008, TBH), it needs to be really early artwork of a system which has been in place since 1974?

EDIT: On a quick count, I'm counting 9 different editions and updates of D&D done before 2003 (including 3,5 since that predates this entire comic as well), and only 2 since then. So how would artwork released, say, on the 7th of 11 versions of D&D be considered "really early"?

[Peelee]

I'm amused by the idea that 2008—when 4th edition came out—is "really early" in terms of D&D.


I'm sorry, I'm worry, I may need a bit of clarification here.

You're saying that, in order for a reference to be made in a strip written in 2003 (even earlier than your date of 2008, TBH), it needs to be really early artwork of a system which has been in place since 1974?

I think he may have been referencing "early" in terms of "5th ed artwork that was released early before print," and not "an earlier edition, such as AD&D." Which would make his incredulity valid.

[Storm_Of_Snow]

*cough* (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0003.html)

You may want to check your dates.
Fair enough - I forgot that one. So 2003 then.

And Peelee, yes, that.

[Keltest]

Fair enough - I forgot that one. So 2003 then.

And Peelee, yes, that.

In that case, I meant earlier as in "any official artwork that came out before Rich made the first reference", not "Rich was referencing early 5th edition artwork."

[littlebum2002]

OOOH, ok, so he thought Rich was referencing an earth 5th edition artwork. I apologize for my snark, but in my defense the post he was quoting referred to an "early edition" artwork. I thought the debate was that "boots of speed" in D&D have always been lime green, and Rich was simply commenting on the 3rd edition boots, while the 4th and 5th continued to be lime green without anyone noticing.

But as Piscine (Pi) once said, (I'm paraphrasing): You choose to believe the story you prefer to believe. And I think it's insanely cool that D&D added flumphs and lime green boots of speed because of Rich, so until I learn otherwise, I'm going with it.

[SoC175]

Rich retweeted someone (see the feed on the left toolbar) who thought that Flumphs being in 5e was a shoutout to Rich. That is entirely possible, as Rich is a big name in the D&D community,Except that, since 1e, Flumphs have been in every edition so far. They were in 3.x and 4e

Chosing green as color for the boots picture however looks like a shout out

[The Giant]

Except that, since 1e, Flumphs have been in every edition so far. They were in 3.x and 4e

They may have eventually been converted, but they have never been in the first monster manual for any edition, ever, until 5e. The tweet was proposing that their rise in visibility was due to their appearance in OOTS (which I tend to agree with).


Chosing green as color for the boots picture however looks like a shout out

That is amusing. I wonder if the artist slipped that past editorial or if it was intentional.

[sabremeister]

In Dungeons & Dragons Online, all boots are lime(ish) green. I wonder if Haley's boots came before Turbine decided on that particular artwork?

[Chronos]

For what it's worth, the 3.5 rules for random cursed items (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/cursedItems.htm) include as a possibility "40 Item looks ridiculous (garishly colored, silly shape, glows bright pink, . . .).". So Haley's boots might actually have technically been cursed.

[Father Miles]

They may have eventually been converted, but they have never been in the first monster manual for any edition, ever, until 5e. The tweet was proposing that their rise in visibility was due to their appearance in OOTS (which I tend to agree with).



That is amusing. I wonder if the artist slipped that past editorial or if it was intentional.


It's fair to say that someone unfamiliar with OOTS wouldn't think twice about that artwork - the boots look perfectly legit.

[malloyd]

It's fair to say that someone unfamiliar with OOTS wouldn't think twice about that artwork - the boots look perfectly legit.

If they said Boots of Elvenkind nobody would've noticed, with no way to read that as a reference and what with all the pictures we've seen of elves in green, well, everything.

[JDL]

Yeah, to add to the above comment and possibly poke a hole in the thread's theory, the Boots of Elvenkind are also a nice shade of lime green. It's possibly a reference, or possibly someone just has a thing for green footwear on the artwork team.

http://s18.postimg.org/q0efieyi1/Boots_of_Elvenkind.png

[SlashDash]

Okay... Maybe it's just me... But I thought that boots of speed and most gear usually associated with elves was green due to their "fashion" trend of picking wood\leaf colored items for the Ranger archtypes.

[Jay R]

I don't care how or why it happened. Coincidence, shout out, parallel thinking, .... Doesn't matter.

Haley's Lime Green Boots of Speed are in 5E.