Binary on Comic 68

[Azrooh]

I just noticed some binary code on comic 68, (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0068.html) last panel, there's a purple box speaking it. Anybody know what it says?

[Firestar27]

In english, it is this "•Ek�"
Edit:
In number form, it is this "9782635"

[The Extinguisher]

It's basically random. Which is weird for a being of law, right?

Well, look at this. The Slaad's advice, while being nonsense is all grammatically correct.

So I purpose that the Slaad is actually the being of law, and other is the being of chaos.

[Beholder1995]

It's basically random. Which is weird for a being of law, right?

Well, look at this. The Slaad's advice, while being nonsense is all grammatically correct.

So I purpose that the Slaad is actually the being of law, and other is the being of chaos.

What Slaad?

[factotum]

It's basically random. Which is weird for a being of law, right?


It's only random if you assume that a being of Law from D&D uses ASCII or some similar code when it's speaking. There's no reason to assume that, any more than to assume that the people of Azure City must speak Japanese!

[Teron]

The critter spouting it is a modron, goofy-looking polyhedral mechanoid exemplars of Law from 2nd Edition. Their take on order and logic was supposed to be so "pure" that mere mortals couldn't hope to comprehend it; binary is a convenient, humorous depiction of that.

The frog thing is a slaad, exemplars of Chaos which were apparently deemed cool enough to make it to 3rd edition without their traditional rivals.

[Chronos]

Does anyone else find it amusing that the exemplars of chaos are color-coded, and have remained relatively consistent, while nobody can seem to agree on just who the exemplars of order are? It's the modrons! No, wait, it's the formians! No, wait, we meant the Inevitables!

[Beholder1995]

The frog thing is a slaad, exemplars of Chaos which were apparently deemed cool enough to make it to 3rd edition without their traditional rivals.

It certainly doesn't look like a slaad....

[Tass]

It is a slaad.

In comic 435 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0435.html) Belkar has a dillema, and his slaad is mentioned to. Aparently there are neither good nor lawfull in him. Though it seems he is doubly evil and only singly chaotic.

[Calamity]

It is a slaad.

In comic 435 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0435.html) Belkar has a dillema, and his slaad is mentioned to. Aparently there are neither good nor lawfull in him. Though it seems he is doubly evil and only singly chaotic.

Based on that theory Elan is True Neutral, having one for each alignment.

And Elan has already claimed to be Chaotic (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0445.html) Good (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0069.html)

Besides the sqaure and the frog appearing were just for comedic value, and the frog is not a slaad.

[Ned the undead]

Based on that theory Elan is True Neutral, having one for each alignment.

And Elan has already claimed to be Chaotic (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0445.html) Good (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0069.html)

Besides the sqaure and the frog appearing were just for comedic value, and the frog is not a slaad.
No it doesn't. Everybody has a good or evil side (and in DnD's case Law and Chaos) What makes a character's alighnement is which side they choose to listen too. The fact that Belkar has two evil parts talking to him points that he no longer has any good in him. Also I think the the mention of the Slaad was too point out that Belkar acting in a random violent way wouldn't be good for him in the long run.

[David Argall]

Based on that theory Elan is True Neutral, having one for each alignment.

No, the standard picture is that everyone has a devil and an angel speaking to one. In D&D terms, that becomes four guides from the other world, and everyone would have all four. Which allows the joke for Belkar that he is so evil that his good guide has just given out.

[Teron]

Based on that theory Elan is True Neutral, having one for each alignment.

And Elan has already claimed to be Chaotic (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0445.html) Good (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0069.html)

Besides the sqaure and the frog appearing were just for comedic value, and the frog is not a slaad.
What? Slaadi are froggy (more so in 2nd Edition) and they're the exemplars of chaos. What is that thing in the comic if not a simple, goofy depiction of a red slaad?