OOTS #354 - The Discussion Thread

[reorith]

yay archaic arcade games. nice reference

[Tabiani]

Love it! And Durkon keeps his place in the spotlight a bit longer.

[firespitter]

Thor's Might! If Durkon can keep Leeky-Bear busy until V is back in commission, there will be a reckoning.
Where's a good old fashioned "Evard's tentacles of forced intrusion" when you need it? ;D

Run Forrest, Run! I mean, run Julia...Run!

Great comic. I bow to the Gian'ts omnipotent plotline skills.

[Wolfram]

Oh my. This one brought back memories. For some reason Centipde was the game I exceled at. I could never get to the princess in Donkey Kong and once I used the thrust in Asteroids I was in trouble. I was medocre in Space Invaders and the less said about Defender the better. But Centipede was my game.

[Fillbert]

Absolutely fantastic!!! I love centipede.... on the odd chance you find it in an arcade, I play for hours.

And go THORS MIGHT!!!!

Edit: Also, Julia having only 2 MM's... since she has been passing her classes by "Hey, don't you want to pay attention to the girl with boobs" method. It's not surprising she isn't as powerfull as everybody thought/hoped.

[Eldritch Knight]

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!

That was hilarious!

Well Done!

[Aerysil1]

Sigh, yet another ambiguous "we're cool cuz we're old/we're lame cuz we're old" joke.

The Centipede reference did make me laugh, though.

[Moebius]

Woohoo! The Giant's really been on a tear recently.

I like the title ('Copper Piece Arcade').

[theKOT]

I'm somewhat undecided on this one. On the one hand, I found it fun and liked the joke, but on the other hand it was really, REALLY predictable. Almost exactly what I, and many others thought was going to happen. I think ol' tinny has got it on this one-6/10


On a side note, I love the way teh G has used the CPPD. It really feels fresh. A+ there.

[Felinoid]

Holy damn. Predictions taken care of in the first half, and jokes taken care of in the second half (with an exception in each). It's so beautiful I could go kill something. ;)

[Corp]

Forgot all about Thor's Might. Nice comic.

"I'm out of quarters...I mean spells!" ;D

[Finwe]

Actually, Julia shot one magic missile twice. So, assuming that it wasn't just drawn that way for comedic purposes, she's only 1st or 2nd level.

[Fale]

I love the retro gaming references. Keep 'em up! ;D

[Tawkis]

This is shaping up to be a real battle of the Titans.

The two most powerful core classes duke it out for Supremecy. The poke at the fact that Druids always, ALWAYS take Natural spell is nice too. Really though, you'd have to be crazy NOT to take the feat.

[denelian]

sometimes, nostalgia MUST win...

[Winged One]

Druids not taking Natural Spell? Unthinkable!

[drkdstryer]

Woohoo! The Giant's really been on a tear recently.

I like the title ('Copper Piece Arcade').

I was hoping for a reference to Gabe and Tycho myself...

But still, definitely a good comic. I mean, if you complain about it being predictable, what ELSE was gonig to happen? Durkon NOT using Thor's Might? Weren't the last two comics un-predictable enough for you?

[Daracaex]

what's all this talk about two magic missles? I clearly counted three. One before the arcade nostalgia panel (that me laugh loudly) and two more in the panel.

[The_Bug]

It's great to see the new comic up. I was kinda hoping for something we didn't expect (after the 13 posts saying that Durkon was going to use Thor's Might), but still, it was a great comic. I really like the Centipedes arcade reference, too :D

[Krytha]

man... people used to pay money to play centipede? I remember it being on those really crappy computers, but quarters for that is like paying money to do simple arithmetic.

[silvadel]

Of course you are also forgetting her int bonus. Probably good for another MM or two -- and the possible specialization... She looks level 1 to me.

And yes -- she didnt have enough quarters(spells) to keep a kid in an arcade for more than 15 minutes... Centipede in the arcade was kind of tough... But the track-ball was nice.

If you dont have a track-ball you arent playing centipede -- at least not the way it was meant to be played... I mean with a joystick avoiding the spider is often a pain -- with the trackback you could loop around it and into position with practice.

We even pretty much know what level leeky is -- I mean he can become a dire bear and that bear isnt huge -- that narrows it down a ton.

Actually looks like a teddy bear now to the enlarged durkon.

[Krytha]

I dont know what I want to say, but I do know that I want to say that the comic is AWESOME!

[Nazzo, the 102nd]

I go with the people saying that Julia is just a newbie wizard Two MM or, worse, two one-shot MM spells.

But Pompey, with SM2, can only summon a fiendish large centipede, 3d8 hp. And SM1, which he used to summon a small spider (in the Arcade panel there is one), that has 1d8 hp... He looks more powerful than Julia to me. Or maybe Julia has not memorized useful spells. I'd say his specialization is... Enchantment. ;)

Ah, but let's not forget the "speed of plot" mechanics.

This makes me wonder if there is a "spell of plot". Thor's mega powered lightning with a chained sonic attack? :D

[Heads_or_Tails]

I'd say his specialization is... Enchantment. Wink

Uhh... who do you think is an enchantment specialist? Pompey is a conjurer (who barred enchantment), and Julia is a girl soo...

[Nazzo, the 102nd]

Uhh... who do you think is an enchantment specialist? Pompey is a conjurer, and Julia is a girl soo...

Oh, I meant HER specialization.

Stupid pronouns. :)

[theKOT]

I was hoping for a reference to Gabe and Tycho myself...

But still, definitely a good comic. I mean, if you complain about it being predictable, what ELSE was gonig to happen? Durkon NOT using Thor's Might? Weren't the last two comics un-predictable enough for you?

Eh, it just felt a bit linear. I enjoyed it, but almost every good strip has its shortcomings. Don't look at it as us being impossible to please, look at is as us trying to be objective.

[tis_tom]

Dude Durkon kicks some serious ass! I had no idea he was so good!

I hope he beats Leeky ¬_¬

[Spanxxx]

Centipede. Nice! My buddy has one up in his bonus room. Sadly, the monitor blew out on it about a year ago while we were moving stuff around :(

I love the giant bear vs. the giant dorf thing going on. Great stuff.

[Solmage]

Amusing. I loved the look on the bear when he got the big guns! :)

And woooo centipede!

I do however have the sinking feeling that Julia is going to screw up healing "da elf"..

[Eldhrin]

I'm glad to see Durkon using Thor's Might, as is clearly the sensible thing to do.

As for Natural Spell... after consulting the hypertext d20 SRD, I would also like to say "What?? There are druids who don't take Natural Spell?"

Well of course there are - the ones who don't have 13 Wisdom. Why you'd want to be a druid with less than 13 Wisdom when all your spellcasting relies on it though...

One final thought - does Durkon know Silence?