OOTS #354 - The Discussion Thread

[BlythraB]

YES!!! THOR'S MIGHT RETURNS!!!
oh, and awesome comic anyway.
"...quarters! I mean, spells!" hehehe

[LE4dGOLEM]

SO we've got a webcomic, three books, and aboard game, when's the Julia-vs-Summoned-monsters arcade game coming out then?

[Ratkiller]

i saw nothing in the SRD about being healed when wildshaping. so i would have to say that a wounded druid that wildshapes is a wounded animal.

copy/paste from SRD:

Wild Shape (Su): At 5th level, a druid gains the ability to turn herself into any Small or Medium animal and back again once per day. Her options for new forms include all creatures with the animal type. This ability functions like the polymorph spell, except as noted here. The effect lasts for 1 hour per druid level, or until she changes back. Changing form (to animal or back) is a standard action and doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity.
The form chosen must be that of an animal the druid is familiar with.
A druid loses her ability to speak while in animal form because she is limited to the sounds that a normal, untrained animal can make, but she can communicate normally with other animals of the same general grouping as her new form. (The normal sound a wild parrot makes is a squawk, so changing to this form does not permit speech.)
A druid can use this ability more times per day at 6th, 7th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level, as noted on Table: The Druid. In addition, she gains the ability to take the shape of a Large animal at 8th level, a Tiny animal at 11th level, and a Huge animal at 15th level.
The new form’s Hit Dice can’t exceed the character’s druid level.
At 12th level, a druid becomes able to use wild shape to change into a plant creature with the same size restrictions as for animal forms. (A druid can’t use this ability to take the form of a plant that isn’t a creature.)
At 16th level, a druid becomes able to use wild shape to change into a Small, Medium, or Large elemental (air, earth, fire, or water) once per day. These elemental forms are in addition to her normal wild shape usage. In addition to the normal effects of wild shape, the druid gains all the elemental’s extraordinary, supernatural, and spell-like abilities. She also gains the elemental’s feats for as long as she maintains the wild shape, but she retains her own creature type.
At 18th level, a druid becomes able to assume elemental form twice per day, and at 20th level she can do so three times per day. At 20th level, a druid may use this wild shape ability to change into a Huge elemental.

[martyboy74]

i saw nothing in the SRD about being healed when wildshaping. so i would have to say that a wounded druid that wildshapes is a wounded animal.

copy/paste from SRD:

Wild Shape (Su): At 5th level, a druid gains the ability to turn herself into any Small or Medium animal and back again once per day. Her options for new forms include all creatures with the animal type. This ability functions like the polymorph spell, except as noted here. The effect lasts for 1 hour per druid level, or until she changes back. Changing form (to animal or back) is a standard action and doesn’t provoke an attack of opportunity.
The form chosen must be that of an animal the druid is familiar with.
A druid loses her ability to speak while in animal form because she is limited to the sounds that a normal, untrained animal can make, but she can communicate normally with other animals of the same general grouping as her new form. (The normal sound a wild parrot makes is a squawk, so changing to this form does not permit speech.)
A druid can use this ability more times per day at 6th, 7th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level, as noted on Table: The Druid. In addition, she gains the ability to take the shape of a Large animal at 8th level, a Tiny animal at 11th level, and a Huge animal at 15th level.
The new form’s Hit Dice can’t exceed the character’s druid level.
At 12th level, a druid becomes able to use wild shape to change into a plant creature with the same size restrictions as for animal forms. (A druid can’t use this ability to take the form of a plant that isn’t a creature.)
At 16th level, a druid becomes able to use wild shape to change into a Small, Medium, or Large elemental (air, earth, fire, or water) once per day. These elemental forms are in addition to her normal wild shape usage. In addition to the normal effects of wild shape, the druid gains all the elemental’s extraordinary, supernatural, and spell-like abilities. She also gains the elemental’s feats for as long as she maintains the wild shape, but she retains her own creature type.
At 18th level, a druid becomes able to assume elemental form twice per day, and at 20th level she can do so three times per day. At 20th level, a druid may use this wild shape ability to change into a Huge elemental.

They regain HP as if they had rested for a night.

[Aerysil1]

Note the "like the polymorph spell" phrase. That is the spell that heals you a night's worth of hp.

The 3.x books in so many ways require you to look up the results of an effect that is only mentioned in passing. "Web causes the subject to become entangled". Ok... what's entangled mean? Oh - it's in the glossary!

[martyboy74]

Note the "like the polymorph spell" phrase. That is the spell that heals you a night's worth of hp.

The 3.x books in so many ways require you to look up the results of an effect that is only mentioned in passing. "Web causes the subject to become entangled". Ok... what's entangled mean? Oh - it's in the glossary!

The SRD has it in the section on wild shape...

[Serina_Spellbinder]

I love it when the Giant throws a bit of nostalgia in (am I dating myself as well? :o).

[Kruul]

All fun and games... BUT WHERE IS ELAN!?

[martyboy74]

All fun and games... BUT WHERE IS ELAN!?

In a body bag?

[ShadeMoon64]

Now for some real druid smackdown dwarf style! 8)

[The_Kobold_Hero]

Yay! Arcade games! :D

[Rama_Lei]

Really only one joke. didn't do much for me. sorry. 6/10.

[Vreejack]

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.

How do you know you have played too many computer games? When you start thinking that books are "too linear."

edit: Woot! Last page! (so far)

[Haarculaneaum]

1 spell, 2 magic missiles.
Hoolia is out of spells because she spends them all on "alter self to make my ta-tas look bigger" every morning ;)

Haar

p.s. Check out my pirate build coming tonight.

[Sir_Rosh]

Just to clear up the Magic Missile thang. It's 1 missile +1 missile per two levels above 1st (max 5). She either cast 3 level 1 MM's or 2 level 2 one's (you don't see the effects too well in the first instance and she definitely fires 2 in the 2nd instance)

Lovin this story arc btw ;D GO DURKON!! Druids rock but Clerics are teh l33t3st

[AyuVince]

The OOTS certainly don't know V's actual gender, if ze even has one. Roy, Durkon and Haley don't care, Elan thinks V is a camel and Belkar is trying to find "it" out all the time.

I'm predicting a culmination of all ongoing battles in the next strip.

Roy vs Sabine
Belkar vs Yokyok
Durkon vs Leeky
Haley vs "Kitty"
V vs Unconsciousness
CPPD vs Bugs
Julia vs Pompey?

[xyzchyx]

Just to clear up the Magic Missile thang. It's 1 missile +1 missile per two levels above 1st (max 5). She either cast 3 level 1 MM's or 2 level 2 one's (you don't see the effects too well in the first instance and she definitely fires 2 in the 2nd instance)

That 1 missile plus 1 per 2 levels above 1st applies to a _single_ casting of the spell... so a single casting by a 3rd or higher level wizard produces multiple missiles, which can can be directed as desired to each target a single opponent (they can also be combined so that more than one missle affects a single target). While a spellcaster can always cast any spell at a lower power than their actual level (to a minimum of the minimum level required to cast the spell), it does not change the actual level of the spell, and therefore does not change how many times it can potentially be cast in one day.

[Querzis]

I'm pretty sure Haley know V gender. She knew V before everyone else in the group and she also knew V was married but she just dont realize that everyone else dont know V gender so she never talk about it.

[Ego Slayer]

Centipede!! :D That was awesome.. heheh

[Finwe]

What happened to the SWAT team in this one?

[wagomorph]

You are soooooo young.

I have been told on may occasions that I am juvenile.

Juvenile means young, so that's good, Right????

What arcade game is Julia referencing?

[Fillbert]

Aaaaahhhhh Centipede..... bad graphics, poor user interface, hypnotic distorted warbled rythmic sound.... video games were so much better when they used mind tricks to take your quarters instead of scantily clad women fighting or playing volleyball and jiggling around.....

[Haarculaneaum]

Hey Filly!
Watch for the pirate build 2nite.

Anyway

Julia is missing her belt in panel 10 (out of quarters. . .).

Haar

[Arian]

(I love the sig line! ;D )

[Sky_Schemer]

So what about duration. Durkon can't stay in this form forever...

Duration is 1 round/level. Assuming Durkon at 12th or 13th level, which seems to be the current best guess, that's 12 or 13 rounds.

When's the last time you were in combat for 12 or 13 rounds?

[Varian7]

Great Centipede reference. I remember when I used to play that game in college. Go Durkon with Thor's Might!

[the_tick_rules]

julia has a good point. any druid players or have you seen a druid without that feat, i sure haven't.

[theKOT]

Julia is missing her belt in panel 10 (out of quarters. . .).

It fell off while she was running.

[Felinoid]

It fell off while she was running.

More than possible, but how much you wanna bet it mysteriously reappears in the next strip? ;)

[Arachnophile]

I've always liked playing Centipede. I have it in a classic arcade games disc for Playstation.