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2020-03-24, 02:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
So are we hating on Eugene again?
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2020-03-24, 02:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
Belkar has never had any problems with sharing the food he cooks with other people, really. Pretty sure “cooking” comes right after “stabbing” and “taking care of Mr. Scruffy” on his list of favorite things to do.
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2020-03-24, 03:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
I just wanted to add that the Comic title is really great, just as the Comic itself.
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2020-03-24, 03:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
You might want to tone down the aggression here, Wyrm, no-one is attacking you.
And I maintain that "subtly different understandings" and "technically different" doesn't mean anything. all these words are used to describe strange people with supernatural powers. At most some of them cast the charcter as a vilain.
Magneto is evil. magneto is also good. It all depends on what whoever is writing Magneto feels about him and is using him for.
People are not good nor evil actions are. Trying to cast judgement on someone's entire life, motivations and values is doomed to failure, and frankly, pointless.
I refer you back to:
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2020-03-24, 04:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
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2020-03-24, 06:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-03-24, 06:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
There's just one problem with Belkar cooking: he's really bad at it. He has points in the Profession (gourmet chef) skill, which means he can cook in "a fully stocked professional kitchen". They're on the road on a pirate ship far from any towns where they could get ingredients. To cook there, you need the Survival skill, and Belkar hasn't invested in that at all. The ship's cook can cook better meals than him. Even if Durkon uses a spell to summon "mass-conjured pseudo-food packed with artificial ingredients, it will taste better than what Belkar makes. (Except perhaps when Belkar makes food for Mr. Scruffy or Bloodfeast, because it's possible that those use his Handle Animal skill.)
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2020-03-24, 06:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
Wait, I thought Roy couldn't remember specifics about when he was dead.
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2020-03-24, 07:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
If that’s what that actually meant, that is in no way any sort of callback, because not only is multitasking not particularly feminine, it’s super wrong to say that the only way a dude could do it is to become a woman.
He remembers no specifics of the mountain but he does remember what happened on the cloud, which is where that conversation happened.Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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2020-03-24, 07:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-03-24, 08:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
Belkar cooked tropical birds that weren’t even intended for eating, and Haley seemed to like it. He’s got spices which I think gives a +2 circumstantial bonus to the check. I’d also mention the MitD liking his vulture stew, but we know that guy’s standards are so low(despite his claims to the contrary) you’d probably have to start from the Underdark and then start digging deeper so it doesn’t count. He’s good enough for his culinary knowledge to serve as a replacement for Survival checks on a friggin’ Semi-Elemental Plane, even if it was one of Ranch Dressing! He’s probably better than anyone posting here on this thread at the very least!
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2020-03-24, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
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2020-03-24, 08:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-03-24, 10:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
No, Belkar is not trying to become LG, or to affect his alignment at all. He is pretending to have character growth.
That "faking sincerity" thing is pretty useful too.
In this case, he pretended to have character growth by faking a sincere interest in Vaarsuvius's welfare, but dropped it too soon to be believable.
No, he is not trying to have actual character growth. [He's having character growth, because we tend to slowly become more like the thing we are pretending to be, but he's not trying to grow; he's trying to fake growth.]
Yes, Belkar is trying.
Very, very trying.
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2020-03-24, 10:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
No true halfling would eat his porridge without cinnamon ...
I agree that cinnamon is often a good spice in chili. I make a vegetarian black bean chili every Lent for our suppers at church; and a touch of cinnamon is included. (One must not overdo it, IME, or it may overwhelm the dish).
+1.
What drama?
Eugene: dead. Sara: Dead. Eric: Dead. Roy: Alive, was once dead. Julia: alive.
Eugene is hardly an antagonist for the epic tale; he's a dad (imperfect of course, as are most characters in this story) and he's on Roy's side vis a vis "Xykon needs to die/be stopped." Rich has chosen to portray one form of internal conflict in OoTS as 'daddy issues' for both Haley and Roy, and for Elan in a different style with that "twins separated" thing.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2020-03-24 at 10:21 AM.
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2020-03-24, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
Well, Elan had plenty of daddy issues himself, didn’t he?
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2020-03-24, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-03-24, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
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Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2020-03-24, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
Well, 3.5e’s book on the topic would be Races of the Wild. Not sure about 3.0e, though.
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2020-03-24, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
It occurs to me that as soon as Xykon is finished off, the Blood Oath is fulfilled, Eugene scarpers off to his final destination... and Roy and Julia lose their communication. That may be an important loss of information, for whatever is left to the story.
It's a member of the mint family and has a kind-of-minty taste. It could be used in cookery for humanoids. And it's not implausible that Belkar is preparing something for Mr. Scruffy.
Thing is, everyone around him already knows that he's screwed up that way. What he just said has the downside of reminding people about it, but the upside of showing that he's working on it.
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2020-03-24, 12:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
That response from Belkar is something many real people I know would actually give (except without the magic part).
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2020-03-24, 01:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
Can we keep the textspeak out of the comics, please? "Moreso" is not a word in English.
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2020-03-24, 01:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
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2020-03-24, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2020-03-24, 01:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
This cites an example almost 200 years old.
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2020-03-24, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-03-24, 01:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
I thought Roy didn't remember anything from when he was dead. Just a glow.
Isn't he supposed to insult Julia? And Julia insults him back? I thought we had established that is what passes for an expression of affection in their screwed-up family?Last edited by Finagle; 2020-03-24 at 01:31 PM.
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2020-03-24, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
I think that was just whatever happened on the mountain proper. He said he can remember the clouds parts pretty well, but the mountain itself is a big, happy blur.
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2020-03-24, 01:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
It appears that being dead isn't what causes memory loss (as strange as that may sound), but the afterlife itself. The cloudzone is not the actual afterlife, it's the lobby in which you wait to be sorted into the appropriate final destination.
I think this has come up before.
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2020-03-24, 03:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1196 - The Discussion Thread
Well, Belkar is... certainly making an attempt, at least...
I feel like Roy not managing to tell Julia that almost has to be a plot point because Chekhov, but I can't figure out how
For breakfast, though? I mean, I'll eat chili anytime, but it's not really typical breakfast fare...
Personally, I'm betting on French toast.Last edited by Elenna; 2020-03-24 at 03:57 PM.
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