OOTS #1197 - The Discussion Thread

[Peelee]

The title at the bottom of page is brand new or am I just now noticing it?

Technically both!

[gallagher]

Ah this has the feel of a classic comic. Love Elan keeping his Bard-iness relevant

[hroþila]

No, the suggestion that V could overlay a hex grid cued that thought. It was deliberate on Rich's part.

Nah, the idea occurred to me already in the first panel where the illusion appeared. It's just the way it looks (which yes, was deliberate on Rich's part).

[Anansiil]

That's actually more clever than inappropriate! Way to go Elan!!!

[Ezekiel]

Has Elan leveled up to the point where he no longer needs mundane means to create his bardic music?

Sculpt Sound maybe?

You change the sounds that creatures or objects make. You can create sounds where none exist, deaden sounds, or transform sounds into other sounds.

[Vantharion]

Bummer, if only it came with a link to orchestral music.

Nice to see V being clever with magic.

[PirateMonk]

I love that V considers a hex grid the best thing to suggest there, especially considering her distaste for hexes in the past.

V was firmly pro-hexagon

[JumboWheat01]

Don't change, Elan.

After playing so much Civ V and VI, I too agree with V on the wonders of having a hex grid over a map.

[AstralFire]

Don't change, Elan.

After playing so much Civ V and VI, I too agree with V on the wonders of having a hex grid over a map.

I just wish they had polar movement.

[Urm le Fou]

I just wish they had polar movement.

Well, they are quite far north...

[renovator]

I can't remember . Is this definiitely the last book or could we have a reason to go to the land of the halflngs or wherever the MitD is from ?

[Peelee]

I can't remember . Is this definiitely the last book or could we have a reason to go to the land of the halflngs or wherever the MitD is from ?

Definitely the last book, according to the guy writing it.

Or, well, maybe not the last book. But the "conclusion to the story" book.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Sculpt Sound maybe?

Could also be Audible Glamer, although that's not in the SRD.

[georgie_leech]

The title at the bottom of page is brand new or am I just now noticing it?

It came along with our fancy new working sidebar.

[Particle_Man]

I love that the spell is called Phantasmal Force and not Silent/Minor/Major Image. It warms my heart! The older edition name (I first encountered it in 1st edition AD&D) was more evocative, more Vancian. Yay!

[ASCIInerd73]

Well, they are quite far north...

I believe that was referencing the Civ games, not the comics.

[AstralFire]

I believe that was referencing the Civ games, not the comics.

'twas. I can't shortcut over the poles with my air or naval power at any point and it always bugs me.

I love that the spell is called Phantasmal Force and not Silent/Minor/Major Image. It warms my heart! The older edition name (I first encountered it in 1st edition AD&D) was more evocative, more Vancian. Yay!

It's a great spell in 5e and one of my favorites, though that also kept the Image line and slightly distinguished them. Since I began with 3e, I thought it was a 5e ref, but it being an older edition callback makes more sense in Mr. Burlew's case.

[LordSith]

So true Elan. So true.

[RMS Oceanic]

The real question now is what music is Elan playing?

Gonna skip the obvious Howard Shore answer and instead submit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_xN0LOLG3I

[Jasdoif]

'twas. I can't shortcut over the poles with my air or naval power at any point and it always bugs me.

Hmm. I remember Freeciv's topology options allowed for a hex grid that wrapped north-south and east-west, so you had poles as round-ish areas that you could move around/over/through.

[Jannoire]

Don't change, Elan.

After playing so much Civ V and VI, I too agree with V on the wonders of having a hex grid over a map.

I was wondering, if we maybe get a recall of the fight on the hex grid. Roy said you could only surround someone with six people. It was an advantage back then when there were only six people in the party... But now Minrah is on board, too... I wonder if that's gonna be a problem

[Frozenstep]

I was wondering, if we maybe get a recall of the fight on the hex grid. Roy said you could only surround someone with six people. It was an advantage back then when there were only six people in the party... But now Minrah is on board, too... I wonder if that's gonna be a problem

Unlikely, as I doubt V would want to be up in melee range. Haley also might prefer to stay back, unless her bowstring gets snapped or something.

[Jannoire]

Unlikely, as I doubt V would want to be up in melee range. Haley also might prefer to stay back, unless her bowstring gets snapped or something.

Also, I think the times for jokes like this are long gone.

[Slibs]

Why is Vaarsuivius so short? in #1187 he was taller than Haley. Now he's barely taller than Belkar

[Slibs]

Why is Vaarsuvius suddenly so short? He used to be taller than Haley (#1187_

[Jannoire]

Vaarsuvius has always been shorter than the humans in the party. I'd guess that it's always hard to depict such scaling in a stick figure comic, having to work with perspective.
If it helps you, you can imagine that V is hovering slightly over the ship's deck

[oball]

Maybe V has an older version of the spell that was house-ruled in?

[hroþila]

Why is Vaarsuivius so short? in #1187 he was taller than Haley. Now he's barely taller than Belkar

Vaarsuvius has always been shorter, it's just perspective. Look at their feet in #1187. Similarly, Minrah is not a full head taller than Belkar.

[danielxcutter]

As I believe you guys will do the “dramatic music joke discussion” for me, I’m just going to be chuckling here in the corner about the dwarf statue being enough to infer size (y’know, all dwarves are the same blah blah blah). Not sure if that was an actual joke, though, now I think about it.

V’s and Belkar’s expressions are to be expected, but Minrah’s expression is something like five parts “...What.” and two parts “Is this normal?” That probably *was* meant to be funny, at least.

[Neltharak]

It's probably just Silent Image ? It bothers me as well !