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2020-05-04, 11:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIV: High In Protean
A creature from another fantasy world would definitely cause various reactions in the cirkus public.
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A), thank you for your gracious and well-thought-out reply, and B), I have no bone to pick with any of that. Other than, of course, that it fits equally well with shape-shifting into a form that can use Teleport.
I'll go so far as to say you've hit upon a key element of the MitD's whole story arc; what he is, isn't nearly as important as who he is. The way you phrased that summed it up perfectly.
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2020-05-06, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thank you!
My issues with Teleport are the need to have a type of teleportation that a) teleports O-Chul but not MITD (I find the “dimensionally locked MITD” theory a bit of a stretch) and b) sends O-Chul directly to safety (literally right on top of Hinjo) despite neither MITD nor O-Chul knowing where that is. Even if one goes with the idea that MITD read V’s mind to know where to send O-Chul (despite having no familiarity with V), that wouldn’t be likely to send O-Chul to Hinjo’s exact location at that moment (which V didn’t know).
Whereas a Wish like “I want O-Chul to escape and be safe and with his friends” could plausibly result in that outcome.
Happy to listen to other explanations for this, though.Last edited by LadyEowyn; 2020-05-06 at 02:05 PM.
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2020-05-06, 02:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIV: High In Protean
I don't see how Dimensionally locked MITD is a stretch: if that is indeed the explanation, it was properly foreshadowed.
V just came from that exact spot - that's where they dropped them all off. All it takes is some ability to read the source of a teleport, or to send V back to where they were just at. Or a lucky roll in the Mishap table due to False destination, with probability proving itself willing to sneak into a back alley and service Drama as would a copper-piece harlot.
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I have what may be a dumb question. The Athasian Nightmare Beast is listed as published before strip #100, but the MM2 featuring the "nightmare beast" came out in 2002, and that was a 3e port of a much earlier existing creature (I couldn't track down a PDF, but all signs point to the "Dark Sun Monstrous Compendium I:Terrors of the Desert", published in 1992). This seems well before strip 100, so why is the consensus that Rich would have to have gotten an advance copy to know about the ANB?
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I would argue there was a second bit of foreshadowing, if a bit more subtle.
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2020-05-06, 02:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Why that one and not this one?
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Last edited by Peelee; 2020-05-06 at 02:46 PM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2020-05-06, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Is it possible that MitD is a 2e Nightmare Beast or ported separately from MM2? It's possible that Rich was going off the abilities it had in 2e, and assuming that the 3e version would be pretty similar. Especially, given that the linked 3e stats are from a forum post, not an official sourcebook, Rich might have looked for a 3e port, and, not having found a proper one, used the original instead. There's
precedent for older monsters still existing in the world, so I don't know if having a 3.5 stat block is necessarily a requirement for a creature to be present in OOTSworld, especially as a rare specimen.
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2020-05-06, 03:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: MitD XIV: High In Protean
That'd be a creature created by Rich for this comic.
It was a forum post by an author of the forthcoming sourcebook.
There was a proper one, the one in MM2. If that one didn't suit his purposes (and it probably doesn't), he might have spoken to the people in charge of the Dark Sun sourcebook, and got an advanced copy. How far-fetched someone finds that is what falls under the con in the first place.
It is if Rich intended the creature to be a 3e creature. Otherwise, he'd use the 2nd ed version, such as the ones in the cave.
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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That such a thing is actually relevant to the thread...
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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A bit off topic, but this whole shutdown has apparently gotten a few creative juices flowing; there's talk of a new show they're going to do on Broadway once it's safe. All the dialogue is going to be puns. Every single line, no exceptions.
It's going to be a play on words.
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Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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what is xycon's pet?
any ideas? I'm all ears, so please post!
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I believe this is the thread you're looking for.
https://forums.giantitp.com/showthre...igh-In-Protean
Briefly, Giant (the author) has said that it is possible to guess what MITD is--it is not a completely homebrewed thing that Rich Burlew made up (at least not for this purpose.)
This is all from memory, so I may miss a detail:
MITD was captured by Stereotypical Great White Hunters, who were very excited to see a very young specimen of MITD's type. MITD surprised them by talking (or was it talking in Common?).
Xykon gave MITD orders to swallow Redcloak whole (killing Redcloak) either when the Plan was complete, or if Redcloak ever betrayed Xykon.
I was about to start looking up references, but instead:
https://oots.fandom.com/wiki/Monster...ness#Biographyhttps://thaumasiagames.blogspot.com/
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...-Dad-is-the-DM
Homebrew quick-fixes for Cleric, Druid: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=307326
Replacing the Cleric: The Theophilite packagehttp://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=318391
Fighter feats: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=310132
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Re: what is xycon's pet?
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Re: what is xycon's pet?
Barky is Xykon's childhood dog.
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Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!