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2020-10-06, 08:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1216 - The Discussion Thread
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2020-10-06, 09:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
Resistance Data in MM, Volo's, MToF. -- -- Petrocorus's 3.5 Paladin Builds List. -- -- French vs. EnglishOriginally Posted by King Louis XIII in The Musketeers
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2020-10-06, 10:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Que tous les anciens dieux et les nouveaux protègent la France.
Resistance Data in MM, Volo's, MToF. -- -- Petrocorus's 3.5 Paladin Builds List. -- -- French vs. EnglishOriginally Posted by King Louis XIII in The Musketeers
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2020-10-06, 10:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1216 - The Discussion Thread
I'm noticing in panel twelve the ground is being affected my the meld to stone. I'm betting that the dwarves are gone before Redcloack gets back, but as DM I'd rule that true seeing would detect something as the spell doesn't describe you being in a superposition with the stone and you'd either be on the surface or have to have the surface close over you.
Kraft singles (one of the most commonly sold brands is technically a "pasteurized prepared cheese product" and contains (in decreasing order) Actual cheese, other dairy products, whey, "Protein concentrate" (probably from whey), multiple kinds of salts (both unhealthy and healthy), Gelatin, extra Lactic acid, food dye, and vitamin D3 (it helps absorption of calcium, which is in both the dairy and the salts).
Look we’ve got over a thousand different types so I’d say that if it came out of a mamal, is somewhat solid and can be used to murder an Englishman, it’s got a decent shot of qualifying.
That one's less embarrassing since the legal question isn't "can this be called bread", but, can this be taxed as a value added item?
Also notably the definitions of "cake" is so broad that adding uranium ore to bread would make it cake,
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2020-10-06, 10:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1216 - The Discussion Thread
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2020-10-06, 11:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1216 - The Discussion Thread
I know a million people have probably said it already, but I'm willing to bet that's a door the MITD tagged falsely, and Xykon and company are gonna get trounced. LOLOLOL.
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2020-10-06, 11:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Isn't that why potatoes are classified as vegetables?
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2020-10-06, 11:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1216 - The Discussion Thread
Vae Victus!
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2020-10-07, 12:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-07, 12:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Actually its +2 (to all attributes) for lich.
He was already old (+2 again) or even venerable (+3 instead). Even if he started at 10 that is 14-15 unless he spent one attribute up on rounding one or both to 16. All three values are respectable values for starting PCs. Cha might be mid to upper 20s unless he is wearing something to push into the 30s.
i feel he is more like the Joker; his plans are maybe two three step things. More like contingencies. He has a goal (though it may of changed after lichdom) and simply meanders towards it.
He has all the time in the world now...
That depends on how sturdy the door is and its enchantments. It swings out and might be built to withstand the creatures within. Creatures strong enough to get an epic guy XP.
It's a good idea if they can't phase through it.
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2020-10-07, 12:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Indeed.
Anyway, the other 1% is contract law instead of tax law. For example, a food court has a sandwich place with a contract for no other sandwich places, and a burrito place moves in. Sandwich place doesn't like the competition, so they claim a burrito is a sandwich, and now a court has to make a legal decision on whether a burrito counts as a sandwich to see if the contract has been broken or not.
And then probably tax it differently anyway.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2020-10-07, 01:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-07, 01:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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In addition to tasting like plastic, they are also individually wrapped in plastic, so there is no shortage of reasons to hate Kraft Singles.
Meanwhile, actual American cheese isn't bad, and neither are other American cheeses (like Swiss).
ETA: And you don't even want to know about the abomination that is "frozen dessert".Last edited by Peelee; 2020-10-07 at 01:34 AM.
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2020-10-07, 01:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-07, 03:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1216 - The Discussion Thread
I don't mind how Kraft Singles taste. Spicy cheeses like pepper jack and smoked cheese are what I don't like.
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2020-10-07, 04:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Look my joke isn’t particularly deep, I just came up with a random typically French foodstuff to be force-fed to death.
Though now that you mention it I probably thought of foie gras because of the force-feeding. And no, foie gras can’t be produced naturally because it is, by definition, the liver of a goose or duck force-fed into obesity. That’s why it’s called that (fat liver).
That being said, it's still liver. I don't think I'd like it either way.Forum Wisdom
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2020-10-07, 04:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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When it comes to food the French are really weird.
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2020-10-07, 04:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1216 - The Discussion Thread
Do we have any solid indication on Minrah's alignment? I'm a little befuddled by the assertions that the double-bluff was thought up by one of the lawful members of the party, because in my head she seems more like a neutral.
(Also in my head she seems very likely to become the party member who will actually grieve for Belkar, but that's another story.)
You get a family of beholders floating up to close the door ("Who's the jerk letting in all the cold air!?"), just as Minrah and Durkon are coming out to make their escape.
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2020-10-07, 04:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-07, 05:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1216 - The Discussion Thread
As for Roy, the dragon was not a trap, and Roy was not supposed to jump on it in the first place. Heck, Xykon could have ditched the dragon the moment Roy leaped on it. Instead, he tried to have a conversation with him, getting wounded in the process, right before the big fight in the throne room. Revealing himself to those on the wall was a deviation from the original plan, and a stupid one at that.Spoiler: SoDYup. We can give him partial credit for Dorukan. Still, it was more of a right for the wrong reason thing than a plan that worked out as planned (Dorukan did not care about X.'s threat per se, he just wanted to retreive the gem). Also, it could have ended worse for Xykon.
Consolidating Gobbotopia was never something that Xykon didn't want to do. You're forgetting here that Redcloak was the one for whom "getting on with the plan" was of ultimate importance. For Xykon, it's just a lark. If the plan stalls for a little while, it stalls. Xykon didn't have a particularly strong desire to move on until suddenly he did, which is exactly when they moved on. And the only bit of "feeding him the right information" Redcloak really did was not telling him that he didn't expect O-Chul's interrogation to pan out.
Hell, re-read this strip. Redcloak is talking about how important it is to get information on the next gate, and Xykon is more interested in using O-Chul as entertainment. Xykon's urgency to leave Gobbotopia was non-existent until he got pissed off.
A plan that relies on nothing unexpected ever happening or your opponents never getting a bit of good luck is a really lousy plan. And you're also flat-out wrong here- Redcloak did foresee somebody trying to teleport in to kill them, which is why they had wards in place. A thousand different things could have happened. That's what contingency plans are for- you don't try to plan for every single thing that the enemy can throw at you, you just put some basic redundancies in place so that you cover as many different kinds of failure as possible.
EDIT: The current circumstance is an excellent example. If Xykon figures out that they've been betray he might just get pissed off enough to vent in Redcloak's direction. The specific circumstances may not have been predictable, but that doesn't matter- this kind of thing is going to happen sooner or later and if Redcloak's control over Xykon is so fragile that it can be broken the moment an unforeseen challenge comes up then it was never worth calling "control" in the first place.
Xykon knew better than to give Redcloak the chance to try to talk himself out of it. He knew he wouldn't be able to verify whatever Redcloak told him, and that pressing him on it would just reveal to Redcloak what Xykon did or did not know.
Again, you are not making a good case for Redcloak here. If he was anything like in subtle control of Xykon he wouldn't have to rely on openly confronting him. The friggin' MitD understands this better than Redcloak does. He did a better job in the desert of figuring out which of Xykon's buttons he had to press to get him to agree. He doesn't try to argue with Xykon directly. He knows when to play dumb.
Xykon feeling safer than ever is a hell of an assumption. Xykon has demonstrated rather conclusively that he does not trust Redcloak as much as he used to. He didn't listen to Redcloak's advice in the desert, and he didn't listen to him in the lastest strip.
And, after all this, Redcloak still doesn't have any leverage on Xykon that he can actually use if Xykon decides to ditch the plan. Having his phylactery is of strictly limited usefulness- it'll let him kill Xykon if his body is destroyed, but if he does that the plan is kaput. If he tries to blackmain Xykon then Xykon can just kill him, trap his soul, and go on a goblin rampage until Redcloak tells him where it is. Redcloak is still 100% reliant on Xykon thinking that the ritual will put the gate under his control, with zero room for anything going wrong.
Your assessment of Redcloak's position is wildly optimistic.
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2020-10-07, 06:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1216 - The Discussion Thread
I am more of the belief he knew exactly why she was in Red's study. But X. could also believe that Pigtails would also do (or at least imagine) all the things that Red spoke of. The Plan requires two caster both with 9th level spells. At the time Pigtails was already dead and X knows Red and he ain't getting her back without wish.
I feel X. conceded the battle to Red as there was nothing to gain with a fight with Red; Pigtails did not get the other half (I can't image how much or little hope X. had of it written down at all) and was dead. It was either scrap the Plan or admit defeat. Red even phrased it in such a way that he could say face by denying the whole thing.