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2021-08-18, 06:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-18, 07:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-18, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
There's a lot more telling rather than showing on this page than the comic usually has. I can see some of it is for humor, but still.
Nice to see the Order turning things around after their mass saving throw failure, anyway.
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2021-08-18, 07:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
Just occurred to me if Elan never met Therkla, he'd never have Neutralize Poison as one of his spells....
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2021-08-18, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-18, 07:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
Heal would cure the poison and remove the poison damage.
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2021-08-18, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
Does anyone else think it's hilarious that Belkar has basically been temporarily transfigured into a into a member of the Neutral Planet?
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2021-08-18, 07:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
I really like seeing Minrah immediately apologize to Belkar as she hits him with an emotion spell. It's nice to see the acknowledgement that it's kind of a morally ambiguous kind of magic.
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2021-08-18, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
Rage isn't going to matter for a target you can't hit.
Bloodfeast is a good boy.
Xykon has Symbol of Insanity that he used to kill 95% of the Sapphire's Guard's living paladins. I think that counts.
For Mass Death Ward, that is correct. They're fine on that.
Why, she specifically said at one point that every member of the Order has weird mental issues. She and Durkon would've come up with a balance of spells and Calm Emotions for a mentally unstable group is something she would reasonably want.
I'm on your side here.
Also, I thought Durkon got off Cure Poison in the last page, but he botched the spell when he got Flesh to Stoned. Didn't noticed that. Roy definitely still has the poison effect on him what with the green bubbles and everything.Profile picture made by my good friend Judas.
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2021-08-18, 08:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
Wild Empathy is a Ranger class feature that I'm pretty sure Belkar used on Bloodfeast.
But unlike in the case of an Animal Companion or a Familiar, I wouldn't describe that by saying that Bloodfeast is a class feature, if you want to get pedantic. And getting pedantic is at least part of what a lot of us are in this discussion to do.
Elves are only explicitly immune to magic sleep effects, thus excluding non-magical poison.
I imagine that drow also like to use sleep poison on other drow, and that their own as well as other elves' immunity to sleep magic contributed to drow developments in this field.
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2021-08-18, 09:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-18, 09:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
Man, Serini cannot hit Haley at all. If she somehow manages to lose the battle, it will be because she wasted dozens of attacks on Haley instead of just taking out the rest of the Order.
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2021-08-18, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
I get that, but there was that one joke where roys dad scolded him for not speaking with dead before, as in talking to him.
it was a joke in comic, and there was the instance where RC used the spell to speak to a goblin about where xykons keys were. the dead goblin was annoyed about being interupted from his rest, but I could see this as a gag too.
outside of jokes, does this spell have the same effect, or is it restricted to comedy? rule of cool? rule of dramatic effect? etc etc?Vae Victus!
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2021-08-18, 09:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
I, as Squire Doodad, am very proud of Belkar's little brooch doodad. They are doing a great service to the field of doodadery.
Since this is the same spell loadout as they were packing to talk to Redcloak, it'd come in handy for diplomatic reasons in a variety of middling-probability scenarios.
I can easily imagine a scenario where Redcloak agrees to Durkon's plan, and then has a panic attack about the idea of fighting Xykon.Last edited by Squire Doodad; 2021-08-18 at 09:48 PM.
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2021-08-18, 10:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
Belkar: Tell my wife, "Hello."
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2021-08-18, 10:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
It's like a puzzle, ain't it?
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2021-08-18, 10:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
I thought his dull expression and flat "Oh, I'm being attacked" "Meh" "I guess" dialogue got the message across well enough without him going on to say "this is how I'm feeling right now".
The average reader can probably also figure out that Belkar's clasp removed the charm Elan was under, but he at least already likes to talk a lot. Summon Exposition is a Bard class skill.
Ultimately this doesn't matter that much, but the comic's writing is almost always at a very high standard so it's noticeable when something could've been done better.
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2021-08-18, 10:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
That reminds me that there is still (what I believe to be) an Earth Elemental, or perhaps a Mimic, covering the door. The order is not aware of the presence of that creature. That means it has the element of surprise and is potentially anotehr very powerful creature for them to deal with.
But if it enters the battle, the Order will also know why they couldn't Stone Shape the door, and they will be more likely to be able to get out.
Remember Symbol Of Insanity? The Order isn't a room full of low level Paladins, but he may pull that one out again.Last edited by DreamCreator; 2021-08-18 at 10:47 PM.
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2021-08-18, 11:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
I'd say that the nice thing about Calm Emotions is that it's an AOE that neutralize a wide variety of stuff, and it's only a 2nd level spell. Minrah's not going get much use out of any second level spells against Xykon and Redcloak, so her spell list is going to be largely support and buffing... and since you don't have to prepare healing spells, why not grab it just in case you need to neutralize something instead of casting Cure Moderate Wounds?
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2021-08-19, 03:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
The only place it seems to come up unprompted is when he says he's indifferent to Mr. Scrufy trying to kill him. He says he's not worried in response to Elan telling him not to worry, and clarifies when Elan expresses confusion with what may be a futurama reference. Before that he just said he was okay doing something Minrah told him to do in response to her telling him to do it.
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2021-08-19, 04:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
For all the talk of poison, I don't think we've seen any evidence from the paladins that it did any damage to them. While it's operating off poison rules, I think it's just acting as a tranquilizer.
As for how they can do this over several rounds, it's because Haley is keeping Serini and Sunny focused on her."They couldn't know that the points from the mainline to the siding were frozen, and the signal should have been set at 'DANGER', but snow had forced it down."
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2021-08-19, 05:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, the Total Defense action would certainly help. Not sure if it'd be fun for me to do it, but I guess this is a story and not a game. Also it's been like two rounds I think?
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2021-08-19, 05:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-19, 05:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-19, 06:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
I love Bloodfeast in the last panel; still hanging on while basically being thrown around by the lashing tail. XD
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2021-08-19, 06:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-19, 07:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
I know things in the comic happen to further the plot, and I am a quite rusty about 3.5 ranged combat rules, but I find it amazing that an epic thief is not able to hit a single target even once.
When you consider that Serini's gate defenses required a high level rogue to recognize and disarm the trap, you would think that the defenses after that would be designed specifically to stop a rogue who is dodging.
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2021-08-19, 07:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
I was all set to disagree with that reading based on the elf stat block but then I read the description of Drow poison and I'm forced to agree. Still odd since the description I'm looking at for Drow poison specifies the unconscious condition (the root of my quibble) so the bit clarifying that nonmagical sleep works seems slightly off to me. Still, I learned something today. Been a while since I played 3.5 and we never really dealt with that ability in game.
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2021-08-19, 07:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-19, 08:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1242 - The Discussion Thread
Because "fear" is not exercising ongoing mental control.
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/pr...onFromEvil.htm
Second, the barrier blocks any attempt to possess the warded creature (by a magic jar attack, for example) or to exercise mental control over the creature (including enchantment (charm) effects and enchantment (compulsion) effects that grant the caster ongoing control over the subject, such as dominate person).
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/fear.htmLast edited by hamishspence; 2021-08-19 at 08:04 AM.
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