Planar Madness!!! - (another) OOTS style comic

[Goats_o_Mjolnir]

Expect more to come, its our gift to the readers and a great way for you guys to learn about the world we write in.

[Caracol]

New comic!!!

4#- The Beginning of a Good Friendship

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Next update on monday.

[Lyinginbedmon]

This is definitely going to be interesting

[Wreckingrocc]

Comic 1 isn't anywhere to be found.

[Szilard]

It's in the first post.

[Wreckingrocc]

OH! I thought that was a spoiler to just the latest so I didn't want to read it because I haven't read the others

[Caracol]

New strip!!!

5# - Arguing about effectiveness

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I'm running out of reserve strips!!! Gaahhh!!! Looks like I'll have to go back to work. You'll still get strip 6 on friday, with some other updates of the cast and the setting in the meantime.

[Goats_o_Mjolnir]

Haha, I forgot how much I love our little Sthendal Caracol, cant wait to do more scripting for him.

[Bayar]

really. Your comic has potential. Less 4th wall breaking and it will be gold.

[Goats_o_Mjolnir]

I dunno if you count mockery of obscure DnD rules 4th wall breaking or not, but hey, we try

[Green-Shirt Q]

I have to say, I think this comic is going to be very good!

I certainly like Sthendal or whatever the necromancer guy's name is. He has a certain level of badassery that is unpulloffable by anyone else. I think you certainly wrote his lines well.

Very good so far. Very good.

P.S:

Less 4th wall breaking and it will be gold.

I disagree. I like the fourth wall broke. I think almost everyone does.

Bayar, that is why your comic fails!

Just kidding. (or am I?)

[Caracol]

Cast section updated!!! Featuring your new favourite character

About the 4th wall breaks, I think that is quite necessary, in a DnD comic, do a lot of references, to come up with jokes and to let the readers recognize situations that they are familiar with. As I said, a lot of this stuff is inspired by my past game sessions, and most of the fun came from 4th wall breaking and explicit mockery of other characters class features.

That's the reason I will continue with it (in a reasonable way, of course: you probably would like to hear a story too).

[Shadowcaller]

Always good with some back story to the characters in my opinion.
Since you can not have a two person party I wonder what cool characters that is going to be introduced...

[KingofParades]

You, good sir, have begun to approach the level of toady one, and are almost BEYOND QUALITY!

[Bayar]

I disagree. I like the fourth wall broke. I think almost everyone does.

Bayar, that is why your comic fails!

Just kidding. (or am I?)

Thanks for your constructive criticism. But still think that if you overload a comic with 4th wall breaking jokes on rules instead of subliminal jokes about rules, then your comic will get lame at one point, since someoneelse might already done that same joke.

[Goats_o_Mjolnir]

Were trying to find that balance, and trust me from what Caracol has showed me, and from what input I could give the story is really going to be the meat and potatoes.

[Caracol]

You, good sir, have begun to approach the level of toady one, and are almost BEYOND QUALITY!

I don't know how to consider this. I'm not a native speaker (blah blah blah, I told this like billions of times already), but honestly, I don't get it. What is that supposed to mean? Good or bad things?

[Goats_o_Mjolnir]

I didnt know this meself, and I do speak english, I ignored it*



*but not for meanness

[Solophoenix]

It must mean good things, as anyone stupid enough not to realise the awesomeness of this comic probably can't use a keyboard anyway.

[Wreckingrocc]

For fourth wall breaking, in Slice N' Dice, I am going to start having the players sitting at the table roleplaying to break the wall and use those sorts of jokes. For example, after mentioning a bad character's build (i.e. full Samurai), then it'll show the players at the table, and one will shout at the other, "Why the hell are you a Samurai? They suck!" And the other will go, "No, they're good at doing.... Good point"., etc. etc.

[Caracol]

For fourth wall breaking, in Slice N' Dice, I am going to start having the players sitting at the table roleplaying to break the wall and use those sorts of jokes. For example, after mentioning a bad character's build (i.e. full Samurai), then it'll show the players at the table, and one will shout at the other, "Why the hell are you a Samurai? They suck!" And the other will go, "No, they're good at doing.... Good point"., etc. etc.

I think this is a good kind of 4th wall breaking, although is "softer" that the kind I use in the comic. If you make the characters talk about their in-game alter ego, you convey the idea that a DnD session is being played and visualized in the comic.
In our comic, istead, you never shift in the "real life", so it's like the story is actually happening, but with continuous reference to the in-game mechanics anyway, just like the characters know that "something" is playing them...

What the HELL I just wrote? Maybe it's better if I go to sleep right now.

Next strip tomorrow, so stay tuned!

[memnarch]

Looks like a good comic. *watches*

[Caracol]

New comic is up!

6# - A nice place where to get your back stabbed

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I'm glad that you people like this comic. It really gives me incentive to carry on.

Announcements !!! :

- You'll have a Setting update tomorrow or Sunday, with another issue of The Journeyman's guide to the Planes.

- You'll get next strip on Monday.

- From next week, we will be feauturing contests!!! We want to involve your readers too, so we will make small (and rather easy) contests to win stuff like:
- Cameos in the comic;
- Custom avatars and signatures;
- Personal banners;
- Other silly stuff.

So stay tuned and prepare your ninja skills.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Ooh cameos!

[TheCountAlucard]

Contests? Cameos?!? SILLY STUFF?!?!?!?

Sign me up, man. I've been known to give blood for a T-shirt and some pizza, so entering a contest for silly stuff isn't beneath me...

[Dallas-Dakota]

Oohhh!
Me likes, me gonna enter.

[T-O-E]

I like this.

The name "planar sphere" reminds me of Baldur's gate 2: Shadows of amn.

[Shadowcaller]

Cameos? that sounds fun!
There are times like these I really wish I could draw.

[Szilard]

Contests, got it.

[Dihan]

Cameos? Perfect! My avatars are usually based on Ice Genasi, which fits in nicely with the whole planar setting.