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2024-03-11, 09:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-11, 09:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
V spent their turn getting knocked prone in the first panel, then spending a move action to get up and another move action to get out of the dragon's reach and possibly Sunny's Antimagic Field in the fifth panel. No time or even possibility for them to cast a spell this round.
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2024-03-11, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
The rules don't speak about it, but they don't say an Allosaurus crushing your throat prevents you to speak either, and yet it just happened.
For that kind of thing, you would ask your GM's ruling. That's one of the key advantage of TTRPGs over CRPGs : Tabletop has an actual thinking human acting as a storyteller/referee, to adjudicate edge cases like this one.
Personally, I would totally rule in favor of my players in such a case, and block the Dragon's breath attack, at least as long as they can maintain pressure/grapple on its neck. It's not every day a player manages to strangle a dragon.
But other DMs might rule otherwise.
Well, Roy was eager to negociate BEFORE Calder tried to murder them just because they were not grovelling enough, and before he learnt that Calder was a slaver mindbending cultleader. He might not feel as diplomatic when the fight that the dragon started turns in the Order's favor.
On the other hand, Battlefield Arguments and Last Round Negociation are kinda Roy's signature feats. If Calder attempts to negociate, it would feel off for Roy to flatly say "no" and simply cut down the dragon.
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2024-03-11, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Rule Of Cool says that if the party can choke a dragon, they can prevent spellcasting and breath weapons. Because who has hands big enough to choke a dragon? Most parties don't have an Allosaurus close at hand.
I think Roy's negotiations will be "Usually I'd talk to you, but I tried that earlier and you tried to incinerate me. You don't get a second chance. Belkar?" Belkar: lots of stabbing.This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
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2024-03-11, 09:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-11, 10:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
This ... is my signature finishing move!
"It's never good when you make a fiend cringe" - MadGrady
According to some online quiz, I'm a 6th level TN Wizard. They didn't give me full XP for all the monsters I've defeated while daydreaming.
http://easydamus.com/character.html
I am a Ranger Archetype: Gleaming Warden (thx to Ninja Prawn)
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2024-03-11, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Does it even affect them in the AMF?
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2024-03-11, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-11, 10:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-11, 10:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-11, 10:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Does anyone know whether the effects of a Weapon of Legacy would be affected by an AMF? I was hoping to see a lot of green when Roy finally got to hit Calder
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2024-03-11, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Plot twist: Calder fell on Serini just like this.
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2024-03-11, 10:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
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2024-03-11, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
"Thursdays. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."-Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide
"I had a normal day once. It was a Thursday." -Will Bailey, The West Wing
Roy will be Xykon's Final Boss
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2024-03-11, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Inspire Courage is supernatural, so I believe it doesn't work while everyone else is in the AMF. Also I think it doesn't work on Roy while Mindblank is up?
Serini might jump in next comic, but she might also just not want to get into melee with a dragon. Even surrounded he'll be formidable if he can get rid of Bloodfeast, and he might decide to put everything into killing her if it's an option.
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2024-03-11, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Elan has CL16 minimum. I’d say he has as much chance as V does.
But the people who are talking about “the most optimal action” are missing the point. The point is the impact on the real world. Elan excludes himself from the meeting because he didn’t feel confident attending. The first instinct of the Order SHOULD be to adjust the meeting to accommodate Elan’s anxiety and impaired following ability and make him feel comfortable attending. Anything else is CRIMINAL work practices. Instead Elan is told the meeting is optional and because of this he missed out on valuable CPD so that Minrah of all people has a better understanding of the big picture team capabilities than a founding member. Who remembers when Elan was ordered by V to run a mile to get Durkon to unpetify Haley when he could have Song of Freedom’d her out himself? Clearly no one. It’s never been acknowledged in comic and the Order are letting history repeat.
But they are fictional. It doesn’t matter what they do. What matters is that Rich Burlew, a person in the real world, is advocating for criminal work practices and portraying them in comic as acceptable. OOTS has a big reach amongst neurodiverse people and people who work with, live with and employ neurodiverse people. In that context, such behaviour would be criminal and Rich is portraying it as acceptable.
Elan’s certainly not getting a happy ending in a workplace where your employer shouts at you that you don’t count and then continues to treat you as second class without consequence.
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2024-03-11, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
{Scrubbed}
Elan ran the party into the Serini/Beholder trap.
No, he excused himself to go and play baseball with Sunny.
How dare the Order execute a plan?
So, using Minrah was the right call, both from a tactical and spell-economy point of view.
It's a good use of resource to put Minrah on this mission.
And there's a bard hanging around ...
EDIT: just read your rant. How do you feel about Bandana?
Just to let you know: you are in the running for this month's "least charitable take on a comic strip" award.Last edited by Roland St. Jude; 2024-03-14 at 08:27 PM.
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2024-03-11, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
They do. A SLA can be dispelled, but not counterspelled. A SU can be neither, a spell both. All three are useless in Antimagic.
Actually, they do: the SRD says that you can prevent an opponent you have pinned from talking
Correction: Elan can run out of song. Bardic Music has a limited number of per day uses.
Yes, of course they are affected.
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2024-03-11, 10:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
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2024-03-11, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-11, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Did you make a fresh account containing the author's name just to accuse him of criminal advocacy over letting a lighthearted manchild not attend a meeting that put much more serious characters to sleep? And then say that his current course of action is informed by missing information about the team member that he skipped the meeting with, observing those same capabilities in action during play?
"Thursdays. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."-Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide
"I had a normal day once. It was a Thursday." -Will Bailey, The West Wing
Roy will be Xykon's Final Boss
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2024-03-11, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Last edited by Space Sorceress; 2024-03-11 at 11:15 AM.
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2024-03-11, 11:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
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2024-03-11, 11:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
"Thursdays. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."-Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide
"I had a normal day once. It was a Thursday." -Will Bailey, The West Wing
Roy will be Xykon's Final Boss
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2024-03-11, 11:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Another advantage of Protection From Evil is that it provides ongoing protection, so Calder won’t be able to try that same trick again during this fight (not on Sunny at least).
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2024-03-11, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Personally, i'd have picked this as an example of Roy acknowledging Elan's growth. Him actively deferring to Elan to make an extremely vital descion, showing that Roy really does trust his judgement, on this at least.
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2024-03-11, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
The way Calder keeps referring to Sunny as "aberration" is really starting to tick me off.
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2024-03-11, 11:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-11, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1299 - The Discussion Thread
Well, he doesn't know its name. But also, Calder's kind of evil, so yeah... But I think its good that it ticks you off. Its a good response to the objectification that Calder probably applies to all beings other than him(her?)self. Other creatures are just slaves to Calder.
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2024-03-11, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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