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2024-04-10, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
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2024-04-10, 08:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
And this is why you properly chew your food: So someone can’t cast Greater Dispel Magic and make you choke on it.
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2024-04-10, 08:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
Calder is having a rough day.
If you can read this you are too close.
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2024-04-10, 08:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
The dragon is still alive, right? Looks like Bloodfeast was safely ejected into unoccupied space without harming him.
Which, notably, was not what happened when Darth V polymorphed after being swallowed by the ancient black dragon.
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2024-04-10, 08:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
Calder really should have seen this coming. XD
Common enough trope that it should probably be added to an Evil Overlord List: "I will not try to swallow a polymorphed or reduced foe. The risk of them exploding or cutting their way out of my maw or stomach in a gory mess after the magic fails and they transform back is not worth it."
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2024-04-10, 08:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
well now we have the problem of how the order will bring bloodfeast with them when they finish this fight and leave this place. But I guess, now that the Bloodfeast gun has been fired, they don't necessarily need him, so he might be Bloodfeast the deadinator by the end of this fight.
Still, awesome fight! I didn't know how much I needed a dinosaur vs dragon fight in my life until now.
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2024-04-10, 09:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-10, 09:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
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2024-04-10, 09:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
Ooh, big mistake doing that within casting distance of a wizard.
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2024-04-10, 09:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
Yeah, I was expecting a much gorier result here — much more along the lines of ABD’s fate against Darth V.
Probably makes sense, physics-wise, that Calder’s mouth would be the path of least resistance and it wouldn’t, like, shatter his skull.
It’s still not looking GREAT for him, though
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2024-04-10, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
You had me scared for a moment there.
Nice callback to V using a lower-level dispelling spell earlier so they didn't transform Bloodfeast then
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2024-04-10, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-10, 09:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-10, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
What I love particularly about this fight is that it's a very DnD way to take down the Dragon. It's silly and cool and strange to have a lizard transform into a T-Rex, twice in one fight, as a way to win. It feels like the creative, crazy fun way a real group of PCs would try to take down a Big Bad. I really appreciate Rich's writing, as always
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2024-04-10, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
V for the win!
I mean, they DID try to talk him down. Any resultant jaw dislocations are his own faultPlague Doctor by Crimmy
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2024-04-10, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
And the horn swapped back! Dying to know what’s up…
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2024-04-10, 09:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-10, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
I think Calder bit off more than he can chew here.
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2024-04-10, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
This Greater Dispel Magic is in fact the Greatest Dispel Magic in the history of OotS
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2024-04-10, 09:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-10, 09:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
Vaarsuvius is deliberately helping Belkar. Character growth!
[Also, clearly, Bloodfeast is experiencing character growth.]
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2024-04-10, 09:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
So, if V could have undone the polymorph at any time, why wait until now?
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2024-04-10, 09:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
Whoever said that Calder would eat Bloodfeast and that then Sunny was going to use his antimagic again to make it growth from inside him...
Close enought.
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2024-04-10, 09:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
Tiny creatures are easier to travel with than Huge ones in say... Aeroships, bags of holding, 10x10 tunnels of a subterranean dungeon...
I think we have found the story reason of this fight. With Bloodfeast polymorph ended our heroes will have a harder time going through the rest of the Final Dungeon.Last edited by Dummy; 2024-04-10 at 09:18 AM.
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2024-04-10, 09:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
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If you can read this you are too close.
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2024-04-10, 09:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
The timing was perfect for a "Chew on this" quip. Missed opportunity, I suppose.
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2024-04-10, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
I am a big fan of dispelling Greater Invis on a zombie dragon, but I don't think this one is a tie. Dispelling an enemies defenses is routine enough, though it was a fantastic reveal. This one was a super mctwist GDM to flip a combat that has been back and forth in just a few frames. I am positively riveted to my chair
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2024-04-10, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-10, 09:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1301 - The Discussion Thread
I noticed the same thing and had a thought: We still have an unspoken prophecy that Belkar will, in some roundabout way, cause V's death. And V is precariously close to an allosaurus that is about to fall to the ground. What if V dies here, Belkar's involvement being "crushed to death by a dinosaur that was only present because of you"?
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