Why hasn't Belkar disemboweled Thog by now?
>>97779816What are the 3.5 rules for downing foes and coups de grace?
>>97780008D&D 3.5How's the janny application going?
>>97779996search for Coup de Gracehttps://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/combatModifiers.htm
>>97779816This is still going on?I poked my head in here to see about the AoS drama.Haven't thought about OoS in years.
>>97780008longstanding tradition, newfaghttps://desuarchive.org/tg/search/subject/oots/
>>97779816Thog is the Champ and Belkar was what, seventh?by this indisputably correct metric Belkar is nowhere near a match for himunless you want to call Tarquin a liar
>>97780055Rich recently released the Dark Sun parody comic, we even had a storytime
>>97780182Neat, good for him.
>>97780182Speaking of Dark Sun, I've been playing Shattered Lands. 2e psionics is fucked up, even if everyone only gets generic powers, but the Disintegrate Button on dedicated psions works very much the same way as described on the 3.pf version.Why did Psionics ever need to exist? What's the point?
>>97779996Looks mor like a touch attack by Sabine and a normal attack by Thog or they would have incurred AoOs by Belkar and the aquatic paladin.
>>97780342Man, I love Shattered Lands, it's up there on my list of favorite cRPGs. Mass Domination is also ridiculously busted. My only complain about the game (other than the occasional bug and the level caps) is how inconsistent the difficulty is, it's way too easy until the final battle which is proper hard.>Why did Psionics ever need to exist? What's the point?My guess is that they wanted to have a kind of magic not tied to the ecologist themes of the setting, and also wanted to experiment with a non-Vancian system.
>>97780051Thanks!
upscale.
>>97780008this has to be a fuckin bot at this point
>>97782536why do we need upscaling? not saying youre not helping, what i mean is:OOTS looks like its in vector graphics. why doesnt rich release the comics in ultra high-res?
>>97782805>why doesnt rich release the comics in ultra high-res?why should he thoughhe makes them big enough to fit the style of his html page and that's all Rich needs, it's not like it's unreadablealso the new comics are somewhat bigger than the early ones, probably adjusted as monitor resolutions improved
>>97782912>shouldto appeal to to fans? I dont undestand the contradiction youre trying to make. this isnt 2004 anymore lmaoclearly people want higher res version or there wouldnt be an upscale posted every thread
>>97780342>Why did Psionics ever need to exist? What's the point?Like a lot of early D&D stuff, someone was interested in playing a character with psychic powers in the late 70s and Gygax and Arneson threw it in and it has more or less stuck around since.
>>97782805I wonder if it's a bit of "if you want it to look pretty buy the pdfs" (which are in vector) attitude.There'd be a better case for that if the book releases weren't approximately forever apart. Way things are the main publication point just looks poor for no reason, esp. on 4k displays.
>>97783425ah, okay that make sense
>>97780342powercreep to promote the latest batch of cardboard and paper
>>97779816The better question is why isn't Roy using his green kaioken.The even better question is why is Serini just standing around watching.
>>97784950Saving it for Xykon, probably, didn't even use for Caelar the dragon.
>>97782933>clearly people want higher res versionwe only have proof one person doesi dont care personally and i would wager there's not much demand broadly speaking
thog return to roots of thogging
>>97785886not much effort to do so either
>>97780527So Senri has just been standing there for 2 turns?Maybe next page we'll finally see the full power of an epic level rouge with 2 turns of prep time.
>>97779816Belkar won't go into full action until Thog beats him up, reaches into his bag, finds that dinosaur toy of his he thinks is cute followed by "oops I broke it"
>>97779816If he can regenerate why does he have an N on his face
>>97785893Good thog.
>>97786503Injury was from before the transformation. If it didn't work this way then Succubi like Sabine would have permanent hymens which would be counter productive to say the least
>>97782805He releases high-res versions on his patreon. Don't know about ultra high-res.
>>97786554Unless succubi don't have hymens at all.
>>97786554Only devils get regeneration. Succubi don't even have fast healing.
>>97780342>Why did Psionics ever need to exist? What's the point?Wasn't it supposed to be a way for characters like fighters to still get a handful of magical abilities?3e at least has some distinction in the kind of effects arcane, divine and psionic characters are good and bad at.Psionics being manually controlled rather than reaction- or contract-based means it's bad at automatic and/or persistent effects. Their buffs tend to be self-only, and they can bend minds but can't produce hologram-style illusions. Metapsionics are easier to apply than metamagic if you keep things simple, but it's much harder to stack multiple at once.
>>97787867I really do like the psionic version of illusion, false sensory input It's a fantastic way to catch someone off guard since it's not foiled by your standard anti-illusion methods (but also allows a save and only affects a limited amount of targets) >>97780342in the 3.5 era there was also the factor of psionics using a different style of casting people might prefer over true vancian it's not a radical shift mind you, and it's often lower power than the vancian equivalent, but it can be fun
>>97786634cool thx
>>97787730I guess in OOTS they do, since Sabine is directly calling out mortal healing as "Molasses healing"
>>97785893thog return to thog
>>97779816so are we just going to ignore the fact that it takes longer to "say my toungue feels so heavy" than "mass cure light wounds"?
>>97791465>so are we just going to ignorerehashed reddit-brain
>>97791465you're just now surprised by W O R D S?
>>97784950The green special attacks happen randomly when fighting undead. He could use the attack move he learned from his grandpa while dead to interrupt Nale's spellcasting, though.
Holy fuck this series is still going on? I remember reading it like a decade ago. Kudos to the dude I guess.
>>97791465Talking is a free action.
>>97792478It's still going but there's been stretches where progress was measured in months/page rather than pages/month.
>>97785893>u nh...>a gh!Simple yet sweet.
>>97786115She's not all the way on board and might be having second thoughts about these scrubs if they just get wiped by some random shitters. TPK is a reasonably acceptable outcome for her if she can negotiate for Sunny's safety. The dragon was unavoidably her problem, plus Sunny was in big danger.My bet is she stays out of it until Nale spills his intentions, then she's obliged to go Level 23 on them. Arguments with Roy to ensue afterward.>>97780342It was basically the same reason you have transwoman half-vampire born again elephantfolk (and DMs obliged to support whatever that means statistically or they're bad DMs) in current year, except tastes were different as to what was cool and special.
>>97786115Surprise round and then low initiative would explain it. Also wouldn't shock me if she was an assassin and explicitly lining up the instant kill.
>>97779816Why did Thog also get healed?
>>97794599Maybe he also has some sort of regen now?
>>97780047That game isn't being discussed here, a comic is. Enjoy your ban.
>>97784950Like everything else in the comic, since there aren't any actual rules associated with it, Rich will decide for Roy to use it whenever it facilitates whatever railroad he wants to happen.
>>97790508Do you think she's comparing their healing rate to hers specifically?
>>97792493That stretch is usually referred to as "the entire comic"
>>97795330Considering she's using a very derogatory term for it, yes. Do you have autism?
>>97795337I thought the last one was particularly egregious even by Rich's standards. Five full weeks for a simple "thing happens that the audience knows will happen next because the villains explained that it would 13 years ago" comic.
Anyone else ever roleplay on the GItP forum? I used to be a regular in the Town, before it became the Nexus.
>>97796951thats how I found 4chan, haha.I got into D&D in 2005, and from there found OotS, posted on GitP as raging_pacifist,one day someone mentioned how scary 4chan was and to stay away. I couldnt resist lmao
>>97795804Do you?
>>97779816If OOTS was happening in real life, it would have taken Rich longer to draw the comic than for everything to have actually happened in real time. Including everyone's backstories.
>>97797082ok, you do have autism. learn critical thinking based on cues
>>97796966Shoot, I also joined GItP in 2005! It feels like a lifetime ago; I was, and behaved, like such a highschooler back then.And, I know exactly what you're talking about. The rumors of 4chan being "the final boss of the Internet" kept me off the site for a while--I think I was worried I'd end up on some sort of watchlist or something.
>>97797105>the final boss of the InternetI miss the simple fun of "old" /b/. A lifetime ago indeed...Ive been here for 20 years now, and have very fond memories of those halcyon days.
>>97797097Ironic.
>>97797138>do you think something very obviously implied by this dialogue has any meaning to the matter at hand???Fuck off, troll
>>97797142Ironic.
>>97797151>>97797138>>97797082>local autist gets humiliated, clams up and resorts to vapid one/two word replies out of shameIm sorry that the writing of OotS is too complex for ye
>>97779816I can't wait for O-chuul to turn Sunny and blast the linear guild in some number of days (weeks)!
>>97799304More like months.Where's that anon that posts days/pages statistics?
>>97797174Ironic.
>>97799330>Where's that anon that posts days/pages statisticssadly he passed away from old agehe lived a happy and fulfilling life, his only regret being not seeing his once favorite webcomic come to a satisfying conclusion
>>97795288How would you feel if you didn't kill yourself this morning?
>>97800459>if I spam the same thing, I win!
>>97786554i don't think the comparison to sabine would apply anyway, he's a special case. most fiends don't come into existence like he did.
>>97803500why would this be deleted?
>>97795288YWNBAJ
>>97795288>[Deleted] >lol kys junior janny
>>97804271Most likely an unrelated ban that wiped the previous X hours of posts.
>>97796098Tbf, the previous strip had some pretty elaborate art by OOTS standards. I wish Rich would hire an assistant or something to help get pages out quicker, though. He certainly has the money for that now.
>>97804271oh jannyes go nuklear at any mention of WORDS WORDS WORDSwatchWORDS WORDS WORDSsee? it's that easy.
>>97806951meds
is it just me or are these threads even deader than usualeven thogs dropped to one per page rather than 2-3ironic, considering the comic is at the point where things are finally happeningwe're literally in the middle of a fight, combined with fiends making their play, after IRL years of waitingwhere's the hype?
>>978124834chan in general has been slow ever since the hack. For OOTS in particular, yeah we're in a fight but we haven't learned anything new. Sure, the party didn't know that the three stooges were in league with the linear guild, but that's not new info to us. This is one of those pages that flows perfectly well when you're reading in aggregate but gives us nothing to discuss in the moment.
>>97812521Yeah this.For me I just come in once a year, read whatever had been updated since and then just leave again for another year.The story itself is good, but it sucks that it's a webcomic with an author that only posts once a fortnight
>>97812483there's no WORDS to complain about this time, there's not that many WORDS in this one, Thog is happy, but also bored
>>97795288
>>97814592lm ao
>>97796951I've found a gaming group for Mutants and Masterminds on GitP. It was awful. The DM was a chinese guy, who had our Justice League speedrun the absolute worst dystopia imaginable, where they've forcibly implanted every supernatural and superpowered being in the world with a chip that could depower them or make their heads explode, including the mother of our female player's character. It made her cry on mic.When we've decided to fight back against them, the DM said "Okay, then you lose. I won't bother to DM this, you can not fight back against them".We've had a lengthy discussion about what the fuck is he doing or why, which produced this memorable quote>I'm chinese, to me this is just normal
>>97814999>>I'm chinese, to me this is just normalJesus Christ, what a bleak get.
>>97814999The collapse of china would require mass spontaneous riots - not impossible as their population goes up and infrastructure becomes more complex, but they're good at cracking down on attempts to network intentional rebellion so it'd be a wait for spontaneity on a large enough scale there's no stopping it....This is also what might happen in America if the food prices situation gets and stays too bad for too long lmao.Anyhow in a superhero setting you can absolutely fight back, brute forcing a "it's hopeless, it's so xiover" attitude in is very Chinese though - see that retarded "Dark Forest" trilogy that came out of china a few years back with a premise of "All alien civilisations immediately try to genocide each other on sight which is why the universe seems quiet"
>>97815740China's complicated, but their situation is actually very tenuous. The reason the Chinese aren't more overt geopolitically is not because they're afraid that they would lose a war with India or even the US over the specific objective (Taiwan, the Sino-Indian border) but because they have no ability to project naval power long distances. The Chinese navy is mostly littoral and intended for coastal operations.What this means is that if a war starts, anyone who actually does have a navy can send a boat over to Hormuz, and simply cut the amount of oil China receives from all sources in half. this is only about 10% of China's energy generation (less even) but it's over 50% of vehicle fuel, which is what matters for the logistic side of things, and they don't really have any way to fight back against this strategy. The result would be a cascade collapse of the country's economy and probably mass starvation within a year.Of course they're ready for that, because the Chinese have been playing the water empire game since 2000 BC. If (when) you get famine, you don't divide the food evenly between all of the provinces, because then they will all be alive but angry. You take all of the food, and give it all to half the provinces, so that that half will be alive and happy, and the other half will be angry but dead. They're buckling in for this eventuality even now, if you look and see what the CCP is up to. Which is all to say, you are correct. The Chinese have a cultural tradition of dealing with insanely bleak scenarios, and this shows a lot in their art and entertainment. Every Chinese war movie about Korea I've ever seen runs like a recruitment ad for the US Marines. I love them, they're a great people, but Jesus Christ would I never want to visit their magical realm.
