Hahaha! The only thing better than 4th-wall jokes, inside jokes, and running gags, are when you tie all of them together in one strip

And yeah, seeing Roy getting some fighting tips from his grandpa was great. Would that be a non-epic version of Spellcaster Harrier? There is already a non-epic feat called Mage Slayer, but Rich could just made his own custom feat. And I still think that Horace knows Devastating Critical.

And people! Stop whininng. "waah, I feel cheated". That was THE POINT of the joke. You don't like it? There's hundreds of webcomics out there.