Yet another fantasy gamer comic: discuss

[t209]

I wonder if Mahri can be count as Genre Savvy.
Slap some edit on TV Tropes pages.

[memnarch]

I'd say maybe one, two more examples then she's got it.

[TheSummoner]

I don't get all this negativity toward Mhari in the story. She sounds like the ideal drow. Ruthless, ambitious, cunning. Isn't that what a drow is supposed to be?

Simple. She's the ideal drow. Ruthless, ambitions, cunning, and working currently against their vaguely hinted at interests.

She's the kinda person you'd love to have on your side, but why would you like her when she's opposing you?

[Kato]

Problem with evil races is... you can't trust each other. You would constantly need to go through the trouble of worrying about your own lives because your best "friend" might be after you if it serves hir purpose... And that's the trouble with Mahri: She's way too competent and, even though I guess Wolf might not need to worry, any other proper Drow is endangered with her as a ruler. Queenie was deliciously useless...

Also, maybe Arachne just is aware of the fact that ruling the other races is more dangerous and troublesome than just friendly coexistence. Little to lose, nothing to fear.

[Poil]

I think most drow would prefer if THEY were the perfect drow instead of someone else. You don't want your competition to be better than you, especially not in an evil society.

And apparently a certain deity isn't as omniscient as she'd like.

[t209]

Hurray!

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Lolth's pregnant with Wolf's child now!

Nice move, Wolf. Now you have doomed the world.

[Welf]

Hurray!

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Lolth's pregnant with Wolf's child now!

Nice move, Wolf. Now you have doomed the world.

Yeah, but great story for locker room. Totally worth it.

[Coidzor]

Those teeth make me wonder whether she's going to eat him or not and what exactly she means by that statement....

[t209]

Those teeth make me wonder whether she's going to eat him or not and what exactly she means by that statement....

She might be Black widow. They eat their mates!
I hope it didn't end with Someone to Remember him by (a man dies while his pregnant lovers lives ending).

[Radar]

Considering todey's page: this says it all. Well... almost - I really like, how Lolth (if that's the correct spelling) simply doesn't care about small details as an all-out war. It's like "Meh, I have mortals to handle the situation."

[Poil]

Gods aren't really supposed to micro manage though.

Yes you spelled Lolth correctly, just think of ye olde english spelling of lol.

[Kato]

Yeah, it seems god can be quite ignorant if the plot demands it

Ah, lovely reference in today's comic... Kato approves.

[t209]

yafgc.net/?id=2132
Daleks are coming!

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Actually Beholders!

[WyvernLord]

I hope this doesn't mean the drow get the doctor.
Go orcs!

[t209]

http://yafgc.net/
Either Beholders wanted to make their own war or hated Lewie. I hope Lewie has phylactery.

[t209]

I'm afraid you haven't read much of it, then.

Bob features in only a few of the arcs, and in most of those he tends to be in the background.

The strip has several characters that are evil and not cool (e.g. Gren's parents, Cuddles, and for that matter Glon) and many that are good but not dumb (e.g. Owen and Lucas, Cadugan and especially Clover).

Plus the strip really blurs the line between good and evil. Is Bob really evil? What about Maula, Chimera, Charlotte, or Wolf? How about Cuddles or Nike, or especially Turg? Is Dewcup really good, or just simply selfish? What about Cadugan?

Really, where YAFGC invokes cliches, it does so intentionally, and it frequently avoids them. Its characterization is much more rounded and less cliche than other fantasy webcomics like DD or Goblins.

The only difference from Goblins are that the "evil" monsters are evil because their laws demands it to be evil. In one comic strip, the "evil" priests realize that they are actually better since they are honest about their evil while the good hides their vices.
P.S- I hope Wolf gets to be YAFGC version of Talos Stormcrown (mortal who became a god and impregnated a dark elf

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except Talos aborted his love half dark elf baby

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[Acanous]

Dang. Now I want to roll a character with such a high Perform: Sex that he becomes a god.

Of sex.

It'll squick my DM if nothing else.

[Kato]

Dang. Now I want to roll a character with such a high Perform: Sex that he becomes a god.

Of sex.

It'll squick my DM if nothing else.

Sorry, I think the only way your GM will allow that is if s/he is your partner and you proof in real life you have the qualifications to be

Today's comic was a bit tedious to read.

[guttering flame]

Dang. Now I want to roll a character with such a high Perform: Sex that he becomes a god.

Of sex.

It'll squick my DM if nothing else.

Aren't a lot of mythological human-god romances basically just that? The God(dess) finds the mortal hot and makes some adjustment so (s)he can keep it.

[qbit]

yeah, I just downloaded it and flipped it

[t209]

I wonder who will be the next ruler if Mahri was dethroned

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For now (pregnant) Lolth is giving Arachne a chance to explain to the pregnant god.

[WyvernLord]

I think Glon is getting a crowning moment of badass.
I think he has had a long time coming.

[Kato]

I think Glon is getting a crowning moment of badass.
I think he has had a long time coming.

Because nothing says "badass" like wanton genocide over revenge?

[Poil]

Well, he is an orc. Or half at least. Compared to how useless he's been at fighting before... uh... sorry, too tired to make sense of what I'm trying to say.

[Gez]

C'm'on, "wanton genocide"? We're talking about eradicating a bunch of drows, here. It's a public service.

[Marnath]

War and genocide are not equivalent.

[t209]

War and genocide are not equivalent.

unless your war is about Genocide like the drows did to Scorpii.
P.S- What are the Scorpii supposed to be?

[Kato]

unless your war is about Genocide like the drows did to Scorpii.
P.S- What are the Scorpii supposed to be?

Thank you. Honestly, I'll laugh if Glon ends up killing the person who could save his wife out of blind rage.


No idea what the Scorpii are supposed to be... another Drow race, apparently but I'm not familiar enough with D&D lore...

[Acanous]

Thank you. Honestly, I'll laugh if Glon ends up killing the person who could save his wife out of blind rage.


No idea what the Scorpii are supposed to be... another Drow race, apparently but I'm not familiar enough with D&D lore...

The "One who could save his wife" was Arachne's sister. Glon's wife died from the poison before he could administer the antidote. She's dead, jim.

[Gez]

Don't be too Oedipal here; the dead orc woman was Glon's mother, not his wife.