Combo-Platter, an Oots- style comic.

[John Cribati]

About Combo-Platter:

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Combo-Platter is my comic about a partially-homebrew world where everyone is gestalt. It follows the journey of Ryan Hybitel, A multiclass Monk/Sorcerer/Wizard, as he journeys to stop an evil guild of necromancers who want to use an ancient artifact powerful enough to control all of the undead in the world.

That's the gist of it, but I have a tendency to focus on Comedy and general awesomeness over plot. You'll see what I mean soon enough.

About (General Plot):

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Soon

About (World map):

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Still working on that, but let's just say that The Northern continents are home to Elves and other Goblinoids, good and evil. Humans, Halflings, and Dwarves live in the southern and Eastern.

About Homebrews/Houserules

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General Houserules:

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1: No spell can raise the dead. Speak With Dead replaces Raise Dead in its spell slot, and is used when most of the body is intact. Likewise, "Contact Dead" replaces Resurrection, where there is a substantial portion of the body missing. "Commune With Dead" replaces True Resurrection's slot, where there is no body. The DC is determined by how much of the body is there and the relationship to the dead person. These spells work similarly to Contact Other Plane, and are used to speak with souls in the afterlife.

Feat: Pragmatic

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Prerequisite: higher INT (and WIS) score than STR.

Benefit: Add your INT (or WIS, but not both) modifier to your attack roll when you win initiative.

About (Updates):
Once a week, any time from Wednesday to Friday
Intermittent until Last day of school (late May/ early June)
Hiatus until Inkscape problems fixed.
Once to three times a week, starting Monday, May 17th.


Character Info and (Outdated) Cast Page

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Ryandrian (Ryan) Hybitel - LG Sorcerer 13/ Wizard 7/ Monk 6
Taggu- CG Barbarian 11/ Rogue 11. The Bauble in her hair is a magic item that increases her Int. She needs it because of a homebrew feat that allows her to add her Int modifier to her Base Attack Bonus when she uses an improvised weapon. Also, the only non-spell caster in the group. I should fix that...
Sandy- Upcoming. CN Fighter 10/ Bard 10. Standard quasi-psychopathic fighter who enjoys killing things, but thinks it best to keep people off her case by being a hunter of the Undead.

Current Comic:

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Archives:

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Intro: No Reference Too Hackneyed.
1: At Least They Didn't Meet in a Tavern
2; Magic is Pointy
3: Building Blocks
4: And He was Enjoying the Climb, too
4B: Message to the Readers
5: This is Going to End Badly, Isn't It?
6: Chivalry is Death.

[John Cribati]

Comic #2: Magic is Pointy

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[Cizak]

Seems pretty good, allow me to give you some constructive critisism.

As the name suggests, the Poorly Drawn Cliff is exactly that. Try adding some black, squiggly lines to show that there's parts where you can grab. It looks like he's just grabbing a very very very flat rock.

Keep it up, I'll be reading.

[Green-Shirt Q]

Breathing is not a free action? You need to take a turn to breathe?! WHAT?!

[Wreckingrocc]

Trying to pluralize "Plus" seems extremely awkward in general, as it's an awkward word. It serves as a verb, not a noun or adjective, to denote the addition of one thing to another. I think it would be much less awkward to use the word "Bonuses".

Also, the amount of fourth wall breaking seems a little excessive for the first two comics; I'd try to dumb it down in the future.

Other than that, I'd like to see where this gets going. It could be interesting.

[John Cribati]

I know I have a tendency to be a bit meta, but the fact that it's a Gestalt campaign can only be explained away by some very convoluted arse-pullery, so I'm just going with the flow. That being said, The next comic will be up by the middle of the week, but It'll be a character introduction comic that should have been the first comic.

[John Cribati]

Intro Comic. Note: Depending on your monitor, Sandy may inexplicably have the skin of an Azurite.

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[Evil Mustache]

Hm... it has potential, I think. However...

I agree that the Cliff is poorly drawn and you should add some details to it such as places for him to grab onto.

Sandy's hair, I couldn't see and I thought he was a boy till Rakyr said 'he' was a girl now. You could make the hair more visible, have her put it in a bun or have it more out to make it clearer. The way you drew it made it look like she was wearing a cloak the same color as her hair.

That's really most of my constructive criticism. Good job, though.

[CrimsonAngel]

I suggest copy/pasteing actual oots comics into inkscape to copy the skin tones.

[John Cribati]

My comment on the skin tones was because on my laptop, they look normal, but when I uploaded it on my parents' computer (No Wi-Fi in my house), the skin tones came out all wacky.

Breathing is not a free action? You need to take a turn to breathe?! WHAT?!

The idea is that she's crushing him with the hug, so he's having difficulty breathing. But talking is still a free action.

[CrimsonAngel]

How does that change the color?

[John Cribati]

How does that change the color?

I have no clue, but it does. I'm on my parents' computer right now, and Taggu looks like a goblin, but on my laptop, she's around Thog's color, with a tiny bit more dark green.

[Evil Mustache]

I have no clue, but it does. I'm on my parents' computer right now, and Taggu looks like a goblin, but on my laptop, she's around Thog's color, with a tiny bit more dark green.

Interesting. Very, very interesting. Next time we'll find out more.

Do you have a time set up for when you're going to post?

Weekly? Daily? Monthly? Sporadically, like Order of the Stick?

[John Cribati]

I'm going for every week, around Wednesday, give or take about 2 days.

[Evil Mustache]

M'kay so... Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.

[John Cribati]

Here's a reprint of the intro comic, to see if I've fixed the color issues.

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[Cizak]

Why is everyone multiclassed?

[John Cribati]

Not multiclassed, gestalt. It's a variant where everyone takes 2 classes every level, resulting in a game-breaking combination for practically everyone involved. My entire world is like this. More Here

EDIT: Ryan is Multiclassed, though. He's thirteenth level; Wizard/Sorcerer for his first 7 levels, and he's been Sorcerer/Monk for the past 6. Everyone else is tenth level.

[John Cribati]

Due to midterm exams, I fear that cannot complete this week's comic, so I'm combining this week and next week's into one giant one, which will hopefully be up by next week Thursday.

[John Cribati]

Due to one final midterm tomorrow, I was unable to complete this week's comic. I do, however, have the script planned out (40+ speech bubbles, Color coded for your convenience) and should be able to churn out a 3-part update by this week.

On a related note, I've edited my designs for Sandy and Rakyr: what do you think?


*Not to scale

One final related note: If the colors are wonky, try highlighting the image. Worked for me.

[Darklord Xavez]

I like the new designs, but bards don't really use magic like that (purple flashes and stuff). They use spells by playing their instrument. In addition, don't make Sandy play guitar. It should be pipes or something. Don't use the lute cliche.
-Xavez

[John Cribati]

The magic thing was just part of the template design that I made for any character who's a caster. You should see it, 5+ Characters in the same pose, with the same shape of magic on their left hands, except for Arsam, who has been flipped around for reasons I don't quite remember.

[Evil Mustache]

Cool. Sandy now officially looks like a girl with hair instead of a hair colored cloak thing. I'm glad you took the criticism and did something constructive with it instead of not even paying attention to it.

[John Cribati]

Notes: The final panel isn't much of a punchline. Furthermore, I had no idea what to do with the hands in this one. Though, this comic introduces one of my many homebrews, which I will add to a section in the first post. I'll be leaving the 4th wall alone for a while after this comic.
Comic 3: Building Blocks

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[CrimsonAngel]

"Were it's less" what?

[John Cribati]

"Were it's less" what?

I just noticed that. Inkscape's "wrap to text" function has a way of cutting off text when I add the bubble joiners, or whatever they're called. Fixing.

EDIT: And I have a bad habit of making a tonload of typos. Go figure.

[CrimsonAngel]

Don't use word wrap then.

[John Cribati]

Alas, the life of a comic maker is a harsh and cruel one. Comic is running late, as I realized the sheer amount of scenery I'll need for the next couple of strips. So, as a small semi-update, I give you part of an upcoming scene.

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Discussions and WMG's welcome.

[CrimsonAngel]

Can i recomend making the spikey haired girls (bow and spell caster ones) have multiple paice hair? That looks a bit weird.

[Evil Mustache]

I have a bad feeling about this. I think that they'll probably have to run away.

I think.

Never know. There could be another reason for some crazy orcs looking angry but that's a matter of opinion.