World, Cup (OotS-style Fantasy)

[HalfTangible]

Or do i

'how a lame page' isn't a proper sentence. At all.

'how' tends to refer to methods or degrees of an adjective, whereas you used it to refer to a noun (page), in which case it would be 'what'.

Grammar is very important to the Nazi Party.

...

That is a joke.

[Ninjaman]

'how a lame page' isn't a proper sentence. At all.

'how' tends to refer to methods or degrees of an adjective, whereas you used it to refer to a noun (page), in which case it would be 'what'.

Grammar is very important to the Nazi Party.

...

That is a joke.

Or is that what they want you to think

[HalfTangible]

Or is that what they want you to think

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN NO.

[Ninjaman]

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN NO.

Are you sure
Is that your final answer

[Eleanor_Rigby]

I'm kind of caught in the middle here (not that this is any of my business) since I'm a pedant and a language student but...

Ninjaman's location is listed as Denmark - given that a few Playgrounders post in English (because that's the language of the site's host) despite it not being their first language and Ninjaman's grammatical errors strike me as the sort I tend to make when trying to speak or write French/German/Swedish (my point is just about understandable but I've got the grammar badly wrong, sometimes that mangles the statement beyond belief, and sometimes it's not too tricky to extrapolate what I meant) I'd guess Ninjaman's Danish-Danish. If Ninjaman is Danish then chances are English isn't his first language but his English is more impressive than most native English speakers' Danish would be. I kind of feel that foreign language speakers should get a little bit of slack when it comes to pedantry - although if I were posting in a French forum I'd want my grammar corrected because I'm learning it academically, if it was just a recreational thing I might be content at just getting my point across...

But yeah, I did kind of wince at how gramatically unsound that was because I'm a big ol' hypocrite. Also, I hope it *is* his final answer because I didn't intentionally tune into "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"

Er... that's not really about "World, Cup", is it?

Are any of the party members grammar pedants? Izzie strikes me as a likely one, and the not-rogue and Lysandra and th- most of the party do really with the possible exception of the Paladin.
Also, I get that there's a demonic language of some sort which the Tiefling Monk probably knows as well as common and there's elven/elvish and common, but is there a Minotaur language? What would you call that? (I guess google could tell me, or the rules site that somebody on this very thread helpfully linked me to, but I'm trying to steer us obnoxiously back on course here).

[M@XWeru]

Eleanor: Word.

That hair thing was pretty clever. Let's go with that. I really should have got the 'huge' thing, on closer though. Too bad I didn't think that closely about it. <_< >_>

I promise the lack of repercussions will only be slightly handwaved.

Ninjaman & Tangible:
"How lame a page" would be a proper... uh, probably not a sentence, but at least it'd be a proper fraction. Dammit, I really need to start learning grammatical rules. >.>

Eleanor again:
I'm from Sweden, but I have to say that being from Denmark is a perfect excuse for any language errors ever.

Actually, everyone in the party is a language nazi. They just don't all go to the same lengths enforcing grammar. Not that this is likely to ever become relevant, unless other, less eloquent (or less angry) players join them at the table.

Minotaurs in DnD normally speak 'Giant'. In this particular setting, though (I've been trying to avoid giving out important/relevant/interesting background info in the thread, but I guess this isn't any of those things...) the languages aren't the same - there's one language for each major nation, a hideous pidgin language with two very different dialects spoken by the barbarians of the east and west, a couple of ancient/dead languages, and a few types of "scholarly" speech (Draconic, Classic Arcana, High Elven). There are no racial languages, no celestial or demonic languages and there's no druidic language.

[HalfTangible]

Are you sure
Is that your final answer

hmmm ... Yes.

@Elenor: I'm not trying to be mean =( just saying. And then making a massive joke out of it...

[Eleanor_Rigby]

Ooh languagey background material. (Yes, I am a nerd.)

I find it amusing that the Swedish lecturer from my university is married to the Danish lecturer. Y'all have a fair bit of infighting/ "racist" jokes but then Britain's like that too I guess (as the comic you linked to indicates (Scotland is heinously underrepresented but the English/British one is usually about right for the majority of the UK as a whole, just especially true of England so I'll accept it). This is what comes of being countries with a lot of "history", I guess.

(I realised the "spat" was pretty much all in fun but it looked like it might have kept going for a while... so I decided to wade on in there like the busybody I be sorry, am)

As far as the whole party being pedants/ grammar nazis... well, they've not corrected a lot of grammar but they all seem to bear at least some of the typical traits of the grammar nazis (chief amongst these are pedantry (how does the flail work???) and snarkyness(most of the time anyone says anything!) so I can't say I'm surprised.

[M@XWeru]

That may just be my English failing me - I know there are a few mistakes (though I think "but seriously, though" is going to be Hades' new catchphrase >.>) but there aren't that many, are there?

I might add that no one in this group would ever make the mistake of correcting the DM's grammar.

[Ninjaman]

I'm kind of caught in the middle here (not that this is any of my business) since I'm a pedant and a language student but...

Ninjaman's location is listed as Denmark - given that a few Playgrounders post in English (because that's the language of the site's host) despite it not being their first language and Ninjaman's grammatical errors strike me as the sort I tend to make when trying to speak or write French/German/Swedish (my point is just about understandable but I've got the grammar badly wrong, sometimes that mangles the statement beyond belief, and sometimes it's not too tricky to extrapolate what I meant) I'd guess Ninjaman's Danish-Danish. If Ninjaman is Danish then chances are English isn't his first language but his English is more impressive than most native English speakers' Danish would be. I kind of feel that foreign language speakers should get a little bit of slack when it comes to pedantry - although if I were posting in a French forum I'd want my grammar corrected because I'm learning it academically, if it was just a recreational thing I might be content at just getting my point across...

But yeah, I did kind of wince at how gramatically unsound that was because I'm a big ol' hypocrite. Also, I hope it *is* his final answer because I didn't intentionally tune into "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"

Er... that's not really about "World, Cup", is it?

Are any of the party members grammar pedants? Izzie strikes me as a likely one, and the not-rogue and Lysandra and th- most of the party do really with the possible exception of the Paladin.
Also, I get that there's a demonic language of some sort which the Tiefling Monk probably knows as well as common and there's elven/elvish and common, but is there a Minotaur language? What would you call that? (I guess google could tell me, or the rules site that somebody on this very thread helpfully linked me to, but I'm trying to steer us obnoxiously back on course here).

Your signature said you could do stuff like this
Now i know what a pain in the ass you can be

Also i know that it should be "what a lame page" that one just slipped.
And i got a habbit that every time someone corrects me i just pretend like that was the point from the start.

[M@XWeru]

Now, that's just plain rude.

[Ninjaman]

Now, that's just plain rude.

Who
Me

I changed to photobucket long ago and i forgot to give you my fan art picture in better resolution. So here it is

[M@XWeru]

I bet you thought I wasn't coming back, but you were wrong!

...I wasn't really planning on it taking this long, however.

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I even went and edited the last pages into the first post, and replaced Ninjaman's old fanart picture with the new one. Whew, I've been busy today!

Aw, man... I still didn't get it all right. Grr, this time I think I'll actually edit the page. That speech bubble in the first panel is supposed to be a thought bubble, of course.

[Ninjaman]

Yay it´s back. Shouldn´t the ninja say Who also happen to be ninjas.
Also why didn´t you update, or even post, for so long.
Again nice page, glad that it is back.

[super dark33]

Nice page!

[M@XWeru]

Yay it´s back. Shouldn´t the ninja say Who also happen to be ninjas.
Also why didn´t you update, or even post, for so long.
Again nice page, glad that it is back.

Actually, in Japanese, pluralization doesn't work like that, so it's about as accurate as using, say, 'cacti' instead of 'cactuses'. This usually annoys people who use 'cacti', which in turn makes me happy.

I didn't post because I've lately been incredibly busy with... well, everything.

[Eleanor_Rigby]

Actually, in Japanese, pluralization doesn't work like that, so it's about as accurate as using, say, 'cacti' instead of 'cactuses'. This usually annoys people who use 'cacti', which in turn makes me happy.I didn't post because I've lately been incredibly busy with... well, everything.

whort, so this is like the whole "octopodes" gig then?

Liking the new page very much, although I've gotta admit I don't understand precisely what's happening in the last panel with Lyssandra in it. Katana/sword, plus upward pointing arrow, plus the head of an ass?

My favourite ninja would probably have to be the kobold-esque one.
I was kinda hoping your page for Round Robin meant that World, Cup might be back soon. I was sssorta riiight, yeah?

NB: You may wanna rinse out a bit of the profanity from the dialogue just to stay on the nice side of the forum guidelines [/pokin' my nose into business of others]

[M@XWeru]

It's related (though I personally use the English pluralization for everything).

In the panel with Lysara, the head is there because I couldn't fit the whole donkey in the picture. It was meant to be read as 'sword up ass'. The first attempt was rather more graphical, but that didn't really seem appropriate.

My favourite ninja is the one with the spear. I love rice hats.

And I was kind of hoping World, Cup would be back too. I also hope I'll be able to think of a better title before the next thread. Not that I'm in any hurry.

Edit: Uh, apparently one of the words I used in that last comic page was offensive and earned me an infraction. While I'm looking into exactly what word that is, I'm breaking the link until such a time as I can rub that one word out.

[Worlok]

In the panel with Lysara, the head is there because I couldn't fit the whole donkey in the picture. It was meant to be read as 'sword up ass'. The first attempt was rather more graphical, but that didn't really seem appropriate.

Honestly? I called that as soon as I had seen it.

Also... What's with the pirate and the zombie? I mean, should we expect robots (Warning: TVTropes-Link) soon, what with them being in that particular order?

Anywho, good to see you're back. This is as awesome as ever.

I have to ask, though - what's with paladin-guy's perpetual smile? That borders on the terrifying, there.

[Eleanor_Rigby]

Yeeeaaaah... I was pretty sure that was what it meant it just struck me as... unusual? The question was mostly tongue-in-cheek but I've got this kind of thing completely back to front in the past, so...
Also my old-woman-like-sensibilities were shaken by such graphic threats. Kinda. Sorta. Let's pretend they were.
I kinda imagined the "speaker" to be somesort of Ancient Egyptian style character (in the Asterix comics, for example, all such characters speak in images, although I believe those were read left to right instead of bottom to top).

As for Paladin-Guy's perpetual smile being scary? I just find the dude creepy full stop. But in a funny way. The constantly visible teeth is a big part of it though. Bet they're still visible in pitch darkness.

[Worlok]

Yeeeaaaah... I was pretty sure that was what it meant it just struck me as... unusual? The question was mostly tongue-in-cheek but I've got this kind of thing completely back to front in the past, so...
Also my old-woman-like-sensibilities were shaken by such graphic threats. Kinda. Sorta. Let's pretend they were.

It's alright. That way of handling insults is not thaaat common.

Then again, I knew that kind of image-bubble thingfrom that Spanish comic with the secret agents ("Clever & Smart" in Germany, I think in English they're called "Mort & Phil"), where it's usually used for insults. Meaning it's used almost constantly. So yeah, I may not have been entirely unprepared. Pretension accomplished.

I kinda imagined the "speaker" to be somesort of Ancient Egyptian style character (in the Asterix comics, for example, all such characters speak in images, although I believe those were read left to right instead of bottom to top).

Wasn't there one scene (or rather, sidegag) in one of the comics were this bunch of people from various provinces visits the Colosseum and the tour guide changes font five times in the same speech bubble to indicate that he's adressing them in their respective languages? I think one of the "fonts" even was that Egyptian-images-thing. (Which reminds me: I haven't read an Asterix comic in years now. Shame on me!)

Bet they're still visible in pitch darkness.

Paladins - Making you see the light one way or another. But seriously - That would really make him even creepier.

[M@XWeru]

Worlok:
There may be robots...

Thank you, I try. :P

As for the smile, it's to make it obvious to everyone that he's the hero of the story. Couldn't you tell? ;J

Rigby:
The speaker is the samurai girl from before. Though I suppose the inclusion of several other characters with eastern swords of various kinds might have served to make that less obvious.

And as for the teeth? Hells yeah - casting any [Light] spell of 2nd level or higher in range of them blinds everyone within sight. No save.

[M@XWeru]

Yeah, another page! I'm on a roll now!

No profanities this time, I promise.

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[Ninjaman]

Awesome page.Like the ogre

[Akrim.elf]

you comics still awe... ehm, i mean amazing!
hm, those spots on the face services are branded, ie, they are slaves, or where the women grow beards?

[M@XWeru]

Ninjaman:
Thank you.

Akrim:
It's a brand - the servants are all slaves. That's not a woman, however - he doesn't have the curvy body shape.

[Doorhandle]

...I have a new favorite comic.
This is HILARIOUS.

[Ninjaman]

...I have a new favorite comic.
This is HILARIOUS.

I can only agree.

[M@XWeru]

Woo! A new reader.

In celebration, I slapped another sketch on the first page. =D How lucky that I was drawing it as I saw these last posts.

[Eleanor_Rigby]

Woo! A new reader.

In celebration, I slapped another sketch on the first page. =D How lucky that I was drawing it as I saw these last posts.

Sumo-sumo-ogre! Huzzah! (I've never met a sumo who didn't say "Huzzah!", have you?)

As for the most recent page itself, I have to admit, I found those last three panels bizarrely... adorable.
I think it's just the way he peeps out of there from nowhere. Plus, rampaging beast though he is, I think I'm still bearing in mind here that your bog-standard minotaur has the head of a bull. Has anyone seen the eyes and lashes on those things?
[does a google image search on Jersey cows to prove her point]
...huh. On second thoughts I kinda see why that might also be fairly unsettling.