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2013-06-13, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-06-13, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Porthos; 2013-06-13 at 01:23 PM.
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2013-06-14, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
I think this falls under the category of "why didn't character X do Y?"
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2013-06-18, 03:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
The Linear Guild's descent into the pyramid took hours because they didn't have a rogue to disarm traps, causing the Guild and the Order to arrive around the same time. Nale likely had to take 20 on a lot of Search checks.
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2013-06-19, 02:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-06-19, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-06-19, 08:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
Was this one mentioned before? It's old, but here the Giant talks a bit about what had been intended for Miko's character. She was never intended as an indefinite romantic interest for Roy, and it had been planned for her to fall from grace and destroy Soon's Gate from before her first full appearance in #200. No one else was considered for this role.
It's sort of an aside to a discussion about the commentary in NCftPB which says that originally the inn sub-plot had been designed with "light romantic comedy" in mind before the Giant realized Miko was harsher than he'd realized and completely unsuited to the role. This sparked some speculation that she had been written towards a much darker end than originally planned and perhaps that Miko/Roy might have been a thing before the Giant changed his mind. But she was always intended as a "villain" and the Giant had no plans to have Roy in a relationship with her, only for him to clumsily attempt to start one.
The date on it's 5/29/2008, so that'd be... uh, looks like a whopping three minutes before #560's thread went up, I think that's probably the strip it ought to be affiliated with.Last edited by B. Dandelion; 2013-06-19 at 08:22 PM.
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2013-06-20, 07:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
Durkon casting detect magic is a continuity error
I believe it needs to be in the index because people keep asking about it . Since the forum search feature remains down, the only place to find it is here.
ETA: To be explicit, I believe the first statement in which Rich explains the continuity error should be in the index but the second one in which he rebukes a poster should not be, as it adds no new information on the world and is more a mod-administrative message.
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Brian P.Last edited by pendell; 2013-06-20 at 07:34 AM.
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2013-06-20, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-06-21, 11:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
Presume, if one wants, that Nale and co spent a fair amount of time searching between panels when they were confronted with the pillar at the bottom of Girard's pyramid.
Any additional spells cast or time spent checking out the pillar was cut for pacing purposes.Last edited by Porthos; 2013-06-21 at 11:25 PM.
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2013-06-22, 02:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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"They couldn't know that the points from the mainline to the siding were frozen, and the signal should have been set at 'DANGER', but snow had forced it down."
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2013-06-23, 04:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
Girard is not a flawless munchkin illusionist with perfect DnD tactics, he's a very fallible person. This is not a story where the NPCs are competant enough for the PCs to not do anything.
I dunno, don't we have like twelve of these kind of quotes by now?
Also, a question: I recall the Giant answering a thread where someone claimed that Durkon wanted to die, but I can't find the quote. Is it in here somewhere?I won a thread. Am I pathetic to list that in my signture? Yes. Of course I am.
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2013-06-23, 04:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
It's been mentioned before in context of another answer.. It doesn't seem to be included at the moment. ThePhantasm might have already rejected it as not worthy of inclusion/already covered by other comments.
Here is the actual post by The Giant.Last edited by Porthos; 2013-06-23 at 04:41 PM.
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2013-06-23, 04:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-06-24, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
I think you meant this post:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...2&postcount=34
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2013-06-26, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
It took me forever to find it while researching, so I recommend this post for inclusion in the comments if it is not already included. The significant fact is that the nobles of Azure city have between 20 to 100 samurai and men at arms each, plus a few casters and ninja if that is their taste. There are a few dozen nobles.
The importance of this is that the withdrawal of the nobles from the battle of Azure City had negligible impact on the overall military impact, something *I* had not realized until the Giant so clarified.
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Brian P."Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
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2013-06-26, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
It is already on the giant pile of stuff missing at this time (and maybe my synopsis was really too bad to find it, but the post touches quite some topics, and I wasn't sure about whether to include it and wanted to stuff it into one short sentence).
So in the meantime it would be best to take the time to search the last 1-2 pages from this thread to make it as easy as possible to ThePhantasm (who makes an awesome job as the maintainer of this thread).
[That wasn't really targeted at pendell, but I also wanted to give ThePhantasm the hint that this is a duplicate quote]
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2013-06-28, 09:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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How the giant draws the strips . Each strip is as long as it is precisely to achieve a particular impact. He writes first the speech, then foreground, then background, and finally the speech balloons.
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2013-06-28, 09:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-06-28, 01:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Is there already confirmation from The Giant somewhere as to which of the orange/purple fiends was Nero and which was Cedrik?
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2013-06-28, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-06-28, 01:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
The commentary also clarifies which is which (Lee is a devil, Cedrik a demon, Nero a daemon).
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2013-07-06, 08:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
Bump. This thread cannot be permitted to die, especially when the forum's search function is nonfunctional.
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Brian P."Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
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2013-07-06, 08:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
I'll be making the necessary update sometime over the weekend I hope. I know its been really delayed... life has been a heck of a lot busier than usual for me lately.
"And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand." - St. Augustine
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2013-07-06, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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There will be no Munchkin OotS (the Steve Jackson game) (07/06/2013; #897)
[Just added the date/comic information, I think it might make updating it easier for ThePhantasm.]
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2013-07-08, 02:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Please don't bump this thread just to keep it on the front page. Being on the second page does not equal "lost forever." Since it's highly unlikely I will stop making comments altogether, and every time I do a few dozen posters will rush here to record them, it's not going away any time soon.
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2013-07-08, 02:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
We don't need to keep the Index bumped constantly
Sorry, but somebody had to do it.
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2013-07-08, 02:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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lol :) 666
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2013-07-08, 07:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-07-08, 09:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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A game is a fictional construct created for the sake of the players, not the other way around. If you have a question "How do I keep X from happening at my table," and you feel that the out-of-game answer "Talk the the other people at your table" won't help, then the in-game answers "Remove mechanics A, B, and/or C, impose mechanics L, M, and/or N" will not help either.
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