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    Quote Originally Posted by 137ben View Post
    This is already essentially covered by the complete explanation of how Familicide works, which is already in this thread.
    It's still a new quote by The Giant, and helps clarify it a little. Still helpful to have up. But whether included or not, doesn't matter. I'm just posting the link.

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    Until I get this sorted out, does everyone mind keeping discussion to a minimum and only posting new quote suggestions? That way it is less likely I miss something else that gets added. If I'm unsure about including a certain quote I'll ask for a vote...
    Let's be nice to the list maintainer, eh?
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    I think this falls under the category of "why didn't character X do Y?"

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    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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    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.
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    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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    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?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cizak View Post
    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?
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cizak View Post
    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?
    Well considering there are enough people who don't seem to realize it that it keeps coming up again...maybe it is worth including?

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by ChristianSt View Post
    More stuff from the "Vigilantism and the Lawful Alignment in OotS"-Thread

    The comic is not a sourcebook (but I'm not sure we should include that)
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    I'm still here, but obviously waaaay behind... I was without internet this past week so didn't get a chance to do anything. Massive update incoming whenever I sort though all this stuff.
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    Alright, this is all the stuff I've got to sort through (er... if you notice something missing tell me). This is the farthest I've been behind on the Index... ever. Some of these quotes I haven't even read yet.



    Until I get this sorted out, does everyone mind keeping discussion to a minimum and only posting new quote suggestions? That way it is less likely I miss something else that gets added. If I'm unsure about including a certain quote I'll ask for a vote...

    I really do appreciate the discussions of each quote, its just I've got some catching up to do... my internet connectivity has been bonkers lately but it is holding up right now so hopefully it won't go down again.
    Quote Originally Posted by pendell View Post
    It took me forever to find it while researching, so I recommend this post <snip>.
    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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    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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Tragak View Post
    Is there already confirmation from The Giant somewhere as to which of the orange/purple fiends was Nero and which was Cedrik?
    In commentary of DStP.

    Lee (Yellow)
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    The commentary also clarifies which is which (Lee is a devil, Cedrik a demon, Nero a daemon).
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    Bump. This thread cannot be permitted to die, especially when the forum's search function is nonfunctional.

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    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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    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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    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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    We don't need to keep the Index bumped constantly

    Sorry, but somebody had to do it.

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    lol :) 666

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    Sorry, but somebody had to do it.
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