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2013-09-30, 02:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
It's also really, really irrelevant to both the story and how he draws the comic. It's right up there with "What brand mouse does he use?" and "What does his office look like?". That is to say, the fact that he draws zoomed in is not notable and does not provide any insight into the comic. If this was something like "I use templates consisting of X, Y, and Z, then arrange them in manner B, and draw new ones in this way", then we'd have something notable about the process.
But this quote is just a comment on why the crayon drawings for a relatively (compared to the forum audience) few people are taking a while.
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2013-09-30, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
I thought it was interesting because people have been remarking on the increased detail in some aspects of the comic, and then he mentions that over the course of the current arc he started working at a much higher resolution.
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2013-09-30, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-01, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
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2013-10-03, 03:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
Durkon can only dominate humanoids. This is important because every time the Order fights a monster, someone will ask "Why didn't Durkon dominate it?"
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2013-10-03, 06:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
I don't know if we really need a post with essentially only "Normal D&D Rules applies." A link to SRD states the same.
Making a special notion of following the rules make it sound like that he normally doesn't follow rules (and while I know that he doesn't follow the rules that strict, I think the normal case is still "D&D Rules apply as normal").
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2013-10-03, 05:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-03, 05:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
Ehh, that may be true, but it still doesn't make Rich's comment worthy of inclusion. Anyone could have made that comment. It's just a recitation of the rules. If the answer could be given equally well by a Monster Manual, there's not much pointing in recording that Rich said it just because he's the author.
The correct response to "Why didn't Durkon dominate that monster?" shouldn't be "Oh, Rich said that's not how vampire gazes work"; it should be "Because that's not how vampire gazes work."Last edited by The Linker; 2013-10-03 at 05:22 PM.
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2013-10-03, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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A reader who isn't familiar with D&D rules would presumably assume that Durkon isn't Dominating dinosaurs because he can't do so--it's D&D players who misunderstand the rules (as Sunken Valley did in the comment the Giant was responding to) that would need a clarification like this.
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2013-10-03, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-03, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
Rules-related stuff should only be in there if he's explaining why he BROKE a particular rule or played with it, not answers to fans who had misread the rules.
For example, the Tsukiko comment makes sense because we get an acknowledgement that he did break the rules, didn't intend to, and doesn't care.
The dinosaur comment is not unlike someone misreading which level a certain spell is available at and Rich correcting them. It's neither interesting nor worth documenting.
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2013-10-03, 06:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
I see no reason to include this one for a simple reason: Anyone could have made the statement. That Rich says it only shows that, yes, he still pays attention to the rules more often than not.
If this ever comes up in the future, all that is going to be needed is for someone to link to the SRD. Only in the event of "Well, Rich ignores the rules all the time, why didn't he here?" would this comment be necessary. And even then, since it was mentioned in this thread we can still dig for the comment and then re-post it.
At best it staves off a one-in-a-thousand question, at worst it's triva. And, as said, we can always hunt through this thread to get the link if it ever comes up in discussion again.Last edited by Porthos; 2013-10-03 at 06:53 PM.
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2013-10-04, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
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2013-10-04, 08:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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If we include something from this thread (which I'm personally not sure we should), I would use this quote: No baby <anything> should have stats (But the stats posted by the Giant are funny for sure )
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2013-10-04, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-04, 07:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-05, 08:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-21, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-21, 01:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-21, 01:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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At least nobody's posted his comment about Right-Eye's daughter yet.
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2013-10-21, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-21, 02:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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You joke, but it could be worth including for the part where he says the "new place" from the bazaar in Sandsedge isn't referring to anything in particular.
Edit: Here.Last edited by Shale; 2013-10-21 at 02:00 PM.
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2013-10-21, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Redcloak's niece is a half-orc.
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2013-10-21, 06:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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With respect, I think the 'redcloak's niece is a half orc' is a joke. Redcloak is not an orc but a goblin. So the daughter of a blood relative would be .. well, I suppose it's technically possible if she's a goblin/orc mix, but "half-orc" in D&D terms usually means "human/orc", and that's not possible.
Well, unless Redcloak's sibling was polymorphed into a human or an orc at the time they conceived and gave birth.
But Occam's razor says that's a joke, son !
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2013-10-21, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-21, 08:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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What you meant to say was
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2013-10-21, 11:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: The Index of the Giant's Comments
I actually find what Rich is really saying there to be more interesting, as an insight to his writing process: that cut-off line might have been referring to something, but he can't remember now what it was (so it's obviously not important). But I think we already have quotes that kind of imply Rich prefers world-building rather than Conservation of Detail - and if not, there's a whole
New WorldGaming article about that very thing - so it's probably not necessary to include in the index.Last edited by theangelJean; 2013-10-21 at 11:30 PM. Reason: added link to Gaming article
I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2013-10-22, 03:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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The quote does tell us that Rich hasn't forgotten Redcloak's Niece and she could show up again.
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2013-10-22, 04:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2013-10-22, 08:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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