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  1. 2015-08-07, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #1
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    That would mean every PC death was caused by an undead creature. When will this negative portrayal of the living dead end????
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    Count Duckula? I didn't know Count Duckula was in Order of The Stick!

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    Count Duckula is my new favorite thing.
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  4. 2015-08-07, 03:37 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #4
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    Preach it, brother or sister!

    And "Count Duckula" is awesome, but still nothing on Lurky Corpsewhiskers to my mind.
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  5. 2015-08-07, 06:06 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #5
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    They prefer "living impaired". Racist.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ti'esar View Post
    Preach it, brother or sister!

    And "Count Duckula" is awesome, but still nothing on Lurky Corpsewhiskers to my mind.
    Yes, "Lurky Corpsewhiskers" is in a class of its own.

    I may start using that in place of "Durk Malackssen..."
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  7. 2015-08-07, 10:11 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #7
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    With all due apologies to Gift Jeraff-

    Count Duckula? I knew it! He said he was a Cleric, but have you seen his medical skills? What a quack!

    Also, technically, every PC death was also caused by the ground. What a dirty trick...
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  8. 2015-08-07, 10:22 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by DaggerPen View Post
    Also, technically, every PC death was also caused by the ground. What a dirty trick...
    Including Durkon's?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ORione View Post
    Including Durkon's?
    Well, if you consider the ramp that caused Belkar to lose his bearings to be "ground"...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Shadow View Post
    Well, if you consider the ramp that caused Belkar to lose his bearings to be "ground"...
    >_>;;; Yes that is very definitely what I meant and I definitely did not forget that Durkon's corpse's current state of ambulatoriness does not disqualify his death.
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    Tarquin's fatherly love is truly unique... or at least I hope it is!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gift Jeraff View Post
    That would mean every PC death was caused by an undead creature. When will this negative portrayal of the living dead end????
    You mean main character and not PC there, right? 'Cause there have been lots of deaths of non-main character PCs caused by other things.
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    Quote Originally Posted by theNater View Post
    You mean main character and not PC there, right? 'Cause there have been lots of deaths of non-main character PCs caused by other things.
    Within the context of the comic, the main characters are the only PCs, so I assume that you meant in general... yet PCs are also always the main characters of their stories, if not the greater conflicts they participate in, so...

    I have no idea what youre getting at here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
    Within the context of the comic, the main characters are the only PCs, so I assume that you meant in general... yet PCs are also always the main characters of their stories, if not the greater conflicts they participate in, so...

    I have no idea what youre getting at here.
    Within the context of the comic, PC can't mean "Player Character", because no characters have players. So I've always understood it to mean "character with levels in a PC class", which includes paladins, clerics, sorcerers, what have you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by theNater View Post
    Within the context of the comic, PC can't mean "Player Character", because no characters have players. So I've always understood it to mean "character with levels in a PC class", which includes paladins, clerics, sorcerers, what have you.
    No, it means "player-characters." It just isn't used especially accurately.
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    One of the book prefaces went into detail on that matter. I'm tempted to say On the Origin of PCs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by theNater View Post
    You mean main character and not PC there, right? 'Cause there have been lots of deaths of non-main character PCs caused by other things.
    Not on-screen by NPCs, unless you are positing NPCs killing PCs but being shortchanged and not issued TV shirts.

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  17. 2015-08-10, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #17
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    Then Belkar will rise as a duck mummy.
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    Pretty sure, in the comic, "PC" has always been used to refer to the central protagonists. Could be mistaken, though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gift Jeraff View Post
    That would mean every PC death was caused by an undead creature. When will this negative portrayal of the living dead end????
    Count Duckula!?! He wouldn't hurt the feather on a duckling's tail!

    Now Danger Mouse on the other hand... he's an outright menace!
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    If Count Duckula kills Belkar, then
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