Please tell me we are not going to have to deal with getting the sword back again

[Haluesen]

Warblades can switch their weapon-specific feats to other weapons.

Not that that would make, "Oh well, I lost my +5 undead-killing greatsword of legacy which my family was named after; easy come, easy go, I guess" a reaction Roy would ever, in a billion years, come close to having.

Oh right, they can do that! I don't play ToB often, so it didn't occur to me. Thanks for the info.

And yeah, that would be pretty unlike Roy to be that casual about something so important to him. Maybe as a snarky sarcastic moment, maybe, but probably not. Especially not after that blow from the giantess.

[dtilque]

. . . is Elan still dangling off the bottom of the airship?

No he is not. He climbed up one of the ropes and is now near the underside of the gas bag. He is higher than Roy, so cannot catch the sword.

[mouser9169]

Roy multiclassing hasn't been remotely foreshadowed, nor would multiclassing into a ToB class make sense.

Well, I can see him multiclassing into some sort of Ancestral Weapon using class, but that will make him MORE reliant on his weapon, not less. On the plus side, he may finally invest in a lanyard.

[Mandor]

They will be unable to find the sword. Ever. But due to the tight timeline to save the world, they will continue north to Durkula / Greg / whoever. Roy will be gimped the entire time, with just a wooden club and his Bag of Tricks pets.

But, at the critical moment in the confrontation with Durkula, he will be visited by a manifestation of his Grandfather, who will speak in a voice that sounds suspicously like Mel Brooks / Yoghurt, who will tell him "Forget the sword! The sword is bupkis! I found it in a Cracker Jack box!" and that the schwartz is in HIM. Roy will then envelop himself in green fire without the sword, and will reverse his grip on the wooden club, and stake Durkula with the handle (since that's the narrower, more stake-like end of it).

True Facts!

[ChillerInstinct]

It won't be hard for V, Haley, or Belkar to find it on their way back to Roy and Elan. Just look for the big impact crater a few mountains before the Mechane ran aground. It'll take all of a strip with Bugsby's Sword-Retrieving Hand.

[dtilque]

Here's the most likely scenario (based on the fight between Roy and Durkula):

Roy is going to take a big beating from the Frost Giant. It'll almost kill him. But at the last minute, his desperation for his sword will activate the weapon return feature of his legacy sword and it'll pop back into his hand. He then uses the Power of Greenhilt to trash the giant and restore all his hitpoints. This will take two strips, three at the most.

This would have all been avoided if he'd just learned where the function menu is on the sword, but that wouldn't have been as dramatic.

[Cazero]

Or Roy (finaly) remembers that he's pretty good at grappling and throw the giant overboard.

[GrayDeath]

The sword is lost forever. From now on Roy will be taking levels in Monk.

You mean he`ll be Khelgar, but much later levelwise, ergo more sucky?


NOOOOOOO.........!

[Gift Jeraff]

We are not going to have to deal with getting the sword back again.

We are not going to have to deal with reading this post again.

[Rodin]

Maybe they are getting it confused with the two (three?) times Elan has broken his rapier?

GW

I was trying to think about this.

His first rapier gets broken when Belkar shatters it with his voice. He gets a replacement immediately.

He loses his second rapier when Nale steals it, gets a replacement from Julio, then gets the original back when he beats Nale.

He gets one of those two broken when Tarquin snaps it, but gets another replacement in the form of Julio's chaos sabre.

So he only broke it twice, but lost it 3 times.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Well, I can see him multiclassing into some sort of Ancestral Weapon using class...

...Well, okay, I'll grant you that. Blanket statements are always bad; only Sith deal in absolutes.

Or Roy (finaly) remembers that he's pretty good at grappling and throw the giant overboard.

Grappling depends on size, strength, and base attack bonus. Xykon's size and base attack bonus are similar to Roy's at that time (if Roy was about 10th level, pure fighter, and Xykon a bit over 20th, pure sorcerer), and his strength is almost certainly lower. And there might be some circumstance bonuses involved. The frost giant's size is (of course) bigger, may have a higher Strength, and likely has comparable BAB.

[hongkasong]

Please tell me we are not going to have to deal with getting the sword back again

[FujinAkari]

We are not going to have to deal with getting the sword back again.

[Kish]

I would find it hilarious if this thread got merged with the other one with the same name.

[Jay R]

We are not going to have to deal with getting the sword back again. That's Roy's problem. We just have to read the comic.

[denthor]

Jay R you are funny

Please look at the last comic Roy has a sword so he all ready got it back.

[zimmerwald1915]

Prediction: the sword's going to be a breadcrumb on the trail that leads Haley, V, Blackwing, and Belkar back to the Mechane. Probably because Haley or Blackwing will Spot it; V probably wouldn't think to scry it, thinking it'll be warded by the Mechane's lead lining.

[Kish]

Ah, I see. It wasn't a joke thread deliberately copying the title of a recent thread, it was a spam bot deliberately copying the title of a recent thread.

[Jay R]

Jay R you are funny

Please look at the last comic Roy has a sword so he all ready got it back.

And if his name were Randomhilt, the issue would be over.

But his name is Greenhilt, named after his family's heirloom sword, so he needs to get the green-hilted heirloom sword back.

[Emanick]

I would find it hilarious if this thread got merged with the other one with the same name.

Looks like you got your wish

[Kish]

I did. Alas, the humor value is blunted by the new one having been started by a spam bot rather than an actual person.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I did. Alas, the humor value is blunted by the new one having been started by a spam bot rather than an actual person.

I disagree. The spambot's algorithms tried to figure out a reasonable way to fake being a human being on this forum well enough to get away with spamming, and this is what it thought of? That's hilarious!

[Douglas]

I disagree. The spambot's algorithms tried to figure out a reasonable way to fake being a human being on this forum well enough to get away with spamming, and this is what it thought of? That's hilarious!

Maybe I'm just jaded by experience on this one. Copy and paste an existing post is a somewhat common way to try to fake human behavior as a spam bot.

Out of those that bother to try at all, anyway - most just post blatant batches of links and ungrammatical descriptions of products. I don't really count "pretend I'm answering a question about this stuff" as trying to fake human.

[Jay R]

I don't really count "pretend I'm answering a question about this stuff" as trying to fake human.

"Pretend I'm answering a question about this stuff" is what most people are doing here.

They will be unable to find the sword. Ever. But due to the tight timeline to save the world, they will continue north to Durkula / Greg / whoever. Roy will be gimped the entire time, with just a wooden club and his Bag of Tricks pets.

But, at the critical moment in the confrontation with Durkula, he will be visited by a manifestation of his Grandfather, who will speak in a voice that sounds suspicously like Mel Brooks / Yoghurt, who will tell him "Forget the sword! The sword is bupkis! I found it in a Cracker Jack box!" and that the schwartz is in HIM. Roy will then envelop himself in green fire without the sword, and will reverse his grip on the wooden club, and stake Durkula with the handle (since that's the narrower, more stake-like end of it).

True Facts!

But what about the doily? And does Elan get a whistle?

[137beth]

This or H/V/B will find it just trying to catch up with where the airship went.

And then we'll have to deal with people shouting "Dues Ex Machina!"

[Kish]

"Dues Ex Machina!"

Money from a machine? An ATM?

[Cazero]

Money from a machine? An ATM?

It's more money [made as such] by a machine, so bitcoins.

[Mad Humanist]

I did. Alas, the humor value is blunted by the new one having been started by a spam bot rather than an actual person.

So there is place on reddit where only bots are allowed to post. Sometimes it's funny and/or accurate.

[GreatWyrmGold]

So there is place on reddit where only bots are allowed to post. Sometimes it's funny and/or accurate.

Oh man, I forgot that existed!

Breaking Bad came out first and they don't talk about WWII because it wasn't Snape's wand, even though he didn't shed his furby form yet.

I want to see an alternate universe where that sentence makes sense.

[YummyPizza]

It won't be hard for V, Haley, or Belkar to find it on their way back to Roy and Elan. Just look for the big impact crater a few mountains before the Mechane ran aground. It'll take all of a strip with Bugsby's Sword-Retrieving Hand.

Ah but the spell is Bugsby's CAT-Retrieving Hand. So V would need to Polymorph Any Object the sword into a cat first, and THEN retrieve it.