Well That Was Unexpected. (backstory comic)

[Emperor Ing]

...in other news I made a few changes to my template of the Eternus Laser Rifle. Tell me if you notice any changes.

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And Comic 234 is up. Okay it might not be particularly funny but I still liked it

Questions? Comments? Critique?

[Green-Shirt Q]

And Comic 234 is up. Okay it might not be particularly funny but I still liked it

Where?

[Mad Mask]

Where?

Here.

[Green-Shirt Q]

Thanks, Masky.

Heh heh. Xeno looks a little overpowered in this comic.

Also, I have to say Rand, I am a little disappointed that nobody (except for Rand, for a little bit) has reacted strongly to becoming what they fear they'll become. They just seem to be shrugging it off and doing what they're doing. Personally, it looks like wasted potential for an interesting, character-development filled storyline.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Nice cookie, a shame it'll be all cold and soggy when Kayl gets out

[sean o the dead]

Fine.
*Crawls back to bucket and comes back*
Okay. Hop in.

heh. it's a bucketfest

gee whiz, what bit xeno's all-powerful ass?

[Tempest Fennac]

Kayl and the princess both reacted strongly initially. Looking at the situation they are all in, they don't really have time to be too upset about the changes.

[Emperor Ing]

Mostly what's happened is that Powers hasn't noticed any changes whatsoever, Xeno recovered, Marnia has dealt with it, Rand is still feeling the effects, and will do whatever it takes to hide it. If you notice in Comic 232, his tail is transparent. It's an illusion.
edit: And Torn doesn't care.

And sorry about forgetting to link to the comic. If it happens again, just look at the archives.

Comic 235 is up. This one, I especially liked.

Questions? Comments? Critique?

[Lyinginbedmon]

Goooo Princess!

(And what about Kayl being a dragon? How is she handling that?)

[memnarch]

Wow. Wonder where torn got the score card from. not really

Seriously though, I wonder what a 10 for him would be.

[sean o the dead]

...in other news I made a few changes to my template of the Eternus Laser Rifle. Tell me if you notice any changes.

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just a few very MINOR changes. nothing earthshakingly different, eh?

[Mad Mask]

I don't know why laser rifles* hand-held weapons should look so complex. It's a waste of money; there's no recoil or anything, why can't it be just a smooth cylinder with a grip on it ? And in normal lighting conditions, you can't see the laser beam except for the red/green/blue point on your target.

But, yes, I know, it looks better when it's a just a normal-looking gun with glowing spots that fires coloured rays.

*Laser weapons cannot be rifled, since they don't have a conventional barrel.

[Lyinginbedmon]

I don't know why laser rifles* hand-held weapons should look so complex. It's a waste of money; there's no recoil or anything, why can't it be just a smooth cylinder with a grip on it ? And in normal lighting conditions, you can't see the laser beam except for the red/green/blue point on your target.

But, yes, I know, it looks better when it's a just a normal-looking gun with glowing spots that fires coloured rays.

*Laser weapons cannot be rifled, since they don't have a conventional barrel.

It could just be a vestigial thing, early guns were little more than small cannons after all, because that's what people were used to. Therefore, having gun-like features in a laser weapon could be for ease of use by troops previously taught in the use of firearms.

[Emperor Ing]

The way I see it, rifles are not only more familiar to wield, but due to their longer size, have more room for things such as beam amphlifiers, or a larger charge cell, giving them more, and more powerful shots. However, keep in mind we have a death star IRL.

Comic 236 and Comic 237 are up. Oddly enough I did complete both on the same day.

Questions? Comments? Critique? Inevitible typos and text-bubble errors?

[Green-Shirt Q]

Very funny comics, particularly since I could understand them.

[The Gremlin]

The way I see it, rifles are not only more familiar to wield, but due to their longer size, have more room for things such as beam amphlifiers, or a larger charge cell, giving them more, and more powerful shots. However, keep in mind we have a death star IRL.

Fun fact: I don't have the article, but somebody was also making a Death Star Bug Zapper.

[Emperor Ing]

Well its basically this. A sphere that focuses 192 lasers to project a single laser that burns as hot as a star. Know any other spheres that focus lasers?

Anyways, even better news! Comic 238 and Comic 239 is up. That's right, 2 comics in 1 day.

Questions? Comments? Critique?

[Mad Mask]

Why do people choose mêlée weapons over ranged ones ? Isn't that a bit... stupid ?

[Lyinginbedmon]

Why do people choose mêlée weapons over ranged ones ? Isn't that a bit... stupid ?

The simple satisfaction of beating someone to death with your own hands?

Besides, Torn just had his entire torso pierced by a spike of ice, so I don't thank ranged weaponry is going to be much of an issue for him.

[Emperor Ing]

Well it works like this. Either makez it mor choppy or nedz mor dakka.
And in my settings, as you can see, martial classes get some nice toys.

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Metafist
Martial One-Handed Unarmed Melee
Prerequisites: Medium armor proficiency
Crit: x2
Range: Melee (adjacent foe)
Type: Bludgeoning
Armor Check Penalty: -1
Maximum Dex Bonus: +7
Arcane Spell Failure chance: 5%
Hardness: 10
HP: 10

Damage:
Small: 3d4
Medium: 3d6
large: 4d6
SPECIAL: Does Lethal damage instead of nonlethal damage.

Defense:
Small: +2
Medium: +2
Large: +3

Weight:
Small: 15 lbs
Medium: 30 lbs
Large: 45 lbs

Cost: 55 gp
Masterwork: 355 gp
Adamantine: Bypasses hardness up to 20: Damage Reduction 2/Adamantine
Deep Crystal: Psionics irritate me.
Mundane Crystal: 355 gp, Not metal, not rusting. Hard: 8, HP, 8
Darkwood: Seriously, what the heck.
Cold Iron: 410 gp, Enhancements cost additional 2000 gp.
Mithril: 655 gp, Negate Dex penalty, Reduce ACP by 1, no arcane spell failure chance, prerequisite is Light Armor proficiency, Half Weight. Hard: 15, HP, 10
Silver: 355 gp, -1 damage.

Enhancement Bonuses:
(Add each enhancement bonuses as if it was one step higher, for example, a +1 metafist costs as much as a +2 weapon.)

SPECIAL NOTE: A character using a metafist cannot hold weapons.

[Lemming]

Why do people choose mêlée weapons over ranged ones ? Isn't that a bit... stupid ?

People are stupid. Live with it.
Besides, Torn probably can't aim very well, he is a melee specialist after all. In english it doesn't have accents. It may come from french but we're not speaking french here.

[Threeshades]

People are stupid. Live with it.
Besides, Torn probably can't aim very well, he is a melee specialist after all. In english it doesn't have accents. It may come from french but we're not speaking french here.

Yeah, so he decided to use mélêè weapons because he had decided to use mêléè weapons.

[Emperor Ing]

If you can keep your distance, and you're good with a weapon, ranged beats melee, but up close, its easily the other way around.
in other words, its situational.

And here it is again. Comic 240 is up.

And because I discovered a bizzaro yet extremely awesome weapon just recently, The Major's Arsenal 3 is up.

Questions? Comments? Critique?

[memnarch]

Yay for ridiculous weapons!

[The Gremlin]

Yay for ridiculous weapons!

Okay, the Peasant Railgun officially wins. Totally awesome.

[Keris]

Okay, the Peasant Railgun officially wins. Totally awesome.

Except for the fact that by RAW, it doesn't work. Which is a pretty big flaw in a thought exercise designed to exploit a loophole in a given set of rules.

[memnarch]

Except for the fact that by RAW, it doesn't work. Which is a pretty big flaw in a thought exercise designed to exploit a loophole in a given set of rules.

And goes to show that some of the rules don't make any sense, and are in fact, quite broken, some of the time.

[Keris]

And goes to show that some of the rules don't make any sense, and are in fact, quite broken, some of the time.

Within any set of rules, you can always set up scenarios to show how "broken" they are. Near instantaneous travel along a very long unbroken line of coordinated sentient individuals is one example that "breaks" the rules for readied actions, but it's a hypothetical situation, it's never expected to come up in game.
In Rand's example he used over 6000 peasants, who were all persuaded to stand in a line and ready an action. This isn't not something that is in any way likely during normal gameplay.

And again, by RAW, the "Peasant Railgun" doesn't work as a weapon. The final peasant throws the rock, at which point it has all the statistics of a thrown improvised weapon, including the 10ft range increment. This is generally fine, if you pass a rock to someone and then they throw it you wouldn't expect it to further than if they'd had the rock to start with. The rules aren't designed to accommodate situations that are never expected to come up.

[Lemming]

The rules aren't designed to accommodate situations that are never expected to come up.

But the DM is. And because Rand is the DM he can do whatever he wants with those rules.

[Salty]

I'm gone for 2 weeks and I come back to 10 new comics? Awesome!!!

And congrats on reaching your 42nd page.

There's a speech-bubble error on panel 4 of #232, panel 12 of #236, panel 2 of #238, panel 6 of #240, and panel 10 of TMA3. Unless there's an update I missed.

Great comics!