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2015-11-03, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
And he is. He's the bodyguard of the High Priest of Hel, officially. It's the strongest religious tie he has.
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2015-11-03, 10:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
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2015-11-03, 05:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
I only just realised roy is talking about his father and his brother in strip #944. Propably.
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2015-11-04, 12:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
I actually specifically discussed these guys in the Character Appearances thread, but I never noticed this before: two of the people involved in the "brunchroom brawl" with Roy and Belkar are a human and lizardfolk Empire of Blood soldier. But when we first see the room in 728, the lizardfolk the human soldier is sitting with is not an EoB soldier, but rather what appears to be a palette swap of one of the "frat brother adventurers" from comic 710. Looks like an art mistake, and not one that was corrected in the print edition either, since that's where I first noticed it.
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2015-11-04, 03:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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it is likely it is just an Art mistake/oversight but that lizard folk was not in panel for #729 and you also don't see the whole table in #728 so i think it's possible that the 728 lizard folk is a different one from the 730 on one. Maybe he went outside for something so he wasn't there, that might even be the reason the fuzz knew there was a brawl, but this is major reaching i know. Probably just something that slip pasted.
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2015-11-04, 09:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
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2015-11-04, 10:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-11-04, 12:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
I just noticed the double meaning of the title. At first, I thought it was just meant in general, because people don't notice their familiar, but now I noticed, that it directly adresses Vaarsuvius, because V is often called V and V never noticed Vs Familiar.
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2015-11-04, 12:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-11-04, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
Ya know, I didn't get the joke in-comic until I read about it in the book commentary. I dunno if it's because I didn't play D&D until I was in my early twenties, or because my first familiar was a pseudodragon I paid a feat for, or if I just play differently than most others but I knew exactly where that familiar was and what he was doing all the damn time. Always made sure to get his actions in on every battle, and roleplayed the hell out of him too, I think.
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2015-11-04, 12:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Keltest; 2015-11-04 at 12:39 PM.
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2015-11-04, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
I don't play wizards too often (I prefer to play melee or gish characters or, if I have to be a caster, a spontaneous caster). However, once I had a character concept in which ONLY a wizard fit her concept, so I played my first and only wizard (a gnome illusionist, of course).
She literally had a pocket sewn into her cloak where her familiar sat until I needed/remembered it, then viola! Pulled it out, used it, then promptly forgot about it again.
So yeah I totally got the joke.
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2015-11-04, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-11-04, 02:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-11-04, 03:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2015-11-04, 04:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Never noticed that when Sabine is playtesting the grappling rules with Elan's tongue, she has both legs and her tail wrapped around him. Elan is really good at what he does.
Suspiciously normal.
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2015-11-05, 05:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
It seems that Disruption (Disrupting Weapon) is an important part of Roy's plan to defeat Xykon. However Durkon needs to be level 9 to cast that and reached level 9 in page 12.
Means that the Order had planned to earn some xp in the dungeon before facing Xykon!
I've always been surprised that they don't use the spell again when Roy gets his second fight against Xykon. Did they figure that Xykon can't miss the will save? Can't he?Posting from France
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2015-11-05, 05:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
Perhaps they thought the starmetal in the sword superseded the need for it?
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2015-11-05, 06:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
I vaguely recall them coming up with the Disruption plan at some point in the Dungeon of Dorukan, likely after Durkon had leveled up. Can't give an exact strip though.
I don't know what the duration of Disruption is, but they didn't expect to face Xykon as soon as they did. After all, until Haley saw through the decoy bluff they were expecting to have to go out and face him on the battlefield... then he was right above their heads, literally.
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2015-11-05, 09:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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You're right, he can't. He doesn't even need to make a save, since his HP is higher than DUrkon's caster level. It fails automatically.
There has been a lot of speculation that Rich didn't originally intend for Xykon to be epic level, and both the fact that he was easily defeated and that they expected Disrupting Weapon to work are used to support this theory
Good memory! It was in Strip 94Last edited by littlebum2002; 2015-11-05 at 09:54 AM.
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2015-11-06, 06:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Crystal's hand goes straight through Bozzok's chest in her first attack.
No wonder he had Xed eyes after that.
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2015-11-07, 01:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm not the best at the underlying rules of D&D but wouldn't Xykon need to be at least level 11 in order to be a Lich? Or would a caster level rasing item work for Lichdom requirements? And then wouldn't durkon need to raise his caster level for it to work? Or am i way off?
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2015-11-07, 06:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
Epic level is 21 and higher. Xykon could easily be a lich without being epic.
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2015-11-07, 09:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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But it would still be pointless to try Disrupting Weapon on a lich if the cleric's level is 9, since liches have at least 11 HD... isn't that the point?
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2015-11-07, 01:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-11-07, 02:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, Durky's Knowledge: Religion wasn't that good back then.
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2015-11-07, 05:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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It isn't that good now.
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2015-11-07, 07:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-11-09, 08:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Things You Never Noticed V: Your Familiar
Of course, Durkon and Roy's lack of knowledge about Liches doesn't excuse the fact that Xykon appeared to think it was a threat.
Then again, maybe Xykon just decided to troll Roy by breaking his weapon, even though it wouldn't have been able to harm him anyway. It'd certainly be in character.
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2015-11-09, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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I am a Neutral Good Elf Druid/Wizard
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