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It's a Long List
"Not quitting while you're ahead." is definitely on my list.
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I love how Rich continuously comes up with new parodies of the Bigby spells from AD&D.
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And here I was just thinking a scroll mishap resulted in a brief, fiery explosion.In that case, the scroll located a creature alright.
I am not sure it a huge dinosaur will help with the rat swarm though.
Darn it. Our theories were (not surprisingly) wrong. :)
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I love how the lizard is barely damaged, while the other animals are in terrible shape. He may have the body of a lizard, but he still has the hit dice and HP of a T-Rex.
Although I love that Mr. Scruffy still went to check on Bloodfeast and make sure he was okay. Meoww? Hurrrr.
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Although I love that Mr. Scruffy still went to check on Bloodfeast and make sure he was okay. Meoww? Hurrrr.I love how the lizard is barely damaged, while the other animals are in terrible shape. He may have the body of a lizard, but he still has the hit dice and HP of a T-Rex.
I'm even more convinced now that Scruffy's a companion animal. He's got pretty good HP, too. The familiar would have lower HP, even though he's slightly higher level (Belkar multi-classed, while V is pure wizard). And the tiger, despite looking the toughest, is just a pet, so he's actually got the lowest HP of the 4 animals, which makes perfect sense.
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You know, I'm guessing that spellbook in the background must have had wards on it, and it's really lucky it did.
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What intelligent high-level wizard DOESN'T ward the hell out of their spellbook??
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I love how the lizard is barely damaged, while the other animals are in terrible shape. He may have the body of a lizard, but he still has the hit dice and HP of a T-Rex.
In 1st Edition Dessert of Desolation series my Magic-User Polymorph Other a Purple Worm into a Warhorse.
The Warhorse was near indestructible but always tried to swallow the party Halfling Thief whole or burrow through the ground.
You would lose XP for losing a familiar in 3.5?If the familiar dies or is dismissed by the sorcerer, the sorcerer
must attempt a DC 15 Fortitude saving throw. Failure means he
loses 200 experience points per sorcerer level; success reduces the
loss to one-half that amount. However, a sorcerer’s experience
point total can never go below 0 as the result of a familiar’s demise
or dismissal. For example, suppose that Hennet is a 3rd-level sorcerer with 3,230 XP when his owl familiar is killed by a bugbear.
Hennet makes a successful saving throw, so he loses 300 XP, dropping him below 3,000 XP and back to 2nd level (see the Dungeon
Master’s Guide for rules for losing levels). A slain or dismissed
familiar cannot be replaced for a year and day. A slain familiar can
be raised from the dead just as a character can be, and it does not
lose a level or a Constitution point when this happy event occurs.
Pity that wrinkle was dropped from Pathfinder. :(
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Pity that wrinkle was dropped from Pathfinder. :(You would lose XP for losing a familiar in 3.5?If the familiar dies or is dismissed by the sorcerer, the sorcerer
must attempt a DC 15 Fortitude saving throw. Failure means he
loses 200 experience points per sorcerer level; success reduces the
loss to one-half that amount. However, a sorcerer’s experience
point total can never go below 0 as the result of a familiar’s demise
or dismissal. For example, suppose that Hennet is a 3rd-level sorcerer with 3,230 XP when his owl familiar is killed by a bugbear.
Hennet makes a successful saving throw, so he loses 300 XP, dropping him below 3,000 XP and back to 2nd level (see the Dungeon
Master’s Guide for rules for losing levels). A slain or dismissed
familiar cannot be replaced for a year and day. A slain familiar can
be raised from the dead just as a character can be, and it does not
lose a level or a Constitution point when this happy event occurs.
I disagree. Removing flat xp costs from crafting and the death of familiars was one of the best changes pathfinder made.
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Although I love that Mr. Scruffy still went to check on Bloodfeast and make sure he was okay.
Meoww? Hurrrr.
Even in war, True Love can be found.
I would buy a small tie in comic book featuring just the Animal Companions.
And Elan. His intelligence makes him an honorary member.
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I disagree. Removing flat xp costs from crafting and the death of familiars was one of the best changes pathfinder made.Pity that wrinkle was dropped from Pathfinder. :(You would lose XP for losing a familiar in 3.5?If the familiar dies or is dismissed by the sorcerer, the sorcerer
must attempt a DC 15 Fortitude saving throw. Failure means he
loses 200 experience points per sorcerer level; success reduces the
loss to one-half that amount. However, a sorcerer’s experience
point total can never go below 0 as the result of a familiar’s demise
or dismissal. For example, suppose that Hennet is a 3rd-level sorcerer with 3,230 XP when his owl familiar is killed by a bugbear.
Hennet makes a successful saving throw, so he loses 300 XP, dropping him below 3,000 XP and back to 2nd level (see the Dungeon
Master’s Guide for rules for losing levels). A slain or dismissed
familiar cannot be replaced for a year and day. A slain familiar can
be raised from the dead just as a character can be, and it does not
lose a level or a Constitution point when this happy event occurs.
Seconded. My players never touched crafting and would essentially lock their familiars in boxes never to be seen again after level 3 in 3.5. PF has allowed them to make use of both without feeling like they'll be ganked in the XP at any moment.
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Although I love that Mr. Scruffy still went to check on Bloodfeast and make sure he was okay.
Meoww? Hurrrr.Even in war, True Love can be found.
I would buy a small tie in comic book featuring just the Animal Companions.
And Elan. His intelligence makes him an honorary member.
Ironically, this reminded me of a line from an earlier comic:
Roy: "Where were you?"Belkar: "Taking the biggest dump since Elan assigned his intelligence score."
Then I thought about it, and realized that was actually when Belkar met Bloodfeast for the first time.
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The GitP forums are mostly composed of WotC message board members last I heard.Is it? I'll admit I've never actually used the WotC forum, so I have no idea which GitP forumites also used to visit the WotC forum.
It's only based on my personal observation of the same names and content. But then, I was giving a warning for my first or second post on GitP and never went back.
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Although I love that Mr. Scruffy still went to check on Bloodfeast and make sure he was okay.
Meoww? Hurrrr.Even in war, True Love can be found.
I would buy a small tie in comic book featuring just the Animal Companions.
And Elan. His intelligence makes him an honorary member.
What do you have against animal companions?
Ha, a locate city bomb. I love how Rich gloms onto the funky absurdities common to the WotC message boards.
I don't get it. I checked 1021 and 1020 and I don't see any reference to the LCB.
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Familiar stuff
I actually see the game logic in losing XP for losing a Familiar.
Thanks.
The only time I had PC with a Familiar was when my Half Elf had a Faerie Dragon way back in 1st Edition, based off this iconic artwork. She (the Faerie Dragon) called herself, Princess Valentina Precious Smaug, (six times removed from the Lonely Mountain Smaugs) and had a fondness for layered cinnamon and vanilla cakes.
Now for Belkar vs the goliath vampire (possibly with V in support) and then a reunion/'what do we do?' session.
Nay!
Now we need to follow Team Evil for a few strips.
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With the death of Nale, there is no more Linear Guild. The only Team Evil that still matters is Xykon and Redcloak.
And while Tarquin is not dead, his faction is almost as broken.
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Durkula and his undead minions would be the 2nd Team Evil these days.
team twilight of the gods?
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I feel like people are forgetting a certain fiendish trio. Which is exactly what they want.
Who?
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Exactly, Sharoth. Exactly.
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I just realized V messed up. You'd think the smartest member of the team would remember that there IS a healer on board the ship. Elan might not be a high level cleric, but he can cast Mass Cure Light Wounds a few times on all the wounded animals, which would make sense to do before heading in to find the tiger's mistress.
In fact, with Durkula's betrayal revealed, Elan just became the sole party healer.
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"I just guessed the single most frustrating way to rules-lawyer it."
Gold.
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It's a lot of exposition to be done and I am still wondering what's going on with Belkar outside, but I'm glad Rich did it to get some clarification to this whole mess.
Also, getting rid of that staff....awesomely done.
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Hmm... continuity error, and a big enough one that I'm surprised he missed it. Roy isn't supposed to remember his time being dead, yet he references details here.
Some very good lines in this one, though.
"Noble sacrifices only make sense when they solve the problem at hand."
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Actually he is not supposed to remember much but neither he shows remembering any significant details - what he said here easily fails under the nice cozy bliss of celestial realms.
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I'm calling it:
Belkar, in the voting chamber, with half of the staff.
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It might even be an accidental sacrifice—Belkar does it before he realizes what will happen to him (perhaps after seeing from V what happened to his cat), and Roy and the party are forced to hang back and watch.
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No way - Belkar needs to face Durkula again.
Because that's gone so well for him the last couple times.