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[Harry Baldman]

Belkar said that Haley's aphasia was "good new for fans of cryptograms." Is he just noting that her words are incomprehensible, or...has anyone tried running them through frequency analysis yet?

They're a simple substitution cipher, the exact substitution changes between strips but it's easy to just find the "you"s and "the"s and extrapolate from there. You still have to do it each time, but it's kinda fun once you get into the groove.

[Reelya]

They've all been translated. Here's one rendition, which is probably easier than the forum threads on the subject (Rich does NOT like people editing his art, so those are just a "In panel 1 she says this, in panel 2 she says this" format).

Do you know the only cooler thing that Rich could have done there? Instead of random ciphers he could have coded a message into that itself.

[TD1]

Since when did "cooler" = "more nerdy"?

[GiglameshDespair]

Since always among the kind of people who read a stick figure webcomic about Dungeons and Dragons.

[TD1]

Point noted and accepted.

[Rolan7]

Update: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1104.html

I almost want this to happen in my group, some time.  We're usually pretty good about it, but when things get desperate...

[Mathel]

So, according to the SRD, even though the cage looks relatively to the characters much larger, it only has 10ft long edge.
That ruins the idea I had about V just flying high, so that any vampire wanting to attack him would have to go to bat form.

[Akura]

Talking is a free action. Talking and understanding it is a DC10 Listen check.

[Rolan7]

Free action, but it's still canonically 6 seconds   One of our group actually enforces that occasionally, when GMing (we're allowed to think about it, then try to describe our plan in the 6 seconds).  It's kinda fun.

Enemies never hear us though, hehe.  Yet.
(Sometimes NPCs ask what we're whispering about)

[Akura]

I can't help but think the Grease spell will be useful here.

Lube up everyone but Roy and V and position them so they intercept anything going for V - because their master ordered them to, they will go for V. Greasing someone adds +10 to avoid/escape grapples. That should keep pressure off Vaarsuvius for at least one round so s/he can start casting again. If necessary, everyone should take defensive actions to avoid getting hit by the vampires' slams and avoiding level drains. Otherwise, everyone but Roy or V should focus their attacks on Sandstone - I suspect he's a full vampire and not merely a spawn. Roy or V should focus on clearing the spawns out to avoid getting mobbed.

[Lord Shonus]

V can't case Grease, because it barred Conjuration. Elan technically could, but him learning it is a questionable idea.

[smjjames]

A situation like this would definetly call for an inventory check, I didn’t play DnD, but even when I’m playing adventure games, I find myself with lots of stuff that I simply picked up some time back and forgot about, I assume the same is true of DnD players.

It’s a possible outlet for a deus ex machina or something.

[scriver]

Sure, emptying out your Bag of Holding sounds like a great idea until you discover you're now trapped in a force cage with the 500 different kinds of sharp and pointy objects you kept in there.

[smjjames]

Sure, emptying out your Bag of Holding sounds like a great idea until you discover you're now trapped in a force cage with the 500 different kinds of sharp and pointy objects you kept in there.

You know I don’t literally mean empty your bag of holding.  

[Akura]

I dunno, emptying your bag of holding to distribute tons of sharp objects might be a decent idea. Especially if you, say, use an Explosive Runes spell(which V definitely has) to send it all as shrapnel towards your attackers.