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[BFEL]

"You'll Live"

GOD I LOVE TARQUIN 

[Oliolli]

That takes me back...

[Frumple]

That takes me back...

... y'know, reading past that a bit and... I think it's just the hair, but... is it just me, or does Xykon kinda' look a bit like Tarquin and family?

[tahujdt]

I don't think anybody is denying that come 24 hours, Sabine will tear the skies asunder and return with all the forces of hell she can command with the sole objective of fucking up Team Tarquin's day, but this particular battle is almost certainly not lasting that long.

You know, if Qvarr is smart enough to be holding onto a future service token from a high-level demon, Sabine must have a lot more ready.

Of course, Tarquin probably has another squadron cross trained in anti-demon combat.

[RedWarrior0]

That takes me back...

... y'know, reading past that a bit and... I think it's just the hair, but... is it just me, or does Xykon kinda' look a bit like Tarquin and family?

That reminds me of the thoughts that Haley was related to the Draketooths because of the hair. The Giant basically said that they had the same hair because there's only a few ways to draw hair in a stick figure comic.

[Loud Whispers]

Hit Points and the like have no "fourth wall" connotations. They are actual laws of this universe. Asking how many HP someone has isn't any different from asking someone in our world how hungry they are.

Except you would have no way of knowing whether someone would be able to survive a sword through the gut any more than you could accurately gauge on some hunger-ometer how far away someone is from starvation.

[anailater]

Hit Points and the like have no "fourth wall" connotations. They are actual laws of this universe. Asking how many HP someone has isn't any different from asking someone in our world how hungry they are.

Except you would have no way of knowing whether someone would be able to survive a sword through the gut any more than you could accurately gauge on some hunger-ometer how far away someone is from starvation.

Shonus isn't saying that we could, he's saying that the rules of their universe allow them too, it has nothing to do with what we can and can't do.

[Darvi]

They aren't talking to the readers. They aren't commenting on how this is a comic. They aren't complaining about how the author has gone out of his way to screw with them.

This particular strip isn't any more fourth wall breaking than your average Dilbert strip.

[Loud Whispers]

Shonus isn't saying that we could, he's saying that the rules of their universe allow them too, it has nothing to do with what we can and can't do.

Yeah, and that's metagaming. Tarquin is being that guy.

[Bauglir]

But* all** the*** characters**** have consistently done this.

*Referencing level up mechanics
**Referencing Concentration checks
***Referencing rule book entries
****Skill Points, and I no longer care.

[misko27]

But* all** the*** characters**** have consistently done this.

*Referencing level up mechanics
**Referencing Concentration checks
***Referencing rule book entries
****Skill Points, and I no longer care.

And yet besides a few semi-aware moments (referencing comic strips, mentioning how overdone something is), and the knowledge of dramatic conventions, the only person whom I can remember directly breaking the wall is the Oracle with his "And that's a in-comic year, not a actual year, Oracle fans!".

[Karlito]

There's plenty of fourth-wall breaking in the early strips.

[misko27]

There's plenty of fourth-wall breaking in the early strips.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarlyInstallmentWeirdness There is essentially no plot for the first few strips, and they're basically jokes and D&D's 3.5 edition. Once they leave the dungeon, the Giant went something like "Wait I need  actual plot", and started thinking things far in advance. I heard on the OotS forum that Durkon's Vampirism was the single most thought-out-in-advance thing in the comic, his condition being always planned for him as character development. Which means he won't die here, screaming for his god as he burns under the desert sun.


Maybe Haley's looted wands?

[Bauglir]

And yet besides a few semi-aware moments (referencing comic strips, mentioning how overdone something is), and the knowledge of dramatic conventions, the only person whom I can remember directly breaking the wall is the Oracle with his "And that's a in-comic year, not a actual year, Oracle fans!".

But... Tarquin didn't do that. He just made an assumption about hit points.

[misko27]

And yet besides a few semi-aware moments (referencing comic strips, mentioning how overdone something is), and the knowledge of dramatic conventions, the only person whom I can remember directly breaking the wall is the Oracle with his "And that's a in-comic year, not a actual year, Oracle fans!".

But... Tarquin didn't do that. He just made an assumption about hit points.

I know! That is what I joined in saying, although perhaps unclearly.


Tarquin would seem like the kinda guy to meta-game, but given they are aware of the mechanics it falls under his ego making him boost himself instead.