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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1050 on: December 02, 2014, 06:14:36 pm »

Yes, but is the same true of Protection from Good, for example?

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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1051 on: December 02, 2014, 06:26:07 pm »

All "protection from X" spells are identical save for the specific alignment they target. The issue is that Protection from Good is not going to be useful very often except for Evil characters, so there's very little reason why anybody would have such an item lying around in a Good or Neutral settlement. As for Law/Chaos, Protection from Law is illegal in most places in the Stickverse per Word Of Giant, while Protection from Chaos is of more limited use than PfromEvil (so much less likely to be available), wouldn't help Belkar as much, and would still have whatever homebrewed penalty (by RAW, protection spells that oppose your alignment don't bother you, but the Giant has either modified the spell or tacked a penalty onto the item) the Protection From Evil item has.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1052 on: December 02, 2014, 06:29:04 pm »

Actually, he refused her, and the last panel is him trying to justify turning her down to himself.

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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1053 on: December 02, 2014, 06:34:36 pm »

All "protection from X" spells are identical save for the specific alignment they target. The issue is that Protection from Good is not going to be useful very often except for Evil characters, so there's very little reason why anybody would have such an item lying around in a Good or Neutral settlement. As for Law/Chaos, Protection from Law is illegal in most places in the Stickverse per Word Of Giant, while Protection from Chaos is of more limited use than PfromEvil (so much less likely to be available), wouldn't help Belkar as much, and would still have whatever homebrewed penalty (by RAW, protection spells that oppose your alignment don't bother you, but the Giant has either modified the spell or tacked a penalty onto the item) the Protection From Evil item has.

Protection from Chaos sounds like an interesting possibility for law enforcement in D&D.
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« Reply #1054 on: December 04, 2014, 09:03:50 am »

Considering that the Paladins of the Sapphire Guard were allowed to use their at-will Detect Evil... er, at will and could execute people who registered on it on the spot(at least Miku did, Shojo gave them the benefit of a rigged trial), I would say that it would certainly be... interesting.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1055 on: December 04, 2014, 01:32:14 pm »

Tsundere Belkar is pretty hilarious.

I cannot wait where this character development thing is going... but tbh i didn't followed  from where the "Belkar learns to care for people" plot came. Was it Durkon's death that kickstarted that thing ?

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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1056 on: December 04, 2014, 01:50:57 pm »

Tsundere Belkar is pretty hilarious.

I cannot wait where this character development thing is going... but tbh i didn't followed  from where the "Belkar learns to care for people" plot came. Was it Durkon's death that kickstarted that thing ?

Perhaps he still has Durkula's compulsions on, except it simply couldn't out-evil regular Belkar :P
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« Reply #1057 on: December 04, 2014, 01:54:09 pm »

Maybe Belkar is turning Neutral since he's losing the position of token evil teammate to Durkon?
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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1058 on: December 04, 2014, 02:05:06 pm »

Come over to the Neutral side

We have cookies

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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1059 on: December 04, 2014, 02:07:08 pm »

No no, that's Law. Neutral's cookies are sweet but gluten free.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1060 on: December 04, 2014, 02:08:08 pm »

No no, that's Law. Neutral's cookies are sweet but gluten free.
While Chaotic suffer from the fact that no one follows the recipes, so they're all over the place.  Really, it's impossible to find a decent cookie nowadays. 
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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1061 on: December 04, 2014, 02:20:04 pm »

Even Good and Evil cookies should be avoided. Good makes sugar-free and fat-free cookies with barley and 100% cacao, while Evil makes Devil's Food cookies in the most literal sense.

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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1062 on: December 08, 2014, 03:07:47 pm »

Tsundere Belkar is pretty hilarious.

I cannot wait where this character development thing is going... but tbh i didn't followed  from where the "Belkar learns to care for people" plot came. Was it Durkon's death that kickstarted that thing ?
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Re: Order of the Stick: 968 Next Week They're Getting Drab
« Reply #1063 on: December 08, 2014, 03:12:06 pm »

Tsundere Belkar is pretty hilarious.

I cannot wait where this character development thing is going... but tbh i didn't followed  from where the "Belkar learns to care for people" plot came. Was it Durkon's death that kickstarted that thing ?
It all starts with the cat... and where did that tiny dino go?
And it sorta concludes with his crazed ramblings while he's affected by the curse in in the thieve's town.

And I wouldn't be surprised if it comes back eventually.
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« Reply #1064 on: December 16, 2014, 10:42:02 am »

I think the point about Belkar's character development is the irony in that pretending to have character development, he gets actual development.
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