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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1395 on: August 29, 2015, 12:42:36 am »

Damn, I was idly hoping that comic 1000 would have the vote of the gods going for destroy and the comic ending at such an auspicious number. Oh well.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1396 on: August 29, 2015, 01:41:24 am »

Damn, I was idly hoping that comic 1000 would have the vote of the gods going for destroy and the comic ending at such an auspicious number. Oh well.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1397 on: August 29, 2015, 05:48:47 pm »

I keep seeing in places that Roy got some spell disruption feat while he was dead. I don't know of any such feat, but I do know you can declare a readied action to attack when someone starts casting a spell - which forces a Concentration check to avoid losing the spell.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1398 on: August 29, 2015, 05:55:40 pm »

I keep seeing in places that Roy got some spell disruption feat while he was dead. I don't know of any such feat, but I do know you can declare a readied action to attack when someone starts casting a spell - which forces a Concentration check to avoid losing the spell.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0600.html

The consensus is that it's probably some variant of Mage Slayer, which makes it impossible to avoid the Attack Of Opportunity for casting by casting defensively.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1399 on: August 29, 2015, 05:56:48 pm »

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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1400 on: August 29, 2015, 06:03:23 pm »

The barbearian (sic, bear-totem) in my dnd group had a feat "mage slayer" from Complete Arcane which prevented mages from casting defensively.  It worked sorta like this, except that we were interpreting it very wrong.
(...not surprising, for reasons.)

It's a bit weird, and doesn't really match what happens in OoTS.  A mage threatened by the character (in this case an ogre with like 40 reach most times) automatically fails all concentration checks to cast defensively.  Losing the spell but not provoking.

What we somehow missed was that a threatened mage is always aware of this, so there's no reason for them to try (they can still cast normally and hope to concentrate over the damage).  Which makes it not match the OoTS feat.  (We played it as they aren't aware, and then they even provoked on the failed attempt, which is doubly wrong)

Also when the Barbearian gained the ability to cast corrupt spells as a full-level caster, we forgot to penalize his caster level by 4 as per the feat.  But, that was about when I quit in disgust anyway.  That wasn't even the reason, but it didn't help...

In short I have no idea what the feat is.  I kinda assumed it was homebrew, but Mr. Burlew seems pretty good about sticking to official material.  Probably since so many people work hard on theorycrafting.

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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1401 on: August 29, 2015, 06:46:24 pm »

Another interesting thing I found while re-reading stuff was this where dwarves who die of alcohol-related disease do NOT go to Hel. Look at the last few visible lines on that letter.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1402 on: August 29, 2015, 06:57:45 pm »

While the other priests cannot directly attack Durkon, does anything stop them from, say, buffing or healing Roy until he eventually wins?
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1403 on: August 29, 2015, 07:04:14 pm »

ROY VS SUSPICIOUS URIST

PLACE YA BETS
I bet Belkar
Hang on, isn't it in the prophecy that Belkar dies for good?

Could it be that Belkar takes down Durkon but by the laws has to be killed?

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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1404 on: August 29, 2015, 07:10:19 pm »

Another interesting thing I found while re-reading stuff was this where dwarves who die of alcohol-related disease do NOT go to Hel. Look at the last few visible lines on that letter.

Just apropos nothing, or are you saying this has some kind of connection to current goings ons that I am not picking up?
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1405 on: August 29, 2015, 07:10:55 pm »

ROY VS SUSPICIOUS URIST

PLACE YA BETS
I bet Belkar
Hang on, isn't it in the prophecy that Belkar dies for good?

Could it be that Belkar takes down Durkon but by the laws has to be killed?

Belkar is officially Durkon's bodyguard, same as Roy. If Belkar had to be killed, so would Roy.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1406 on: August 29, 2015, 07:15:50 pm »

Unless he engages-distracts the clerics who are buffing Durkon.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1407 on: August 29, 2015, 07:16:48 pm »

Another interesting thing I found while re-reading stuff was this where dwarves who die of alcohol-related disease do NOT go to Hel. Look at the last few visible lines on that letter.

Just apropos nothing, or are you saying this has some kind of connection to current goings ons that I am not picking up?

No connection as far as I'm aware, just pointing it out. On the other hand, Durkon(not the vampire) does not know his grandfather is dead. The two might meet in the afterlife after the vampire is destroyed.
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1408 on: August 29, 2015, 09:56:53 pm »

Another interesting thing I found while re-reading stuff was this where dwarves who die of alcohol-related disease do NOT go to Hel. Look at the last few visible lines on that letter.

Just apropos nothing, or are you saying this has some kind of connection to current goings ons that I am not picking up?

No connection as far as I'm aware, just pointing it out. On the other hand, Durkon(not the vampire) does not know his grandfather is dead. The two might meet in the afterlife after the vampire is destroyed.
Also, "Both of his livers".
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Re: Order of the Stick: 1000 Hel Polls for Thee
« Reply #1409 on: August 31, 2015, 11:54:23 am »

Oh man.  I'm betting Roy's ability to snap out of Durkon's mind control is somehow taken from his experience with Girard's pyramid.

Edit: ooh, r/oots pointed out that this strip mentions Roy's ability to throw off Domination.  With some nice Hel vs. Thor foreshadowing to boot!
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