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[Rolan7]

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.

The last panel being the players and DM, with the players offering to start buying pizza.

[fillipk]

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.

The last panel being the players and DM, with the players offering to start buying pizza.

hey this isn't Full Frontal Nerdity.

[Akura]

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.

[Lord Shonus]

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.

[Remalle]

Here's the first appearance of said feat, and Roy putting it to use.

Damn, (half-orc) ninja'd.

[Rolan7]

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.

(I failed my spot check against ninjas)

[Akura]

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.

[darkflagrance]

While the other priests cannot directly attack Durkon, does anything stop them from, say, buffing or healing Roy until he eventually wins?

[Loud Whispers]

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?

[scriver]

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?

[Lord Shonus]

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.

[Rolan7]

Unless he engages-distracts the clerics who are buffing Durkon.

[Akura]

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.

[RedWarrior0]

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".

[Remalle]

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!