OK, YAFGC starts out VERY well, thanks. I’ve been reading Dungeons & Denizens for quite a while, and I like it, but it DOES go through the occasional hiatus.
I bought the dead tree edition
Oh yes, YAFGC is awesome. And it updates 7 days a week. And I’ve never seen him miss an update. Dungeons & Denizens is one I used to read but dropped, purely because of the sporadic updates. Some webcomics just seem to take forever to load, and I hate waiting and waiting only to have it finally load and show me the same comic that’s been there for three weeks now.
Another vote for YAFGC. It’s kind of surprising how good the comic is, considering that with a few exceptions it’s done entirely in pencil.
Check out The Ten Doctors by the same author as YAFGC. It’s finished now, and a very tight run.
No comic update this week due to him being on holiday. There is a vignette of a previous owner of that funky Paladin Axe tho, which includes mention of Kore.
I know this thread has lain dormant for a while, but the current strip is one of the sweetest things I’ve seen in a webcomic. Minmax really does have some character to him.
That’s sweet!
But the boy really did roll a 3 on intelligence, didn’t he?
That nearly brought a tear to my eye 
Is that a bunch of mashed up berries that he used for “paint”?
" . . . But you don’t have one normal thing about you."
sniff
Yep, he did. And then he traded in at least a point for some combat related skill.
Yes, it is. Frankly, I’m surprised that he’s able to improvise to this degree.
Kin doesn’t know when her birthday is. She says that she was too young to take note of it. So Minmax isn’t just being sweet, he’s giving her something that he considers “normal”. Now he doesn’t have to fight her, and get the dwarf pissed off at him.
Wow, that was amazingly sweet. I really wasn’t looking forward to seeing Minmax fight Kin so soon after her traumatic escape from the Goblinslayer. And instead, he gives her a birthday party. What a sweetheart. He must have traded his ability to guess the spellings of words for a +5 heart.
Nah, his illiteracy was for an additional +1 to hit. Unless, of course, he traded the same drawback multiple times, which I wouldn’t put past him.
Also worth noting that Kin appears to be a yuan-ti halfblood, and according to the 3.5E Monster Manual, she’d have a Challenge Rating of 5 (that is, a suitable challenge for a party of four 5th-level characters), vs. Minmax being a 2nd-level fighter.
In a one-on-one fight, she’s gonna kick his ass. Given his intelligence, it’s unlikely Minmax is aware that she out-levels him.
Don’t certain fighter feats have a minimum intelligence requirement?
Actually, at CR5 she’s a suitable boss encounter for a party of 4 2nd level characters.
It’s been my experience that CR is a terrible guide for how difficult an encounter will actually be and doubly so when you take into account a heavily minmaxed character. And even more so again in a 1v1 battle.
I’m pretty sure it’s just combat expertise and the feats that require combat expertise. And that only requires 13 int.
I wouldn’t call it “only” 13 int. Players’ perceptions tend to be skewed by over-generous PC stat generation schemes, but in the general population, 13 int is about one standard deviation above average. In other words, it’s right around the point where people start noticing “yeah, he’s a pretty smart guy” (though still well short of "Damn, that guy’s way smart!).
Isn’t there an Int 6 minimum for a fighter anyway, or was that 1e?
In 3e, the only restriction is an int 3 minimum for all classes. In principle, it’s possible to have any of your other scores at 1 (after racial penalties, say), or to have a wizard with a 3 int (though I’m not sure why you would want to).
This strip took me completely by surprise (and Kin, too, judging from that fantastic ‘Buh-whuh?’ expression on her face in the last panel). I can’t wait to see what’s in that leaf-wrapped present!