I don’t think you read down far enough – later it says “A banshee is the enraged spirit of an elven woman who either betrayed those she loved or was herself betrayed” and constantly talks about them as being elves.
Wasn’t that something like ten seconds after he became a lich? I think there’s a fairly obvious explanation here.
Old school (1e) Banshees (Banshai? Banshices?) were the spirits of ‘an evil female elf–a very rare thing.’ (phrasing might be slightly off) That was a long time ago, though, and the background detail probably went the way of racial classes.
Which is to say, it may hung around thematically, but not be a rule anymore. Can’t check, though, not in the SRD and I don’t have easy access to 3.x Monster Manuels. Pathfinder changed the fluff on a lot of things, so even if [del]Pathfinder banshain . . . banshicies . . . [/del] a banshee in Pathfinder universe has to have been an elf, it doesn’t mean it’ll work that way in OotS.
Still, elves have their own, better than everyone else’s, version of a lich, it wouldn’t be a shock if they had their own, better than everyone else’s version of a spectre, too.
Frickin’ elves. (Or ‘fricken’ eladrin,’ depending on edition)
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And in SoD, he’d be a lich for what, like 10 minutes? When you’re new at this kind of thing, your spellike abilites start popping out all the time. Any stray thought or visable flesh can set them off. After you’re out of undead high school (metaphorically speaking) you pick up a certain amount of control of those areas.
Brother.
Because it’s funny.
Thanks.
There’s a new strip. It seems Rich Burlew is in better health now, at least if his rate of production is any indication.
Anyone familiar with the rules care to explain how well protected Red Cloak’s box is now?
Posted yesterday.
:o Boy this thread moves fast. So to catch me up, what we saw wasn’t RC hiding the true phylactery, but finishing the construction of his faux-phylactery?
Correct – or, rather, he was putting the same non-detection and damage-resistance spells on the fake, presumably so that Xykon won’t be able to crush it in his bare phalanges and say “What kind of scam you tryin’ to pull here, Red-Eye?”
Hmm…I just realized–this is almost the end of book 5 (6?), isn’t it?
Yeah, should be around 850 or so. It sure looks like book five is setting up the big confrontation at Girard’s gate, but that leaves a whole 'nother gate untouched.
The books normally contain about 180 strips. There are 158 strips so far in the current arc. And this will be the fifth book in the main story.
I’m debating what to do about the Kickstarter offers. I’d like to order the books that I don’t have yet, but they’re significantly more expensive than they would be elsewhere (even taking the extra $10 donation into account).
I just wish Rich would put the books out as e-books. I just can’t justify putting more paper in my house, and international shipping costs to boot.
Actually, Wis at least 20, based on the save DCs in the Ultimate Cleric Duel, which means he gets an extra 5th and 1st above what you listed.
What we’ve seen him cast so far today:
Implosion: 9th-level domain slot
Probably Summon Monster VIII for the osmium elemental: 8th, except he might have extended it in a 9th-level slot.
2x Greater Planar Ally for the Horned Devils: 8th
Earthquake: 8th-level domain slot
Disintegrate: 7th-level domain slot
4x Planar Ally for the Bearded Devils (each spell gets two): 6th
Word of Recall: 6th
Dispel Magic (counterspelling Tsukiko’s Shout): 3rd
Problematic spells:
Hardening: It’s a Sorc/Wiz spell, not Cleric. But it’s level 6 on the Sorc/Wiz list.
Greater Obscure Object: I can’t find this spell anywhere. But ordinary Obscure Object is a 3rd-level cleric spell.
Superior Resistance: A 6th-level cleric spell, but it targets a creature, not an object, and the effect (+6 to saves) wouldn’t really be very useful for an object, anyway.
Starting from his presumed spells per day, and ignoring the problematic ones for now, it looks like he cast one too many 6th-level spells, but this could mean that he used a pair of Lesser Planar Ally spells in place of one Planar Ally, or that he has 22 Wis and therefore a bonus 6th-level spell (either is plausible). Assuming 22 Wis, then what he has left is
3+0 seventh-level
0+1 sixth-level (domain spell could be Harm or Hold Monster)
5+1 fifth-level
6+1 fourth-level
5+1 third-level
6+1 second-level
7+1 first-level
6 0th-level
Minus whatever he used to get the anomalous spell effects, of course, and possibly plus more if his Wis is 24 or higher (quite plausible).
I see it as he was lifting up Jirx and choking him, like what he did to V
Or that he prepared a 6th level spell in a 7th level spell slot.
He cast implosion twice: 826 Minimal Resistance - Giant in the Playground Games
So he couldn’t have previously used up a 9th level spot.
Doesn’t each cast of implosion work on more than 1 target?
Anyway, we’re probably reading too much into it.