Well that settles if TowelFace is some sort of caster anyway.
Edit: funny that this time the mounts were spared. Otherwise Blackwing’s joke doesn’t work.
Tarquin addresses him as Miron in this strip, and presumably Jacinda is the catgirl-type we’ve seen in flashbacks.
At least now I know that Towelface is a caster of some stripe (almost certainly arcane).
Edit: Missed that Squeegee said the same here on the new page.
I’m fairly certain my favourite character could have done it as soon as she hit level 21 - it’s just a question of how long it would take her to recover. She’s a special case - it’s literally impossible for her to die from backlash damage, so as long as she doesn’t need to worry about being counterattacked before she wakes up there’s nothing stopping her from mitigating the Spellcraft DC by thousands of points - but it’s hard to imagine a superhumanly intelligent wizard not having their own ways to game the system.
That said, the Epic spellcasting rules are broken as hell. I would never use them in a game I was running - just be satisfied with 10th level spell slots and the like.
Earth? One shot. Unlike the OOTS-verse, Earth (and more importantly for this issue the various species upon it) wasn’t created by the gods only thousands of years ago. Go far back enough and all life on Earth is related; which means that one Familicide would kill every human, animal, plant and bacterium on the planet. Go back far enough along a critter’s ancestral line on OOTS-world however and you’ll hit an original ancestor that was divinely created with no ancestor; Familicide stops there.
Well I guess the escape route is revealed… Pteranodons! Also, I love the way Tarquin was casually dismissed by his team. Great strip.
Yeah, I can see that happening.
It really is amusing how V can stay in the background, and every so often hop in, cast a spell, and be done with the encounter. I think the first time he did that was with the Baby Black Dragon guarding the starmetal, but it really turned heads.
My worry here is that he’s burning a lot of high level spells, but he seems to have good reasons for all the ones he’s casting.
The question for me will be if Tarquin decides to get involved himself, or follow his teammates advice and fall back. Interesting how the motivations for his teammates are radically different. Seems to mirror how the motivations of the Linear Guild did not match up with Nale’s views quite frequently. Like father, like son.
“Miron” sounds like he should be my accountant. “TowelFace” sounds more threatening.
And we see how well THAT went…
“Oh, yeah. Wizard.”
Would you settle for “Dewshank”?
What is ROI?
Return on Investment.
thanks
Ninja’ed by Miller, so I’ll explain: you figure that you “invest” soldiers to achieve an aim. The Return on the Investment of soldiers in this case appears to be motivating Tarquin’s surviving son to become a leader, something Tarquin considers a good return but is totally irrelevant to the other members of the group.
Nice to see Tarquin getting brushed off by his team.
Yeah, it’s a good example of the dynamics difference between a team of mostly-Good PCs and a team of mostly Neutral-to-Evil PCs. I don’t think there’s a single member of the OOTS (with the exception of Belkar) who would brush any of Roy’s plans off so casually due entirely to a lack of personal reward (although Haley would have to think about it), even the True Neutral V.
Well, everyone disregarded Roy’s plan to abandon Elan to the bandits. And V was reluctant to rescue the dirt farmer. And Haley had to be tricked into the starmetal quest.
Or compare the efforts the Order went through to bring Roy back from the dead to what happened when Nale got sent to jail - Pompey and Leeky just walked away without even bothering to tell Nale they were quitting the group.
I guess it depends on how literally you read "shares blood-line. But definitely the whole vertibrate clade.