I did want to point out that, as you all well know, and AFAIK, Burlew is trying to avoid that ‘monsters are always Evil so we can kill them without any moral issue’ trope. Embodiments of Evil like Celestials, excepted.
Agreed that Bugbears are at least mostly Evil, though Oona may be ‘affably evil.’
Oooh, getting exciting…
This has happened to me more than once. I think “I haven’t seen a new strip in a while” and I check and find the most recent one is still one I’ve read. And then a new one will be posted a few hours after I checked.
Putting aside the obvious note - Xykon - the most interesting thing for me in this strip is it shows Redcloak is still misreading the situation and thinks O-Chul is the main threat.
I saw that. How does RC even know O-Chul’s in the area? Oona never told him about the missed dinner attempt, AFAIK. Is he going off what the MITD bullshitted, the last time Team Evil ran into the Order, in the desert?
EDIT: O-Chul is responsible for RC now being known as Wrong Eye. That tends to stick with someone. I’d be seeing that paladin around every corner too.
Redcloak’s obsession with paladins goes much farther back than losing his eye. He’s hated paladins ever since they killed his family. He’s spent his life since then trying to kill humans in general and paladins in particular with his excuse being that he’s doing it all to help goblins.
Redcloak also has the same egotism we’ve seen in the other villains in this strip. He assumes that if he’s leading a conspiracy against paladins then paladins must be leading a conspiracy against him.
In reference to the title, I’m not at all convinced that Durkon’s and Minrah’s heads are squishier than stone.
Almost every time recently this thread gets updated I click on my GitP bookmark, (most often at least an hour or 2 after the new comic announcement), and the main page still shows the old most recent comic. I have to manually refresh it to see the new one. Does anybody know why GitP seems to feed me old versions of their site by default, I haven’t noticed this with any other site?
Just bookmark the archive.
Yes, I get the same thing. You probably use the shortcut link ootslatest to get the most recent strip. There’s several things that have to happen to put up a new strip, one of which is to point that shortcut to the new strip, and I always figured the author had a script to do that. But apparently not or maybe he had one and something broke it. Anyway, starting several strips ago (I think at the time there was a fairly minor change to the main page), that shortcut doesn’t get updated for some time after the new strip goes up. So I figured he’s having to update it manually and usually forgets.
Anyway, there’s a solution besides going to the archive page (which I think doesn’t always get updated either). On the left column of the GitP pages is a list of the 5 most recent strips (adding this was the minor change mentioned above). Look at that. If there’s a new strip, there’ll be a new link there in a different color, so you can click on that.
If you don’t want to do this, you can always go to the OotS forum and look for a new thread for the new strip. The first post will always have a link to the new strip.
No, my bookmark is simply Giant in the Playground Games. If I load that, it almost always shows the old last strip in the 5 on the left until I press F5.
Uh, no.
I have never seen a link there. Just the message "New comic is up. "
@CardboardBoxx, I had the same problem. It stopped after I cleared my browser’s cache and cookies. Likely my browser was loading a cached version of the page, rather than checking the remote site.
Ah, you’re right. Why did I have the idea he included a link? Another senior moment, I guess.
I must admit that I hadn’t considered “bottle o’ bugs” as a weapon before.
Cute. Funny. Not at all plausible, if they’re able to actually get away. And shouldn’t that fall have busted them up more than the art is indicating?
D&D falling damage is survivable. There have been several instances in the comic of people surviving great falls. Roy is the only mid to high level character that was actually killed.
And even that was after he took a Meteor Swarm to the face.
Remember when Vaarsuvius (the squishy wizard) and Haley were going to make multiple trips into the inn for gold because nonmagical fire only deals 1d6 damage per round and so is totally survivable? Yeah, it’s like that. Fall damage is 1d6 per 10 feet, so the most they would have taken (assuming that as heavy armor clerics they failed their Tumble check) is 60 damage, but probably closer to 25-30.
Roy fell for max damage (20d6) and was already heavily wounded, as was mentioned. That’s why he’s got that line about already having used his healing potions – a fighter of Roy’s level should be able to heal up and easily tank the fall.
Now Durkon and Minrah have to get to cover, fast. My bet is they’ll go into one of the tunnels the MITD X’d over but which Xykon and Co haven’t actually cleared out yet.
As far as taking that Maximized Fireball – that spell would do 60 damage (no roll, maximized means you roll all 6s and a sorc Xykon’s level will do 10d6 damage with a fireball). As high level clerics Durkon and Minrah undoubtedly have a max (11th+) level Resistance to Fire active for 30 points of mitigation on fire damage. They likely also have Protection from Fire up for “ablative” fire protection of 10 HP per level. So Xykon’s 60 fire damage would have been reduced to 30 by one spell and then would chip away at the Protection spell for a further 30 hit points, dealing no actual damage.
I think they got away because of the plot. Burlew didn’t want to focus on Xykon trying to kill Durkon and Minrah. The real story is in the tagline. Xykon and Redcloak are about to have a confrontation. But I still feel it won’t be the final confrontation yet.
Wind walk is still active. They can cloud out of there. I was told in an earlier post that takes 5 rounds, but they probably have time for it.