mayapuppies Posted April 12, 2008 Report Share Posted April 12, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Did I ever tell you guys about the one Champions campaign where our GM wanted to run a four-color group and one of the guys made a Predator? JG Holy crap! Were you in Texas in '92? I ran a game with that exact situation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garou Posted April 12, 2008 Report Share Posted April 12, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick If there hadn't been a Belkar in just about every game I've ever played in' date=' I would agree that he has no place anymore with the OotS. But there has been, so he does. He's the guy who just can't ever treat NPCs as "real," a combat wombat who has to roll to hit at least once an hour while at the table. You keep him around because you're afraid of what might happen if he's left alone.[/quote'] Yeah. In some ways, those players (and IME, it's usually a function of the player, more than the character. Some people play a combat monster, then a total pacifist, but usually not. Anyway.. . .) are very, very, very easy to deal with. I have had times where most of the group (if not all of them) were of that mentality, and I found that I really didn't have to work on the campaign world at all. International politics, bandit raids on merchant caravans disrupting vital medical supplies, little girls looking for their lost puppy - it didn't matter to them. I really could have pulled out the random encounter tables and just started tossing dice. It was a nice break, for a while. Eventually, the group dynamics changed before I got tired of it, but it did feel more like playing a wargame than a RPG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted April 13, 2008 Report Share Posted April 13, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Holy crap! Were you in Texas in '92? I ran a game with that exact situation! No... I've always been in Las Vegas. I didn't know there was more than one... JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted April 13, 2008 Report Share Posted April 13, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Not exactly... they're both Chaotic, but Celia is even more appalled at Belkar's behavior than Haley is. JG I thought Celia was Lawful? In any case, I still maintain that she is more like Belkar than either is like Haley. Belkar and Celia alike make no distinction between killing the Gnome, and killing the Hobgoblin. Lucius Alexander What alignment is the palindromedary? All of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted April 13, 2008 Report Share Posted April 13, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick No... I've always been in Las Vegas. I didn't know there was more than one... JG I never thought James was that naive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted April 14, 2008 Report Share Posted April 14, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick If there hadn't been a Belkar in just about every game I've ever played in' date=' I would agree that he has no place anymore with the OotS. But there has been, so he does.[/quote'] I've booted any player that came off that way, so I'm in the camp that thinks they should boot Belkar. His antics are the main reason I stopped reading the stip for quite a while (Roy's Death brought me back). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted April 14, 2008 Report Share Posted April 14, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick While I agree that I wouldn't want to game with Belkar's player, reading about his antics is hi-freakin'-larious. Bill. (What do you mean, "Bunneh wouldn't game with Belkar's player because he is Belkar's player"???) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted April 14, 2008 Report Share Posted April 14, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Great, now I have a mental image of Arachne snapping someone's neck to get his candy bar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted April 14, 2008 Report Share Posted April 14, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Great' date=' now I have a mental image of Arachne snapping someone's neck to get his candy bar... [/quote'] Nah, I'm also the GM in that game and I wouldn't want to deal with my BS. Now, Adamant on the other hand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garou Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick New one is up. Good luck seeing it though. No silly, she's a girl. Girls can't join. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Yeah, I get the feeling I'll have to check that one later when traffic dies down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Ditto. Wonder if it's time for Rich to splurge on some more bandwidth or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick I was wondering if he had a new one up whenhte page didn't load this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick His stuff is worth waiting for, so another 6 hours or so won't kill me I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Mmm, Read it. I do believe Miko just got dissed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garou Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Mmm' date=' Read it. I do believe Miko just got dissed[/quote'] That was my presumption as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Mind you, she deserves it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Would be awesome for O-Chul to turn the creature to his side. All that keeping him in reserve and winds up being used against Xykon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Yeah you always know when it's a new strip when the page won't load. jg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick That was my presumption as well. Thirded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick "Hello? Mommy?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted April 17, 2008 Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Fortunately I like to imagine the resistance goes through the villains' garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted April 17, 2008 Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Boy, the Monster in the Darkness certainly comes off as a nice cell mate. If he is Evil, it's a childish, self involved evil rather than Belkar's homicidal power-gaming or Xykon's Evil for entertainment. I'm still wondering what he is. I'd think he was a fragment of the Snarl, except that the explorers who caught him seemed to recognize his species. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick I can't help recalling some argle bargle on the GiTP forums about the evilness (or otherwise) of various characters. There were those who wanted to argue that the MiTD wasn't evil, and the response was to bring up the "kid's meals." Rich Burlew is going out of his way to specifically contradict the one specific evidence of the MiTD's evil that we have, I doubt that was done for the sake of a few jokes. But hey, what do I know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Order of the Stick Someone want to tell me WHY a captive paladin is kept with their supersecret weapon?? Lucius Alexander Inquiring palindromedaries want to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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