eternal_sage

Re: Order of the Stick THIS could be interesting. and MAN it makes me wanna break out my wife's Oriental setting!

Re: Order of the Stick that was BEAUTIFUL! and my very first thought was "i wonder if he thought about changing the cast page" very awesome and totally glad to see the cast about to be reunited

Re: Order of the Stick been gone for awhile. all i gotta say is never saw it coming, glad it did, and i'm STILL wishing this thing would tie back together instead of all these side quests. lol. i always hated side quests still, i am interested in what terrible thing that V will do in short order. (s)he's already well over the evil threshold. i'm waiting to see what sticks her there (or saves her from it). although part of me also doesn't care. the whole story is hitting that point where its tedious to keep up with, kinda like the middle 300 pages in the Stand by Stephen King. meh.

Re: Order of the Stick LOL! and i love being proved right. that was a fave multiclass build of mine, and since Belkar apparently has raised his mental stats a few points since the early days, he's kicking some tail. i love you Belkar!! wait, no! don't stab me!! *dead

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Re: Order of the Stick true. although i had a pacifist cleric/abjurist wizard (gave up necromancy and evocation) who got by well with mostly just abjuration spells, heal spells, and hefty use of the "aid other" action to boost allies AC. the only damage spells that she packed only worked against undead. she was devoted to Hod, the norse god of Cold and Mercy. her twin sister, on the other hand, was a evoker wizard/palidin devoted to Odin, who was the exact opposite and blew up everything... sometimes twice. my character also had several vows from the Book of Exalted Deeds, most notably Poverty and Nonviolence. so i could not have packed anything other than my walking stick and the clothes on my back. that game kicked so much tail... *sage waxes nostolgic...*

Re: Money in Fantasy Setting which is why i generally steer clear of money in game. i can then merely tell the players what they can and can't do with regards to their current monetary situation and all is good, and they still get upgrades, but no eraser smudges!

Re: Money in Fantasy Setting i usually just don't motivate with money. i try plot hooks and direct character manipulation (abuse of DNPC, Hunteds, Psyc or Soc lims, etc). my players tend to almost never get money, at least not above that which is required to get from place to place and provision the trip. my players like it, because it pretty much stops the power gamers in the first session and we're all happy.

Re: Order of the Stick true!

Re: Order of the Stick which makes him a rogue killing machine. they won't even see whats coming. and then they'll have little X's in their eyes like all others who attract the attention of the Belkar. although, part of me also wonders if we will see anymore of his devious nature assert itself now. i can almost imagine convincing the two rogues offing each other at Belkar's goading, as we've have already seen they have differing opinions and maybe even don't like each other very much.

Re: Order of the Stick dude. ranger has d8's in 3.5, and barbarian gets the mighty d12, plus both get the best BAB and i believe both get the best REF saves. rogues get d6's and the middle BAB. Belkar should totally own, as long as he doesn't get flanked, even with them being higher level. not to mention he gets an AC bonus for being small. magically goodies could even the fight. but still. oh yea, and i reiterate, BELKAR IS THE MASTER!

Re: Order of the Stick word! i think that really matches my take on it. although i tend to not take as often as i can manage.

Re: Money in Fantasy Setting some people do not enjoy a game which is completely economically impossible. we like our fantasy taste with a hint of real, or to mix metaphors a bit, something realistic gives some people something to hang their hat on when a dragon is rampaging through the country side. not everyone can accept the flagrant unreality that is DnD or others of similar genre.

Re: fantasy hero archtypes very nice. i think that for the ranger, one other thing to mention is a devotion to nature and the natural order. they don't go about raping a pillaging the land, but instead tend to try and preserve the land and protect it from over use and all that. in that way they also resemble the paladin in that they have a code of conduct and duties, and may even have a rigorous religious outlook towards nature (some sort of pantheistic nature worship, or even druidism, if the game world contains that type of thing). sure, not all do, but i feel, at least, that enough of them do to make the connection between them viable (if a bit superficial, since character wise, the two are often very different).

Re: Order of the Stick i dunno. i've always interpreted chaotic evil to the worst, as they desire evil and have no compunction to not do it. if they want to murder, they do, if they want to rape, they do, etc. they have no code to check them (i.e. lawful evil, or Two Face) and its even more than just "evil for evil's sake" or evil because its profitable (i.e. neutral evil or Catwoman), its evil because its fun, or they just seek to sow chaos and destruction over all else (i.e. Joker) which is why i always think of chaotic evil as sociopathic. i can kinda see your point, i suppose, but its really all in the way you look at it, i suppose, which is why i hate alignments.

Re: Order of the Stick oh yea. teh Belkar has TRUE ULTIMATE POWER!!!!1!!. so awesome. and i think he just proved it!

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Re: Order of the Stick BELKAR IS MY HERO! that was possibly the best series of panels in the last... year at least!

Re: Order of the Stick is glad people still are, really. i'd hate to see the fan base dry up, really, it has had so much good stuff. we'll see.

Re: Order of the Stick oh, i am glad he's sharing, and i have had LOADS of laughs from the strips. i think its about time for me to be jumping of the train if this is the direction he is going to continue in. i wouldn't want him to change directions, so much as i wish he would, if that makes sense. in other words, it would make me happy if he would start bringing everything back together now, but i won't demand it. i'll just appreciate what he's given me and go on. i'm REALLY hoping it doesn't come down to that though. i really like so many of the characters, and i liked the story he was telling, back when was telling it. character development has been fun, but its time to get on with it.

Re: Order of the Stick yea, but since i'm not playing in the game and only reading the story, all this sidetracking and the drawing out of an obviously inevitable event is getting really obnoxious. its the reason a good GM and a good writer are not always (or even often) the same person.

Re: fantasy hero archtypes my apologies to the palindromedary! *smacks Lucius twice with a herring to make up for it

Re: fantasy hero archtypes *smacks the palindromedary also note that it has both a camel and a Palin in it... actually, its probably apt that it missed the point

Re: Order of the Stick very cool, thank you!

Re: Order of the Stick contains spoilers, and i don't know HERO forum-ese well enough to spoiler tag: (edit: fixed now! )