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Continuity flub?: They replaced V's cloak before releasing him from the paralysis? Seems unlikely...

Check out the top two panels: Giant In the Playground Games The spellbooks are clearly on the ground on the island. Even if Vaarsuvius's robes can store an infinite number of spellbooks without encumbrance via the DM's handwave, he still would have had to recover them between receiving the...

I just had a thought: when Vaarsuvius recovers, he is not going to be able to prepare her spells because all his spellbooks are on a small island whose location is probably both far away and difficult to find.

I guess jokes about how disgusting full-frontal male nudity is just fall flat with me nowadays...

In order to find a hidden object, a character must make a successful Search check. There is no skill that specifically allows a character to attempt to set the Search DC to hide a random item somewhere in the environment or inside a manufactured structure; therefore the DC is determined on a...

I have to respectfully disagree. D&D 3.5 (which I know) has many options for lower-level characters in the basic books, which I use almost exclusively. Standard low-level spellcasters in 3.5 have many offensive options; they are much more powerful and easier to play than their RM equivalents...

I was briefly involved in a game of Rolemaster Fantasy Roleplaying about a year ago. I got all the books and everything. As someone mentioned the organization of the books is pretty darn bad. No one has mentioned this, but the skill system is pretty tough to play as written. I imagine...

Hah! Great analogy!

No, the raven can't save - according to the spell description, anything that close to the runes when they go off doesn't get a save. Since it has Improved Evasion and was not helpless, it only took half damage. It if it had made its saving throw, it wouldn't have taken any damage at all...

When has a "rift awe effect" been mentioned in the past? That does explain why the raven doesn't act, but it's news to me. The Mass Hold Person spell may not hold V for long since he gets a save every round - her Will save is probably fairly high, and he gets +2 racial bonus vs...

I didn't see that parallel until just now. V has come full circle, since his feelings of helplessness in Azure City led her to down the path that led him exactly here. I just realized that the "Second Chance" in the title is V's second chance, not necessarily O-Chul's. (However - I'm...

Holy water? It looks like an empty potion bottle.

Interesting. So Rich Burlew made O-Chul the Energizer Paladin. Yes: He keeps going, and going, and going... This strip is so good right now. I just can't wait to see what happens next with V, Xykon, O-Chul, and the MitD. (And so the characters ARE statted out!)

Well sure, if V is dead, he can't act directly on the mortal plane. Looking at the strip again, I have to guess that V doesn't have Feather Fall prepared (gasp!). It would have made more sense for her to jump invisibly out of the hole in the tower wall than to run for the stairs. BTW, the...

Yes, you're right. :)

No, Rich plays by the book. I have information that he rolls out saving throws and damage rolls and incorporates the random results into the strip. He likes to do that because it keeps the strip fresh and moving in different directions. For instance, in his original draft of the meta-plot...

Yes, there are four streams of fire, and the ball attached to one of them is obscured by the one closer to the "audience." If they hadn't all hit, then there would be one or more explosions of fire in O-Chul's vicinity. And I think we've all learned by now that just as Xykon is never hit by...

Hmm. I figured the maximized lightning bolt must have killed O-Chul, but based on everything, I guess that he has been dropped to between 1 and -10 hp. He may have made his save vs. the lightning bolt, but meteor swarm is four touch attacks, all of which seem to have hit, each for 8d6 points...

To me the huge distraction is obvious: the Monster in the Dark. BTW, I think it's cool how fluent Rich is in 3.5 game mechanics. I looked up Word of Recall, and it only has a V component, no DF needed. Edit: additional thought: You know, we might actually be nearing the ending of the epic...

After reading this I had a "Duh" moment. I thought V. was certainly going to be killed by Xykon, but now I realize the Monster in the Dark is going to do something to save V (because of the previous issue). 'Cause that's the only way that V. doesn't because a zombie of indeterminate gender.