OOTS 627 is up

[moritheil]

Giant In the Playground Games

I really think Rich nailed the dialogue in this one.

 

[wedgeski]

Holy crap! Awesome!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Uh-oh, that doesn't look good for V!

 

[Mistah J]

I really think Rich nailed the dialogue in this one.

Absolutely!

Spoiler:

Spoiler

While I certainly don't want V to die here, I hope s/he comes out of this knocked down a peg or two in regards to his/her arrogance and superiority towards magic.

If s/he had not left the others for being "stupid and a hindrance to his/her magic" then s/he would have some melee based back-up to help out.

 

[Klaus]

Absolutely!

Spoiler:

Spoiler

While I certainly don't want V to die here, I hope s/he comes out of this knocked down a peg or two in regards to his/her arrogance and superiority towards magic.

If s/he had not left the others for being "stupid and a hindrance to his/her magic" then s/he would have some melee based back-up to help out.

The last two panels are too awesome to describe.

 

[Allanon]

The fact that I used that exact same tactic in a campaign as a DM makes me glow with geek pride .
Not only does Rich have a talent for timing, suspense and comedy he's also an evil RBDM, go Rich!!!

 

[robertliguori]

Absolutely!

Spoiler:

Spoiler

While I certainly don't want V to die here, I hope s/he comes out of this knocked down a peg or two in regards to his/her arrogance and superiority towards magic.

If s/he had not left the others for being "stupid and a hindrance to his/her magic" then s/he would have some melee based back-up to help out.

Or, alternately, the dragon would have sunk the fleet and hung around to sneer at the floundering ape-things. Plus, none of the back-up melee brigade has the damage out or range to stop the dragon from diving into the middle of them, munching on V, and flying away. I mean, this is a CR 19 baddie here (at least); the expected outcome here is about the same as when Roy singlehandedly challenged Xykon.

 

[fba827]

that looked .... painful - i actually cringed.

 

[freyar]

OH NO, V!

Now we need Elan to come to the rescue (after all, Belkar had his day, right?)!

 

[mmu1]

Hehe... Good one.

Now, I'm not saying it takes anything away from my enjoyment of the comic, but I think it's one where Rich has flubbed the rules again.

Spoiler

IIRC Forcecage, like Wall of Force, is not affected by an Antimagic Field. That, and an ancient black dragon (that's assuming the imp called it correctly) couldn't cast Antimagic Field anyway. And one older than ancient would be so big that it could only cover itself with the field, but it wouldn't extend outside its space, as it's centered on the caster.