OotS #352 is up!

[Voadam]

I don't think it's really meant to make sense. It is meant to catch people by surprise and say "Awesome!" or "Cool!" But I don't thik natural rules and logic apply much in the comic strip. If that were the case, Belkar would be dead by now.

Anyway, I hear what your are saying. Thunder doesn't kill trees, lightning does. But I'd say don't think too much and just enjoy the strip!

Under natural rules Belkar's falls should have killed him, but under D&D rules he comes out OK for the most part. Booming tree killing thunder fails normal world and D&D world rules and logic enough to interrupt my appreciation.

I enjoy most of them, but a major clever and cool tactic with lots of buildup that shouldn't actually work in a big way is jarring and leaves me feeling it was a forced deus ex machina to deal with the protected tree threats and just poor writing to make Durkon look cool instead of him actually doing something cool. I didn't understand it so I stopped and tried to figure it out then got frustrated realizing it's not that I missed something cool, its just a subpar moment in the strip. Good buildup, disappointing payoff.

Gating in a swarm of celestial termites that frighten the trees away, the divine part of flame strike bypassing the fire resistance, etc. all could have been cool tactics that worked without the jarring "huh?" factor of distant thunder snapping animated trees.

I feel the same way when otherwise cool movies have similar jarring moments.

 

[Corsair]

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I'm sure you do much better in your web comic. What is the URL to it?

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I'm sure you do much better in your web comic. What is the URL to it?

Is there an unwritten rule saying fans can't criticize?

 

[Matchstick]

I just figured that since Durkon is a priest of the God of Thunder he can not only use Thunder as an offensive weapon, but target it at a very specific area and/or creatures. It's where he gets his power after all.

Were I the DM of the OOTS game I wouldn't have a problem ruling that way.

I liked that strip a lot, had no problems with the ending.

 

[Slife]

It's obviously sonic-subbed lightning.

Don't ask me how, must be third party.

 

[Ghostwind]

It's obviously sonic-subbed lightning.

Don't ask me how, must be third party.

It has a Mongoose feel to it.

 

[Voadam]

It's obviously sonic-subbed lightning.

Don't ask me how, must be third party.

Ahh, and chained so it strikes multiple targets like chain lightning, with a Relics and Rituals true ritual or Twin Crowns ritual to expand the range it can strike targets from the orinal strike point four miles away. That's how V was not killed by it. And maybe Durkon used Heroes of High Favor: Elves Ley line magic and he had set up anchor points before hand offscreen to the harbor where the strike happened linking it to the park.

Now it makes sense. What a useful scroll of metamagically enhanced control weather!

 

[Voadam]

It has a Mongoose feel to it.

Encyclopedia Divine: Dwarven Thunder God Magic Sonic Smackdown

 

[Moonstone Spider]

Why are people having such a hard time with the concept of Magic?

Because it doesn't work like DnD magic does. The huge multi-mile blast radius, an evocation that only affects plants, they're totally inconsistent with the rest of the spells. Magic has rules too.

 

[Crothian]

Because it doesn't work like DnD magic does.

It's a comic, not a D&D game. It deals a lot with D&D and makes fun of bits here and there but in the end it is a comic first not D&D.