OotS #352 is up!

[DungeonMaester]

Physically impossible, but nonetheless hilarious.

Thunder and Lightning mate. Of course..that had to have lots of meta on it to sting like that.

---Rusty

 

[Pielorinho]

Moderator's Notes
I'm seeing an unpleasant edge in some folks' posts, where they're suggesting that other people hold their opinions of a webcomic due to some personal failing. Fercryinoutloud, y'all, it's a comic strip. Don't break the rules over a comic strip!

Daniel

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Ummm, I still don't enjoy this strip. At all. ever.

Downer fan? There's some comic for everyone ...

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Perhaps it was just a maximized, enlarged sound burst - which Durkon would have as a domain spell for the God of Thunder? We don't see a damage efect for miles around -- just where the trees are attacking. The lightning just gives it some cool effects. It doesn't have to break D&D rules as we know them. And even if it did ... it's comic strip magic, mang!

 

[kanithardm]

Can someone find me the thread on what verbal requirements actually are? I think I found the answer

 

[Vocenoctum]

Downer fan? There's some comic for everyone ...

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I don't enjoy Downer at all, and OotS is very hit or miss with me, but even the worst strips still draw raving reviews from these threads, so I can see why the person posted.

Perhaps it was just a maximized, enlarged sound burst - which Durkon would have as a domain spell for the God of Thunder? We don't see a damage efect for miles around -- just where the trees are attacking. The lightning just gives it some cool effects. It doesn't have to break D&D rules as we know them. And even if it did ... it's comic strip magic, mang!

Minor thing really, if he hadn't been muttering "control weather", perhaps this wouldn't matter. If he'd been muttering "Thors Thundersmiting", people would write it off as a new magical effect.

The thing is, for many, the choice made in this comic were jarring and broke the feel of the strip. If criticism such as that is always ignored, the strip will lose fans.

And, the idea that you have to have your own ability in a form of art in order to comment on that form of art is ludicrous.

 

[Cheiromancer]

I think he had to cast control weather in order to cast some kind of sonic substituted call lightning. Or maybe a chained spell of some sort; but something that needed a storm to be present in order to cast.

 

[Dog Moon]

Bah. Hard e'nough ta tell you people appart wi'out a decent beard on ye.

I USED to have a beard, but mainly cause I hated shaving. Although now, I'm supposed to shave for work. Guess scraggly beard doesn't cut it anymore.

 

[Jondor_Battlehammer]

*beams with dwarven pride*

 

[Razz]

Took me awhile, but I got the joke of the strip *lol*

For those that didn't, it's as follows:

Durkon had no control over where the lightning strikes, of course, and in fact the bolt hit 4 miles away. But Durkon was merely counting on the sound of the thunder to reach the trees and we all know it's 1 second for every mile. And the BOOM produced the sonic damage to harm the trees since they weren't protected by sonic energy.

Of course, thunder would never produce a sonic wave of that much force to shatter trees from that distance, but that's the clever joke of the strip along with many other clever jokes (like the lack of sonic spells for Clerics). Heh.

 

[Evilhalfling]

I believe this indicates that the devil has stolen your soul.

All hope is not lost, Shemmy will probably sell it back to you.