OotS #435

[Rhun]

Belkar is my favorite!

 

[Donovan Morningfire]

It's been too long since we've seen Belkar hog the spotlight. Too much funny in this one, especially with the angel

As for Belkar's "combat effectiveness," it could very well be the GM is treating the hobgoblin army as mooks (a successful attack = defeated mook) to speed things up. Hence, Belkar wouldn't need to inflict a lot of damage, he'd just need to hit.

Also, he's probably got a high enough base attack bonus that he can afford to get a nice Power Attack bonus and still be able to connect with his daggers. I haven't cracked open a DMG in years, but I don't think hobgoblins have a plethora of Hit Points.

 

[Piratecat]

Won't load for me. So sad.

Funny!

 

[Ry]

He picked up a level of barbarian too, didn't he?

 

[paradox42]

Yet another vote for "WHY ISN'T HE JOLLY???"

But I do wonder what Belkar's Slaad would have to say about this situation. Or his Modron, for that matter- we only saw that his Angel is gone, not his Modron. The second fiend argued about "duty," so I'd venture to guess that it's more the Lawful side of things- a Devil in other words, whereas the first would be a Demon in context. If Belkar has a Devil, then he has a tiny smidgin of Lawfulness in him, so maybe he has a tiny little Monodrone able to say "0!" or "1!" somewhere inside him.

 

[Ry]

If there was ever a modron, I think it was one of those co-oped-by-Tenebrous modrons.

 

[Celebrim]

Yet another vote for "WHY ISN'T HE JOLLY???"

But I do wonder what Belkar's Slaad would have to say about this situation.

"Toffee spritzel ape blank sneezes the actuary."

Or his Modron, for that matter- we only saw that his Angel is gone, not his Modron.

Belkar and his Modron are not on speaking terms. Besides, the fiends reported that it was only they and the slaad that remained, so this implies that the modron is gone too.

The second fiend argued about "duty," so I'd venture to guess that it's more the Lawful side of things-

Yes, but he used the term duty in not only a way that renders the term meaningless (if a have an overriding duty to yourself, you are not under compulsion in any ordinary sense of the term), but which is expressly individualistic to the point of megalomania. 'A duty to your Greater Self' is about as chaotic of a phrase as you can have. In contrast, the first fiend's argument centered around Belkar's duty to repay insults made against him, an ethical code generally associated with lawful evilness (think mafia, for example). Also, the first fiend begins his argument with an exaltation of hell, which I think is a dead give away. So, I think you have the two backwords.

 

[sckeener]

The second fiend argued about "duty," so I'd venture to guess that it's more the Lawful side of things- a Devil in other words, whereas the first would be a Demon in context. If Belkar has a Devil, then he has a tiny smidgin of Lawfulness in him, so maybe he has a tiny little Monodrone able to say "0!" or "1!" somewhere inside him.

I'm in the Demon & Demon or Demon & Loth

I'm leaning on the Yugoloth side....since it isn't appealing to duty for duty's sake but to how to be the best evil halfling he can be...

What I liked best in that stripe was the coming full circle....lamenting that there were no orange fleshies that he could stab...to getting to stab a whole bunch.

 

[AFGNCAAP]

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Belkar and his Modron are not on speaking terms. Besides, the fiends reported that it was only they and the slaad that remained, so this implies that the modron is gone too.
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Wonder what kind of slaad, though---the weirdness-spouting exemplar of chaos slaad that Elan had, or maybe the incoherent sociopathy possible with a death slaad? Belkar seems the type to get Evil in his Chaotic (or, if you will, having a more Warhammer-esque sort of Chaos).

 

[MarkB]

Or his Modron, for that matter- we only saw that his Angel is gone, not his Modron.

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