OOTS 457 - Elemental Fury

[Nail]

I must admit, I'm getting a bit tired of how easily the bad guys are killing the good guys. (Does Redcloak ever run out of spells? Nope....he's a bad guy.)

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I must admit, I'm getting a bit tired of how easily the bad guys are killing the good guys. (Does Redcloak ever run out of spells? Nope....he's a bad guy.)

Most of the good guys are mooks. Same with most of the hobgoblins, whom we have seen get slaughtered in massive numbers.

 

[kenobi65]

I must admit, I'm getting a bit tired of how easily the bad guys are killing the good guys. (Does Redcloak ever run out of spells? Nope....he's a bad guy.)

Well, (a) he's a high-level bad guy, and (b) he spent most of the battle observing. So, while V is tapped out, he still has most of his spells available.

 

[SPoD]

I must admit, I'm getting a bit tired of how easily the bad guys are killing the good guys.

I seem to remember the Death Knight getting killed by a falling dragon head, the Eye of Fear and Flame getting defeated off-camera, Durkon one-shotting a ninja, and the released prisoner getting decapitated by Belkar. Not to mention the giant piles of hobgoblins corpses all around the battlefield. I would wager that the death tolls are even on both sides, it's just that many people expect the good guys to go down less easily than the bad guys do.

(Does Redcloak ever run out of spells? Nope....he's a bad guy.)

Have you actually played D&D at any point? Seriously, Redcloak is capable of casting 8th level spells, he has a minimum of 37 prepared spells (before bonus spells for high Wisdom). He's cast like 7-8 on-screen in this fight, and all of the rest of the time he's sat in the back and watched. I mean, you're actually complaining because Rich is following the D&D rules on this point.

 

[Mouseferatu]

And Redcloak goes back to being a little goblin punk. He's just boring old evil again.

See, I had the opposite reaction. I really liked this strip, and I thought it added to Redcloak's character. I like seeing the signs growing, ever stronger and more obvious, that he's far more than just Xykon's toady, and is quite possibly coming to the end of his patience with the lich's nonsense.

EtA: Besides, it's not as if he just said "I don't like you, you suck, I'm gonna kill you" out of nowhere. It was only after she refused to wait until later to discuss the issue, even when he said "I've got more important stuff to deal with right now," that he decided she was too much of an annoyance. If I were a BBEG, and my attack was being interrupted by someone I had no idea if I could trust and who refused to wait for a more appropriate time, I'd have done the same.

 

[Someone]

Have you actually played D&D at any point? Seriously, Redcloak is capable of casting 8th level spells, he has a minimum of 37 prepared spells (before bonus spells for high Wisdom). He's cast like 7-8 on-screen in this fight, and all of the rest of the time he's sat in the back and watched. I mean, you're actually complaining because Rich is following the D&D rules on this point.

37 counting low levels, but he's pulled out IIRC four (very) high level summonings, one of them with a ridiculously long duration, and a Destruction spell; and that's not counting buffs casts off camera, and a plethora of 5-6th level spells he's casting on camera.

If I have a problem (very minor and understandable, though) is that Rich's spellcasters look like they can spontaneously cast all the spells in the PHB.

 

[RedFox]

If I have a problem (very minor and understandable, though) is that Rich's spellcasters look like they can spontaneously cast all the spells in the PHB.

Except Varsuvius, who actually ran out?

 

[LoneWolf23]

Well, either we never see Tsukiko again, or we'll see her again after she defeats the Chlorine Elemental off-screen..

 

[wingsandsword]

Well, either we never see Tsukiko again, or we'll see her again after she defeats the Chlorine Elemental off-screen..

Well, she can cast Inflict Critical Wounds (and is a Mystic Theurge), so she's capable of 4th level spells, and could throw a Dismissal at the Chlorine Elemental herself, or even a simple Protection from Good or a Magic Circle against Good to keep that summoned elemental out.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Well, either we never see Tsukiko again, or we'll see her again after she defeats the Chlorine Elemental off-screen..

It's a waste of resources Either he loses the new employee* or he loses his own elemental forces.

* The Creature in Darkness is also annoying, and stupid on top of it, but Redcloak doesn't seem to want to engineer its death.