OotS #490 is up

[Quartz]

A masterpiece! One of the very best.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Its official, Roy's Alignment is Lawful Good with Neutral Good Tenancies! Long live 2e alignments!

 

[Celebrim]

Maybe you get a false impression from reading threads about alignment on the forums, but especially with 4e apparantly downgrading the importance of alignment in the game, I've often come away with the impression that just about nobody out there 'gets it' and that almost everyone involved with the game has come to hate what I think is D&D's most enduring and maybe even most interesting element - the two axis system of philosophical shorthand. Certainly I've never felt that anyone who writes Player's Handbooks have a consistant and deep understanding of how to make alignment work for them. All the muddled descriptions of what alignments believe over the years have just made matters worse.

Well, Rich 'gets it'. I doubt I'd ever have an alignment dispute with him.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I'm liking Ray more and more.

About alignment, I think it has a place in D&D, just not for characters and nearly every mortal, but outsiders should have strong, fixed alignments, as should the gods.

Now some mortal of high level should have obtained alignment, but the average joe should not have it.

 

[MarkB]

Much as Roy is trying very hard to play to his alignment... is it just me, or does anyone else think the Lawful Good version of paradise is about to drive him nuts in, oooh, let's say thirty minutes flat?

Either that, or we cut back to some people who are alive next strip, and by the time we cut back to Roy stepping across the threshold of Paradise, Durkon will be about ready to Raise him.

 

[Greylock]

Great work, as usual. Nice nod to the Hitchhiker's Guide there, too.

I read that book only once, and that was more than twenty years ago. What is the reference?

 

[freyar]

I'm liking Ray more and more.

About alignment, I think it has a place in D&D, just not for characters and nearly every mortal, but outsiders should have strong, fixed alignments, as should the gods.

Now some mortal of high level should have obtained alignment, but the average joe should not have it.

Agreed about Roy. About alignment, though, don't you just mean that the average Joe should be true neutral in the passive sense?

 

[Relique du Madde]

I read that book only once, and that was more than twenty years ago. What is the reference?

It was the quote about "the Book" being 100ft tall and being alight with holy fire. Thats a reference to the ending of the fourth book. (Marvin and Arthur decide to see God;s final message to all of creation which was written with fire in 30ft high letters.

 

[Gez]

It was the quote about "the Book" being 100ft tall and being alight with holy fire. Thats a reference to the ending of the fourth book. (Marvin and Arthur decide to see God;s final message to all of creation which was written with fire in 30ft high letters.

So there's only three lines per page in this book?

I'm not sure it's a reference, I just think both took inspiration from the same root.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

In the begining God created the heavens and the earth. This offended a lot of people and has widely been regarded as a bad move.

The last message was something to the effect of "Sorry for the trouble."