OotS #499

[dmccoy1693]

Three weeks playing blocks, heh

Now THAT sounds like heaven to me.

 

[Delta]

This one I'll critique as going on a bit too long with the PTDD explanation. The last strip had a big solid "gasp" factor as you realize that time (apparently) flows differently -- this one doesn't add anything to that, really. But maybe it's a bit padded to set up for #500.

 

[Darklone]

I guess 500 will have us seeing Roy being reincarnated as something funny by some weirdo druid, his buddies are dead, Xykon is going to win and he has to do something crazy to undo all this mess.

 

[Son_of_Thunder]

I guess 500 will have us seeing Roy being reincarnated as something funny by some weirdo druid, his buddies are dead, Xykon is going to win and he has to do something crazy to undo all this mess.

Wasn't Durkon supposed to go home posthumously? Maybe that's why Roy was never raised.

 

[Andor]

#500 will be Roy looking down and observing the SNAFU that is the mortal realm. Possibly the phrase "Lord what fools these mortals be." will occur.

 

[freyar]

Predictions here: I don't expect that all Roy's friends are dead, but I do think that "cloister" spell has just made it difficult for Haley and Belkar to meet up with everyone else. They're probably living with rats in Azure City somewhere, and I'd guess that the rest of the gang are fairly frantic trying to figure out how to find them.

 

[Ry]

I'm still gunning for psycho-barbarian Belkar and conflicted vampire Haley.

 

[Vurt]

Given that Rich has the opportunity to post #500 on Halloween, I have pretty high expectations of the next strip. Time to start chewing my fingernails...

 

[TwinBahamut]

Well, I still don't like Rich has a bad habit of using the first frames of a new strip to backpedal on an old strip or try to "correct" fan interpretations. Especially in this case, where he is dead wrong. There is nothing "sci fi" about time flowing differently in different worlds. Unless, of course, you think old folktales and versions of arthurian myth are "sci fi". The fact that there are rules for it in 3E planar rules is another thing that makes his handling of the issue in those first panels rather insulting to his fanbase, actually.

The way the day's comic ends, though, is funny.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

The fact that there are rules for it in 3E planar rules is another thing that makes his handling of the issue in those first panels rather insulting to his fanbase, actually.

As part of the fan base, I didn't find it insulting at all. I thought it was an amusing dig at players who insist that there has to be some form of scientifically consistent explaination for things like this.