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[Wulf Ratbane]

Belkar is excellent, probably the most entertaining character there. I'd not want him in my D&D group though as he'd likely end up being more like Wulf Ratbane's peck who didn't have much teh funny.

Belkar is Wulf Ratbane in a peck's body.

 

[Bagpuss]

Saw those last three panels coming from a mile.

Same here, didn't make it any less funny.

 

[RSKennan]

I've had a Belkar in my group.

 

[Savage Wombat]

bah.
oracle becomes yoda
roy stays as obi wan

That only works if you die in front of Luke.

 

[freyar]

Same here, didn't make it any less funny.

Absolutely.

Think the Barrier Peaks are floating around in there? The Oracle knows about jetpacks.

 

[SPoD]

Amusing, but their side trek now seems kind of pointless... unless Haley can find some useful divination magic in the oracle's tower.

Well, there's pointless in the sense of not accomplishing the goal the characters intended, and there's pointless in the sense of not having any purpose in the story. I think they're definitely not going to accomplish the goal they went to the tower for, but there's a lot of potential for meaningful repercussions in the story.

Plus, they tie up a loose plot thread (Belkar's prophecy) in the process.

 

[2WS-Steve]

There's also -- you just killed the oracle of Tiamat. How do you think Tiamat feels about that?

Plot complications for the win!

 

[Voadam]

Someone please remind me, how does Tiamat fit into the Scribble cosmology? We've got norse pantheon for the dwarves and the 12 zodiac for the east and the dead olympians, plus the ascended dark one for the goblins right?

 

[fba827]

Although something could be said for adventurers being far too literal in their thinking, as the Oracle was right on the chain of events regarding "causing the deaths" of those people.

It is possible that the Oracle KNEW it was his own death that Belkar would most directly cause, and therefore was trying to make Belkar think he already fulfilled his prophecy by stretching it in the other situations (thus hoping Belkar wouldn't kill the oracle but in the usual self-fullfilling prophecy way, he aggrivated belkar to the point of getting himself killed by him).



Again, just saying it's possible.

 

[lin_fusan]

4th set of gods

There are the 12 Zodiacs.
The Norse (dwarven)
The dead Olympians
And a fourth that are kind of based on Sumarian/Babylonian which includes Marduk, Tiamat, and dunno, dunno, and dunno.

And the goblin's Dark One is a newcomer.