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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4658442" data-attributes="member: 14159">V can't &quot;find&quot; a teleportation spell.&nbsp; She/he is barred from that school of magic as a specialist wizard.&nbsp;&nbsp; At most, he/she could use a Limited Wish to emulate it (5th level spell from a prohibited school), but that's it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Given how many Disintegrates V throws around, I would not put 7th level spells past him/her, maybe V just doesn't have Limited Wish in her/his spellbook?As for the &quot;there are no players&quot; thing, maybe that is the authors intent, but in reading the strip he plays on stereotypes of DMing (like Roy's remark about &quot;railroad plotlines&quot; in #251, not to mention Elan's encyclopedic knowledge of plot cliches), and stereotypes of players, and the obvious PC/NPC split in the world that even the characters know about, it really does seem to many of us like that is the way of the world.&nbsp; I know that I really thought that was the authors intent until I read otherwise, and I won't blame anybody who thinks that about OOTS because when you read it, to many of us it seems just like somebody is drawing a comic strip transcript of the events of an actual ongoing D&amp;D campaign with 1 DM and 6 players (my thought when I saw the &quot;Order of the Scribble&quot; flashbacks at the trial was that it was their previous campaign set in that world, for example).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 4658442, member: 14159"] V can't "find" a teleportation spell. She/he is barred from that school of magic as a specialist wizard. At most, he/she could use a Limited Wish to emulate it (5th level spell from a prohibited school), but that's it. Given how many Disintegrates V throws around, I would not put 7th level spells past him/her, maybe V just doesn't have Limited Wish in her/his spellbook? As for the "there are no players" thing, maybe that is the authors intent, but in reading the strip he plays on stereotypes of DMing (like Roy's remark about "railroad plotlines" in #251, not to mention Elan's encyclopedic knowledge of plot cliches), and stereotypes of players, and the obvious PC/NPC split in the world that even the characters know about, it really does seem to many of us like that is the way of the world. I know that I really thought that was the authors intent until I read otherwise, and I won't blame anybody who thinks that about OOTS because when you read it, to many of us it seems just like somebody is drawing a comic strip transcript of the events of an actual ongoing D&D campaign with 1 DM and 6 players (my thought when I saw the "Order of the Scribble" flashbacks at the trial was that it was their previous campaign set in that world, for example). [/QUOTE]

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