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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Dragon" data-source="post: 4786751" data-attributes="member: 1115">It seems that Xykon's typical behaviour has changed to some degree, IMO. In earlier strips his actions were funny to follow, despite being evil in the end. Now he is suddenly simply effective and omniscient - in addition to the right back-ups (that nice runes that were cast right in time, for example, and Redcloak as a healer around...).V's arrogance has obviously multiplied with the soul splice, while her/his INT seems to have been lowered or impeded (or whatever) somehow, so nothing really new here.If a situation like this whould have occured in a D&D game, I'd call it strongly rail-roaded and would find it as a player (being involved with my PC or not does not matter) really annoying. As it is a comic with a story, I don't really like this strip because the overwhelming power of Xykon and his continual luck versus strong foes is too obvious (as it has been earlier for various situations). So I'm wondering how a party like the OotS should be able to defeat an extremly powerful, effective, intelligent lich like this Xykon portraied in the recent strip. Unless Xykon suddenly shows some of his mannerisms again or some sort of artefact, magic, and/or pure luck is on the side of his foes.Well, let's see...</blockquote>