OotS examples of breaking the rules?

[Dragonbait]

OotS favors humor over all else, right?
I'm rather surprised at the detailed responses to this question. I never thought people thought this long and hard about a comic strip..

Is it just me? Am I the crazy one?

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I like the comic..

Go OotS! Woo!...

3.) The Bag of Tricks can only be used once per day, and comes in three different disctinct varieties. Roy's version can be used multiple times at once and can create both rats and rhinos.

I looked this one up on the SRD to see if my player whom has a BoT was pulling a fast one on me. You are wrong on the 1/day use. It can be used to summon 1 animal for up to 10 minutes, and up to 10 animals per week can be summoned. The rest of your quote is correct.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Redcloak casts animate dead to turn a silver dragon into a zombie... The youngest silver dragon large enough to act as a mount for Xykon would have too many hit dice to turn into a zombie.

Zombie Dragons are a separate non-SRD template in the Draconominicon which supercedes the standard zombie template for creatures of the dragon type this doesn't use the 10HD limit.

In which case Redcloak actually has just enough to animate a juvenile(large) silver dragon if he's a sorcerer and is only barely under limit by a few HD if he's a cleric or wizard. In which case he can cast in the area of a desecrate.

 

[MarkB]

3.) The Bag of Tricks can only be used once per day, and comes in three different disctinct varieties. Roy's version can be used multiple times at once and can create both rats and rhinos.

Actually, the Bag of Tricks can be used up to ten times per week, and there's nothing stopping you from expending all those uses on the first day (or even in the first minute) of that week, if you feel inclined to.

EDIT: Dragonbait beat me to it.

The rhino was just the DM playing fast-and-loose with the rules for karmic relief.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

OotS favors humor over all else, right?
I'm rather surprised at the detailed responses to this question. I never thought people thought this long and hard about a comic strip..

Is it just me? Am I the crazy one?

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No, but this does show why he dident stat the characters. how can you make fun of the rules if you have to follow them.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

OotS favors humor over all else, right?
I'm rather surprised at the detailed responses to this question. I never thought people thought this long and hard about a comic strip..

Is it just me? Am I the crazy one?

...

I like the comic..

Go OotS! Woo!...

You can like the comic and still criticize it. Note that there have been lots of "rules errors" (eg Belkar having Scent) that hardly draw a ripple. It takes a massive unexplained plot-breaking rules error to draw a flood of negative comments.

I think OotS has gone from humor to plot, or at least mostly. It's actually kind of hard to avoid with a webcomic. Or maybe there's just a lot of people who read it for the plot more than the humor. I find myself in that category - I couldn't even laugh at most of Borat.

 

[Agamon]

OotS favors humor over all else, right?
I'm rather surprised at the detailed responses to this question. I never thought people thought this long and hard about a comic strip..

Is it just me? Am I the crazy one?

No, this is normal. Each single page comic gets a multi-page thread somehow. Great comic, but geez, some people take it a tad seriously.

 

[Agamon]

I think OotS has gone from humor to plot, or at least mostly. It's actually kind of hard to avoid with a webcomic. Or maybe there's just a lot of people who read it for the plot more than the humor. I find myself in that category - I couldn't even laugh at most of Borat.

I liked it more when it was based more on humor than plot, but that's just me. I still like it and read it religiously, but DM of the Rings, for example, is more enjoyable to me because it's based more on teh funny. Or even the Dragon mag OotS, which is more like the older, humor-based comics.

But, then, I'm not sure it would have survived in the same format that it started, so it's all good. And it is interesting. Rich mixes story and humor fairly well.

 

[SPoD]

OotS favors humor over all else, right?
I'm rather surprised at the detailed responses to this question. I never thought people thought this long and hard about a comic strip..

Is it just me? Am I the crazy one?

...

I like the comic..

Go OotS! Woo!...

Don't get me wrong, I love the comic. I am all in favor of it exactly as it is, but the OP asked for examples and I tried to think of some. None of them actually bothered me, but they couldn't happen in a D&D game without houseruling.

And I agree with him, I think a lot of people perceive there to be far more "rule-breaking" in OOTS than there really is. A lot of it is subjective.

I looked this one up on the SRD to see if my player whom has a BoT was pulling a fast one on me. You are wrong on the 1/day use. It can be used to summon 1 animal for up to 10 minutes, and up to 10 animals per week can be summoned. The rest of your quote is correct.

You're right, my mistake.

(And obviously summoning the rhino was for comedic effect; almost EVERYTHING in the comic is for comedic effect. But, since the question was asked, it does violate the "RAW".)

But, then, I'm not sure it would have survived in the same format that it started, so it's all good. And it is interesting. Rich mixes story and humor fairly well.

Yeah, I think I remember reading on his message board a response where he said he had basically run out of things to make fun of the D&D rules about a long time ago, so he shifted to character/plot humor with D&D trappings. He now saves his "pure rules satire" stuff for Dragon, and gives the free strip the more in-depth plot.

 

[Quartz]

Note that there have been lots of "rules errors" (eg Belkar having Scent) that hardly draw a ripple.

I'm not sure he does. Sure Nale smelled different from Elan, but could that be no different than perfume?

 

[Quartz]

And V vs a Death Knight? Bring it on!