The strips • Episode 2414: Come To the Dark Side, We Have Technicalities...
The GM definitely has limits to what they prepare, going all the way back to strip 16 (and probably others I don't remember off the top of my head).Also that near quote from Kylo at the beginning is...
View ArticleThe strips • Re: Episode 2414: Come To the Dark Side, We Have Technicalities...
Ominous foreshadowing just makes the players think it's going to be so cool when they succeed.In general, adding detail to something makes players think you've prepped this bit so clearly it's an...
View ArticleGeneral D&D discussion • Re: Pete's Campaign
#2415 talks about a campaign outside of the main Star Wars one. It seems like Pete was DMing it, but I'm not entirely sure. Is it the same campaign as Pete's previous one?Statistics: Posted by b_jonas...
View ArticleThe strips • Episode 2416: No Crime is So Great as Daring to Excel (non-spoiler)
(Comic Link)Making a list like this sounds pretty simple. All the GM would need to do is go on some sales or auction website, grab a bunch of different product names, and stick the word "Space" in...
View ArticleThe strips • Re: Episode 2416: No Crime is So Great as Daring to Excel...
I mean, if it were me I'd export a list as CSV, open in Excel, and just concatenate "Space " with every item and call it a day. Like 15 minutes tops.Statistics: Posted by link3710 — 21 Jan 2024 16:27
View ArticleNOW WHAT? • Re: #2544 - the tunnel from the Jones' cell is filled with cheese
High American cheese consumption is a result of deliberate marketing efforts. For about a century now the US has produced vastly more milk that the demand will support and subsidized it for political...
View ArticleSquare Root of Minus Garfield • No. 5361: cookie clicker
prime example of the buffer taking a while. also-cookie clicker-Statistics: Posted by pingasopera — 22 Jan 2024 15:41
View ArticleSquare Root of Minus Garfield • Re: No 4898: Nothing
My strip did make it, though. It's "Suppenkasparfield".Statistics: Posted by StruwwelDefender44 — 24 Jan 2024 18:54
View ArticleNOW WHAT? • No. 5119 - The Deaths on strike meet Hades
No. 5119 - The Deaths on strike meet HadesIrregular has mentioned Hades the place several times, and even mentioned Hades the person who rules the underworld twice: #1190 and #2757. But this is the...
View ArticleThe strips • Episode 2418: Scent of an Omen [non-spoiler]
Episode 2418: Scent of an OmenMages in Shadowrun have a sixth sense that lets them perceive things in the astral plane. It works mechanically like ordinary vision, but I tend to use synesthetic...
View ArticleNOW WHAT? • Re: No. 5119 - The Deaths on strike meet Hades
Of course with Hades you have less choice as an artist. Hades really wanted Persephone as his wife, and wanted to have her children – though as far as I know they didn't actually end up having...
View ArticleNOW WHAT? • 5118: Astrophilately
...Today, I learned a new word.Statistics: Posted by gkljgjl — 26 Jan 2024 06:09
View ArticleThe strips • Re: Episode 2418: Scent of an Omen [non-spoiler]
Wet Dog would have been too much of a giveaway?Statistics: Posted by Dio — 26 Jan 2024 09:46
View ArticleNOW WHAT? • Rerun 2552 - EXP Draining Ghosts
I recall a discussion on a different forum where ghosts drained exp and such because this is something that players would actually be afraid of, as opposed to taking damage which would basically be...
View ArticleNOW WHAT? • Re: Rerun 2552 - EXP Draining Ghosts
Does 5th edition have any sort of age-based modifiers to stats? Having, say, a strapping 25-year-old fighter aging 40 years in an instant feels like it should have some effect on their combat...
View ArticleThe strips • Episode 2419: Balancing the Tip (non-spoiler)
For some reason this strip reminded me of the fact that, of all the wild and wacky Star Wars names out there, "DJ" throws me out of the story like nothing else. I don't know why. Maybe it's the naming...
View ArticleThe strips • Re: Episode 2419: Balancing the Tip (non-spoiler)
Is there a central bank in Star Wars? Does the value of a Credit fluctuate with the latest success or failure of the Republic / Empire?In Phantom Menace we saw that Qui Gon had 20k credits to throw...
View ArticleSquare Root of Minus Garfield • Re: Garfield comments
The original strip for a recent SRoMG, No. 5364, is a rarity in that it actually uses copying and pasting the same panel to enhance the narrative.2019-05-05Statistics: Posted by Michael Jacoby — 30...
View ArticleThe strips • Episode 2420: Heroic: A ’Nym Phony (non-spoiler)
The title refers to Beethoven's landmark third symphony, the "Eroica" ("Heroic") symphony.(Though I can't quite work out how the 'Nym fits here: something like antonym or homonym?)Statistics: Posted...
View ArticleThe strips • Re: Episode 2420: Heroic: A ’Nym Phony (non-spoiler)
(Comic Link)Pseudonym. Finn says of Edgar/Allan/Poe: "He lied to me about his identity."Statistics: Posted by Puppeteen — 30 Jan 2024 20:19
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