Rolling
Chapter 5 starts now! The fated duel will commence soon.
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*rolle d20 get over 9000* huh well
That’s one heck of a open ended roll… Over 450 rolls of a natural 20 in a row… If that happens you know Q loves you.
I expect something along the lines of the CATENATIVE DOOMSDAY DICE CASCADER from Problem Sleuth was involved.
Linky here: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/extras/ps000020.html
*insert power level joke* xD
I’d love a cameo. Can’t afford it. ah, well.
The duel day comes, fresh and bright,
no clue to the carnage coming tonight.
Human’s and others, gathered together
without prejudice in fair or foul weather.
The happy-go-lucky go through invisible
even with Cleo the ‘frozen, feared’ principal
as Kai endures soft mocking from friends
the smile on his lips flickers and then ends.
The gamer doesn’t know of paper fantasy
and he seems to be getting a bit… antsy.
The game cannot come to fast this day
the word he really needs to hear is.. PLAY!
Okay, sorry; but I had to *rap* that one…
*Hugs an old Fox*
Great! Just remember: plurals don’t get “sky commas.”
Awww ; poor Kai , too young guy
You don’t know that strategy is the first killed when the war begins ^_^”
No strategy survives contact with the enemy
Beg to disagree here. “Strategy” is long-term planning — i.e. What are your general plans to win the game, war, etc. “Tactics” are the shorter-term, day-to-day (or even moment-to-moment) things that you do to implement a strategy. (For instance, you might have to change tactics to win a game, but you may not necessarily need to change the overall strategy if it’s getting you to your goal.) Also, the original saying is that “No *plan* survives it’s first thirty seconds of contact with the enemy.” The implication being that the enemy isn’t necessarily going to play to *your* script or by *your* rules and you need to make your plan flexible enough to account for that.
“Plan” is the term for a battle when “strategy” is the one for a full war …. ^_^”
I heard nice explanation: “Tactics” is the art of winning battle using soldiers. “Strategy” is the art of winning war using battles.
Note that you can win the war without winning single battle – or lose war by winning battle. King Pyrrhus of Epirus could talk about it …
Let’s hope it lasts a little longer then just the beginning :p
wait a minute does my eyes deceive me on the first panel is a human being friends with a hybrid because if so i would be neat to see more of that because most of the human that we have seen in the comic have been jerks (except kai and kaya’s parents)
There’s Benji’s parents as well.
Also this isn’t the first time we’ve seen a hybrid and human talking (“City school” on Jul 25).
Bonus note: if you look closely on that page, you can see a cameo of Cleo.
It’s not that all humans are jerks, just most of those we’ve seen. And it’s not like humans and hybrids are going into ‘them and us’ cliques (though I am sure that has happened in many places in this world).
It’s right that in most “worlds” , anthros and humans are rarely friends . But maybe humans are more cool with hybrids , here ?
Your eyes do not deceive you, those are a hybrid and a human hanging out.
It’s not the first time either, there are some background characters here and there in the comic that are human and hybrid and hang out together. They’re generally a friendly bunch, aside from some exceptions ^^
Rollin rollin rollin
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them doggies rolling
Rawhiiiiiiide….
Through rain and wind and weather
Hellll bent for leather
Wishinn’ my gal was by my siiiide. 🙂
Started reading the first line, expecting Limp Bizkit. Pleasantly surprised to see it continueing into Rawhide 😀
What kind of skill check would that be, and what would Kai’s bonus be? (My last character had a negative skill bonus for INT-based checks.)
Dex check, and at this point, he’d probably have, I’d say, a +2 or +3. That, of course, is at the discretion of the author. Only they know what Kai’s dex is at currently. Was your last character a barbarian? There are few characters that get negative to INT-based checks outside of those, unless you were a level 1.
I had a warlock at level 3. Most attacks were based on CHA (and the rest on WIS), so I decided to stick my low score in INT.
I must admit I’ve never really played any tabletop roleplaying, so I wouldn’t really know what his stats would be. Been trying to get into it to try it though :p
10s are average.
3s or 4s in mental stats are like animals (actual animals, not humans acting inhuman).
3s or 4s in physical stats are at the disability level.
15s are when you start to get Interesting, or people notice this about you levels.
20s are when you start to get rich from your ability.
25s are when you might be able to win a bet against the devil while playing fair (and he doesn’t obviously).
… dragons may have charisma over 35.
Kai loses *rolls a D12* 12 points of nerd cred (ouch, even I was surprised by that roll).
Don’t worry, Benji will properly introduce him later on, somehow :p
I like the camera movements in the last 3 panels
Thank you ^^
You don’t know that a d20 is?!!! Dammit Kai, I thought you were cool! (<may has warped definition of 'cool')
There can be a lot said for having a plan and strategy, but the enemy often also has a plan and strategy, and unless you are David Xanatos, you usually cannot plan for the enemy's plan and ensure that any outcome is a victory. Kai has been focusing on winning, where he needs to focus more on proving his ability.
I bet in D&D Kai would play a Dragonborn character – if he knows the game. And Xanatos always have backup plans so many, that even the full alphabet isn’t enough to count them. But if the Lady doesn’t favors you, even the perfect plan will be a failure!
He obviously doesn’t play DND. He doesn’t even know what a D20 is.
But his ability is determined by a week of practice, so that’s not really going to help him out completely, even if a professional coached him :p
Well, then proving his potential, or ability to improve, and to become a great player.
d20’s are overrated.
d100’s give you that proper bell curve.
🙂
I imagine a dice with 100 sides and I question myself how you determine the side facing up? xD
Well, normally you use 2 separate d10’s, one is 10’s and the other is 1’s….so if you roll a 8 on the 10’s die and a 5 on the 1’s die you have 85, for instance….but yes, there are mad fools who use specially made dice that have 100 sides. We call these particular people……idiots. And yes, they can be a pain to use.
Mostly because they just keep rolling. The best d100 I saw was a transparent d10, with a smaller d10 inside it.
A die with 100 sides is basically a sphere with small flat faces. It’s not particularly hard to tell which face is up as the ball is usually about 1.5 – 2 times the size of a golf ball. If you have trouble, stick a bearing ball (tiny metal ball) on it and see if it rolls off.
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With the retarded town where they comes from , i doubt that the twins knows only something about RPG and dices for ………….. ^_^”
It’s already a miracle they have video games , as we can see in the first panels
love this comic, cant wait for it to be updated.
YES! Let them play Dungeons and Dragons!
I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next.
I wonder if the dragon twins Benji and Cleo have ever astral projected.
Later…
“Kai Romero…would you care to explain why the captain of the basketball team has all of his fur singed off?”
“He failed his saving throw.”
Or alternatively:
“Kai Romero… would you care to explain why the captain of the basketball team has the left half of his fur singed off?”
“He saved for half damage.”
Or alternative :
“Kai Romero … Can you to explain why Rex has all of his fur singed off ?”
“He wasn’t believing i was able to spit fire”
^_^”
What if Benji Cleo and the dragon twins were from outer space instead of being hybirds.
Maybe you should use the same “trick” than them , Kai :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l5YsoopKPo ^_^”
Let’s see how he does.
Dungeons and Dragons
be like
brr
If the twins played D&D, wouldn’t that be the last straw in their old hometown deciding to… umm… get rid of them?