
By the same author as Grand Line 3.5
24th Aug 2018, 12:54 AM
This may not be the place to say it, but I can't stand Natsuki (Re:Zero). I tried reading the light novel, but he was so stubborn about not learning things he really ought to already know as an otaku. I mean, in the first few pages he copies anime heroes and suffers for it not once, not twice, but three times in quick succession. And then he pulls a move that usually backfires on the heroes who try it. |
24th Aug 2018, 2:34 AM
Though, from Player perspective, his actions make more sense ironically. By doing the various tricks, he learns how that GM is going to play, what he can get away with, and all that. |
24th Aug 2018, 7:02 PM
I believe, that in this universe, there was no rebirth ability. |
24th Aug 2018, 1:52 AM
Of *course* Cory would have played Kiryu XD And Gordon a Sinbad? I can see it. =) |
25th May 2019, 10:48 AM
I can just picture Cory playing Kiryu, taking a flaw that causes literally anything non-combat he does to result in combat. Of course, he munchkins so hard that this is no problem at all. For him. The GM, on the other hand, has to keep coming up with excuses why a fight broke out for no reason, eventually giving up and having thugs go "I don't like your face". And that's why Gordon banned him from such flaws in this campaign. This is my headcanon now. |
24th Aug 2018, 2:42 AM
I recognize what's his name from the yakuza franchise. The white suit and scowley face gave it away. |
24th Aug 2018, 2:45 AM
No wonder one of the Trio had to become the GM. With a group like that, only madmen would try and go against them. |
24th Aug 2018, 4:15 AM
or mad woman in the case of dm, she willingly went against them in multiple systems |
24th Aug 2018, 1:41 PM
And they're the one who came out of it scared. |
24th Aug 2018, 7:43 AM
Although references to other shows can be fun. It gets to be annoying when one doesn't recognize the characters. |
24th Aug 2018, 2:10 PM
Top left is Kid Flash from Teen Titans, who has super speed. |
24th Aug 2018, 4:30 PM
Top right is Isaac (and Miria) from Baccanno, a pair of nutballs who continually manage to succeed despite themselves. (at one point they set out to steal a museum because it's corrupting the youth (or something) but discover it's too heavy to steal. Instead they steal the door (so nobody can get in, you see) and because of this the museum has to close until they can figure out what happened. game, set, match. |
24th Aug 2018, 5:46 PM
Saiki K is a psychic. He, at the age of 6, finished the action adventure part of his life by destroying the evil organization (with no real strain on his part) and is now in highscool trying to blend in and not stand out. He is constantly limiting his own powers because he’s just too damn strong, (the pink nodes on his heads are the limiter.) Probably around the same as Mob Psycho strong. Or higher, for an example of him going all out in using his powers there’s only really one, he was attempting to stop an earthquake that would rip japan asunder. Not just stopping the surface damage, but the entire earthquake itself. He’s failed at stopping it for the past few years, but he’s also turned back time for the entire planet a year each time he failed so that he could grow his power some more. Not time slip time powers, but regressing the state of the world so that it is in the condition it was a year before. |
24th Aug 2018, 11:19 PM
No Game No Life was one of those series that I really should like, but I could never get into. I think it was because the whole games being serious business was a divinely enforced rule of that world. Once it was given an explanation it lost its magic. When you just have to accept that everyone is crazy enough to bet the fate of the world on a card game or tops or whatever the hell bakugan’s are, everything becomes a lot funnier. |
25th Aug 2018, 12:40 PM
I mean, there are reasons for those games in their own universe. Beyblades had the spirits of divine beasts inhabit the “best weapons” of the generation and.... yeah. Yugioh is literally a card game until shadow magic from Egypt gets involved, but I can agree the fact that GX shows it became important enough for a school to exist means the whole population is literally insane. Of course that’s entirely because Kaiba decided to enforce his will on the world, and made duel monsters Uber popular. And he’s involved in the Egypt magic thing, so there’s some leeway for shenanigans. |
24th Aug 2018, 10:14 AM
Most experienced players develop their own play style. Personally I follow the standard munchkin procedure of getting my numbers as big as possible and steamrolling everything. Of course I make sure to give all my murder machines personalities and motivations beyond “kill things, get loot”. And most of the time these goals can’t be resolved by murderhoboing. Like my Uber Wizard who was a straight up psychopath, but who wanted to have genuine interpersonal relationships. It was actually pretty funny when my party realized that my joking about wizards having no sense of right and wrong wasn’t a joke. Got a nice little Workd of Cardboard speech where I explained to a villain that try though I might, I could never see other people as anything other than numbers, but that didn’t matter right now, because he was in my way, and my numbers were bigger than his. |
25th Aug 2018, 4:02 AM"I love me some Munckin Builds"
My favorite munchkin build I ever came up with was my Monk/Hexblade/Ur-Priest Necro-Warlord Evil Capitalist. Mettle and Evasion together with great overall save bonuses made him almost impossible to harm with magic, plus he had nearly endless Hit Dice of skeletal hydras and giants under his control, and he was ALSO throwing Level 9 divine magic and spamming wish 3/day (for mostly cash to bribe nobles and peasants), all at 14th level! He had to be officially evil to qualify for his prestige class, but he was so obsessed with his reputation and discrediting the royals who scapegoated him that he really did play the hero 99% of the time for all the wrong reasons. Think Momonga from Overlord except human instead of undead, and faking like he's a noble knight in shining armor... until there are no witnesses and he has a grudge against you. His best exploits included bribing an Efreeti into becoming his "king" by using his "Steal Spell-like Ability" class feature to copy its wish granting powers and showing it with conjured gold and jewels, using the remainder the the cash from the scheme to outright buy many of the nobles and their mercenaries, using a Miracle spell to call and outright DO-OVER after the rest of the evil party went 110% murderhobo on a town he was trying to influence, braking his cover, and sending a maid who once gave false testimony against him into a Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion after telling her she she would be free if she could just outrun his spawned zombies only to let them enter at the exit too. |
25th Aug 2018, 4:15 AM
Forgot to mention the "ninja" by way of Expert levels was also a Were-housecat/Halfling (Tibbit as I recall) who completely derailed his campaign. The traitorous big bad of the campaign, a bard, tried to pull a flashbang and hide, but the DM accidentally chose the wrong wagon... the wagon we'd already established my character was lounging under in cat form. The big bad's dramatic scripted escape failed when he promptly got one-shot'ed by a ninja housecat. |
25th Aug 2018, 7:10 AM
if only I could have had something so awesome when my character was pretending to be a cat |
25th Aug 2018, 1:32 PM
I once played an Awakened Housecat Wizard who was pretty much just Salem Saberhagen if he got his powers back. I almost managed to take over the world too, until the rest of the party pointed out how much work running a global empire in a pre industrial world would be. So I settled for conquering the upstairs bedroom in the party’s portable house |
25th Aug 2018, 12:42 PM
You have to give info on the Gaston Expy. So we can finally settle what his stats are and how it compares to the song. |
25th Aug 2018, 1:22 PM"Not mine, but here’s the stats I found"
Let's assume the baseline stats are 10 in all fields (STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, CHA) |
25th Aug 2018, 6:17 PM
Gaston was high to paragon level in all his physical stats as well as Charisma with a slightly below average Intelligence and abysmal wisdom. Ranger levels of course. Mostly "being Gaston" is a mindset of rampant machismo, impregnable self confidence, and over the top narcissism. The funny thing is that Gaston would probably have been the protagonist in most other movies, and I played him as a deeply flawed but still heroic small town champion. He even sung his own theme song at one point to make a point! |
25th Aug 2018, 6:52 PM
I will forever be that "I'm just happy to be here" guy. |
25th Aug 2018, 7:48 PM"You want to be a ranger without using spells?"
Remember to check Complete Champion for the alternative bonus feats to replace them like a Fighter. |
26th Aug 2018, 8:32 PM
Before I say this, let me clarify that this isn't a complaint and I love this sort of comic. |
26th Aug 2018, 9:23 PM
If a player comes up with an incredibly detailed and creative application of the rules not expressly given in the book and the DM shoots it down because it's out of the box, the DM isn't trying hard enough. |
26th Aug 2018, 11:12 PM
As a general rule, I consider there to be a necessary give and take between a DMand the players. A DM needs to understand what kind of campaign the players want and work to give them that, but it’s also important for the DM to have fun as well, so players should be willing to let them indulge in stuff like hammy villain speeches or description porn without interruption from time to time. Personally I find it very helpful as a DM to have my players all give me a basic description of their character, likes, dislikes, goals, fears, stuff to give me ideas to motivate them beyond “here’s a big sack of xp guarding a big pile of treasure”. As a player I will derail, but only if it is a logical derail for my character to perform, like bombarding a dungeon from orbit when I really had no reasons to go in their aside from wanting to kill everything inside. As a DM you need to be adaptable, because none of your plans will survive first contact with players, and as a player you need to remember that your DM can only have so much planned out, so at least try to work with what they have so you don’t have to end the session 10 minutes in because you just shut down the encounter they spent weeks building. |
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24th Aug 2018, 12:18 AM
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