
By the same author as Grand Line 3.5
25th Apr 2014, 12:15 AM
To be fair, some of these powers DO seem worthy of risking an impromptu watery grave in this sea-covered world for. |
25th Apr 2014, 12:57 AM
However becoming a living rubber band does not seem like one of those. |
25th Apr 2014, 1:27 AM
Rubber gives Luffy arguably the most versatile powerset in the entire one piece universe. |
25th Apr 2014, 12:05 PM
all devil fruit powers are OP that's been said previously |
27th Apr 2014, 10:18 AM
Well, then don't forget the guy with the Logia type devil fruit that basically keeps him from drowning because whenever he falls into the sea it immediately freezes. |
25th Apr 2014, 4:45 AM
Yeah, because having the same powers as Mr. Fantastic would never come in handy. |
25th Apr 2014, 2:42 PM
Nearly all (and possibly all - I just don't know them all) are well worth being unable to swim as well as the whole "passes out if too submerged in water" shtick. Even the Sea Prism Stones (or whatever they are officially called) aren't going to be as inconveniencing as the powers are enabling. |
26th Apr 2014, 2:01 PM
This is entirely true if the boat is moving, you know, like it should be, but because they were still to attack the floating restaurant boat (don't even get me started), all bets are off. |
18th Oct 2017, 3:43 PM
It's true that a surprising number of pirate did not know how to swim (probably because a lot of people did'nt knew how to in theses times), the fact that the one to go overboard was condamned even if he did know to swim was more because there was'nt anywhere to swim to. |
25th Apr 2014, 1:52 AM
Stort time is about glaring weaknesses! Let me give you a rundown of my favorite characters' weaknesses. Raxon: Remarkably well balanced, but easily distracted, can be easily tricked, due to his goofball nature. |
25th Apr 2014, 2:10 AM
My crazy, crazy alchemist strike again! Earlier tonight, we met a group of gargoyles in a field, doing their best to pass off as statues. They had excellent disguise roll that fooled all our characters, but it was so obvious, we had a hard time NOT acting upon cplayer knowledge. |
27th Apr 2014, 3:25 PM"Be Careful What You Wish For"
So the magic-less Warblade, Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Paladin, and Barbarian desperately needed a healer, and I made my Favored Soul orc treehugger, because I hate worrying about what spells to prepare. (The Fighter multiclassed to Wizard to eventually become an Arcane Archer, and the DM had another Wizard join up intending to dip Fighter.) It turned out one reason they needed a divine caster was to turn undead... and Favored Souls don't get that; they get energy resistance and bonuses with their patron's favored weapon instead, both of which were useless as his 'orc' side overpowered his 'druidic' side in weapon selection. Fortunately, running away worked well. |
25th Apr 2014, 7:24 AM"Wait a minute"
Isn't it a historical thing that sailors didn't actually need to know how to swim? |
25th Apr 2014, 2:28 PM"actually, yes"
many (if not most) sailors during the time period with pirates similar to those portrayed here (Blackbeard and the like) did not know how to swim, because the logic was that if the boat sank you would probably be unable to get to shore before you died (either due to being too far away, or to a storm, or the pirates who just sank your ship), and knowing how to swim would only prolong the inevitable. a fair number of pirates DID know how to swim, many more than regular sailors in fact, but the concept that all sailors should know how to swim is more recent. |
25th Apr 2014, 2:45 PM
From what I understand it indeed is: falling overboard when no one could easily help you meant you were dead. Knowing how to swim just meant you could struggle for life longer, but to little avail. |
25th Apr 2014, 11:02 AM
My current character is a Kobold with great psionic powers. To augment these powers, he built an armored suit from the remains of psionically-powered constructs. Fine and dandy, great in a fight how he can jump in and out of his armor. |
25th Apr 2014, 9:35 PM
Does raging alcoholism count? |
25th Apr 2014, 10:19 PM
Hey, I played maid once! I played Rei, a secretly a dude pettanko tomboy. Didn't get very far, though. All I managed to do was ruin breakfast for my master, and accidentally molest the other maid. |
26th Apr 2014, 1:14 AM
Fun game. But you need to set a baseline for how creepy you let things get. |
26th Apr 2014, 1:36 AM
When you can accidentally molest another character with a bad dice roll, I would say there is plenty of creepy. Of course, I had botched cooking and gotten onion juice in my eyes, so I was unaware until the other maid bashed me with a hammer. You know, typical anime stuff. |
26th Apr 2014, 1:44 AM
Yeah. I figure when the system itself is pulling stuff like that you can just overrule that. |
26th Apr 2014, 2:30 AM
I strongly dislike the whole "Well, the girls can hit you without repercussions, but if you hit a girl, you are automatically a villain" double standard. |
26th Apr 2014, 6:58 AM
You and me both. My take on it is you just shouldn't hit people. And when you would, gender shouldn't be a factor. |
26th Apr 2014, 1:35 PM"@xuincherguixe Accidental Molestation"
I actually have a highly amusing way how I would have played that scenario once you landed groping the coworker. |
26th Apr 2014, 8:02 AM"Pointless rant about gender and violence"
Generally, I think the problem people have with violence against women is the social context. Violence against women by men is far too common and tragic in the real world to be funny. Plus, all too often that kind of violence is sexualized, which is clearly a bad thing, and very different from how men are treated. Male characters are (usually) not molested. You can't claim equality in your setting if you proceed to treat men and women differently (which is why I hate Drizzt stories - women and men are supposedly equal, yet the sexism in the setting shines right through). |
26th Apr 2014, 2:49 PM
Well said. And again, her player was inexperienced and assumed the same double standards applied in that world, since she had trouble separating it from real worldgender politics. |
26th Apr 2014, 2:44 AM"1 thing"
i only have 1 problem with this strip, thats REALLY more of a nit-pick, and a minor one at that: it hasnt been confirmed mihawk DOESNT have a devil fruit power. and the way emily said that makes it sound like she would NEVER pick one which leaves her high and dry should mihawk either reveal one or gain one... that being said, its impossible to tell if that WILL ever happen AND it seems super unlikely, just something i thought i couldnt help but point out. |
26th Apr 2014, 7:15 AM
I wonder if that would be a Human Human: Badass Model? It might explain why we don't ever see him using any powers too! |
26th Apr 2014, 12:51 PM"mihawk's fruit"
could also be a hat hat fruit. his hat is just so epic it MUST BE SUPERNATURAL. |
27th Apr 2014, 11:15 PM
Considering how wild things get as more and more devil fruit users are introduced, it would make sense that if mihawk is revealed to have eaten a devil fruit Emily could explain it away as balancing the character against the whackiness of the other npcs... |
26th Apr 2014, 4:20 PM
I think I have enough points for a shameless plug. Go read the legendary pixel crew, DT's other comic. |
26th Apr 2014, 10:41 PM
Yes, I mind if you called me Lance. Call me "Lancelot the Great Knight of the Holy Round Table of Camelot". Don't skip out on the quotation marks, either. >_> |
26th Apr 2014, 11:21 PM
Funny thing, I didn't actually have Lance in mind when I decided to go by the username DragonTrainer. It was only later when I was replaying Pokemon Red when I realized that Lance had subconsciously influenced my decision at the time. :p |
27th Apr 2014, 4:42 AM"Never Trust The Fae"
The most common rational I've heard for it is because Dragons always lose in Fairy Tales. It does help that Pokemon played the Fairy type straight by making them the trickster-fae and not the goody-gumdrops-fae. Y'know? |
27th Apr 2014, 4:49 AM
Sorry! Did not mean to delete that. Argh. |
27th Apr 2014, 3:15 PM"Lowest Common Denominator"
Gnomes... very dangerous. You go first. |
28th Apr 2014, 12:14 AM
And yet, powerful as they are, no fae race wants to deal with dragons. They're freaking huge in my setting. A mere forty year old young dragon in my setting gets three to five attacks per turn, has iron hard scales and damage resistance, high magic resistance, and is basically a six legged taur, standing at eighty feet tall, and one hundred sixty feet long. |
27th Apr 2014, 3:18 PM"Chapter master"
A robot in a post apoc sci-fi road warrior esque universe (Mutant:UA) |
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24th Apr 2014, 5:02 PM
Hey everyone. Found a Campaign Comic based on The Marvel Cinematic Universe. Go check it out.
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