Very nice.

3000 REALMS, MOTHERFUCKER!

I love how of all the audience, the guys are super into it and are on the edge of their seats gnashing their teeth... and the girls are just kinda watching like "Is this really necessary?"

Really is a good portrait of the difference between your normal male and female gamers. Cooperation vs competition if you will. Then again, there is at least one female gamer at that table that is not normal.

I remember combat brute. One of my buddies took it for their frenzied berserker character. It wasn't pretty.

And thus, Zoro gains a greater understanding of roleplaying, and the power behind true love and friendship, and through these hardships, he becomes a man who swings thousand pound weights for training and can kill a dinosaur just by dropping his pants and hitting it with his-

Oh, wait. No. That's Luffy. Zoro just slaughters a bunch of random monkeys he finds on some island.

He does do the thousand pound weight thing, and thats no mean feat. Also, let's not forget the Thriller Bark Arc; showing zoro greater understanding of roleplaying by taking Luffy's pain, and survives what would have killed Luffy while calling it "nothing"

wooow, nice!
I think this has to be one off your best pages!
I love how you not only focussed on the fight, but also show how all the other players watch the fight. It brings great tension and above all, makes it <bleeb>ing awsome!

(I wonder what zorro says though. Not good enough in japanese or remembering his attacks)

Kikai no Kougeki == "Attack of Opportunity"

It also nicely illustrates that Cory is the kind of guy who likes to machine translate random things into Japanese because he thinks it sounds cool, and that he's never played with someone who called him on it.

that is a whole less great then I hoped for XD

But you know what? It worked! Is someone says that while attacking me, I'll find it a really impressive name... enven now, when I know

So... what drawback did he have to take in order to make an attack of opportunity while flat-footed? Because I would take that every time (DM permitting, of course.)

There's a nice little core feat called "combat reflexes". People seem to only remember the extra attacks of opportunity part.

Huh, never noticed that in ten years of D&D. Now I just feel silly.

Holy cow! You captured perfectly the greatnessof this scene! DT, you never cease to amaze me.

Really, what level are these guys, they're doing all this epic (not epic as in epic level) stuff.

id say mid level because GM seems surprised at what they can do, and they optimize enough to be effective.

I'd say a minimum of Lv 5 and a max of lv 9. Rikka was able to cheese out a mass bulls stregnth and even with Domain spontaniety, versatile spellcaster, and Sanctum spell would still require 3rd lv slots, With Earth power/Earth spell thrown into the mix she could pull it off with 2nd lv slots but She seemed awfully well adjusted to have that many flaws as a 3rd lv character.

Keep in mind that this is not just DnD 3.5. It's clearly its own game, just one that has a lot in common with DnD 3.5.

If it was DnD 3.5. Well, there wouldn't be any martials amongst this lot of munchkins

I've seen some impressive martial-ness in 3.5. One time a Cavalier on a Pegasus half-killed a Dragon Turtle quickly enough that it fled before my Cleric could get his shit together.

I never worked out how Zoro could use that attack without cutting off one of his own hands...

and it's suppose to be his strongest Santoryu attack?

Whenever one of the blades would normally cut his wrist he just moves the hand back out of the way. Then he moves it forward as the blade passes the other hand.

What I never worked out is how he could get enough useful force out of the sword in his mouth for it to matter.

Please refer to Episode 19 (Episode 18 if you want to watch the 4kids version... for whatever reason) where Zoro upped his training after a certain tragedy. More specifically, the pulley-training exercise... thingy. Basically, he trained to use a sword in his mouth... a lot. >_>