Okay, ‘The Everworm’ is awesome.
RepoMan
2862
Definitely the latter. If you go back in this thread (Lord knows how) you will find other instances, though this is the first one I can remember where the duplication happened on the same line.
sinnick
2863
It’s a common typo when split across lines, so maybe they originally were and some balloon-shuffling wound up putting them on the same line. Still something 10 seconds of proofreading would have caught, though.
Dean
2865
That’s also a callback to how Wil Wheaton died in their broadcast D&D games. They left him to dissolve in acid in the bottom of a pit. I believe Kurtz was at fault for it.
The players in my Pathfinder game brought these strips up last week when they decided to travel through the jungle at night and I switched to my “night” random encounter tables. They went from one shotting most everything they encountered (I blame the munchkin barbarian who does like 17 damage every time he hits-- at 2nd level!) to over half of them down and bleeding out, and all it took was three velociraptors pouncing on them.
Heh. I kept yelling, “SAAAAAAAAAAAND!”
Sebmojo
2866
The punchline, in a ‘funny coz it’s true’ way.
The unspoken core of all this old-school/new-school stuff is that Jerry isn’t actually a DM in any meaningful sense, and all his CRUSH THE PLAYERS stuff is just posturing. Nice to see it out there.
Also, is that the longest series they’ve done?
I’ve always felt Tycho’s avowed approach to DMing sucked, and it’s amusing to see them do a series of strips in which they acknowledge that this is, in fact, true.
sinnick
2868
These two strips were my favourites from the last series:
The rest I felt were pretty dull.
The “TO SAAAAAAAAAAND” comic was damn good. :D If my players in my upcoming game of Mage see me grinning like that, I hope they’ll start trying nervously to figure out what they missed.
Sebmojo
2870
It works well as a story though, which is normally where they’re weaker.
I love that I can only see one of the two because one is stored on the PA servers and one is stored at Smugmug, which is blocked by my work’s filter. What the hell, PA?
sinnick
2872
They’re all stored at Smugmug, they’re just doing some weird sort of redirection, so the URL isn’t always the same. I fixed it in my original post.
If you replace http://penny-arcade.smugmug.com with http://art.penny-arcade.com in the url, it should work for you.
Huh. It does.
I wonder why sometimes on their comics page it links directly to art.penny-arcade.com and sometimes it does the redirect through Smugmug. Is there a strategy or is it just different people updating the comic and one does it one way and one does it another.
Well, yes, but he also means it as a metaphor for the rulebooks. Gabe has been using the D&D 4th edition, which is the the New Testament, all soft and player-friendly. Tycho is switching the game over to Pathfinder (basically a remake of the previous 3.5 edition rules), which is the Old Testament.
I liked the comic a lot, and got the joke, though I agree with Hans that as someone that has been playing D&D for about 30 years, I have a hard time picturing the 3.5 edition rules as being the “Old Testament.” 1st edition AD&D, or the old Basic/Expert boxed sets, maybe. But anything post-TSR is definitely in New Testament territory, in my book.
Editer
2875
The funny thing is, when I started to read the fear factor one, I thought they were talking about the TV show, which is coming back.
Doing the stuff in the first panel to the contestants would make me actually watch Fear Factor.
Tim_N
2876
I like it because of the final panel, “we paint with words.” Also, this is one strip where I can imagine a very entertaining associated “4th panel” video.
Dean
2877
Uhm, Gabe’s chin in the third panel? What’s going on there?
We’ve decided to devote page 97 of the thread to that discussion, if you could just hold on a sec.
What page is that weird notch he puts in the teeth?
