Woa! I sure didn’t expect V’s departure to work out that way.
Does this mean Roy gets some company? I guess that’s one way to find your lost companions…
You think V departed? It’s possible I suppose, but my first instinct is that this Dragon looked V up for a reason and may want to talk to him some more, so beating him unconscious and tying him up may be the end result.
Rimbo
1963
I’m rooting for the dragon.
Interesting, not a V fan?
JonRowe
1965
I would doubt V would be dead. It seemed like far too much effort just to come kill him. I would assume that if you trekked that far to kill someone, you would want to explain yourself first, and let them know how far you have gone to kill them.
Rimbo
1966
The dragon, so far, is much cooler.
Drastic
1967
V’s clearly simply having a dramatic humbling moment, leading to his own hippie vision quest realization that for all the cosmic power she needs his friends and the Order of the Stick needs to stop farting around in umpty different places and reunite.
That, or she’s going to die, but won’t join Roy but instead spend a separate arc in another plane entirely.
That I must admit. My first thought upon seeing how the dragon pwned V was a little chagrin that I’d never thought of it for any of my campaigns.
Dean
1969
My very nasty Fiendish Morkoth just went down to a forcecage. Damn thing suffocated and died because they just left it in there and he could only hold his breath so long (it was aquatic, and could fly in air for 11 rounds before having to make Con checks).
Rimbo
1970
You’re in good company. Rich is good at thinking of those things. It’s one of the things that makes OOTS worth reading.
By departed I meant left for the island… but yes, I think the dragon looked V up for a reason – revenge. I just don’t see the wimpy mage surviving getting sprayed with acid, falling from a substantial height, and then getting stuffed into the ground by a dragon.
This sort of Deus Machina, your character is now powerless, and dies to the oh-so-powerful-NPC schtick is funny in a comic, but doesn’t work well in an actual RPG.
It would work very well for a player that got too full of himself and took on things the rest of his party couldn’t handle. I’d probably DM that.
What is the anti-magic shell? A spell or an innate dragon power?
It would be a spell, except that in the D20 world, antimagic fields don’t affect force walls or force cages.
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/antimagicField.htm
noun
1975
I dunno, revenge seems rather petty for a dragon. I think the dragon sought V out for other reasons.
DMs killing PCs with unwinnable fights is never fun, I agree, but that wasn’t what I was suggesting. As long as the difficulty of the fight was balanced properly it would be a rather interesting twist. It would have to be a weaker dragon than the party could normally handle to account for the fact that the capabilities of the party would be reduced.
Ahh well, it’s all theoretical now, I’ve left 3E D&D behind for good at this point and my knowledge of the rules is now useful only for debating OOTS :D
I tend to agree. I’ve noticed one tendency in OOTS is that the silly characters using comic motivations tend to use silly dialog. When a character is using serious dialog there’s a serious and well-thought-out reason for them doing what they are doing.
The dragon wasn’t cracking jokes, so I don’t think the dragon is going to be a gag of any sort.
If V killed its child and stole its starmetal, that’s got to be something.
Exactly. I’ve been expecting this dragon to show up ever since V disintegrated the other one. I hadn’t thought about it before hand, figuring the imp and the oracle’s prediction was the story, but this really is the perfect time for the dragon to get it’s revenge.
I’m guessing the dragon had been scrying for some time, and then came to visit after learning V was alone. It might even have been aware of the imp, and patient enough to wait for an opportunity such as V presented by frivolously blasting all his Disintegrates.
noun
1980
Why is everyone assuming this black dragon is related to the first one?
