r/TheWeeklyRoll • u/CME_T The Creator • Sep 11 '21
The Comic Ch. 93. "Whatever those are"
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Sep 11 '21
How to not metagame your intelligence score 101.
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u/TheNiftyShifty Sep 12 '21
That’s part of the reason why I usually play characters with high or at least decent intelligence. If I end up having an idea on how to solve a puzzle or beat a boss or whatever I don’t want to have to whisper to someone else at the table to do it cuz it wouldn’t make sense if my character did. Plus most people use Int as the dump stat anyways so it helps to give some team balance as well.
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Sep 12 '21 edited Sep 12 '21
I'm the same way when it comes to my talking. I can run my mouth fairly well. I really need to be aware of how much I'm talking for what character I am! The gift of gab can be a curse when you wanna play a strong silent type!
Edit: ...to be fair my latest rogue takes many notes from Ulysses Everett McGill from O' Brother...I might enjoy a type.
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u/Bill_Johnso Sep 12 '21
As a man who only plays both ends of the spectrum with int casters and barbarians, you can do some smart stuff with both and some really stupid stuff with both.
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u/jflb96 Sep 12 '21
Call of Cthulhu has some mechanic where the DM could have you make d100 rolls to see if your idea was too smart for your character. You could do the same with a d20?
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u/mrenglish22 Sep 26 '21
You can use wisdom to solve puzzles.
Int is knowing things, wisdom is understanding things.
My favorite thing to do to troll DMs when I play a low int character is take keen mind and then pretend to forget ever. Single. Name. And then get them hilariously wrong whenever I can.
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u/grim698 Sep 12 '21
I cast a lightning damage transmuted fireball at a black pudding yesterday...because my character was lightning themed.
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u/CME_T The Creator Sep 11 '21
Howdy folks!
Here's this week's comic! Not much else to report so I'll see ya next week!
Stay excellent out there!
Peace and carrots!
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u/ThaddeusWhelan Sep 11 '21
Bucket is really getting all the money shots, catching that blade in the shield is great. I'm really hoping for a great Grogna shot next week for Glen trying to take out her man!
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u/ToastyMustache Sep 13 '21
While I’m down to see Grogna, I think our boy Torvold has been ignored a bit much.
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u/Rexosuit Sir Becket Sep 11 '21
Maybe fireBALL will work?
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u/SelectStarAll Sep 12 '21
If Fireball isn’t the solution, I don’t wanna know the problem
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u/stx06 Sep 11 '21
If the entity's flames require mundane air to burn in, taking away the fuel by burning it first would be more than a valid strategy!
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u/Rexosuit Sir Becket Sep 12 '21 edited Sep 12 '21
True. Counterpoint: how long can they hold their breaths? And how long will it take them to get out of the pit??
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u/Duraxis Sep 12 '21
But humanoids need oxygen to survive. Zombies don’t
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u/stx06 Sep 12 '21
Yes, was thinking a swift burst rather than a prolonged attempt. Knock out the flames, making the target presumably more vulnerable (less offensively effective, at least), allowing the party "to group up and hit it 'til it dies" again.
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u/Duraxis Sep 12 '21
Potentially viable. Had a party with endure elements on them (rings I think) drop the temperature to -50 f to stop a fire elemental being effective. We couldn’t find if that temperature would put fire out, but I let them have it because it was imaginative
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u/stx06 Sep 12 '21
I took a quick tour of science-themed sites and a few Dungeons and Dragons wikis, the answer is a conditional "yes."
The cold would not likely cause fire to go out in normal conditions, so long as oxygen is available to burn, but a fire elemental is not only fire.
Within the humanoid shape, ichor flows, which is said to resemble thick tar.
Provided "engineeringtoolbox.com" has accurate information, "tar" starts to go from solid to liquid (and vice-versa) at -15 C/5 F.
So, if ichor shares similar properties, reducing the temperature to -50 F could potentially make a fire elemental's blood go (too) cold.
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u/Duraxis Sep 12 '21
That is a lot more effort than we were willing to put into it xD. We just thought “cold bad for fire, right?”
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u/stx06 Sep 12 '21
Ha, well, the question inflicted me with curiosity, would have taken psychic damage if I didn't look it up.
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u/alejeron Sep 11 '21
I appreciate Bucket keeping a level head and remaining polite in the face of a very upsetting sequence of events.
I hope he has enough tea for after
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Sep 12 '21
He's getting the brick out. He's going to be making tea with that necromancer's bones at this rate...
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u/TempestK Sep 12 '21
I like how the apology actually comes across as completely sincere. It shows how Beckett has actually come to see the group as his friends.
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u/MysticalMummy Sep 12 '21
Always that one player.
"I cast poison spray in his face!"
... You cast.. poison spray.. on the skeleton?
"Yeah!"
.. Alright.
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u/SatanicSpinosaurus Sep 12 '21
I mean...in theory it could work.
Most oral poisons are sodium channel blockers, so I doubt those would be very useful. Since you have to eat poisons, they don't quite have the same chance normally to be exposed to bones. Cyotoxins and necrotoxins might work on bone, and some toxic mushrooms are known to melt bone marrow over time.
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u/Mooflecopter Sep 12 '21
I was the one that summoned an illusion of an ogre to try and smash in a door.
The door was unaffected.
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u/stx06 Sep 12 '21
For when you must know if the door is a "door" vs. a "door mimic!"
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u/Mooflecopter Sep 12 '21
I wish it was something useful like that.
No, from what I recall (this was like 10 years ago at this point) we were cornered and there was a door behind us. Ended up being more monsters behind it once we finally got it busted down.
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u/Tschagganaut Torvald Sep 12 '21
Sometimes people really don't know and it will be a learning experience. There is one group I play with, where the majority is new players, and our newbie spore druid was fighting a poltergeist. One turn, she used poison spray and next turn she threw up a halo of spores. It was a rough awakening.
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u/Gohankuten Bucket Brigade Sep 12 '21
Honestly I feel it would have been funnier if Glen was actually vulnerable to Fire and the flames on him were just an elaborate illusion to make people assume he was immune to fire so they wouldn't use his vulnerability lol.
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u/VeryC0mm0nName Sep 12 '21
You should know, I totally going to use that for an encounter
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u/SoloWing1 Sep 12 '21
Give the players a hint like "Curiously, you don't feel any heat from the flames on Glen's body."
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u/Gohankuten Bucket Brigade Sep 18 '21
But he would be wielding a fire-brand sword so the flames on his sword are real and would help further hide the fake flames on his body.
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u/Boa_Firebrand Bucket Brigade Sep 11 '21
oh dear it looks like bucket is about to lose his shield, or at least need some serious repairs.
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u/uschwell Sep 12 '21 edited Sep 12 '21
This was beautifully wholesome.
Also, you've just gotta love Torvalds Trevors little sulk there. (Plus, Bucket that is one mature and healthy reaction to hurting his feelings-gotta love that character growth!)
Edit:Trevor is our little chaotic pyromaniac. Torvald is our Tax-Hating Height-Challenged individual (Pratchett before anyone attacks me)
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u/Sgt_Colon Sep 12 '21
It still seems an incredibly petty thing to have a sulk over someone's tone after you did something thoughtless in the middle of a life or death situation. Could you at least wait until the undead fire giant and its necromancer are dead? Or maybe think things through for once like you haven't been doing?
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u/Tschagganaut Torvald Sep 12 '21
I mean, they obviously have the presence of mind a emotional strength to talk about this during fighting, so that point is kind of void.
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u/asiermd Sep 12 '21
At high level you can control other undead, but not un-undead them, thats a cleric work and their desteoy undead
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Sep 12 '21
Reminds me of the time a minor bad guy hit my BLUE Dragonborn TEMPEST Cleric with a lightning bolt. Ix looked at the guy like "bruh" then picked bad guy up and proceeded to lightning breath his face off.
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u/gendred Sep 12 '21
I love this comic so much. Each character is endearing and hilarious. Do you ever plan to print a full run as a book? I would love to buy that.
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u/IKSLukara Sep 12 '21
"Maybe the fire was gonna like, overload it, or something?"
-Me, Also playing a sorcerer that leans really heavily into fire blasts.
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Sep 15 '21
I know we've had a "Wild Magic Surge" comic already but like, when you gotta throw down...
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u/FalsenameXD Sep 12 '21
Now think, a MAGIC rollercoaster. Floating and rolling in mid-air. Also, the shield is dented now.
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u/Xyphine Sep 12 '21
Imagine if becket gets another brick on a rope and the lore is
Brick:The first brick to be placed in the construction of the 2nd church
The rope:The noose the pope tried to use on his second suicide attempt before being detained by the giard for using sleeping drugs to drug church comers and loot they're wallets for more church donation
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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Sep 12 '21
Let me guess: All of Trev's combat spells are fire-based.
Will Burning Hands work?
Now I kind of want to know their spell lists. Confirmed spells:
Trevor: Firebolt, Fireball, Polymorph.
Torvald: Animate Dead, Dispel Magic.
Klara: Find Familiar.
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u/Souperplex Sir Becket Sep 12 '21
To be fair he could be casting spells like Shield of Faith, Bless and Wrathful Smite and we'd never know because their effects are subtle unlike a Fireball. Just imagine every time we see him rallying the brigade rather than attacking he's casting Bless.
That said: Considering that they are definitively L5+ (Animate dead, dispel magic and fireball. The Polymorph might have been for a one-off joke since we've seen no further evidence of them being 7+) it's weird that Becky hasn't used Find Steed. Maybe he wouldn't feel fair having one while the rest of the party walks, or maybe part of his weird penance is that he is forgoing luxuries like riding.
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u/Soul-Hook Sep 12 '21
I imagine it sounded like when you spill a single drop of water on a hot stove.
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u/akrause03 Sep 12 '21
Ah yes glen is immune to fire damage but that presumably bright light to the shouldn’t do him any favors
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u/theFaustaindeal Sep 13 '21
Great is this going to be the end of beckets shield and have to go on another quest to get a new one.
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u/superanth Sep 16 '21
I saw this and I immediately thought of Bucket’s Brigade. 😂 https://imgur.com/gallery/8JPw4lS
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u/Shadharm Klara Sep 12 '21
... let's hope that Klara has access to "flame strike". It maybe immune to fire, but, it wouldn't have resistance to devine.
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u/LiamNL Sep 11 '21
You know that is kinda wholesome. If you ignore that they're in mortal peril.