Obviously, Blood Bath used his little-known powers of telekinesis to first throw himself at his opponent and then to hit him with a barrel from behind.
I was almost gonna congratulate Whitey on being a good fighter…
And while he did actually decently hold his own against someone named Blood Bath, that while half his height prolly weights slightly more then Whitey in his armour.
In the second panel the correct course of action is not to block someone that leaps at you :U
But instead it’s ran your sword thought attacker leaping at you while they are in mid-air and can’t dodge or at least dodge on your own by sidestepping and stab them in the back when they land.
It’s all but stated CHA was a dump stat for him, he clearly has low INT and WIS, this fight is showing that he has low DEX as well, and he doesn’t look particularly bulky so I doubt he has high STR. I’m going to guess that he has the CON of of a Dwarven fitness instructor.
You are assuming he’s a new character. The world of DnD tends to weed out the weak fairly quickly. I mean, sure, he WAS dead when we first met him, but no one is going to bother trying to create a semi-willed undead out of a weakling, nor waste a Rez on a level 1 with poor stats.
As for the odds, in practice it’s not quite the same. We like to think the world is “fair”, that the Good Lord Taketh and Giveth, but some people really are that unlucky, and the really “unfair” thing is that those stats are not independent. While there really are “smart genes”, “Intelligence” is more connected to good health than anything else, so CON and INT are very much correlated. In fact, everything is related to CON. Good luck being quick on your feet or training at the gym if you are sick all the time, so that’s STR and DEX. There is something to be said about CHA and WIS, where naturally good-looking people tend to have a bit more unearned confidence and think they are smarter than they actually are, which would effectively suppress WIS, but even then, “good-looking” is very much related to how healthy a person is, so again, high CON pushes up everything else. STR and DEX are a bit at odds with each other, it’s impossible to be both Hafthor Bjornson and Bruce Lee at the same time, although both would be above average in the off-stat. So in total, it’s more like (making up numbers here) 1/4th of people are below average in everything, and 1/4th above in everything, and the other 1/2 are mixed.
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Barrel thrown by derro, or barrel thrown by grawlf?
Obviously, Blood Bath used his little-known powers of telekinesis to first throw himself at his opponent and then to hit him with a barrel from behind.
Barrel by a mind controlled Grawlf, I think. That fungus at the end of the baseball episode was there for a reason.
cloned, not mind control, the real one’s dead.
That Derro can jump really high for someone who looks like they’ve never heard of Leg Day.
He threw himself up.
That or pushed the Earth down.
I’m hoping it was the Ogrillion from the circus act, purely for throwback Donkey Kong reference!
Cube? You’re good at the Big Damn Heroes thing, and you’re needed now. You even have backup in Dorilys and Presti.
Especially since this is where you find out about one thing you’re looking for
Side of the barrel, actually.
Whitey, didn’t you learn to never gloat until all your enemies are accounted for? Maybe that’s why you were undead once before…
Perhaps he was trying to taunt him.
If you’re gonna hack and slash, hack and slash – don’t talk!
I note that the “grunt” didn’t get a speech balloon this time.
Apparently it’s on like Donkey Kong.
Has anyone who said “I’ve got you now” ever actually had them now?
Sometimes, oddly enough.
This cannot be! I am invincible!
I was almost gonna congratulate Whitey on being a good fighter…
And while he did actually decently hold his own against someone named Blood Bath, that while half his height prolly weights slightly more then Whitey in his armour.
In the second panel the correct course of action is not to block someone that leaps at you :U
But instead it’s ran your sword thought attacker leaping at you while they are in mid-air and can’t dodge or at least dodge on your own by sidestepping and stab them in the back when they land.
There’s a reason he’s stuck scraping mold off the walls of a hot cellar.
Please tell me Whitey barrelly survives because he has a tun of hitpoints.
It’s all but stated CHA was a dump stat for him, he clearly has low INT and WIS, this fight is showing that he has low DEX as well, and he doesn’t look particularly bulky so I doubt he has high STR. I’m going to guess that he has the CON of of a Dwarven fitness instructor.
He’s an NPC. He doesn’t necessarily get as many good stats as a PC.
Or maybe he was rolled up.
Even if you’re rolled, there’s only a 1/64 chance of not having a single attribute that’s above-average.
Which, come to think of it, is still depressingly high.
You are assuming he’s a new character. The world of DnD tends to weed out the weak fairly quickly. I mean, sure, he WAS dead when we first met him, but no one is going to bother trying to create a semi-willed undead out of a weakling, nor waste a Rez on a level 1 with poor stats.
As for the odds, in practice it’s not quite the same. We like to think the world is “fair”, that the Good Lord Taketh and Giveth, but some people really are that unlucky, and the really “unfair” thing is that those stats are not independent. While there really are “smart genes”, “Intelligence” is more connected to good health than anything else, so CON and INT are very much correlated. In fact, everything is related to CON. Good luck being quick on your feet or training at the gym if you are sick all the time, so that’s STR and DEX. There is something to be said about CHA and WIS, where naturally good-looking people tend to have a bit more unearned confidence and think they are smarter than they actually are, which would effectively suppress WIS, but even then, “good-looking” is very much related to how healthy a person is, so again, high CON pushes up everything else. STR and DEX are a bit at odds with each other, it’s impossible to be both Hafthor Bjornson and Bruce Lee at the same time, although both would be above average in the off-stat. So in total, it’s more like (making up numbers here) 1/4th of people are below average in everything, and 1/4th above in everything, and the other 1/2 are mixed.
” but no one is going to bother trying to create a semi-willed undead out of a weakling,”
Let me introduce you to this really clever guy called Calamatis
“nor waste a Rez on a level 1 with poor stats.”
Remember the dwarf? The one who gave them the other quest in the first level? Who died and came back TWICE?
Whatever the Princess said, raise dead is cheap in this universe.
He’s in a grapple, wouldn’t he be denied his dexterity bonus anyways?
Might as well just put a revolving door on his undeath.
At least if he gets killed again, he’s used to it
Hit the poor guy so hard, it delayed the next page.
Ahh.. I just figured out why we haven’t seen Mimic lately — he’s guest starting in another comic.
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Life_and_Death/5703043/
(Yes, I know — not really, and the eye is in the wrong spot.. but the coincidence amused me 🙂 )