…I feel bad for saying this, but at this point I wouldn’t mind if the focus of the comic shifted to the girls having adventures on their own. They’re so much fun!
I have to agree with you both. The ladies need to be around all the time, but I’d miss our guys too. Also it seems turnabout is fair play Presti, you should have seen that one coming.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. I like the comic much better now that it’s focusing on the girls. Not that it wasn’t good before, but the party dynamics are far more interesting now.
Okay! Now everything regarding the rhino-cannon/halfling-launcher’s lack of encumbrance penalties makes sense. Also, I applaud using the explanation as a good joke setup.
Now… how in Baator’s sulfurous bowels did she ever get enough money and experience to make something like that?!
You’re assuming the GM realized what she was doing when she asked for it.
I once fed and clothed a party for three months because I convinced the GM a dwarf would feel cursed by a purse that changed good earthen metals and jewels into pearls. Then proceeded to sell Identify spells to locals, the Dwaves player complaining loudly, and in character, every time I made her put more gold into the pouch.
I also convinced her to give me a wand of “Polymorph: Dune Buggy” though she got me when I realized Gas didn’t exist in the Forgotten Realms, and Lamp Oil does not work like Nitrous…
Well if we’re assuming a GM so stupid that they’ll just let you have something because you convince them you don’t want it, sure, the sky’s the limit. (Unless you’re playing Spelljammer, I guess)
If you have a GM who won’t give you high level magic items just because, however…
It would still require enough gold to buy a small fortress. Think about it – 4 Decanters of Endless Water, a top-quality Bag of Tricks, a not-inconsiderable amount of Sovereign Glue, not to mention masterwork parts & labor. You’d need a good tinker and metalsmith just to craft the barrel and firing mechanism. Nobody’s gonna let that go for cheap!
Then there’s Presti’s personal enchantments and their costs on top of it all.
Where did she, a police illusionist, ever come up with the money to make this contraption?
Well, Presti did loot the Illithids’ hoard stash for evidence that never got turned in as the organization was essentially shut down (for now) without coming to trial. So that at least answers for where she got the parts. She seems a fairly good tinkerer. Even Whathesnotdeadyet said he envied her skills, so why couldn’t she hack a bunch of low-level stuff together? (Defn of mech/program hack I learned — any muck tossed together to fulfill a purpose, not necessarily reproducable/pretty/long-term, just effective)
That’s pure Pym levels of balonium. If the mass was unaffected Stabs would have had difficulty in imparting momentum. The swung Bazooka can only impart as much momentum as she imparted.
However she is stronk enough to carry 4 times her own body mass in daggers with ease, so maybe it really does have the same mass… augh, but then Presti would have had difficult tossing it about and it wouldn’t be “like pushing a balloon”.
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Ah, sweet revenge.
…I feel bad for saying this, but at this point I wouldn’t mind if the focus of the comic shifted to the girls having adventures on their own. They’re so much fun!
I think I prefer rusty and his mates. If nothing else, all of the girls need’d be around all the time.
This arc has been fun, but I miss Mimic.
I have to agree with you both. The ladies need to be around all the time, but I’d miss our guys too. Also it seems turnabout is fair play Presti, you should have seen that one coming.
The girls are great, but Mimic and Cube just bring a certain je ne sais quoi to the story. (And Rusty too, but he’s more of a mascot than a character)
I’ve been thinking the same thing. I like the comic much better now that it’s focusing on the girls. Not that it wasn’t good before, but the party dynamics are far more interesting now.
After all those sound effects, I feel like Stabs is going to break out the “Batman Dance”. POW! THUNK! WHAM!
The Batm… Oh! You mean the -Batusi!- ( Young ‘uns, go Google it.)
It was a dark, dark time for television.
Holy blackout, Batman!
Eww. I remember that episode. First intro to Date Cape drugs.
oh stabs. You do understand the concept of revenge well don’t you.
and does anyone else recognize the fun house ride and especially the carriage?
Yeah, Timmah, I recognized it right away. 🙂
Yep; just seeing it I can almost hear Bobby saying ‘Look! It’s a Dungeons & Dragons ride!’
I really appreciate the authenticity of the interactions between the characters, just like real PCs!
Ha ha ha! Stabs got REVENGE!
Okay! Now everything regarding the rhino-cannon/halfling-launcher’s lack of encumbrance penalties makes sense. Also, I applaud using the explanation as a good joke setup.
Now… how in Baator’s sulfurous bowels did she ever get enough money and experience to make something like that?!
You’re assuming the GM realized what she was doing when she asked for it.
I once fed and clothed a party for three months because I convinced the GM a dwarf would feel cursed by a purse that changed good earthen metals and jewels into pearls. Then proceeded to sell Identify spells to locals, the Dwaves player complaining loudly, and in character, every time I made her put more gold into the pouch.
I also convinced her to give me a wand of “Polymorph: Dune Buggy” though she got me when I realized Gas didn’t exist in the Forgotten Realms, and Lamp Oil does not work like Nitrous…
Well if we’re assuming a GM so stupid that they’ll just let you have something because you convince them you don’t want it, sure, the sky’s the limit. (Unless you’re playing Spelljammer, I guess)
If you have a GM who won’t give you high level magic items just because, however…
I assumed she bought the magic Bazooka and only had to apply the charms for reducing it’s weight, not make the entire contraption herself.
It would still require enough gold to buy a small fortress. Think about it – 4 Decanters of Endless Water, a top-quality Bag of Tricks, a not-inconsiderable amount of Sovereign Glue, not to mention masterwork parts & labor. You’d need a good tinker and metalsmith just to craft the barrel and firing mechanism. Nobody’s gonna let that go for cheap!
Then there’s Presti’s personal enchantments and their costs on top of it all.
Where did she, a police illusionist, ever come up with the money to make this contraption?
Well, Presti did loot the Illithids’ hoard stash for evidence that never got turned in as the organization was essentially shut down (for now) without coming to trial. So that at least answers for where she got the parts. She seems a fairly good tinkerer. Even Whathesnotdeadyet said he envied her skills, so why couldn’t she hack a bunch of low-level stuff together? (Defn of mech/program hack I learned — any muck tossed together to fulfill a purpose, not necessarily reproducable/pretty/long-term, just effective)
And worth every cp!
There’s nothing like teamwork.
Amen.
Light as a feather, but it still has the impact of a tree trunk
Only the local gravity field is affected, not the mass of the object. Weight =/= Mass.
That’s pure Pym levels of balonium. If the mass was unaffected Stabs would have had difficulty in imparting momentum. The swung Bazooka can only impart as much momentum as she imparted.
However she is stronk enough to carry 4 times her own body mass in daggers with ease, so maybe it really does have the same mass… augh, but then Presti would have had difficult tossing it about and it wouldn’t be “like pushing a balloon”.
Bah, comic physics don’t behave properly.
Revenge is sweet, but I hope Stabbs kept in mind that traps don’t discriminate who they hit or how hard.
PICTURE 2
dungeons and dragons the FLIPPING CHILDHOOD CARTOONSERIES!
NOSTALGIAAAAAaaaaaahhhh…..
Presti should have remembered rule #1 of adventuring – Never, ever turn your back on a rogue!. It’s also rule 4, 17, 23a and 57 through 483.
excluding rule 372 which states “Only turn your back on a rogue to face several more rogues.”
^_~
Except when not turning your back on them clues them in that you’re wise to them, early.
and rule 201 that says “Never turn your back on a Rouge”, but most scholars believe it’s a typo.