Level 7: #8
Chapter: Comic, Level 7 — Circus Minimus
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You can tell Dinkum is distraught : he missed the opportunity to sell a gardening tool to Madeline.
And that’s why Madeline is distraught.
Ah, but thinking and planning before rushing in is necessary to prevent things from going horribly wrong later.
And yeah, Madeline’s totally going to need a rake or something. Maybe she’ll come across a fey garden or something.
Keep in mind Madeline has an Intelligence Score somewhere between zero and five.
It can’t be less than 3, she’s human and not blonde, so she has no racial modifiers. I actually think her Int is about average. (The average person tends to vastly overestimate how smart “average” intelligence is.)
At least, we can all agree that her Bluff and Sense Motive skills are somewhere around -20.
True, but Maddie would regard Bluffing as dishonest anyway.
We know it’s her dump stat.
I noticed she speaks monosyllablicly (think that’s a word).
You may have doomed some of us to an archive run.
Just looking a few pages back she uses some multiple syllable words like paladin and gotta.
Polysyllabic.
honestly I pegged her int at an 7 or 8, its obviously her dump stat but she doesn’t seem so bad off that i’d assume more then a -1 modifer.
7 is -2.
And what’s even worse is that they keep their eyes open when they’re fighting.
That’s just craziness! How do they ever manage to hit anything with their eyes open?!
No wonder they are always distracted.
Is that… -thing- Stabs is eyeballing in Panel 5 a cameo of some kind? Looks like a corporate icon for a company that makes childrens’ toys, candy, and nerve gas.
I think I know the company you are referring to. Aren’t they the makers of “Happy Fun Ball”?
This is the first time I noticed just how skinny prestige is.
Well duh, she’s a Mage, they only get 1d4 hit dice.
You can know every spell in existence, or you can have a body that isn’t anemic and wasted, but not both.
I think I can’t both agree on this and that she remained unscratched earlier becouse of her high con.
Well, none of the ladies have the right build to join the Womens’ Olympic Weight-Lifting Team. Except Stabs, who has the right body shape but the wrong tonnage…
What… I think we all know how well Roxie’s rapier wit will be handled.
Perfect weapon for a bard..
Now she just needs to tell really bad puns whilst using it.
oots++
Doesn’t she have to take a level in Dashing Swordswoman first for that to work? Now, is that a level up, or up a level, or would they have to go down a level first for her to level up….
Darn, that party was last week? Why didnt someone tell me it was going on? I just found this recipe for cotton candy wrapped bacon that I’m going to try for Holloween
She’s an elf bard, of course she knows how to use a rapier. I only hope she has weapons finesse,cuz she aint gonna get much of a strength bonus.
Of course something just occurred to me, other than Dink, do the heroes know any guys?
Sure: Robespierre, Sir Malevolus, Grinner, The Princess’s Wight boyfriend, Plaidbeard, Calamitus(Maybe?).
One might wonder, though, if they know any guys who aren’t out to kill them.
Remember? The Wight Knight was turned a few levels ago.
I’m wondering if that old sword will turn out to be a real Holy Avenger that only activates in Maddie’s hands? Hope not, I like our garden tool paladin the way she is =)
didn’t Plaidbeard get a magic missile droped on him? or am i remembering wrong?
Just a flesh wound! No problem, I’ll be fine, don’t worry ’bout me.
Having Cube eat you is no obstacle to a long and happy life in this comic.
Even twice.
A mere magic missile? Pshaw — wouldn’t stand a chance.
Korg has shown up a few times as well.
We haven’t seen many guys on-panel that aren’t enemies, but Maddie has mentioned Derek the Cleric as one of her friends.
Ah, right,the Wight. I mean,they’ve encountered a bunch of guys, but almost all of them have been on the business end of a weapon or spell. Gordie the Pizza Dude might count later on but he would be about the only guy they spend any time with, and I suspect that will only be for food
wait, Stabs is not staying behind? Might she actually be part of an adventure start to finish? ’bout time!
Roxy’s gaining new abilities by the gallon it seems.
I kinda wonder if it’s more than “plus one old rapier” and is actually a +1 old rapier.
Well, by level 7 you’d hope they’d have magic weapons. Low-magic campaigns are kinda punishing if the DM doesn’t remember that the standard CR for things assumes regular gear.
It looks like Stabs is carrying a sack with provisions for a whole week
Also, Madeline didn’t get a new weapon – how is she going to fight ?
someone will convince her a pair of garden trowels are actually powerful daggers of some kind, which she will promptly use to kick butt
Sure, make the 3 ft tall member of the part carry the 50lb sack
yep, finally somebody else spotting the anti-halfling bias around here.
Oh, it’s like that everywhere. You’ve got some incredibly dangerous mission into the heart of enemy territory with no hope of survival, with relentless undying trackers on your heels the whole time, to carry an artifact that rots your very soul just by holding it, leaving you an empty shell even if you do survive, who do you give that to? The ultra-powerful Wizard? The high-level warrior? No, the halfling of course! Hmmmph!
There were two very specific reasons for that:
1. The artifact had a greater effect on you the more powerful you were. Halflings were largely resistant to that effect.
2. He’d already been exposed to it for a while, so minimizing spread seemed appropriate.
And 3: If someone powerful had tried to sneak into Mordor they would have been spotted immediately. It would be like trying to sneak around in the dark with a lighthouse on your back.
Oh, there’s always some excuse for it, but at the end of the day, it’s always the halfling that gets the short end of the stick.
This is Stabs. You would probably have to fight to get it away from her.
Tsk. I have previously liked Madeline a lot, but her automatically equating intelligence with deviousness is not something I approve of, as it’s a fallacy that runs rampant here in America, and leads overwhelmingly to the incompetence of our leadership and the decay of our culture.
Except that she is completely correct that deliberate obfuscation of meaning through the use of unnecessarily verbose, esoteric, obscure, or archaic language and, even more significantly, avoidance of responsibility through inaction masquerading as “planning”, is a sign of deviousness; and I would maintain that it is primarily that which leads to the incompetence of our leadership and decay of our culture, rather than a distrust of intelligence (which is hardly uniquely American, but is common to essentially every known human society throughout history as it is simply ingrained human nature.)
I support Maddie’s distrust of people using large words to mask intent. You can lie just fine using normal language! It’s the ones using the big words that are ACTIVELY trying to confuse and mislead you rather than just lying. It sets up for future snowball lies. Like, you know, politics. Those speeches are very carefully run through the wordsmiths to ensure maximum obfuscation. Although using large words doesn’t make you smart.
That having been said, it’s a Bard (and an elf at that), a Mage, and another Mage she’s talking to, you can’t expect normal language from creative or magical folks. Then there’s Stabs, who seems to always make HER point(s) very clear!
The fallacy that runs rampant there in America is that using long words is the same as being smart. Outside of America, this notion is present just as widely, but typically wears out at the age 9, tops. :]
Whereas after age 9 they prove their intelligence by pretentiously bashing other countries from their safely anonymous position on the internet, it would seem.
Funny, I’m an American living in Europe and I find WAY more people here trying to fancy up their lingo with longer, typically incorrectly used words than Americans. Most Americans prefer very short, concise, and often impolite language where I’m from.
I think the worst part is that she thinks they were using big words before the last panel. That last one was pushing it a bit, but before that?
On a different subject, I wonder what the Encounter Table for the plane they’re walking through is like ?
A cross between Alice in Wonderland, an acid trip, and My Little Pony? (ugggggh! ~shivers~)
Aw man….. I don’t wanna encounter any mobile cards with screaming baby heads mounted on butterflies with horse legs and unicorn horns! At least not again!
In Wonderland it is d3, d5, d7, d11, d13, etc
all dice have a prime number of sides
Except on Wednesdays.
Aw, no Maddie… They just want to rescue their friends, not die in the attempt.
Maddie rushes in?
-RU =)