History Headscratchers / Goblins

** Because, really, this is the ultimate crapsack world and the author is prone to torturing his characters just for the sake of proving how nasty this world is. It's just K'Seliss's turn on the wheel of torture, that's all. Sit back and enjoy his suffering. After all, this is the comic where alternate universe characters are being repeatedly tortured and killed in an endless loop like some unholy combination of Groundhog Day and Saw. So either giggle at their suffering and wait for the next nasty bit of turture to be inflicted on your favorite character, or it's not the comic for you.

* Not a Paladin (class), just a Paladin (title). If Miko from OrderOfTheStick can claim to be a Samurai... (Monk/Paladin, as a fact)

*** Thaco doesn't seem like the sort of person to sit by while his friends and family are brutally murdered, jus,t becuase he was told not to fight.

** "Horribly" is subjective. As dying is already an horrible thing on itself, it's due to interpreter that his dead will be so horrible and tragic to earn him the name. Actually, in his shoes, I would charge in any mundane-looking battle, as dying in battle is not specifically bad for goblins. Ancient temples and cursed lands, instead, are a no-no.

'''Kore's crossbows, and associate FanDumb]]'''

*** No, I don't think we have. Still, they probably exist somewhere. [[spoiler:Though if they do it's probably Dellyn who will be getting the resurrection.]]

* The updating just bugs me sometimes. I know the time to do updates varies widely based on the complexity of the page (and I don't blame Thunt for that). It's when he says on his blog "Update's almost done! It'll be up late-monday." and it isn't. In fact it goes up in the middle of Tuesday for me, and I live in the same timezone as him. For some folks around the world that's actually early ''wednesday'' morning. Argh.

[[WMG: Kore's crossbows, and associate FunDumb]]
* Those crossbows can't exists, for so much reasons that it would require a dedicated page. The only possible explaining out of [[AWizardDidIt magical items]] is that Kore is titan-level strong, enough to force down ''sixteen'' crossbows in a casual movement, and that there is a trully amazing engineering behind the recharge gizmo. Given that, metal dards so short, heavy and with no fletching are useful only at very short range, but that would be ok, as Kore uses them like shotguns.

** The goblins being called a perversion or unnatural have nothing to do with how they act, but by the fact that they took character class, which is more along the way of going against every traditions, or what the character consider the natural order of things. There's lots of hypocrisy in this position too.

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* Why doesn't the comic obey [[MagicAIsMagicA consistent internal rules]]? It described itself as following the D&D system, similar to OrderOfTheStick, but Thaco (Who at this point is a level 1 warrior with generic NPC stats) is able to go toe-to-toe with Minimax (A quote-brokenly twinked-unquote fighter) without being instantly killed. Even counting his magic gear, if Minimax was half-decently built he'd have skewered Nameless Goblin #027 instantly. There's also a few more examples similar to that, wherin level 0 NPCs go toe-to-toe with actual PC-strength characters and live for more than one combat round, for reasons that would make perfect sense in real life but none in a world that follows D&D stats like this one.

* Why is the Goblin Adventuring Party so goddamned lucky? Characters are touted as high and mighty and then...defeated in solo combat. They keep getting such broken items. All tension is thus lost and the action scenes, which feel long due to the pacing, are all the more painful, as the conclusions are foregone. It feels like Thunt panned out the entire story, realized just how much of the events rely on the laws of dramatic probability and thus stuck in Thaco and Chief's lecture on luck so no one has to worry why the unlikely events of the story are never addressed. To elaborate, my favorite action scenes (besides Kore's first slaughter) are the "PCs" versus the goblins and the "PCs" versus Dellyn. Both are good because they involved clever teamwork rather than Mary Sues rolling 20s against the unluckiest and most overhyped racists ever. The former is also good because the good guys are largely the losers in the fight (yes, the PCs lose 3 out of 5 people, but 2 of them died off comically so I let those pass), and it gave the impression that this could be a work where the tension will always be high and you won't always know the outcome. As I am writing this, [[spoiler:Chief is fighting Kore]], so hopefully I am proven completely wrong. However, I also fear that the threat of Kore will be greatly reduced after this in case the "real" danger is supposed to be the White Terror or someone else.

*** My guess, he was never one in the frist place, however a LawfulEvil (thanks to 4th ed) Paladin order is just using him wend they want something dead

[[WMG: Kore's crossbows, and all the FunDumb they generate]]
* Those crossbows can't exists, for so much reasons that it would require a dedicated page. The only possible explaining out of [[AWizardDidIt magical items]] is that Kore is titan-level strong, enough to force down ''sixteen'' crossbows in a casual movement. Given that, metal dards so short and with such small wings are useful only at very short range, but that would be ok, as Kore uses them like shotguns.

* Why is the Goblin Adventuring Party so goddamned lucky? Characters are touted as high and mighty and then...defeated in solo combat. They keep getting such broken items. All tension is thus lost and the action scenes, which feel long due to the pacing are made, are all the more painful, as the conclusions are foregone. It feels like Thunt panned out the entire story, realized just how much of the events rely on the laws of dramatic probability and thus stuck in Thaco and Chief's lecture on luck so no one has to worry why the unlikely events of the story are never addressed. To elaborate, my favorite action scenes (besides Kore's first slaughter) are the "PCs" versus the goblins and the "PCs" versus Dellyn. Both are good because they involved clever teamwork rather than Mary Sues rolling 20s against the unluckiest and most overhyped racists ever. The former is also good because the good guys are largely the losers in the fight (yes, the PCs lose 3 out of 5 people, but 2 of them died off comically so I let those pass), and it gave the impression that this could be a work where the tension will always be high and you won't always know the outcome. As I am writing this, [[spoiler:Chief is fighting Kore]], so hopefully I am proven completely wrong. However, I also fear that the threat of Kore will be greatly reduced after this in case the "real" danger is supposed to be the White Terror or someone else.