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Kayeka Since: Dec, 2009
#5426: Jul 31st 2017 at 2:00:30 PM

Any semblance of this comic playing by the rules of an actual D&D-like world went out the window a long time ago. Absolutely nothing makes sense when viewed through that lens.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#5427: Jul 31st 2017 at 2:08:37 PM

No, of course not, but what I said before is that Thunt has made a point of telling us that he's setting Goblins in a homebrew setting loosely based on D&D but with a massively detailed backstory and loads of custom rules that he's used in his own gaming sessions. Thus, he infers (and explicitly states at times) that the comic follows those rules.

However, the obscure and arcane nature of these rules, combined with the fact that Thunt often expounds on the rules in the very same comic that he uses them (or in an associated blog post) makes them indistinguishable to the casual reader from stuff he's just making up on the spot. They have no internal consistency for the reader.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
SalFishFin Since: Jan, 2001
#5428: Jul 31st 2017 at 4:34:44 PM

Also it's a point that everything that happens is potentially possible under the rules of this 'Verse. Which is more or less there to make "they rolled a natural 20" a valid excuse for just about anything that happens here.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#5429: Jul 31st 2017 at 7:10:04 PM

Well, yeah. The idea that Thunt is actually rolling dice behind the scenes is risible. "Oops, Minmax just crit-fumbled and cut his own head off. Well, scratch that character." The crew have been seen to sustain way more damage than can be taken by characters of their purported levels, as well.

edited 31st Jul '17 7:11:54 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
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Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
#5430: Aug 1st 2017 at 3:48:04 PM

Fighteer has a point actually, shouldn't Minmax be unable to say Maxo Kickaxo? Or does being prompted to repeat it offset the penalty? I know he can't recite the little teapot poem.

Maybe he didn't realise it rhymes?

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SalFishFin Since: Jan, 2001
#5431: Aug 1st 2017 at 4:17:17 PM

He's unable to rhyme on purpose. So long as nobody tells him it rhymes, he's fine.

Granted this means someone will eventually tell him and he'll never be able to say it again.

DeMarquis Since: Feb, 2010
#5432: Aug 1st 2017 at 4:21:54 PM

Remember, he wields the power of oblivious! Or even obliviousness...

Michael So that's what this does Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#5434: Aug 7th 2017 at 11:11:43 AM

Just gonna write that all down so it's easier to read:

bowstrings break they are unreliable the shining forest is found only through heroism the dwarf cries no more

the ears will not hear they want the book but they need to complain

the mount is backwards it is displaced the levels are gained outside of time

she saw but misunderstood the name is not right

death of a goblin death of a god

the hammer awaits

two coins for a dead dwarf another leg lost

when the serpent becomes his prey
friends become enemies
and love will fuel hate.

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Lost in Space
#5435: Aug 7th 2017 at 11:20:38 AM

Wow, Fumbles, contain all that foreshadowing, why don't you? It's leaking out your ears.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Michael So that's what this does Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
So that's what this does
#5436: Aug 7th 2017 at 10:23:59 PM

His Plot Armor seems to have sprung a leak. There's plot everywhere.

shigmiya64 Somebody get this freaking duck away from me! from a settlement that needs our help, General Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!
#5438: Aug 30th 2017 at 12:24:09 AM

Does it seem weird to anyone else that the klik patch on Forgath's shoulder seems to be made out of the exact same material as his stone gauntlet, which is totally unrelated to the kliks?

rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#5439: Aug 30th 2017 at 11:22:40 AM

It doesn't strike me as particularly out there that there would be one klik that looks stony, and the fairly simple art style means we can't be too sure exactly how similar they look.

On the update, at least warped kliks can't be that hard to stop if they're batting 0-48 for sealing the world-destruction deal, right?

FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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This is a title.
#5444: Oct 9th 2017 at 8:02:34 AM

I imagined Big Ears having a slightly lighter voice. :hmm

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shigmiya64 Somebody get this freaking duck away from me! from a settlement that needs our help, General Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
rikalous World's Cutest Direwolf from Upscale Mordor Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
World's Cutest Direwolf
#5446: Oct 11th 2017 at 3:35:14 PM

I have read entirely too much Redwall not to do a double take at someone being disappointed to get a celestial badger in a fight.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#5447: Oct 11th 2017 at 3:45:14 PM

[up]I know too much about badgers. A grumpy badger with nothing to lose is not good news for those within rending distance.

SalFishFin Since: Jan, 2001
#5448: Oct 11th 2017 at 4:21:15 PM

[up][up] Something Something Dire Badger, Something Something Bloodwrath

DeMarquis Since: Feb, 2010
#5449: Oct 14th 2017 at 4:19:44 PM

About to be eaten from within?

shigmiya64 Somebody get this freaking duck away from me! from a settlement that needs our help, General Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!
#5450: Oct 14th 2017 at 5:06:23 PM

[up] The creature doesn't seem to be made of something hazardous like acid or lava...


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