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Post by Tiltowait on Jul 8, 2015 0:47:29 GMT
Lenny isn't supposed to participate in the big fights. These are the main villains having their "invasion of France" moment where they overthrow the established order to the shock and dismay of everyone. Julie's party is on a quest for the Magicant, which doesn't really intersect with this plot. If the bad guys haven't become obscenely powerful by knocking everyone else off, then where's the need for a world-changing artifact?
What, Rocky is supposed to jump out of a nook in the castle and assault Brian? "Backstab, bitch!" Nah. It ain't that kind of game. One artifact is quite enough for one campaign, and we've already got one. This isn't nethack.
I have to say it kind of gets on my nerves to see these hardcore D&D players show up and state that the comic isn't optimized like their home games. No duh it isn't. If it was I'd have no interest in reading it. This used to happen all the time in OOTS with people popping up to discuss how awful the character builds were and how it was breaking their immersion. This isn't D&D as played by home players trying to squeeze every bit of damage out of every sword swing and fireball, it's a kind of sketch of what D&D rules would be like in a "real world". Is our world optimized? Of course not. Neither is Manjulias. Just look at the ability scores of some of the characters, many of them would simply be discarded and never reach the table.
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Post by rogonandi on Jul 8, 2015 1:55:50 GMT
I don't mind hearing about reader reactions to characters even if they seem (or are) negative. People are entitled to their own opinions in regards to anything they read, and I often find it all the more interesting. Even if Sunbeam gets frustrated at the apparent 'irrelevantness' of certain characters, I still think it's great because it shows me people are invested in the story. Lenny isn't supposed to participate in the big fights. These are the main villains having their "invasion of France" moment where they overthrow the established order to the shock and dismay of everyone. Julie's party is on a quest for the Magicant, which doesn't really intersect with this plot. If the bad guys haven't become obscenely powerful by knocking everyone else off, then where's the need for a world-changing artifact? If anything, all the screen time the villains have been getting during this volume seems to be serving as one big framing device for Julie's quest...to give the mission a bit more importance. At least this war has the Empire focusing on something other than hunting Julie and her buddies down.
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Post by frankomancer on Jul 8, 2015 21:07:30 GMT
WHY WONT YOU CALL ME STEPHEN PASTIS?!?!
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Post by rogonandi on Jul 9, 2015 0:04:33 GMT
WHY WONT YOU CALL ME STEPHEN PASTIS?!?! The author of 'Pearls Before Swine' has better things to do than call him.
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