http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip133a.htm
And when that is done, check out the latest at canonfire on Incabulos:
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/canonfire/cfstrip5a.htm
Enjoy.
An editorial cartoon of recent events.:P
Time to poke fun at another good article at canonfire. :P
Feeding the conspiracy theories...
More angst riddled comedy....
PLUS!
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/canonfire/cfstrip7a.htm
A creepy creature from canonfire.com
Teehee. :D
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/canonfire/cfstrip8a.htm :D
And now...Caddyhawk! :P
The last two CF comics weren't working for me last night (Thurs 09/20/07).
But Caddyhawk was. As always very insightful into Greyhawk deities and their inner circle's and now we know what Pelor's been doing with his monthly tithing’s from his heathen followers - using it to golf. At least Pholtus uses his time wisely - looking into the theft of domains by st. cuthbert, and seeing how it could possibly be that Azmodious is subverting the rules to become a god. Inconceivable.
Be Well. You'd Be Well to "Get Off the Lawn!"
Theocrat Issak
Working from memory I was able to do about 3/4 of the puzzle, so once the answers are around again, I'll see what I'm missing.
Nice work, as always, mortellan :D :D
For those who haven't seen the puzzle here is an encore:
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/puzzle/puzzle2.htm
and the answers here:
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/puzzle/solution2.htm
More Pyremius shenanigans.
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/canonfire/cfstrip9a.htm
And some more canonfire article parody.
It's in the hole! :D
Better late than never! Fore! :P
This one is for mature audiences. :embarrass
The cultists are back.
This one has alot of reading but it'll be of interest I guarantee. :D
More cultists, literally.
Ok, I've been reading the comics, and excellent work as normal. Except I think that doing more each week is getting to you. Their still long, short and very Greyhawk, but sometimes they're out there (that whole 4 episode golf thing was a bit warped).
But I'm not saying you wrote up the whole chart thing, but if so...I don't think that an ametuer science fiction writer is compareable to an person that plays RPG's. Speaking Kilingon is a bit warped, but then so is drawing cultists.
Be Well. Be Warped Well.
Theocrat Issak
Not saying that thinking yourself or your alternate ego isn't a bit warped...but I'm not!
James Wyatt article and Pelor's press conference.
Here is another satirical rant on the subject of the 4E pantheon.:D
Heeeeere's Grazzt!
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip147a.htm
Here is another satirical rant on the subject of the 4E pantheon.:D
Someone is a bitter fanboy there.
I'd agree with the guy, there, sorry.
Look on and despair!
Bitter is good. There is more comedy material in going against the grain than with it, just like in politics.
Not a bad thing, but it come off as.... kind of haughty at times. Like that sig of yours.
Not a bad thing, but it come off as.... kind of haughty at times. Like that sig of yours.
Oh please tell me you know that my sig is a parody of a classic movie quote. Not haughty, but more comedy.
Sidebar: Who here knows what D&D product I copied for the image of Waldorf in that comic? :D
Greg
Ok, so Mort, you never read these Waldorf posting as a kid? I remember them as a kid, and wondering what I should do about it. After a couple later issues came up with responses, I realized my world was shot. I remember Travis and Jay - I made their 1st lvl characters start in a cave under a mountain - and the top of the world was like Thundaarr the Barbarian (since that was still popular). I remember their PC's going out in a world that was surrounded by death and gloom. My Dad overheard me describing the setting and telling us to go outside and play (Grew up on Maui, Hawaii).
I do know the product...I can picture it in my head.....its not the AD&D Trivia Game and it's not the D&D Item Cards nor even that Dark Burgundy box with a photo of a guy in robes (Card Master - the Adventure Planning Deck). Wait....damn.damn. It will come to me. Its a 2e product. it's.......
I really liked both of these latest comics. I read your version of the Bleep before watching the movie version - and it makes a lot more sense watching WotC's version.
From the way it reads in yours, you're not moving to 4e? Well me neither. We need to make a consentrated effort to keep the OJ 3e. So harass Rick.
Be Well. Happy Holidays.
Theocrat Issak
The "DM's Kit"? (Or whatever it was called....)
Greg
Bingo. Dungeon Master Design Kit it is. And good choice Mort!
Theocrat: Actually I -do- remember reading the Waldorf issues. I own em. I was reminded of them by the ENWorld thread about him, and in my own perverse search for comedy I dredged his memory back up for everyone! :D
Yeah it will be odd what to do about Oerth Journal's edition preference. We always had Living Greyhawk as a cue to justify adapting to 3E articles, but now I can only see doing 4E-hawk in OJ as a way to preemptively convert the setting before Wizards has a chance. Eh. Either ways I'm feeling defeatist about 4E. I don't like 3E anymore but at least I was comfortable, I like about 25% of what I read about 4E and most of that is only mechanics. Their reimagined fluff and digital intiative stuff is what fuels alot of my venom about 4E. Thank god I'm not a hardcore Realms fan. I know I'll end up at least -playing- 4E because my friends will buy it, they buy everything. Doesn't mean I have to sully my GH with their new PHB classes and races. I'm in a wait and see mode I guess.
i don't know I might even go back to old 1E with alot of rule adaptations I made a while ago. Armor was use to lessen the impact of blows it had armor points similar to Dp points from 2E. Except armor points where deducted at equal rate of damage dealt by a weapon. Speed, size, and dex modifiers where used to determine if a characrter had struck someone in combat. so lets say an orc wearing chain mail ac was 5 back in the day. chain mail was issued 25 armor points so lets say the orc is hit with a sword for 5 points of damage. The orc would be unscathed because his armor is a rating of 5 and he would deduct 5 armor points from the damage dealt to the chainmail had he been hit for 6 points of damage the orc would of deducted 5 armor points and 1 hit point. How ever if the orc had 3 armor points left and was hit for 5 points of damage he would suffer 3 armor points of damage and 2 hitpoints his chainmail would then be rendered useless and unrepairable. in order for your armor to be repairable your armor would need to have at least 1 armor point left. the cost to fix armor was 2gp per point of damage and 5gp per point of damage below armor rating. So if you wore chain armor and had suffered 21 points of armor damage . The cost to fix the armor is 5gp for the 1 point of damage below the armor rating and 40 gp for the remaining damage.
This was really useful to PC's at first level but armored opponents where easier to hit then unarmored as movement is not constricted. Though no armor means you suffer full damage. armor also softened the blow of critical attack damage. movement rate determined how hard you where to strike in combat if both characters where of equal size and speed movement rate gave you no bonuses however if one of those characters was in fullplate his movement is halved to 6 against an unarmored opponent with movement rate of 12. the armored opponent would be penalized -3 to hit. The penalty is -1 for every 2 points of difference in each charactes movement rates. lets say a halfling vs a human. Well the difference in movement is or was 6 for a halfling and 12 for a human -3 for the halfling to hit. However the human is a size catergory taller then the halfling which gives the halfling a +3 to hit cancelling out the penalty for speed because of the halflings opponents bigger size.
I also had rules fro hitdie values based on creatures size. So a halfling fighter would roll a d8 for hit point instead of a d10. A halfling thief rolled a d4 for hit points. While medium sized creatures rolled the listed values for their prospected classes. While an Ogre fighter would roll a d12 and an Ogre barbarian would roll 2d8. A Hill Giant size huge fighter would roll 2d8 and a Hill Giant barbarian would roll 2d10 for hit points. Storm giants fighters roll 3d6 and if you had storm giant barbarians they would roll 2d12 if you use Collasal size from 3e then creatures that size would roll 2d10 hit points as a fighter and 3d8 as a barbarian. Although my rules limited the barbarian class by races so cloud and storm giants would not have access to those classes and Dragons would of been baned from those classes if there ever had classes in my game. Those where my 1e days some adaptation for 2nd and 3rd editions. But my 1e days had more house rules then any other edition I ever played.
I made it to 150! :D
Happy Needfest! :P
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/needfest3/wogstripintro151.htm
Happy Needfest! :P
I LUV IT!
HAPPYT NEEDFEST TO ALL!!!!!!!!
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/needfest3/wogstripintro151.htm
Happy Needfest! :P
Pretty damned funny dude . Loved the rising up with the finger aside his nose & the spittle parts .
Yes, a bit loose with canon and editions, but pretty clever! Bravo!
Denis, aka "Maldin"
Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
Maldin: I'm glad you enjoyed it. I have been known to be a 'loose canon' indeed!
Happy New Year, Greyhawkers!
Pun-tastic! :P
Pun-tastic! :P
Argh!!! Good one, mort! Painful, yes... but good.
Denis, aka "Maldin"
Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
Is 4th Edition getting to me so much that I don't even find the humor in these? The talk about GH being rebooted, the word play humor, it all just doesn't make me go "hmm."
I really don't think its the creative effort by Mort so much as the lack of gaming desire on my part. I did want to see GH rebooted, but now I really like our flaws and our inconsistencies. NASA and space people are always finding out new things and having to re-write what they "know" and we still haven't even figured out really how the Pryamid's were built in Egypt or by the Mayan's, so why not have those things (unsolved and changing reasons) in GH as well. WE DO.
Thus my desire for GH hasn't waned, but my desire for D&D has and for that I blame WotC. We were told Dragon/Dungeon would stay and would be a place for 3.5 articles - yet they are now the same design elements WotC always placed on WotC.com while at the same time having Dragon. So this lack of creativity (although, I'm sure they're very creative in terms of creating 4e [as they've told us so]) towards 3.5 and Greyhawk in general as the default must be hurting my overall loyalty to 3.5 which then impacts Greyhawk specifically. Too bad really.
My overall lack of desire for D&D has caused me to cancel my bi-weekly game, of several years (we're on our 4th campagin with the same core of people over the past 6 or so years) with each campaign lasting 25-35 issues/sessions.
Thus of course, I still visit Mort's site but is my interest waning because I know that soon enough he may have to begin making fun of a gaming system I know I want no part of? Will that rule set make changes to a gaming world that I've come to know and to love, cherish and obey [not like GH has ever obey'd me, even when we shared the same initials)]?
I know those of us that are 35+ and have gone through 5 editions and adjustments and are seeing another edition on the horizon looking to change our gaming world in yet another way (do we need to modify Mordy and Tenser? will Robilar be good or evil? Do we now clone our PC's at the end of 10th level, before entering the Paragon levels so that we can go back and choose a new Paragon level a-la Tabula Rasa MMOG so that we no longer have to re-hash the early level grind? Thus will there will be multiple Theocrat Issak's out there, some that have the original genetic make-up of the Theocrat that has now entered the Super-duper levels of Theocratism, while Theocrat Issak II is just entering his new fanatic soldier level?
All these questions and more will be raised by more than just a mere Theocrat in the upcoming months. Lets hope that it is not intervening years that keep new questions from being raised. Worse still would be those creative types, such as Mortellan asking these same questions and then doing something drastic - besides drawing squabbling cartoon characters with god complexes - ........ ending more than just an edition of D&D, but a classic area of geo-political commentary that few get and fewer still understand.
In all, I feel I'm beginning to become one of those that now just get but not understand the comments made. But is that such a bad thing?
Be Well.Be Well Cloned.
The Original Theocrat Issak
Yeah ever since I finished the Age of Worms AP, and 4E was announced, my GH campaign has been on indefinite hiatus. I want to run the Expedition to GH Ruins but I also am fed up with 3.5 to a degree. And so far I'm less than thrilled with 4E so I certainly won't waste valuable time converting GH stuff to that edition right away. In short, I don't know when I'll ever run GH again!
With the comic I've always tried to stay topical to whats going on in the community. In the Paizo-era topics were abundant and I'll forever thank Mona and company for the material to spoof. Now for 'new' developments in 4E most of my commentary comes off intentionally editorial and anti-Wizards. That's how I feel but I don't want 4E badness to dominate my comic so I consciously pull back time to time and do a goofy pun punchline or a riff on a classic product. For instance next week's will have something from SKR's Scarlet Brotherhood. Who would've thought that 2E book would make me nostalgic?
Enjoy!
Ever see a grown deity cry?
Is it really bad, or it is jealousy toward the fact another (sort of) world is core now?
Seriously, this comic sounds more bitter than clever at such times.
Thanks for the comments Ubber. It keeps me honest. :D
This one should make Theocrat's head spin
I think I forgot to post last week's romp by the cultists.
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip159a.htm
Annnd here is this week's.
This week is the alliterative antics of Delleb.
check out the Greyhawk Grumbler (from the fine people at LG)
One small step for Zagig, one giant leap for magekind!
Yup, I'm still alive. The cultists on the other hand...
Food for thought.
One Norebo is trouble, try two!
Norebos are in trouble again!
More Goooods in Spaaace.
Now where have the cultists landed?
A bit late but here it is, your favorite program from the abyss...
Boccob has enough items? Yeah right...