Grrl Power #883 - Patreon 2x
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Are* of Lube Spell: 0 physical damage. 4D6 damage to self-esteem, + additional 2D6 damage to self-esteem if the person who cast it stands around talking about their plans while you fall around like a newborn fawn chucked onto a waterslide, + 1D6 self-esteem damage if you caught the other team flat-footed, plus another 1D6 if they're from some medium tech backwater.
*An "are" is 100 square meters, or, 10 meters squared. A hect or hecto is 100, therefore, 100 ares is a hectare, or 10,000 meters squared, or 1/100th of a square kilometer. I guess a hectohectare is a square kilometer. So is a meter a hectocentimeter?
A lot of good stories in the comments for the previous page. Many, if not arguably all, rely on a permissive Game Master. Sometimes they can't argue with a well planned attack, and sometimes they're the kind that want to shut down the fun and make players slog through the campaign as laid out, but personally I'd rather have an amazing story to tell than a good slog. In the few times I've run games, it's become obvious that I am personally far too permissive, and the players accomplish far more than they should in single adventures.
Comments
+1! If Halo could double-dome, where she keeps one around herself, and then creates one that pushes the crowd back and contains the violence, that would help lots and lots in these types of situations.
Town Crier
2020-10-14 19:56:19 +0000 UTCWell, either those, or the ones where they seriously broke the GM's campaign.
Some Ed
2020-10-14 05:29:22 +0000 UTCObviously, the hook does not use Sydney as a pillar, only as a source of starting point coordinates. So, for all we know, she could easily use the hook to put two pieces of anything in mid-air, get on top of one of those anythings, and start moving them around and jumping onto them. I suppose Dave was planning to show such a trick sooner or later. And yes, this is magic (oops) very hi-tech stuff.
Evgeny Sandu
2020-10-13 10:31:53 +0000 UTCSo, I see Sydney is casually leaning on the top of the stasis pod. Which is being supported in mid-air by the light hook. Which is in her hand while she’s leaning on the stasis pod! How has she not fallen on her face? And can you teach me this trick? If I can learn to pull myself up by my own boot straps, I‘d be able to fly like Maxima too!
David Florish
2020-10-12 21:06:47 +0000 UTCLove the Vindaloovians. :)
2020-10-12 19:19:43 +0000 UTCKinda hoping Max is feeling less then charitable with the would be slavers then normal, when she gets free. Since they want to sell her off like a slab of golden meat and i cannot see that being something a slightly rabid female empowerment type would react well too.
Brett
2020-10-12 17:51:17 +0000 UTCSpeaking as a Player and GM of many years standing, there are Way Too™ many bystanders standing Way Too™ close to that Way Too™ Supers combat. :D
Churchill (formerly TeaBear)
2020-10-12 16:00:30 +0000 UTC"I am personally far too permissive, and the players accomplish far more than they should in single adventures." Did your players have a good time? Do they still talk about how awesome it was? If so, I promise, you were NOT too permissive. My players in all of my campaigns revel in the moments where I take my glasses off and double face-palm as they run roughshod over my "carefully constructed plans." I no longer have "carefully constructed plans," though. Stopped doing that 20 years ago. I just have an idea what the bad guys are up to, some useful maps for encounters, and their stats on hand should a fight occur. The "Glasses Off, Double-Facepalm" Moment is just a performance. My most experienced players know it's performance art, and don't care. They still love it.
Sean Patrick Fannon
2020-10-12 15:44:30 +0000 UTCthe 2 guys amorphous is fighting in panel 6 look like thumbs.
Ken House
2020-10-12 14:57:52 +0000 UTCGlad to see Dabbler has her priorities straight.
BJ
2020-10-12 14:41:43 +0000 UTCThe Vindaloovians know how to take it on the chin!
Dave Barrack
2020-10-12 14:07:45 +0000 UTCI found it: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/are
Stephen Gilberg
2020-10-12 13:21:58 +0000 UTCWhat if any OTHER of the cookware comes up with a plan? Seriously, stuff like this is why you can't fully rely on a spellchecker.
A Patreon of the Ahts
2020-10-12 13:20:34 +0000 UTCAs a GM, I found that adventures that frustrated the players and had unique and interesting (often annoying) NPC's are the adventures that the players remembered fondly as they had overcome their frustrations and persevered to win the day.
Town Crier
2020-10-12 13:14:48 +0000 UTCDo you mean "acre"? As in "Winnie the Pooh and the Hundred Acre Wood"? But you can't mean "acre", because an acre is much larger than 100 m sq. Is this a measurement that you made up? I looked online and could not find such.
Town Crier
2020-10-12 13:06:41 +0000 UTCA lot of GMs like to reward creativity. If a platter comes up with a creative plan with what they have, rather than just go by the book, a good GM will often prefer to go with that, as it tends to lead to a lot more fun for the GM and players.
Thisguy
2020-10-12 11:05:56 +0000 UTCHexagons are always cooler.
Thisguy
2020-10-12 11:01:40 +0000 UTCChange Blindness. And we first saw this hairstyle back on page 864, after the "training montage", so we don't even have the excuse of not seeing both styles on the same page. ^_^
Foradain
2020-10-12 10:56:52 +0000 UTCIn panel 5, Sydney looks a bit cross-eyed. Fun comic. Also, permissible GMs are fun and bring out the creativity.
Robert Miller
2020-10-12 10:40:09 +0000 UTCOdd little thing I just noticed: I always thought Halo's military camo outfit achieved it's fractal look with cubes/squares, but looking closer at it, I now see that it uses hexagons. Somehow, that makes it way cooler in my book.
Tim
2020-10-12 10:26:39 +0000 UTCYou know what I just realized, Sydney doesn't have her trademark bangs anymore. Guess I'm just not observant enough anymore.
Joey Bryant
2020-10-12 10:23:51 +0000 UTCYes, a hectocentimeter is a meter. But only in exactly the same way that a kilomillimeter is a meter. However, you are in error regarding the hectare - it is not 10,000 meters squared, but 10,000 square meters. It is 100 meters squared.
Nicholas Grey
2020-10-12 10:18:25 +0000 UTCIs Mr. A fighting Red Dwarf inspired aliens??
Stan
2020-10-12 10:11:15 +0000 UTCactually we're already at 883
Thomas Dorner
2020-10-12 10:10:26 +0000 UTC
