Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for December 05, 2013
December 04, 2013
December 06, 2013
Transcript:
Phoebe: We'll go EAST.
You go east But on the road, you meet... A BANDERLOG. What are you gonna do?
Marigold: No banderlog I have ever met would stand on a ROAD.
Phoebe: We're gonna nitpick.
Max: One D 10.
WOW! Marigold looks amazing as a not-unicorn! also a what? Oh well whatever that is Im Looking at one right now. Also (knew this would happen) hard to have an imagination when an expert sits next to you. Still I shall LOVE this arc Its kind of one of many things I aways wanted.
Nitpicking false under Search, right? Combing through its hair?(Also, can someone tell if they’re more likely playing 3.5, 4.0, or Pathfinder? Or something else? Or if it’s just generic and not following and actual rulebook?)
That is no way to DM. Where is the descriptive dungeon dressing? “You were traveling the east road when you encounter a Banderlog feasting on the bloody corpse of a horse beside an overturned peddlers cart.”
Huh. My little container of red/purple/gold dice contains not one, but two D10, one marked with 0-9, the other 00-90. Makes rolling for D100 a lot easier than with those unreliable, unblanced D100 dice.
I thought it was spelled “bandarlog”, with an “a”. But on the other hand, are you referring to the tribe of baboons from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Books” or erroneously naming a “bandersnatch”?
Yes, a d10 isn’t usually found on its own, but as one-half of a percentile set—although I seem to see a lot of (somewhat ridiculous) d100s on sale nowadays, and, of course, there are the rulebooks that want everything to be decided with d20s.
The reference is (quite clearly, given the illustration) to the Banderlog from “Dungeons & Dragons”, though that is in turn generally acknowledged to be named after and somewhat based on Kipling’s Bandar-log.
Oh, how I remember the joys of nitpicking with the DM in games of D&D! Once a large troll ambushed our party… but we successfully argued that it couldn’t POSSIBLY be a large troll as it was a very small bridge that we were crossing – and EVERYONE knows that a troll’s size is directly related to the size of its bridge.Although ever since then I have always felt faintly nervous crossing large motorway bridges.
Rod Gonzalez almost 11 years ago
Figures Marigold would choose to be an elf if she can’t be an unicorn.
kaykeyser almost 11 years ago
WOW! Marigold looks amazing as a not-unicorn! also a what? Oh well whatever that is Im Looking at one right now. Also (knew this would happen) hard to have an imagination when an expert sits next to you. Still I shall LOVE this arc Its kind of one of many things I aways wanted.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member almost 11 years ago
In on time today. Nice!
Mooring almost 11 years ago
Marigold is an elf. Of course she’s an elf.
Nitpicking false under Search, right? Combing through its hair?(Also, can someone tell if they’re more likely playing 3.5, 4.0, or Pathfinder? Or something else? Or if it’s just generic and not following and actual rulebook?)
sheplives almost 11 years ago
One D 10? :/
Coyoty Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Marigold is elf-centered.
Q4horse almost 11 years ago
That is no way to DM. Where is the descriptive dungeon dressing? “You were traveling the east road when you encounter a Banderlog feasting on the bloody corpse of a horse beside an overturned peddlers cart.”
rpmurray almost 11 years ago
I would have thought that Marigold’s avatar would have bigger boobs.
Neo Stryder almost 11 years ago
Marigoldlas and Phoebe the grey (I know, bad joke), I like how Marigold looks as an elf princes.
Dampwaffle almost 11 years ago
I cracked up – “We’re going to nitpick” “Roll one D-10….”Genius! Hilarious!
Hag5000 almost 11 years ago
What, no goblins?
T_Lexi almost 11 years ago
Susie the Non-Unicorn looks great! I’m thinking the crown denotes an Elf Princess.
DDrazen almost 11 years ago
A banderlog? Oh blaart.
Tandembuzz almost 11 years ago
@pmark:D-10s are really quite common; “percentile dice”. Decahedrons. Got a bunch of ’em in all sorts of colours.
Me3000 almost 11 years ago
I had to roll 3 d-20’s 4 times before I got this (not really)
floooof almost 11 years ago
Huh. My little container of red/purple/gold dice contains not one, but two D10, one marked with 0-9, the other 00-90. Makes rolling for D100 a lot easier than with those unreliable, unblanced D100 dice.
Nezumi-chan almost 11 years ago
Bandar-log was the name for the monkeys in The Jungle Book, so… yeah.
Weapon Brown almost 11 years ago
I thought it was spelled “bandarlog”, with an “a”. But on the other hand, are you referring to the tribe of baboons from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Books” or erroneously naming a “bandersnatch”?
See? I can nitpick, too. :)
John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Yes, a d10 isn’t usually found on its own, but as one-half of a percentile set—although I seem to see a lot of (somewhat ridiculous) d100s on sale nowadays, and, of course, there are the rulebooks that want everything to be decided with d20s.
The reference is (quite clearly, given the illustration) to the Banderlog from “Dungeons & Dragons”, though that is in turn generally acknowledged to be named after and somewhat based on Kipling’s Bandar-log.
The Life I Draw Upon almost 11 years ago
Not that familiar with d&d but it did remind me of LOTR.
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Nice human form unicorn!
John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Hey! @Pr1nc3ssDakota is tweeting again!
catchup almost 11 years ago
Oh, how I remember the joys of nitpicking with the DM in games of D&D! Once a large troll ambushed our party… but we successfully argued that it couldn’t POSSIBLY be a large troll as it was a very small bridge that we were crossing – and EVERYONE knows that a troll’s size is directly related to the size of its bridge.Although ever since then I have always felt faintly nervous crossing large motorway bridges.
Xalder almost 8 years ago
Ah, elves. The only non-unicorns of sufficient almost-perfection to be suitable for a unicorn role player.
Kark_The_Red_Canadian_Dragon 6 months ago
Marigold as a human looks pretty cool! :) BTW, if that banderlog is anything like a Balrog, I would run the other way…