Is that the Resturant at the End of the Universe? Or something like that? There was an RPG based upon it too, iirc. Damn, I can picture the cover of the main book, but......
I'll be driving home and I'll crash into someone as I'm blinded by the light of Pholtus as he gives me the answer.
Didn't I mention something about this topic previously? I kinda like the way you did it, but sometimes, you need to give a reason why Norebo would be there. Is it because he's whacky enough to ask those questions everybody else is thinking but won't say aloud?
I'm working on the st. cuthbert vs Retribution idea. Got the cast of characters. I'm also working on the Zilchus vs tithing idea. That's gotta be a Christmas deal!
I think the calender should be done in cartoon style. And the fold out should be "secret" and I'll tell you via email. It's gross! Ewww....
And yes, we needed an upgraded forum posting, Page 7 was so page 7.
Be Well. Be Well Played.
Theocrat Issak
Time to start a new thread, the last one got quite long. This week we start with a reader requested topic, enjoy! http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip96a.htm
That made me giggle.
Hi all -
Is that the Resturant at the End of the Universe? Or something like that? There was an RPG based upon it too, iirc. Damn, I can picture the cover of the main book, but......
Wrong, sorry.
Didn't I mention something about this topic previously? I kinda like the way you did it, but sometimes, you need to give a reason why Norebo would be there. Is it because he's whacky enough to ask those questions everybody else is thinking but won't say aloud?
You could say that, or you could say I like drawing Norebo b/c he is easy. Or it was a gathering of roguish gods?
I'm working on the st. cuthbert vs Retribution idea. Got the cast of characters. I'm also working on the Zilchus vs tithing idea. That's gotta be a Christmas deal!
Cool on the Cuthbert. You better get that Zilchus thing out fast then, my itinerary is going fast towards Christmas.
I think the calender should be done in cartoon style. And the fold out should be "secret" and I'll tell you via email. It's gross! Ewww....
Shh!
Elendur: Good idea, I think when I started doing these I initially had an index link then forgot to keep using them. I'll try to remember this time. :P
In either case, the World Serpent of Norse lore isn't patently a 'Greyhawk' myth, unless you figure gods like Trithereon and Kord(?) live in Gladsheim and have ported such a myth.
Since the World Serpent straddles all worlds, it could even simply be that it gets its name from the Norse myth, despite that myth not being connected to other worlds (like Greyhawk). Which could lead to some interesting bar discussions? ("What be this Midgard Serpent ye speak of? All know that the world be forged on the anvil of Moradin!")
It had to be done. ;)
Now if I could only figure out how to make a slideshow script with back and forward arrows that would be an accomplishment!
If not st. cuthbert, then someone in charge.
Thanks, Mort for an excellent interpretation of my ideas. I worked hard on the dialogue and won't screw with you when you decide to take a WEAK off again.
Excellent. Most enjoyable, and I hope others like it as well.
Theocrat Issak
- slinking off to ponder how to make Pholtus more dominate-
Thanks bud, anytime. And this won't be the last we see of Theocrat's ideas in the near future either!
The wait is over, Greyfans! It's the second annual Needfest Special! :D
At first I did not like the satire because it was too much of a rip-off. Since I said "at first" I've obviously changed my mind.
Here's why:
It is very close to the original, and that was what I didn't like, until around page 5 or so. It was then that I went back and started to re-read the diaolague. Some of it is purely (insert your own positive or negative word). "A round or two" (chimney scene). Classic. But the overall material is just about awesome. Really. Yes, so very close. But the little twist and the little turn here and a peek there makes it unquie unto itself. Having given the ideas for a short strip that without much practice is hard, but to come up with the rhyme's and verbal constructs is just....something that should be syndicated. It makes me realize that this is why I pay the monthly fee's for the site - just so that it is easier for me to find classic and well written work, and it is well worth it.
Mike, you've once again done an outstanding job. Certainly makes up for that "Weak Off" you took.
Be Well, and stab heathens with a spoon.
Theocrat Issak
Merry Christmas. I was finally able to show the WifeFIEND the st. cuthbert strip, and she liked it. But she loved the Grinch strip. And since she doesn't have an account here at WotC, she said to pass along her adulations regarding the strip. Being a ChristmasFIEND I paint the Christmas Sophie's for her villages, to which she commented....that someone needs to make a Gringh-ish mini so she could put it with her villages. I think I have a tall lanky Ral Partha troll I can convert into a grinch. Mike, knowing you paint mini's, do you have any mini's that you think would fit the concept for "grinch?" Anybody else? See if you do, then you put a picture up, I could try to find it in my massive mini collection or online.
Well, even if not, I've got a year to find one.
Be Well. Be Well Played.
Theocrat Issak
All you need now is a cameo by Valkaun Dain in your next comic strip.
A new milestone! :D
Congradulations on your milestone. Awesome work.
But I do have contentions:
100 straight weeks? You did take a weak off. Or does that not count because during that time an OJ came out?
The very first comic, since you linked to it, discusses the removal of the Demi-humans. In the end they get to stay.
Pholtus brings to motion the removal of the demi-human deities. Thus he'd have a Removal vote. Wastri says to kill the elves thus a 2nd Removal vote. Pelor is a wuss and says that they should be allowed to stay. Bobcob doesn't care and gives a 3rd Removal vote. Nerull offers to remove them in addition to his 4th removal vote, while Rao wants to get along and offers the 2nd stay vote. Istus uses her normal "It's in the Fates" vote for allowing them to stay, which is a 3rd stay vote. She could have also said "It's in the Fates" for Nerull to remove them, too, but she didn't. Bummer. So at this point it's 4 removal votes and 3 stay votes with only Tharzidun left, and he abstains. But Lendor the chairman doesn't vote or if he does give a stay vote, that's a 4-4 tie. But the way it is presented is that Wastri, Pholtus and Lendor don't give a vote. What's up with that?
What's up with Pholtus always whining? As the producer of this Reality Based Comic Strip, I take it that you've taken a wonderful page out of Survivor's handbook on presentation and conflict. Pholtus never whines to me, his Theocrat. I think that you only portray certain aspects that put him in negative light. Upstaging him with st. cuthbert. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Let's make it an issue to correct in the upcoming episodes. Let's show the positive side of Pholtus a whole lot more.
Thanks for producing this wonderful reality webisode!
Theocrat Issak
As for Pholtus whining? Okay I'm guilty of that, from issue 1 I needed a heel among the good guys, so why not the Lawfully arrogant Pholtus? Now the fact he never gets his way is what makes comedy. In light of this overdone device, I will look into evening the score though.
I got the next 100 issues to rectify the scenario? :P
My first experience in Greyhawk came in 1998-99. So i missed out on what most would call the golden years of Greyhawk. There have been things I noticed in the comics now and again that made me go research the World of Greyhawk more. I use it as my game world and prefer only to play in the world of Greyhawk also, but have had to try other things to continue playing D&D.
Thanks again for a great Comic!
Thanks Theocrat, well the board meeting was just being proposed to by Pholtus. Hence his lack of a nifty nameplate. Likewise Wastri is an interloper and was dealt with. Lendor just breaks ties, which will never happen since Tharizdun is not around. The board is made of Greater Gods, which is a gang that could contain more if not for lack of frame space ;)
Do they use Robilar's Rules of Panthementary Procedure?
All Hail the Overgod and his hilarious and informative WoG Comics!
Thank you, thank you! Unfortunately being an aloof overgod I don't have priests or grant spells. I spend half my time sleeping like Tharizdun.
My first experience in Greyhawk came in 1998-99. So i missed out on what most would call the golden years of Greyhawk. There have been things I noticed in the comics now and again that made me go research the World of Greyhawk more. I use it as my game world and prefer only to play in the world of Greyhawk also, but have had to try other things to continue playing D&D.
Thanks again for a great Comic!
I'm glad my comics have piqued your interest in the minutae of Greyhawk. I try to cater to old and new gamers, but its a hit-miss affair.
(Wolfsire) Do they use Robilar's Rules of Panthementary Procedure?
Hehe, you said a mouthful. I think the Greater Gods do have their own procedures and rules though. What you read is however is clearly filtered so the mortal brain can comprehend it. ;)
Madness follows...
This is a quirky one. :D
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip102a.htm
This is a quirky one. :D
He's in Cruskii (Ice Barbarians, Thillonrian Peninsula). Darlene is the artist who drew the map for the 83 boxed set.
He's in Cruskii (Ice Barbarians, Thillonrian Peninsula). Darlene is the artist who drew the map for the 83 boxed set.
Nope, not Cruskii. Sorry ol pal.
Darlene did the map yes, but do any of you older gamers remember the comic she did in Dragon magazine back in the day?
Elendur: Yeah I said F4 would be cryptic. ;)
Edit: Well I navigated the Information Superhighway until I found the info:
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"Darlene" is Darlene Jean Pekul and she drew Jasmine for 11 issues in the early days of Dragon Magazine.
Let's test your google-fu even more Valkaun, what is that strip of coast north of Blackmoor called?
That's more like it!
Let's test your google-fu even more Valkaun, what is that strip of coast north of Blackmoor called?
Um, the Land of Black Ice.
Strike 1. It is parallel to the LOBI but that strip of dry land does have a name.
The Tusking Strand.
Prepare for a trippy ride back in time. Past meets present. :D
Achoo! :P
Yup, they're back.
Mortepierre: Correct! With 1000 kudo points you now qualify for a level up! Choose wisely. Hmm, yes that was too easy. I need come up with something...challenging...
Mortepierre: Correct! With 1000 kudo points you now qualify for a level up! Choose wisely. Hmm, yes that was too easy. I need come up with something...challenging...
Yay!
Can I trade that level for a comic about Fortubo/Jascar and the dwarven pantheon? I mean, the two poor gods have been estranged from their "chosen people" for centuries now, with only dwarves as company. They must be close to suicide by now :P
What would YOUR answer be?
As requested....Jascar and Fortubo!
Thanks Mort, t'was a level well spent
You're welcome Mortepierre! Now try this groan inducer on for size.
She's holding the "staff/ trident" and his left hand is raised. What's he "holding", "touching", "petting", or just plain "doing" with his right hand?
This is what us Theocrat's think about. The potential tarnishment of the god's, even if they are false in their beliefs.
Theocrat Issak
Wait a minute, since when is Osprem a female?
Since 1st edition and Dragon Magazine's Suel gods series by Lakofka. I am curious now why or how you came to think Osprem is male. :D
HxHunter Hi mortellan, I try to read WoG regularly. Can I suggest a comic of Erevan Ilesere and/or Darahl Firecloak? Please
Thanks for reading my modest comic. Erevan Ilesere can certainly be done. It's one thing to do Correllon but its more a challenge to do other elven gods. Now Darahl I'm not familiar with. Maybe I'm tired, but can anyone give me a clue?
http://www.planewalker.com/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.php?intEntryID=3639
http://boards1.wizards.com/showpost.php?p=10703291&postcount=3
Darahl Firecloak
The Even-Tempered, Lord of the Green Flame
Demigod
Symbol: Two outstretched hands holding a green flame between them
Home Plane: Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia/Abellio/The Twin Towers
Portfolio: Earth and flame phenomena, earth and fire magic
Worshipers: Earth elemental savants, fire elemental savants, druids, paladins
Cleric Alignments: LN, LG
Domains: Earth, Elf, Fire
He exiled himself after the mad avatars thing. I like him because he is the only Lawful elf deity I know he has a nice portfolio (fire and earth magic).
I have used Erevan in WoG before.
Nice! I didnt notesed it. I suppose the one in the white robes is Labelas Enoreth (another favorite, Time domain rocks).
Get your thinking caps on!
Howdy yall. The solution to last week's puzzle is included in this week's comic. Have fun.
Yeash.
I got a new job. Man, now I really know why I've always said that Work was a "bad" four letter word that ended in K, just like another "bad" four letter word you can't say in polite company.
So preparing for the job with the old job and the new one has kept me away from my gaming forums. But Mort, as always an excellent job.
This one rings very true. You could do tons of parody's on WotC dealings with Greyhawk - such as the one we worked on regarding st. cuthbert.
Although you are correct in you statement that any "official" Greyhawk book would indeed be a catch-22 in that some would love it's contents and others would decry their settings changes.
I do not see an official Greyhawk book ever coming out. The RPGA has Living Greyhawk and does what it does. Paizo has Greyhawk and does what it does, and although it does do an adventure set in Greyhawk that is not part of their adventure paths (which I'll get to below) these are not so large as to disrupt the overall arch of the RPGA.
The Paizo Adventure Paths are most excellent and are detailing Greyhawk nicely. But, as someone's mentioned previously, even the Isle of Dread isn't a GH product but something that was converted to fit, just like what many of us fans must do to get our GH fix. Heck, even the first AP wasn't really in GH until they converted it.
We were very lucky to get the LGG when we did. It was to boost the RPGA, and it worked. It's so generic that it is rules independent except for it's use of Domains for the gods which wasn't really used in previous editions.
And even with the LGG, it gave enough new stuff that many people debated and some said it ignored events and allowed speculation on others. It must have been hard to detail. Anything new that would be "official" must really come from Paizo with Lisa "Mega-Greyhawk-Babe" Stevens as the CEO and Erik "Iquander" Mona Publisher of Dragon and Dungeon. With them in charge of Paizo's direction there is much that can come out for Greyhawk, while maintaining an even level for other settings.
But what we can count on is the awesome work of people like yourself to come up with new and inventive things and ideas to further the concept of Greyhawk.
Be Well.
Theocrat Issak
Bwahaha. :P
And also, in case you missed it, have you seen the secret ending to this week's comic? ;)
http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=815346
Some users that visit the site get a virus message.
I just cam across your web-comic the other day. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and laughed a lot ready it (and crying too as I no longer have any of my old 1st and 2nd edition greyhawk stuff).
Over in the Minis area there is a lot of hatred towards to Greyhawk (and eberron too oddly enough).
Would love to see of the Greyhawk folks come over to my SUPPROT GREYHAWK minis thread and give us some support!
Keep Up the Comics, i will be following it now that I know of it, and would love to see some dealings with the 4 Elemental Princes of Evil!
Why would mini fans hate the game worlds? Is this a new faction of board gamer vs role player? Anyhoo, I do support more Greyhawk specific minis, especially of the Aspect variety since they go so well with my comic ;)
Expect to see more of those in W.o.G in the future and if you're lucky I'll work in the (5) elemental princes of evil. that's a very good greyhawk topic that i haven't touched on yet!
And of course, one you haven't touched on that I am sure some of the Womanizing Gods (MAybe Norebo) could try and get a fling with (The idea came from Norebo hitting on all the other goddess at the bar) is good ol' Lobsterhead Lady Blibdooolpoop.
Maybe if she wore a bag on her head, and ruuberbands on her hands she could be fun ;)
Still, love the jokes! Love the Comic!
A classic in the making.
As owner of GreyhawkOnline.com we've had people come forth and say that they get a virus when the come to the site. For that each time I've been informed, I've contacted the Web host and done a scan of a back-up that was done that day (I download the site, check it and go from there) and the Web host does one as well. I've never encountered a virus notice, and the Web host always gives the site a clean bill of health.
Being that I only use Mozilla Firefox, and figure that Gamers are part of the smart and geeky aspect of the Web and Internet, they would too. I would recomened that you quit using Internet Explorer, and Norton, McAfee, or any one of those other virus scanners. Being geeky and a gamer, I read PC Magazine, PC Gamer and PC world - and PC World rated AVG Anti-virus Free Edition better than Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, PC-cillin and the others. So again, I'd recommend switching to a Free and better anti-virus. And walk away from Internet Explorer 5,6,7 and any future rendition.
Of course, if you're not geeky then you may get those notices and spread rumors that the site has a virus. But I ask, as always that you notify me that you receive a virus notice and I'll do tons of work to prove it a false positive (no babies here!)
Of course, don't get all willy nilly and upset that I said you are or aren't geeky either. I'm using the "You" not directed towards anybody but "Gary Holian." (he's an Internet ghost, a figment of our imagination, a ghost writer for some other unknown person - sheesh, it's a rumor, don't believe it, I love GLH!).
If you have a threat found, please email all aspects from your browser and anti-virus programs so that I can do my best to prove that you are indeed correct and that my site and host are indeed infected and have problems. It is the only way that it can really be corrected.
If you enjoy Mortellan's work, the work of the fine people at CanonFire! or anybody else's works that are hosted on GHO then it is your duty to keep me as informed as possible. Really, Mort's work is priceless, and it is the reason I am more than willing to spend $30/month and have done so for over 5yrs without asking for much in return.
Theocrat Issak
I suspect that although Mortellan started this inside Episode V, that we'll have to wait 20 some-odd years to see episodes I -IV. Of course, if there were Episodes I-IV previously done, then Mortellan should have given us a link for those. Espeically if he'd started out with Episode IV. Which means we only have to wait 2 more years for Episode VI to find out if the Gods are able to get their warp drive working, can warp speed 7 (I know warp is Trek and not Wars), and then get to a planet and have Murylund sleep with a princess. Then we'll all have Internet speculation about what would happen if Mortellan could ever get the actors to continue their contract and find out if the princess's son becomes the savior of evil or the reaper of good.
Episode V.V of course will involve #2 fixing the Warp Drive.
I just figured I'd save us another week of waiting and years of anticipation and speculation (unless he has indeed skipped the previous issues).
Be Well, Be Well Played and Speculated!
Theocrat Issak
Hi all -
I suspect that although Mortellan started this inside Episode V, that we'll have to wait 20 some-odd years to see episodes I -IV. Of course, if there were Episodes I-IV previously done, then Mortellan should have given us a link for those. Espeically if he'd started out with Episode IV.
Ah theocrat is ever observant! I do have episode I-IV in mind. The time frame should be less Lucasian in scale luckily. That said, gods live in the time stream differently than we do so events tend to play out in a non-linear fashion sometimes.
Which means we only have to wait 2 more years for Episode VI to find out if the Gods are able to get their warp drive working, can warp speed 7 (I know warp is Trek and not Wars), and then get to a planet and have Murylund sleep with a princess. Then we'll all have Internet speculation about what would happen if Mortellan could ever get the actors to continue their contract and find out if the princess's son becomes the savior of evil or the reaper of good.
Good stuff! Let the speculation begin!
Episode V. V of course will involve #2 fixing the Warp Drive.
I just figured I'd save us another week of waiting and years of anticipation and speculation (unless he has indeed skipped the previous issues).
Be Well, Be Well Played and Speculated!
Theocrat Issak
I could give you a hint what comes next week, but it would ruin the punchline. ;)
Anyways, great comic! Love seeing the Spelljammer in action again (btw, that hawkship inspired the Greathawk of Hackjammer :D )
In the meantime, here is MORE of the Greyspace action.
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip114a.htm
Mort, please check your WoG comic site. I had created a folder for my office to transfer a file, and deleted it. Well, I deleted it by deleting the entire public folder. Thus it was restored via back up.
Which means if you put anything in there please check it out.
This also means that whatever virus was there, and later removed may have been restored. So I'll be getting tons of emails about that!
Be Well. Be Well undeleted!
Theocrat Issak
P.S. At least it was before the new weekly comic!
Let's see what the mountain boys are up to...
Denis, aka "Maldin"
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Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
Maldin, No, I'm a Favicon Fanatic of Theocratic proportions!
I go to a site, see they have an icon in the url and /favicon.ico it and copy it that way and have about 1500 ico's.
The one on GHO currently was stolen from someone's hosted site of the CoG heraldy. Of course if there were a Greyhawk or Greyhawk Adventures or even better a GreyhawkOnline icon, that'd be SWEET! I think I have some icon programs, but that doesn't mean I know how to use them!
Be Well. Be Well Icon'd.
Theocrat Issak
P.S. All this Icon stuff reminds me, I re-painted the ICONIC Red Dragon, and today I entered it into a Hobby Town USA model contest. I'll post some pic's on another thread and report my ranking later.
;)
Denis, aka "Maldin"
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Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
(which has a custom favicon!)
Minis are back!
Maybe they should invest in a tray for rolling their dice?
I love it!
Maybe they should invest in a tray for rolling their dice?
Maybe so...when you are a deity, the whole world can be your dice tray!
A tribute...
Shilling for the Wizards again...
What is truly sad, was I was going to buy a subscription to both, but now...
Yeah it's going to be rough times ahead. But take heart there is plans afoot to squeeze in some last minute Hawk in the remaining pages of Dragon and Dungeon.
,and I believe the last one is Storm Silverhand?
The Simbul.
This one has Iggwilv in it. ;)
Try this one on for size. Older gamers will appreciate the end.
If only it were this easy.
Been a while since I posted. I've thought they were all clever and didn't have much to say. Besides, I usually only chime in to complain. It's the hosters privillage to do so!
OK, thing I don't like about this is that it implies that ol' cultist of T will be healed. Being that T is a "bad guy" he doesn't grant healing spells. Which means that a priest of some "Dalt-ing" do-gooder would have to come and bring him back from "death's door" (yes, Dalt pun intended).
Let's say that it isn't a do-gooder and it is indeed another cultist of T. Although we're now in 3.5 edition, even in W.o.G. Comicland (see my st. cuthbert comic!), T never really granted spells because he was locked in a cage (not similiar to UFC's cage or Luke Cage). Also, you can't cast spells that are opposed to your "ethical or moral" compass. Being that they wish to bring about the destruction of the universe, dying brings about the destruction of ones-own personal universe, and thus at least part of the plan is achieved. Although, I always considered that STOOPID (using Shack's IDOUT style of spelling). I mean, if I'm the biggest baddest bad guy out there, and I want to bring about the destruction of the world, me dying would be a set back to those plans. I mean, look at current evil-doers - they plan and get others to kill themself.
But the RULES is 'de Rules. Moral compass says, "No, I'm at Death's Door, having a Near Death (non-Windows) XP [you shoulda made it a blue screened door], and I'm going to fight death so that I can bring about my own personal destruction!"
OK, that's enough from me. I'm going back to my Book of the EbonGleam to consider how it all works.
So expalin that one! (said with a sneer).
Be Well. Be EVIL Well.
Theocrat Issak
Theocrat: You always are thinking, darn you...hmm...so I take it the question is why would a worshipper of the god of entropy want to avoid death's door. i can think of two lame excuses off the top of my head. 1) worshippers are supposed to go their deity's home plane when they die, Nerull doesn't own this guy nor did he reap him. Nerull was busy watching the crystal-TV with Boccob and sent him off like a nagging door to door salesman. 2) T. is the god of madness as well (in some editions), so maybe the whole episode is a wacko-dream sequence to test his cultist's loyalty to the cause or, um...ya. :P
Otherwise, you get into moral conundrums like why don't the anarchists just implode as quickly and spectacularly as possible, since that is what their god seeks? And if real world history has taught us anything, its that humans are quite good at finding ways to call a spade a club when it makes life easier on themselves, fanatical or not.
And now...Kelanen!
*Sneaks this one in there*
More Kelanen stuff!
This one will bring a smile to your face. Be sure to read Dungeon 148, the Spinecastle article is worth every page.
And now...Demogorgon!
Now for some Pholtus action!
OK, HA! HA! HA!
Now first I was ****** that you'd link to that "Hug Your Heathen"(tm) site dedicated to the Pale and not my own, ThePale.org site dedicated to the Pale. Then I saw my own listing of O' Blinding Light and I remark that I was hoping for more. So OK, that's fine then. Since they do seem to have a few things. Now maybe I should get back with them now that people have moved out and on past the Pale, and maybe it's not so "HYH-ish."
That was kinda good, and at least you didn't have him whining like you normally do.
I didn't see last week's comic until now. And nice job. I like that. But what I don't like is that you either have those mini's or you just ganked the picture off the Web (which I'd prefer). Because if you had those 2 mini's (I 800+ WotC mini's but neither of those) that means that I'm wasting my money hosting this damn site of yours instead of buying 2-3 packs of mini's each month! And if you had your own hosting, you'd be buying 1-2 packs of mini's less each month! Which means that you wouldn't be able to get that ultra-rare Greyhawk Militia Solider, and I'd be able to get them all to myself.
Which means that now there's the Mordy mini and the Greyhawk Militia, we'll get to have a better GH Mini WoG comic...right???
Nice job with the Pholtus stuff.
Be Well. Be Well Followed.
Theocrat Issak
As to the minis, they are all ganked pics from online galleries. I personally own maybe enough D&D minis to fit in my hands and none are GH related. So if I did have enough to afford gobs of D&D minis, THEN i'd need a digital camera to pose them, which I can't afford either. Hmm, maybe if I didn't buy into Warhammer 40k so much....
The server had a problem this past weekend. They've replaced the hardware, but it seems that the backup is from mid June.
Mort will need to update and restore the newer material.
If ever you run into this problem, please email myself, Mort or Rick from the Oerth Journal to get the problems resolved ASAP.
Thanks,
Theocrat Issak
We now return you to the program already in progress....
Ahem. Another excellent comic Mortellan! I think I have the exact same t-shirt Nerull is wearing somewhere in my room.
Vecna might look like the nerdy kid that had an accident recently.
Yup, Wee Jas in that outfit is definitely more with the times than her old pic in Dragon from the 80's. At least I think so. (drool)
On that note, I'm curious: do you base all the deities on actual 'canon' pictures of how they look like? I assume you've taken some...liberties with their outfits (Zilchus in a business suit? A half-naked muscly Lendor? ;)) but what about their actual likenesses?
On that note, I'm curious: do you base all the deities on actual 'canon' pictures of how they look like? I assume you've taken some...liberties with their outfits (Zilchus in a business suit? A half-naked muscly Lendor? ;)) but what about their actual likenesses?
Yes that is how I proceeded from early on. In most cases I went with the oldest canon picture, which is why my Kord or Cuthbert doesn't look like the 3.5 D&DG versions. In other cases there has never been a canon picture at all, so I've extrapolated from their descriptions which is how I end up with Mayaheine or Rao (likeness from his holy symbol). Zilchus I took liberties with since he is not likely to ever be canon-ized and parodying Trump is too fun. As for Lendor, that IS how he looks from the old Dragon Mag article.
Then along comes DMPrata's deitybase, this is extremely useful for me but came well after I was established. Check it out.
http://knights-n-knaves.com/dmprata/Deitybase.pdf
Where there's smoke there's Pholtus...
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip127a.htm
The Pholtus one from before the server died. Any chance it will come back?
ROB
ROB
I've been meaning to mention a few things lately, esp. in regards to the OJ.
I love your comics on GHO. The ones on OJ are hit and miss, since it's not really a series, or even anything even remotely related that makes it a little off. Like Stan!'s one panel comic (from dragon/dungeon and now in KQ), it's always the same - concept/art direction/ people. With your OJ stuff, it's been sporatic as to content and even art style. I'd like see something like OotS - it's the same characters in dragon as the Web comic (and even a recent comic mentions that their not sure its the same continutity) whereas its the gods or its a set of characters (try hero gods or even clerics of the gods) doing their schtick.
That way you keep your OJ comic differentiated from your WoG comic, esp. now that you'll not be parodying Dragon articles (or maybe you'll be parodying the online GleeMax [god, lets hope its not that. Who even uses the word Glee anymore]).
I do like the new comic regarding the CF! articles, and its a good one to review. But here again, if its not an article regarding the gods, and say the lands of dyvers or a treaty on the potion Silversheen how will that then fit into your continutity with the WoG comic? Thus I'm not saying that it can't be done, but I'm wondering if it would then be possible to have all new characters that are related to the world - heroes that parody, a'la Quag Keep.
Like the WoG gods have PC's that they manipulate. Whee!
Be Well. Be Well Drawn.
Theocrat Issak
Great, now theres gonna be a parody of the Great Theocrat....
Hi all -
I've been meaning to mention a few things lately, esp. in regards to the OJ.
I love your comics on GHO. The ones on OJ are hit and miss, since it's not really a series, or even anything even remotely related that makes it a little off. Like Stan!'s one panel comic (from dragon/dungeon and now in KQ), it's always the same - concept/art direction/ people. With your OJ stuff, it's been sporatic as to content and even art style. I'd like see something like OotS - it's the same characters in dragon as the Web comic (and even a recent comic mentions that their not sure its the same continutity) whereas its the gods or its a set of characters (try hero gods or even clerics of the gods) doing their schtick.
That way you keep your OJ comic differentiated from your WoG comic, esp. now that you'll not be parodying Dragon articles (or maybe you'll be parodying the online GleeMax [god, lets hope its not that. Who even uses the word Glee anymore]).
I do like the new comic regarding the CF! articles, and its a good one to review. But here again, if its not an article regarding the gods, and say the lands of dyvers or a treaty on the potion Silversheen how will that then fit into your continutity with the WoG comic? Thus I'm not saying that it can't be done, but I'm wondering if it would then be possible to have all new characters that are related to the world - heroes that parody, a'la Quag Keep.
Like the WoG gods have PC's that they manipulate. Whee!
Be Well. Be Well Drawn.
Theocrat Issak
Great, now theres gonna be a parody of the Great Theocrat....
LOL. Well that is alot for thought and you're right on the money for the most part. The OJ stuff is hard, I generally try to crank out something full page which isn't my usual pace of 3-6 panels. So yes it does vary. On another point I have been -trying- to think (almost daily) of a comic to do that is more serialized. But I just haven't decided if it should be gods or mortals or quasis, heck or even Greyhawk! Such decisions would involve settling on a core of characters instead of my usual throw a dart on the board style. ;-P
Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
In the meantime I have trickled some new lesser beings into the regular comic run, like the cultists of Tharizdun and recently in OJ with Darnakurian (elves are immortal though, nyah). As for the CF article comics, you're right that most will not feature deities so maybe your idea to use mortal parody figures is a good idea here. I will keep that in mind as the articles roll on in the future.
It's a double parody feature, first over at canonfire is Kirt's Revised Spell List
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip130a.htm
and second over at Dungeon is Iggwilv!
Mike, not to steal your thread, but nobody told me about the DM of the Rings or even order of the stick long ago. If they had, I'd be doing actual work, today not not goofing off. See with WoG, I've been here since day one. WoG, Nodwick, and a couple others advance on Thursdays. OotS is now 3 random days a week. DM of the Ring is MWF. And since nobody ever told me about it, I'm wasting valuable Exp. to Castle Ravenloft time reading DM of the Ring. Worst part of this is that it's so funny I'm literally laughing and making snorting noises. Additionally the comments by readers makes it even worse.
With the loss of Dragon and Dungeon mags our comic feeding frenzy must be saitiated via the web. With WoG every Thursday and a new CanonFire edition of WoG (which I'm hoping will be something entirely different) happenstance and OotS randomized I recommend DM of the Ring. Again, even moreso than the Newspapers strips I haven't laughed like this since I went and saw Ralphie May.
Ok, just a reminder to pass along other D&D, Greyhawk and related comic strips to me to spend valuable gaming related time reading while at the office.
Be Well. Be Laughing Well.
Theocrat Issak
Er, so why is she playing Monopoly?
Anyone with an INT of 10 or higher can play chess. Winning at Monopoly takes a REALLY coldhearted evil disposition. Plus its about accumulation of wealth and land. Two hallmarks of a villain. Third, it was an idea of Theocrats so I thought I'd tease him with it. :P
I recommend DM of the Ring. Again, even moreso than the Newspapers strips I haven't laughed like this since I went and saw Ralphie May.
Ok, just a reminder to pass along other D&D, Greyhawk and related comic strips to me to spend valuable gaming related time reading while at the office.
Be Well. Be Laughing Well.
Theocrat Issak
I too read DM of the Rings. It's one of those strips 'I wish I had thought of'. It is freakin' hilarious because you'd swear the characters are people you know. Don't just jump into it though, you have to start from the beginning.
Yeah, I am at #75ish. I spent all day at work on Friday doing no work what so ever, just reading those damn comic strips. It was so hard not to make noise when I was laughing.
Be Well.
Mort, I'm offended. Us Pholtines have morals. Mine, well they just happen to be lying down (next to that pretty girl).
Next, so does this mean that st. cuthbert believes in chastity amongst his clergy? Because nobody goes after the ugly girl (their all pretty to someone), the clergy would need to go to bars to meet the girls, but instead there are people to convert and adventures to be had (not to mention WENCHES!). See, there is a new breed of Pholtines.
Theocrat Issak
Head Knowledge-er of Pholtus and Pholtus Doctrine.
LOL. Well that is alot for thought and you're right on the money for the most part. The OJ stuff is hard, I generally try to crank out something full page which isn't my usual pace of 3-6 panels. So yes it does vary. On another point I have been -trying- to think (almost daily) of a comic to do that is more serialized. But I just haven't decided if it should be gods or mortals or quasis, heck or even Greyhawk! Such decisions would involve settling on a core of characters instead of my usual throw a dart on the board style. ;-P
Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
In the meantime I have trickled some new lesser beings into the regular comic run, like the cultists of Tharizdun and recently in OJ with Darnakurian (elves are immortal though, nyah). As for the CF article comics, you're right that most will not feature deities so maybe your idea to use mortal parody figures is a good idea here. I will keep that in mind as the articles roll on in the future.
Though i personally like the non-continuity in protagonists very much, if you want to take a group make them the quasi-deities. They get around the most, they interact with deities and mortals alike.
Hi all -
Mort, I'm offended. Us Pholtines have morals. Mine, well they just happen to be lying down (next to that pretty girl).
Next, so does this mean that st. cuthbert believes in chastity amongst his clergy? Because nobody goes after the ugly girl (their all pretty to someone), the clergy would need to go to bars to meet the girls, but instead there are people to convert and adventures to be had (not to mention WENCHES!). See, there is a new breed of Pholtines.
Theocrat Issak
Head Knowledge-er of Pholtus and Pholtus Doctrine.
Hehe, not chastity so much as they deplore the world's oldest profession and all the illicit activity that goes with it. Plus how else do you think the Chapeaux faction got their 'crumpled hat' motif?
Though i personally like the non-continuity in protagonists very much, if you want to take a group make them the quasi-deities. They get around the most, they interact with deities and mortals alike.
That's a smart idea. I have leaned that way when using the quasi deities before. Zagyg's list of friendly associations in the 83 Guide has always been the best source of information. I have a feeling there will be some printed information on his old Company of Seven coming up too. ;)
Oh yes, I almost forgot, today's comic! This one took some research! :P
A new canonfire article parody. Go Orcish!