Thread 95803514

Come on feel the noise
Shit comics rock the söys
You get words words words
Words words words

>>95803514 (OP)
>click
>Nale expands
Yeah I ain't reading this

upscale.
words in thog's mouth make thog sad
at least he's back tho.

>>95803514 (OP)
Our boy is back in town!

Jesus christ who still reads this dogshit

emphasis on reads

>>95803514 (OP)
>Shit comics rock the söys
But enough about Dungeon Meshi!
nyuk nyuk nyuk

>>95803514 (OP)
Change "Thog back!" to "Thog !" and blank the bubbles after that.

>>95803514 (OP)
Our boy!

>>95803946
Wow, a wit to rival Voltaire. What are you doing slumming here on 4chan?

>>95803514 (OP)
>MOTHERFUCKING THOG IS BACK

>>95803514 (OP)
holy shit

>>95803514 (OP)
thog not know what "obligatory" mean but thog pretty sure this counts

>>95804906
the age of thog has begun

>>95804906
Fuck yeah

Hell yeah, the talky orcy is back! And still single, it seems.

>>95804906
Assembled potsherds.

>>95803514 (OP)
>Thog back
>Wild studio audience clapping

>>95803514 (OP)
I like Sabine and Nale's dynamic.

>>95805290
Makes you wonder whether one of them's gonna die. Or something worse.

>>95803514 (OP)
Holy fuark it's thog!

What can mere men do against such reckless thoggery?

>>95804906
I thought about doing that too.

>>95803957
Nah, that was actually pretty good for the most part. You can't really blame them for having a lot of imitators that learned the wrong lessons from it.

Thog was dead? I... genuinely can't remember what happened to him.

>>95806962
He died.

>>95806962
Roy dropped a building on him.

Thog Truthers, I kneel
Never thought he was coming back

>Sabine frowning in the last panels
>Thog's resurrection is the way to establish the connection with the fountain using the dagger
Goodbye Thog, it was nice having you back for a page

>>95808247
if Rich brought back Thog just to kill him in the next strip I think I will actually respect him more
it would be proof that he's not forgotten the joys of trolling

>>95808247
I dunno, resurrecting thog and putting clothes on him so his toes don't freeze off only to stab him right after feels like way too much effort even for nale

>>95804906
>>95806327
>not leaving top half normal and doing thog on second half only

>>95808404
Now with five additional thogs.

>>95808247
If they just needed blood they could pick any old bozo, not a level 15 barbarian they need to subdue and blow a resurrection scroll on. Maybe it scales off level, but they don't seem to know the details.

>>95803514 (OP)
Wait how can Nale cast a resurrection scroll, I thought you needed the spell on your class list.

>>95808656
You can make a Use Magic Device check to bypass that. In this case, DC 27.

I just checked

He had been dead/out of the comic for 14 years

FOURTEEN
YEARS

>>95809006
thog's spirit haunt narrative

>>95808247
>Didn't even do anything eveil
>won't get to meet Cerberus again

>>95809122
Getting rez'd doesn't wipe the slate
(also I think that will be the twist for Roy's dad: he's technically not been allowed into the afterlife yet, so his neutral (selfish) actions he's been doing trying to wiggle in are going to lead to him getting rejected/kicked to the neutral afterlife)

>>95808880
>Use Magic Device
Well, now you've got me all nostalgic.

>>95808880
DC 33, actually. 20 + caster level.

>>95809006
Talky man mean to Thog =(

>>95809006
Fucking crazy. I didn't think he was dead at the time and to get confirmation of his fate over a decade later is mad.

>>95803514 (OP)
historic moment
I hope Thog will have some commentary on the state of the comic and its verbosity.

>>95808247
I don't think Nale would bother giving him clothes if he's just going to kill him again.

>>95810692
Rich was always talky author. It makes his rare use of the visual medium all the more effective.

>>95809006
I really love this page. Roy gets crashed down through the ceiling, is no doubt in some pretty serious pain, and sees something in an upside-down image that makes him focus up. He starts baiting Thog in a way that's extremely obvious to the reader, though it's not clear what he's doing when the first pillar breaks. But once you know what's going on, that one upside-down image makes all the sense in the world. The shadows cast by the pillars made him realize that there was an opportunity that he could take advantage of.

And then, the panels themselves are just a high stack of horizontal action as we move from column to column, up until it's time to show off the plan. Then it suddenly shifts to a vertical focus so we can clearly see the consequences of the action.

We tend to think "wow, he actually probably killed Thog, that's crazy." But there's a lot going on here that's worth giving Rich some praise for.

>>95808390
you don't want to look at a man's dick while you kill him

>>95803514 (OP)
It's thoggin' time

>>95812020
OOTS had a pretty kino 300 strip stretch. It's still good, but man.

It's a shame there's no lock of white hair or a gray ear tip floating around as well. I liked Zz'dtri

>>95815687
His body was just forgotten about after Durkula snapped his neck.

>>95812020
Huh. I always thought Roy was reacting to seeing the drow getting arrested not the debris on the ground. “Have to finish this soon otherwise the drow will split the beans about me and my group”

>>95809006
Do you think Celia wishes she had stayed with the Order for that arc?

>>95812641
Maybe YOU don't.

>>95803514 (OP)
Never thought it would happen

>>95809006
> $2 bitcoin and Obama was still in his first term

>>95803514 (OP)
Traditional games?

>>95809006
>14 years
Thog has been dead for half my life. Unbelievable.

>>95823104
What is someone so young doing on an old people board?

>>95803514 (OP)
Holy shit. The /tg/ thread of legend. And I actually managed to live long enough to post inside of it. Awesome. This just made my month.

>>95803514 (OP)
I mourn our dead brothers, who did not live to see this day.

after four days in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait

>>95805536
I got bad news for you. They've both died at least once before

>>95831245
Excellent high-level thoggery. Thank you, anon.

>>95803514 (OP)
You know... Sabine argued for the super evil alliance to leave Nale's dick alone. Not enhance it. Just make sure they didn't shrink it or whatever. Nale & by extension Elan are guaranteed to be packing schmeat

>>95831245
holy fucking shit
excellent work, anon

>>95831245
t h o g /10

>>95803514 (OP)
THOG LIVES!
H
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S

>>95831245
oh god that's fucking art!

>>95831245
>You are M'lady

lost it

>>95829341
I'm literally 30 too dude, 14 years is not half my life you zoomer.

OUR HERO HAS RETURNED
A reward for all of us who kept the faith through all these many years.

>>95804538
Shitting on your shit comic, Rich. You're a talentless hack and your wife cheats on you btw

>>95806777
No, it really wasn't.

>>95812020
Your comic sucks, Rich. Nothing about this sequence is clever, interesting, or original.

>>95833086
>>95833097
>>95833119
What is it about OOTS and Dungeon Meshi that generates such butthurt?

>>95833294
Why did you drop out of community college instead of learning how to write, Rich?

>>95833086
>>95833119
>>95833301
why is this specific mental illness so prevalent on 4chan

>>95833339
Why are you so bad at writing, Rich? We know it's you, we can all see your IP address, retard. Use a VPN next time you want to pretend to be someone else.

>>95831245
i bet you spent more time thogging this than rich spent writing it, quality work anon

>>95833348
>he not only has an imaginary opponent, he also thinks he's speaking on behalf of others
is this bait? am I a bad sport for not playing along?
wooo, I'm Rich, I contributed more to dnd culture than all of you neckbeards put together
not that putting you all together is a good idea, the smell would be enough to floor a tarrasque

Reply if you're Rich :)

>he thinks Rich has contributed anything to "d&d culture", at all, ever
lmao

>>95833294
Butthurt about Dungeon Meshi only started because normies on here don't like anime anymore.

>>95831245
Amazing

>>95833294
OOTS seethe is generated mostly from jealousy. Some guy who can't draw still rakes in thousands just because people like the story he's telling. Any anon on this board could theoretically achieve the exact same success if they weren't so lazy and that leads to bitterness.

I don't know about Dungeon Meshi, I don't watch anime. Don't hate it, just don't watch it.

>>95834405
Dungeon Meshi is simple and closer as a fantasy story to what a lot of anons claim to want over the dozens upon dozens of isekai stories that flood the market, it's mainly contrarianism mixed in with genuinely criticism that inflates it to bored people actively crusading against it, along with trolls exacerbating it cause they know an easy target when they see one

>>95832732
>14 years is not half of a 30 year old's life.

>>95834405
I guarantee you nobody in here is jealous of "thousands" LOL. also the comic is objectively bad regardless of how many retards like it

>>95834710
>objectively bad
That's a bold statement, now let's see if you can prove it

>>95834710
>I guarantee you nobody in here is jealous
>Immediately proves he's jealous

Here's my guarantee. If you got off your lazy ass TODAY and started actually creating something, you would see moderate success and be much happier with your life. It'll be hard work but everything worth doing is.

>>95834896
Swing and a miss.

>>95834905
It's a hit. I said thousands is nothing to be jealous of since it's very achievable if you're not lazy and stupid. You took that to mean I think Rich's moderate success is supremely impressive. Because you are seething and saw red which made you unable to read.

So either you're too upset to read or you're stupid and can't read. Your pick.

The real answer in your case is both of course

>>95803514 (OP)
glad see thog back

>>95834931
A miss, in fact.

>>95834944
>OOTS hater is just a guy who can't read
Like pottery.

>>95834948
Not at all. You were just wrong.

>>95831245
Well done
>>95833378
I've spent way more time on some Thogs than I'd care to admit.

>>95831245
>edited letters
A lot of the jokes are good, but this is the greatest sin you can commit when writing a thog.

>>95836441
isn't adding letters the greatest sin?

>>95834405
Rich's life seems pretty bad sadly. People shouldn't be envious of him.

>>95836441
I would say that if you are just turning a b into an o by erasing the corners, it's all good. You're still working with what's there.

>>95836441
Not a sin at all.

>>95836509
I try to make threads on /co/ from time to time, but they typically die with at most one or two replies. It's based on D&D, so it fits here.

>>95840351
No.

>>95836509
OOTS was being posted on /tg/ when you were still warming your dad's pocket change

>>95840790
I don't care if it was being posted before the big bang. It's not a traditional game. Age isn't relevance. Relevance is relevance. Don't argue.

>>95842626
Are you being stupid on purpose

You were commanded not to argue. Drone strike launched.

>>95836441
i concur, editing letters in any way slightly trivialises the effort of proper thoggers that only use the avalible ones
imagine someone that in scrabble, people would lose their shit

>>95842922
No.

>>95836441
Exactly. You can't cut a dick off & call a man a woman, you can't cut a "d" & turn it I to an "o". It's just not right & trivializes the actually wonder of proper thogs

>>95806777
It's not even in color. OotS mogs.

>>95842626
dude, it's based on dnd
you're being excessively strict about the scope of the board
don't just read the two words at the top, understand the culture of the board instead
the name of the board is the map, not the territory

>>95836441
My standard is "Is it funny". I'll forgive a lot if it's funny (and in the spirit of minimalist edits)

>>95843654
Ni.

/tg/?

>>95850614
Eke eke eke eke ptang zoo bong!

>>95835027
While I'm bumping the thread one last time, I did want to say that your little song in the OP is terrible
>>95803514 (OP)
>Come on feel the noise
>Shit comics rock the söys

Like you can't even get a rhyme scheme right. You can't even match the syllable count for Christ sake.

So you can't read, you can't write music. You can't stick to a work schedule. You can't debate. You can't come up with good comebacks. Is there anything you CAN do correctly? Genuine question.

>>95853200
He sucks a mean dick

>>95831245
Great Thog. Letter edit purists can suck green resurrected dick.

>>95845045
Not a traditional game. Stop arguing.

>>95853200
What are you referring to? I'm not the OP.

>>95845045
Don't feed the troll

if you can edit letters for thogging, why stop there? why not just rearrange them as well? draw new ones?
the line must be drawn somewhere

>>95860301
Well that's just it, isn't it. The line mustn't be drawn.

>>95840250
The point of thog is to reduce down the existing number of words while still maintaining some level of sense for what is happening. You're deleting content as a means of transforming it. It being humorous is just a bonus.

If you add letters that weren't there, or you shave letters down into different letters, you're doing something different. Same for if you cause the thread of the page to be entirely lost.

wait. thog is neutral evil? what the fuck, I thought he was chaotic

>>95866260
>>95860301
No.

>>95803514 (OP)
I forgot Thog died.

>>95853200
The OP song has been posted in these threads for over 6 years anon, I don't think OP wrote it himself.

>Like you can't even get a rhyme scheme right
huh?
The syllable count is different, but still fits the melody, so what's the issue?

>>95860301
Okay, so why don't we draw the line at 'You are only allowed to erase from the word bubbles, not add to them'?

I can't believe thread is still up for the update
AGAIN

>>95883177
thog is here to stay

>>95883177
>Nale establishes his hardcore gamer cred by carving a slur into his own face

>>95883177
You'd think the blood fountain would demand an actual sacrifice and not be open to loophole abuse

>>95883957
I think it's not really a loophole, because Nale has scores of disposable allies. He could've killed Zz'dtri or Pompey or the latest kobold. He's right that being able to disguise as Elan is a larger boon than any one person that's helped him.

>>95883177
Genuinely surprised at this development.

>>95883177
I can't wait until Nale changes alignment and the whole plan fucks up because he's not evil

>>95884058
Is an alignment change even possible for him outside of helm of opposite alignment shenanigans? He is a devil now.

>>95884058
>>95883177
It's definitely not a coincidence that he became a lot less of an asshole after he started working for the biggest bads around. Makes me wonder where his arc is headed. I doubt redemption is going to be an option but who knows.

>>95883177
Looks like his horns and beard grew in that last panel
>>95884088
An earlier strip established that while Nale was technically turned into a devil, he got to skip the whole “purge a soul of everything not evil” process that typically goes into making a devil.

>>95884088
DoMF drawing Balance?
Also OotS interpretation of alignment leaves plenty of leeway (Roy's dad is what, LG?).

>>95883177
>NALE YOU CANT SAY THAT WORD

>>95833609
I like anime, just not saccharine redditoid slop made for the most childishly retarded e-audience imaginable

>>95883177
oh no, the forbidden letter

>>95831245
>HR t
losing it. funniest thog i've seen in ages.

thog has been dead longer than i've been on hrt

>>95884175
lost at
>can i word
>its time for thog, no
thog meta purity good too

>>95884182
>Roy's dad is what, LG?
Wasn't it implied he's never making it through the pearly gates? I thought that's why he instantly agreed when Roy asked him to never bother the rest of the family again. I think there was more but I can't remember. This shit has gone on too long

>>95884565
>22
It truly was a spectacular battle

>>95884599
lol. man, azure city was the most memorable arc of this comic by far.

>>95884088
he might not stop being evil, but he's definitely going to try to screw over the commission's plans
you can't just barge into a guy's room, threaten him into working for you and assume he won't harbor a grudge over that
question is, are they counting on it?

scar-based character growth upscale

>>95881732
>The syllable count is different, but still fits the melody, so what's the issue?
no it doesnt

I really liked oots when I was 10-13 years old, I haven't really read it since then and it kind of looks like ass now.

>>95892119
It holds up on a reread, especially the side comics where Rich is less locked-in to decisions made flippantly 15 years ago. The pages are arduous to wait for because they're paced to be read in aggregate, and so getting two dozen of them in a year if we're lucky might not even get us out of a room.

>>95885355
>>95883177
>he actually called Thog a friend
I hope he gets the rest of the guild back together for one final showdown with the order

>>95894860
In fairness, "the guild" is these three, the nearest kobold, two wizards and a druid that are flighty at best, and a cleric currently busy being Durkon's babymama. There's not much more band to bring back together.

>>95894984
I know I know but it would be pretty kino if contrived if it could be pulled off