Thread 96745058

Have you ever mechanically justified the traps in your game instead of explaining them using magic? For example, a spring-loaded piston that launches mold, or only including melee weapon traps right next to doors/in hallways (since otherwise they need to either be an area effect sweep or magically guided to actually hit their targets). A trap I actually used in a game was a pool of water with a thin layer of oil above it, with a Kobold holding a tindertwig behind a secret door waiting for a group to wade through it.

>inb4 someone mentions the tiktok reference

We waited several weeks for this?

>>96745058 (OP)
>AI BAD
Wow, scintillating. Really topical.

>>96745058 (OP)
>Wow, that is a surprisingly deep cut!
Complimenting your own bad writing should be grounds for excommunication

>>96745058 (OP)
Is this a current thing joke in my oots?
I thought Rich usually didn't do those.

>>96745058 (OP)
What a shit joke.

I like how Haley is saying "at this point" to refer to a time clearly from before she was born.

Return to Oz ain't even that obscure.
Come back when you've got an army of Suffragettes taking over or a 1904 San Francisco Earthquake Iseki

>>96745058 (OP)
Is this a leftist meme? Because it's overloaded with text and devoid of humour.

>>96745058 (OP)
I will be 50 before this ends

>>96745156
>>96745495
I don't get the joke
I don't know who this robot is or why this is related to AI
or why this is supposedly funny
is this even a dnd thing at all? or just popular culture?

Wow I don't normally complain but this particular page sucks. Jesus christ Burlew.

>>96745654
Pop culture the whole way through, relying entirely on the modern audience's familiarity with Tiktok the video platform to make the "joke" that instead of taking her idea from randos on the internet Senri is instead talking about the character Tik-Tok from Ozma of Oz who is generally competent but sometimes a bit literal-minded due to being a machine.

In other words, it's a bad joke.

>>96745513
You're missing a few zeroes.

>>96746688
Probably, he puts GRRM to shame. I started reading when I was 18, I will be 40 next year.

>>96746859
>he puts GRRM to shame
By actually writing parts of his series and showing proof of it?

have thog

>>96745058 (OP)
>>96746937
Thog 2

I don't mind the intermittent dunk on SlopTok.

>>96745691
if a nikke fan hates it then it must be better than i gave it credit for

>>96745058 (OP)
>inb4 somebody mentions the tiktok referene
You just did, and OP can't inb4. Also, I thought the trap was some sort of clockwork monstruosity too complicated to be shown on panel

>>96747376
nice, i had to resist the urge to make mine trap oriented

>>96745058 (OP)
>Filler page with (bad) current events joke
Boo

ok boomer

I haven't read OotS since three years ago when they started fighting the red dragon, has anything good happened since then?

>>96748402
Not really no. Nale's back to life as a demon due to reasons. The Order is deeper in the same dungeon they found the dragon in. There's been a bunch of plot hooks but not even a whisper of payoffs beginning.

>>96748402
thog came back

This is now a TTRPG webcomic thread.
I miss Keychain of Creation.

>>96748757
>I miss Keychain of Creation.
yeah me too

>>96748757
What happened to it?

>>96748402
>Three years ago
Oh, oh no.
I don't like this feeling.

first try thog

>>96748857
Creator got carpal tunnel, I believe. Went on indefinite hiatus, never came back. I think he did some homebrew stuff and a couple of quests since then but has largely dropped off the face of the earth.

hey anons
I made something for (you)

https://thogonomicon.com/

thog
wordswordswords

>>96750282
I've always thought of doing something like this. going through the archives to find and compile as many thog edits as possible. godspeed anon

>>96750282
Doing Thog's work. Always wondered if someone is archiving them

upscale.

I'm usually pretty generous with Rich but NOTHING fucking happened in this strip. They disarmed a completely worthless trap... that won't feature as a later plot element, because now the trap's broken. This took a month to make - let that sink in

>>96750282
>three of mine made it in
Neat. I've got two more if you're taking submissions.
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/62248811/#62254617
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/83773677/#83777140

Why the login, though?

>>96745058 (OP)
>Tik Tok bad
>AI bad
peak boomer humor

>>96746859
well not really
grrm started asoiaf in the early 90s
oots started in 2004

>>96752485
it established that they probably won't be getting much help from the traps against xykon

>>96752617
>I've got two more if you're taking submissions.
fuck yes I am
give me your thogs
best way is just to upload images to 4chan

>Why the login, though?
I heard Rich doesn't like sites like that, so I thought it might be good to keep a lower profile
I also kind of like the idea of the site being accessible only to anons in the know
but I will remove the auth if it proves a bother

>>96749020
Good try. Well done.

>>96745495
Ozma of Oz, you unlettered philistine.

>>96755940
he's using the film design, so I referenced the film. I've read most of the books, even the ones that it turned out existed only in my mind.

>>96754754
Ha ha time for THOG

>>96754754
Thog.

>>96754754
Bruce Wayne

>>96757979
The sequel

It's amazing that even after twenty-odd years, Rich still hasn't learned "show don't tell" nor economy of words. Really disproves that practice makes perfect.

>>96758028
Why do I have three different thogs of this particular one? I don't know

>>96745156
It has nothing to do with AI, dingus. The robot's name is literally Tik Tok, it's about how stupid it is to believe things you see on social media.

>>96745198
Tiktok has been around for 8 fucking years, so it's older than 3rd edition was when the comic started

>>96750282
Kek, nice anon.
I think the login is kind of funny really, you should keep it. We can just spoonfeed people obnoxiously whenever anyone posts the link.

>>96754754
I got a few, but here's the one I'm most proud of

>>96759419
and another

>>96754754
Have this dumb ATHF reference

>Wow, that is a surprisingly deep cut!
No it isn't? Everyone hates Tiktok

>>96745058 (OP)
>2023
>Party is walking through a featureless boring rehash of the first dungeon
>2025
The party is STILL walking through a featureless boring rehash of the first dungeon
jesus

>>96760099
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_(Oz)

awesome, I added the new ones you posted

>>96756223
thanks anon, that made my day

>>96759742
>just one hoagie

>>96752485
I respect that he doesn't want make to make the last chapter a plotrush just because he's brutally slow, but the throwaway strips need to actually be OK if he's gonna have them.
>>96754442
Xykon is going to bypass or roflstomp the dungeon and everyone knows it.

>>96759742
This and the "no words" thog are my favorite.

>>96762206
>the "no words" thog
That doesnt narrow it down much

>>96750282
>the Big Book 'O Thog is real
truly this is the end times

>>96750282
I'll post what I have to help you compile them
I love how thog edits depict the act of reading oots as a sisyphean hell

>>96762236
It was one where all the speech bubbles were empty.

posting mine

here's a small thog for 1319

>>96746937
lel

>Wow, that is a surprisingly deep cut!
>btw Rich Burlew has a huge dick
It took him a month to decide between these 2. Even for Burlew standards this was a bad page.

>>96766396
s-surely he has something good planned for spooktober, r-right?!?

Does anyone have the one with "the simpsons doh Trump 2016" and Roy doing a rap freestyle?

thog forgot to put signature in bottom left last time, thog fix that now
thog not now if better to replace in thogonomicon or have both

>>96750282
you're doing god's work anon

>>96762236
I w i ll end wo rds
>Deal
>[No Dialog]
I usually hate entirely empty wordbubbles, but that one was hysterical.

>>96745177
better than his use of cute & funny

>>96748757
It died
https://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=967

>>96757979
>>96757991
There's a third.

>>96772227
I'm going to replace it, no point keeping two effectively identical images
although I want to keep replacing to the minimum, since changing the name invalidates the url and setting up redirects is explicitly outside of the scope of the project

What is this? Someone give me a quick rundown

>>96787763
Comic that started with poking fun at D&D tropes and mechanics, then got more story focused. They're now at the final dungeon. We lke making fun of how wordy it is.

>>96745513
I turned fiddy last month, pretty sure I was still in my 20s when I started reading, definitely my early thirdies

>>96788777
>>96746859
I'm OP and I'm younger than OOTS (but older than 18) and I got into it because of tvtropes.

>>96745058 (OP)
So is the tiktok joke any deeper than "this site exists", or is it just a single layer reference?
also lmao at the retards itt that see "misinformation" and instantly start getting defensive over their shitty ai. Rich already made that joke like two years ago.

>>96745058 (OP)
90% of the traps in my games are mechanical. The last one was clay jars of toxic mold with a string tied to the ventilation fans of an old bunker space pirates used as a supply dead drop. Anyone who flicked the lights and AC on activated it. The pirates preferred flashlights.

>>96791389
The joke is that it sounds like she got the idea off social media, but it's actually that she got it from a Wizard of Oz character that has the same name but is unreliable for other reasons.

>someone is finally compiling the book of thog
>i never saved my edits after posting
>i don't even remember which pages they were

>>96792083
I guess you just need to go through the archives one page at a time and collect ALL of the thogs while you look for yours