Bah, just take twenty steps outside a city and you’ll encounter something big enough to send edible-sized chunks flying every which way upon evisceration.
Well… from a mechanical stand-point… you kill the rat. Whether you do so by eating it is another story… … I wonder is there a Class somewhere focused around defeating enemies through eating them…
You’ve never played in a campaign with a feral shifter monk. Man, I ate nearly every enemy we came across, even the acidic slimes.
After the first few near-death experiences, the party stopped trying to figure out how to hide the monster bodies from her, and started trying to figure out how to cook them enough to make them non-fatal.
I think there was also a story on Table Titans about some Paladin who worshipped a God of Cooking and apparently had to cook and eat at least some of each monster he killed as a sign of piety.
Actually, the bigger they are, the more often they need refueling (while technically his body could be burning the fat, he would end up too weak to move before he lost even a tenth of his size)
Thus comes the sad overlooked truth about adventurers…I’m still surprised my characters never drop dead from starvation/dehydration/lack of energy to live.
Damn. That’s a good point about the fantasy adventure genre. Demand for your services isn’t steady; no fixed resources; for the most part, the only possessions you have are the stuff on your back; the only work you find are extremely dangerous and morally questionable ventures where mere survival (read: no loot and rewards) may be the best that result you can get.
Sorry, dropping RSS subscription. Ever since starting daily updates the pacing of the story has been terrible. Pages upon pages of comic where nothing happens. irrelevant, boring… disappointed. Bad move.
I kinda thought the cultist stuff was a bit slow – that whole rite took a whole lot of pages, and could kinda have been done in one or two – but this kind of character discussion is gold to me. :)
I strongly like the extra background story on cultists.
I strongly like the one-a-day pacing.
However, the one-a-day pacing, coinciding with an increase in paying work, and the seasonal warm weather that makes it difficult for me to linger in front of the computer, is making it VERY hard for me to muster the mental focus to earn myself more OFFICIAL PHIL KAHN GOLD STARS.
I am very sorry, Mr. Kahn. Perhaps things will get better when the cold weather comes ’round again.
I see where http://www.comic-rocket.com will let you sign up to receive 10 or however many pages at a time through RSS, then you pause it and come back when you’re ready for the next 10 (or whatever). Their front page claims to show the whole comic site as it was created, so you don’t have to feel bad about skipping ads either.
Disagree. The pages with Syr’Nj and Ardaic kept getting better and better, and this one here is the very best in a while, not that this says anything against the quality of the previous ones.
Just smoke/chew/snort de ‘erbs mon, and you won’t have any care for meat (or at least, won’t care if it comes in cans, and violently objects to being eating)
I’ve always thought that not needing to eat or pay rent was a significant attraction to life in a game world. Just hang around and wait for opportunities to come by, without having to pay upkeep. But not so in Arkerra? Boo! Hiss! Fightopia!
Sure. Start with, “With all due respect”, and then compliment her physical attributes, in the raunchiest terms possible. You’ll either get slapped or tackled. Or, if you’re really lucky, both.
Looting A Sizable Tuber.
But seriously XP always trumps eating.
You can always hope for role-playing xp if you do a good job of sifting through the garbage for your stale bread.
I’ve had numerous wizards who paid for their potions and scrolls through well-told tales of mental break-downs and dumpster diving.
Wait, so do you have to eat the rats alive if you choose the food option?
This is all a Game to you people, isn’t it.
If you hunt the right kind of critters for the XP, the food situation sort of fixes itself.
Ah yes, I remember well those days … homeless, dumpster diving … then, I got enrolled in the Gastonian SNAP program!
I still nearly starved; after buying my cigs, not much credit left.
What about the booze and the cheesy puffs?
EXP or Food? Why not both?
So… XP for using your cooking skill?
More like EXP, then food. Unless you crit, then you’re pretty much left with pink slime, which is only edible if you’ve taken the American trait.
Bah, just take twenty steps outside a city and you’ll encounter something big enough to send edible-sized chunks flying every which way upon evisceration.
They don’t call it a MEAT STICK for nothing!
… Hm.
I straight up did not consider that you could defeat a rat by eating it.
Well… from a mechanical stand-point… you kill the rat. Whether you do so by eating it is another story… … I wonder is there a Class somewhere focused around defeating enemies through eating them…
gelatinous cubes?
Ogres? Trolls? Halflings? Wait, those are races…
It’s more a race than a class, but you could always be a Qu like Quina from FF IX.
You’ve never played in a campaign with a feral shifter monk. Man, I ate nearly every enemy we came across, even the acidic slimes.
After the first few near-death experiences, the party stopped trying to figure out how to hide the monster bodies from her, and started trying to figure out how to cook them enough to make them non-fatal.
I think there was also a story on Table Titans about some Paladin who worshipped a God of Cooking and apparently had to cook and eat at least some of each monster he killed as a sign of piety.
Braggadacio (sp?) could go a year as an adventurer before he needed to make enough money to buy food.
Actually, the bigger they are, the more often they need refueling (while technically his body could be burning the fat, he would end up too weak to move before he lost even a tenth of his size)
Just do some daily quests, jeez.
He was doing a daily quest. For food.
The Dailys in the starter zone sort of suck, unfortunately…
Thus comes the sad overlooked truth about adventurers…I’m still surprised my characters never drop dead from starvation/dehydration/lack of energy to live.
It explains the lack of toilets and the need for them.
But theres plenty of outdoors!
Damn. That’s a good point about the fantasy adventure genre. Demand for your services isn’t steady; no fixed resources; for the most part, the only possessions you have are the stuff on your back; the only work you find are extremely dangerous and morally questionable ventures where mere survival (read: no loot and rewards) may be the best that result you can get.
Putting the ‘hobo’ back in ‘murderhobo’.
Sorry, dropping RSS subscription. Ever since starting daily updates the pacing of the story has been terrible. Pages upon pages of comic where nothing happens. irrelevant, boring… disappointed. Bad move.
I think we have different definitions of “nothing happening.”
Please come back sometime. Thanks for reading.
What?! A Webcomic with character and plot development? Unacceptable!
If only Michael Bay made Comics…
If he did, the characters would be as two-dimensional as my Windows taskbar.
…when it auto-hides.
I kinda thought the cultist stuff was a bit slow – that whole rite took a whole lot of pages, and could kinda have been done in one or two – but this kind of character discussion is gold to me. :)
I will readily admit that we took the opportunity to “Try some new things” in that chapter.
i thought it was an elaborately in character presentation to the planning committee for this year’s OBGC in chicago.
That chapter was kinda dark and scary, but I could not stop reading!
I strongly like the extra background story on cultists.
I strongly like the one-a-day pacing.
However, the one-a-day pacing, coinciding with an increase in paying work, and the seasonal warm weather that makes it difficult for me to linger in front of the computer, is making it VERY hard for me to muster the mental focus to earn myself more OFFICIAL PHIL KAHN GOLD STARS.
I am very sorry, Mr. Kahn. Perhaps things will get better when the cold weather comes ’round again.
I must say that your comment was unBEARable.
Too much captivating storyline and not enough action for ya? Your name says it all.
I see where http://www.comic-rocket.com will let you sign up to receive 10 or however many pages at a time through RSS, then you pause it and come back when you’re ready for the next 10 (or whatever). Their front page claims to show the whole comic site as it was created, so you don’t have to feel bad about skipping ads either.
Disagree. The pages with Syr’Nj and Ardaic kept getting better and better, and this one here is the very best in a while, not that this says anything against the quality of the previous ones.
Sorry, your disappointed reply was too long, had terrible pacing…is boring, irrelevant. Bad move.
YOU MESSED WITH THE WRONG INTERNET TOUGH GUY.
Food or XP? No contest.
XP. Always XP.
Herbs everywhere, but the droprates for meat are a joke.
Just smoke/chew/snort de ‘erbs mon, and you won’t have any care for meat (or at least, won’t care if it comes in cans, and violently objects to being eating)
Stonesoup takes time to get used to. Next time, you should pick a Kobold or a Troll, to eat any kind of meat.
Rachel and Emerl, far from any trees
T-A-L-K-I-N-G
“Hey, Rachel! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my pocket!”
“A rabbit? … I was hoping you were just really happy to see me.”
I’ve always thought that not needing to eat or pay rent was a significant attraction to life in a game world. Just hang around and wait for opportunities to come by, without having to pay upkeep. But not so in Arkerra? Boo! Hiss! Fightopia!
The perils of 1099ing it.
Has telling your girlfriend anything that starts “with all due respect” ever ended well?
Sure. Start with, “With all due respect”, and then compliment her physical attributes, in the raunchiest terms possible. You’ll either get slapped or tackled. Or, if you’re really lucky, both.
Stupid Byron. The countryside is full of meat and veg. Just gotta go out and kill it… rather than digging around in the city trash.