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Who Is Ellen - 102 - HD
🕑 Added 2023-03-02 04:00:01 +0000 UTCScreaming Towards Victory!
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Someone could fairly accuse me of overusing critical failures and successes for jokes in this story, but there's a particular reason this specific one happened.
I really enjoy shields in games, so the idea of a shield bash sending someone flying back into another enemy just makes me happy.
As such, in this moment, Rich is benefitting from my personal wish fulfillment while writing. He doesn't often get to!
Speaking of shields in video games, a word of caution if playing Skyrim: The block perk that slows down time when enemies use power attacks against you is bugged.
There's the potential to get the game stuck in constant slowdown that's tricky to get out of, rendering it virtually unplayable unless you stop blocking.
This can effectively break a character that uses shields, and not in a fun way.
Comments
John Trauger
Sound of maple pins as the entire attacking force is knocked over as the two people thrown back hit others behind them and those hit still others in a contrained tunnel that doesn't give people room to dodge.
Crissa Kentavr
Yeah, unfortunately they tried to de-complicate something and made it less fun.
David Chuhay
Stealth failed successfully
Thisguy
There are surprisingly few ways in 5e to legit use your shield beyond just granting extra AC. Main one being Sheild Master Feat which doesn't seem to be used much. But I'd say knocking down two enemies on a critical surprise attack is acceptable.
James C
Ah, no. I think Stephen meant "in-world" as in "inside the RPG setting", not "inside El Goonish Shive". If we assume a Forgotten Worlds setting… by phonetics, probably "Ammarindar". By politics, more likely "Amn"…
KC
Hey, I once saw a DM crit fail their own mini-boss to death on ball bearings during a livestream. He initially would have just had the guy fall prone, but crit failed three times in a roll, once on a one hundred sided die. Trust me when I say there is never a time where "too many crit failures/success" is unbelievable, because there are literally more real life examples than most of us can count Plus this page's funny so it's all good
Windscion
Mah. Capt'n Frisbee.
Paul Rendell
They have DC and Marvel comics in universe so it would still be Captain America.
Stephen Gilberg
He's become Captain...what's the closest in-world equivalent of America?
