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Who Is Ellen - 86 - HD
🕑 Added 2023-01-24 04:00:01 +0000 UTCNecessary equipment
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I felt it obvious enough that panel two's visuals shouldn't be taken literally that I didn't give it a rounded border, which is something I want to do more sparingly so I can feel looser with the style without constantly throwing rounded borders all over the place.
That said, I can't stop any of you from choosing to interpret it as literal canon that those three had hard hats and pickaxes when Ellen and Rich got back to the table.
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Foradain
Side note: Has there been any mention by the EGS Forum Bunnies that this is The Year Of The Rabbit?
Some Ed
I've participated in a number of D&D games in which the characters went into abandoned mines. Exactly 0 of those had been abandoned due to running out of stuff to mine, or even running sufficiently low that it was no longer profitable. Sure, you could talk about the cost of cleaning out the "monsters" who came from the hole they accidentally opened to the world's subterranean cave complex, but the thing is, that's why the players were there: the mine was considered profitable enough to pay someone to clear out the mine. At least two different groups of players had someone who asked why they couldn't just hire someone to clean it out. "Um, what do you think they're paying you to do?"
Some Ed
@Rémy: If you have one, in the case of an emergency, you have none, so at least two 50' rope coils. I recall one group which went out with every party member carrying 50' of rope, and we got back to the keep with a total of about 5' of rope. But we got back to the keep.
Daryl Sawyer
Hasn't Ellen played Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, or potentially any number of other CRPGs? Abandoned mines are always full of opportunities to mine. :p
AstroChaos
Rich's logic checks out.
A Red Mage Named Blue
That begs the question of why it was abandoned. It may not have been abandoned because it ran out of mine juice, but because it became too hazardous to be worth the cost to extract the juice
Adama
"Mine juice" 😁 Just tickles me.
wargrunt42
@Thisguy: I like they way you think! Rope + Pick Axe = Grappling Hook Rope + Spear = Harpoon Sword + Rope + Sword = Swordchucks
James C
They're playing in the comic book store. I would fully expect them to have those foam minecraft pickaxes on sale for the party to grab as props for a joke.
Rémy
The bare minimum adventuring equipment: melee weapon, range weapon, armor, rations, some form of healing, 50 feet of rope and a 10 feet pole. Pickaxe optoinal.
Thisguy
Pickaxes are optional. Rope is essential. Mind you, with rope and a pick axe you have a makeshift grapple.
KC
Solid reasoning, can't deny
IvyReed
and then Ellen had the great and not at all suddenly made up idea, to trigger a cave in right after the final boss fight so the team has to mine their way to safety.
Windscion
Solid reasoning by Rich.
