text: 3330 The Rannites Attack - Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic 3330 The Rannites Attack - Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic
  Characters: Agaera the Gorgon, Flind Princess Dagmar, Phiddipa, Runtherd "Runt", Saidrah
  1936 In Summary
  3307 Revenge And Justice
  0433 Misery Loves The Flind Sisters
  April 22, 2020, 1:13 pm	| # | Reply
  And so the momentum shifts….
  April 22, 2020, 1:16 pm	| # | Reply
  … Themselves!
  April 22, 2020, 2:32 pm	| # | Reply
  Damn, was hoping Phiddipa was going to make it out okay 🙁
  April 22, 2020, 4:26 pm	| # | Reply
  She still might? We have at least one data point saying the gorgon curse is reversible.
  Then again, she does look awfully happy to be on the side she's on now…
  April 22, 2020, 5:50 pm	| # | Reply
  It… doesn't look good for our favourite former Drow teacher 🙁
  April 22, 2020, 3:40 pm	| # | Reply
  This battle strangly reminds me to the Age of Mythology.
  April 22, 2020, 4:21 pm	| # | Reply
  Now the battle begins in earnest…
  April 22, 2020, 4:43 pm	| # | Reply
  And now is the time on Sprokkets when we dance.
  April 22, 2020, 4:51 pm	| # | Reply
  April 22, 2020, 6:00 pm	| # | Reply
  SNL Reference: "Sprockets was a recurring comedy sketch created by comedian Mike Myers, portraying a fictional West German television talk show. The show parodied German art culture in the 1980s."
  https://youtu.be/_2bLcilzeqc
  April 23, 2020, 4:42 pm	| # | Reply
  I had an opponent at a Warhammer 40K tournament who said that when our forces smashed together for a big hand to hand brawl. It seemed appropriate.
  April 23, 2020, 5:40 pm	| #
  One of my Shadowrun mates would say it right before going into battle. He & I had educate our team LOL
  April 22, 2020, 6:02 pm	| # | Reply
  Trying to outdo the goddess of chaos? Commendable. 😀
  April 23, 2020, 4:47 pm	| # | Reply
  🙂 Thank you. I try.
  At work my favourite response to be asked to do something is "Can't do it, too fat." It has gotten the same kind of "?What?" response.
  For context, a large friend of mine would say that when asked to do things, just to mess with people.
  I've also said "Don't do it! It's a trap!" Which caused a co-worker to stop and look around on one occasion. To her credit, she didn't hit me. 🙂
  April 23, 2020, 10:06 pm	| # | Reply
  "Don't do it! It's a trap!"
  Lol, I'm going to use that one next time I'm in Africa. 😀
  April 22, 2020, 5:37 pm	| # | Reply
  This is the Endgame… its been good knowing you all… 😮
  April 22, 2020, 5:45 pm	| # | Reply
  The undead charge in lockstep. That's really creepy.
  April 22, 2020, 6:07 pm	| # | Reply
  I can imagine Prince Vultan crying, "DIIIIIIEEEEE!!!"
  (Ya I know it's dive, but my version is better 😛 )
  April 23, 2020, 1:19 pm	| # | Reply
  Brian Blessed is an international treasure, and one basis for the "Large Ham" trope…
  https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BrianBlessed
  April 22, 2020, 6:41 pm	| # | Reply
  Oh damn, I was hoping Ranna would keep rolling nothing but 1s.
  April 22, 2020, 7:56 pm	| # | Reply
  I suppose those gorgonas are going to cause some "friendly" causalities as well …
  April 22, 2020, 9:34 pm	| # | Reply
  Yeah, it seems hazardous to deploy them in close proximity to each other, given what we know happens if they glance in the wrong direction. Sort of like Weeping Angels, but they only turn to stone if they look at each other, as apposed to if others look at them. I wonder what happens if one of the undead soldiers looks at a gorgon?
  April 23, 2020, 3:11 am	| # | Reply
  Gorgon gaze attacks tend to only affect living creatures, including themselves. Otherwise Gorgons would be turning everything they look at into stone… like doors, furniture, windows, mirrors…
  So the Undead would be safe from them… all the Undead, including Lewie.
  April 23, 2020, 5:15 am	| # | Reply
  I think it's more accurate to say organic matter turns to stone, also they have to make eye contact for it to work. technically Lewie should turn to stone with their gaze, however it would just be his bones that turn to stone. the petrification effect only works because your soft tissue becomes too hard to move so you're stuck. Lewie doesn't have any connective tissue, there's nothing soft left to get hard, everything that can become hard is already hard, if anything he'd just get stronger because stone is harder than bone. however the Rannite undead do appear to have at least a thin layer of flesh left on their bones so a gorgon stare would be effective against them. the only real question is whether or not the stare needs you to be conscious of the fact you're seeing them, does it just automatically turn you stone no matter what or is it like SCP-096 in that you can safely look at him as long as you don't consciously realize you're looking at him? like if a person is blind or asleep and the gorgon looked in their eyes would they still turn? because if not then the mindless Zombies Lewie can make shouldn't be effected whereas the sentient undead Ranna has should be.
  April 24, 2020, 11:32 am	| #
  Gorgons don't turn wooden doors into stone, wood is organic.
  And Meegs and what'sherface stoned each other with eye contact so it hints that it's a constant unconscious ability. It's why they're all wearing protective masks, which you see them remove going to combat.
  April 24, 2020, 6:29 pm	| #
  except doors don't have eyes, nor are they able to perceive the concept of looking into the eyes of a gorgon because they don't have a brain. the question still remains, is it just the eyes that are necessary or is it both eyes and a brain? if someone uses the awaken spell on a tree, would it turn to stone from a gorgon's stare? the awaken spell gives any plant or animal with an intelligence score of 3 or less human level intelligence and the ability to perceive the 5 senses (touch, sight, smell, ect) so would the tree be turned to stone? it can see and is intelligent enough to know it's looking into a gorgon's eyes, but it technically doesn't have eyes, it just sees magically. similarly would a creature with eyes but no higher brain function be turned to stone even thought it doesn't know it's looking in the gorgon's eyes? meegs and the other girl are intelligent to perceive eyes, they were turned to stone instantly but they were still able to tell they were looking in each other's eyes. there are so many unanswered variables, that's why I don't like gorgons.
  April 25, 2020, 1:03 am	| #
  And neither does Grell, but Grell never risked facing down a Gorgon without being behind the protective aura from Bob. And you clearly see him looking straight into Snierr's unmasked eyes.
  Because he's smart enough not to get in LOS of a Gorgon.
  April 23, 2020, 2:56 pm	| # | Reply
  And the good guys have their own troop of undead guardsmen in the battle!
  April 22, 2020, 10:46 pm	| # | Reply
  Did the DnD strip gaming strips end?
  April 23, 2020, 8:25 am	| # | Reply
  They didn't end, no. But my home schedule is still a busy one and I draw them when I can. Heck, I draw the main strip <em>when</em> I can and do the D&D ones <em>if</em> I can.
  April 23, 2020, 11:47 am	| # | Reply
  And they were running out of clothes…
  Such a shame. 😀
  April 23, 2020, 5:49 pm	| # | Reply
  what Glon doesn't realize is that Princess Gaggia has a pocket of holding in her skirt. She keeps pulling out clothes for the girls to "take off". It's only when he hears the cow* moo that he starts to notice.
  *a cow is the final test of all items of holding. If the cow goes in & survives the spel is successful. Unfortunately, the cow is stuck. But fresh milk daily.
  April 23, 2020, 6:30 pm	| # | Reply
  That poor bovine stuck in the pocket of holding! It's a cow-tastrophe!
  April 23, 2020, 11:20 pm	| #
  Trapping the poor thing there cud be veally bad. An act of udder cowardice.
  April 23, 2020, 11:38 pm	| # | Reply
  Look at her now, disappearing a cow,
  Where is the cow, hidden right now…
  April 24, 2020, 8:35 am	| # | Reply
  Magical Trevor's ever-so-clever trick with the cow, finally explained.
  Apparently they start by storing beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, oh beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans
  April 24, 2020, 9:44 am	| #
  If you're going to store beans, then you have to also store spam. And then spam and beans, then spam, spam, beans, and spam, then beans, spam, spam, spam, beans, and spam, and then…
  I truly love you guys so much!
  April 23, 2020, 12:02 am	| # | Reply
  Now, if Kurassa is planning an immediate "get on the winning side and lie about being against Ranna the while time" backstab, undoing the gorgon enchantment on everyone would be a pretty effective way to go about it.
  April 23, 2020, 4:42 am	| # | Reply
  A number of flaws in that plan: everyone in Adina's family want his head for a chamber pot (can still see him *trying* that ploy, just can also see the hilarious consequences when they all come for him)
  April 23, 2020, 7:43 am	| # | Reply
  The good guys don't seem to have the upper hand. Sure, their troop might be more loyal, but we don't know about their numbers or capabilities. There are rebels among Rannites, but unless they count for more than half, Ranna could still have superior numbers.
  April 23, 2020, 8:54 am	| # | Reply
  Remember, this is battle is being staged primarily as a distraction to hold Ranna's attention — meanwhile, the spellcasters are elsewhere, carrying out the real mission. Not unlike the battle at the gates of Mordor, Sauron's eye away from Frodo and Sam.
  April 23, 2020, 10:07 am	| # | Reply
  Superior numbers still loses to superior tactics and superior weapons.
  4 guys in two armoured tanks can rip though infantry companies pretty effectively. I can think of examples in WWI and WWII. A couple dozen guys in aircraft rigged for war can cripple a fleet of battleships and support ships and kill hundreds of sailors. An event like that got the United States to enter WWII.
  Use the strengths of your troops against the weakness of their troops to assure yourself an overall victory. Fast hobbits face off against slow animated skeletons and zombies to make quick work of the undead, so long they use their speed advantage properly.
  Well, those skeletons look like they're running ahead, so I don't think you can say Rich's world undead are slow.
  As for superior weapons, Rannites have spears and their aardgnolls are large and have these huge clubs. I don't think you can say they have inferior weapons*.
  (*) Note: Spears are superior to swords in almost every circumstance, except an untrained spear user vs. trained swordsman, and then only if the spear user is incompetent and won't use his range advantage.
  Of course, in case of a magical battle where low level spells can (or should) destroy wood, spears may no longer be superior weapons, but in such a case you simply impregnate wood against spells or use alternative fireproof materials (using magic to create or work them if necessary).