[Webcomics] are still here in 2025

klemming

Penny Arcade

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Gunnerkrigg Court

Lanz

Last night I finally decided to catch up on Dresden Codak’s “Dark Science” and came away with two major thoughts:


1) Years Long Egg Comic
2) post-shell cracking: Dresden Codak is hella queer

Cyborg Confessions!



The literal embodiment of running from your Gender Dysphoria comes to terms with their nonbinary gender identity!

klemming

Questionable Content
Now I'm wondering what the healthcare situation is on Cubetown. Either they're incredibly competent as a result of having to deal with all these people, or they're also quirky and having a heart attack means you wake up with your brain implanted in a robot body (because they had one to spare).

klemming

Awkward Zombie

Man in the Mists

Girl Genius has already figured out the intended course of action for other people.

klemming

Dumbing of Age reinvents Australia.

statler

SOLVER

RoyceSraphim

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/01/03/the-mirror-d-hall
Did this get posted?

Moth 13

Clown Corps

JayKaos

I was looking at my old Witness Me reactions for some reason and found a post from 2015 where I was mentioning that I thought Unsounded was about to the end of the first silver / Cresce arc

So young. So much hope.

Moth 13

Phantomarine

statler

The Non-Adventures of Wonderella

In case anyone missed the holiday forum

klemming

xkcd

Thro

klemming wrote: »

xkcd

Ooh, I'm going to make some guesses on this one. Quicksand bottom right. Taxes in the middle.
I want to say algebra, but this dude is a nerd he probably never asked his teacher when they would ever use it in the real world (plus he does use it).

Brainleech

Existential comics

statler

Existential Comics

DarkPrimus

I'm seein' double... four David Humes askin' Rene Descartes how to ask out a woman!

klemming

Dumbing of Age presents: Future Pulitzer Prize Winner Jennifer Billingsworth.

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Questionable Content

klemming

Darths & Droids

durandal4532

That Existential Comics panel is committing word-bubble crimes.

It could only be improved if each letter had a separate gigantic tail going to his mouth, and they covered the panel in a spiderweb.

RMS Oceanic

New Order of the Stick, in which Who (in) the Hell?!

Madican

Guess there's some benefits to having a demon girlfriend in the afterlife. Or maybe this is between torture sessions, can't imagine Hell would just let a mortal soul skate completely.

klemming

Madican wrote: »

Guess there's some benefits to having a demon girlfriend in the afterlife. Or maybe this is between torture sessions, can't imagine Hell would just let a mortal soul skate completely.

Do painful realisations that you wasted your entire life count as torture?
Also, is he completely without ways to be bought back?

JayKaos

I really appreciate that it's not a moral turn at all. It's just "Ugh, my evil plan could have been so much better thought out"

Madican

klemming wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

Guess there's some benefits to having a demon girlfriend in the afterlife. Or maybe this is between torture sessions, can't imagine Hell would just let a mortal soul skate completely.

Do painful realisations that you wasted your entire life count as torture?
Also, is he completely without ways to be bought back?

I'm pretty sure his dad disintegrated his body, which would make it very difficult for him to be resurrected

RMS Oceanic

Madican wrote: »

Guess there's some benefits to having a demon girlfriend in the afterlife. Or maybe this is between torture sessions, can't imagine Hell would just let a mortal soul skate completely.

Reminder that said Girlfriend is on the IFCC's payroll, so either they may have a use for him worth the Hell SlowPass, or she may have convinced them of such.

klemming

Madican wrote: »

klemming wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

Guess there's some benefits to having a demon girlfriend in the afterlife. Or maybe this is between torture sessions, can't imagine Hell would just let a mortal soul skate completely.

Do painful realisations that you wasted your entire life count as torture?
Also, is he completely without ways to be bought back?

I'm pretty sure his dad disintegrated his body, which would make it very difficult for him to be resurrected

Right, 'very difficult'. But is that the kind of thing the rules allow for, so you can say oh, he stashed a vial of his blood somewhere so now he 'just' needs a high level cleric and 10,000GP, or is there actually no chance, DM has torn up the character sheet?

see317

klemming wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

klemming wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

Guess there's some benefits to having a demon girlfriend in the afterlife. Or maybe this is between torture sessions, can't imagine Hell would just let a mortal soul skate completely.

Do painful realisations that you wasted your entire life count as torture?
Also, is he completely without ways to be bought back?

I'm pretty sure his dad disintegrated his body, which would make it very difficult for him to be resurrected

Right, 'very difficult'. But is that the kind of thing the rules allow for, so you can say oh, he stashed a vial of his blood somewhere so now he 'just' needs a high level cleric and 10,000GP, or is there actually no chance, DM has torn up the character sheet?

He's a named villain with a potential story arc in front of him to set him up as a big bad OR as a redeemed ally to the heroes.
We're talking a million to one odds here, but Discworld style.

https://wiki.lspace.org/Million-to-one_chance#:~:text=In the fragile reality of,!" to invoke this rule.

Madican

klemming wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

klemming wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

Guess there's some benefits to having a demon girlfriend in the afterlife. Or maybe this is between torture sessions, can't imagine Hell would just let a mortal soul skate completely.

Do painful realisations that you wasted your entire life count as torture?
Also, is he completely without ways to be bought back?

I'm pretty sure his dad disintegrated his body, which would make it very difficult for him to be resurrected

Right, 'very difficult'. But is that the kind of thing the rules allow for, so you can say oh, he stashed a vial of his blood somewhere so now he 'just' needs a high level cleric and 10,000GP, or is there actually no chance, DM has torn up the character sheet?

I want to say it would require something on the level of Wish. But given that if this quest pans out they may have favor with some gods that might not be far-fetched to get one. And Rich has said before that while he sticks close to rules as written he'll change them if it makes for a better story

Milski

True Res can explicitly bring back anybody, even if their corpse was totally destroyed, there really doesn't need to be any extra special rule bending in this circumstance given we're dealing with a (near) max level adventuring party.

Neveron

klemming wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

klemming wrote: »

Madican wrote: »

Guess there's some benefits to having a demon girlfriend in the afterlife. Or maybe this is between torture sessions, can't imagine Hell would just let a mortal soul skate completely.

Do painful realisations that you wasted your entire life count as torture?
Also, is he completely without ways to be bought back?

I'm pretty sure his dad disintegrated his body, which would make it very difficult for him to be resurrected

Right, 'very difficult'. But is that the kind of thing the rules allow for, so you can say oh, he stashed a vial of his blood somewhere so now he 'just' needs a high level cleric and 10,000GP, or is there actually no chance, DM has torn up the character sheet?

Alright, so, D&D 3.5.

Spell Level 5: Raise Dead. Time limit is one day/caster level, you need the body (missing parts will still be missing), and a 5,000GP of diamonds.
Spell Level 7: Resurrection. Time limit is 10 years/caster level, and all you need to resurrect someone is "some small portion of the creature's body" - with disintegrated remains explicitly counting. Oh, and 10,000GP of diamonds.
Spell Level 9: True Resurrection. Time limit is 10 years/CL, you don't even need remains and only need to be able to unambigiously identify the deceased, and you need 25,000GP of diamonds.

There's also some finagling where you can use Wish+Resurrection or Miracle+Resurrection to bring back people who are just gone, e.g. through Destruction.

Also, of course, the divine abilities of gods have even less limits.

It's definitely possible to bring him back, anyhow, it's just a matter of who, why, and when.

DarkPrimus

That sounds like a lot of diamonds for True Resurrection, but think about it: do a few True Resurrections and all of a sudden the diamond supply has gotten a lot smaller. As demand goes up, the amount of diamonds you need to be valued at 25,000GP is going to have decreased substantially.

klemming

That always sounded like an easy thing to work around; Hi, I'd like to buy that diamond you've got on display. I know the listed price is 100GP, but I'll pay 10,000. You'll accept an IOU, right?
Obviously that's some Pat Rothfuss Bullshit, but like all PRBS, depending on the DM I can see it working.

Munkus Beaver

Clearly the diamond supply is regulated in order to keep the res economy afloat.

I am now imagining a printing press for diamonds akin to paper money.

“The dragons are about to raise diamond interest rates! Res res res!”

BahamutZERO

I feel like order of the stick has specifically done jokes about gaming the diamond market to make resurrection spells easier but maybe that was some other TTRPG-centric comedy writing source

JayKaos

I think order of the stick's version was "I found a way to get a discount on the diamonds!" "Okay but the spell literally says '10,000GP' worth you just have to go buy more, now." I'd find it but there's a billion of those and I'd be there all afternoon

Incenjucar

Those jokes are a diamond a dozen.

Milski

JayKaos wrote: »

I think order of the stick's version was "I found a way to get a discount on the diamonds!" "Okay but the spell literally says '10,000GP' worth you just have to go buy more, now." I'd find it but there's a billion of those and I'd be there all afternoon

Background gag in 677.

Mr_Rose

JayKaos wrote: »

I think order of the stick's version was "I found a way to get a discount on the diamonds!" "Okay but the spell literally says '10,000GP' worth you just have to go buy more, now." I'd find it but there's a billion of those and I'd be there all afternoon

I don’t remember if it was a diamond specifically but there was definitely a scene where a wizard was berating his apprentice after he scored a discount on a gem for use as a reagent, yes.
Makes me wonder what would happen if the wizard were to unknowingly attempt to cast with the discounted component (say the apprentice didn’t mention the deal) anyway?