Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is inexcusably late

In that case, thank God it isn't called Weekendly Webcomic Wrapup!

wow, nice reading on my part. Disregard that. I still wish to complain tho!!!

LOI?

Bloody shame CAD wasn't in the poll last week; that was some of their funniest stuff in years.

LOI = Laugh On the Inside. I never Laugh Out Loud at these.

The best part was seeing the rest of the internet once again have a chance to open up to how much they hate Tim Buckley.

I like the story and unlike his attempt at the gamer poem he tried last year, this one actually has some touching moments. They aren't exactly forced.. well, okay, todays was.

I think for the webcomic as a whole to survive, it had to happen. Having a kid is one of those things that tends to ruin a strip like this. Hell, Marvel has been trying to undone the Parker's marriage for years. For CAD to remain what it was, the miscarriage had to happen. I'm glad the author realized this before it was too late and I'm especially glad he didn't turn it into a punchline.

I personally think Buckley is handling it horrendously. On its own, the arc works pretty well. It wouldn't be the best but it would be still passable and maybe even meaningful. Would probably be a bit better if it focused a bit more Lilah. It would also help if I didn't see it coming all the way from when the pregnancy was announced.

However what makes it all fall apart for me is I really just can't accept Ethan doing a total shift from his normal Manchild self during the pregnancy/miscarriage strips. The biggest thing holding the storyline back is that the characters just do not fit at all in it. Compared to past strips, it feels like Buckley took a storyline from a seperate comic and pasted his characters in with total disregard on if they would fit. The only thing that feels in-character at all is Ethan putting the small controller in the drawer. Furthermore, I just don't see Buckley keeping Ethan as a mature character (which he would have to do if the baby came), thus making the miscarriage seem like a cheap cop-out. Theres also the fact that its all too obvious that everything will be a-ok and Ethan will back to his WACKY HYJINX soon enough since he's pretty much a God.

It also doesn't that, along with the fact the strips do not work with the past few year's worth of CAD, Tim took a break in the middle of the storyline for two uneventful strips. There was just no reason for the DnD strip, hell Tim doesn't even play DnD in the first place. It also doesn't help the strip follows Tim's "Rude Unright Opinion Holder acts out and is bested by the Calm Right Opinion Holder in the last panel". The Players Pinup wasn't bad but should have been saved for later on when the arc reached a definite close.

So in conclusion, No Sir I do not like it.

*Doesn't help that

Yes, they removed stuff but they are basically working with a new system. Basically, whether you like or hate 4e, it doesn't make the previous manuals invalid and you can continue to play in your preferred ruleset.

As for my opinion, and I know I'll get hated for this, good on them. I quit DMing basically because encounters, even the simpliest, were becoming chores and each new player wanted to bring in new rules and we spent more time rule-lawyering than actually playing.

And so I attempted to heavily modify 3.5 with Eberron and add some custom requested elements as well. Got a new group going, started to have some fun and despite the fact that I laid out how "in depth" we were going in the rules just to keep the game simple, we once again got invaded by a rule lawyer who would waste most of the night debating with me and researching through books (which, while we told him we used only elements of the Eberron core book, he had all the expansions and claimed I was running off pure god tripping because I refused to read and memorize well over 2000 pages of expanding rules).

Essentially what D&D needed, at this point, was a fresh jumping in point for those of us who got tired of the excessive rule expansions and those who needed simpler rules as the jumping in point. I know it's "der, just WOW for tabletopping" but in case you missed it, WOW is currently the number one RPG right now. Since 4E came out, suddenly some of my old players are trying to get a game back together since it leaves very little room for rule-lawyers to ruin the night for everyone.

I do appreciate you're take on it. I guess I've never really had a problem with rule lawyers (Cheaters sure, but I guess I got lucky and found a good group to keep playing with.) 4E does have the advantage of simplification, but so did 3.5 when it was first released; there are only so many books you can have as a core. I could talk a while about what I don't like about 4E (monks, we miss you) but I also love a lot about what they did, probably more so than what they took away or changed.
My real point was that there are very serious concerns about 4E that Buckley can't comprehend. I hate the people who are arguing over stupid shit like the Dwarven back story too, but that comic makes it look like anyone who complains about anything in 4E is a douchebag. Buckley has no idea what he's talking about and he needed to stay out of this one. He thinks he can make a comic about D&D when he's never looked at a character sheet, fuck him.

Well, I understand that particular issue but from what I've read on the community forums when researching 4th edition (I didn't know it was happening, one of my old players cued me in), it did look like a huge backlash over nonsensical things. I've only culled knowledge as I'm backordered on the gift set right now so I haven't delved in headfirst. But things they've done like putting the cleric on the frontlines seems like an improvement. And before I even start a campaign, changes do need to be made to accomidate some of my own custom classes and races.

My campaigns tend to run in a steampunk style world similar to FFVI so it's not like I'm running a straight D&D campaign to begin with.

I think Buckley pretty much has an outsiders looking in approach and he sees this huge backlash against something players can use or ignore and to people on the outside, it does seem silly.

YES!
NO!
POSSIBLY!
PERHAPS!
MAYBE!
BUT NOT REALLY!

I actually enjoyed it the most, since if theres one thing I utterly despise its when gamers seem to think anything less than a 10 means "lol game sux"

Yeah, I liked PA the best too, but it seems every week (whether it's good or not) it always has some ridiculous lead in the polls.

Yeah, I liked PA the best too, but it seems every week (whether it's good or not) it always has some ridiculous lead in the polls.

You're telling me you never commented on a game you never played? I mean, the backlash to 4e was out before the books were even legally acquirable. So it's a matter of people complaining based on the leaked .pdfs. This is like having a music pirate comment on how an album he stole sucked.

And he's not saying every person who doesn't like 4E is an asshole. But you gotta admit, there is some really unreasonable backlash as you even pointed out. And yes, I have seen some excessively negative things said. Example? Amazon's reviews. Read some. 1 out of 5 stars? REALLY?!? With a four paragraph rant on how World of Warcraft sucks. No knowledge on the product other than WOW sucks and D&D 4E suck by proxy. While I'm shuffling through opinions trying to decide if I'll be taking up the DMs screen again, this is the stuff I'm coming across. That's where the parody comes across.

YOU.. can reasonably say what you do and do not like about 4E. That's good. It's reasonable. YOU'RE not the type of gamer he's fucking fun of. The 1 out of 5 stars idiots chanting WOW sucks when talking about 4E are the ones.

It's like this. I prefer Sony. No secret about that. But there are other more extreme idiots on here who bash non Sony products nonstop. So if Someone makes fun of those fantards, I don't take offense. I know I'm not like KillJebus, for example. I'll have a good hard laugh at the extremes. They are WORTH making fun of.

*making fun of.

I don't really know what I was thinging when the f bomb made it's way into that post.

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