Dudley's dungeon
Monday, 28 January, 2008 |
by Kernigh |
The hits! The
hits!
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@ "Ahh! Help me!"
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#turn
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@ "Turn undead!"
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You turn into an
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Z "How does this help?"
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Grognor, killed by a newt |
January 28, 2008 00:21
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First comment: 28 November, 2007 |
19 comments written |
Stupid remark about Grognor's grammaticality, followed by a misspelling and a remorseless spark of his infamousness. |
Nameless |
January 28, 2008 00:52
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First comment: 29 December, 2004 |
281 comments written |
#Turn undead.
You die. DYWYPI? |
G |
January 28, 2008 01:00
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First comment: 5 October, 2005 |
82 comments written |
Cute. That is how the name of the struck me at first, so I am amused. |
Henry J Cobb |
January 28, 2008 01:54
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First comment: 28 June, 2007 |
29 comments written |
He can't be level drained now... |
Antheridium |
January 28, 2008 03:24
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
I think that's the way that ability strikes EVERYONE to start with. It creeped me out when I first saw it - "Why would you want to do that!? Especially if you're a or a !?" Being undead does have its advantages, but I was of course unaware of them at that time...
Now I have to wonder where the concept of 'turning' something first came from. Gandalf? ("You shall not pass"?) |
Wonderer |
January 28, 2008 04:19
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First comment: 22 March, 2007 |
106 comments written |
http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20061026
Somehow every other interpretation of that spell/ability makes more sense than the intended one. |
Wellan |
January 28, 2008 16:54
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First comment: 27 November, 2007 |
247 comments written |
Well, everyone sorta knows this one...but it's still funny. |
Armv |
January 28, 2008 18:33
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First comment: 5 October, 2006 |
28 comments written |
Being as I have played D&d since early '01 and I only started nethack three years ago I had no problem with the phrase. But wouldn't being turned into an undead be the equivalent of being polymorph into a corpse? |
Slowpoke |
January 28, 2008 22:03
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First comment: 27 February, 2007 |
239 comments written |
I really don't know how to rate this one. However, I will anyway. |
Quint Sakugarne |
January 28, 2008 23:59
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First comment: 1 January, 2008 |
233 comments written |
Armv: no, not exactly; a corpse is actually dead.
Except for those damn trolls which straddle the quantum states of dead and "un-"dead. |
Kernigh |
January 29, 2008 00:12
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First comment: 6 April, 2005 |
349 comments written |
I hit the trap that moved my comment for this comic to underneath the new comic. Visit next strip to read my comment for this strip. |
Antheridium |
January 30, 2008 04:59
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
In response to the teleported comment:
I knew it came from D&D, but I wondered where D&D came up with this ability... and why they decided to use that particular turn of phrase. (Groan all you like, the pun's not going away.) |
GreyKnight |
January 30, 2008 09:22
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First comment: 24 March, 2006 |
48 comments written |
You're causing the undead creatures to turn, cower, and flee. |
Antheridium |
February 2, 2008 05:50
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
Forgive my irritability, but it seems I'm having some trouble communicating precisely what I intended. I'm aware that the word 'turn' in this sense is used to mean 'make them turn away'. My question was where the concept originally comes from of a magical ability that makes undead (or any creature, really) turn and flee from the user. I was wondering if maybe it originated with LoTR's Gandalf, with his attempt to drive back the in Moria. (Google was no help on this one. And as I don't have any place to through a backlog of magazines, I really can't think of any way to get information on this particular bit of esoteria.) |
Fathead |
February 12, 2008 00:49
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First comment: 1 April, 2006 |
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Em for the footnote. |
Antheridium |
February 13, 2008 05:47
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First comment: 17 May, 2007 |
442 comments written |
Speaking of the footnote, it used to be a link. Did the HTML there get broken? |
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