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Fantasy Wasteland - 22 - HD
🕑 Added 2019-05-26 03:06:52 +0000 UTC"It's like stealing from a thief and then not returning anything to whoever they stole it from. See? 100% morally good."
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I forgot to draw Carol's bag, by which I mean she got tired and set it down for a bit. Obviously. EDIT - I forgot Carol's eyelashes, too! Oh noooooo
Green
"I'm green?! Wait, I'm not? Phew! I thought maybe I was hulking out!"
Whether it's a last name, a nickname, or some sort of title, voiced NPCs need SOMETHING to call you in RPGs when you can give your character any first name you want.
In Fallout 4, one character calls you "Blue" because that's the color of the clothes worn in vaults. I wanted to reference that, so I went with Green!
It was only when I was almost finished with the comic that I realized that "Green" could be short for "Greenhorn", a bit of slang referring to someone who's new and inexperienced. I edited it from "yeah, sorry" to "'like greenhorn'? sorry" pretty much last minute.
I swear there's someone else in my brain who gets these things before I do.
It's Not Raiding!
And it's not! Sort of. Kinda.
Going after raiders / bandit / whatever camps is perfectly defensible. These are characters who kill and murder and stuff. That, and they'd totally attack you just for casually walking by. You, the player character, are super justified in taking them out.
At the same time, you've got video game feedback telling you they're murderous raiders and such in advance. Looked at from another perspective, running into a camp or settlement and attacking complete strangers for sweet loot and XP is kinda sorta, y'know... Raiding.
Which is super nitpicking, I know, and I've talked about magically knowing who is friend and foe in these games before. I've just had this thought while deliberately seeking out enemy bases in these games.
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ZekeStaright
Unless you want to Play a Raider & just kill everything & everyone you see
Fenrir
Sounds like a PC to me. NPC: *"Oh yeah! Time to take it to the final boss!"* PC: *"YEAH! Just, uh, not right now, all right? I have something like 30 sidequests to do first...oh and 450 out of the 500 collectible acorns are still out there to find too...you know what? You guys go without me. I'll catch up."
Stephen Gilberg
Now I want to see Grace cosplaying as She-Hulk.
James C
Flightly, and prone to taking anything shiny it sees lying around?
RobertC
"who raids the raiders?"
Forecaster
Morally acceptable raiding (in videogames)
Frรฉdรฉric B.
Well if they attack you on sight, you can bait them into attacking you, which makes it fishing. And if they respawn, you can call it farming instead.
Thisguy
Reminds me of the nickname they give you in Xenoblade Chronicles X. "Rook" short for rookie, but I chose to interpret it as the chess piece. The strong silent sentinel watching over the board, attacking straight and true. You could also interpret it as the bird.
M.
The name thing is something I first noticed in Star Wars: the Old Republic - the game gives you a title based on your class, so all the voice acting never has to include your name. And now I see it in soooooo many games.
coredumperror
I'm really liking RPG Carol. :)
