Form Letter Chronicles: The Oafbow
Chapter: Season Six
Sorry about the lack of comic on Monday everyone but I am in the final stages of selling my house and prepping for the cross country move. Spinning plates!
I plan to stat up The Oafbow once I get settled in.
HOVER-TEXT: “I think we’re going to have to kill Ted…”
I believe the term is “put down”
No, no, the term is kill. You put down beloved family pets, you kill douchegeist-possessed former comrades.
I see him as a party pet at that level of intelegence hence put down 🙂
Ironic misspelling of intelligence is ironic
No. That’s not what irony is. You’re doing it wrong.
Actually since the species is better from the lack of it the term is Cull
‘Culling’ has always been my favorite qualifier for slaughtering am entire family line.
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That bow has balls. .
Bow-nuts.
“Mmmmmmm…bow-nuts!”
Does the OafBow automatically rename your character “Leeroy Jenkins?”
Kickstart that!
Im now more curious about this item…
From the Evil Overlord list:
218. I will not pick up a glowing ancient artifact and shout “It’s power is now mine!!!” Instead I will grab some tongs, transfer it to a hazardous materials container, and transport it back to my lab for study.
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Oathbows are the worst way to find out you’re adopted.
What a great strip. This one is gold.
Personally, I would have called it the “Brobow”.
I added a new term to my vocabulary today. Douchegeist. And now I must stat it up for my next Shadowrun home campaign.
I am pleased to have been of service for you and your players.
Nice Mad Max gameplay in the background there ;D
I must be missing some context here. Is the character in panel #2 the elf from panel #1 transformed, or is it what his descendants become because of the bow, or is it one of his ancestors (drawing on the “family line” comment in panel #1)? Or is it a completely different bow in each panel (it certainly appears to be, as it is structured very differently)? What is the connection to Brett in panel #3? It appears that something he submitted somewhere was rejected, but what? The concept for the bow as a cursed item for a game? The plot point of the elf character and his encounter for some TV show I’m unfamiliar with?
I’m pretty sure that by now I understand what the strip was supposed to be, but by the time I had puzzled it out, any potential for humor had fallen flat. Really, after reading through the first time, if not for the dialogue bubbles I half expected to look back to the top and see “No Context Theater”. It just feels like there is some outside reference or detail I’m missing that would be necessary to bring everything together.
“Form Letter Chronicles” is a recurring gag of rejected D&D concepts. One prior strip was a Bag of Scolding.
I married the bag of scolding.
Honestly, seconded. Really just some dialogue cleanup would be all that is needed. I spend enough time on the internet to get it far too quickly to be healthy, but many others may be more fortunate than I and have a sufficient lack of “brain bleach memories” to be confused by this.
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iirc, cursed items usually appear to be something else, commonly a non cursed item of great power. that is how they get you.
It could be worse, he could have also found the Endless Decanter of Beer.
I showed my mate this comic and he said that the other item would be a shield with a chicken painted on it and a pair of those testicles hanging off the bottom. He said it would be the cock blocker. Of course it’s a set item and only works when equipped with the oafbow…
Think about it.