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Head’s up, Space Rangers. Your new favourite board game, Orphans & Ashes, has been nominated for the d-Infinity Independent Game Awards award for Best Board Game!

The d-Infinity Independent Game Awards recognize the accomplishments of independent game publishers. As the game’s designer, I’m proud of how well it’s been received, and honestly, it would be pretty cool to add “award winning” to both my and the game’s list of credentials. If you’ve picked the game up, either in the shop or at a con in the last year, and you enjoy the game as much as we planned for you to like it, head over to the and give d-Infinity Independent Game Awards site and turn your love into a vote.

From our best to yours, here are the top comments for early May, 2016.

LFG 979
Ivory Bill
Now when you say kill the king what do you mean by “the?” There’s lot of kings out there, for instance, and we can’t very well go killing just any king just to satisfy the “the” because the chance of it being the intended king to be killed is surely unlikely given the number of kings there are out there.

Rycan
This guy’s smarter than he looks. He’s just stalling before having to fight the heroes. That rarely ends well for nameless soldiers.

gagaplex
Sergeant Abbott meets Lieutenant Costello.

NPC 21-08
Gbrish
It seems like Richard’s body is getting ahead of himself.

Memnar
Now I understand why he made Cale say “Come at me, bro!” that one time. Because he didn’t get to actually “say” it himself right here, and it always bugged him.

P. Stein
They have amazingly white teeth for villains.

TDA 116
alexandre
Well at least now we know cale’s mother’s name

Douglas Pittman
Ahh…nothing like murdering a family member to bond two souls 🙂

Michigan J. Frog (in response to Memnar)
That, or being undead, he possesses no esophageal gland and can therefore talk and imbibe simultaneously without repercussions or the need to swallow…Or something.

LFG 980
Syn~
“Baa baa white sheep
Have you any wool?
No sir, no sir
Richard took it all
He Slaughtered my master
He Fwooshed the dame
Then he proceeded to the orphanage
Right down the lane”

sane in an asylum (in resonse to Syn~)
“He skinned the children and lit the fires
Stoked the coals with their little pyres
He laughed and cavorted, danced and sang
As the priest came running and the church bells rang
The bucket brigade was too late to help
Richard had fried every runt and whelp
Now the town mourns and Richard moves on
Just another massacre: the warlock is gone”

TxSonofLiberty
Like a Lamb to the slaughter… of another lamb.
Oh, I know, it is “”Revenge of the Herds: Lamb Die, Lamb Die, Lamb””
He is Sbaaaaaaaarticus.
“My name is Lambdam, Prince of Eweternia, and the Keeper of the Secrets of Cattle Grey Wool”
“This is Fringer, my shearless calf.”
“Fabaaaaaalous Powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my Scythe and said…”
“Baaaaaaa the power of Grey Wool, I have the plowshear”” (HE-RAM)
“Fringer became the mighty Battle Yak, and I became He-Ram…”
“THE MOST POWERFUL RAM IN THE BARNYARD”
“Only three others know our secret, they are… Horserus, Ram-at-Horns, and Porko”
“Together we defend the Secrets of Cattle Grey Wool from the weavil forces of Skelefork”

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[Yes, I know this is the second He-Man parody I have done, but the other one was for an NPC Tale, and this one is for the Main Comic, so it sort of doesn’t apply… plus it really fits the picture]”

Ivory Bill
BLUE WARLOCK NEEDS ORPHANS BADLY.

Dana W
A SHEEPSHANK?

Kai Kohaku
Lamb Chop? No. Lamb Chops (other lamb).

NPC 21-09
Rycan
“You know, when you stab somebody, you could try to remove the blade from their body afterwards. That way, you can stab somebody else with that blade – or even stab the same person a second time!
It’s a radical concept, I know. But it just might be crazy enough to work.”

Jason Reeves
So is that technically a Prince Albert?

soilent
The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, Number 35.
That which does not kill you has made a tactical error.

LFG 981
Crestlinger
As the tale of the mutton chopper continues in the background…

Ivory Bill
Cha Cha gives milk and clean asses, and he’s all out of milk.

Thee Pie Man
Richard wants to know some useless information on cows and cost effectiveness? Alright let’s go to goooooooglle:
Cows average at about 2,500 gallons a year (About 8 gallons a day or 70 pounds of milk.) An average large bottle is 280ml we’re going to round down the number that we get to 0.07 Gallons per bottle, assuming baby Charlies drinks more than the average baby, probably at least twice as much, (We’ll say he takes in double the maximum average which is around 48oz) So we get 48oz x 2 giving us 96oz’s a day or which is approximately 2839.1 ML’s of liquid or 0.75 gallons of liquid a day.
Now assuming that Richard has a giant garden of some sort inside that bag of hammer space, suited for a cow to graze normally.
1 Gallon of whole milk at the store usually runs a person, eh I’ll say $3.25, mostly because I’ve seen some stores with them for as high as almost 4 dollars and some stores with it as low as $2.50 on sale. Now we’ll say the middle of those numbers is the average and go from there. $3.25 per gallon, he’d be making an excess of quite a lot. Since from my previous calculations if they’d hold true it would mean they’d be storing away 7.25 gallons, or making it into cheese or butter or selling it or bathing in it. I don’t know. Honestly he could make some serious bank off of this while feeding Charles easily and then some. (Let’s assume he takes .25 of those gallons and stores them for a snack for Charles in-case he’s hungrier one day or another.) 3.25 * $7 is $22.75 In other words on just milk if he were to sell it as whole milk at average market price, he’d be making 22.75 a day. If he actually bought the cow. (For about $1,550.00 average) it would take him 69 days if we round up the remainder to make the cow cost effective when it comes to how much milk it produces. Now we could say that the lives Richard doesn’t have to end, and can instead sell milk to gains him more in the long run with contacts and other things but again. All assumptions.
I mean selling those kind of commodities wherever you go will make you quite rich especially in the time period this is set in, or rather the age of magic and the like. This is again, all assumptions He says cost effective as if he’d buy a cow, or rather how many shopkeepers he has to kill to obtain the milk, as if his time is any factor. He could simply steal any cow from anywhere, raise it with his other animals and get lots of milk.

NPC 21-10
Solgub
Seeing the comments, speculating that this is going to become the Richard’s undead village and talking about how he has to save people to gain power-up… Have you all forgotten about the headless (more like bodiless in the main story) Richard arc? This is the exact scene from p. 330.

Flavourius
They prepare the unexpected: Showing some adult content (Blood, corpses, some fwoosh..) right when you not expect them.

The Shadow
And all were happy and merry, all but one. The kid couldn’t help but feel deep down that the raiders should have killed them all. He wanted their shoes so bad and was hoping so much for new ones. The current pair even had holes in the bottom. How was he going to wet his appetite for a new pair? He pulled a knife out and looked upon a pair that were attached to some feet. Maybe he should start liberating some shoes. He pulled off the pair and proceeded to put them on his feet. Perfect fit but he discovered a new appetite to feed as he cornered another victim…

TDA 117
Kang the Unbalanced
No, sorry, rationality stops at the Atlantic Ocean.

LFG 982
Shadow
“You couldn’t stop us before, what makes you think this time will be any different?”
“I’ve gathered other people who haven’t been able to stop you before!”
“….THEY couldn’t stop us before, what makes you think- ah screw it. Let’s just let Richard kill them all””

darkmage0707077
Benny needs a bit of hair-removal serum for her ear in that last panel.

Tom
It’s like some computer and RPGs that feature (without calling them thus) “Blink Monsters” – Monsters that just show up with no warning in areas where only some form of dimensional portal, quantum teleportation or invisibility could explain why they were not detected before they were in melee range.

Melkor
You just know there is a sassy peasant in there, somewhere.

NPC 21-11
Bantaro
I’m betting dream sequence due to the ‘cloudy’ borders on the frames.

Minh Duong
Are we to believe that Richard is actually noble and benevolent? That his bloodlust, irreverence for life and need for wanton destruction is “all in his head?”
Say it isn’t so. Otherwise, there goes my entire sense of what reality is.

safyrejet
Now we walk into the sunset to look for new shoes. Kids outgrow theirs so fast.
….
See! What’d I tell you. Outgrew them in just one panel!
You may have noticed a disproportionate number of top comments for LFG 980. Normally we narrow the list down to the top three comments of any given page, but damn if Richard’s murder sheep didn’t inspire some of my favourite comments of basically ever. Well done, everyone. Also well done to Ivory Bill, who got so many comments on the list during this period he had to be reprimanded for hogging all the clever.

Until next time, be excellent to each other,
-Costello