FoxTrot by Bill Amend for November 27, 2022

D&D sure is an odd game, isn’t it?

Need to specialize into Statistical Sorcery at Level 3.

The figure on his DM screen keeps changing. I recognise a dragon, a beholder, and a gelatinous cube, but I’m not sure what the one in the second panel is. Could be a goblin, could even just be a fighter.

I suppose it could even be his sister, but with Jason, that’s true of the other three images as well.

Classic Sunday this week:https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/11/25

math is wrong. Radius of 24, diameter of 48, circumference is 2RXpi= ~151

Just his luck to encounter a Liberal Arts Balrog…

Helping a Balrog with his homework? Ooh… Marcus the Math Wizard is so beyond toastified, man!

The Balrog’s teacher already told him “you shall not pass”.

Even math wizards have to roll the dice sometimes.

Thou shalt not pass!

This is the 138th strip since the last one in the most recent book – time for somebody to think up of potential book titles

intense confusion

I had thought Marcus’ answer to the volume was incorrect, until I realized that the units changed from feet to meters. He cast that math wizard spell at a higher level.

You just look at the Balrogs last pile of dung…

Anyone else check his calculation? As we’ve learned to expect from Amend, it’s right on. (And I suspect he didn’t make three false starts before reaching the right answer, like I did.)

Don’t invoke Wizard unless you mean it.

One mathematical inequality and he’s doomed.

The circumference is ( 24)(24)(3.14159)feet, not 48 feet

Too bad that with Sundays only for FoxTrot, Amend missed all the tributes yesterday to Charles Schulz’s 100th birthday.

That’s one way to defeat a balrog – homework! Balrog, please roll saving throw vs. homework…

“That’s mathemancer to you, bub!”

If Caleb Widogast taught me anything it’s that fire is always the answer.

Panel 2, I would hate to have to do that on paper.