Ms. Booth doesn’t know about Yeld’s Math Magic, I guess.
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You can only fight sorcerers with math; not dragons.
Unless you’re an arithmetician in the Final Fantasy sense of the word, I guess? I don’t think they have math classes for that, though.
Ooh, math magic. Mathemagical! I might be good at that one.
Great mathematicians often make great chess players. I have it on good authority that dragons love chess…Sooooo……
Miss Booth never watched Flight of Dragons, I take it?
“You can’t fight dragons with math, Joyce.”
I think that’s my new favorite saying!
Well, to be fair, dragons aren’t math rats.
As the Mathemagician, I challenge that claim.
Protractors can pretty sharp, and a ruler can be too if you file it down to a point. And I refuse to believe you if you were to tell me a measuring compass couldn’t stab someone.
And with my enhanced mathemagical calculations, I can find the exact weak spot on any creature, including dragons. Check AND mate, Ms. Booth!
Kinda sounds more like mathematical rogue…which doesn’t sound all that bad actually… I mean the build could work
Did anyone tell the vice principal that Modest is a princess?
Yeah. Jake had to explain everything after Modest’s hair bit Gene.
D&D players would roll to beg to differ.
Can’t fight dragons with math! Oh, that’s priceless! On the other hand, I bet you can fight them with a working knowledge of physics, and doesn’t that require math?
I wish my workplace had fantasy problems! (Errr, not big ones)
That’s true, you *can’t* fight dragons with math, but Modest should probably still learn it anyway. I figure there’s got to be a lot of math involved in running a whole world.
“Can’t fight dragons with math.”
Yes, you can. You just cant fight dragons with only math. Dragon fighting requires a varied assortment of tools.
Not with that attitude you can’t.
My Calculator skill in FF Tactics says otherwise.
Something the two are BOTH unaware of is how Jenny is a bit… Callous
I think Medusa and Jenny need somebody to properly supervise their magic sessions to reduce incidents (e.g. “And how would Medusa turn off the fire?” “What? That’s obvious” “Assume I’m a snake girl in elementary school with no prior knowledge of *how any of the magic in your world works and is in a world unequipped to deal with even basic spells*” “…Ah”)
Yeah, Jenny is a bad teacher. Its a bad idea to leave her alone with Modest. But Jake hates her a lot an doesn’t want to be around her. There clearly needs to be a solution.
Technically Ekans had volunteered to watch over those lessons…
Thats true
Well, technicaly, in a way tactics and strategic planning is kinda math. So you can fight dragons with math.
Can Modest be good at math, that’s completely different question.
Forget about it Ms. Booth. You’re not going to convince an administrator that she’s wrong. (Said with only a hint of bitterness.)
Huh… so the teaching staff is actually read in on what’s going on with Modest’s inheritance issues.
Neat.
Jake had to explain everything after Modest was suspended when her hair bit Gene.
But they listened/remembered. If this was not a fantasy comic I wouldn’t believe it.
Ya Joyce, come on
I like her spirit but math leads to science and science can lead to guns
Bumper stickers aren’t much of a thing anymore, but “You can’t fight dragons with math” is begging to be one.
Line of the month!
“You can’t fight dragons with math”
I for one would rather fight dragons with artillery from over the horizon than by running up to one and setting it on fire. Though ballistics is more a high school math topic.
https://youtu.be/rm3bGKMYM_w?t=41
At least she isn’t learning economics.
Actually, learning economics will be VERY important for her future role as Queen – She WILL need to manage the economics of Yeld, after all, so having a good foundation will help her with better allocating resources
The joke is that a leader with a poor understanding of economics is far more dangerous than artillery. An attempt to bring communism to Yeld (say) would probably have a higher body count than the evil Prince’s leadership.
Wonderful reaction image.
“You can’t fight dragons with math, Joyce.”
“You can’t fight dragons with math, Joyce.”
Well, not with that atittude you can’t!
When did Ms. Booth meet Jenny?
We never saw it but it probably happened over summer break. I cut a line from this strip where she says he met Jenny at a 4th of July party.
Sure you can, according to XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2595/
I think back to the pie thing with the mermaidcenary
Pi… i was tired totally not stupid… ok maybe a little. Also I guess the mermaid was technically a Merssassin.
The Numbers.Man in Worm was a pretty competent fighter with his math skills. 🙂
“Can’t fight dragons with math?”
Tell that to an engineer and then wait for the dead dragon.
An engineer builds things, and those things are used to fight the dragon. Not the math.
The word “engineer” was first used to refer to the people who built and operated siege engines. And the math would be used to aim the weapons at the dragons, whether it’s done on pencil and paper, a ballistics slide rule, or a fire control computer.
Fun fact: math is a totally legit form of magic in Yeld, usually practiced by tax collectors. The official “The Magical Land of Yeld RPG” book has a section about it, and Pi-Rats were brought to life with math magic in the first place.
Can’t wait to see someone dunk on a dragon with math later.
You just can’t argue with logic like that lol
New reader here, but actually, didn’t someone recite pi to the pirates to turn them into normal rats once?
That is exactly true. In fact, in Yeld there’s a whole field of magical study called “Math Magic”.