Hermit Posted April 15, 2007 Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick "I'm a sexy' date=' shoeless god of war!" will no doubt appear on many, many sig files from here on out. [/quote'] I'm tempted to use it myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristopher Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Can you still get a role-playing bonus' date=' for uttering something like the "I am a sexy shoeless god of war"?[/quote'] Of course not, it's D&D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inu Posted April 18, 2007 Report Share Posted April 18, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Of course not' date=' it's D&D. [/quote'] DMG 3.5, page 40. Story awards: covers giving out experience for noncombat encounters, as well as roleplaying (advising 50 xp per character level). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristopher Posted April 19, 2007 Report Share Posted April 19, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick DMG 3.5' date=' page 40. Story awards: covers giving out experience for noncombat encounters, as well as roleplaying (advising 50 xp per character level).[/quote'] A) It was a humorous jibe. Haven't read that deeply in to 3.5...just don't care for level-based, class-based games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Is it wrong that I have enjoyed this series more than I have some fantasy Novels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted April 21, 2007 Report Share Posted April 21, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Is it wrong that I have enjoyed this series more than I have some fantasy Novels? I have, much more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Someone please tell me that they're going to Raise Roy.... Lucius Alexander Palindromedary in the playground Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Someone please tell me that they're going to Raise Roy.... Lucius Alexander Palindromedary in the playground Giant is going to raise Roy. The question for me is what will happen first. My bet is on the OOTS winning the battle, but Xyklon getting to the gate and doing whatever it is he plans to do. He won't release the Snarl, but he'll win this round, even if his army is slaughtered. He may or may not take Miko with him as he leaves. Roy will wander through the afterlife, argue with the ghost of his father, and eventually get raised to go after Xyklon again. Another interesting bit is whether or not some goblin cleric might get a chance at zombifying Roy's corpse, making it much harder to get him back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomd1969 Posted June 10, 2007 Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Wow, not to resurrect a thread that seems dead, but this battle has not turned out the way that I (and apparently Oddhat above me) was expecting. I am eagerly anticipating tomorrow's strip. Like Oddhat, I was expecting the good guys to win, however pyrrhic their victory may have been, but now it looks like we may not even get the pyrrhic victory. Roy is dead, the gate has been destroyed, many good guys have died, and there are still plenty of hobgoblins left. Hope still exists because the rest of the OotS are still alive, and the hobgoblins seem leaderless for now, though we don't know if Xykon and Redcloak took the hobgoblin army with them yet. My kudos to Rich Burlew for giving us this incredible story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Actually. I pretty much stick with my prediction on Roy being raised after an afterlife segment or two. I was surprised by the Hobgoblin victory; not sure how Rich is going to push them back out of the city, but without Xyklon or Redcloak they can't hold it. Maybe something as easy as Redcloak ordering them to the next gate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithcurtis Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Actually. I pretty much stick with my prediction on Roy being raised after an afterlife segment or two. I was surprised by the Hobgoblin victory; not sure how Rich is going to push them back out of the city' date=' but without Xyklon or Redcloak they can't hold it. Maybe something as easy as Redcloak ordering them to the next gate?[/quote'] Perhaps Roy and Miko will briefly meet in the afterlife. Keith "Of course, they will have to fight" Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Perhaps Roy and Miko will briefly meet in the afterlife. Keith "Of course, they will have to fight" Curtis HAHA! That would be awesome! Especially if they meet in passing, Miko gloats about Roy's death "At least my greatest enemy preceded me into death", and then Roy says "Sorry, I can't talk right now. Durkon's resurrecting me." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomd1969 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick HAHA! That would be awesome! Especially if they meet in passing, Miko gloats about Roy's death "At least my greatest enemy preceded me into death", and then Roy says "Sorry, I can't talk right now. Durkon's resurrecting me." That would indeed be funny. I found this Monday's strip very thought-provoking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick That would indeed be funny. I found this Monday's strip very thought-provoking. Indeed. Miko didn't seem to have that many complaints about being dead all in all. When this storyarc comes out in softcover, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it for a Hugo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Am I the only one disappointed by recent trends toward darkness in OotS? I miss the good old days when it was a light hearted and funny look at D&D, now it seems to be mixing with all sorts of deep and dark themes. Lots of death which used to be more rare, especially for major characters. I know that Roy will surely be back as soon as they can manage to raise him but still it is becoming a more depressing comic. I used to visit this comic for a little mindless entertainment, I have enough complicated themes going on in other stories and real life for me to want another one to follow. It is kind of like the disaster that befell the comic book industry. There was the heyday that was the Golden and Silver age and then things started devolving until they reached the depths that they have currently sank to. I am not saying that OotS is in that bad a shape, I am just worried that it won't lighten back up anytime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Yeah, I felt like there were way too many comics depicting the "struggle" of the bad guys. I don't want to cheer for them; I've been spending all comic cheering for the people who want to see their defeat! But all of a sudden, the good guys seem all useless and floundering, even when they did almost everything they could to be as effective as they knew how. If I were a PC in this campaign, I'd be pretty annoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealVector Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick I really enjoy The Order of the Stick but I have found myself rooting for the "bad guys" more and more. Then again, I'm evil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inu Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick I have started to feel ill from the sheer slaughter. Still, that's what happens. I don't expect such to last at this level beyond, say... the siege. A siege is a nasty business, and it's perhaps proper that it SHOULD be harrowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick My only problem with the current OotS storyline is that it's getting so the villains are more entertaining than the heroes. While villains are often more interesting, they still shouldn't be more important than the heroes. Seems like the Stick members are only showing up in about one out of five strips. Here's hoping it'll go back to something more normal after the writer gets us through this "epic" story and back to something less grand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealVector Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick I have started to feel ill from the sheer slaughter. Still' date=' that's what happens. I don't expect such to last at this level beyond, say... the siege. A siege is a nasty business, and it's perhaps proper that it SHOULD be harrowing.[/quote'] Anybody notice that they're just little stick figures in a cartoon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Anybody notice that they're just little stick figures in a cartoon? Yes, but it's very easy to forget that when their stories are so funny, involving, and, at times, harrowing as mentioned. In the nearly 500-installment run of the strip, we've had some truly hilarious gaming satire. we've also had high drama, classical tragedy, great love stories, and a chilling portrayal of the insanity of war. All acted out by stick figures from a writer and artist who clearly knows what he is doing. Rich Burlew is one of the artists who is proving what the webcomic can do as an art form, and he just keeps getting better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inu Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick Anybody notice that they're just little stick figures in a cartoon? Your point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick I'm going through OotS withdrawal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick I'm going through OotS withdrawal Just six more days, Herm. Chill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Order of the Stick The 17th is just around the corner. Be strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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