lemming Posted March 13, 2010 Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick Or Danskin Lights Did you mean Danskin Tights? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casualplayer Posted March 13, 2010 Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick At a page a week, I'm gonna be a friggin' dancing wight by the time this storyline is done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick At least he didn't cast... Dancing Wights That's the one I expected. Lucius Alexander Dancing palindromedaries! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick New one... http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0707.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick "A spatula may be helpful in that regard." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick I am suddenly reminded of V's quote, that we are all in the monster manual somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick What, nobody trusts a Paladin's ability to detect evil anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick Perhaps the commander was afraid that he would detect as evil.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick Perhaps the commander was afraid that he would detect as evil.... Paladins don't use Detect Evil on their comrades. They're nice that way. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick ... So they have a blind spot that can be exploited. IN-teresting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Neilson Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick Perhaps the commander was afraid that he would detect as evil.... Lead Sheild! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick #708 is already up! Poor poor Redcloak... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casualplayer Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick Could we be getting back to two to three pages a week? Dare I dream? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick I have a feeling Xykon's going to eventually regret tromping all over Redcloak's dignity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick I have a feeling they're going to eventually regret killing that Hobgoblin prisoner out of hand. Lucius Alexander The palindomedary is still wondering why, since the Goblins were having a party, they hadn't staffed the prison with a literal "skeleton crew." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick I have a feeling Xykon's going to eventually regret tromping all over Redcloak's dignity. We'll see. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick Red Cloak has dignity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick Red Cloak has dignity? Well, he's not your typical Igor, if that's what you mean. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Susano Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick [ATTACH=CONFIG]35385[/ATTACH] Damn your eyes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick From at least Start of Darkness, Burlew has been attacking the alighment system. And with good reason, as its intellectual incoherence and moral bankruptcy has been quite satisfactorily hashed out. Redcloak represents one aspect of the problem: the assertion that "evil" can have a soteriological and social programme. That is, extra-evil people are more likely to go to Evil Heaven than the less evil, and evil is also socially functional. Good people committing genocide, or in this case murdering prisoners, are the flip side of the problem. We reap as we sow, and Azure City will never be liberated. Thanh is going to be Moses, leading his people free, not the liberator. Will Redcloak eventually stand up for himself? Surely. He is the tragic hero of the epic, and his arc would be meaningless unless he confronts his actions. That said, he is flawed by one inescapable, ongoing evil act, and that is not his treatment of Right-Eye, much less his role in the ongoing Manichaean struggle: it his consistent treatment of the MitD as a means to an end. This is truly oblivious, self-regarding, evil behaviour. That said, MitD is bound up with Right-Eye's family and Redcloak's one hitherto-successful act of defiance against Xykon, I expect the return of Right-Eye's children, the revelation of the MitD's true nature to precipitate Redcloak's redemptive betrayal of Xykon. Unless that's all too neatly cut and dried, and we end up finishing Order of the Stick with the same, unsatisfied, "that's if?" feeling we had at the end of Bone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick From at least Start of Darkness' date=' [/i']Burlew has been attacking the alighment system. And with good reason, as its intellectual incoherence and moral bankruptcy has been quite satisfactorily hashed out. Redcloak represents one aspect of the problem: the assertion that "evil" can have a soteriological and social programme. That is, extra-evil people are more likely to go to Evil Heaven than the less evil, and evil is also socially functional. Good people committing genocide, or in this case murdering prisoners, are the flip side of the problem. We reap as we sow, and Azure City will never be liberated. Thanh is going to be Moses, leading his people free, not the liberator. Will Redcloak eventually stand up for himself? Surely. He is the tragic hero of the epic, and his arc would be meaningless unless he confronts his actions. That said, he is flawed by one inescapable, ongoing evil act, and that is not his treatment of Right-Eye, much less his role in the ongoing Manichaean struggle: it his consistent treatment of the MitD as a means to an end. This is truly oblivious, self-regarding, evil behaviour. That said, MitD is bound up with Right-Eye's family and Redcloak's one hitherto-successful act of defiance against Xykon, I expect the return of Right-Eye's children, the revelation of the MitD's true nature to precipitate Redcloak's redemptive betrayal of Xykon. Unless that's all too neatly cut and dried, and we end up finishing Order of the Stick with the same, unsatisfied, "that's if?" feeling we had at the end of Bone. 1. I owe you reputation. I should come back and reputize this later. 2. Mr. Burlew owes you a commission. You just sold one copy of Start of Darkness, as soon as I can get it. 3. After reading Start of Darkness, I plan to start reading Heart of Darkness, one of the classics I had not yet gotten around to. Not that it likely has any bearing.... Lucius Alexander The palindromedary notes that sometimes Burlew actually makes the alignment system look workable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick Then there's the entire storyline with Miko. For a long time she was the model of Lawful Good, but that didn't stop her from committing atrocities in the name of "good". It took a truly extreme act for her Gods to finally punish her, and to the end she believed she was carrying out the true intent of her alignment. The fourth-edition version of Fantasy HERO had some arch words for this sort of behavior -- with statements like "What does good mean when paladins slay kobold children for Experience Points?" (I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick Isn't that effectively what Anakin Skywalker did? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 Re: Order of the Stick ... to become effectively an Anti-Paladin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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