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I believe it was brought up several times in the Giant's forums that the Order of the Stick will not be converting to 4e. I wouldn't put it past him to make a few jokes about it, but all-in-all, nothing is going to change that way, I think. Anyone know when we're getting the next book?
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Mar 4, 2008 00:27
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Appalitch posted:I would be pretty bummed out if they pulled an "oh, they suddenly all got more powers and now have slightly updated costumes because of plot device."
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Mar 4, 2008 07:53
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Gary Gygax died today. I hope he gets to hang out with Roy for a bit.
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Mar 4, 2008 21:15
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I wouldn't be surprised if the next strip has an homage or something to Gygax.
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Mar 4, 2008 22:46
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rantmo posted:Gary Gygax died today. I hope he gets to hang out with Roy for a bit. Is it wrong that my first thought upon hearing the news was, "Pffft, they'll Raise him as soon as they get back to town"? ... or that my second thought was, "Gary's dead!? I'm <rolls dice> ... overcome with grief!" (Double nerd score on that one.) ... or that my third thought was, "Who gets his stuff?" The man was a legend, a giant among halflings. He was that special sort of nerd who looked at tabletop wargaming and actually thought, "We can make this nerdier." The world is a poorer place.
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Mar 4, 2008 23:28
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 New strip is upWhoever called Roy hanging with Gygax was dead on.
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Mar 5, 2008 03:00
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team overhead smash posted:
Thank you Rich. Thank you Roy.
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Mar 5, 2008 03:05
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team overhead smash posted:
I'm glad I was right, but dammit I'm getting all weepy over here. 
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Mar 5, 2008 03:45
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rantmo posted:I'm glad I was right, but dammit I'm getting all weepy over here. I've felt that way since I found out. And for some reason I can't get Dan Fogelberg's 'Leader of the Band' out of my head.
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Mar 5, 2008 03:59
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Berlew's a pretty cool dude. A little sleepy and prone to illness, but cool nonetheless.
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Mar 5, 2008 05:06
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What the gently caress server is OotS on, a tin can with some string to connect it to the routers? Going through the archives is being made very loving difficult by the website's love of timing out 19 out of every 20 times I try to load any page.
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Mar 5, 2008 19:35
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CapnAndy posted:What the gently caress server is OotS on, a tin can with some string to connect it to the routers? Burlew's cheap hosting is clearly a plot to get you to buy his books.
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Mar 6, 2008 02:11
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CapnAndy posted:What the gently caress server is OotS on, a tin can with some string to connect it to the routers? I'd imagine the Gygax strip is getting him far more hits than usual, and even under ordinary circumstances, the server gets hammered pretty hard when a new strip goes up. Thinking about it, I wonder if that's part of the reason for his random update schedule.
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Mar 6, 2008 17:54
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New strip:
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Mar 8, 2008 06:27
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Hayley! Nooooo! Oh, its just makeup. Nevermind.
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Mar 8, 2008 06:50
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Sefer posted:New strip: I really like this one for some reason. Maybe because it's a bit more subtle than some of the others - a joke about the players and about the game itself rather than a joke about the rules.
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Mar 8, 2008 16:12
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Wow, Haley must be really dead! She's got asterisks in her eyes instead of X's! (I'm almost expecting that to be the next joke)
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Mar 8, 2008 17:37
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DoctorTristan posted:I really like this one for some reason. Maybe because it's a bit more subtle than some of the others - a joke about the players and about the game itself rather than a joke about the rules. More than that, it is a joke regarding the way the game is being represented graphically in the strip, rather than the game itself (unless some handbook states that dead characters have "X" instead of eyes). For some reason this kind of plot device annoys me to no end. Kinda like when cartoon characters get entagled in some tight situation and win because someone says "Wait! we are cartoon characters, so we can do anything we want!". It's okay when you are dealing with a purely gag-based project, á la Tex Avery; when the project is plot-based or relies heavily on a plot it seems cheap to me. But that's just a pet peeve of mine. Rich still rules.
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Mar 8, 2008 17:45
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I think he was referring to the dig about how the only solution for adventurers is to kill everyone.
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Sick_Boy posted:More than that, it is a joke regarding the way the game is being represented graphically in the strip, rather than the game itself (unless some handbook states that dead characters have "X" instead of eyes). I'd say it's more them feigning death through the disguise skill (which is what the strip title alludes to) and then just making a gag about the visual representation of death in the strip through that. The plot is that they'll be feigning death, the gag is that being dead in the strip just means you have Xs for eyes. Their plan doesn't break the fourth wall but the gag kind of does.
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Mar 8, 2008 18:02
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New strip for your viewing pleasure (sorry about the format swipe team overhead smash)
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Mar 9, 2008 07:16
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 Rehosted just in case anyone can't get it to load.
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Mar 9, 2008 09:31
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KOraithER posted:I think he was referring to the dig about how the only solution for adventurers is to kill everyone. Yes, after rereading his post, he probably was. My tangential rant stil stands 
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Mar 9, 2008 12:51
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Man, I love this most recent update.
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Mar 10, 2008 23:38
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I think it's funny that the second to last comic made the joke that the dnd solution to just about everything is "kill it" while in this latest one Belkar solves a sticky situation by stabbing a foe in the face.
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Mar 12, 2008 07:38
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Soonmot posted:How did Belkar kill an un-undead? Is the mark of justice gone?
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Mar 12, 2008 07:52
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New strip is up. Symmetry is a grand thing.
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Mar 14, 2008 07:58
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Gyges posted:
This is his funniest strip since the epic cleric fight from the seige.
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Mar 14, 2008 12:27
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3s Box posted:This is his funniest strip since the epic cleric fight from the seige. I agree. 'You get that [spell]?' "Law domain." 'Nice. And made my save.' Finding out that Redcloak lied about the save DC makes that whole scene even better.
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Mar 14, 2008 20:21
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ConfusedUs posted:
He didn't lie; the priest miscalculated his total roll.
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Mar 15, 2008 02:09
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I like how the gnome has a red pointed hat like the classic portrayal.
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Mar 15, 2008 03:08
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0540.html I'm laughing pretty hard at this recent set of strips. 
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Mar 17, 2008 08:33
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That's glorious. "With my luck the next gnome I kill won't even HAVE any candy." It's been pure gold since they got out of azure city and is now making me mad that we were there for so long in the first place.
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I'm loving the Adventures of Belkar, Haley, and someannoyingbitchwithwings. I really am.
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Mar 18, 2008 00:59
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Well, unfortunately, new update means it's time for a SCENE SHIFT!
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Mar 19, 2008 07:14
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LightWarden posted:Well, unfortunately, new update means it's time for a SCENE SHIFT! Oh noes! It's O-Chul! I mean, it's Mr. Stiffly!
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Mar 19, 2008 07:33
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Good to see the bad guys again. Is the "any old hack write a sourcebook"-part a reference to someone?
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There was a sourcebook released about a year ago about making deadly dungeons and in it was stats for acid sharks. I don't know who wrote it but I really hope he was just calling the writer a hack and it's not some self effacing remark.
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