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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Fri Jun 07, 2019 10:19 am

Dwarves are weird! :)

page 1166 - End of Overtime
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by RocketScientist » Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:47 pm

:lol:

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by RayRay » Sun Jun 09, 2019 4:31 pm

Dwarves certainly know what they are doing! Anyone else remembered The Saga Of Biorn cartoon? :D

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:42 am

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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1167.html All Downhill

More or less just a battlescene...
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:42 am

And another one:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1168.html - Limited Motions

When presented with facts.... Politicians will find a way to ignore the facts for now and revisit them later for a thorough evaluation by a committee, which will give an advice for the council/parliament on how to proceed after the vote has been cast but the facts have only now been fully considered.
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by RocketScientist » Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:00 pm

*large, audible sigh in the council's general direction*

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by redfeather » Tue Jun 25, 2019 1:22 pm

Krulle wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:42 am And another one:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1168.html - Limited Motions

When presented with facts.... Politicians will find a way to ignore the facts for now and revisit them later for a thorough evaluation by a committee, which will give an advice for the council/parliament on how to proceed after the vote has been cast but the facts have only now been fully considered.
Politicians never seem to understand that TIME is a valuable resource. Except of course when they have a reelection date coming up and they need to get as far along the campaign trail as possible.

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Mon Jul 01, 2019 6:53 am

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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1169.html - Showing Up


We're still between the two barriers.
I do hope that "our" team-members (the Order of the Stick, and the Dwarves) know that they are not allowed to use dispel magic once inside the blue barrier.
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by redfeather » Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:47 pm

My 200th post; how...improbable.
Krulle wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 6:53 amI do hope that "our" team-members (the Order of the Stick, and the Dwarves) know that they are not allowed to use dispel magic once inside the blue barrier.
Correction - they are "allowed" to, they simply are punished for doing so, by being temporarily turned to stone. If the Thundershield Clan has enough divine casters (or rogues who remembered to bring a scroll/wand/etc. they can UMD), they can totally spam one Dispel Magic per dominated council member (more if the vampires re-dominate, but that probably gets them stoned), until the quorum is no longer under thrall and the motion can be struck down. The resulting collection of Thundershield statues, presumably ending with Durkon himself (Law of Drama dictates that exactly one less than the required number of other dispels will exist among the other hero-dwarves), should be restored to life in the wake of the crisis, but even if a frustrated vampire smashes the statues and thus renders them permadeath, it would be an extremely fitting sacrifice to make in the name of their virtuous mission.l

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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1170.html - Divine Diversion

I'm a fan of a YouTuber called the Lorerunner, who discusses Star Trek and various other works, and one saying he frequently repeats in reference to some of the episodes of Star Trek is "I don't care if you have a ridiculous premise and say 'just go with it', as long as you make a good episode" (paraphrasing the general sentiment, not his exact wording). In this spirit, while this is a brilliant strip and I love it, I do have to nitpick the fact that it either ignores (maybe Rich didn't read this book) or contradicts (more likely, Rich didn't care about incorporating a somewhat counterintuitive rule from a book many people won't have read) one of the most crucial defining features of a D&D god, as established in the 3rd edition "Deities and Demigods" book - gods have multiple "points of view" at a time, with even the weakest of demigods being able to view two locations simultaneously with all of their inherent senses. Thus, if this were a 3E game being run by a DM who knew about that book and hadn't chosen to houserule to the contrary, Hel's effort at going behind the backs of the other gods would be impossible (or at least infinitely more difficult, since she'd have to set up a nearly infinite number of diversions, between two and a half-dozen or more depending on the god, and accurately predict exactly which god would view which distraction, with a single mistake sufficing to screw up her plan).

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:51 pm

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1170.html - Divine Diversion

Heh, the other
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:) Nice.

Nice ninja!
You posted the minute I wanted to post and just got a warning.
Took me a bit to read your post.

You're correct, they can cast, but we don't know whether the protective spell will take effect before you can finish casting "Dispel Magic"....
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by RocketScientist » Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:37 pm

I am so amused by the little dwarves running away cheering in the penultimate panel. LOL.

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by RocketScientist » Mon Jul 15, 2019 7:50 pm

1171 Going In, Getting Out

He's right, you know.

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Mon Jul 29, 2019 9:49 am

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1172.html - Ray of Hope


Like his father did, huh?
Tell me more!



I'm wildly guessing here, is there through the roof entrance no magical barrier??
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by M0rtimer » Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:37 pm

I'm finding it extremely ironic that if Hel had just done nothing, the dwarves sheer good nature might have had them give her exactly what she wants.

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Post by Krulle » Thu Aug 01, 2019 9:25 am

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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1173.html - Turn the Table

Yes, lawful good requires good knowledge of ALL laws/rules....
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by RocketScientist » Thu Aug 01, 2019 2:04 pm

And the award for Most Lawful goes to...

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Post by Krulle » Fri Aug 02, 2019 1:03 am

I liked the idea. Those specific rules... They seem kinda useless and making the procedures overly complex, but Thor may have foreseen the necessity of such a rule, to interrupt whatever's going on...
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Fri Aug 09, 2019 9:48 am

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#1147: Fun for the Whole Family! http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1174.html

We shall do something about this, once we're in session, and have formed a sub-committee, ...
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Post by Krulle » Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:03 am

another update notification.

1175 - Running On Fumes : http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1175.html


Looks like Hel lost nearly all her souls, and her plan looks foiled...
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by RocketScientist » Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:28 pm

Adequacy achieved! :lol:

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:53 am

Update notification: 1176 - Die or Die Trying

Well, this scheme came far and got close to working,
but in the end it did cost her many things, also many souls she had already gathered (in Thor's and Loki's distraction (page 1170).
Does she have gathered enough energy until the next world can give her new followers (and thus sustenance)?
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by redfeather » Wed Aug 21, 2019 3:55 pm

Perhaps we're about to see Loki pull a Tarquin on his extremely antisocial daughter....

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:03 am

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1178 - Rock Opera

Turn it on, Freddy M!
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by RocketScientist » Tue Sep 03, 2019 4:21 pm

Elan has found his people!

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