How did you first find out about The Order of the Stick?

[heretic]

I heard from a friend.

[Behold_the_Void]

As I recall I happened to stumble upon it looking for something D&D related.

[Hart av Srednak]

There was review of OotS game in local rpg magazine. Also short writing about comic. I liked the humor in pictures (they were actully only pictures of game cards). After reading first 100 I got addicted and after the next 200 I began to alue story over humor.

(this begins to sound like Hello my name is Hart and I'm an addict story)

[zachol]

It was a while ago, but I'm pretty sure I heard mention of it from a D&D board.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

I knew about it from the very beginning, someone was mentioning it on the TopMudSites forums when I was still playing MUDs instead of D&D. Didn't think anything about it.

Didn't actually come to the website though to look at it until I started seeing mention of it in several folks signatures on the Wizarard's forums and thought, "Meh, why not..." and instantly loved'em. Been around now some three years and don't expect to be rid of me anytime soon :smallbiggrin:

Even the forums are a hundred times better than any I've been to for D&D. I find the Zero Tolerance rules on politics and religion rather strenuous (can't even use a quote from any religious text for example in your signature and is the cause of my one warning from my first christmas posting on these boards), but then again it may possibly be neccessary. The last forums I was on for a couple years was so rampant with these kind of topics that folks would be at each other's throats to the point they'd try to hack each other's computers. Was pathetic.

[Green Bean]

I heard of it on the forums for the webcomic PVP. I read the archives and was hooked!

[Megalomaniac2]

I heard about it at the forums for the Goblins webcomic.

[Baltek Grimm]

I heard from a friend... and i read the first 100 strips in one day... :smallbiggrin:

[Zephra]

a friend told me, who was told by a friend. that friend was starting up dnd, and wanted to find out what their humer was like

[Serenity]

I subsrcrive to Dragon Magazine.

[Thexare Blademoon]

A sig link on the forums for the PRC mod for NWN.

[WarriorTribble]

I started reading after being greatly amused by the guest strip done for 8-bit theater.

[Setra]

I found it on a Webcomic Listing.

[mport2004]

a Half-Life 2 comic :smallbiggrin:

[Golthur]

Stumbled onto it when looking for something D&D related. Ended up reading all the comics up to that point (up to around 275 or so, I think) in one binge.

Then I lurked around the forums for quite some time before I started posting.

[Setra]

a Half-Life 2 comic :smallbiggrin:

Oh? What comic might that be? Sounds interesting.

[Tornek the Unhygenic]

I'm a Wiki dork, so I foung it there while looking up parodies.

[warmachine]

A mention in the Ghastly's Ghastly Comic forum because of the episode with the spiked tentacles. They're pretty weird in that forum.

[The Extinguisher]

One of my buddies from another forum kept on talking about it, and so I checked it out to shut him up.

[Caractacus]

A friend showed me the first few and I became an addict.

I very much appreciate the pleasure that these comics provide me with even when my life is stressful...

I recommend them everywhere I feel that there are people who will enjoy them and spread the word...

[Spungi]

I first heard through PA, someone mentioned it on the forums I believe.

[Yuki Akuma]

I... have no idea. :smalleek:

[NovaNightmare]

Friend, with a great persuade skill.
(Truthfully my sense motive sucked at the time... but hay it got me to this comic!)

[Aldebaran]

First found out about OOTS via a link on a Slovak fantasy forum. And I´m glad :smallsmile:

[Amon Star]

Got told about it.

[Viridian]

I read lots of game development weblogs and Rob Fermier (http://xemu.blogharbor.com/) mentioned it on his blog one day.

[Blood]

I voted for Other.

My way of finding out was pretty pathetic, though I wish it had happened sooner so that I could watch the growth of OotS since before I started reading (around #260) and later joined the forums (August). I got an e-mail, don't remember who it was from, that was advertising a hilarious D&D comic. Clicked the link, and found the best webcomic ever. :smallbiggrin:

[onasuma]

My local LARP website has a link at the top of the page. And when theres a link, you have to click it. Thats the law.

[dauvis]

I was looking for house rules to nerf the polymorph spells and found my way here.

[sethdarkwater]

Kinda funny actually. A college class+gamer girlfriend (plutonic) reseraching D&D= Me finding out about Order of the Stick. Best Comic Strip there is!

[TheNovak]

I honestly can't remember. Might've been a friend of mine. If it was, I need to track him down and thank him.

[Haruki-kun]

A friend of mine told me...........
Honestly, though, I know more about OOTS than I know about D&D XD

[Planewalker]

A friend told me about OOTS, and I forgot about it until all my other friends turned against me in disgust. I feel silly now.

[dragongirl13]

I heard it from the very friend who got me into Dungeons and Dragons. She gave me a lot of quotes from the characters, so I just had to read it, partly to see what the heck she was talking about. Of course, I became another OOTS addict.

[Paramajic]

Read The Giant's strips in Dragon.

[Cleverdan22]

I was on another forum, and there was a thread called "1,000 things to do on the internet" and saw the link.

[Pantler]

Found a link on a message board... Now I've established my own message board amd placed a link to OotS there :smallsmile:

[InuSaga]

My husband had heard about it, then got me to read a few of them. I ended up reading the whole thing in a couple days, then buying the compilations, and checking the site every day for updates, then joining the forums, then buying a WWTD teeshirt . . .

When I fangirl, I do it hard.

[r23r5]

My brother told me about it

[ferganam]

I got a "Check this Out" email from a friend of a friend who knew I gamed.

A couple months later and I have three books and a "I think I failed my Spot check" T-shirt.

[JKR]

A friend told me, and now I read bi-daily. :)

[Birile]

Read a thread on the message board for TorilMUD, a game I still play. We're all big fans over there. :smalltongue:

[Grizzt]

There was a link at the webcomic "Turn Signals on a Land Raider" website. I followed it. Then magic began.

[Konrad]

Found a link on my Neverwinter Night clan's forum

[Totally Guy]

Somebody posted this comic (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0135.html) on the forum of an MMORPG during a time when the player economy was in a similar situation (raw materials greatly more valuable than processed goods).

In this comic, read several times whilst I pondered the economy, V is interpreted as Female. I think that's why I though the answer was female for so long.

[atteSmythe]

Somebody posted this comic (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0135.html) on the forum of an MMORPG during a time when the player economy was in a similar situation (raw materials greatly more valuable than processed goods).

Ahoy, fellow pirate!

atteSmythe,
hoping he's right

[Adeptus]

When the OotS was parhaps in it's 30th episode, a friend told me (and many others in our gaming circle) about it. He said that the story was really true to fantasy RPG, but that the art was "kinda crappy".

I'd like to clarify that my friend obviously doesn't understand art. Othervice he was right, and then some.

[Totally Guy]

Ahoy, fellow pirate!

atteSmythe,
hoping he's right

I'm afraid I've not played any pirate games...

I was playing my game of choice,Eternal Lands (http://www.eternal-lands.com/), it's a free one as well.

[atteSmythe]

Huh, seems the 'processed goods being worthless' problem is more widespread, then. Puzzle Pirates (http://puzzlepirates.com) sometimes has a similar problem, because the economy is completely player-driven. People who want to spend their time shopkeeping and don't care about turning an actual profit resell finished goods at basically face value, running the 'real' merchants out of business in some cases.

[The Orange Zergling]

I was in my FLGS and saw the first OotS book... umm... wow, last February. I bought it cuz it looked funny. I waited for about a month for another one to come out... got tired of waiting, joined the forums in March. Read the entire archives sometime in April.

[SteveMB]

I discovered OotS at Balticon (I was sorry to read that the Giant found the con "kind of lame"; it's one of my favorites.)

[teratorn]

Kinda funny actually. A college class+gamer girlfriend (plutonic) reseraching D&D= Me finding out about Order of the Stick. Best Comic Strip there is!

Wow a girlfriend who burst from a volcano? That's so hot!

(ok, I can only make Elan like puns, sorry).

[the_tick_rules]

while playing D@D a friend told me about it.

[Shattersnap]

A friend told me about it at lunch. He was quoting various one liners from it ("feminine products") and told me to check it out.

[RobbyPants]

I was on the D&D boards, and someone was talking about how to summon a paladin's mount. They had a link to #373 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0373.html), which was the first comic I read. I saw another link a while later, and read a few comics in and thought it was great (I've been playing D&D for about 13 years). I decided it was worth my while to start at the beginning and read them all!

[Archaicwonder]

A buddy sent me a link to a comic about random encounter philosophy...I became hooked.

[Not a Paladin]

The way I found out is a bit odd.

While I was browsing the Nuklear Power forums (of which I am NOT a member), I found a thread discussing ideas for 8-bit Theater that will likely never be used. Several people said something to the effect that an 8-bit Theater-OotS crossover would be a pretty neat idea.

This "Order of the Stick" idea intrigued me, and I wished to learn more, so I went to the Wikipedia page.

I soon found myself reading through the 397 comics that existed at the time.

[Helnar]

Heard from a friend. And man, am I glad to have heard about it... The order of the stick rulez!!!

[Khantalas]

Other.

Not enough? OK, it was from LEVEL. Don't be lazy and check out what that is. It's not like I'm gonna tire my fingers to tell you that.

Though I could have done that in the time and characters that I wasted so far.

[Druid]

I first heard about OOTS from a friend but I never bothered to check it out until someone posted a link to the mind flayer comic in a discussion about what is and what isn't legal to post over on the GameFAQs boards.

[[Insert Neat Username Here]]

I read it in Dragon.

[valis]

My brother told me about this strip. It's so good that when school gets out I'm going take up role playing. :smallsmile:

[K'tai]

Saw some of the comics posted in the CS lab at the University I go to. Thought: Holy Crap that's cool!