What was the most recent strip when you first started reading?

[An Enemy Spy]

The first time I read OotS all the way through, all the way back in 2007, the last strip was 517 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0517.html). It's weird to think that the Battle of Azure City took place less than halfway into the comic's run. It felt very climactic at the time.

[DataNinja]

Well, when I finally caught up, and was like "Why isn't the forwards button working?" it was 917 - Hold On (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0917.html). Accursed cliffhanger. :smalltongue:

[Euclidodese]

864 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0864.html), The Recap Comic, was the last one when I caught up, wait, that was four years ago...

[ti'esar]

804 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0804.html), I think, although I thought there was a longer gap between when I read the archives and when I first joined the forums. I'd heard of OOTS since about 2006, but for whatever reason I never really got into the whole thing until then.

[factotum]

I'm pretty sure it was during the Battle for Azure City arc that I first started--somewhere in the low 400s, but I don't remember exactly where.

[Rift_Wolf]

Ah distinctly I remember it was when the party went to the sunken Valley and they encountered the green and red guys. I skipped back a few comics to try and find the start of that arc. Then found out it wasn't a gag-a-day strip...

[Quild]

The oldest thing I find of me speaking about OOTS is on the 16th January 2006. I was already checking OOTS on regular basis since a while back then.

I think that I started reading in 2005 somewhere during the Bandit Camp arch.

[Onyavar]

The first time I saw OotS: 421 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0421.html)
It was in spring or early summer 2007 - I distinctly remember that Roy was already dead when I caught up reading; and I was frustrated when there was a six week break or so in late summer, as is evidenced here (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0484.html).

OMG, I'm getting old, I'm reading this story since almost 10 years.

[Domino Quartz]

When I started reading, I think the most recent strip was one of the ones that took place during the time Roy was fighting Thog in the arena - #801, I believe.

[Priceguy]

Wish I remembered. It was definitely after 320 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0320.html) and definitely long enough before the Battle of Azure City that I had already followed the comic for a while at that point.

[hroþila]

I can't pinpoint the exact strip, but it must have been around #260 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0260.html).

[Priceguy]

Wish I remembered. It was definitely after 320 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0320.html) and definitely long enough before the Battle of Azure City that I had already followed the comic for a while at that point.

This is the sort of question that sticks in my mind, so I've narrowed it down. I definitely remember Belkar singing the complete score to Meet Me in St. Louis when I first started reading, so it was after 385 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0385.html), and I'm pretty sure it was before Miko falling, which happened in 407 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0407.html). So around 400, I guess. It seemed like a huge archive already...

[Darth Paul]

I had already read several strips out of sequence and out of context by clicking links from TV Tropes, when I decided it was time to actually read this whole "stick figure story" thing. I think I actually tuned in for what would be the last page of BRitF, and hit a major spoiler (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0946.html) by mistake, before clicking to the beginning of the series.

It took so long to get back to that page (at the rate of 15 to 20 strips a day), that I somehow managed to forget the last panel by the time I got there. So my face looked like :smalleek: when I read it again.

[Zar Peter]

Must've been 392 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0392.html) when I found the link but, though it was awesome, it didn't made sense out of connection so I started from the beginning and when I finished with the archives I was around here: 395 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0395.html)

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I started reading when 918 was out. It's hard to believe that was around 2.5 years ago. I didn't register until around 935, however.

[Keltest]

And my registration was when #933 was up. It may have been on 932 when I started reading.

[Kralzen]

I can't pin point but the time Girard's pyramid exploded, around strip #900, is what I remember the most of that time. Thor's nuts! It was more than 2 years ago. But I only registered 2 months ago.

[grandpheonix]

I started reading around 151. Didnt even know there was a forum until Rich cut his thumb.

[Kid Jake]

I remember running out of comic around 51 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0051.html), though I didn't realize until actually searching for the comic how far back it really was.

[dmc91356]

Easy for me - 443 (Roy's death). It was called out in a thread on another board I moderate on and I went to see what the hubub was about. Read all the comics to catch up within a day and have been reading them ever since. Didn't join the forums for 5 or 6 years after.

[ReleaseTheBees]

#848, Acid Redux. (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0848.html) About the time The Giant cut his thumb. I finally caught up and was like "sweet, just a week or so until fresh OotS!"

But there were no strips the next week. Nor for many long, dark months.

[LunarDrop]

Page 978: Rage Against the Lightning of the Dead

Yeah, haven't been here that long. It makes me sad I wasn't here for the kickstarter- I want that Belkar prequel story!

[eru001]

#637 for me, was introduced to it through buying the first book at the local game/comic book store, then the store owner mentioned that there was a website with the rest of the story.

[zimmerwald1915]

I'm pretty sure it was #672 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0672.html). I registered later, though.

[Joerg]

I started reading somewhere between #10 and #50. I began to visit the forum somewhere in the 100s, but I was just lurking for a long time and only registered when the server was so slow that I needed the option to turn off images and avatars.

[Vinsfeld]

I recall it very vividly. It was this one (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0483.html)

[Knaight]

It was in the high 200s low 300s range somewhere, though exactly where is beyond me.

[Sir_Norbert]

#282, if I have the number correct. Celia's long closing speech at the trial. I had been gaming for a while before that, and I was immediately hooked by the depth of the issues raised about the alignment system and what it really means.

[Remmirath]

Somewhere before #200, but not very much before -- I think. I don't remember exactly, but I do definitely remember reading #200 as it came out, so it must have been prior to that when I started reading. I believe I had stumbled on it much earlier, more like around #30 or so, but I hadn't actually yet switched from 1st edition to 3rd edition at that point, and due in part to that (and in part to reading so many webcomics at the time I already couldn't keep track) I didn't start reading the comic then and forgot about it until the next time I stumbled on it.

I didn't notice the forum until later, and didn't actually register to post for a year or two (or three?) after that.

[Deprox]

I started reading at #26. A friend of mine was laughing very hard at naked tumbling Elan and linked me to the site. I had recently started playing my first 3.5E campaign (I was 13 back then) and found most of the jokes hilarious, then decided I was going to stick with this comic strip until the end. Almost 12 years later, I'm still here, and I'll be reading OotS until the thermal death of the universe.

I was a lurker of an OotS brazilian orkut group which was mentioned some times around here, and only registered at the forums last year because I'm sort of a lurker everywhere.

[Elenna]

I believe it was around 972 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0972.html). Very recent, although like Darth Paul I found several random strips through TVTropes before actually deciding to read the whole thing.

[goodpeople25]

You can put me in the club of reading random strips via tv tropes at first.
I'm pretty sure i started reading more seriously around caster fight (#935)it was christmas vacation and i just got the iPad i'm currently typing on, so well i put it to good use. Think i was caught up by the time i got back home (at least from where i decided to start not sure if i did all of book 1). Joined this forum at the end of that January. And first post (pretty sure) was of all things to join in a string of Monty Python quotes (#942 obviously)

[Domino Quartz]

I should have mentioned that I also read several random strips via TVTropes before actually starting to read it properly. At that time I had no idea that there was an ongoing plot. I thought it was just a series of disconnected adventures at first, until I actually started reading from the beginning.

[Corian]

Hmmm. It was a while ago, so I don't remember exactly; still, pretty sure I remember the Linear Guild being introduced (#44), and probably soon after the Trigak scene (#18-20). Oh, dear.

[Laurana]

I've looked it up and I know that it was may 2012, but I'm not sure which was the latest strip then. I seem to remember it was #847 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0847.html), but I'm not sure.

[nbLurkerAbove]

The strip was in the "Haley has no voice" part when I first started reading. After reading the archives multiple times, I forgot about the strip until much later. It randomly popped into my head again, then I saw the most recent strip was #934. I was very confused at why Haley called Elan "Honey," so I went back and read from the start again. Boy, did I miss a lot!

[Enkai]

Pretty sure it was #542, maybe #541. It was around that at the least. I do distinctively remember acid-breathing sharks. I started lurking on the forum around then, which was around the time the O-chul as Chuck Norris jokes really started taking off. I didn't actually register for a few months (edit: years apparently), and even since then, I mostly lurk.

My husband, on the other hand (not on the forum), had been reading from early in Dungeon Crawling Fools, and was the one who got me into it. We were engaged at the time, so spring break before we got married, I broke down and archive-binged.

[Razade]

Around #20ish or so, somewhere around that.

[SZbNAhL]

Let's see now... I followed occasional links from TVTropes for an indeterminate length of time within 2012 before eventually enjoying number 124 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0124.html) so much that I read through to the end, which was 850 - not-thog (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0124.html). And then I procrastinated on joining the fora for about three years.

[Killer Angel]

If I recall correctly, it was the strip n. 18.
Yeah, long time ago...

[Sam113097]

I'm not exactly sure, but I think I started around the the time the Order reached Windy Canyon... I can't remember how I found the comic, but I'm glad that I did :smallbiggrin:

[rooster707]

992 - Peak Condition (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0992.html). (I'm pretty new here.)

[Ornithologist]

While I don't remember the current strip when I started reading, I do remember clearly that it was begining of book 2 or three.

[nyjastul69]

Somewhere around strip #'s 50-70 I think. I signed up pretty soon after first reading the comic. I'm not sure though, it's been a while.

[Belksworth]

I'm pretty sure it was 1002.

[Wildroses]

It was around the end of chapter five, because I remember going "Awww that's ages away" when the revelation of Durkula strip ended with "The Order of the Stick will return March 31".

[Heksefatter]

I am not completely sure, but I think it was around V's deal with the fiends, perhaps.

[Yuki Akuma]

The strip that introduced us to Miko before we knew she was called Miko. Or before we knew she was a she. I don't remember what number that is, but it's pre-200.

[FLHerne]

It was #810 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0810.html). I was confused by Elan/Nale, and had no idea why the tea was important.

(In that specific situation, tea is of course an essential part of life and I was probably drinking some at the time).

[skim172]

The very first strip I ever read: The Giant's guest strip for 8-Bit Theater (http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/05/18/vacation-04-3-i-love-bridge-jokes/).

That led me over to here, though I don't exactly remember what strip was on the front page then. But apparently that was May in 2004. I now feel very old. :smallfrown:

[Bedinsis]

Like many others I discovered the comic through tvtropes. The most recent update when I started reading through the comic was this comic (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0482.html), though by the time I finished the next one was the one most recent.

The comic that made me decide to read through the comic was the oracle making his prophesies (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0331.html).

[The Derp Potato]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0962.html

[bengator]

In the early 20's. My God its been a long time. I'm 2 wives removed from the one whose friend introduced me to the comic!

[DaggerPen]

"Don't fire until you see the eyes of their wights." (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0514.html)

[pearl jam]

In the early 20's. My God its been a long time. I'm 2 wives removed from the one whose friend introduced me to the comic!

:smalleek:


I'm pretty certain I was within the first 100 and possibly within the first 50.

It was quite a while before I noticed, then visited, then registered for the forum, though.....

[Ruck]

I'm pretty new to the comic; it was either #1008 or #1009.

What I remember is that while I was catching up, I checked the OOTS Wikia for something and freaked out because it spoke of Belkar in the past tense. Since it was between #996 and #1015, I guess whoever edited the page assumed Belkar died in his fall down the mountain.

EDIT: Other people mentioned TV Tropes, and I actually discovered the strip there-- an article I was reading linked to #428. I read it, and was interested enough to click on the next one, then the next one... and about the time I got to the end of War and XPs, I thought, "You know, I should really read this from the beginning."

[ghoul-n]

Nale failing at Sending stuff.

Yeah, this one: www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0337.html

[Pvednes]

#7, iirc. My DM at the time linked it on irc. ThorPrayer sealed the deal, been back every week ever since.

[hagnat]

friend of mine introduced me to the comic back when the Linear Guild made its debut, iirc, during the battle for The Talisman of Dorukon (#56) (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0056.html).

It has been a long - yet enjoyable - ride since then.

[Willenium]

#885 Bit of an odd start, but the guy next to me in the lab office had a sexy shoeless god of war screensaver so I kept at it. I remember that the archives were down that week(s?) so I had to wait before I could catch up. this would of been summer 2013 or so.

[Markozeta]

While I mentioned it was #146 before, the best part of starting so early was the big reveal in 233 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0233.html) of the girdle of femininity/masculinity. I waited almost a hundred strips to see what would happen with that thing from it's discovery in 9. However, the reveals just keep getting bigger and bigger with this thing. That one was tiny in comparison to others I've seen already happen - and there are more to come (like MitD).

[Lupus Major]

Not sure it was the latest strip when I started reading, but I remember waiting for this trap (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0036.html) to strike.

We had just started a 3.5 game, and I had randomly googled "DnD webcomic".

That means I've checked this site almost daily for, what, 13 years? Damn.

[Hamste]

#863 when I joined but I read it for a couple of months before then I think.

[ChillerInstinct]

#863 was my first, as well. It was about halfway through the hiatus caused by the Great Thumb Incident of 2012. If memory serves, I was sitting in a computer lab, half-consciously scrolling through TVTropes in the middle of yet another late night programming project, when I saw a really hilarious image for a trope I was reading (can't remember which, this WAS three and a half years ago now) and I decided, eh, might as well see what this was about. This was about the time I was really getting into reading webcomics, since it filled the need for quick, reliable content to digest as a college student with very erratic amounts of free time.

I binged about half of the back catalog, then got sidetracked (college programming student around exam time needs focus badly) and forgot about it for a couple of months. My illness forced me to withdraw a couple months later and I stumbled back upon it just after Durkon got vamped. I binged the entire archives over the course of a couple days and haven't left since, though it was only just last year that I actually joined the forum.

[DaggerPen]

#885 Bit of an odd start, but the guy next to me in the lab office had a sexy shoeless god of war screensaver so I kept at it. I remember that the archives were down that week(s?) so I had to wait before I could catch up. this would of been summer 2013 or so.

Oh my god you came in during the big server attack that just inexplicably took out a bunch of sites. I remember this. I kept checking to see if it was back up and for a little while all The Giant could manage was to upload just that strip on a white background for people. The forum wasn't back up for days after and I was so desperate to freak out at someone over OMG XYKON JUST SHOWED UP HOLY CRAP that I started trawling the (very meager) OOTS tag on Tumblr.

That is the best worst time to come in, I'm so sorry.

[Lord]

For me it was the strip when Miko was still known as cloaked guy, and tracking the OOTS. Right about the point where she encounters a Ferrit from Roy's Bag of Tricks which wants to be her sidekick.

A friend recommended it to me in middle school, after I got him interested in D&D a few months prior. I guess he found it on his own while googling D&D webcomic or something like that. I read up on it, and for awhile was only a tentative reader, before gradually getting hooked around the point where Roy finds the Starmetal.

I miss my schooldays.

[zql]

Shhpshnsh (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0638.html)

back in 2009, I read the archive in less than a week

[dakranon]

The very first strip I ever read: The Giant's guest strip for 8-Bit Theater.

That led me over to here, though I don't exactly remember what strip was on the front page then. But apparently that was May in 2004. I now feel very old. :smallfrown:

Thanks! I was trying to remember how I first found out about OotS, and this was probably it!

[Reathin]

I'm fairly certain it was the Battle of Azure City, but I can't recall if it was the big shot in 422 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0422.html) or the gate exploding. Pretty sure the former.

[Fitzclowningham]

Around #260, I think. Could be off by a few. I grew up on basic/advanced D&D, and really cut my teeth on 1e. When I ran out of OotS to read, I taught myself 3.5 to understand what was going on. I know the Giant sometimes wishes he hadn't yoked himself to the rulebook, but that's the best part of the comic for me. The reader knows how everything works - it's so much more engaging.

[ReaderAt2046]

I started reading during the Digipause, which was... interesting.

[JessmanCA]

#144

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0144.html

[Gluteus_Maximus]

I started reading at book 1, and the latest at the time was the end of book 1 (125)

[KillingAScarab]

The very first strip I ever read: The Giant's guest strip for 8-Bit Theater (http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/05/18/vacation-04-3-i-love-bridge-jokes/).

That led me over to here, though I don't exactly remember what strip was on the front page then. But apparently that was May in 2004. I now feel very old. :smallfrown:I also think my first exposure would have been through 8-Bit Theater. The Sardapedia (http://8bittheater.wikia.com/wiki/Vacation_%2704_no.3:_I_Love_Bridge_Jokes) puts Rich's guest strip at May 18th, 2004. The OOTS wiki doesn't have dates for strips from that time, presently, but it would be a month after #56 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0056.html).

[6000j]

The last comic I read on my full readthrough was #1033, though i had read up to >800 and then just forgotten about it previously.

[Droopy McCool]

I found the Order not too long ago, at 1003 (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1003.html) believe it or not. And I read every single strip in 3 days.

Now that I have to wait for new comics, I can't imagine waiting like that for every. last. one. :smallsigh:

McCool

[Timble]

I think It was in the late 900's when I started