Ever meet another OotS fan?

[Eladrinstar]

I did.

The math final in my class was easy so we got done fast. Me and this other student were discussing the form a penguin spaz attack due to being placed in the Sahara (my friend, she thinks...unique thoughts) and my teacher starts laughing at her computer. Her student helper asks her what she is laughing at.

The teacher says, "Just a webcomic, you probably wouldn't get it".

And on the screen, I distinctly recognized the Order of the Stick. The funny thing, she is almost 70 and she plays D&D with college students.

[mockingbyrd7]

Wow, that is very funny! I've met thousands of fans, actually. They have this entire forum dedicated to Order of the Stick on some website "Giant in the Playground". Pfffft, what idiot names their website "Giant in the Playground"?

I'm feeling a tad silly tonight. It's probably since I should have gone to bed two hours ago, but I stayed up waiting for the comic. AND IT HASN'T COME YET!! NYEAAAAAGHHHHHHH!!!!

[Eladrinstar]

Wow, that is very funny! I've met thousands of fans, actually. They have this entire forum dedicated to Order of the Stick on some website "Giant in the Playground". Pfffft, what idiot names their website "Giant in the Playground"?

I'm feeling a tad silly tonight. It's probably since I should have gone to bed two hours ago, but I stayed up waiting for the comic. AND IT HASN'T COME YET!! NYEAAAAAGHHHHHHH!!!!

When my mother saw the title of the website, she thought it was porn or something.

I just don't check fot the comic untill noon the day after.

[Miraqariftsky]

It's a webcomic with quasi-stick figures. So whatta?

[xyzchyx]

Yes. Two of my regular players at my D&D sessions read Order of the Stick. None of us knew that any of the others read it until the subject came up one time. It was shortly after this that I had one of their character's find a scroll of Evan's Spikey Tentacles of Forced Intrusion.

[Emperor Ing]

Yes
*points to LordVader*

[RocketBard]

I've never actually met another OotS fan face-to-face.

[Aethir]

I've met a few fans but they all seem dead set on defining all those things that are meant to be undefined.

[Tolkien_Freak]

I made my friend an OOTS fan. He wasn't when I met him, though.

[Omicroncubed]

I know 2 OOTS fans. Both are my neighbours, but my bro hangs with them more than I do. But whenever they come over we sometimes talk about OOTS :smalltongue:

[Breaon]

Most of the people in my two games (D&D, Fantasy Hero) are OotS fans. We sit around on Wed. night at game, checking the site for the new strip, and it invariably stops the game when it pops up :)

[Shadic]

I showed the comic to a friend of mine, along with my girlfriend. They both are into it almost as much as I am. (Girlfriend hates Miko, heh.)

Another kid at my school was reading it when we were in the library, but I think my friend had shown it to him, so that doesn't really count. Didn't actually discuss the comic or anything with him, either.

[Gaelbert]

When my mother saw the title of the website, she thought it was porn or something.

So did mine.:smalleek:

[Holy_Knight]

Other than people on the forum, everyone I know who is a fan was either already a friend of mine, or already a friend and I'm the one who introduced them to it.

[Revlid]

I know one (but possibly two, I'm not sure) OotS fan personally. Otherwise, it's all on here.

[Jefepato]

Several. Although, the only webcomic I've met fans of in a truly random way was 8-Bit Theater (waiter at a Steak & Shake).

[Snipers_Promise]

I've never met an OotS fan in person.

[Nomadic]

Well considering it was 3 OOTS fans in my old high school autocad class a few years back that introduced me to the comic... I would have to say yes, I have met another OOTS fan face to face (of course they were my friends too).

[Etiainen]

I know maybe 4-5 OOtS fans, from which 1 of them got me into OOtS, and I got 1 friend into OOtS :)

[Idless]

Seeing that I know at least 12 that I know well, one might suspect that a large part of my social circles are gamers... makes you wonder ;)

...Idless

[TheAlmightyOne]

Just 2 of the 4 other guys I play d&d with.

[Lenny]

Yes, several people I know like OotS - my copy of On the Origin of PCs has done the rounds - cheapos.

[pvande]

I got into The Order of the Stick early on in my Undergraduate studies (well before #100); then again, it would have been fairly difficult not to, given that almost everyone - if not everyone - in my department (Computer Science) was an avid reader.

So yes, I've met, know, and have conversations regularly with OotS fans in the real world. I've also made probably half a dozen fans myself. :smallsmile:

[Gandal]

Someone I knew quoted Belkar. ...That was surprising.

[Oberon]

Well there's the 2 guys who introduced me to OOTs, and then there's a friend of mine who's addicted to webcomics, so that wasn't much of a surprise.

The strange one was when I quoted Belkar and a friend of mine, who I didn;t even know played Dnd or did any of that kind of "geeky" stuff, got the reference. Then we had a long talk about how we hoped Roy would come back, and everyone else was confused.

I've met 2 or three others face-to-face as well. An unexpected common interest can really change your opinoin of someone, it seems...

[doliemaster]

I introduced a friend to it, so yes I have.

[David Argall]

Spending a good amount of time with gamers, I'd suspect the number is quite substantial. At least at most tables I would assume a reference to an OOTS joke would not be missed by anyone at the table.

[Borris]

Two of my friends are also avid OotS fans. The funny part is that none of us has introduced any of the others to the webcomic. We all discovered it, each on our side, within the same two months.

[kpenguin]

I know at least two people who were OOTS fans before I met them. I've also introduced OOTS to my gaming group and a few people who don't play D&D... much.

[Lolzords]

I've inspired a few close friends at school to start reading it, apart from that, no one else.

[Foxtale]

Someone I knew quoted Belkar. ...That was surprising.Same. But with a roleplaying society at the uni I'm at, I've met loads of people who are fans of OotS.

[EdgarVerona]

I met a good amount of them while going to school (I was in the Computer Science department if that helps explain it ;) ), and I met some back when I was going to Friday Night Magic last year. I think the word's spreading that OOTS is where it's at.

I also think having Rich's products at actual comic stores helps a lot too. A lot of the FNM people I met had only heard about it because they saw the game/books at the comic store where we played. Then they went home, checked it out, and were hooked.

[TreesOfDeath]

In a gurps game. It went something like this:

GM: The ruins say-
Me(interrupting): I prepared explosive ruins
*one guy bursts out laughing*
Me*turns to him*: Do you read Order of the Stick?

It was really that simple

[squidthingy]

I was introduced to Oots by another fan, than saw him the next day, does that count

[shakes019]

My wife gets a chuckle out of the comic when I make her read it, but she doesn't seek it out.

She was initially taken aback when I sent her a link to it while she was at work, because the url has the three consecutive letters 't i t' in there. She initially thought I was sending her a porn link and that there was another "t" in the address.

[basilisk 89]

Warwick, Rhode Island sucks. I've lived here all my life and NEVER met another gamer. Everyone I've ever met laughs and calls me a dork/nerd/spaz/weirdo/freak/geek when they find out I like Pokemon/Star Wars/Dungeons and Dragons. And I'm perfectly okay with that, cause I agree with them on all accounts accept freak and geek, namely because a geek is a carnival performer that eats chicken and snake heads.

Yes, that does mean I've never actually played Dungeons and Dragons. Or any other WotC game.

Anyway, no, I have never met another OotS fan.

[slipper]

Someone I knew quoted Belkar. ...That was surprising.

Someone you knew?...
So you don't know him anymore?

[Erai]

Lots of OotS fans among the gamers I know. Lots of evenings start with evaluations of the latest batch of comics :smallredface:

[SteveMB]

Several of the other folks at Conterpoint recognized my "There's always room for treasure" T-shirt, and I saw at least one other shirt (one of the Belkar quotes).

[Lusorius]

Not exactly. I've been creating them instead. I've gotten my girlfriend and 4 other people to start following it religiously. Now to loan them the books! Muahaha!

[cavalier973]

Someone I knew quoted Belkar. ...That was surprising.

Just Curious: What was the quote, and in what context?

I mean, if one was at a restaurant, and the chef comes out brandishing a pair of knives and yelling "I am a sexy shoeless god of war!" one might consider an alternative eating establishment.

[Wojiz]

Just Curious: What was the quote, and in what context?

I mean, if one was at a restaurant, and the chef comes out brandishing a pair of knives and yelling "I am a sexy shoeless god of war!" one might consider an alternative eating establishment.

Or eat there every night for the rest of your life.

[cavalier973]

Or eat there every night for the rest of your life.

Yeah, I bet they'd serve "real" buffalo wings.

[tiroskassie]

I got my husband starting to read it as well as my mom, so yeah I know some! :)

[Axl_Rose]

I've never met another Oots fan :smallfrown:

Not even on a forum. :smallconfused:

[nerulean]

Our gaming group is full of them, and not through my instigation, either! Just the words 'explosive runes' are enough to get a laugh around our table, and the phrase 'colour coded for your convenience' invariably follows any mention of dragons.

[DrivinAllNight]

I met a kid in my English class in college, and it turns out he also works at/manages/helps run it, a comic book store in town, and the the other person was a professor of mine, who when caught me reading OotS in class looked at me and asked me one question "What would Thor do in this situation?" I didn't know whether to stop reading or break open a beer :smallsmile:
And thats my OotS story :)

[SteveMB]

I mean, if one was at a restaurant, and the chef comes out brandishing a pair of knives and yelling "I am a sexy shoeless god of war!" one might consider an alternative eating establishment.
Or eat there every night for the rest of your life.
Well, the two might be the same thing if that chef heard that you were considering an alternative eating establishment.... :smalleek:

[Tharr]

Yes I found some guy who is loves Kevin Smith and OOts because they are famous for showing up late and have then post.

[Jagg]

I was at a discworld con and met someone wearing a t shirt saying

"Killing minions - is there anything it can't solve?"

So YES!! I've met a fellow Oots fan :smallsmile:

[Adventurer]

A professor of mine caught me reading OotS in class looked at me and asked me one question "What would Thor do in this situation?". I didn't know whether to stop reading or break open a beer :smallsmile:
And thats my OotS story :)

ROFL LOL ROFLMAO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!

Just a single phrase and it must be one of the funniest stories I've ever read in these forums:smallbiggrin:


To everyone : If you have met other Ootsers, please also mention the way you recognised that you were both Ootsers.:smallsmile:

[EllysW]

My daughter, who was 11 at the time, was wearing her Celia T-shirt at the airport when some nice young man with his wife and baby recognized it and spoke to her about it. I think she was so startled, she didn't really know what to say. We were all very happy, though.

[Osedox]

Theres this really weird kid in my little brothers grade who is always walking around in a daze and talking to himself (picture a male version of Luna Lovegood). So one day out of the blue, he walks up to my brother in the hallway and says "When the Goat turns Red strikes true," and walks off. He didn't know that my brother reads OotS, and jesse (my bro) was too stunned to reply, so I have to wonder if he was just saying that to random people, or it was just a really odd coincidence. Anyways thats my weird story.

[ARMOURERERIC]

This applies more to the effword strip:

I was on Scripps-Poway Parkway in Poway California, a San Diego suburb today at about noon. I was behind a black, I think Subaru Outback, or something similar that was very dirty, on the back hatch was drawn in the dirt a peep bird with a cartoon voice baloon stating "Orly". If that was any of you, I was the guy in the Moroon Caddy Fleetwood on my way to Kearny Mesa to get sheet steel for the armoury.

Eric

[Lòkki Gallansbayne]

I'm a member of Cambridge University Role-Playing Society and I believe just about all the members are OotS readers. I think just about every single gaming session involved at least one reference to the comic during the course of the evening. Good times, good times. They even played the Board Game for a one-off, but I turned up late and all the places were already taken. =(

I also a met an OotS fan at the NCSoft stall at a comics convention in Bristol (he was wearing a Vaarsuvius t-shirt). I seem to recall the most recent strip was the one there Roy dies and we both expressed our mutual feelings of shock and dismay.

I've also introduced two of my siblings to the comic and they're now avid fans, though neither of them plays D&D, although my brother does ask about the rules on occasion.

[PirateMonk]

I've met several and converted a few. No anecdotes, though.

[Faramir]

Well, I and all the other people in the long running D&D game I play in (29 years) were introduced to it by one of the other players. So all of them.

And bizarrely it turns out that the person who works in the cubicle across from me is a fan. I'm in IT so it's perhaps not that surprising, but still. I loaned him On the Origin of PCs so now he's going to buy Start of Darkness.

[Yiel]

Well I was introduced to the comic by a friend (who is rather reminiscent of a male Miko). So yes, I have met another OotS fan.

(It is also likely he frequents this forum but is in hiding)

[Gol_Stoan]

I hang out at a local game shop and a friend of mine popped up an OOTS strip on the shop pc. Then later on I picked up Paladin Blues, flipped through it, HAD to buy it. OOTS readership is well represented there. What I need to do is get some deprived people that I game with introduced to Discworld. :smallbiggrin:

I know that someone there bought the Dungeon of Dorukan board game, but I do not know who, darnit. :smalltongue:

[puddingpie]

Yeah, it turns out that two of the people in my homebrew d10 campaign read OOTS, and a DM for a D&D one-shot I played on a trans-Atlantic flight did too.

I also saw a guy in a Vaarsuvius shirt once at my college dining hall, but at that time I didn't read OOTS, so I didn't know where it was from, though I thought the roleplaying humor was funny.


Well I was introduced to the comic by a friend (who is rather reminiscent of a male Miko).

A male Miko. God help us.

Godwinned! ^__^

[shaddy_24]

Heh, sorry, I've only converted 4 people so far. I'm hoping to get the other 5 in my gaming group (only 3 out of 8 so far :smallfrown: )

I'll come back if I meet any one.

[bythethroat]

The players in my gaming group (or soldiers in my militia, whichever suits us at the time) have all read OOTS but few of them read it very regularly; usually I end up telling the jokes at our gaming sessions.

[manda_babylon]

My gaming group was putting together a D&D game where each of our characters were based on the concept of one of the seven deadly sins. I had already decided to play a bard, and had forgotten this when I chose the sin "wrath." When reminded of it, I decided to play a wrathful bard.

We were discussing possible prestige classes for my bard, when a friend of mine said, "I read a Web comic where one of the characters takes a prestige class called Dashing Swordsman, where he makes puns and crap to attack well."

I had no idea she read OotS, but now the jokes are legend in our group. It is, disturbingly enough, easy to correlate our regular character types to OotS characters, as well. It's a good group, which I didn't realize for a long time actually included two fans!

[Pepz]

Have gotten a friend of mine hooked on Oots, so she counts ^^ although she's copied most of the comics I read, and I now read some of the comics she reads :P

Met another Questionable Content fan the other day though, a guy who's in my theatre group, I made a random QC quote when we were walking home from the pub, and he just looked at me amazed for half a minute before continuing the conversation with another QC quote ^^

[Thanatos 51-50]

I live on a military base. I was surprised when, walking home from the barracks, I saw some random guy wearing Elan's "I'm invisible' t-shirt. I should have struck up a conversation, I didn't.

I have, however, Created a few QC fans.
^.^

[donkyhotay]

I have met others that were OOTS fans but they were all tabletop gamers.

[stabbybelkar]

Hell I was introduced to OOTS by a fan

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

introduced to QC and OOTS by thelizard. me and him also managed to convert 1 or two casual readers

[Holammer]

Never meet any OOTS fans. I do however work diligently to convert as many as I can of the unwashed heathens ... the savage.. lost sheep as I possibly can.

[PaladinFreak]

Yes. I have converted most of my family and several of my friends. I'm working on the rest of them.

[PhallicWarrior]

I've converted several of my cousins and my sister. The only one I've met out of the blue was this girl at a local library who was wearing a church of Banjo t-shirt. I vocalized my notice, she acknowledged, and we went seperate ways.