A love letter to clerics and rules geeks

[goodyarn]

I love strip #1173, for two reasons:

It's like a love letter to clerics and their obscure dogma, through which the hand of your god can be seen and recognized. Clerics can be bland. This was kinda inspiring.

It's like a love letter to every roleplaying rules geek, who is able to put together the details of the system and see something hidden, maybe even something new.

[brian 333]

It has been The Giant's theme from the first page. He deconstructs the rules and highlights them.

"I failed a spot check."

"My raven who has always been with me..."

*Durkon is a box of Band Aids.*

He has gotten more serious and better at it over the years, but it is still a theme that runs through every character's story arc from page one.

The awesome just keeps getting awesommer.

[Xyril]

That's the point of having rules, right?

I mean, I try not to let rules-lawyering get in the way of role play (or for that matter, fun in general), but the rulebooks are a nice shared language for letting the players come up with something to surprise the GM once in a way, and to give the GM some guidance for coming up with a response to something he never planned for. For me, those moments are always the highlights of the game.

[Wizard_Lizard]

That's the point of having rules, right?

I mean, I try not to let rules-lawyering get in the way of role play (or for that matter, fun in general), but the rulebooks are a nice shared language for letting the players come up with something to surprise the GM once in a way, and to give the GM some guidance for coming up with a response to something he never planned for. For me, those moments are always the highlights of the game.

agreed up until the party uses a pinata, a wizard, three stockings filled with cake, and an old sock, to one hi the bbeg...

[D.One]

agreed up until the party uses a pinata, a wizard, three stockings filled with cake, and an old sock, to one hi the bbeg...

Did they throw all the other stuff as a distraction and then the wizard hit him? :smallbiggrin::smalltongue:

[The Pilgrim]

agreed up until the party uses a pinata, a wizard, three stockings filled with cake, and an old sock, to one hi the bbeg...

Was half a brick also involved in the plan?

[D.One]

Was half a brick also involved in the plan?

Was it a Half-brick Wizard?

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Was it a Half-brick Wizard?

Possibly he was a wizzard instead.

Grey Wolf

[The Pilgrim]

Was it a Half-brick Wizard?

Well, a wizard whose weapon of choice to defeat the big bad is an old sock filled with half a brick, points to a certain famous character from a famous flat world.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Well, a wizard whose weapon of choice to defeat the big bad is an old sock filled with half a brick, points to a certain famous character from a famous flat world.

Let’s be fair, he’d use a new sock if he had them.

It really highlights how appropriate it was his promotion to professor of cruel and unusual geography

Grey Wolf

[Fyraltari]

Let’s be fair, he’d use a new sock if he had them.

It really highlights how appropriate it was his promotion to professor of cruel and unusual geography

Grey Wolf
I kinda wonder what his lessons are like:

"Alright, if you ever happen to be in [place], well I've been there and my advice is "don't". Any questions?

-Sir, that's your advice on any place that isn't Ankh-Morpork.

-Well, that's also my advice for Ankh-Morpork, to be honest. But that doesn,'t leave many places to be, then. 'xcept over the edge of the Disk, of course, but I did that and it wasn't great either."

[Xyril]

agreed up until the party uses a pinata, a wizard, three stockings filled with cake, and an old sock, to one hi the bbeg...

What, you don't have the supplement with the tables for pinatas?

[Grey_Wolf_c]

I kinda wonder what his lessons are like:

"Alright, if you ever happen to be in [place], well I've been there and my advice is "don't". Any questions?

-Sir, that's your advice on any place that isn't Ankh-Morpork.

-Well, that's also my advice for Ankh-Morpork, to be honest. But that doesn,'t leave many places to be, then. 'xcept over the edge of the Disk, of course, but I did that and it wasn't great either."

He probably teaches in classroom 3b, so happily, his students need not worry about asking questions.

Grey Wolf

[Squire Doodad]

Let’s be fair, he’d use a new sock if he had them.

It really highlights how appropriate it was his promotion to professor of cruel and unusual geography

Grey Wolf

A new sock will have better stats, but the bonuses you can tack onto something for being an...ah..."artifact (technically)" are quite impressive.

[Xyril]

A new sock will have better stats, but the bonuses you can tack onto something for being an...ah..."artifact (technically)" are quite impressive.

Can a sock be a Weapon of Legacy?

[ijuinkun]

Can a sock be a Weapon of Legacy?

Perhaps if it was his grandfather's sock . . .

[Quebbster]

He probably teaches in classroom 3b, so happily, his students need not worry about asking questions.

Grey Wolf

Isn't everyone teaching in classroom 3B?

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Isn't everyone teaching in classroom 3B?

Precisely.

[Squire Doodad]

Perhaps if it was his grandfather's sock . . .

"This sock was my father's sock, and his father's sock before him, and his father's sock before him, and..."
*115 iterations in*

"...his father's sock before him, and-"
"Let me guess, it was that guy's great great grandfather's sock?"
"Well, no, they didn't have socks back then."

[D.One]

"This sock was my father's sock, and his father's sock before him, and his father's sock before him, and..."
*115 iterations in*

"...his father's sock before him, and-"

"For lasting so long, it's surely a hell of a sock"

[Squire Doodad]

"For lasting so long, it's surely a hell of a sock"

"Not at all- I even went ahead and got it consecrated by a Deva just to make sure"

[brian 333]

It has been mended so many times it has become a darned sock.

[Quebbster]

It has been mended so many times it has become a darned sock.

The sock of Theseus?

[Fyraltari]

The sock of Theseus?
I believe ‘‘It is the Thing and the whole of the Thing’’ is the consecrated saying.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

I believe ‘‘It is the Thing and the whole of the Thing’’ is the consecrated saying.

No, for consecrated socks is "It's the Thing and the hole in the Thing"

Grey Wolf

[D.One]

No, for consecrated socks is "It's the Thing and the hole in the Thing"

Grey Wolf

The Sacred Sock of Thinghole.

[KorvinStarmast]

Chekov's Sock.

[Fyraltari]

No, for consecrated socks is "It's the Thing and the hole in the Thing"

Grey Wolf

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[Grey_Wolf_c]

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This link is blocked at my work, and doesn't show up on my phone, so I'm slightly scare of what I'll see when I get home.

Grey Wolf

[The Pilgrim]

No, for consecrated socks is "It's the Thing and the hole in the Thing"

Grey Wolf

And the Holey Brotherhood (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0276.html) shows up again, at last!

That would make them one of the longest brick jokes of the comic.

Or half-a-brick jokes, at least.

[Schroeswald]

And the Holey Brotherhood (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0276.html) shows up again, at last!

That would make them one of the longest brick jokes of the comic.

Or half-a-brick jokes, at least.

Just a holey brick joke

[Squire Doodad]

Just a holey brick joke

Of course, Thor giving Elan a Colon Tumor trumps all...

[Schroeswald]

Of course, Thor giving Elan a Colon Tumor trumps all...

I don't know, anything not mentioned since comic 73 would beat it if it was mentioned next strip.

[The Pilgrim]

The longest possible brick joke in OOTS would be the last book ending with a last panel of Xykon being greeted in hell by his zombie dog.

[Schroeswald]

The longest possible brick joke in OOTS would be the last book ending with a last panel of Xykon being greeted in hell by his zombie dog.

If we're counting that the longest possible brick joke would be seeing some hardworking blacksmith trolls in the last comic.

[Fyraltari]

How about Belkar getting skill points?

[Schroeswald]

How about Belkar getting skill points?
Well any reference to the first strip in the final strip would win in real time but the person above me suggested something from SoD so I found something chronologically earliest.

[CriticalFailure]

Or you could have the Gods bickering about whether to update to 5E. I could maybe see The Dark One wanting to give Pathfinder a try because the goblins and hobgoblins are standard races.

[Schroeswald]

Or you could have the Gods bickering about whether to update to 5E. I could maybe see The Dark One wanting to give Pathfinder a try because the goblins and hobgoblins are standard races.
They'll have the mechanics be put up to a vote!

[mcain6925]

I have read silently for years. But I'll register just to say that I'm satisfied if none of the other hanging plot lines ever get closed up in exchange for "Were ye really so dumb ta think for one second tha ye could beat Durkon -- Durkon, of all the folks in this great big beaut'ful world... in a fight tha revolved around followin' tha rules?!?"

[Squire Doodad]

Or you could have the Gods bickering about whether to update to 5E. I could maybe see The Dark One wanting to give Pathfinder a try because the goblins and hobgoblins are standard races.

TDO: "We've been in 3.5e for a few years, have any of you considered trying a...different setting?"
Thor: "Oh, like going with 4e?"
TDO: "I...yes...definitely what I was suggesting." *hides Pathfinder box*