OOTS By Page Count

[Porthos]

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Basic Block

As of 1064

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	118	151.5	???	???

9 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools

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Advanced Blocks

Compilation Books as of 1064 and Blood Runs in the Family

Book	Online Strips	Online Pages*	Bonus Strips	Chapters	Commentary Pages**	Other Xtras***	Total Pages
DCF	121	122.5	18	5	8.5	6	160
NCftPB	180	197	12	10	16	9	244
W&XP	183	242	14	8	15.5	8.5	288
DStP	188	226	17	9	12.083	7.917	272
BRitF	274	320	16	10	14	8	368
Book 6	118	151.5	???	???	???	???	???

Print Only Books

Book	Comic Pages	Chapters	Commentary**	Other Xtras***	Total Pages
OtOoPC	66	n/a	2	4	72
SoD	107	n/a	2	3	112
SS&DT	97.5	4	5.175	5.325	112

Other OOTS Comics Yet To Be Compiled (Kickstarter & Gygax Magazine)

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PDF	Comic Pages	Cover Page	Total Pages
US	12	1	13
H&J	25	1	26
SA	16	1	17
Gygax	6	n/a	6

NOTES
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.
** Commentary includes the Author Commentaries, Forewords, Introductions, and 'In Character' Prefaces
*** Other Xtras includes, when applicable, the Recap Strips, Cast of Characters Pages, Character Drawings, Blank/Book Information Pages, Promos, Out of Continuity Bonuses, and Various Other Miscellanea.

[Porthos]

As of 1065

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	119	152.5	???	???

8 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[Porthos]

As of 1067

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	121	155.5	???	???

5 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[Porthos]

As of 1068

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	122	156.5	???	???

4 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[Porthos]

As of 1070

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	124	158.5	???	???

2 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[Porthos]

UPDATED FOR How the Paladin Got His Scar:

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Basic Block

As of 1070

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	124	158.5	???	???

2 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools

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Advanced Blocks

Compilation Books as of 1070 and Blood Runs in the Family

Book	Online Strips	Online Pages*	Bonus Strips	Chapters	Commentary Pages**	Other Xtras***	Total Pages
DCF	121	122.5	18	5	8.5	6	160
NCftPB	180	197	12	10	16	9	244
W&XP	183	242	14	8	15.5	8.5	288
DStP	188	226	17	9	12.083	7.917	272
BRitF	274	320	16	10	14	8	368
Book 6	124	158.5	???	???	???	???	???

Print Only Books

Book	Comic Pages	Chapters	Commentary**	Other Xtras***	Total Pages
OtOoPC	66	n/a	2	4	72
SoD	107	n/a	2	3	112
SS&DT	97.5	4	5.175	5.325	112

Other OOTS Comics Yet To Be Compiled (Kickstarter & Gygax Magazine)

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PDF	Comic Pages	Cover Page	Total Pages
US	12	1	13
H&J	25	1	26
SA	16	1	17
HtPGHS	95	1	96
Gygax	6	n/a	6

NOTES
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.
** Commentary includes the Author Commentaries, Forewords, Introductions, and 'In Character' Prefaces
*** Other Xtras includes, when applicable, the Recap Strips, Cast of Characters Pages, Character Drawings, Blank/Book Information Pages, Promos, Out of Continuity Bonuses, and Various Other Miscellanea.

[Porthos]

As of 1071

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	125	159.5	???	???

1 page to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[Aedilred]

A suggestion/query: Is there any particular reason why the names of the books need to be abbreviated in the tables? I suppose it's possible some of the longer ones could push the table to be too wide for the page unless there are line breaks, but that's not the case for all (and also, line breaks are a thing).

While the main books are, just about, seen often enough in abbreviated form that they're recognisable, some of the others often take me a minute to figure out what they're referring to, especially when that title isn't in particularly widespread use (Spoiler Alert and Uncivil Servant in particular).

At the very least it would be useful to have a key, to clarify which abbreviations correspond to which books.

[Rogar Demonblud]

When Porthos was spelling out the titles, the rest of the chart was pretty much pushed off the screen.

Is hovertext an option? That'll allow someone to see the title without cluttering the screen.

[Porthos]

As of 1072

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	126	160.5	???	???

Book 6 is now greater than the size of Dungeon Crawlin' Fools
84 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of No Cure for the Paladin Blues

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[Porthos]

A suggestion/query: Is there any particular reason why the names of the books need to be abbreviated in the tables? I suppose it's possible some of the longer ones could push the table to be too wide for the page unless there are line breaks, but that's not the case for all (and also, line breaks are a thing).

While the main books are, just about, seen often enough in abbreviated form that they're recognisable, some of the others often take me a minute to figure out what they're referring to, especially when that title isn't in particularly widespread use (Spoiler Alert and Uncivil Servant in particular).

At the very least it would be useful to have a key, to clarify which abbreviations correspond to which books.

When Porthos was spelling out the titles, the rest of the chart was pretty much pushed off the screen.

Is hovertext an option? That'll allow someone to see the title without cluttering the screen.

It's a good point. Maybe I'll play with a test table somewhere and see how it looks on various screen widths.

Alternatively, as suggested, I might go ahead provide a 'key' at the bottom of the post for all of the titles. If I don't like how things look on a table, I'm leaning in that direction right now.

[137beth]

And book six has now passed half the number of online pages as BRiF.

[SaintRidley]

Just a heads up, your update for 1072 still says 1071.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Of course, now we're on 1073.

[Porthos]

As of 1073

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	127	161.5	???	???

83 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of No Cure for the Paladin Blues

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

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Just a heads up, your update for 1072 still says 1071.

It's a bit of a moot point as Roger pointed out, but thanks for the heads up. Fixed in prior post.

[Porthos]

As of 1074

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	128	163	???	???

81 pages to go until Book 6 is equal to the size of No Cure for the Paladin Blues

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I've gotta ask: is anyone else more than a little satisfied that we got another half page so the total count is an integer?

[Porthos]

I've gotta ask: is anyone else more than a little satisfied that we got another half page so the total count is an integer?

A teeny bit.

I'm sure that Rich set that page up back in 1051 as either a splash page/extended page (either there or in 1052) or left the half page intentionally blank for future commentary/extras.

But until I know which, half page it stayed in the columns.

[Porthos]

As of 1075

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	129	165	???	???

79 pages to go until Book 6 is equal to the size of No Cure for the Paladin Blues

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[unbeliever536]

Have you considered tracking the "density" of strips? That is to say, the ratio of online pages / online strips. It's a bit interesting.

Doing the calculation now (and rounding at the hundredths), I get:

DCF: 1.01
NCftPB: 1.09
WXP: 1.32
DSP: 1.20
BRitF: 1.17
current book: 1.28

Overall total: 1.18.

We see a clear transition from DCF to NCftPB and then into the WXP through BRitF "era", where the density, seriousness, and complexity of the story shot up. There's also a sub-transition from WXP to DSP, where density drops again; neither DSP nor BRitF have the same degree of full-book continuous plot on a single topic. The current book is clearly a visual transition, but how different is it structurally? Looks like it's quite different; there's been a transition away from the old-school 9-panel text-heavy format to an expansive, varied page layout featuring big atmosphere panels, which invariably leads to more pages per update, given that the Giant is giving us the same(ish) amount of story per update.

I'd also be interested to see a breakdown by chapter. For example, I wonder if the Thieves' Guild was underdense compared to other sections around it online, and bulked out with the addition of the Grubwiggler raid (or maybe the reverse is true, or neither). I also wonder if the underdensity in BRitF is weighted towards the end / right after the Giant's thumb injury, since there are a couple of single-page updates in there that plausibly could have been a multi-page single update, but weren't, maybe because the injury would have slowed things down too much for that to work. It also looks like BRitF is dominating the average, which makes sense as it is about half again as long as the others in its "era".

(memories of Andrew Hussie's "13 year break" hypothetical keep me thinking about this stuff)

[Porthos]

As of 1076

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	130	167.5	???	???

77 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of No Cure for the Paladin Blues

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[Porthos]

Just went ahead and FINALLY put in an abbreviation key to the OP.

Also went ahead and moved the Kickstarter and Gygax magazine blocks outside of a spoiler block. Not really sure why I even put it in there in the first place, to be honest. I did however put the abbreviation key in a spoiler block. Mostly for considerations of post length.

Might still tweak it a bit, but for now this is how it looks, sans spoiler block:

ABBREVIATION KEY

Abbv	Full Name of Book/PDF/Magazine
DCF	Dungeon Crawlin' Fools
NCftPB	No Cure for the Paladin Blues
W&XP	War and XPs
DStP	Don't Split the Party
BRitF	Blood Runs in the Family
OtOoPC	On the Origins of PCs
SoD	Start of Darkness
SS&DT	Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales
US	Uncivil Servant
H&J	Haleo & Julelan
SA	Spoiler Alert
HtPGHS	How the Paladin Got His Scar
Gygax	Gygax Magazine

[Porthos]

As of 1078

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	132	170.5	???	???

74 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of No Cure for the Paladin Blues

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[LadyEowyn]

Pretty notable that the book's already more than half the size of (online) Blood Runs in the Family, give that it doesn't feel even half done (even assuming that the Durkon plot is the core plot of this book and we won't get to the final Gate until Book 7, which seems like a good assumption at this point.).

[Jaxzan Proditor]

Sometimes that can be hard to judge, but yeah, it does look like Book 6 will make strong competition for the Longest Book award. Keep in mind that 132 strips in for BRitF was when the Order was fighting the Linear Guild for the first time, so there's still room for plenty of plot without surpassing BRitF. On the other hand, if the ratio of pages to strips keeps up it's current pace, it'll probably be larger than BRitF even if it has fewer strips.

[Cizak]

On the other other hand, Rich has stated that BRitF ran too long and now has the experience of what happens when he doesn't pace himself properly. So it's still possible he's aiming to wrap this book up quicker than BRitF.

[Porthos]

Pretty notable that the book's already more than half the size of (online) Blood Runs in the Family, give that it doesn't feel even half done (even assuming that the Durkon plot is the core plot of this book and we won't get to the final Gate until Book 7, which seems like a good assumption at this point.).

I'd guess we're in the last stages of the Giants/mutiny plot. Prob no more than a handful of strips. Probably.

Guessing at a rough framework for the rest of the book:

Stop Durkula's plan.
Problems stopping Durk.
Live look-in w/Team Evil (could be placed at any time a Rich wants a cutaway for time passing)
Durkula v Roy II: The Wrath of Greenhilt
The Search for Durkon Durkon gets rezzed, glimpse at fallout from his internal trauma (more in book seven?)
Team Evil breaks through, finds final gate.
DUHN DUHN DUHHHHN.

More or less. Seems about right for the half way point to me. Maybe even three-fifths, if the stopping Durkula's plan coincides with the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny between the two. Plenty of room for additional subplots. Like while we could guess that Tarquin and Roy/Élan would eventually butt heads, the Durkon becomes a vampire subplot came out of the blue.

Mind, that doesn't mean the subplots will unfold the way we suspect. Again, we could guess that the Draketooth clan would be important, but not the way it unfolded. Going back two books, we could also guess that V getting more and more coo-coo for cocoa puffs would have consequences, but not necessarily THOSE consequences.

If I had to guess at a 'surprise' subplot, it'd be Durkon doing something awesome to throw Durkula off his stride. After all, last time we saw the two, Durkon was in a really bad place mentally. Just get the feeling that something NEEDS to happen in this book to, ahem, rally his spirits. Even something as minor as an overhead comment from Roy (already foreshadowed to a degree by the new High Preist of Thor).

Alright, I suppose that isn't a surprise subplot, per se. But I can see a dozen to two dozen strips devoted to Durkon regaining the upper hand in their mental battle, even though it doesn't lead to him 'controlling' his body. No, more a personal growth for Durkon and doing something to make Durkula make a critical error at a critical time, thus causing his downfall.

[Rogar Demonblud]

We probably also have a page or two dealing with the damage to the Mechane. I wouldn't be surprised if the dwarves decide she's no longer airworthy and impound her until repairs are completed. It'd fit with their Lawful Stupid depiction.

[Porthos]

As of 1081

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	135	173.5	???	???

71 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of No Cure for the Paladin Blues

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.

[Porthos]

As of 1083

Book	# of Online Strips	# of Online Pages*	Xtra Pages	Total Book Pages
DCF	121	122.5	37.5	160
NCftPB	180	197	47	244
W&XP	183	242	46	288
DStP	188	226	46	272
BRitF	274	320	48	368
Book 6	137	175.5	???	???

69 pages to go until Book 6 is greater than the size of No Cure for the Paladin Blues

NOTE
* A few Online Pages have been resized, reshuffled, and/or had very minor additions made to them. The "Online Page Count" will reflect how the Online Page best maps to a book regardless of any minor "book only" additional changes.