Describe the plot of OOTS, badly.

[Brumagris]

A tale about a political leader's niece, who happens to never be around. Also, the plot doesn't involve around her.

[Cicciograna]

The estranged son of a respected and powerful archmage keeps challenging his paternal love by beating baddies with a sharpened metal stick, rather than pursuing the noble art of Arcana. Rather than actively help his dad rightfully ascend to Heaven, he keeps blabbing about this "quest" of his, involving gates and a weird god-killing abomination: for the last years he wasted his time with a bunch of other losers (except for the very talented Wizard of his group), traveling from one continent to the other, rather than focusing on killing the REAL threat, the lich Xykon. Not that ever had any chance to do it, to be honest, one wields powerful spells and magik (albeit on a very rudimental and instictual level), the other has a pointy metal stick. What a disgrace. Hopefully his sister will do a better job.

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The estranged son of a respected and powerful archmage keeps challenging his paternal love by beating baddies with a sharpened metal stick, rather than pursuing the noble art of Arcana. Rather than actively help his dad rightfully ascend to Heaven, he keeps blabbing about this "quest" of his, involving gates and a weird god-killing abomination: for the last years he wasted his time with a bunch of other losers (except for the very talented Wizard of his group), traveling from one continent to the other, rather than focusing on killing the REAL threat, the lich Xykon. Not that ever had any chance to do it, to be honest, one wields powerful spells and magik (albeit on a very rudimental and instictual level), the other has a pointy metal stick. What a disgrace. Hopefully his sister will do a better job.

It's a classic morality tale about filial piety. Fail to properly honor and mourn your deceased father, and the entire world will explode.

[WanderingMist]

Worst attempt at a realistic artstyle for the story of a D&D campaign where Medium-sized goblins are angry about being oppressed or something. Also there's a skeleton and a monster in the dark.

[brian 333]

A wise oracle is continually frustrated in his attempts to prevent the destruction of his world, which is scheduled for the end of the year.

[ackmondual]

A D&D parody with many references to itself, along with pop and historical culture.

[Squire Doodad]

Man endeavors to hit a skeleton with a big stick. Then, his dwarf friend decides he needs to hit a goblin with a stick too, but nonlethally.

[DaOldeWolf]

Noodle people bring the world close to its destruction while fighting against mercenaries, abominations and murderers.

[Wizard_Lizard]

I feel like now is a good time for me to make my own ones lol.

"Bard x Rogue, Slow burn 1232 pages (still ongoing)"

"The story of.. what's his name?? Like Rob Redblade or something???"

"It's.. just like a dnd campaign.. just with slightly less explosions and poorly timed comedy"

"Goblins try to unionize against the gods.. but the gods have a monopoly on colour things and don't like the purple one so they plan to blow up the world"

[brian 333]

It is a generatiom long and as yet unresolved guessing game as to the nature of a character in the comic, with many digressions.

[Robots]

The estranged son of a respected and powerful archmage keeps challenging his paternal love by beating baddies with a sharpened metal stick, rather than pursuing the noble art of Arcana. Rather than actively help his dad rightfully ascend to Heaven, he keeps blabbing about this "quest" of his, involving gates and a weird god-killing abomination: for the last years he wasted his time with a bunch of other losers (except for the very talented Wizard of his group), traveling from one continent to the other, rather than focusing on killing the REAL threat, the lich Xykon. Not that ever had any chance to do it, to be honest, one wields powerful spells and magik (albeit on a very rudimental and instictual level), the other has a pointy metal stick. What a disgrace. Hopefully his sister will do a better job.

Oh, there you are, Eugene. I didn't see you hiding in Cicciograna's entire comment like that.

[Fyraltari]

When Durkon returns home he brings death and destruction to us all. I see worlds within worlds and yarn winding yarn. Spindles wind the string forward but not back. Loops and twirls. It seems to have all worked out. It's a mango! Hoops have no end until suddenly, they do. Sure, you can boot off a floppy, but don't pull it out in the middle! When all you have is a nail, every solution starts to look like a hammer.

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Imperfect beings with infinite power create a series of universes with living beings, for personal and not always confluent motives. Hilarity ensues.

[WanderingMist]

Imperfect beings with infinite power create a series of universes with living beings, for personal and not always confluent motives. Hilarity ensues.

Please read the thread title. It says "badly", not "accurate summary".

[Precure]

An up and coming D&D writer's pet project turns out to be his magnum opus. Said creator's attempts to both please his audience and develop his story from a gag comic to something more creates retcons and unfortunate implications all around the story. The author tries his best to address these implications and please his readers, but doing so only creates more retcons and unfortunate implications, also please no one. Years long forum discourse ensues.

[Worldsong]

Angry big man gathers friends to hunt down a walking skeleton with the attention span of a cat, who doesn't remember who the big man is and would rather play with the biggest ball of yarn in existence.

Along the way it turns out that the gods aren't so much malicious as just horribly incompetent and now the fate of the world depends on not treating people who look different from you like ****.

[Darth Paul]

Along the way it turns out that the gods aren't so much malicious as just horribly incompetent and now the fate of the world depends on not treating people who look different from you like ****.

"Dirt"? I want to say that "****" was a stand-in for "dirt".

[Sapphire Guard]

Group dedicated to preserving pillars of reality at all costs repeatedly destroy said pillars of reality and undermine their defences, until the gods are so disgusted by their efforts they seriously consider destroying the world to be the better option.

Disenfranchised goddess tries to win election, other gods commit election fraud to stop her.

World is saved due to governing body's insurance policy not accounting for Acts of God.

[Worldsong]

"Dirt"? I want to say that "****" was a stand-in for "dirt".

Sure, let's go with that.

[CheesePirate]

A dwarf.

A brain.

A beauty.

A jock.

A rebel.

And a bard.

Before this comic is over, they'll break the rules. Bare their souls. Take some chances. And touch each other in a way they never dreamed possible.

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[phoamslinger]

Synopsis: there's this webcomic that I read sporadically, where I've been waiting years for my favorite character to die, probably by heroic self-sacrifice for the team, so that the rest of the group feels morally compelled to bring him back from the dead (via full Resurrection).



I mean come on;

Roy's going to argue no, with good reason.
Elan's going to argue yes for the necessary happy-ending storyline.
V's going roll his/her eyes.
Haley's going to hand the diamonds to Durkon to make Elan happy.
Durkon's going to cast the spell out of guilt from Elan's accurate comments, probably without Roy's approval.

And far, far away, the Oracle's going to make snide comments about the stupid decisions made by adventurers.

[Cicciograna]

When Durkon returns home he brings death and destruction to us all. I see worlds within worlds and yarn winding yarn. Spindles wind the string forward but not back. Loops and twirls. It seems to have all worked out. It's a mango! Hoops have no end until suddenly, they do. Sure, you can boot off a floppy, but don't pull it out in the middle! When all you have is a nail, every solution starts to look like a hammer.

I see you and raise with...

"Posthumously. By saying the right four words to the right being at the right time for all the wrong reasons. When the gift horse comes calling, don't look it in the mouth. Yes - for you, at least. Yes. Of those two given locations, Xykon will be within 1000 feet of Girard's Gate first. Try gingko bilboa."

[Robots]

A dwarf.

A brain.

A beauty.

A jock.

A rebel.

And a bard.

Before this comic is over, they'll break the rules. Bare their souls. Take some chances. And touch each other in a way they never dreamed possible.

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What the hell

This is the best post I've ever seen but realistically-limbed oots is terrifying

Very cursed. Love it. Durkon's presumably dead.

[Dion]

Durkon's presumably dead.

Vice Principal Durkon Thundershield?

Yeah, he died of mesothelioma in 2006. Asbestos mining.

[Fyraltari]

I see you and raise with...

"Posthumously. By saying the right four words to the right being at the right time for all the wrong reasons. When the gift horse comes calling, don't look it in the mouth. Yes - for you, at least. Yes. Of those two given locations, Xykon will be within 1000 feet of Girard's Gate first. Try gingko bilboa."

Hey now, we said "badly".

[Metastachydium]

Durkon's presumably dead.

Yeah, he does that all the time.

[CheesePirate]

Very cursed. Love it. Durkon's presumably dead.

Thank you!

I figured either he's off doing vice principal stuff (as suggested by Dion) or Belkar is using him as a chair.

[Fyraltari]

A dwarf.

A brain.

A beauty.

A jock.

A rebel.

And a bard.

Before this comic is over, they'll break the rules. Bare their souls. Take some chances. And touch each other in a way they never dreamed possible.

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I assume this is a reference of some kind.

[hamishspence]

I assume this is a reference of some kind.

After a bit of Googling - the answer appears to be - the 1985 teen movie The Breakfast Club.

[CheesePirate]

I assume this is a reference of some kind.

Now I feel old. Yes, it's a reference to "The Breakfast Club", a film from 1985.

The text is based on the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSXB...lassicTrailers

The image is based on the poster:

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