Order of the Stick: June I

[Lilly]

Continue discussion here!

Edit: As per a suggestion I recieved, I'll try only running the thread for the first two weeks. (Give or take a couple days)

[Eloco]

Rabbit rabbit

[silvadel]

Fine -- on power attacks -- chart reposted

Actually power attack is a bit less useful than most people think... Power attack is worth it only if you do less than the following damage amounts(less than twice the damage amount on a 2 handed weapon)...

We are talking here about a person with three attacks....

Number to Hit on base attack, You cant hit for more than:

10, 6
9, 7
8, 8
7, 9
6, 10
5, 11
4, 12
3, 13
2, 14
1, 15
0, 23.5
-1, 24.5
-2, 25.5
-3, 26.5

[Kish]

Erm, why?

[The Giant]

The Voice of Mod: Ahem. Please bring rules analysis of the value of Power Attack--and any other non-OOTS discussion--to the Gaming forum.

[pumpkinetics]

Woo! New comic!

we all knew something like that would happen, didn't we.

_lrq

[PokeTheBard]

Maybe so, but I never could have thought that would happen... Lol "Typical" ;D

[Dr_Nno]

So, as a (almost) first post with content related to the comic, let me say this: this strip is pure gold!!!

Every panel is worth several episodes of whatever web comic you can throw in, and every phrase just fit in.
"We've found these stash'd under his hoard"
"Typical, really"
Just pure Gold, I say.

Ho, and congrats to Rich for the right spelling of "hoard" ;D (see http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/Gian...tscript?SK=131)

[alec]

Absolutly brilient! All that for nothing! Best comic yet in my opinion.

[Nikolai_II]

Absolutly brilient! All that for nothing! Best comic yet in my opinion.

Not nothing - starmetal (although perhaps not enough for a sword, but he can make a nice set consisting of a toothpick, a comb and an earspoon ;)

[Eloco]

For thoes that dont know what rabbit rabbit is..

http://www.harrumph.com/rabbit/


Just my way of wishing the OOTS crew a little luck this month. Poor Roy looks like he could use some.

[Fire_Wolf]

Not nothing - starmetal (although perhaps not enough for a sword, but he can make a nice set consisting of a toothpick, a comb and an earspoon ;)

Don't knock it - I'd be scared if I was on the wrong end of a +1 Starmetal Bohemian Earspoon. ;)

[Silverblaze]

For thoes that dont know what rabbit rabbit is..

Enigo Montoya - you may not be lefthanded, but Tibbar Tibbar is definately for the creative right side of the brain ;)

[Silverblaze]

And love the fact that Belkar SO has problems handling the fact that V took out the dragon on hir own *G* He's just angry cause V had people around to see what happend as opposed to his own little stunt earlier *G* http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/Gian...otscript?SK=42

[Silmarwen]

Did you see the smile on Haley's face on the first panel??? ;D
What are the chances that Scrooge McDuck is a descendant of hers??

[Brakkart]

"I dream of the day when I will learn to stop asking questions to which I will regret learning the answers"

Damn I laughed at that. Thanks Rich, I needed that! Keep em coming please!

[Matuse]

The bottle of lube found with the dragon porn is especially inappropriate.

I love it.


Maybe a little starmetal goes a long way...kind of like the lube!

[cerebus151]

Mmmm... Dragon KY...

akk-- phhht--- ew...

"it rubs the lotion on its scales..."

[Wren]

Drake Glide!

[Silverblaze]

A scary thought is that this "Young Adult" just might have a mummy or daddy (that being the "other" dragon that V spoke of) and either may be coming home soon :o And this in turn might lead to TOotS loosing the hoard as spoken of in earlier treads... :'(

[manscatha]

A scary thought is that this "Young Adult" just might have a mummy or daddy (that being the "other" dragon that V spoke of) and either may be coming home soon :o And this in turn might lead to TOotS loosing the hoard as spoken of in earlier treads... :'(

I thought about that, but surely the (young) adult magazines indicate that the older dragon hasn't checked on the hoard in a while, and so doesn't live here? Although I suppose the older dragon--which I will call Mother, since the defeated dragon mentioned one--could come to visit, or something.

Anyway, we now know that the dragon preferred large tails. This might answer whether it had a crush on the small purple lizard. What'd you all think of V's tail?

[Nikolai_II]

Don't knock it - I'd be scared if I was on the wrong end of a +1 Starmetal Bohemian Earspoon. ;)

Although I was thinking more about the viking earspoon.


A site giving some text as well is here -> http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/hairstyl.htm

But viking earspoons were might weapons in the art of love, as this quote from the page above hints at:

It is reported in the chronicle attributed to John of Wallingford that the Danes, thanks to their habit of combing their hair every day, of bathing every Saturday and regularly changing their clothes, were able to undermine the virtue of married women and even seduce the daughters of nobles to be their mistresses2.

;)

[Silverblaze]

I thought about that, but surely the (young) adult magazines indicate that the older dragon hasn't checked on the hoard in a while, and so doesn't live here? Although I suppose the older dragon--which I will call Mother, since the defeated dragon mentioned one--could come to visit, or something.

Anyway, we now know that the dragon preferred large tails. This might answer whether it had a crush on the small purple lizard. What'd you all think of V's tail?

A crush on the small purple lizard that it tried to eat?? *L* Besides - large for a dragon is most likely not lizardsize *G* Congratulations - you went mad in the end! ;D

[Silverblaze]

Although I was thinking more about the viking earspoon.


A site giving some text as well is here -> http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/hairstyl.htm

But viking earspoons were might weapons in the art of love, as this quote from the page above hints at:
;)

I'd very much like to point out that we this day and age have taken to bathing every day *G*

[manscatha]

A crush on the small purple lizard that it tried to eat?? *L* Besides - large for a dragon is most likely not lizardsize *G* Congratulations - you went mad in the end! ;D

Well, I didn't really think it had a crush on the lizard, but some people suggested it as a possible reason why V was able to get that weird Suggestion past it. (And I meant large propotion-wise. Barbie is not human-sized, but she is still built.)

At the same time, I wouldn't count the eating as anti-crush evidence. After all, we hurt the ones we love the most.

[Silverblaze]

Well, I didn't really think it had a crush on the lizard, but some people suggested it as a possible reason why V was able to get that weird Suggestion past it. (And I meant large propotion-wise. Barbie is not human-sized, but she is still built.)

At the same time, I wouldn't count the eating as anti-crush evidence. After all, we hurt the ones we love the most.

Hmmm... Seem to recall a number of women being somewhat traumatized over Barbie's proportional built ;-) But kidding aside - yes, unfortunately we, being human, - (Belkar, no offence intended - manner of speaking and besides, you don't love anybody anyway *g*), have a tendency to hurt the ones we love... But in the case of Elan and Samantha, Elan saw this as his bardic duty and didn't (and still wouldn't) realize his actions hurt Haley. I think she really has a Herculese' labour set out for her if she wants him in a relationship *g*

[Vhesper]

Excellent strip! Roy may still have hope. After all, he only needs enough starmetal to fix his sword. he doesn't actually need enough to have a new one forged. And as long as it is pure starmetal, then he may just have enough. ;D

[Silverblaze]

Excellent strip! Roy may still have hope. After all, he only needs enough starmetal to fix his sword. he doesn't actually need enough to have a new one forged. And as long as it is pure starmetal, then he may just have enough. ;D

On this topic. What would happen if the sword was reduced in size by spell - repaired with the starmetal within the spells duration and then duriation expires?? I know it's a weird question, but I was just curious...

[Rambling_Scribe]

Does Roy actually need the star metal anyways? It was Sabine in disguise who told him that at Nale's prompting. The real smith has no idea that Roy is even on this quest.

Maybe the smith will be able to reforge it from the pieces, and adding a small amount of star metal is just gravy.

[The_Meal]

Another great comic. I come for the humor ("Big Tailz") but I post for the appropriateness. As an amateur astronomer, I very much appreciate that the amount of starmetal that fell from the sky is realistic. I understand, of course, that were it determined to be humorous, Roy would've been squashed underneath eight tons of the stuff, but there's a large amount of satisfaction in seeing a "popularizer" getting it right. Thanks Rich.

And I'll echo the many great panels in today's comic. Roy's sense of humor is astounding. "Typical, really." I can see the players cackling in the background as the DM presents the description of the findings with a big smirk on his face.

Awesomeness.

Thanks again,
~Neal