Order of the Stick

Dave_Markell · June 30, 2015, 7:17am

I think we know where strip 1000 will take place now.

Tin_Wisdom · July 8, 2015, 2:24pm

Scotch_Lufkin · July 8, 2015, 6:20pm

I’m not sure what I enjoyed more - the title or the final panel. Genius.

Dave_Markell · July 8, 2015, 7:58pm

Rich’s titles are usually good and sometimes amazing. I’ve read comments from plenty of people on the official forums saying that they never noticed them until they bought the books. Hard to believe, but it’s apparently common.

Lantz · July 9, 2015, 1:20pm

I read like the first 600 (binging through them when I learned about it) before I realized there were titles.

Pod · July 9, 2015, 2:18pm

I have no idea where to find the title of the comic on the site. I can see the title of the latest, on the left (Moots and Ladders), but #992… no idea.

edit: ah they’re on the achieves, but who uses that?!

Miramon · July 20, 2015, 7:55am

Welcome, honored pilgrims, to the Godsmoot.

Dave_Markell · July 20, 2015, 8:16am

Sacred Knight of the Expository Aside, indeed.

Scotch_Lufkin · July 20, 2015, 10:30am

“Off to make a butt-load of skill checks, is my guess” LOL

conVurt · July 30, 2015, 1:12pm

It’s been a while. New one, finally.

Tin_Wisdom · July 30, 2015, 6:16pm

Uh oh.

Dave_Markell · August 6, 2015, 8:25am

Durkula’s on a roll, but how long can it last? He seems dangerously overconfident to me.

Miramon · August 6, 2015, 8:27am

Is there a cap on falling damage in the rules somewhere?

Dave_Markell · August 6, 2015, 8:36am

There is in the ultimate rules, the laws of physics. It’s called terminal (heh) velocity. As for D&D, there was way back when. The last edition I knew well was AD&D, and it had a cap.

ArmandoPenblade · August 6, 2015, 9:04am

Pathfinder maxes out at 20d6 (~70 damage, or enough to kill most low level characters and seriously wound even high level wizards/clerics), which would occur after a 200ft drop.

Tin_Wisdom · August 6, 2015, 10:20am

OK, I get why Belkar couldn’t cry out, but why was he glowing (or burning, or smoking)? The second row, first panel implies that it’s an effect from his daggers, but I don’t recall his weapons having any specific effects in the past.

It also seems that he wounds wolf-form Durkula, but the gashes are portrayed as purple… poison? I feel like I’m missing something.

Arkon262 · August 6, 2015, 10:49am

I believe the aura around Belkar was the silence spell taking hold, not that I know of any precedence for a visual representation of that spell.

anymunym · August 6, 2015, 11:55am

That’s Belkar rubbing his cloak clasp.

That’s probably just the colour that vampires bleed.

Tin_Wisdom · August 6, 2015, 12:06pm

Most excellent, that’s exactly what I was forgetting. That also explains his excellent facial expression in the next frame.

Dave_Markell · August 6, 2015, 12:23pm

But of course, it still leaves us with another burning (snicker) question: has the fulfillment of Belkar’s oracle prophecy arrived? The fall + damage from the clasp + the shape-shifted wolf bites might be enough to do him in.