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Backdoor Blanche posted:edit: sorry if I came off angry here. I just used to really, really like KoDT and it just got so lovely once they came out with Hackmaster, it really pisses me off. I used to like KoDT quite a bit as well. I stopped buying it when the comic ended up being more about uninteresting character drama (Will Crutch ever escape his life of crime? Will Bob ever manage to make peace with his father? etc) rather than jokes about RPGs. The fact that the magazine was stuffed with articles about Hackmaster, a game system I had no interest in, certainly didn't help maintain my interest in it.
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Gassire posted:They didn't make up their up system though. They bought the rights to 2nd edition added a couple house rules and slapped a Hackmaster sticker on it. That was part of the joke. Hackmaster really is what they were playing. 
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Lurdiak posted:Normally I wouldn't do this sort of thing but I know he'll be back if he gets banned, and I've been wanting an avatar for a long time now. Gassire posted:It gave sanctuary to the bitter old fat guy with a thick beard and did nothing but bitch about 3rd edition at the back of the comic/hobby store. I think each store by gamer law is required to have one. A lot of the problem with KOTD is just typical webcomic BS, the descent into 'drama', overly long plots that don't go anywhere interesting, ect. It was never that good to beging with, but it sure did get a lot worse. I was a bit concerned about OOTS going somewhere similar back when they had all the dating scenes and so on, it didn't get that bad but it was still great to see things get back on track.
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High Altitude Hair Stylist posted:I think I once gave Sean Howard of "A Modest Destiny" an aneurysm on his message board. Of course, everyone who disagreed with him on his message board gave him an aneurysm. He's pretty anyeuristic. I pretty much stopped reading the comic when the blog rants below became nothing but bitching about other people in webcomics.
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Ununnilium posted:He's pretty anyeuristic. I pretty much stopped reading the comic when the blog rants below became nothing but bitching about other people in webcomics. Honestly, I like the comic, but isn't the creator also the guy who swore Penny Arcade was out to get him or some poo poo?
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 New comic is up http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0437.html I'm afraid our Death Knight might not live long enough to be more than a one-line joke. Jeez, first they kill off Boba Fett for a burp gag, now gravity pranks. 
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Apr 10, 2007 06:00
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Yeah, but check that Greater Cleave out...
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Big 3E ups for the "AOO" sound effect in the last panel.
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These last few comics really represent how far his art has come. Sure, the characters look nearly the same as in the early comics, but he's learned so much about perspective and placement, and pacing, and making frames seem less monotonous... seriously, check out the first few comics and compare them to this recent storyline. It's like worlds apart. Also for the record, HappyElf has kept his promise and PMed me and I'm just waiting for someone to make me an avatar worth using, so don't Toxxban him.
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Lurdiak posted:These last few comics really represent how far his art has come. Sure, the characters look nearly the same as in the early comics, but he's learned so much about perspective and placement, and pacing, and making frames seem less monotonous... seriously, check out the first few comics and compare them to this recent storyline. It's like worlds apart. I'd like to thank both of you for staying civil in the face of possible derailment/gassing! I  BSS.
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Lurdiak posted:I'm just waiting for someone to make me an avatar worth using May I recommend this?
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FMguru posted:Big 3E ups for the "AOO" sound effect in the last panel. I came here to post that! I love how detailed this comic is.
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Factor_VIII posted:I used to like KoDT quite a bit as well. I stopped buying it when the comic ended up being more about uninteresting character drama (Will Crutch ever escape his life of crime? Will Bob ever manage to make peace with his father? etc) rather than jokes about RPGs. The fact that the magazine was stuffed with articles about Hackmaster, a game system I had no interest in, certainly didn't help maintain my interest in it. Similar here, but my peeve was more that he started writing as if we gave a poo poo about the fantasy world the guys played in (see: excessively long entries in Brian's diary about some poo poo in the jungle, poo poo about gnomes). I jumped ship before the character drama ramped up and I'm grateful for it. It fell so far. So, doods, we need a new thread for 1 kilopost or is this thing good to go for eternity?
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Schwarzwald posted:May I recommend this? I had to scroll back up to check the comic, but those motion lines look like a butt and a dong. I was wondering why that horse was being raped and possibly farted upon.
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Soonmot posted:I had to scroll back up to check the comic, but those motion lines look like a butt and a dong. I was wondering why that horse was being raped and possibly farted upon. Those arn't motion lines, those are the horse's legs and tail. Now I can see the dick, too. 
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Thanks, now I can't see anything but the dick. They were horses legs till I read this thread, drat it.
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Gyges posted:Thanks, now I can't see anything but the dick. They were horses legs till I read this thread, drat it. Oh my god, that's loving hilarious.
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Oh, they were legs! Guess that's one of the hazards of using stick art. Sometimes horse's legs just look like a dong and a butt.
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Soonmot posted:Oh, they were legs! Guess that's one of the hazards of using stick art. Sometimes horse's legs just look like a dong and a butt. And after I made that comment about his art improving, too... I look the fool now.
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Lurdiak posted:And after I made that comment about his art improving, too... I look the fool now. Well, I think it was just seeing it cropped down, because in the full panel of the comic, I didn't notice anything weird. Even when it was posted here. It wasn't until the death knight was cropped that I noticed the... irregularity.
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This Death Knight most definitely has the voice of Murray the Skull from Curse of Monkey Island.
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Heresiarch posted:This Death Knight most definitely has the voice of Murray the Skull from Curse of Monkey Island. Holy moley, that's perfect! Good to see he got a body worthy of his greatness. Now he can actually stride through the gates of Hell.
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JohnnyCanuck posted:1st ed, actually! According to what I it said in the back of one of the books it's a combination of 1st and 2nd edition AD&D as well as some new stuff. I had a look through the Player's Handbook and it seemed like AD&D but with a bunch of extra overcomplicated and counter-intuitive rules. It's neither funny to read and its rule system is both bad and a slightly altered version of a widely available older game so I don't think it works either as a humor book or as an RPG. SuperKlaus posted:So, doods, we need a new thread for 1 kilopost or is this thing good to go for eternity? Statring a new thread will interrupt the flow of the discussion and since large threads no longer strain the servers I see no reason no reason close this thread.
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Alright then, I will suppress my sudden temptation to create The Order of the Stick: All About Boners. Would probably attract the wrong crowd, but it's all I can see in that picture now too dammit! drat FedEx penis!
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SuperKlaus posted:Similar here, but my peeve was more that he started writing as if we gave a poo poo about the fantasy world the guys played in (see: excessively long entries in Brian's diary about some poo poo in the jungle, poo poo about gnomes). I jumped ship before the character drama ramped up and I'm grateful for it. It fell so far. Actually, those diary entries moved the plot along and I thought they were interesting if not amusing. However, I do see some of the same problems in KODT that I do in some webcomics, particularly the romance angle (Bob and his girlfriend and Dave and whats her face). However, I still think it's entertaining. They've really got the old school Gygaxian school of gaming down to a pat and I always find GM sadism inflicted on hack and slash rules lawyers funny. For example, the whole story arc of two uber magical swords basically dominating the players and waging war on one another was pretty demented. Of course I'm biased. I've written for them several times and just got a GM's workshop article in #125. 
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I've been published in KoDT twice.  I tend to agree with the general thrust of the conversation, though; the strip is great when it's about gaming and gamers, and falls right on its rear end the moment it tries to do romance/family/other plots.
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Is KoDT still set in Muncie? I swear everything about Muncie is stereotypical, down to the basement game store with leaky pipes above it and bad lighting. As for Order of the Stick its getting pretty  . I think I'll preorder that new Black and White book too.
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Wanderer posted:I've been published in KoDT twice. Exception being the times when Bob has tried to get his family to game. Like when he was babysitting his nephew and niece and made them play Dawg the RPG, or when his dad agreed to play that wild west game(cattlehack?).
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Oh man I just got and read No Cure for the Paladin Blues, in which Rich Burlew writes about the possibility of an "Origin of Xykon" book, and now it's advertised on GiantITP's front page! I am totally preordering this.
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On it like white on rice. Goddamn I might have to splurge and finally buy that Xykon avatar I been thinking about.
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Fuego Fish posted:
Mostly the 7th and 8th panels, specifically. I don't know how perspective so well with 2-D figures.
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Fuego Fish posted:
Elaaaaaaaan's in trouuuuuuuuuuuble! On a tangentially related point, Erfworld - did you realize that "Parson Gotti" is an anagram of "Protagonist"?
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High Altitude Hair Stylist posted:Mostly the 7th and 8th panels, specifically. I don't know how perspective so well with 2-D figures. (Answer: He's very talented and has a superb technical drawing education, according to the Sequential Tart interview.)
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No dongs, but this strip still brought a big goofy smile to my face. Yeah, that perspective shot is amazing.
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I was just looking at that perspective panel after everyone praised it, and something seemed off about it... It took me a few seconds to realise, but shouldn't the battlements be on Elan's left? Oh god I'm picking up continuity errors in a webcomic. Can't... get... clean...  Edit: VVV Oh yes, it's still a great panel, really great perspective and everything, giving a context for the individual characters in the whole battle. There's nothing wrong with the panel itself at all 
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Still, that is a great panel. It's a pretty funny idea, and it ties the whole strip back into the battle and changes the perspective when the rest of the panels are uniform. It works really well.
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elan do you like me pick one yes [X] no [] This really is total filler but it's just too awesome not to include.
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