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Slashrat posted:I recall being introduced to the comic around 2006 when I started at university, but was vaguely aware of it before that so it still felt like coming to the party late. I can't even remember where the storeline was at then. I picked up OotS before the Linear Guild showed up in the Dorukan's dungeon, but not at the very very beginning. I *think* my first strip was either the "up a level, down a level" joke or maybe Elan being invisible. Both are in the first 30ish strips.
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We've seen very little of Durkon in this fight beyond him casting Mass Resist Fire at the very beginning. I wonder whether he's not going to step in and try to roll Diplomacy against the dragon soon before the Order kills it while it's pinned down by Bloodfeast and the antimagic ray. Minrah has had triple the screen time, and the most recent conversation Roy and Durkon had was about how they don't actually talk to the people they're fighting against about why they're doing what they're doing.
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Slashrat posted:I recall being introduced to the comic around 2006 when I started at university, but was vaguely aware of it before that so it still felt like coming to the party late. I can't even remember where the storeline was at then. I read it when there were around a dozen strips and went "Another lovely gaming webcomic" and ignored it. I don't think my assessment at that point was wrong, either.
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Yeah, the comic really developed a ton once they got out of the initial dungeon. By the time you get to the Azure City battle, it's in full swing though.
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habeasdorkus posted:Yeah, the comic really developed a ton once they got out of the initial dungeon. By the time you get to the Azure City battle, it's in full swing though. That's when I picked it up again. But those first hundred strips are rough. For ever gag that's cute, you've got three that are the laziest gamer humor. And the dialog is often clunky as hell. Rich has learned a lot since the strup started and I think it's been continuous improvement. We wouldn't get the pages of text from the Azure City trial scene now, for example. And while the D&D humor persists, the recent callback was the first time in a long while that we've gotten a "isn't is funny that game rules aren't like real life?" joke (and I think that callback was a lot more clever than how this is usually used). If Rich finishes OOTS, I wouldn't mind him making another stab at book 1 to bring it more in line with what the strip became since it is so rough.
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S40CheckingAccount posted:I remember reading from during the dungeon. I've reread it enough that I don't think I could pick out the specific strip. I just tried and I think it might be this: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0012.html I'm pretty sure this was the first OotS page I read, too.
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Prodigal Trouble posted:On the plus side, Calder's last command to Sunny was to keep their beam centered on his torso, and given the "GLRKT!" sound effect I dunno if Calder's going to be issuing new coherent verbal directions in the immediate future. At least not before a crash landing right into melee range~ I think the melee range thing is what's really going to do it. They needed the dragon on the ground where everyone could get at it, and while a dragon can probably beat an allosaurus by itself, an allosaurus and an entire high level adventuring party is too much. The glee on Belkar's face is amazing too.
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Random Stranger posted:If Rich finishes OOTS, I wouldn't mind him making another stab at book 1 to bring it more in line with what the strip became since it is so rough. That would be great. I’d buy a re-do of book 1.
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Redoing Book 1 with the modern art style would make the transition even more jarring, and I doubt Rich is looking forward to drawing 130 strips in the old style. Also I'm still waiting for the Cliffport PD kickstarter comic 
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Slashrat posted:I recall being introduced to the comic around 2006 when I started at university, but was vaguely aware of it before that so it still felt like coming to the party late. I can't even remember where the storeline was at then. I think so? I was definitely reading it very early, I think I remember the linear guild strip being posted
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Schwarzwald posted:I'm sure that's a feat in some 3rd party book.
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NihilCredo posted:Redoing Book 1 with the modern art style would Yeah I can't see that happening.
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NihilCredo posted:Redoing Book 1 with the modern art style would I didn't think it was likely, or even that he'd want to do it since after 25 years he'll be ready to move on. Just something that I'd like to see fixed up.
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SKULL.GIF posted:We've seen very little of Durkon in this fight beyond him casting Mass Resist Fire at the very beginning. I wonder whether he's not going to step in and try to roll Diplomacy against the dragon soon before the Order kills it while it's pinned down by Bloodfeast and the antimagic ray. He threw his hammer from offscreen in this most recent strip.
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i didn't realize belkar had hair until this strip. 
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My first OOTS was iirc #122 - a friend showed it to me as "what happens when adventurers come to town". After 20 years, this is still pretty much the only webcomic I recommend to people.
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Roobanguy posted:i didn't realize belkar had hair until this strip. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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My first I believe was "Stop oppressing my culture."
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The Order is already stretching its bald dudes limit
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Random Stranger posted:I read it when there were around a dozen strips and went "Another lovely gaming webcomic" and ignored it. I don't think my assessment at that point was wrong, either. S40CheckingAccount posted:I remember reading from during the dungeon. I've reread it enough that I don't think I could pick out the specific strip. I just tried and I think it might be this: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0012.html DontMockMySmock posted:I'm pretty sure this was the first OotS page I read, too. 
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Silver2195 posted:"Full Jujutsu Kaisen" how? Roy domain expansion
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Farg posted:Roy domain expansion Roy's Domain Expansion is Absolute Architect. While anyone is in the range of his domain the very environment will be their enemy as any attack from Roy will trigger a dangerous chain reaction that assures their doom, as Thog found out to his dismay.
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ImpAtom posted:Roy's Domain Expansion is Absolute Architect. While anyone is in the range of his domain the very environment will be their enemy as any attack from Roy will trigger a dangerous chain reaction that assures their doom, as Thog found out to his dismay. A fun version of this is like an Infinite Labyrinth, remove the Sure-Hit effect to have something that forever traps the participants instead.
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Raenir Salazar posted:A fun version of this is like an Infinite Labyrinth, remove the Sure-Hit effect to have something that forever traps the participants instead. The Lady of Pain would like to know your location.
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Oh, she already knows your location. You better hope you're not in Sigil.
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all glory to bloodfeast
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I have no idea what my first strip was, but based solely on when I met the person who got me into it, I probably started reading around 2005-06... which I refuse to do the math on. Refuse!
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Fuego Fish posted:In the style of the Achewood thread:  seems like I started participating in this thread in summer 2010, I have no recollection of at what point I started reading it because there was so much catching up, the story was already quite far at that point. Any first page veterans here?
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I didn't post until well into the thread, but I posted like I was already a frequent reader, so I dunno how long I was just lurking for.
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Yeah, I was reading the strip before I even registered this account, back when they were in the first dungeon, but I don’t think I discovered this thread until sometime in the Trump era
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I'm proud to be an  bama era thread member
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I know exactly when I started reading because it was the 8-Bit Theater Guest Strip.
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Third post in the thread, and was following it when it was in the webcomics thread. I don't remember what was happening when I started reading, but OoTS is the longest-running webcomic that I still follow and enjoy.
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I started reading in 2003 because I’m pretty sure the comic got linked in a thread in a Neverwinter Nights forum. I stopped reading for a few years then came back around the time they got to Azure City for the first time and have been reading consistently (well as consistently as anyone can) since then. I’m sure I have some posts in this thread from like 2007 at least.
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Kadath posted:So will we have a photo-realistic drawing style by the time we get to book 47? I was off by a few years, my first post in this thread was only A DECADE AGO.
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I began reading Oots when it was in the middle of the "Miko takes the gang to Azure city" arc, that was like 10 years ago, at most, right? 
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I believe I started reading during the Azure City Underground era because I remember the TVTropes lampshade reference in the one interrogation scene. I slept on it for ages because of its negative reputation for 
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I didn't have a forum account at the time, but I started reading in the mid-00s. I might be able to pinpoint a better date because at the time I was in the habit of saving a local copy of *all* webcomics I read (at the time it was very common for a webcomic to disappear, and it was unlikely to be in the Internet Archive), and I still have that folder in a backup drive. Hope the modification dates survived. One of my first posts in the thread: NihilCredo posted:I can't see a halfway decent ending in time for #1000. There's 169 strips left, and about 169 strips ago was Roy's resurrection - i.e. in that period we've had the adventures in the Empire of Blood and little else. Seems I was fairly spot on, as the Girard's Gate arc ended at #946 and strip #1000 was the climax of the Godsmeet arc.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I believe I started reading during the Azure City Underground era because I remember the TVTropes lampshade reference in the one interrogation scene. I slept on it for ages because of its negative reputation for 
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I believe I started reading during the Azure City Underground era because I remember the TVTropes lampshade reference in the one interrogation scene. I slept on it for ages because of its negative reputation for It was never a TVTropes reference.
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