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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by SamWiser » Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:25 am

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ÔÇ£Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?ÔÇØ
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Post by RocketScientist » Sun Aug 23, 2015 12:51 pm

Yep. Rich still has it. 8)

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Post by SpeaksManyLanguages » Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:22 pm

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News wrote: I just posted the 1000th online strip of The Order of the Stick, which is impressive mostly for being a nice round number for those of us using base-10 number systems. It's been about a month shy of twelve years since I started the comic, and everything I said on the occasion of the tenth anniversary (itself a very base-10-centric occasion) still holds true. Interestingly, I've done so many multi-page strips and offline supplementary material for the comic that the true number number of comic pages I've created is actually more like 1585ÔÇömore than half as many again than the strip number indicates. I don't expect to get to strip #2000, but two thousand pages drawn seems pretty achievable before we wrap this thing up.

In other news, for years now readers have been requestingÔÇösometimes very urgentlyÔÇödigital editions of the OOTS print books, and I've always resisted for various economic reasons. Well, I'm officially caving in. I'm pleased to announce new PDF versions of the first two books in The Order of the Stick canon, Dungeon Crawlin' Fools and On the Origin of PCs. We're selling them through Gumroad, which allows us to offer them at a lower price while not having to deal with electronic fulfillment ourselves. The new cover-watermarked PDFs feature scalable vector art that looks good at any resolution (you know, relative to the material), updated fonts to match the current comic, and are fully bookmarked, with all strip number references in the commentaries hyperlinked to the strip in question. Dungeon Crawlin' Fools also features an all-new Afterword by me looking back on that era of the comic and all the things that make me cringe now. I'd like to specifically point out that this is the first time On the Origin of PCs has been available in non-tree-corpse format, so everyone who hates owning physical objects can now enjoy it (as long as they still own a computer or tablet or whatever).

This is still a bit of an experiment, keep in mind. If you want to know when the remaining OOTS books will be released in this format, the answer will depend heavily on how popular these end up being. The more we sell, the quicker you'll see the rest of the series in this format. As always, if you have any questions, I've set up a thread on the message board.
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Post by Krulle » Thu Aug 27, 2015 11:31 pm

wow, this is really worthy for an update 1k.
3 pages!
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Post by SamWiser » Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:35 am

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ÔÇ£Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?ÔÇØ
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Post by kida » Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:23 pm

I don't think Roy will have problem beating Durkula. He is in a room full of healers who can cast him with other buffs as well.

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Post by Krulle » Sun Aug 30, 2015 1:48 pm

Yes, but Durkula will be directly supported by Hel, and the whole vote is fifty-fifty, so sufficient support for Durkula....
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Post by kida » Sun Aug 30, 2015 4:56 pm

Everybody hates Hel. That's why she is never invited.

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Post by SamWiser » Sun Aug 30, 2015 8:21 pm

She's never invited because she never has a high-level cleric (because they are all killed because they hate her, admittedly) but now that she has one there, they can't just not listen to her vote, or kill her emissary. She followed the rules to get there, now they have to follow the rules too.
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ÔÇ£Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?ÔÇØ
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by SamWiser » Mon Aug 31, 2015 10:24 am

That was quick.
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ÔÇ£Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?ÔÇØ
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Post by RocketScientist » Mon Aug 31, 2015 5:12 pm

I like the title. I see what he did there. :chuckle:

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Post by Zathyr » Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:33 am

Hmm? What did he do there?
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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:46 pm

The title: Will Save The Day...
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Post by Krulle » Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:42 pm

I like the title... Very much.

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Post by DoodleMoogle » Sat Sep 05, 2015 10:41 pm

You know what would be an interesting way to solve this current situation, storywise I mean.
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Post by RocketScientist » Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:17 am

That is a good point. Where is Redcloak, anyway? Shouldn't he be there? Or is he covered under the Western pantheon?

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Post by SpeaksManyLanguages » Mon Sep 07, 2015 5:20 am

I'm not sure how nonhuman pantheons fall into this. But Maglubiyet's definitely not North, so he cannot influence the vote balance.

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Re: Order of the Stick

Post by Krulle » Mon Sep 07, 2015 5:59 am

And I have not seen Herbert go to vote either.... ;)
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