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2015-11-24, 06:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2015
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- Somewehre
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Oh my gods i love the new designs hey look epic... i think Redcloak looks epic in his improved outfit... I would buy it if i could, but my mum won't let me
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2015-11-25, 09:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
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- UK
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2015-11-25, 10:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2005
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Celia.
I always figured Celia was the character for the "Law" shirt.
Yeah, she's a lawyer, but she's more than a one-joke character like Mr. Jones & Mr. Rodriguez, she's adventured with the Order for a while and helped rescue Roy's body, she's dating Roy and had serious philosophical discussions, that means she's definitely beyond being a gag character.
She's the non-joke character who seems to best exemplify lawfulness in the strip.
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2015-11-25, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2012
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
There was a small increase in the amount of people who Googled the word "Weal" yesterday. I wonder why...
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2015-11-25, 05:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2007
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Calendar ordered! The previous calendars were all great. Nad next year, I might need to buy a T-Shirt with the Order marching across...
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2015-11-25, 05:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2009
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
I wonder if Miko's in the villains calendar.
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2015-11-25, 05:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2013
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2015-11-25, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Or she could be in the calendar with the characters at the bottom bringing up that very objection.
Room for even more interplay if Redcloak gripes about her being in this calendar followed the roaches making a side comment like "I thought she was a villian to you, Red".Concluded: The Stick Awards II: Second Edition
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2015-11-26, 01:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2007
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- Somewhere
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Redcloak's new design is sick. I can't wait to see the rest of Team Evil. Speaking of which, they've been absent since Girard's pyramid exploded. I hope when everything with the Godsmoot is wrapped up, we'll see what they've been up to.
Since we're talking about merchandise, are there any plans to sell posters? I've bought the calendars the past two years going on a third solely for the art, and I'm always bummed to put them away when the year is over. (I've never wanted to undo the binding to post the pages individually since it would separate them from the character commentary.) The new artwork is brilliant, and I would definitely be in the market for a poster in the ultra HD style.
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2015-11-26, 08:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2006
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- Montréal, Qc, Canada
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2015-11-26, 09:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2011
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- Wisconsin, USA
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Sadly, I actually knew what it meant.
I read "The Worm Ouroboros" by E.R. Eddison when I was 12, and it contains part of the Ballad of Thomas the Rhymer at the beginning, which features the lines:
‘Betide me weal, betide me woe,
That weird shall never daunton me;’
So, I knew that pre-Google, back in the hoary days of dead tree dictionaries. An old friend, you might say.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway ...
Wow, so that's what Redcloak is going to look like next time we see him? I almost forgot the three-toe look anyway; it certainly makes him look a bit more alien, I must say.Last edited by Bulldog Psion; 2015-11-26 at 09:35 AM.
Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2015-11-26, 04:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2015
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- Canada
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
I have to say, Xykon and Redcloak look incredibly awesome in the new style. Especially Redcloak, with his new sabatons.
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2015-11-26, 07:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2009
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- California
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Celia's also certainly a Good character, to a fault. She goes out of her way to avoid harming other creatures, even when harming creatures would save more lives in the long run.
I'd argue that taking due process into your own hands and killing a defenseless octogenarian skews a little away from Lawful. There's also the part where she destroyed a cornerstone of space-time (and weakened the fabric of reality in the process) based on a hunch…
Anyhow, to keep things on topic… Xykon's got a brow ridge now? Nice.
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2015-11-30, 07:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2015
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Wooo! We finally get to see , , , , and in the latest art update
Will we see the lawyers as well?
ESPECIALLY liking the look of Badass Redcloak at the moment. That's why he's one of my favourite villains!
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2015-11-30, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2007
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- Twickenham
- Gender
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
To speed up forum loading, you can turn off Signatures, Avatars and/or Images separately from one another. See 'Visible Post Elements' under 'Thread Display Options' under 'Edit Options' in the User CP (Control Panel). Only works once you're logged in, though.
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2015-12-01, 05:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2005
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
O'Chul is a Lawful Good character, defintiely lawful, but he was Good enough to be the character for the "Good" shirt.
Xykon is incredibly chaotic, but he was the character for "Evil" and not "Chaos".
Being NG, NE, LN or NE doesn't seem to be what the point is.
Yeah, Celia is Good, but it seems more that she's extraordinarily lawful. She doesn't want to kill, but that seems just as much for the fact she sees it as being against the law, not just the written law, but the natural order of things, as in what she perceives as how the universe works, in a lawful fashion.
Think in Greysky City, when she's cornered by the Thieves Guild and she goes into a rage. . .and she wants to begin contract negotiations.
. . .that's the act of an incredibly Lawful character. Modrons would look at that reaction with approval.
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2015-12-02, 01:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2004
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
I dunno, Celia's pacifism seems to me to stem from her Good side: she doesn't want to see anyone hurt, even people she, personally, doesn't like. Her unwillingness to break or even bend that rule (ie she refuses even to use non-lethal violence in self-defense) is Lawful, but her Lawfulness is backing up her Goodness, not the other way around. (At least as I read it; as someone once said to me, D&D alignments are so vaguely defined that any action can be argued to fit under any alignment.)
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2015-12-03, 10:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2008
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Miko was Lawful Good. She also happened to a) be wrong and b) have 'not thinking I could be wrong' as a fatal flaw.
She knew Roy was responsible for destroying a Gate. Roy claimed to have also destroyed a lich she later encountered leading a goblinoid army against Azure City. The possibility that Roy was in league with the lich was a real one. Her mistake was taking it as an absolute given and trying to fit everything else (including learning of Shojo's deception) along side it. Even after her 'fall', destroying the sapphire was what O-Chul (unquestionably LG) had already decided to do. Of course, once she made up her mind to do so she didn't look around to see it no longer needed to be done, but that's a logical flaw - not an alignment one.
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2015-12-03, 11:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Calendar ordered.
And I figured out how you can give everyone free shipping, Rich.
1. Read this list
2. ?????
3. Assume control over the world
4. Order the postal service to provide free shipping on people's mandatory purchase and enjoyment of OOTS
5. PROFIT!!
Admittedly, that second step is a bit of a doozy.
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2015-12-13, 08:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Is Redcloak crossing his fingers behind his back?
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2015-12-14, 11:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2003
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- Philadelphia, PA
- Gender
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Just wanted to update you all on the calendar status.
They're running a few days behind—because apparently nobody can print things around the holidays on the schedule they claim they can—but the calendar will leave the printer tomorrow morning. So they should be in Ookoodook's hands on the 17th, and everything should be shipped out by the following Monday at the latest (and I wouldn't be shocked if they got them all shipped by the end of the 18th, since there are a lot less orders than last year when there was a new book out at the same time). If you're a US customer, I would say there is virtually no chance of you not getting it before the 24th. I suppose if the USPS loses your package, specifically, but that's why tracking numbers exist.Rich Burlew
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2015-12-14, 11:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2008
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
You know, with all the hassles and mishaps and extra administration needed around Christmas shipping every year, I for one would not blame you in the slightest if you decided to change it up next year. I.e. decided that from now on your holiday calendars and branded items were created and sent for printing in early November, with a goal of delivery by Thanksgiving. Just so that by the time your printers and partners collectively had their act together it'd still be in time for Christmas.
Thanks for the updates, and your efforts each year to provide some fun variations on your characters.
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2015-12-14, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2003
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- Philadelphia, PA
- Gender
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
That would require me getting the art for the calendars done in early October, and I have no reason to believe that is a thing I will ever be able to make happen—based largely on the fact that I have attempted to make it happen every year I have done a calendar and have not successfully managed it yet.
Rich Burlew
Now Available: 2023 OOTS Holiday Ornament plus a big pile of new t-shirt designs (that you can also get on mugs and stuff)!
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2015-12-14, 12:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2009
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- New York
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Sweet, thanks! Now I just have to hope the mail delivery comes in before I leave for my flight.
By the way have I thanked you for the monster mini kickstarted rewards yet? If not, then THANK YOU. I've ised them in every single game I've played or ran and I've used the included templates to make custom minis for all my players and PCs and for other players in other games on request. They are amazing.My webcomic!
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2015-12-14, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2004
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Indeed. I was able to use the blank template (and some art generously provided by a forumite) to have a custom mini for the All Wizards, All the Time campaign we were running. And I've been trying to pull together the resources to run something, so I'm sure the rest will see lots of use!
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2015-12-15, 01:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2013
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- The Chi
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
The laws of physics are not crying in a corner, they are bawling in the forums.
Thanks to half-halfling for the avatar
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2015-12-15, 02:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Concluded: The Stick Awards II: Second Edition
Ongoing: OOTS by Page Count
Coming Soon: OOTS by Final Post Count II: The Post Counts Always Chart Twice
Coming Later: The Stick Awards III: The Search for More Votes
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No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style - Jhereg Proverb
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2015-12-15, 03:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
- Location
- Manchester, UK
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
As for Kilkil, he's an incredibly minor character who seems to be perfectly happy to pervert the law of the land in order to follow Tarquin's instructions (e.g. the trickery used to ensure that Enor and Ganji got imprisoned). While it's certainly arguable that he's doing that out of fear, someone who will betray his principles out of fear doesn't scream Lawful to me.
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2015-12-16, 01:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2003
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Update: I just found out that the calendars still have not left the printer, with no explanation listed. I am furious. I will be calling them the moment their customer service hours open and yelling at them, demanding that they ship them overnight to Ookoodook on their dime. We'll see how that goes.
Rich Burlew
Now Available: 2023 OOTS Holiday Ornament plus a big pile of new t-shirt designs (that you can also get on mugs and stuff)!
~~You can also support The Order of the Stick and the GITP forum at Patreon.~~
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2015-12-16, 01:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2003
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
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Re: OOTS 2016 Villains Calendar and 2015 Holiday Ornament
Update to the Update: I have "persuaded" the printer to upgrade my freight to 2-day shipping for free, so calendars are back on schedule to arrive at Ookoodook either late on the 17th or 7:00 AM on the 18th. That still fits in with my previous belief that Ook would get them all in the mail before next Monday, so we should be all good.
Rich Burlew
Now Available: 2023 OOTS Holiday Ornament plus a big pile of new t-shirt designs (that you can also get on mugs and stuff)!
~~You can also support The Order of the Stick and the GITP forum at Patreon.~~