The Order Of The Stick: January

[Tarlonniel]

Hmm - I take it we're witnessing a natural one on an "attack with thrown creature" roll? ;)

[rthr_b_sailing]

Item (1)

I believe that little animal thingy was a "Weasel", notice the popping sound it made as it "unfurled" when out of the bag of tricks. Hence it would be a "Pop goes the Weasel" reference.... now that's going back, maybe Rich (aka Keith?) is older than his avatar seems?

Item (2) Love the Indiana Jones ref.. lol

Item (3) I do hope that Belkar's "steed" has survived, to be continued...

Item (4) Nice job of using the Roy at the back reference Rich. Loved Haley's comments... ;D

Item (5) As I recall when Roy went to buy a weapon the guy had none, nada, not a 1, hence nothing for him to buy. But then, could he not borrow Elan's rapier? ???

[RawBearNYC]

Ugh, Richard, you should be ashamed. "Hi, ho, Silver"?!? You set up that lame thing the strip before when Roy named his horse Silver just so he could say that in the next strip?!? I feel dirty.

[Caelestion]

I LOVED the Raiders of the Lost Ark reference! The Long Ranger one was terrible...

Cael.

[Starla]

LoL I didn't read it the "Indiana jones way" til I read your post rth b sailing. thanks for the extra laugh.

[The_Hanged_Man]

Every time I see that little war Dachshund, I spit coffee on my screen. Pure genius.

Is it too late to send this in for a Pulitzer? Or Nobel? Or something?

[Sundog]

This whole strip begs the question: where's V?

[Muisje]

Doing what every man/woman/elf would do in a situation like this one...?

[Karma]

This whole strip begs the question: where's V?

Waiting for everyone to get into melee range so he can cast Fireball?

...no, sorry, that's my group's mage I'm thinking of.

[rthr_b_sailing]

LoL I didn't read it the "Indiana jones way" til I read your post rth b sailing. thanks for the extra laugh.

yw Starla :)

[Peldor]

This whole strip begs the question: where's V?

You've misspelled Elan. Perhaps he and Banjo can yet save the day!

[Karma]

You've misspelled Elan. Perhaps he and Banjo can yet save the day!

Stop that, you're going to give Roy another of his funny turns.

[Knight13]

I told you people that the bag of tricks was useless.

[Gamebird]

What exactly is the weinerdog *doing* in the first row of today's strip? Is it:

1. Biting the ogre's arm?

2. Making a pitiable attempt at fighting and failing?

3. Something else?

[Sebastian]

Item (1)

I believe that little animal thingy was a "Weasel", notice the popping sound it made as it "unfurled" when out of the bag of tricks. Hence it would be a "Pop goes the Weasel" reference.... now that's going back, maybe Rich (aka Keith?) is older than his avatar seems?

not really, even the mouse went "pop"

Elan and V were in the front with the horses, belkar and Durkon were second with their smaller rides and last come Roy and Harley, so they enter in combat in the opposed order.

[bournie]

Great strip, but I must admit I did get a little bit extra out of it.

In an old 2ed campaign we had I had a ranger who found a stone horse. Figuring this solid stone statue was worth heaps and after trying many command words, organised the redistribution of the entire parties goods so he could drag it home.

My brother (the DM) had sickly made the command word "Hi Ho Silver". So had that been my charachter atop his mighty steed, I would have just been vaulted off a large stone statue of a horse...

[Terandir]

Sorry, Roy... but this one's really stupid. Remember back in #118? "No, Elan, no, I don't need that magic sword you found. I'm gonna get this one reforged..."

And then the one so proud of his MBA walks into a subquest clearly crawling with monsters without a real weapon. Now the whole party's in danger just because Roy wanted to play Aragorn.

Let's just hope Elan still has this sword at hand and didn't trade it for that Wizard-cloak extraordinnaire.

Greetings,
Terandir

[Adghar]

Fact: Roy has a low wisdom score.

Therefore, we may assume that he thought the town would be actually useful. Which they probably have in his past experience.

[Jhulae]

What exactly is the weinerdog *doing* in the first row of today's strip? Is it:

1. Biting the ogre's arm?

2. Making a pitiable attempt at fighting and failing?

3. Something else?

If you look closely, you can see he's hanging onto the monster's arm. Which is pretty funny, actually.

At least it still gets a bite attack. :)

[evileeyore]

Sorry, Roy... but this one's really stupid. Remember back in #118? "No, Elan, no, I don't need that magic sword you found. I'm gonna get this one reforged..."

And then the one so proud of his MBA walks into a subquest clearly crawling with monsters without a real weapon. Now the whole party's in danger just because Roy wanted to play Aragorn.

Let's just hope Elan still has this sword at hand and didn't trade it for that Wizard-cloak extraordinnaire.

Greetings,
Terandir

He didn't believe the "sidequest" would be dangerous. He thought it was just a quick jaunt into the woods, find the "starmetal", walk out, get sword reforged. No big deal.

See the whole tale he spun abuot it being some grand adventure, thats me. I always spout off "nonsense" that ends up being spot on. So I can relate...

[Sebastian]

Even so, not having a backup weapon, not even a ranged weapon, is a little unusual for a fighter (D&D or not) and certainly unwise.

[Bill]

I'll grant you the lack of any missile weapon is unusual but not the lack of a backup weapon. The game system really pushes fighters to invest all their "skills" (i.e., feats) in one narrow kind of weapon and the magic item rules pushes everyone to dump everything into one specific weapon. The latter has been somewhat changesd in 3.5 by the changes to how DR works. But only somewhat.

So, yeah, when Bob the Fighter has his +5 flaming, acid, icy, lightning sword of DOOM he is kick butt but if he loses it he's stuck using a rusty longsword that he stashed in his gear 3 years ago and hasn't brought out since.

P.S. Wizards are even more screwed if anything happens to their spellbooks.

[DrDoom]

Okay, the spellbook thing is true, but with the sidearms? I think not. Ok, they wont be magic (as its too expensive), but he was in a town. Or he could have gotten that sword. Or a dagger. Or anything.

[Peldor]

Even with penalties for non-proficiency he's still got as good a chance as the rest of them at hurting something.

Too bad Elanicalicus didn't give Roy his 8-ball staff. ;)

[rthr_b_sailing]

not really, even the mouse went "pop"

Ok, I can accept that, as I forgot all about the mouse. But Rich did kinda set us up for that and I do still believe it is a weasel, not a ferret, since Roy lists weasel in the list of animals that can come from the bag. It would appear that Rich set us up to use that one.

and as an aside, wow, some of you really amaze me on what you retain from prior strips!!! kudos to you all :)

[DrDoom]

Btw, could someone please explain teh Indiana Jones reference? I dont get it....

[Grey Watcher]

Btw, could someone please explain teh Indiana Jones reference? I dont get it....

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones find the Holy Grail, guarded by an ancient knight. When a Nazi stooge (TM) drinks from one of many false graiils among which the real thing is hiidden, he dies a horrible death. The knight then solemnly intones "He chose... poorly." And Durkon (minus some fudging for proper grammer given then context and his quirky accent) uses precisely the same wording in the last panel.

[Rodrick_the_Red]

INDIANA JONES!!

I knew I'd heard that line from somewhere, but could not place it.

Thank you all for helping me out!! ;D

[Vertex]

Doesn't anyone remember where the line "Hi Ho Silver!" came from? Remember IT??? Good movie I just watched it yesterday and heard the Hi Ho Silver part.

[Bill]

Doesn't anyone remember where the line "Hi Ho Silver!" came from? Remember IT??? Good movie I just watched it yesterday and heard the Hi Ho Silver part.

It comes from the radio serialThe Lone Ranger of the 1930s and 1940s and the TV serial from the 1940s and 1950s. Whatever you are thinking of got it from there.