History TheOrderOfTheStick / TropesPToR

* PostMortemPossessions: Horace Greenhilt has a copy of the family's ancestral blade in the afterlife. He explains to his grandson Roy that this is because the afterlife in the setting depicts people as their idealized selves, and Horace thinks of himself as a swordsman wielding the special sword. Roy doesn't have his own copy because he still thinks of the sword as his grandfather's not his own.

** Vaarsuvius had a lot of opportunities to talk to Roy about the things they did and learned while Roy was [[spoiler:dead]]. The [[spoiler:planet inside the rift]], for example, or [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius' debt to the fiends]]. Either might have prevented the situation in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0896.html "Two Paths"]]. Unfortunately, Vaarsuvius was ashamed of the latter, and as to the former, the elf assumed Roy wouldn't believe him since it was his familiar, Blackwing, who saw it, and Roy pretended to believe that Blackwing was nothing but an ImaginaryFriend as an excuse to mock him.

* ResistantToMagic: Whenever [[EvilCounterpart Zz'dtri]] -- a drow with natural spell resistance -- turns up, life gets harder for [[InsufferableGenius Vaarsuvius]].
-->'''Vaarsuvius:''' It's almost as if the universe is trying to deliberately force some kind of arbitrary equality between those of us who can reshape matter with our thoughts and those who cannot.

** In the prequel ''Start of Darkness'', [[spoiler: Lirian traps Redcloak and Xykon in a prison and inflicts them with a virus that disables Xykon's magical abilities. In order to escape, Redcloak hatches a plan to kill Xykon and resurrect him as a lich, getting around the actions of the virus as it doesn't work on the undead.]]

** The entire species of kobolds being Belkar's personal archnemesis. Belkar even lampshades it at one point, nothing how "...the whole kobold-head-into-an-object thing is sort of a running gag with me."

* PilferingProprietor: Before joining the Order, Elan was servant to the paladin Sir Francois, and frequently caused trouble with his stupidity. The last straw came when Elan passed over several decent-looking establishments and chose to stay at the Rob-U-While-U-Sleep Inn. When the morning came, they found that all of Sir Francois's valuables had vanished.

* RecurringExtra: The bandana wearing member of the Sapphire Guard who goes unnamed but still shows up frequently, being one of the few paladins not affected by Xykon's symbol of insanity, one of the last of the ghost-martyrs left standing, and he's seen climbing the mountain to the afterlife alongside Roy.

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* ResidualSelfImage: Roy discovers that everyone in the afterlife "good" plane looks like their Residual Self Image. His father looks the same as he did when he died, an old man, because he always was a Grumpy Old Man, even when he was young. His mother, however, looks young and hot.

* LaResistance: Best called just that, since they argue over the name. Moot point, now that [[spoiler:Redcloak's wiped them out]].

* RightBehindMe:

* RightHandCat: Mr. Scruffy to Lord Shojo. And later, to Belkar.

* RocBirds: At one point, a drunken wizard teleports the order into a roc's nest. Fortunately (for the rest of the party), the roc eats the wizard first, becomes drunk itself, and passes out.
* RockBeatsLaser: In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0653.html "Fun While It Lasted"]], when Xykon's Superb Dispelling doesn't end [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius's Soul Splice, one of the souls]] boasts that "Even epic magic cannot break our--", only to be cut off when the lich effectively ends the splice with the surgical application of a [[KungShui giant fragment of masonry]] to the SquishyWizard.

** Vaarsuvius had a lot of opportunities to talk to Roy about the things they did and learned while Roy was [[spoiler:dead]]. The [[spoiler:planet inside the rift]], for example, or [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius' debt to the fiends]]. Either might have prevented the situation in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0896.html "Two Paths"]].

* ResurrectionSickness: Standard for ''D&D'', being raised from the dead costs a level, as mentioned by the Oracle. Roy also experience some trouble walking right after his own resurrection, his first attempt resulting in a {{faceplant}}, since he'd lost the habit of using his legs to move on the Material Plane.

* RetroactiveWish: Haley in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0069.html "Hey, It Was Worth a Shot"]].