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** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/answer-post-7-79846329 This Patreon Answer post]] reveals one of the stories for ''Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales'' was going to involve one of the sentient movie theater snacks in "[[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0301.html A Brief Intermission]]" going on a quest to avenge Milk Dudes. Rich didn't finish it because the concept didn't make a particularly interesting or funny story.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: According to the [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/answer-post-2020-34406298 February Patreon Answer Post]], Durkon's uncle Thirden was based off the bard character of one of Rich Burlew's high school friends, but only in name, appearance and broad personality. His backstory and relations with Sigdi are Rich Burlew's own creation.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: According to the [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/answer-post-2020-34406298 February Patreon Answer Post]], Durkon's uncle Thirden was loosely based off the bard D&D character of one of Rich Burlew's high school friends, but only in name, appearance and broad personality. His backstory and relations with Sigdi are Rich Burlew's own creation.
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** In outside material (such as the retail version of ''Blood Runs in the Family'' and his Patreon), Rich Burlew confirms that Vaarsuvius is genderqueer. However, he states they don't explicitly identify that way due to elven gender expression and identity being different from that of human gender expression and identity.
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** In outside material (such as the retail version of ''Blood Runs in the Family'' and his Patreon), Rich Burlew confirms that Vaarsuvius is genderqueer. However, he states [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/answer-post-2020-34406298 states]] they don't explicitly identify that way due to elven gender expression and identity being different from that of human gender expression and identity.
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* WordOfGay: In outside material (such as the retail version of ''Blood Runs in the Family'' and his Patreon), Rich Burlew confirms that Vaarsuvius is genderqueer. However, he states they don't explicitly identify that way due to elven gender expression and identity being different from that of human gender expression and identity.
-->''[Vaarsuvius] would have no reason to adopt the term as a stated identity. And if V wouldn’t use the word, no one else is in a position to put that identity on them. Except me, I can say whatever I want about V because I made them.''
** Burlew has also confirmed in the author's commentary for ''Utterly Dwarfed'' following some AmbiguouslyBi hints in previous volumes that Haley is bisexual, and is only "straight-passing" through her current relationship with Elan.
-->''[Vaarsuvius] would have no reason to adopt the term as a stated identity. And if V wouldn’t use the word, no one else is in a position to put that identity on them. Except me, I can say whatever I want about V because I made them.''
** Burlew has also confirmed in the author's commentary for ''Utterly Dwarfed'' following some AmbiguouslyBi hints in previous volumes that Haley is bisexual, and is only "straight-passing" through her current relationship with Elan.
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* WordOfGay: WordOfGay:
** In outside material (such as the retail version of ''Blood Runs in the Family'' and his Patreon), Rich Burlew confirms that Vaarsuvius is genderqueer. However, he states they don't explicitly identify that way due to elven gender expression and identity being different from that of human gender expression and identity.
-->''[Vaarsuvius] --->''[Vaarsuvius] would have no reason to adopt the term as a stated identity. And if V wouldn’t use the word, no one else is in a position to put that identity on them. Except me, I can say whatever I want about V because I made them.''
** Burlew hasalso confirmed in the author's commentary for ''Utterly Dwarfed'' following some AmbiguouslyBi hints in previous volumes that Haley is bisexual, and is only "straight-passing" through her current relationship with Elan.
** In outside material (such as the retail version of ''Blood Runs in the Family'' and his Patreon), Rich Burlew confirms that Vaarsuvius is genderqueer. However, he states they don't explicitly identify that way due to elven gender expression and identity being different from that of human gender expression and identity.
** Burlew has
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* CrowdfunderCameo: After its wildly successful kickstarter campaign, a few people had their own D&D characters featured in the story, most prominently the favored soul Veldrina who attended Godsmoot on behalf of the Western Pantheon.
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* NoOriginStoriesAllowed: The author has stated that he's never going to give an origin story for [[TokenEvilTeammate Belkar]] because doing so would risk making his behavior be less [[BlackComedy funny]] and more sympathetic.
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* NoOriginStoriesAllowed: The author has stated that he's never going to give an origin story for [[TokenEvilTeammate Belkar]] because doing so would risk making his behavior be less [[BlackComedy funny]] and more sympathetic. The closest thing he's gotten is "Uncivil Servant", a short story that explains how he became an adventurer, but which depicts him as basically fully-formed with no real differences in personality to his modern counterpart.
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** Though he likes Elan plenty, Burlew has little fondness for Elan's initial look. This is why, while every member of the Order has seen some outfit changes, Elan is the only member of the Order to be completely redesigned, with the old outfit only returning in flashbacks and a brief gag in ''Blood Runs in the Family'' (where Haley grumbles about it).
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** Though he likes Elan plenty, Burlew has little fondness for Elan's initial look. This is why, while every member of the Order has seen some outfit changes, Elan is the only member of the Order to be completely redesigned, with the old outfit only returning being worn by him again in flashbacks and a brief gag in ''Blood Runs in the Family'' (where Haley grumbles about it).
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** In the intro to ''Utterly Dwarfed'', Rich explains that many decisions made in the plotting were in some ways affected by the artstyle. In ''War and [=XPs=]'', the stick limbs had a habit of melding together with each other, which led to ''Don't Split the Party'' having fewer scenes involving large groups of characters. The problem was somewhat alleviated in ''Blood Runs in the Family'' by the hazy, dusty desert setting allowing for fade effects on background characters. ''Utterly Dwarfed'' was the book that forced the switch, due to the sheer number of scenes taking place onboard the Mechane, which meant lots of scenes with complicated backgrounds that risked the characrer's arms and legs overlapping with background elements.
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** In the intro to ''Utterly Dwarfed'', Rich explains that many decisions made in the plotting were in some ways affected by the artstyle. In ''War and [=XPs=]'', the stick limbs had a habit of melding together with each other, which led to ''Don't Split the Party'' having fewer scenes involving large groups of characters. The problem was somewhat alleviated in ''Blood Runs in the Family'' by the hazy, dusty desert setting allowing for fade effects on background characters. ''Utterly Dwarfed'' was the book that forced the switch, switch to the comic's current artstyle, due to the sheer number of scenes taking place onboard the Mechane, which meant lots of scenes with complicated backgrounds that risked the characrer's character's arms and legs overlapping with background elements.
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* CreatorBacklash:
** Rich isn't proud of a lot of the writing around female characters in the comic's early years, with particularly acknowledged low points including #35, the inn arc in ''No Cure for the Paladin Blues'', and the general use of sexually-charged insults. Haley even delivers some SelfDeprecation on it at one point in ''Utterly Dwarfed''.
** Though he likes Elan plenty, Burlew has little fondness for Elan's initial look. This is why, while every member of the Order has seen some outfit changes, Elan is the only member of the Order to be completely redesigned, with the old outfit only returning in flashbacks and a brief gag in ''Blood Runs in the Family'' (where Haley grumbles about it).
** Rich isn't proud of a lot of the writing around female characters in the comic's early years, with particularly acknowledged low points including #35, the inn arc in ''No Cure for the Paladin Blues'', and the general use of sexually-charged insults. Haley even delivers some SelfDeprecation on it at one point in ''Utterly Dwarfed''.
** Though he likes Elan plenty, Burlew has little fondness for Elan's initial look. This is why, while every member of the Order has seen some outfit changes, Elan is the only member of the Order to be completely redesigned, with the old outfit only returning in flashbacks and a brief gag in ''Blood Runs in the Family'' (where Haley grumbles about it).
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: According to a [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/answer-post-jan-50478064 Patreon Q&A]], Azure City being colored blue along with virtually all of its citizens having naturally blue hair came as consequence of Burlew needing to clearly distinguish the characters' arms and mouths from their hair (i.e., [=O-Chul's=] beard is blue instead of black so that his mouth is visible). He learned this problem while drawing Miko, whose long black hair meant that her arms had a habit of vanishing when she raised them.
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: SerendipityWritesThePlot:
** According to a [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/answer-post-jan-50478064 Patreon Q&A]], Azure City being colored blue along with virtually all of its citizens having naturally blue hair came as consequence of Burlew needing to clearly distinguish the characters' arms and mouths from their hair (i.e., [=O-Chul's=] beard is blue instead of black so that his mouth is visible). He learned this problem while drawing Miko, whose long black hair meant that her arms had a habit of vanishing when she raisedthem.them.
** In the intro to ''Utterly Dwarfed'', Rich explains that many decisions made in the plotting were in some ways affected by the artstyle. In ''War and [=XPs=]'', the stick limbs had a habit of melding together with each other, which led to ''Don't Split the Party'' having fewer scenes involving large groups of characters. The problem was somewhat alleviated in ''Blood Runs in the Family'' by the hazy, dusty desert setting allowing for fade effects on background characters. ''Utterly Dwarfed'' was the book that forced the switch, due to the sheer number of scenes taking place onboard the Mechane, which meant lots of scenes with complicated backgrounds that risked the characrer's arms and legs overlapping with background elements.
** According to a [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/answer-post-jan-50478064 Patreon Q&A]], Azure City being colored blue along with virtually all of its citizens having naturally blue hair came as consequence of Burlew needing to clearly distinguish the characters' arms and mouths from their hair (i.e., [=O-Chul's=] beard is blue instead of black so that his mouth is visible). He learned this problem while drawing Miko, whose long black hair meant that her arms had a habit of vanishing when she raised
** In the intro to ''Utterly Dwarfed'', Rich explains that many decisions made in the plotting were in some ways affected by the artstyle. In ''War and [=XPs=]'', the stick limbs had a habit of melding together with each other, which led to ''Don't Split the Party'' having fewer scenes involving large groups of characters. The problem was somewhat alleviated in ''Blood Runs in the Family'' by the hazy, dusty desert setting allowing for fade effects on background characters. ''Utterly Dwarfed'' was the book that forced the switch, due to the sheer number of scenes taking place onboard the Mechane, which meant lots of scenes with complicated backgrounds that risked the characrer's arms and legs overlapping with background elements.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The idea of [[spoiler:Durkon turning into a vampire]] came up early to Rich Burlew, when the comic was still a gag strip with no continuity, to make a {{Pun}} on "TurnUndead". Then the author decided he wanted a more continuous storyline, and the concept evolved into [[spoiler:a lengthy story arc which saw Durkon killed and raised as the High Priest of Hel]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The idea of [[spoiler:Durkon turning into a vampire]] came up early to Rich Burlew, when the comic was still a gag strip with no continuity, to make a {{Pun}} on "TurnUndead". Then the author decided he wanted a more continuous storyline, and the concept evolved into [[spoiler:a lengthy story arc which saw Durkon killed and raised as the High Priest ofHel]].Hel]].
** Miko was originally going to be introduced fairly early, and be a much softer character, with Roy's unrequited crush being the focus of her character. Rich reworked her heavily when she did show up, and though the ShipTease did crop up in her early appearances, it was swiftly abandoned due to Rich finding the two didn't have any chemistry. Additionally, though her ultimate fate was already planned out by the time of her first appearance, it was at one point going to occur later in the story, which sparked a lot of confusion thanks to a note at the time that suggested she'd be sticking around for much longer than she did.
** The idea of [[spoiler:Durkon turning into a vampire]] came up early to Rich Burlew, when the comic was still a gag strip with no continuity, to make a {{Pun}} on "TurnUndead". Then the author decided he wanted a more continuous storyline, and the concept evolved into [[spoiler:a lengthy story arc which saw Durkon killed and raised as the High Priest of
** Miko was originally going to be introduced fairly early, and be a much softer character, with Roy's unrequited crush being the focus of her character. Rich reworked her heavily when she did show up, and though the ShipTease did crop up in her early appearances, it was swiftly abandoned due to Rich finding the two didn't have any chemistry. Additionally, though her ultimate fate was already planned out by the time of her first appearance, it was at one point going to occur later in the story, which sparked a lot of confusion thanks to a note at the time that suggested she'd be sticking around for much longer than she did.
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: According to a [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/answer-post-jan-50478064 Patreon Q&A]], Azure City being colored blue along with virtually all of its citizens having naturally blue hair came as consequence of Burlew needing to clearly distinguish the characters' arms and mouths from their facial hair (i.e., [=O-Chul's=] beard is blue instead of black so that his mouth is visible).
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: According to a [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/answer-post-jan-50478064 Patreon Q&A]], Azure City being colored blue along with virtually all of its citizens having naturally blue hair came as consequence of Burlew needing to clearly distinguish the characters' arms and mouths from their facial hair (i.e., [=O-Chul's=] beard is blue instead of black so that his mouth is visible). He learned this problem while drawing Miko, whose long black hair meant that her arms had a habit of vanishing when she raised them.
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!!TropeNamer for:
* AndThatWouldBeWrong
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience
* ContinuitySnarl
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily ([[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample trope namer, but zig-zagged as an example]]) %% If you have more to add to this, take it to the tropes page.
* NotHyperbole
* StartOfDarkness
* ATankardOfMooseUrine
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame
