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 Roy Greenhilt: The rogue is ambitious and greedy, the ranger is a complete psychopath, the wizard is trigger-happy and never stops talking, and the bard is as dumb as a box of moldy carrots! The Order of the StickDurkon Thundershield: As I recall, ye called me "surly and unpleasant" shortly after ye met me. [...] Maybe all these folks need is a good strong leader like ye ta whip 'em into shape. — The Order of the Stick 0: On the Origin of PCs is a Stick Figure Comic by Rich Burlew set in a world based on Dungeons And Dragons 3.5 Edition rules (an original world, rather than an established setting) centering around the adventures of the eponymous party. The comic is well-loved for its complicated plot (with storylines planned years in advance by Burlew), its well-executed Mood Whiplash moments, and its own brand of humor, often relying on sarcastic pop culture references.The main cast consists of Roy Greenhilt, the fighter, leader, and Only Sane Man; Haley Starshine, a treasure-loving Action Girl rogue; Vaarsuvius, a condescending elf wizard whose unknown gender is a Running Gag; Durkon Thundershield, a strait-laced dwarf cleric of Thor; Elan, a happy-go-lucky and none-too-bright bard with a flair for the dramatic; and Belkar Bitterleaf, a hot-headed halfling ranger/barbarian who kills and/or threatens people at the slightest provocation.The comic started off as a gag-a-day strip, often mocking D&D rules, but things quickly took a turn for the dramatic: their journey to defeat the evil Xykon entangled them in the lich's plot to harness the power of The Snarl, a sinister reality-eating... thing formed at the dawn of creation from literal tangles in the fabric of reality. Along the way, they butted heads with hordes of monsters, plot complications, an overzealous paladin or two, and the Linear Guild, a group of Evil Counterparts led by Elan's Evil Twin brother, Nale.Of course, even with all that going on, it's still covered with plenty of humor. Also notable is the fact that all of the main characters and quite a few of the minor characters are extremely Genre Savvy, not just about D&D rules and gameplay but general storytelling tropes as well. This tends to lead to a lot of Lampshade Hanging (including, at one point, lampshading the act of lampshading).*The Order of the Stick was one of the original reasons for the "Giant in the Playground" gaming site, which also hosted the first volume of Erfworld. The GitP forums are almost an unofficial troper forum, thanks in part to the webcomic's distinct appeal to tropers.In addition to the strips found online, the comic has extra-content in the form of two prequels books (On the Origin of PCs and Start of Darkness), which detail the backstory of the characters, but aren't required in order to understand the main storyline. The final twenty-two issues of Dragon (the official D&D magazine) each featured an exclusive gag-based OotS strip, which were collected in another book (Snips, Snails and Dragon Tales), alongside about eighty pages of other humorous fluff. The physical volumes of the main comic also contain extra sideplots and gag-strips as incentive for readers to buy them.Has a character sheet. Fittingly.Trope Namer for:
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