The Order of the Stick

Well, a little too late, but at least he tried. Now I'm assuming the thing with Redcloak and his village had already long since gone down by the time he did this. It does mean he must have succeeded, since we never hear of such things again.

That's the impression we are supposed to get. It doesn't hurt that the overzealous leader of the Sapphire Guard, who ordered said prior atrocity, leaves the service of the Twelve Gods rather dramatically.

Would anyone mind if, when I get some free time, I do recap pages for How the Paladin Got His Scar and perhaps the Therkla prequel Spoiler Warning as well?

And if I do, how lightly should I tread around spoilers?

edited 16th May '17 9:59:34 AM by TheWanderer

Well it's good to have actual confirmation that yes, Paladins were punished for their actions in the village by falling. We'd had Word of God on it, but with this comic, there's actually physical proof, which should satisfy some people. They could have avoided the entire thing with Red-Cloak by less brutal methods, and the current situation of the world is a direct result of their actions. I doubt anyone will debate it any more.

I chose my wording very carefully, and that is all I will say.

Honestly, I'd wait a week or so to write up the recap for "Scars". The older ones should be fine to do.

edited 16th May '17 11:06:48 AM by Fighteer

Is this comic print only like the prequels?

It's a special for kickstarter backers.

Any future book probably will be print only though.

This one was really awesome.

"So that others don't have to." This sentence reminds me of another paladin.

Two of the previous Kickstarter comics, "Uncivil Servant" (Belkar prequel) and "Haleo & Julelan", were eventually released as PDF-only on Gumroad. Presumably that's what's going to happen with this one, too. He's said that they might print all the KS comics in an anthology, but that'd only be after he finishes off the other two or three that are yet to come, so don't hold your breath.

edited 17th May '17 3:52:55 AM by johnnye

For the record, here's the latest progress report (do the yellow boxes mean "writing progress" or "planning"?)

There's a CPPD comic, a Sir Francois one, a Julio one and a Dark Sun parody all to come, none of which have been started yet. I'd guess any print anthology wouldn't come along til all of those are finished, they've been released to backers, the backers' exclusivity period has expired, and they've been released to the public as PD Fs.

Aaaand we're back!

In which Andi continues to not have this

Elan's trying hard, you have to give him that.

Chaos: handle with care.

He might want to consider learning some kind of sleeping spell.

Only one I can think of offhand is sleep, which is way too weak to work on a cloud giant.

Also, I wonder what Andi saw...

You pretty much have to branch out into either splatbooks or homebrew in order to sleep a creature with more than 10 HD.

A quick search tells me the only things in core that do that are sleep (4 HD divided among targets), deep slumber (10 HD divided among targets), symbol of sleep (everything 10 HD or less), and sleep arrows (+1 arrows that interestingly don't have an HD cap, though a DC 11 save isn't hard to hit).

The deck where Roy and Elan are fighting the giant is on the other side of that guardrail. She might have caught Elan swinging from the rope out of the corner of her eye and thought he was Julio Scoundrel for a second.

edited 18th May '17 7:07:13 PM by TobiasDrake

She thought she saw a pass.

"Compel discerning peanut butter droplet ladders!"

Interesting. It's only one data point, but based on this sentence we can hypothesize that minor confusion affects semantic coherence but not underlying instinct for grammaticality, in a similar way to Wernicke's aphasia.

Have a second and third data point: "Variable-speed corn muffins", and "Peanut butter fish fillets"

Which supports your hypothesis.

edited 22nd May '17 4:52:49 PM by Gilphon

This also comes with the slightly unsettling implication that the giant isn't just babbling, she's trying to say something but can't get the words out in a way anyone can understand.

There might be some relationship, whether conceptual or phonological, between the words exhibited and the ones she's reaching for, if anyone wants to try to make a more likely sentence out of the nonsense.

edited 22nd May '17 5:01:31 PM by johnnye

I'm actually kind of startled that the ogragon actually has "variable speed" in its vocabulary. I mean, I know it flies and all, but still, that's an instinctive skill, not necessarily a scholarly one. For dragons, anyway.

Can minor confusion randomly make you briefly smarter?

Like the famous sentence: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously"? Grammatically correct, but semantic nonsense.

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