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See, my theory is the opposite: That Rich's announcement that he was ceasing new projects for a while was actually an indication that he had ALREADY been approached by WOTC, and chosen to turn it down for health reasons. It's just that he couldn't say that at the time. At any rate, I don't...

For including the droid, you could have them start with a droid only to have it blown to bits in the first few rounds of the en media res battle. This will encourage a subtle feeling of, "We need to get our droid replaced" instead of hoping they decide they need a droid at all.

It was $100K for Keith Baker. The two other finalists got $20K. WOTC only owned the ones that it paid money for. It has no claim on the thousands of others. That's why Dawnforge could be published by another company; even though it got to the semi-finalist stage (there were only 11 of those)...

Well, considering Rich got paid $20K then and it was the encouragement that prompted him to start Order of the Stick, I'd say he did just fine. He even said in the seminar that he had no regrets about the deal, since he was doing better with OOTS than most roleplaying writers and the IP in...

The three finalists who actually wrote the 125-page bible are all under NDA forever, and WOTC owns their products, lock, stock, and barrel. The ones that got published by other companies were only semi-finalists, and only had to write 10-page descriptions. I saw Rich Burlew (one of the 3...

A lot of this has been said, but: 1.) Book of Giants. A no-brainer. 2.) One-shot campaign setting, brand new. Find something completely out there, but that could combine with existing campaigns the way Ravenloft and Planescape sort of did. 3.) Heroes of Mystery. This would need a lot of...

In the panel before that, the hobgoblin archers on the left dock are pulling back to fire. Those are just 3 of the arrows that they shot, none of which hit. There's just no blue trail like there has been in other panels, probably because it would have messed up the picture.

Extended Summon Monster VII uses an 8th level spell slot.

Not necessarily, if Hinjo's Jump roll exceeded his available movement, then he would have had to end the turn mid-air, allowing Redcloak to cast on his turn.

Order of the Stick! What? It's gaming IP... ;) OK, in all seriousness (if only because I have no doubt that GITP would publish an OOTS game themselves long before they considered licensing it), I think the video game idea is the right one. And if the system is designed to be felxible and able...

I reached that conclusion from the context of the quote you were answering: Since actual paladins in the actual game do not keep their mounts in literal pokéballs, I read the following: Thunderfoot: I never realized that paladins (in the Order of the Stick comic) kept their mounts in (literal...

I think it's the other way around. I think Rich draws them coming out of pokéballs because early critics of 3.5 dubbed the paladin mount summoning ability "pokémounts" several years ago.

Actually, he said, "toughest of us all". Big difference, when you're talking about D&D characters. It pretty much answers the debate on why O-Chul could survive the explosion and Miko couldn't; he had more hit points (and probably better saving throws) than Miko. Miko was dubbed the "most...

Nah, V has no ranks in Hide, probably nothing but an elven Dexterity bonus, and s/he takes a -20 circumstance penalty for wearing red in Azure City. ;)

"I have no potions or scrolls remaining." S/he had scrolls and potions, and used them up in the battle (using three on the Titanium Elementals alone). And if V pulled out a wand or staff that we didn't see him/her specifically purchase or find earlier in the strip, everyone would scream, "Deus...

Not only can an article like this show how to port shadowcasters to Forgotten Realms, it can give a novice DM the idea that any X can be ported into any Y campaign setting. Remember, as has been said many times, WOTC writes its material for middle-of-the-bell-curve DMs, not master DMs. And the...

OK, camp does not equal comedy or humor. Camp is a specific tone of comedy, one that treats its subject matter as inherently light and inconsequential by satirizing it. I'm not sure that (for example) OOTS even IS camp, because it never treats the act of roleplaying as a waste of time. It takes...

World of Darkness uses nothing but d10's.

I don't know, canceling his GenCon booth a month before the convention is pretty big news, if you go to GenCon. The last two years, he's had the longest line of customers in the entire dealer's room.

"Not resurrected" does not mean "not in the strip". I want Roy raised too, but I want to see lots of afterlife hijinks first, and that won't happen if Durkon raises him tomorrow morning. If Roy gets raised right away, it will annoy me more because his death will have accomplished nothing but...