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Rich just posted a short essay on this on his news page. The short version: OOTS will not convert but will begin to incorporate 4E jokes when it suits him. Which makes sense, since Elan, Xykon, Thog, Therkla, Leeky, Nale, and probably some others I'm forgetting would all have to switch to...

Not really an assumption, it's spelled out in this comic. There's only one half-orc female ninja in the comic (so far), she just sometimes has her mask on and sometimes not.

It's not Sabine. Therkla has been in the noble's service for seven years, and was on his boat during the battle of Azure City--while Sabine escaped from prison mid-battle and flew away with Nale and Thog.

It's a quick and easy way to put a damsel in distress for the rest of the party to save without having to explain further. Lien is a fourth-string character, all that matters is how the main cast saves her, not how she got in trouble in the first place.

Lien is obviously the hostage, but why do their grammar lessons need to be from a hostage? It may be Therkla teaching them as part of a plot against Hinjo. Or they may be just self-teaching themselves with Common for Dummies.

For bonus points, have the villagers refer to the nymph's queen several times. If you really wanted to stretch it, work in some reference to their "red heads".

Actually, I'm going to say that I think the OP is really on to something here. Let me paint a picture: It's 1979 in Middle America, and Ted the DM is planning his first AD&D campaign with the brand new core rulebooks. Having played OD&D with his group as essentially a glorified wargame, he's...

Just use the real world mythologies, like Hades or Anubis or whatever. Real-world mythology is about as open content as you get. Individual DMs can swap them out for the local death god in their campaign with a minimum of work, because everyone knows who they are and what their deal is.

How so? Is there a reference there?

167. A half-elf male and a half-orc female, both in their mid-20's, their corpses still entwined in the act of making love. A single spear has been plunged through his back and into and through her chest, pinning them both to the shabby inn bed. The inn in question rents rooms cheaply, often by...

He hasn't said a single word on the subject, for or against. For some reason, though, a lot of people seem to think he has said that he isn't doing 4e. (Probably because there are some folks on his official forums that like to make declarative statements about what WILL happen, in absence of any...

"Start of Darkness" really answers this question in detail. If anything, it's the main point of the book. However, among other (more interesting) reasons why Redcloak puts up with Xykon, the simplest explanation is that both an arcane and a divine epic-level spellcaster are needed to magically...

I like how this strip retroactively validates the fact that he survived the explosion of the castle when Miko did not. The man just has THAT many hit points.

No, it's not. His arms are in a different position and he has a different facial expression on his face. Plus, his hands are tied behind his back, which is sort of redundant if the person is paralyzed.

Well, I'm pretty sure you have failed to understand the point of this strip. It's not a "running gag" at all. This has little to do with O-Chul, per se, and everything to do with the Monster in the Darkness. It's the one getting character development here, because we see that it has developed an...

It's you. Which is not to suggest that there aren't others that agree with you, merely that it is certainly not a universally held truth. I thought the last five strips "on the road" were great, but then, I thought Belkar killing a gnome was funny, and some other people thought it was an...

Yeah, the Acidborn Shark is in Dungeonscape, which Rich co-authored with Jason Buhlman. Presumably, it was one of Rich's contributions.

Yeah, it's "compatible" not "identical". I think the idea is if an adventure has a fighter NPC, the DM has to add one feat per odd level before running it, but that's still a lot easier than replacing it with a 4E fighter. Perfect balance with older adventures isn't really the goal; serviceable...

So in the space of a year, WOTC's biggest ally becomes WOTC's biggest competitor, and they literally have only themselves to blame (since they put Paizo out of the magazine business AND failed to cut them in on 4E in a timely fashion). Paizo's golem logo is particularly apt today, because...

An indie RPG publisher with no professional credits beyond his own self-published games? It is highly, HIGHLY unlikely that this guy makes enough profit on RPGs to pay for his groceries, much less make his living. This is obviously someone who saw all of the Gygax eulogies around the web and...