OotS #353

[iwatt]

On that note, I'll have to say that my favorite Oots character is:

Thor!!

"I'm going to get tanked and Paw Sif for a while. Let me know if the dwarf lives or dies."



I guess in Rich's world clerics don't have to match deity alignments.

 

[Zweihänder]

It says that you are like alot of his fans. Of course, it also says that you are opposite many of his fans. Those would be the ones who think Belkar is awesome.

I haven't met anyone who says they like Belkar and Roy as their top 2 or Drukon and Belkar as their top two. I'm sure somewill will post here with that confession now, just to prove me wrong, though!

Yeah, Durkon and Belkar for me, though V is a close third...

 

[Wild Gazebo]

"I'm going to get tanked and Paw Sif for a while. Let me know if the dwarf lives or dies."

I laughed so hard I couldn't keep reading. It took me five minutes to read the strip...I started up again when he smoked the druid in the face. Best OotS in a long time.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Those who have been here for a while can attest that the general level of civility seems to rise and fall like a tide around here, and it just seems to be at a low ebb right now. (Or my irritation could stem from the fact that I've been sick all day.) Regardless, sorry for any unintended rancor.

Hey, you've only got a month on me.
Signal to Noise varies a lot around here, some threads the pre-click holdover tells me all I need to know to avoid a thread. Now that the comic is back on a regular schedule I may get into the habit of clicking their, but usually I would see the thread here and go there, then come back and read it. OotS's quality rises and falls quite a bit also, but bad streaks can be horrible. (Sluggy's bad streak drove away a lot of people, I'm reading it again, but lots of folks I know won't go back. A good portion of them also left OotS and won't go back.)

I think fair feedback, mixed reactions is a good thing, but most of the threads are raving about every strip likes it's comedic gold. The OotS clique (like the Sluggy clique) rave so much sometimes that trends continue way past the point where they've driven folks away.

For the general ENWorld stuff, everyone thinks they're right, they always do, and compromise is very rare on the Internet, given the lack of a real social cost.

(Luckily for me, my personal strip is at my whim, and the couple dozen regular readers are mostly folks I know, so I can ignore their opinions at my leisure.

 

[Vocenoctum]

Yeah, Durkon and Belkar for me, though V is a close third...

I think they work best as an ensemble cast, when the plot focuses on one of them for too long, it tends to get tedious. Roy is a pseudo-exception, since it's theoretically him directing it, but the Haley voice stuff, and the Belkar /Miko stuff both ran their course long before they were finished. Belkar's had some good stuff, but he's sort of "silly/stupid evil", so he doesn't compare to Black Mage's casual evil, for my tastes.

 

[diaglo]

Belkar's had some good stuff, but he's sort of "silly/stupid evil", so he doesn't compare to Black Mage's casual evil, for my tastes.

i :heart: Belkar.

read the story hour in my sig.


all i gots to say is: Don't hate the playa, mang. Hate the Game. My Hat of d02 Knows No Limits.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Heh. This reminds me of a campaign I played in years ago. We had a french GM who's english was a little mangled and he described how, after having entered a cave we chanced upon a "beer".

PC: A beer?
DM: Yes un bear.
PC: Uh. Okay. I drink the beer.
DM: You drink le bear?!?
PC: Yeah.
DM: Okay. Le bear hits you for 12 damage.
PC: Wow! That's good beer!

That WOULD be great beer!

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Well, that would be me then. I like Belkar the most, but I like Roy as my next fav. It's because they're the cynics of the group. And yes, that means V comes next. The dwarf is number 4, then the rogue, and finally Elan comes last.

That being said, I really like all of them, even Elan, and find their chemistry to be perfect.

The thing that bugs me about Elan is that he's not actually a bard. He actually has no class abilities, and the only thing he's good at is picking up chicks. Which has its uses, of course, but just once I'd like to see him, you know, cast a spell, swing a sword, use a bardic music ability (instead of just acting like he is), or make a bardic knowledge check. He should at least be able to Inspire Greatness at his level, but even his "pick, pick, pick the lock" songs don't seem to really do anything but annoy the other party members. He's the only character (besides the evil paladin) that I don't really like. Which makes it unfortunate that he's currently the McGuffin.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

It says that you are like alot of his fans. Of course, it also says that you are opposite many of his fans. Those would be the ones who think Belkar is awesome.

I haven't met anyone who says they like Belkar and Roy as their top 2 or Drukon and Belkar as their top two. I'm sure somewill will post here with that confession now, just to prove me wrong, though!

Me. Belkar & Roy. They're like a good cop/bad cop routine performed by Abbott and Costello. How can you beat the comedy stylings of Lawful Good and Chaotic Evil? Durkon and V are tied for second, then Haley (I liked her better before she got all emo), then Elan.

 

[Nifft]

So yeah, if the first 3 panels of this strip had been the last three panels of the last strip, then I'd say it was funny. Since it's not, it looks like it's a reaction to the posts, rather than an original plan.

Rich has been putting the funny in the beginning of the comics for a while now. It's one of the good things about his comics -- you can't predict the exact location of the funny beforehand.

It's a classy technique. Doonesbury has a tradition of putting the funny in the penultimate or even antepenultimate panel, for context.

Cheers, -- N