OotS #532 is up

[SPoD]

Notice that the Erfworld strip this week also uses the exact same joke about the "SerfW*" sandwich shop?

It's slightly different; Rich had a sandwich shop called "SerfWay", whereas Erfworld just had the word Erfworld in the logo style. I think Rich's is funnier, because there's an actual joke there: A sub shop for "serfs," as in medieval peasant. Plus it was only a tiny part of the larger joke (that Celia used to sneak out in order to get sandwiches). Erfworld just sort of did a, "Hey, look! A logo! Isn't that hilarious? That is TOTALLY better than an actual punchline!"

But on the News page, Rich says that it was just a random coincidence, since he doesn't know what the Erfworld people do until they send it to him.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Hah, so he's epic. Better and better.

Does Roy have higher ranks in Know (arcana) than the actual spellcaster?

No, he has more ranks in Knowledge (rulebook). Or maybe it's Profession (rules lawyer) -- I'm not sure which.

Hey, he's a fighter -- what else is he going to do with all the skill points from his superior intelligence?

 

[Masquerade]

In a weird cosmic convergence of minds, today's editions of both Erfworld and The Order of the Stick feature parodies of the same corporate restaurant logo—with neither Rob nor myself knowing the other was using it until he sent me his strip for today. I don't know what it means, exactly; either great minds think alike, or we're both hacks who mine the same material in a predictable manner.

But I do know that I recognize an omen when I see one, and I'm headed down the block for a chicken teryaki sub later today.

From the news page.

 

[diaglo]

No, he has more ranks in Knowledge (rulebook). Or maybe it's Profession (rules lawyer) -- I'm not sure which.

Hey, he's a fighter -- what else is he going to do with all the skill points from his superior intelligence?

i've known a few in my time.





and it was a booty call charm.

 

[Fenes]

The strip also explains neatly why Xykon did not just scry the location of the resistance and teleported troops in.

 

[Heckler]

The strip also explains neatly why Xykon did not just scry the location of the resistance and teleported troops in.

Actually, it doesn't.

It says quite plainly that you can use them within the Cloister field. It only blocks people outside the field from coming in.

 

[Ilium]

But it also affects everybody who was in the original casting individually. So if a new person walked into the city, Xykon could scry them, but since Haley and company were in the city at the time of casting, they're covered.

Unless Xykon wants to research an epic scry that can pierce the cloister, I suppose.

 

[Heckler]

D'oh!

"Overkill."

Right.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Looks like he did it all for the Nookie! (and now I have the Limp Bizkit song of the same name in my head! )

Olaf the Stout

 

[Remus Lupin]

I'm surprised no one mentioned the Barry White playing in the background in the last panel.