OotS #707 is up

[Maggan]

And those two paladins are the ones I was talking about.

I'm not so sure they are paladins myself.

/Magnus

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I'm not so sure they are paladins myself.

Likewise.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Because I honestly don't see Goblins as the "rampaging horde" type.

True. Hobgoblins, though, like the one they killed, are the "Jackbooted army of death" type.

There's rules support for Elf-goblin enmity, and the Oots world is nothing if not a product of D&D rules.

And the Azurite Paladin slaughtertime was well, well before Team Evil pulled the "Stomp Azure City".

See "product of the D&D rules" above. The characters are (largely) aware of the rules governing their world. When that is used for comedy, everyone chuckles appropriately. When it is used to cause an NPC to behave in a rules-appropriate not-nice way, it's a problem? Xykon and even Belkar can be cartoon EVIL and that's hysterical, but an NPC is day-to-day-surviving little-e evil and that's evidence of some terrible moral failing on the part of.... who? The author? I'm not even sure at whom we're supposed to be mad.

Random elf #327 made a pragmatic wartime decision in the field to minimize risk. It was accompanied by black humor from onlookers. Heck, that's a more realistic vision of actual war than we get in most media, and it's in a stick-figure comic. Is that the problem? Cognitive dissonance?

What would it be in real life? Treat him with caution and possibly even detain him, certainly. Summary execution without, not only a trial, but evidence of any kind? Not so much.

Um.... historically, as in up-until-WWI, that was pretty much par for the course IRL. Hell, it's still standard procedure in more than half the world right now. And we don't live in a world governed by rules that dictate who is good and who is evil.

 

[Wolfwood2]

Big mistake on the part of the elves. They ought to have mutiliated the corpse too so that he can't easily be added to the enemy's ravening horde of undead. But I'll forgive them for the joke. One gobbie made good, many more to make good, I say.

 

[Bullgrit]

I'm pretty sure the two Azurites pictured are not paladins

They apparently are not paladins:
Giant In the Playground Games

Bullgrit

 

[Infiniti2000]

What would it be in real life?

No, not in real life. That's irrelevant. In game life, you know, where there actually are hobgoblins and elves.

 

[catsclaw227]

They apparently are not paladins:
Giant In the Playground Games

Nice catch.

(How the heck did you remember them? Or was it a random happenstance?)

 

[Bullgrit]

How the heck did you remember them? Or was it a random happenstance?

I have a mind like a steel trap. I remember everything.

Spoiler

After reading today's strip, I went to the archives just to read a few more to waste some time, and this one was about the sixth I came to. Imagine my surprise at seeing these two characters randomly on this day.

Bullgrit

 

[catsclaw227]

You were drawn to the archive by the snarl.

Bullgrit is the new Minotaur NPC in OotS