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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4486126" data-attributes="member: 14159">Well, it also addresses the rules not just to explain plot devices, but to explain everyday things, like the spells that are used (like spells that don't exist as spells anymore in 4e).&nbsp; &nbsp; No, Order of the Stick is a webcomic set in a world that uses the D&amp;D rules, strongly predominantly the 3.5 edition rules, as it's basic laws of physics.&nbsp; There has been one, ONE, solitary 4e rules reference to Elan using &quot;Ignorance&quot; as a class power source, and aside from the first comic being about the OotS converting from 3.0 to 3.5, there have been a few references to V losing the ability of Teleport when spells were shuffled around from 3.0 to 3.5 in spell schools, and characters of long ago being earlier editions (like Haley's father being a 1e thief).As for being radically incompatible, going back to Start of Darkness, the big master plan of the BBEG's Xykon and Redcloak is tied pretty closely into the Epic Spell rules from 3.x, which with 4e's ritual rules means that Xykon and Redcloak wouldn't need each other anymore to try to conquer the world.&nbsp;Frankly, I think it's nonsense to assume that Order of the Stick isn't deeply rooted in 3.5 D&amp;D and that somehow it's a generic fantasy comic strip that makes the occasional reference to D&amp;D rules along with every other fantasy source ou tthere, when for the years that strip has been around the whole gimmick of the strip has been a world where things worked as if the world was a D&amp;D 3.5e game, complete with PC's, NPC's (with each knowing which they are), D&amp;D rules (and the characters generally knowing the rules of the world they are in), and all the related cliches and plot tropes of classic D&amp;D gaming.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 4486126, member: 14159"] Well, it also addresses the rules not just to explain plot devices, but to explain everyday things, like the spells that are used (like spells that don't exist as spells anymore in 4e). No, Order of the Stick is a webcomic set in a world that uses the D&D rules, strongly predominantly the 3.5 edition rules, as it's basic laws of physics. There has been one, ONE, solitary 4e rules reference to Elan using "Ignorance" as a class power source, and aside from the first comic being about the OotS converting from 3.0 to 3.5, there have been a few references to V losing the ability of Teleport when spells were shuffled around from 3.0 to 3.5 in spell schools, and characters of long ago being earlier editions (like Haley's father being a 1e thief). As for being radically incompatible, going back to Start of Darkness, the big master plan of the BBEG's Xykon and Redcloak is tied pretty closely into the Epic Spell rules from 3.x, which with 4e's ritual rules means that Xykon and Redcloak wouldn't need each other anymore to try to conquer the world. Frankly, I think it's nonsense to assume that Order of the Stick isn't deeply rooted in 3.5 D&D and that somehow it's a generic fantasy comic strip that makes the occasional reference to D&D rules along with every other fantasy source ou tthere, when for the years that strip has been around the whole gimmick of the strip has been a world where things worked as if the world was a D&D 3.5e game, complete with PC's, NPC's (with each knowing which they are), D&D rules (and the characters generally knowing the rules of the world they are in), and all the related cliches and plot tropes of classic D&D gaming. [/QUOTE]

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