Order of the Stick: How long will they put up with Miko?

[Psychic Warrior]

Miko has really taken a lot of the fun out of OotS for me. i find myself yearning to learn more about what Xylon is up to (after his 'evilgasm') and just fast forward to where Milo has left the party and they are back doing what they do best.

 

[Teflon Billy]

I was too busy applauding to notice.

As was I.

Miko is the kind of character that drives me crazy.

Wingsandsword had the right of it; she has all th hallmarks of the "total ass player" who wandersinto a predominantly Chaotic group with aPaladin and starts laying down the law, or a DMNPC.

Neither adds much to a party.

But then, my group fo PC's is about 3 Belkars, 2 haley's and a Durkon (if Durkon was a touch more like Belkar)

 

[Express]

I hope they keep her for awhile. Every party should have a paladin. And besides, now Miko can play straightman instead of Roy.

But ya where is Xylon?

 

[EdL]

I'm not going to say anything about Miko (except I'm glad she's not in our group), because the next strip ought to deal with the situation one way or the other. What I want to know is why they are abandoning the greater part of the treasure? It's GOLD! It has NOT been destroyed! (In other words, it has to come down sometime. Or if its melted, wait til it solidifies, break it up and put it in sacks.)

 

[ForceUser]

Miko isn't even that bad, I think they are over reacting and having the usually player character hubris.

I agree. Miko is mild. She had a point, and OotS is overreacting. I actually thought that Roy's comment was shockingly out of line.

 

[Dragonblade]

I actually liked Miko's character. I thought she was a little over the top but the party is incredibly self-absorbed and narrow minded and deserve a little righteous prodding.

I thought Roy's comment at the end was totally uncalled for. It was like watching some bad sitcom, where the main character tells off the jerk that they have building up for several episodes. The only thing missing was the tired and pathetic phrase "You go, girl!" Too bad that Roy had already turned back into a guy.

I'll be very disappointed in Rich if he now has Miko do a complete 180 and become some apologetic wuss, or do something retarded like question her paladinhood. Although her attitude was over the top, the party's treatment and attitude towards her was not much better.

I love paladins as a great class rife with role-playing opportunity, and I hate it when people stereotype them as being either stuck up jerks, or naive do-gooders, and then have the audacity to complain that they are a disruptive two-dimensional class!! I mean, WTF?!?

And the whole attitude that a paladin holds the party back, or causes disruptions in the party, is also ridiculous. Paladins are the essence of fantasy and D&D for me. They are about being a shining hero and taking the fight into the darkness itself. A party of good heroes would never be disrupted by the presence of a well-played paladin. They would be strengthened. But, I guess the key there is "well-played". Bad players and DMs who lack the skill to run a paladin as anything but the tired stick in the mud, or naive do-gooder stereotype, are the real cause of any disruption in a good aligned party.

And of course, paladin's don't fit an evil aligned party. That's a given. Complaining about that is like complaining that rain makes you wet. Duh.

 

[helium3]

Yah. I kind of felt bad for her. But then, I'm a bleeding heart.

 

[Jdvn1]

I realized I've never seen a Paladin played to be as much of an egotistical, condescending, downright jerk, a person who is as much a nemesis to the party as the lich they are fighting.

Funny, I've seen a lot of Paladins played this way and that's why I was turned off of the class for a very long time.

 

[Testament]

Splutter, cough WHAT THE SPORK?

How was Miko not being completely self-righteous in #250? She DOESN'T KNOW about Roy pretending to be King of Nowhere, she was lecturing them and holding them responsible for the disaster for the reprehensible sin of refusing to sleep in the ditch.

She was calling them sinners and gluttons because they weren't conforming to her ascetic lifestyle, instead preferring to take a load off and acutally enjoy the spoils of their adventuring. How is that hubris on the OOtS's part? How is that being self-absorbed? The only one there being self-absorbed, AFAICS, is Miko.

I don't know about your groups, but in any of the groups I've run or played in, someone that overbearing, self-righteous and downright obnoxious would either be run out or stabbed. I say she's earned every piece of bad treatment she's gotten from them, and agree with V's initial rant on how she's moved in, taken charge and bossing them around and abusing them.

 

[Sammael]

Crothian, Belkar is a Ranger/Barbarian, and I am pretty sure that one of his favored enemies is "Humanoids (humans)." He couldn't outwit Miko, but I'm pretty sure that he could take her down in a straight fight.

BTW, Miko reminds me a lot of the female characters from the Wheel of Time series. And I couldn't stand them, either.