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

[Henry]

"Be a paladin! We don't get STD's!"

Who's thinking the church of Hieroneous would veto that slogan?

 

[Bullgrit]

"Be a paladin! We don't get STD's!"

Who's thinking the church of Hieroneous would veto that slogan?

"But, sir, we've just increased our troop strength five-fold. The Hextorites don't have a chance against us, now, with these forces."

Bullgrit

 

[LordVyreth]

While something may be destroyed, in game terms that just means it's physical form has been disrupted. Similar to the line in Classic Battletech of "Destroyed vs really destroyed", the gold coins were destroyed. There is now just broken gold. A good craft check and you can make new coins. Now craft on the other hand is the real problem here. Should take a few decades to get the gold back in coin format.

Actually, wasn't all the gold in Bags of Holding? The gold isn't gone because it's destroyed; it's gone because the bags were presumably destroyed in the explosion, and the gold is now floating around randomly in the Astral Plane. Maybe it can make friends with the KoDT's Bagwar losses.

 

[Crothian]

Just because the OotS accidentally arranged for the assassins to try to kill them rather than the real king doesn't take away the assassins' guilt.

They share guilt, thanks for agreeing

 

[painandgreed]

I think personally that it's taking the strip a bit too seriously to be chastizing Miko. She is, as Herobizkit mentions, a parody, and meant to be enjoyed rather than railed against. I'm enjoying watching her both surprise them (as she did in the Ogre scene) and get her comeuppance (as in #250.) Maybe I'm sheltered, as I've never seen a paladin played this way. (I have, however, seen quite a few groups as self-centered as The Stick, and I'm enjoying their parody the same way.)

Which is the trouble, to some she is a parody. To others, she is just a normal paladin and the reason why LG charactes make for bad party members. They sell out their parties faster than CE due to nebulous reasoning and unstated codes that lead to inflexable judgements that cause them to betray the party to some local authority figure or even attack if they won't turn themselves in. LG characters, exemplified by paladins, tend to have no sense of loyalty or respect for fellow party members being only interested in themselves and their beliefs.

 

[DanMcS]

I could see them continuing to the "judgement", but on the terms they should have set to begin with - "no, we aren't your prisoners, you are guiding us to your boss so we can let him know his precious gate was in the hands of a lich, and btw, who builds a self destrct into something that its a crime to destroy?" By going along with the "prisoner" angle, they just let her superiority complex run unchecked.

They should never have gone along with her in the first place. Thrash the bitch soundly and send her away (it's not raining now). Then go have a talk with Lord Shojo, thrash him soundly, and send him away. They didn't commit any crimes, and aren't subject to any lord's judgement.

 

[Henry]

LG characters, exemplified by paladins, tend to have no sense of loyalty or respect for fellow party members being only interested in themselves and their beliefs.

That may be part of my problem; I've never seen other party members dumb enough to perpetrate crimes on innocents when there's a paladin they want to stay friends with. Since the Paladin code and Lawful Good is a little more flexible in our games, the paladin doesn't get testy if they happen to break a law while in, say, an evilly-ruled country, or with unjust laws.

Now, on the other hand, steal from an honest merchant, or con some clueless commoner, and the paladin might get nasty about it, but there's too many evil people around to screw with in our games for this to happen.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

They share guilt, thanks for agreeing

Say what, now?

 

[Voadam]

And she was right, it is their fault the inn got blown up.

The inn would not have been blown up if they never came along? Or are you saying the timing (before the king got there) of the inn being blown up was their fault.

Or are you saying it is their fault because of the bump after preventing the deliberate blow up and therefore the accidental explosion?

 

[Crothian]

The inn would not have been blown up if they never came along? Or are you saying the timing (before the king got there) of the inn being blown up was their fault.

Or are you saying it is their fault because of the bump after preventing the deliberate blow up and therefore the accidental explosion?

We have no idea what would have happened if they never came along. We can speculate, but we don't know. They pretended to be royalty, and the inn got blown up because of that. There were other people at fault as well, plenty of blame to share here but OotS is not without fault.