The Order of the Stick is a webcomic that celebrates and satirizes Dungeons and Dragons and fantasy in general. I should explain that I've never really played D&D but I have a number of source books, I find they help my imagination. Back to oots, Rich Burlew is unafraid to break the fourth wall in the name of humor, while at the same time maintaining a strong plot that keeps you coming back. He works in references from Law and Order to Harry Potter to Tivo. Even many of his characters have a great sense of theatricality, finding joy in doing what will make the best story and being aware that the plot trumps the rules of the "game". He even touches on questions of morality or at least morality in a universe where definitively evil beings exist. My favorite order of the stick is number strip 552 wherein our heroes are being pursued by a horde of orcs who to signify their low intelligence speak only in bold lowercase. The orcs decide to stop and return to their grammar lessons one says "gok look forward to first person pronouns" and another responds "capital letters intrigue mungu" the latter line I now have on a tee-shirt. I just so enjoy the way that the comic makes you see things from different angles.
there are so many reasons we are friends.
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