The Order of the Stick was one of the original reasons for the " Giant in the Playground " gaming site, which also hosted the first volume of Erfworld. This tends to lead to a lot of Lampshade Hanging (including, at one point, lampshading the act of lampshading - with a literal lampshade). Also notable is the fact that all of the main characters and quite a few of the minor characters are extremely Genre Savvy, not just about the D&D rules and gameplay mechanics by which their world operates, but general storytelling tropes as well. Of course, even with all that going on, it's still covered with plenty of humor. Along the way, they butted heads with hordes of monsters, plot complications, an overzealous paladin or two, and the Linear Guild, a group of Evil Counterparts led by Elan's Evil Twin brother, Nale. thing formed at the dawn of creation from literal tangles in the fabric of reality. The comic started off as a gag-a-day strip, often mocking D&D rules, but things quickly took a turn for the dramatic: their journey to defeat the evil Xykon entangled them in the lich's plot to harness the power of The Snarl, a sinister reality-eating. Belkar Bitterleaf, a hot-headed halfling ranger/barbarian who kills and/or threatens people at the slightest provocation.Elan, a strange and none-too-bright bard with a flair for the dramatic.
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