You’re both right - Order of the Stick is the webcomic hosted at GitP. The site also hosts one of the more (possibly most?) active 3.5 discussion forums around these days, with lots of reference threads and class handbooks, rules discussions, and occasional people coming in for build or DM advice.

I think I don’t get what book this is supposed to be.

At first I thought the inhale was a “Oh shit we’re cooked.” Then I realized it was “Oh shit this is gonna be annoying.”. Pure gold.

The cat looks like a cartoon that ate the ham whole and is now a ham-shaped cat.

there was a comic? I saved a bunch of summoning and wild shape cheatsheats. hold up maybe I’m thinking of something else and said the wrong place edit: no wait it was Giantintheplayground. there was just a forum where people congregated guides for various ttrpgs. but I was being presumptuous

you probably have the same couple giantintheplayground pages saved that I do.

I’m pretty sure loads of other classes have alignment restrictions - notably clerics and paladins I remember my D&D 3.x DM insisting we follow RAW, so if I wanted to take levels in assassin (who else remembers prestige classes?) then I had to be evil. 3 players went along, and the druid betrayed us to the “good” guys. Had a massive brawl where we (team evil) won, thanks in part to a hail mary “I run around the corner and hide. That’s… a natural 20 for 37” the betraying druid player couldn’t beat.

The class fantasy never appealed to me. They can be powerful, but I don’t have any real interest in being a dirt wizard or turning into animals. More of a rogue guy, or arcane caster if I can get over spells-per-day being my anathema.

Wild shape was hard to read as a new player. Full casters are intimidating too. I love them too but they’re just hard to explain to newcommers.

Wow good find! It is a very cool image isn’t it

If I ever play D&D again, I think I’m going to spend a lot of time in session 0 getting on the same page about if we’re playing D&D as a resource management game, or as a wacky hijinks game. So many people want to play the latter, but expect a long rest to be as easy as it is in video games. “I’m out of spells! Can we long rest?” “You’re out of spells after casting nearly every single round of combat in the past 3 fights, and you want to chill out for 8 to 16 hours here, in the court of the evil duke’s castle, while he’s working on a ritual to summon a demon lord in a few hours?” I mean, I kind of get it. The game is set up so you have all these cool toys. Of course you want to use them. That conflict is why I dislike per-day resources.

Cleric alignment requesites go largely unnoticed by the player. staying within one step of diety is pretty easy, probably comes automatically to most people who would be interested in the class on the first place. Alignment gets complicated for them in considering if it’s appropriate to cast magic circle or not or holy word or not. but usually it’s safe to assume for those. Paladin is responsible for I think almost all alignment hangups at the table. sure, there are others but not as often. Druid probably would be because communicating the concept of neutrality is full of hangups but I think druids are pretty underplayed.

fuck I forgot about monks and druids. okay, I guess no wonder it turned into such a big misunderstanding. that is a wider amount of people that were expected to think in terms of the alignment axis

Salt is worth 5cp per pound in D&D 2025 (a source) I wouldn’t lose my salt over that.

It’s an attempt to introduce some hint of the core gimmick of ‘blades in the dark’; a game that keeps the action moving by making you do all your planning in flashbacks–like a heist movie.

Everytime I read something like this, my mind just goes “just port Gary Gygax’s infamous “Tomb of Horrors” to your favorite scenario”

Fair point.

I thought so, while writing this, but the only way to make it perfectly clear would probably just be to spoil what is going to happen. Any warning, as dire as they may be, may be seen as a challenge otherwise.

Yeah, they were one of the true things I hated about the dragon books. When one of the characters went back and time and discovered that kender were straight up banned from the ‘supposedly good city’ (oh how shocking) and was horrified, I just rolled my eyes. If even the author, with carte blanche to write whatever and however they wanted, couldn’t make the habit cute, it’s never going to happen at a playing table.

Nat 20? Wait, how are you going to roll a 20 on a d12? Oh, wrong game.