Does anyone have the guts?

[oball]

Oh man, the Order of the Stick fourms.  The rules there remind me of Pat's rules for looking at his giraffetank.

OotS is a fantastic comic, though.

[linnea]

Oh man, the Order of the Stick fourms.  The rules there remind me of Pat's rules for looking at his giraffetank.

OotS is a fantastic comic, though.

A friend of mine linked me to the comic several weeks ago, and out of curiosity I looked at their page describing the forums. Pat-like indeed! Crazy. I can't imagine setting up such a tightly regulated forum, but apparently the author thinks it's necessary because there are a lot of underage kids who enjoy his work and he doesn't want to tarnish their innocent little minds by letting people say bad words in his forum.

[V-Adore]

That raises the chicken-egg question: which came first, the draconic rules or the desperately weird forum population? I would imagine the population, but hell, even with the rules in place, they're still there. I can only imagine some sort of evolutionary arms race of rules and idiocy, like those salamanders that just keep getting more poisonous and the predators that just keep getting more poison-resistant: a terrible equilibrium, survivable for native inhabitants but deadly to outsiders.

[CortJstr]

The Worth1000 forum is equally insane but I do appreciate some of their filters. Particularly turning "first post" into "I am attracted to little boys"

[linnea]

I wonder about the OOTS author. He often alludes to his crippling medical condition but never specifies what it is. What could it be? Why won't he just come out and say it?

[AugustWest]

Oh man, the Order of the Stick fourms.  The rules there remind me of Pat's rules for looking at his giraffetank.

OotS is a fantastic comic, though.

I had to go check out Order of the Stick to find out what it was.  Huh, a D&D themed webcomic.  Ok.

I'll take your word on the highly regulated nature of the forums.

Why, however, would you think it odd that D&D players are attracted to a forum with many odd and stringently detailed rules?  These are people who require three hardbound volumes of niggling regulations in order to play make believe.

[CortJstr]

I had to go check out Order of the Stick to find out what it was.  Huh, a D&D themed webcomic.  Ok.

I'll take your word on the highly regulated nature of the forums.

Why, however, would you think it odd that D&D players are attracted to a forum with many odd and stringently detailed rules?  These are people who require three hardbound volumes of niggling regulations in order to play make believe.

Yes, it's nerdy. This is probably my favorite, and it requires no knowledge of D&D rules or anything.

[jaydub]

That was pretty funny.  I liked the Rubik's cube crack too.

[oball]

I wonder about the OOTS author. He often alludes to his crippling medical condition but never specifies what it is. What could it be? Why won't he just come out and say it?

He's probably a werewolf, like Professor Lupin.