In fact, it's usually lampshaded whenever material from a print-only book is recapped (sometimes with a character checking an actual copy of the book just to make sure they got everything). The print-only books are not necessary for following the main plot of the comic. How the Paladin Got His Scar (a prequel telling how O-Chul joined the Sapphire Guard later collected in Good Deeds Gone Unpunished).Spoiler Alert (Therkla is sent on a mission by Daimyo Kubota later collected in Good Deeds Gone Unpunished).Haleo and Julelan (a retelling of Romeo and Juliet, starring Haley and Elan).Uncivil Servant (Belkar's introduction to the adventuring life).
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The Kickstarter rewards also include a number of exclusive digital comics, mostly focused on minor characters or reimagined settings, which may be collated into books at some point in the future.The Order of the Stick Coloring Book (a Kickstarter-exclusive featuring the Order and several other characters in monochrome lineart scenes waiting to be coloured in).Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales (a collection of strips published in Dragon magazine and about eighty pages of other humorous fluff).Good Deeds Gone Unpunished (a prequel/sidequel with five stories from Azure City, including the O-Chul and Therkla stories below).Start of Darkness (a prequel focusing on Xykon and Redcloak).On The Origin of PCs (a prequel to Dungeon Crawlin' Fools which focuses on how Roy and Durkon founded the Order of the Stick).There are also several print-only books that are tied into the comic: As is typical of the comic, these books are referenced in the story, usually when a character wonders if a particular sideplot will be expanded there. The physical volumes of the main comic also contain extra sideplots and gag-strips as incentives for readers to buy them. As-yet-unnamed seventh and final book (1190-).No Cure for the Paladin Blues (122-301).
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The webcomic pages are also sold in hardcopy in the following books: The GitP forums are almost an unofficial troper forum, thanks in part to the webcomic's distinct appeal to tropers. 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.
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The takeaway, says the company, is that ”these projects illustrate how the Kickstarter ecosystem is strengthened with each new project and backer”-to the extent that some first-time Double Fine and Order of the Stick supporters even pledged money to projects in the "dance" category. "One project's backer isn't another project's loss.” Combined, new users contributed over $1 million to additional projects. Similarly, Kickstarter estimates that nearly a quarter of backers whose first pledge was to Order of the Stick have since backed at least one other project.Ĭontrary to what some might think, “projects aren't fighting over a finite pool of Kickstarter dollars or backers" reads the post. Metrics indicate that the number of comics-related pledges doubled after the webcomic’s campaign launched. Or consider yet another Kickstarter success story, webcomic Order of the Stick, which raised just over $1.25 million dollars to reprint older, out-of-print editions of the comic’s earlier books. Here, we see the average number of video game pledges on Kickstarter skyrocketed following the launch of Double Fine Adventure, as indicated by the dotted line.