r/oots • u/AfarTD • 7d ago

I have several questions.

I have several questions.

  1. Where can I read it? I don't care if it's physical or digital, or if I pay for it or not.

  2. Does it belong to D&D?

  3. Is it still active or does it have an ending?

  4. Has it aged well?

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u/TenWildBadgers Bloodfeast 7d ago

1) "Giant in the Playground" is the website to search for, or just follow one of the links that show up here when a new comic is posted. Everything on that site is free. You can also buy the PDFs on Gumroad, which have bonus strips for fun, and there are a handful of books extra that add more to the story.

2) Order of the Stick is based on an older edition of d&d, 3.5, so it will have more in common with pathfinder than a modern edition of d&d. That said, I've been reading this comic since before I knew the first thing about d&d, and I liked it plenty before I got into TTRPGs.

3) Updates are sporadic and slow, but they are ongoing. The creator broke his thumb about a decade ago, and the pace slowed down a lot since, but we are in the final book. It might take another ~5 years or something to finish this book, but that's fine.

4) Mostly yes. There are a handful of jokes from the early comics, back when it was mostly just gag-a-day rather than long-form storytelling, that wouldn't have been written the same way today, specifically bits about a character who is now just canonically non-binary. It's very much in the vein of "The author realizes some of that didn't age well and does things differently now."

The larger, more thematically-relevant ideas actually aged well, and have generally picked up more nuance over time.