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Of course, all that stuff is still there, with casual conversations about +5 swords and plot points based around how many spells per day a capital-W Wizard can cast, and to be honest, it's still a major part of the appeal. Written inStone Unlike elves, dwarves have the short end of the stick (no pun intended) when it comesto diversity. Vaarsuvius and Miko each receive one of these, while Belkar gets an inversion when given a temporary Wisdom boost. Looking back from today, those early strips about weapon size rules and the complexities of leveling up seem almost quaint, if only because the game system they're goofing on has gone through a major revision, leaving the subject matter as the same kind of weird little footnote in the world of RPGs that it is in the sprawling saga that became the focus of the comic. Tropes A-C Tropes D-F Tropes G-I Tropes J-L Tropes M-O Tropes P-R Tropes S-U Tropes V-Z Paint It Black: This happens at least three times in the comic. Order of the Stick has the unique distinction of being, in a lot of ways, a parody comic that somehow managed to outlast the thing that it was parodying. When you get right down to it, that was probably a necessary direction for the strip to go in.