The Order of the Stick, nicknamed OotS, is a comedic fantasy webcomic based on the genre of pen and paper roleplaying games. The comic is drawn and authored in a deliberate stick figure style by Rich Burlew, a graphic designer and game designer living in Philadelphia.
A significant portion of the humor of the strip is based on the characters being aware of the game rules which govern their lives—they discuss their hit points, their class levels, the chances of random encounters, and stop in the middle of combat to check their “to hit” modifiers. The players actually role-playing the characters are never seen or referred to. The characters also appear to be aware that they are characters in a comic strip. (text from wikipedia)
