Giant In the Playground

Giant in the Playground is a web comic that is based off of Dungeons & Dragons. It follows the adventures of a group of well, adventurers who call themselves the Order of the Stick, as they quest to defeat evil, score lots of gold and sing.

Giant ITP can be said to definitely be service to many of the old school D&D fanboys. There are many references to spot checks, saving throws and dice rolls, very pleasing to old gamers. There's also a lot of references to rule changes and other updates in the D&D system that just seem to confuse the characters more than anything.

The story is well written, with multiple story arcs, and lots of character development, especially for stick figures. New elements are added quite often, and some of the old story arcs are actually completed, so they don't just hang out there forever. There's also tons of in-jokes and lots of great satire throughout this comic. It gets updated fairly regularly, and will take you a couple of weeks to read through the archives (I know this from personal experience), which I greatly recommend. If you are going to get into this, start at the beginning and if you can handle it, just keep going. I will warn you though, when you get caught up like I am now and have to wait for new comics to be released, you will find yourself suffering from OOTS withdrawal, and unfortunately there is no cure.