Winston Detroit

Hey all,

God - Winston Detroit. I forgot about him. I had two characters that I really liked playing in Rob's world - an alchemist, and a playwright. Actually, I thought it was NATHAN Detroit, and Winston . . . hmmm. Some other suburb of Detroit?

The alchemist, if I remember, was killed when he opened up a chest of alchemical equipment with a fire-trap spell. Ah, well. He made a lot of salads - plant stuff for minor healing potions. That was Winston. Nathan Detroit, though, put a third of his skill-points (we were playing a modified class system, skill-point buying instead of character templates, for those playing along at home) into Artistic Ability - Play Writing. I think he got it up to 300+% by seventh/eighth level, and created some world-famous masterpieces. Good times!

Amouran, the Whore of Hyannis, started out as a mace that would give me an extra hit point the first time she attacked anyone. She also spoke to me telepathically, and was pretty much in line with Dave, Fist of Odin (Hey - those guys over there? Let's bash one of them in the face and see what happens.) She was stolen by the Jug Fuckers, and converted into plate armor somehow, and I'm just pleased as punch with my magical talking plate armor.

In other news, I have too much to do this summer. Ah, well.

Froggy voice:

"Watch out guys, there's gnouls everywhere!"

Gaming refs

Froggy for whatever reason was a game stopper. I was trying to be pretty serious, big things going on, etc, and Mark or Steve or Ed or someone would just do this little voice 'explaining the situation' to everyone else. Then everyone would crack up, except me, who was in mid-sentence, and I would just frown. And that would make it worse, and nothing would happen in the game for like 10 minutes.

Hence the names 'peanut gallery' and 'penalty box'. Sometimes a player would have to go to the penalty box when they were too disruptive to gameplay. It was high school, so more than once it was because someone was drunk or stoned. Only tried to DM drunk once, and it was a disaster, so never again.

Yeah, Firefly, we hardly knew ye. The characters and dialog was some of Joss Whedon's best. And the first episode, where Mal shoots the horse is so un-TV, but so like real gaming, that it hooked me. I guess that's a confession: horse murder made me watch a TV show.

Whore of Hyannis, ha, that's early on. So it's pretty random, in that I made it up on the spot and thought it sounded funny, but there is a story there. No, nothing about a girl. Dave's characters usually have a Michigan city as their last name. Winston Detroit, I forget the others, Dave can fill you in. And we all used to live out in Boston. I guess that's where the inspiration came from.

Things are good Steve, the lady's well, coming out here in a couple days.

Marivhon

Do you remember when we played strip D&D, whenever you missed a check or hit you had to take off some clothes, and Ed and Mark made out?

No wait that was with some other guys, nevermind.

Froggy

Froggy is a little helpful frog who speaks in a high pitched, slow, voice. He's always looking out for us, and he hides in suits of armor usually. For example, one time we were in danger from a bunch of trolls, and froggy peeked out from behind an empty suit of armor's visor and said "Watch out guys, there's trolls everywhere!" in his little froggy voice.

We have all kinds of crazy meaningless jokes from our tabletop days. Just thinking about stuff like Froggy, La Badlandsa, and "If you blow me, he will come" (remember that ROB? Good DM'ing there my friend!). All kinds of other stuff, so much it's too hard to remember all at once. JOHNNY WOO SUPAHSTAR! Boss?

Ebay is outstanding, I buy just about everything there. It's so cheap. I sold all my law books on Half.com too. I bought a sweet pair of Prada sunglasses today...big pimping. Watched Lost in Translation again, one of my favorites. Also bought some other movies (Garden State) and some CDs (U2's atomic bomb, nirvana muddy banks of the wishkah & unplugged).

Oh by the way, I bought a Tempurpedic bed (yes, the mockable space foam ones) about 6 months ago. They are OUTSTANDING and I highly recommend one to each and every one of you. It feels like I get about 2 hours extra sleep every night. <3 tempurpedic.

Moving to Chicago in a couple of weeks (!). I'm looking for places now.

How's Cali Rob? I went to wedding in San Diego a few months ago...what a beautiful place. It's like paradise. I think Florida is beautiful too...and the real estate isn't nearly as expensive.

Haven't talked to you in a LONG time....hope things are going really well out there. I know you got published in Jugs twice, so congratulations on that man. I'm really happy you are doing well out there. How is your wife? I forgot her name, she seemed really nice when I met her.

Re: Firefly and other stuff.

Firefly is great. I don't know a single geek who doesn't love it, and few non-geeks besides. Serenity is a nice wrap-up to the show, and packs quite an emotional punch. There's also a pretty good Serenity/Firefly table top rpg. I played a campaign of it recently. Fun stuff.

I imagine if this blog is being read by someone other than me, they're using stuff from it. Like Grisbane. When I think about it, I'm extremely surprised there's never been an "official" god of Half-Breeds, given that everything in the D&D world, especially dragons, seems to fuck everything else, resulting in half-everythings.

Couple questions:

"Froggy?" I'm guessing this is a reference to one of your old games... anyone care to explain it to me?
I found out that Hyannis is a town in Massachusetts. Now, I really can't help but wonder who the "Whore of Hyannis" really is, or if the name is just a random joke.

Mea culpa

Apologies for gratuituous use of the word 'mashup' below. I mean, I love the music, it's all I listen to these days, but the word itself is kinda lame, especially when it refers to something other than a song.

Carry on.

Or an evil mage manufacturing owlbears, that's another good one. I mean, we've all wondered just who these mages are and why they make owlbears, yes?

So I was reading a little bit about this woot.com thing. They have a rather long wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot.com

But I think Mark is right, woot is really weird. It's a website about buying goods. Or selling goods, whatever. But not goods, really, just one good per day.

Ebay is great because if you wanted an old Atari, or some bootlegged MacGyver episodes, or anything really, you can get it. Whenever you want it, thus it's great for recovering sentimental objects or for random impulse buys.

But from the woot archives it's like The Sharper Image product rejects at an outlet mall. Roomba, putter, probably a flash drive or two. The wikipedia entry is scary, but the forums are even scarier. And there's this time pressure element? I guess it's working for them though.

Anyway, thanks to woot and awfulblogs, people are reading us. And maybe out there, somewhere, is a DM out of ideas, bored late one Sunday night, who'll stumble upon our humble blog and say to him- or herself:

"Unicorn bandits... that's genius. I've got an idea for the next session now!"

And it'll all be worthwhile.

Firefly

I am perhaps the last person in the known universe to watch the Firefly series. And when I saw Paul asking about chinese swearing, I thought it appropriate to bring it up. I don't get a lot of time to watch normal television, but I have made some room for the DVD box set. I have only one disc left before watching the movie. I like it quite a bit. Has anyone else seen the series? thoughts?

Mark. I want to see footage from the depths. I started an underwater camera project a few years ago for a lake powell project, but at the time the technology was too expensive... I would love to see pictures of how you built it.

I had a chinese friend once.....he was ok!

Have you learned much chinese?

Does j'ai yo mean "more gas" literally and "go big" in usage?

Does tsao....like BUH TSAO....mean "bullshit"?

does Tsu ma bah mean "WHat now?"

I await your return for answers to these and many more useful pool playing phrases....

Hata Hosso!

Ah, Steve, I remember it all too well. Nothing like the peanut gallery. Good times. -Gotta wonder what Gao Qi would think of it. Actually, we've made fun of each other and what we think the other's language sounds like.

Afro man migrane is nice.

Yeah, the woot link rocks. Blogs rock. Hobo poetry rocks.

Random Haiku needs food.

BTW, I am going to be gone until the 6th, starting tomorrow. Some R&R.

I built an underwater camera, and I am going to check out the depths of Lake Superior. 240ft deep! -I've rigged it to a laptop, so I'll make some videos and post them.

Move reviews

While we're on the movie review thing, I thought Devil Wears Prada was really good. It reminded me a lot of Lost in Translation with Meryl Streep in the Bill Murray role--basically carrying the entire movie. The ending is Prada is *horrible* though, it's like they fired the entire writing team and hired some crappy Disney writers to fill in a quick Mad Lib style happy ending ( Main Character realizes that he/she really ____, and learns something about themselves because of ____. Then, Main Character reunites with lost love ____, who was busy with _____ during the obligatory temporary break up with Main Character, and is now ready to ____.)

I feel like I could go on with that Mad Libs style thing forever.

By the way Mark, remember singing songs in that lame faux Chinese and then guessing them? Hatatatat hasassass ososososo hatahata!

King Tut

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Blogging makes Affro Migraine Man appear.

Blogging is serious stuff, people

I don't think the awfulblogs.com, woot.com PR is all that bad; it's not like I'm pissed at these blogs or anything. woot found us through awfulblogs, and I'm just wondering how awfulblogs found us in the first place. Then again, according to the latest mapstats, a Google search for 'banking' points to us right now, so who knows, the internet tubes are weird like that. Actually it's kind of neat to see us linked at all. Who knows who's casually scanned our blog and rolled their eyes in boredom?

But yeah, it is kind of weird that an internet store is picking on us. Christ almighty, we're getting mocked by the sales help. Can I put a 'micropayment' in their virtual tip jar?

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Whatever. Blogging is lame, people. Just a short step from the hobo who wanders around the Berkeley subway station with a stack of poems in his hand, asking you: "Hi, do you like poetry? Would you like a poem?" No thanks, I honestly don't care what tender thoughts you have today.

No I don't want your hobo poem.

Poot

Yeah, I caught that.

I took a look at woot. (Wow, there's three 'oo' words in that sentence!)

Anyway, I can't say woot is any more interesting than our potion shopping. Isn't it kind of like HSN for blogs? -Build a blog community and sell them cheap crap. No?

Woot

So if you look at our map stats thing, you'll see that on Wednesday, we got tons of hits. No, it's not Mark spamming more websites. It's thanks to www.woot.com. Here's the link:
http://www.woot.com/Blog/BlogEntry.aspx?BlogEntryId=1303

More haters, yo.

But I guess it is pretty dull to read about a stranger's fantasy land character buying some potions.

Ghouls get a +3 to Intuit Direction?

Huh, go figure. Well, I hope you like being a ghoul. Maybe you can find a pair of magic boots that'll let you paralyze elves, and bring some justice back to the world.

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Reading The Princess Bride, among other things.

half elf racism.

GHOUL These are evil undead creatures whose touch alone is known to
paralyze a man. They feed on corpses and attack all living things on
sight. Characters hit by ghouls (elves excluded) must save or be
paralyzed.

Ghouls paralyze any normal character that they touch, except for elves. They otherwise melee in the regular fashion and are subject to missile fire. Any man-type killed by a ghoul becomes one.

3rd edition agrees actually.

Ghoul CR 1; Medium Undead (5 ft tall); HD 2d12; hp 13; Init +2 (Dex); Spd 30 ft;
AC 14 (+2 Dex, +2 natural); Attack +3 melee (1d6+1 and paralysis, bite),
+0 melee (1d3 [x2] and paralysis, claws; SA paralysis, create spawn; SQ undead; AL CE; SV Fort +0, Refl +2, Will +5; Str 13, Dex 15, Con --, Int 13, Wis 14, Cha 16.
Skills: Climb +6, Escape Artist +7, Hide +7, Intuit Direction +3, Jump +6, Listen +7, Move Silently +7, Search +6, Spot +7. Feats: Multi-attack, Weapon Finesse (bite).
SA—Paralysis (Ex): Those hit by claw or bite attack must succeed at Fortitude saving throw (DC 14) or be paralyzed for 1d6+2 minutes. Elves are immune to this paralysis.
SA—Create Spawn (Su): PCs killed are left to rot for 1d4 days, after which time they rise as undead of similar type as those who killed them. Casting a bless spell on the body before the end of that time avoids the transformation.
SQ—Undead: Immune to mind-influencing effects, poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, and disease. Not subject to critical hits, subdual, ability damage, energy drain, or death from massive damage.

Brogg:

Wow, now I'm curious...

This post is redeemed by the power of I'm sorry.

Haven't seen Ultraviolet so I can't compare, but I have seen tons of bad movies. Andy Warhol's "Dracula", guys? But Lady in the Water has one thing none of those movies has, and that's M Night Shylaman masturbating in slow motion for two hours.

Most bad movies are bad-schlocky: stupid plot, bad lines, deus ex machina ending, cliche narrative structure to pin things onto. Lady has all that. But most bad movies are either aware of their failings, or at least don't try to be more than what they claim, besides some Christ metaphors (Matrix, Star Wars) and crap like that. Lady is bad-transcendentally in the same way that the Star Wars prequels were bad- they buy into their self-importance and mythology wholesale. But at least Star Wars had some element of cool and mystique about some things. Not every single aspect of the mythology was retarded. Midochlorians, yes, retarded. Death Star, not retarded. Ewoks, retarded. Emperor's Guards, not retarded. Luke, retard; Han Solo, not a retard.

Lady's mythology is completely stupid from start to finish. Narfs, evil grass dogs who are poison, evil tree monkeys, and a magic eagle. The Narf has magic mud to cure the grass dog poison. A writer looks at her and gets inspired. Then the eagle picks her up and flies away. But there are some humans who help out. The healer, the guild, the guardian, and the symbologist. It felt kind of like one of those South Park episodes, where they dumb up the adult stories while the kids watch in disbelief, e.g. the Scientology episodes.

I could go on for a couple more pages, but I've wasted too much of my time on this lousy movie already. I wanted to like it, as I think Shylaman has done some interesting, if unrealized, things in the past, e.g., Signs was brilliant up until the saved-by-water ending. And the whole 'fairy tale comes to life' thing is a promising type of story to try and tell.

In sum, most movies are bad because they didn't try hard enough. This movie is exceptionally bad, because it tries so very very hard. I'm sorry.

Marivhon

I have to admit that I almost want to see if now to see if it's worse than Ultraviolet.

TEH SUCK

So I saw Lady in the Water yesterday. Without a doubt, without qualification, it's the worst movie I've ever seen. It was completely retarded from start to finish. It was like if Steven Spielberg took a dump, and his turd jumped up and wanted to make a movie. But not just any movie. A postmodern re-visioning of The Neverending Story. And then the turd sits in your mouth while you watch it. That's basically what it was like.

Please, America. Please, friends. DO NOT SEE LADY IN THE WATER. IT SUCKS SO SO SO BAD. You know how "M. Night" always has those twist endings? Here, let me spoil the ending for you, so you don't feel compelled to go see it. Here's the twist:

The dad who read the prophecies in the crossword puzzle is not the real prophecy reader! It's his son, who reads the prophecies on the cereal boxes!

And this is coming from someone who actually liked The Village. So in Lady in the Water, it opens with this stick figure cartoon for a couple minutes of the legend of the Ladies in the Waters. Well, once you've seen that, you've seen the whole movie. I'm not shitting you, there's this crappy voice-over narration that explains the whole legend. And then the movie shows you, over a painful two hours, the same story all over again. RETARDED.

There's so much more bad stuff, like how M. Night himself plays a guy who's prophecied to become the most important writer who ever lived, and how a giant eagle saves the day at the end. But here are two images that sum up the two main plot points.

King Tut

I just pictured Froggy hiding in the suit of plate mail, peeking out from behind the visor saying (in his lil froggy voice): "Don't worry guys, it's ok!"

martivom

I muth dagree good Job no teh rapp'naaaaaaa dustim.

on a more serious note. I know it was mentioned some time ago, but a hp counter on the sidebar of the main page that could be easily edited by rob might help some of our players be more content and informed. Is it worth it? I'm fine how things are it just might remove some of the How many hp do people have kinds of questions.

Mad Rhymes there, Justin!

Allow me to be the first to say 'one of us'. And not in a zombie way! It fills my heart with joy that even though we've never met, it's good that someone geographically far is close in spirit.

"We're kind of like Tolkein, but with raps". True dat.

Oh - I've been all drinking, so if this is sappy, well . . . at least it's grammattically correct. Not that I'm naming any names.

Hey - and Chris is having connectivity problems - he is filled with sorrow that he can't post right now, and is striving to correct the issue. Is it his wireless card? Does he need a new motherboard? Is something else going on? We'll try to get him over here to catch up and post, but the new X-Box 360 in our house is sucking up a lot of our bandwidth.

The video game store clerk has the best minimum wage job in the world. I talked to him for half an hour today about games old and new - we looked at Oblivion on HDTV and oohed-ahhed, and when I said it was as important to me as when I first saw Myst, he looked me right in the eye, and said "I know exactly what you mean."

It was like a geeky beer commercial.

Froggy.

Ah, yes. Froggy. How could I have forgotten.

This blows my mind. So fucking cool.

Marivhon

his fucking name was froggy......thats one of the few times I almost lost it over the peanut gallery. You and steve just wouldn't shut the fuck up. It was either you and steve or you and ed. It kept coming up too. Froggy was always commenting on the happenings from then on. Froggy, fuck.

Nice picture though.

Froggy dammit, FROGGY

That ASCII art? What was that supposed to be?

And, doesn't 'ftw' mean 'fuck the world'? I'm not sure it's being used correctly here.

And, and, damn it Mark, it was FROGGY, not TOADY. Toady is sort of the Mario guy.

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Scatman's World made my night though. Parts of this were in a mix I had about a year ago, then one night on the phone to my girlfriend, in lieu of nothing, I just hummed a couple seconds and said "Dee dum dum doh doh do" or something. Without hesitation, she was like "It's a scatman's world."

That's why I love her.

Orcy?

Hey Steve, did you mean Toady?

ASCII art?

Sheesh... I haven't seen that in a while. and I don't know about the rest of you, but it didn't display correctly for me.

rob... shed no tears because of our tom foolery.

Is that a bird?

Nice ASCII Steve. Is that a bird?

The picture you linked to was removed. If so, please labels those things NSFW if it's the case.

Also, in the BlogThis window, there is a HTML link option. Like this.

Hey Rob, I was thinking, next time you introduce an obvious enemy, maybe you could put his/her/its AC up there. Ex: You see Sinister Stan (AC5) across the room, licking a butcher knife.

King Tut

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YOU are a pirate.

If you do nothing else today, click this link:
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King Tut

Peanut gallery makes baby DM cry? I didn't know there was anything to dnd besides table talk. And loot.

I forgot there was a distinction between full plate, field plate, and plate. Plate is fine, just so long as it's covered in spikes. Can I get a ruling on being proficient/spec'd in spiked shield and claw-like glove?

Peanut gallery = ftw by the way. Ftw Rob. Don't you forget it.


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All your tut

Tut, full plate? So, you're a Cavelier? Really, I don't care what class you are, but you gotta pick something. And starting with full plate, I'm gonna nix that too. You can have normal plate mail. Come on, you're 1st level there buddy. Plate mail and a halberd, check. Actually, you can have the normal plate mail and be whatever class you want, it's just that as an Illusionist or Druid, e.g., you won't be able to wear the armor and cast. There are rules here, ya know.

Hmm, not sure IDBT is a NWP for 2nd level chars to pick up. It's considerably more powerful than 'Heavy Drinking', 'Lute Playing', or 'Speak Spanish'. You probably have to go on a quest to learn it, or find a scroll or something.

For those of you playing along at home, and you too Moth, you might be wondering about such stuff as 'Marty puking', 'Interdimensional Basement traveling', and this new guy King Tut in the first place. Suffice to say these are all references to our old table top days in the 80s and early 90s. (King Tut's a real dude though.) Most of this is peanut gallery bid-ness, the stuff that makes a DM cry.

King Tut

AYBAB2U!

http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1_view.shtml

King Tut

I DEFINITELY want to pick up IBT as my 2nd level talent. But does anyone know where all the blue plates are? I won't be able to go anywhere without them. Also, do I get the mechanic's jumpsuit with the name "Mike" on it? That would be critical. Somebody go clean up Marty's puke by the way.

Another dimension, another dimension...

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZR3D4OjJeE&search=scatman

If the scatman can do it, brother, so can you.

So I figured out what I want Tut to be like. He'll wear full plate covered in spikes with a spiked shield. His right hand will have a glove like Freddie's, with long spiky fingers. And he'll bite people, but only where sanitary. He'll basically just run into people and hit them with his shield or spiky glove.

Interdimensional Basement Traveling

You could always pick up IBT as a NWP when you train up to 2nd level. It comes in handy when youngsters are making far too much noise upstairs at the dining room table.

Marivhon

Uh, you can play whatever you want. If you don't want to bite your shield then Rob prolly won't make you do it. As for the astral travel it's kinda a high level skill to worry about how much sense it makes, as you will probably never use it.

King Tut

Marivhon I can't figure out my own class now. I ripped out my eyes because of the background on that web page you linked.

I think I got berserker confused with barbarian. Barbarians suck, but berserkers do not. I think Tut would be a good berserker, except for this tidbit from the website:

"To achieve a berserk state, the berserker must spend one round working himself into a frenzy, biting his shield..."

I don't think KT is much of a shield biter. I think he'll just foam at the mouth and think very angry thoughts.

The spirit travel form seems really, really, stupid. It doesn't make any sense at all to me.

Tut

Hey Steve, a paladin is fine with me. But that Lawful Good shit can be a hard play.

The Beserker class sounds pretty silly, but it might be up KT's alley. If you want to be a Beserker, I'll put up the necessary info on the Reference Page.

At any rate, you need to create your character sheet using your Blogger Profile.

Moth?

Wow, looks like I missed a bunch of posts yesterday. The lady friend is in town this weekend only, so I'll be hanging out with her again tommorow, so probably no posts from me then. I put a couple rounds of combat in my last one though.

As for my character, Moth is a swordsman, magician, and rogue who really just wants to be a bard, but has a charisma of 4 and sub-par musical skills (he knows only one song and can play only one instrument). He currently owes no allegiance and gives no prayer to any deity. He's not so much anti-gods as much as he's just never heard of one he could really identify with. Neither Brogg nor Marivhon have told him about Grisbane, which I find amusing. I think Marivhon is more of a Zelba worshipper, though.

None of my 3.0 games have ever reached high enough levels to use haste on a mage for that double fireball goodness. It'll likely be a cold day in Gehenna before I buy 3.5 though. I don't think it's that bad, anyway, and I hear that 3.5 haste really really sucks. Plus they made gnomes bards... wtf.

I've got no perspective to offer on the bar, as I'm not yet that far along the road in life yet. Hope you succeed though.

Random Haiku is sweet.

Tut

I'll read up on all these posts in a few hrs. Thanks for all the encouragement :) I have to stop thinking about results and just think "what do I need to do right now in order to increase my chances of passing."

I was leaning towards paladin. We already have a fighter, I don't know anything about berzekers (and Tut doesn't really have anything against mages). Who ever heard of an unarmed paladin?

What's a party vote on what class would be most useful?

Marivhon

check out the classes here. Barbarians can't wield magic cant' hang out with mages and well if you don't have an 18 dex their Ac sucks. Sure they have d12 hps but, nlah nlah. Check out class options here

http://www.mjyoung.net/dungeon/char/step002.html

Berzerker looks good. I think it would be funny/cool if King Tut was a class from 1ST edition oriental adventures.

How young were we?

It weirds me out that my son is as old as you were when you started gaming.

I think I was six. 'Winglor' in all his dwarven glory in some adventure that Will and Dave Wilson cooked up after reading the Hobbit, some dragon magazines, and watching Star Wars.

"yeah, and then you see this guy, who looks just greedo!"

"Can I have a blaster?"

"No. But don't worry, greedo only has a flail."

And I think I have Unearthed in a box in my garage. I'll try to dig it out tomorrow and read up on barbarians.

Ed's characters pretty consistently get shafted in my games for some reason

Tut, I think fighter would be fine. You also might consider barbarian or paladin, why not? Barbarian might be the best choice, as you'd get 1d12 for hp. Anyone have 1E Unearthed Arcana and can clue us in on barbarian stats?

Random Haiku

Although it makes the HTML look even shittier, I added Random Haiku to the sidebar.

A little spice.

The party - like it's 1979

Dave, Fist of Odin is a cleric. Of Odin. Dedicated to his god by divine command.

Brogg is a fighter/cleric of Grisbane, god of half-breeds. He's also got some shit to deal with, but it seems to be more political than direct divine commands.

Cinder used to be a thief, but now he's not.

Mike this Zombie 1k was a thief, and then a zombie, and then off on adventures of his own.

Marivhon's a monk, and a little scary.

Renwick's a mage, but might be off on some sort of mystical journey.

Moth's a fighter/thief/mage, yes? Holding his own, fire stick, mad skilz to pay the bills.

Schmektor's a fighter, straight up, and he and Dave, Fist of Odin share a basic philosophy towards combat and getting things done.

King Tut's of uncertain lineage, it appears, but also appears to be fairly crazy. Dave, Fist of Odin can respect that.

Did I capture everyone?

And hey - Rob, the bit on the dust devil at the bar? Fucking magic. I laughed my ass off, and not in a LMFAO kind of lame way.

So my campagin is close to wrapping up - and has been for several months. We can't seem to covene all the players for the final adventure - the party did some shit, and then instead of continuing, decided to go after the big bad guy directly. It's really a campaign-ending move, and everyone knows it, and it'll be a good ending, one way or t'other... but, like I said, the principals have divergent work schedules. Sigh. Paul does not think my campaign was a success, but I'm very happy with it.

And, that's it.

Hi everyone!

It's cause of the bar...

Who all remembers that one? Slath was retarded, I think. Maybe Fester feebleminded him. I think it was cause of the bar.

Anyway, Steve, you can count on me to raise a glass with you whether you pass or fail. As for what Rob said, I totally agree. Failure sorts out the weak-willed. Fear of failure sorts out the complete hoses. Passing the first time doesn't impress me as much as passing the second. The second shows conviction.

Still, I think you know this. You've been knocked down, but you got up again. They're never gonna keep you down. You've been knocked down, but you got up again. They're never gonna keep you down. You've been knocked down, but you got up again. They're never gonna keep you down. -Am I right, Johnny Boy?

Anyway, be a fighter dude. I think it suits King Tut's MO. Also, there is specialization. You get 4 weapon profs at first level. 1 get's you prof. Another gets you spec. (+1,+2), the third gets you double spec. (+3,+3). Don't forget that 3/2 attack.

Drinking wine from a bottle at the moment. Hooah.

When a monk grapples, he gets to do automatic damage and the opponent loses the round, and it can happen round after round

So the +20 to hit is for one single roll that has to come next round. So it's not totally unreasonable. Actually, in five years of 3rd edition, I've only seen it cast once. Usually it's a better idea just to let the fighter roll on their own and use your mage spell for magic missile, I guess. But yeah, 3rd ed Haste was out of control, hence 3.5 edition. Monks are now broken in 3.5 edition due to 'grappling', which is a different story.

By the way Steve, here on the table talk page you don't gotta sign your name in the post title if you don't want.

As for the Bar, good luck my friend. I thought taking the bar was all about failure, so I wouldn't worry about it more than necessary to motivate you. Where I'm from, failure is sort of a way of life. I've failed at everything I've tried at and applied for, at least the first time. Being where I am, obviously the success has come at some point, but it takes effort. I wear failure as sort of a badge of courage, as honestly, I'm skeptical of people who succeed too easily, too often. They obviously haven't suffered enough to care, to have their faith tested so to speak.

King Tut

I tried sending an email to (my) firstnamelastname at gmail dot com. It got bounced.

I'm nervous about the bar. It's really hard and I didn't do as well in my practice essays as I had hoped. I'm doing ok on the multistate and state multiple choice portions, not great but ok. The thing I'm most nervous about is telling people I failed if I fail. It will just seem so embarrassing cause people will be like "nice job, you wasted 3 yrs of your life." Fear is a good motivator though, and I could always retake it.

Lay the Beat Down

Schmektor = fighter.

I too am less than religious [in game]. I am more interested in picking up fame and fortune as an adventurer. Schmektor is agnostic. Obviously all of these gods and their clerics have powers, and I appreciate them... I just haven't made any commitments either way.

DAMN Steve! The Bar exam? That is fantastic. Its been to long - shoot me an email at (my) firstnamelastname at gmail dot com.

King Tut

+20 to hit? wtf? that haste is really sick too...so i could've double slay living randolph had i been hasted. peace out randolph.

I think plain old fighter might be better for Tut, not sure tho. Isn't Marivhon already a monk? I read something about him stunning someone, I think that's a monk thing. Tut isn't into devotion or body-as-a-temple, he's just straight up pissed. What about beserker? does that exist? Can paladins fight unarmed?

If there's already a monk, Tut should be something else. Can you give me a quick idea of what the party is? I have the bar exam in 2 weeks so I can't read all the stories. I gather that brogg is a cleric, marivhon is a monk, not sure about the rest.

I have no clue at all what 1st edition is. I know that there are still classes, and apparently you can multi in 1st. Beyond that I'm lost... no specialization I'm guessing?

His name

His name was Randolph. Fucking Randolph.

Go ahead put my rhymes on trial

So DiD here is straight up 1st edition. But the table top game I'm running it's 3.5 edition. Mages there have quite a few buff spells; haste, stat boosting (+4 to STR, DEX, and CON), True Strike (which gives you a +20 to hit on your next attack roll)... it's kinda sick. Should be some fun combats. 3rd edition Haste was super crazy; 3rd level spell that let a mage drop two spells per round. As in, "I'll cast two 10d6 fireballs this round."

Sigh. What was that guy's name anyway? The guy who survived his Slay Living. That's what I get for rolling dice out in the open. It's my policy nowadays though, no screen, full disclosure of dice rolls.

A monk it is, Tut. En garde.

King Tut

I didn't know mages have buff spells. I thought that was cleric land. Don't mages just magic missile and identify? I remember I tried to pawn off some retarded spell where I could imbue shuriken with power and throw them or something. What a dumb spell.

Poor Jimmy Woo.

Can I get 1 thing confirmed--If npc's in this campaign get hit with Slay Living and roll a 1, will they clutch their chest, mysteriously fall out a window, and get teleported into some weird castle where they sip wine and are guarded by 30 full plate guards? Moreover, can I train that skill as a monk? Cause that's hot. Real hot.

I'll be a monk. My style is called "Intergalactic Beatstick." Represent yo. I channel my powers from beyond, from a universe that used to be. The ancient Egyptians didn't die in those dumb pyramids. They built huge space-travelling robots out of tin foil and flew off into another galaxy. My focusing mantra is "Intergalactic Planetary Planetary Intergalactic." If you didn't know, now you know.

No boss no!

Actually the table top 3 mages game was unbelieveably fun. I love no-clerics groups. At the table we're all jaded gamers, so trying something sort of new was also nice. Combat is crazy, especially given that the three mages are 'support magic' type. Mainly they just are going to buff up the fighter and she'll butcher the opposition as they hide.

The game itself is starting out slow but I plan to take it to some weird places in the next few sessions; will update coarsely as I can.

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Jimmy Wu Superstar. My GOD that was awesome. The first Narbohring campaign, yo.

Poor, poor, poor Gadianheim...indeed

I have already spent a few rounds knocked out... but these folks have been good enough to bandage me in my hour of need.

Great to have you on board Tut. It's been too long.

Rob- sounds like a great tabletop. Color me green with envy.

King Tut

I tried stuff like Warcraft, etc. but it's not really the same. I miss the friends and "peanut gallery." I think this whole idea is really cool. Mark and I kinda did something similar, we would play games of Magic via text msgs. You know like "Swamp, Zombie CAnnibal, go bitch." But this is a lot more impressive. I had read a little bit about blogging but I didn't know it was so easy or widespread. I'll try to read up on the campaign as it's progressed.

The new group seems iffy--3 mages and a tank? What's the new campaign like? You always came up with the best stuff. I hope Stamps remembers that Gaddianheim comment, when I heard he was gaming again that was the first thing I thought of. "Poor poor poor Gaddianheim."

Does Chris play? Johnny Woo Superstar?

Peanut gallery time

Well let's all give a big old DiD welcome to King Tut, aka Steve, aka the guy I've been gaming with for as long as we both could use written communication. No shit, I was 5, Steve was 4, fuckin' Keep on the Borderlands man. Fuckin' Dragon magazine featured modules, man.

Steve, you'll figure it all out here, but the DiD site is for in-game, this blog is for out-of-game and random crap. To avoid confusion, I'll call the two Steves by their guys' names, i.e. Schmektor and Tut.

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Just ran my first game in three years. Tons of fun. There are four PCs: three 1st level wizards and a 1st level fighter. They're the local militia in a sleepy village, and then some weird stuff begins to happen. Their first adventure (preludes are all taken care of) is going to be to arrest a pirate who comes into town. So, so good.

Marivhon

I only fucked with the Lock after moth. Figured he could find something bad and I might be able to open it.....

I was taken aback by his bravado, confronting golden locks.

New char

Cool dude I rolled 3d6 straight down and got 5 18's and a 17. I had Big Ben roll them for me. 18/00 for str btw.

Remember the wood elf who got killed by a snake when he was sleeping in a tree while soloing? That sucked.

I want to make King Tut. He'll have unarmed spec'd but will carry halberds that are (obviously) never used. He will attack with claw claw bite (I assume the bite will do minimum dmg...unless the party has a pair of +2 dentures anywhere? That would help on the "to hit" roll also.).

Ok I rerolled and I got (if we go str8 down)
Str: 10
Int: 11
Wis: 9
Dex: 11
Con: 9
Cha: 8

The numbers are in order, I think I remember the attribute order. This character was an accountant in ancient Egypt but he did the pharoes taxes wrong, so he was cursed to slumber for X years and has just reawakened. Upon learning that all of his family and friends are dead (and that the tax code has changed ALOT) he is really pissed off. Thus he is too furious to use his halberds, though he cannot bear to part with them since they remind him of home.

So does the party need anymore classes? He could multi into priest or something. Though the xp hit sucks.

Another new PC?!

Hey all, Steve S, (the other Steve S.) is interested in getting on board.

Justin, Steve is one of our old tabletop pals. -He's best known for outrageously maximized characters such as his Female Drow Cleric/Fighter. She really kicked ass. Two double-spec shortswords. Ouch. Come to think of it, her name was Cinder too..

Anyway, I say we welcome him aboard. I'll get him on TableTalk now.

Steve, just so you know, we rolled these characters 3d6 straight down. Best of luck.

Rough, but....

I am sure if Cinder wanted to play again Rob would be willing to work somthing out. At least I think he would. And I would fully support a "brothers-in-arms" movement to get Cinder (or some other character) re-equipped. I would love to have Cinder get back online.

Kinda rough...

Hey, just my 2 cents, but I am not so cool with what happened to Cinder. I mean, couldn't we have just let him chill at Shady Orchards?

I think it was kinda rough.

Dave, Fist of Odin, with a hit point check

One more thing - Rob, did I roll for hit points for the new level? My character sheet shows 39 for 6th level. Let me know if I need to re-roll, because I forgot what I got before. A three, I think, which gives me 6 more hp (3+1 for CN +2 for Special training)...

And note that my AC is now 0, from the +1 Dwarven shield, which has been defaced to become a shield with a raven on it. You know, props to my peeps.

Dave, Fist of Odin, with some questions

Hey all,

First off - Rob, can I take 'better at mace' as a weapon prof? Specialization, or something? Or is that only for fighters?

Second - I'm updating my character sheet tonight. But if plans need different spells - like a couple of silences, or some PFEs - it's open to change. The formatting of blogger sometimes loses stuff on there, so I might have more than appears.

Third - it seems like as we level I'm getting less and less effective in combat (except to keep soaking, which is fine). Especially compared to the fighters, with multiple attacks. This might just be because I've been playing 3rd edition so much, where the damage dealt in combats keeps going up. This isn't a question, or a complaint - just an observation: I've been doing a d6+3 damage when I hit for several levels. Is that just the way of it? Maybe I should start focusing more on spellcasting. I do love summoning bears!

Rob, I want another point of wisdom. How can I make that happen?

That's it.

Marivhon

many of my posts in the future will probably be "from Dave". He's often playing Civ 4 on my computer so it's just easier to use his old mac laptop.

Okay

Alright, sounds like we're all cool here. Just as long as people keep posting and keep it in-game, we're good. Although it's odd that one of Marivhon's table talk posts below comes from Dave?

Anyway, I'm out of commission until Friday night. I'll post then on the main page and push things along.

Southern Utah is H O T

Apologies for my lack of posts. I took the fam down south for a little vacation and I had no online access. So yeah, It was an abnormally cool 105 all weekend. yeah... we spent the whole time in the AC or in the pool.

Sounds like we have this "Cinder's Stuff" thing worked out. Other than the community benefit of paying for the TiVo-XBOX system... we are each 200GP up, no?

Marivhon

It's totally just part of the game. I don't let shit that happens in character affect me personally. I've played this game way too long for that to still happen. My guy is a Lawful Evil idiot. He has a 5 Wisdom. I don't ever want you to think it's personal. It's not. As for the tone, I don't think Marivhon ever really raises his voice. He has a 4 con. He isn't the nicest guy, but he'll try and keep you safe. Just put yourself in my shoes (no pun intended) and see what you would have done if the new guy picked up more magic then you had. blah blah blah. I'm just glad you post.

Just to clarify...

Sorry if I offended anyone with my post about Cinder's stuff... I explained my reasoning in the main blog, if anyone still wants to talk about it, feel free to post it here or PM me (if blogger has that, I dunno).

I'm new, so I kind of understand if people think I'm overstepping my bounds there, but I want to make it clear that I'm a reasonable guy who isn't going to freak out or be a bitch if you've got a different idea on how things ought to be divvied up.

Marivhon/Paul, I really couldn't tell just how harsh your post was intended to be, out of character-wise. Either way, seemed like a lot of unessecary animosity, but if it's just part of the game, that's cool, let's play on.

Marivhon

I'm chill, I just didn't think Moth should get to pick through Cinders stuff, again.

I didn't know the Roos were shoes. Cinder had 2 pairs of shoes then, I don't know how he was wearing them both but he was. Shoes that gave a +1 on Dex and plus 2 movement. I guess he just slung the Roos over his shoulder. Fuck it. OK well, I post I get yelled at. We keep and We sell were me saying what I thought we should do. We is the party. You tell us Greyhelm is a deathtrap, and then get mad at me for trying to do something about it and get other peoples feedback, maybe some healing. Sweet. Yeah that's about all I have to say right now. Oh, Moth I hope my post wasn't as big a deal to you as it seems to have been for Rob.

Downtime

I'll be travelling from the 5th to the 7th and out of internet contact.

Oh, and...

Via the indomitable metafilter:

http://www.hoodyhoo.com/kodt.htm

KoDT movies.

"Damn dude, you were robbed!" (Pun not lost on yours truly.)

Implore

First off, summoning a 'Fist of Odin' is a 6th level spell, so you'll be able to cast it a long time from now, when you're 11th level. To put things in perspective, you need a grant total of 675,000 xp to get to 11th. You have a little over 60,000 right now. That's right, you're about 10% of the total way to 11th level. Sorry to dampen the mood.

Anyway, Abjure is a great spell, one of the underutilized gems of Unearthed Arcana. Almost broken. Simply put, Abjure attempts to banish an outer planes creature (demon, devil, angel, modron, etc) back to the plane of origin. It's a contested saving throw or something. But that's not what is so hot about it.

Abjure is reversable. The reversal, Implore, brings a creature from the outer plane of the Cleric's alignment. It's out of your control, and I'm not sure if it's an automatic summon, but shit dude. You're essentially casting a 7th circle spell, Gate, as a 4th circle. Because who the fuck cares if the demon is out of your control when there's a ton of other guys to fight hanging around? For as long as I ran 1E games, all NPC priests ever took for their 4th circle spells were Cure Serious and Implores. Sometimes the reversal of Neutralize Poison, Cause Poison, but rarely because 'save or die' magic is boring.

Abjure?

Hey all - Mark, thanks for getting the new spells up. I am most excited about summoning Zangief to aid our struggles - but in two levels, I can bring in ANOTHER FIST OF ODIN. Oh My God. Excuse me for a moment, because I just wet myself with pleasure.

Ummm . . . you know, because I spilled my beer. Yeah.

Anyway. I remember what most of the 4th level spells do, except 'abjure'. Anyone?

Dave, Fist of Odin

Hi all,

So, I'm back from Korea. It was great - I did some good research, met some new colleagues (and made a couple of new friends), and ate live octopus.

That's right - it was still wriggling, and attached its suckers to the inside of my mouth. But it was really, really tasty!

So I live in Portland with Paul - I mean Marivhon - and I'm blood relations to one of the other people doing this. I'm getting a PhD in Mathematics Education, which is kind of my fourth career . . . but, it brought me to Seoul, so that's something. I . . . . um, well, I play Dave, Fist of Odin, who is becoming more and more like who I am in life, which worries me. And I drive a car named Boomer.

Hi Steve! Good to hear from you! And hello Moth - I'm sorry, but I don't know that we've been introduced, either in game or out. I'll say hello in game after I get caught up enough to post. My real name is Dave, although I am not currently a Fist of Odin. People in Korea, however, called me 'Dave', so take your pick.

That's it. Are we in trouble? I'm going over to the main site now to see if there's clobbering to do.

And hey Rob - Did I roll new hit points for levelling? I forget. How many XP to 8th level? Only like 400, right? I believe my NWP was 'negotiating'. I'll update my character sheet in the next couple of days.

Dave, Fist of Odin likes clobbering, drinking, summoning feisty shit, and talking to folks, in pretty much that order; but the four things I like really all kind of blur together. I also have a suit of armor that talks to me in my head, which is really quite nice because we agree on many, many things. 'Armouran - should I clobber these guys?' 'Well Dave, Fist of Odin, I think a better question is which guy needs clobbering the most?'

Yup.