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[felis_ultharus]

So I'm thinking about cancelling the game this weekend. Neither foi_nefaste nor em_fish can make it, so I was wondering how other people felt...?

It's just not as much fun whe we're down to half.

Not much else to say. It's been a pretty productive couple of days editing and packing. Plus I've been getting more hours at work. Yet again we had clear evidence that English teachers can't add, or even copy information from one sheet to another -- three teachers had to revise all of their attendance for the last two months.

I have been reading some very good books. I'm quite amused that this book of the queer history of Montreal (Sortir de l'Ombre)was funded by both the federal and provincial government. And I strongly recommend the graphic novel Fun House by Alison Bechdel -- it's brilliant.

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[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

And I strongly recommend the graphic novel Fun House by Alison Bechdel -- it's brilliant.

That's enough to get me interested. What's it about?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

It's by the author of "Dykes to Watch Out For," the comic strip. This, though, is her autobiography. She's openly lesbian, and her father was a closeted gay man.

It's incredibly powerful.

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

It's a shame you folks don't play online. I used to run a GURPS game on Undernet from my night job. XD I've done D&D online, too, and once Ninjaburger: The Role-Playing Game. I have to cap them sooner (I cap online games at six vs. my in-person cap of eight -- I can, in fact, herd cats, but only if I can see all of them at once. ^^;) and it took a while to locate an IRC server that didn't ban ALL bots including dicebots, but it went fairly well.

I also had to institute a typing/spelling test, after one especially notable incident where a player who *hadn't* been typing since he was eleven like the rest of us joined up and quickly found himself 1) swamped, and 2) consistently misunderstood. They don't have to be perfect, but I really do prefer it when I can tell what bloody language they're trying to type in. ^^;

What edition/setting do you play in, may I ask? The last one I got to play in was a 3E version of Forgotten Realms, and the last one I ran was GURPS/Illuminati University.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

We're playing 3.45 Forgotten Realms (I say 3.45 because there's just a couple of things from 3.5 I don't like, so I kept the originals).

I've been DMing for 20 years now (though obviously not the same group). My favourite module was a very long first-edition module called Desert of Desolation, which I'm adapting from 1.0 to 3.5.

We put a very heavy emphasis on roleplay, and very little on hack-n-slash.

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

20 years? You started young. You're only five years older than I am. (Five years and four months almost exactly, actually. I was born 9/9/1981, which gets me a lot of very interesting looks from fortune tellers.) I had nobody handy to boss around when I was 12, though, which I imagine would excuse my tardiness. ^_^

As a DM, my general rule is "if it entertains me, it goes". If someone comes up with something especially clever that doesn't throw the entire game out of whack, I'll usually let them skip the roll. I've played a variation on GURPS that's essentially diceless, but only with a group of very reasonable people who could role-play their skill level appropriately.

If you ever do play online, I have a 6th level Wild Mage named Ariadne who was, last I checked, stuck in Waterdeep. She graduated from the school in Cormyr with a solid C average -- A in theory, F in practicals, which is the grade you usually get when you're incapable of casting anything without making something explode. Her familiar is a duck named Hogarth whose alignment is listed as "Paranoid Delusional", whom she acquired because jumping in the duck pond is the easiest way to put out flaming robes and hair when Flaming Sphere has gone awry. ^^;;;

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

You were born 7 days after me. ^_^

And that's a funny character. ^_^

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

Virgos unite! My purpose in life seems to be to hold the common sense of the group. ^^;;; I'm the one that's supposed to say, "No, you cannot bungee jump off the balcony into the swimming pool. Because I don't want to talk to the EMTs tonight. Because I said so. Put it down and go play Katamari Damacy some more."

My Chinese horoscope apparently goes "Rooster: metal, metal, metal, fire" which also elicits peals of laughter for some reason.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Your character is eerily similar to one we have in play. allow me to introduce melting_penguin's Ed, the 15-year-old transmuter who's cursed to be something like a walking wild magic zone. But far worse. There's no benefit to her brand of wild magic, and I don't role -- I just act creative on the spot :)

She has a penguin "familiar" (actually, it's her sister, who she's accidentally polymorphed and who won't un-polymorph with the usual spell-breaking magicks). And Ed is very, very helpful -- but since she tries to be helpful with her magic, disaster often ensues.

And the party started in Waterdeep, though they are now in the Raurin Desert :)

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

Ariadne was 16, having just had her birthday on Highharvesttide when we quit playing. At the point at which the DM had the game set, that -- totally by accident -- had her born in Year One, right after the debacle that started the wild magic mess in the first place. O.O

The school in Cormyr was very anxious to have her gone, and since then she's gotten better at everything BUT magic. Hogarth has had his share of triumphs too (DM the oplayed him), such as the time he, in a blind panic, pecked a carrion crawler to death one hit point at a time. ^^;

DM also requested backstory for everybody so he could torture us with it, and thus Ariadne wound up the seventh child of a seventh son of a seventh son, which makes things worse. ^^;; Her older brothers are all paladins and tanks, except for Aethelred, a ranger who spends a suspicious amount of time with elves. XD I think he was pointing at her parents being Harpers when we quit, but Ariadne knows diddly about that and didn't catch on.

The trip to Amn was interesting too. Ariadne has an INT of 20 or so, but almost zero common sense. I had party members diving to stifle her every time she wanted to be magically helpful.

[melting-penguin.livejournal.com]

Quite understandable if you want to cancel. If you want to do something else, just let us know, we don't have any plans. (I promise that baby bathing will not be on the agenda...;) In other news Steve will be starting a new job in "geek heaven", as he calls it, in two weeks. He's giddy about it...

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

It'd probably be best. Looking over the next adventure, we really do need em_fish. It'll be one of her character's moments to shine, and she ought to be there for that :)

And I didn't hear a thing about this new job. I can think of a half-dozen places, though, that qualify for that moniker. Which one is it...?

[melting-penguin.livejournal.com]

It's a company called "Toys International". He'll be working the types of games and logic puzzles he loves...he'll tell you all about it when we next meet, I'm sure!

[em-fish.livejournal.com]

That seals it - I'm coming back from Ontario early. :p See you on Sunday! (There is only ONE thing that would keep me from being there - if that one thing happens, I will let you know.)

srry fr th dblpst

[em-fish.livejournal.com]

PS I meant NEXT Sunday - June 19th.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

YAY!