Rippongi is the party spot in Tokyo, you might want to check it out.
Have a small notebook with you. The restaurants will usually have a display window that has plastic sculptures of their menu items for people to look at. Just copy the name of what you want into your notebook and show it to the waiter when they come to take your order.
Some of the sushi places have conveyor belts that they place their items on that move the sushi past where the customers are sitting. The color of the plate the item is on indicates what the price is. Keep the empty plates by you so they can figure out your bill when you leave. I found that the octopus was good.
When I went to log on using my smartphone last evening the log in proceeded as it should have. There were no problems with the log on box jumping around and out of sight.
The problem I have is that the log on boxes are now in a pop up which is almost impossible to access using my smartphone. The pop up "drifts" as I attempt to adjust screen size.
Hey Cutlass,
When giving us feedback like this it's very helpful if you can include which smartphone and platform as well as the browser you are using.
The problem I have is that the log on boxes are now in a pop up which is almost impossible to access using my smartphone. The pop up "drifts" as I attempt to adjust screen size.
The rapier is almost all thrust, you're using only 1 arm and holding it out away from your body. It will likely be a while until you get used to it.
Granted that the longsword would be heavier, but what with using both hands on it and holding it closer to your body I don't doubt that it would feel easier. At one time a friend of mine had got a "wall hanger" bastard sword and he let me play with it a bit. I was surprised at the amount of control I had over it and its general ease of use. Regardless, have fun and enjoy. :-)
As far as I know, California is the only state where flamethrowers are illegal (and possession is only a misdemeanor there). Who needs knives?
Well, it depends. Opening a letter with a flamethrower would be counterproductive, and I have yet to see a flamethrower with either a bottle opener or a screwdriver attachment.
On a more serious note I think that the reason flamethrowers are not illegal has to do with the inherent difficulty of writing laws that would make them illegal. Any device which can be used to spray a liquid can potentially be used as a flamethrower. All you have to do is fill it with a flammable fluid and ignite the spray. And that would work for anything from a super soaker to a perfume atomizer.
Let's face it, sparring with flamethrowers would be a somewhat short-lived (if exciting) hobby - for the participants, at least...
EDIT: Perhaps we need to pressure for duelling law reform as well, though I bet it's still legal in some parts of the US.
I am not an expert on all laws relating to weapons and dueling throughout all the thousands of different jurisdictions in the U.S.. Howver, I would bet you a decent beer or ale that you are wrong on that last part. About a century plus or so ago the culture was different and dueling might have been tolerated by the populace even if it was technically illegal. In the here and now dueling would be seen as murder and I do not believe that it is actually legal anywhere in this country.
In fact, part of the reasoning behind some of the more screwed up knife/gun laws was an attempt to prevent dueling by making the mere possession of some of the more commonly used weapons illegal. That was exactly what a lot of the laws making bowie knives illegal were all about. More importantly, I don't think that a majority/significant minority of the populace anywhere in this country would actually support bringing dueling back. From my point of view it would be interesting to contemplate as an academic exercise, but it's not something I'd really want to see happen.
I use a walking stick. They've always been handy for trails and the poor footing you often see on crumbling roadsides. Now that my foots broken in a few places, backs messed up and I've trying to walk actual distances again its pretty neccesary.
I do not understand the classist paranoia about people having melee weapons. Brass knuckles are banned, but I can walk into walmart and get an ak 47 knockoff? Whats wrong with that picture.
It always confused me that in this state I could get a permit for carrying a concealed firearm, but can't get a permit to carry bladed weaponry of any kind.
I suspect it's because we don't have a National Melee Weapon Association fighting for our Second Amendment right to bear arms (of those types). ^_^
The details escape me off the top of my head, but I have heard of an organization out to reform/make sensible laws regarding knives.
That varies from state to state with no rhyme or reason. In some states a concealed carry permit does cover knives, but that is obviously not true in all cases. Regardless, the laws concerning knives in general are much more variable and confusing than the laws regarding firearms.
As a for instance, in some states bowie knives are technically illegal. In other states you can have them ... as long as the false edge has not been sharpened. And yet in other areas they don't care.
Now, what I would really like to learn to use with the walking stick are jo/short staff techniques. What I understand of single stick is that it is essentially fencing tactics applied to a walking stick. But while that could probably work ok, it doesn't strike me as getting maximum benefit out of a weapon that you can use from either end.
Or you can just buck the trend and walk around with whatever you want to. No need to be a slave to fashion, especially if doing so arguably makes you less safe.
That's my theory and that's what I actually do from time to time. I live in Spokane, WA. Several years ago we had a hellacious snowfall that dumped something like 3.5 feet over one weekend. At the time my job was close enough to my apartment that I could walk back and forth to work. Which was fortunate because after that snowfall I had to.
Long story short, I got myself a walking stick because it made trying to hoof it through the snow and ice without falling on my rump easier. The first one I got was kind of like a ski pole that was of light weight aluminum construction and could be collapsed for moving it around when it wasn't needed. Unfortunately I am a big, heavy guy and one day when I was trying to catch myself after I had tripped going through a snow bank the darn thing bent like a pretzel.
The next one I got, still have, and actually use from time to time is the "African Walking Stick" manufactured by Cold Steel. It is a solid piece of polypropylene plastic that is supposedly unbreakable. While I have doubts on that score, it hasn't failed me. Price was around $30. I also went to a drug store and got a hard rubber cane tip to put on it so it wouldn't get worn down by constantly beating it on the pavement as I walked. I have never had any problems taking it anywhere I wanted to, including going through security check points at the local courthouse, police station and federal building.
One piece of advice for whatever anybody thinks it is worth. Do not get a sword cane. The blade isn't really good enough to do what you're going to want it to do, you won't be able to get it through a security checkpoint, and if God forbid you actually have to use it expect to have all kinds of legal hassles for having a concealed weapon or some such thing. Whereas if all you have is literally just a walking stick those potential legal problems go away.
I was in the Society for Creative Anachronism a very long time ago. My source for the story was another SCA member who had a Japanese persona and had researched the topic. But other than my memories of him telling that particular tale I can't source it.
I think that those who would totally dis a katana compared to a rapier don't know much about katanas and kendo. While it is true that a rapier is primarily a thrusting weapon and a katana is used almost exclusively as a slashing weapon, the differences in style and effect are such that there is no easy comparison.
One of the primary differences would be the level of skill of the swordsmen in question. Given that the Portuguese were most likely not fencing masters per se (though good enough for what they usually had to do), they really wouldn't be on par versus a samurai who literally spent his entire life practicing kendo.
Furthermore, the rapier was more of a dueling weapon than a battlefield weapon. The katana is an excellent battlefield weapon. Kendo techniques are such that the fight will likely be settled decisively with one hit.
Whereas a fencer would launch a series of attacks to feel his opponent out, a samurai would be shifting between various guard stances while he looked for an opening. On finding one he would move as hard and fast as he could. No elaborate series of feints or half hearted attacks trying to provoke a reaction. To a fencer, the samurai would appear to be "open" most of the time. But given a lightning fast two handed blade and a style that likely used more distance than a fencer would, the result of a single hit would decide the fight.
So far, one of my big problems is that I'm "throwing a right jab" when I lunge, so I know how she must have felt! I want to put my arm, shoulder and back into my lunges, which is unnecessary and incorrect (I guess you could say I'm power attacking lol).
My instructor also teaches the Great Sword (Spidone?). He gave a demonstration with it, which I promptly responded with "NOPE. Call in the Archers" lol
Then there's the Indiana Jones/Portuguese Seaman approach :-)
I might bite the bullet and throw my hat in the ring. I'm thinking about a synth with amnesia, probably a rogue or a ranger. As for starting community, not sure. Possibly Wright town. Possibly none as a freshly awakened synth with no bloody clue at all. Just happened to crawl out of stasis in Minnesota asking, WTF?
Yeah, it seems that the people who have a sports fencing background have an Easier time picking up the stances and parries than people like me with martial arts backgrounds. It doesn't help that I picked the biggest, heaviest rapier off the rack my first day!
Chuckle. I remember talking to somebody who was in a different fencing club than I was. He was commenting that they had recently had a lady join their club who had studied karate for several years. They were having a heck of a time trying to get her to stop kicking after she parried. :-)
Unfortunately while it would make sense to try to retrain her that way for collegiate fencing, they may have been doing a disservice to her should she find herself in a nasty real world situation. So my advice is that while you should learn the techniques as they teach them to you, don't be afraid to spend some time practicing "free form" to try to blend the styles a bit before you find yourself in a bad spot. I will leave you with two tales to consider.
The first concerns Portuguese seamen interacting with Japanese samurai during the 1600s. While the Portuguese were not fencing masters, they were good enough to hold their own in a sword fight and were of course practiced in the western style. The Japanese samurai had of course been studying kendo since they were old enough to hold swords. What happened when they came into conflict was that the samurai would wait for the seaman to execute a lunge, and then take the seaman's sword arm off with a katana. The Portuguese answer to that tactical problem was to start carrying a brace of pistols. While the Portuguese solution may have been more effective, I think it made clear who had the better sword technique.
The second anecdote concerns yours truly. Some time after I was in college I undertook a little bit of martial arts training in karate. My sensei was a relatively junior black belt who in addition to teaching his classes was also practicing to continue his advancement in the art. He found out that I had done some fencing and used me as a sparring dummy to practice unarmed self defense against a knife on. So I got a rubber practice knife and was encouraged to try to tag him any way I could. To state the blindingly obvious he used me to wipe the dojo floor with about 90 to 95 percent of the time. But every so often I was able to waltz right through his technique, and had I been using a real blade he would have had it stuck in his chest. The moral of the story? Different techniques have different strengths and weaknesses. Learn the techniques, figure out what their "holes" are, and occasionally play around on your own trying to blend what you know so you can have an advantage should you need one where dojo/fencing rules don't apply and the only thing that counts is being the one who walks away.
Agreed. Modern collegiate fencing "weapons" aren't too much more than car antennas with funny handles on them. However, the one time I got to play with a rapier I noticed that while it was heavier than an epee, the balance was similar. So I suspect that at least some epee fencing tactics would transfer over.
I fenced with all three collegiate fencing "weapons" (foil, epee and sabre). When fencing sabre there were certain ways that you did things because that was the what the method of instruction and fencing style called for. But using a car antenna with a funny handle there didn't seem to be much sense to what you were doing. Some time later I got the chance to play with a reproduction Civil War cavalry sabre. All of a sudden the sabre fencing moves I learned fell into place with a blade that had been designed and balanced to be used that way. It felt like the sabre "wanted" to go to the parry positions and a lot of the attacks flowed naturally. Granted that it was a lot heavier than a fencing saber, but that didn't seem to matter too much.
So, needing to get back into shape, I decided to try something new (because somehow between backpacking and archery I still gained weight, thanks "Getting Old")...
So, considering I already compete in USPSA Pistol match's and Archery matches I figured "How Hard could sword fighting be?"
Answer: My everything hurts. (In a good way)
So, I'm learning Rapier and Longsword (Which is actually mostly two handed, who knew?) at the local club (Btw: I lived in this city 7 years, and had a club that teach's the use of German Longsword 4 blocks from me this whole time? What?).
For those that don't know, HEMA is Historical European Martial Arts.
So, anyone else ever tried HEMA? So far it's a great workout and a lot of fun!
I haven't done HEMA. But many more years and many more pounds ago than I care to think about I had done collegiate fencing and Society for Creative Anachronism fighting. So I can relate to how surprisingly sore you can get.
Several years ago I went to a Christmas party where some of the kids had got plastic star wars light sabers to play with. After a while some of us adults got sucked into the fun. It had been decades since I had last practiced or even tried to get into a decent en guarde position, and of course I did not think to stretch out before joining in. I was ok that day. The next day a bunch of muscles in my legs informed me that they were on strike. Standing and walking was more or less ok. Just sitting was more or less ok. Driving and trying to get my left leg to work the clutch pedal took every ounce of willpower I had. Ouch.
At any rate, I wish you the best with your endeavors and hope you enjoy it.
I am interested. Having just been picked up for 2 other campaigns I'm not sure if I'd have the time, but will definitely lurk at least. I too favor the northern expanse. However, a lot of that is "high desert" so potential problems with dehydration do not go totally away.
I too am a gun nut. But keep your over-engineered AR-15/M-16/M-4 clones chambered in the substandard .223 Remington/5.56×45mm NATO round for those who are silly enough to want them. I'll take an H&K G-3 chambered in .308 Winchester/7.62x51mm NATO any day of the week.
On a more serious note, given that full/semi automatic weapons tend to burn through ammo like there's no tomorrow and modern smokeless powders can be tricky to make, it is likely that 100 years after an apocalypse that black powder weapons may have had a resurgence. In which case brass metal cartridge rounds might still be in current production, but they'd more likely be for .45 Colt (aka .45 Long Colt), .44 Special, .44 Magnum (not quite so stompy using black powder but still a respectable round), and a host of other similar calibers. Revolvers would be the mainstay for pistols with lever action and a variety of single shots (in heavier calibers) being in vogue for rifles. Large bowie knives would also come back into their own.
Semi-auto and full-auto actions would only be useable with the old smokeless ammunition by then in short supply and possibly not quite as reliable after a century or so of storage.
Nadarr wanted to run as fast as he could, but knew that if he did so he would tire too quickly and the orcs that were chasing him would take him as an easy kill. So instead he set a somewhat slower pace that he knew he could hold for a long period of time. Granted that the orcs were closing slightly, but they were wearing themselves out by doing so. Then Nadarr noticed a familiar trail marking. Not too much longer now anyway.
Nadarr Myastan, now the last of his sept of clan Myastan, had returned to his small sept hold only a short while ago after checking his trap line. The sept had just recently split off from a larger sept in order to establish a new settlement in a remote area where they could hopefully live their lives in relative peace and not have to worry too much about the prejudices humanoid races in general had when it came to dragonborn. Alas that a nearby tribe of orcs obviously had a different idea.
So it was that Nadarr had found his village reduced to ash and the orcs dancing (and doing much that was worse) in celebration. He was spotted as he had moved away from what had been his home and three orc warriors were chasing him. Nadarr had dropped his haul from the trap line in order to be able to run at a decent pace and did his best to get away.
The orcs were closer now, but Nadarr was almost where he needed to be. He reviewed his options. He could only cast one first level spell, and decided that he better go for offensive punch. As the orcs closed to within 90 feet of him he cast hex on one of them. That made the orc much more vulnerable to Nadarr's attacks as well as making him less dextrous. Nadarr ran some more after casting the spell, the orcs had closed quite a bit, but Nadarr was now where he needed to be.
Nadarr halted, turned around, and shot the orc he had cast the spell on with his crossbow. That orc had been wounded in the fight that had happened at the village and the combination of the crossbow bolt with the increased damage from the hex killed him. As the remaining two orcs closed to get within melee range Nadarr transferred the hex to another one of them.
The orcs were within 20 feet of Nadarr when he took a deep breath and used the weapon that his copper dragon ancestry had given him. He breathed out a line of acid that struck the orc he had hexed and killed him rather messily. The remaining orc raised his greataxe, screamed and moved to close on Nadarr and cleave him in two. When that orc got to within 10 feet of Nadarr the orc's foot came down in a small pile of brush. There was a metallic clang and the trap that Nadarr had reset earlier that morning closed on the orc's foot. The chain attached to the trap had been anchored to a nearby tree, and the orc was halted, just out of axe range to Nadarr. Nadarr transferred the hex to the remaining orc, and tore him to shreds with a couple of eldritch blasts.
Nadarr retrieved his trap and considered his options. He could not hope to take out an entire tribe of orcs by himself. At least not yet. So it was that Nadarr headed off in the direction of what could loosely perhaps be called civilization. At least to the extent that the village of Hommlet was civilized.
So, work in progress. Dragonborn Warlock, copper dragon ancestry, pact with a Great Old One, Outlander background. Stats: STR 10, DEX 14, CON 13, INT 12, WIS 10, CHA 16. I'll have the alias with all the pertinent details up in a day or two.
I am definitely interested. The biggest problem with this sort of thing is having firearms in the mix. If you make the rules regarding firearms in combat anywhere close to realistic then combat becomes incredibly deadly. Especially in a setting with no medevac choppers on standby to fly the wounded to a trauma center.
Therefore one is left with the options of nerfing firearms as well as having character class(es) with healing abilities that rival/surpass those of a trained emergency room medical team in a trauma center. Then you run into the problem that some scenarios become unplayable without one or two dedicated healbots coupled with a lot of people not wanting to play a healbot.
So, I am interested and want to know more about the system.
Interested, but I would like to know what your recruitment window is. I have a couple of other submissions I'm waiting to hear back on and don't want to get over committed.
So how long does someone has to be dead before it is considered archeology instead of grave robbing?
So how long does a thread have to go go on before someone points out the incorrect use of the word has, as opposed to have?
I realize there's a lot of people with advanced degrees in archaeological fields rather than, say, literature...but wasn't basic English part of your undergrads?
Grammatical trolling aside (it's probably just a typo that was realized far too late to edit, but I couldn't resist hitting an obviously educated crowd with that one), I love the nature of the question, and Rynjin's musings on assassination as well.
I wish I had something to contribute of any actual use.
Oh, yes. A question. Do you think with the advent of video and limitless digital storage that archaeology will remain a valid field hundreds of years from now when trying to gain a reference to our current state of life?
I almost believe that given our evolution as a society to a collective base of knowledge via the internet, any efforts to understand life beyond that which is recorded by so many laypersons on a daily basis is probably a waste of time. Just think of how many people record and upload the most mundane and banal videos on YouTube every minute. There's no way future societies won't have a perfect picture of at least the developed first world nations of today.
One of the problems that I have, at least partially reinforced by studying archeology, is that I am the eternal pessimist. All the civilizations that we know of have collapsed, except this one. All the governments that we know of have fallen, except for the current crop. Therefore, if you were a betting person, how would you bet things would turn out for us over the long run?
So, whatever people in the future think and or can find out about us in the here and now is going to depend on whether our civilization is still around, how it ended and when it ended relative to the people in that future, and last but not least what their technological abilities are and how interested they are in conducting real archeology.
What I find to be a sobering consideration is that essentially "modern" humans have been on the scene for at least 40,000 years to possibly as much as 100,000 years ago or longer. Against that backdrop, our current span of good historical/archeological records/knowledge only goes back about 4,000 years or so and our current massive technological advancement rate has only been going on for around 150 years or so. The question then becomes how many times during the past 100,000 years or so has this sort of thing happened before?
People would argue that if there had been significant and truly ancient civilizations that we would have found traces of them. Perhaps, but civilizations and major cities have a tendency to be found on/near sea coasts and major river systems for logistics considerations. During the last ice age ending around 10,000 years ago sea levels were around 300 feet lower than they are now.
As far as we are concerned, f**k Al Gore and all the anthropogenic global warming horse manure. This has been a relatively long interglacial period and if you are looking at the actual data as opposed to the hype and know how to do basic analysis there are signs it is drawing to a close. So, if the glaciers advance again sometime this century or so, how much of our civilization will be left to find 4,000 years from now? Future archeologists may very well be trying to figure out what happened in the wars between the Coca Cola and the Pepsi people as the glass bottle fragments should still be findable long after most other things have gone.
As an Archeologist, I would say long enough for any relatives of the occupant of the tomb, that were alive whilst the occupant of the tomb was also alive, to be all dead.
That can be arranged.
True, but committing mass murder/genocide in order to fulfill that requirement would most definitely put one in the grave robbing category.
But any digging professional or otherwise does damage...
Quite correct. It is common when practical to leave sections of an archaeological site alone so that future excavators with better methods and techniques can come back later and get more information out of the dig than the current crew could.
Let me think about it. I will probably go with either a warlock or a wizard. How long do we have to generate the character?
If I go warlock his patron will be a great old one and given your bias against pets will go for either blade or tome. In fact I have a high elf warlock from a previous game that folded I could do over to fit this campaign.
If I go wizard I may go mountain dwarf for the armor and weapons proficencies. :-)
Note: B.A. in Anthropology, M.A. in Physical Anthropology with a heavy emphasis in archaeology.
As to the OP's question, I believe the difference between grave robbing and archaeology deals much more with the intent and specifics of one's actions than with any hard and fast rule as to the age of the remains in question. This is especially true for Physical Anthropologists who sometimes do double duty helping with crime scene investigations.
But in a nutshell, how does one go about doing what they are doing? If they are keeping careful records of where everything was found, preserving it to the best of their ability, and publishing detailed reports of their work then you've got an archaeologist. If you're dealing with somebody who is moving rapidly through a site using a pick and shovel, scattering the "worthless" stuff all over the place to get at the valuable stuff which is then sold on the black market, you've got a grave robber.
As other posters have pointed out, the methodology employed by a lot of the earlier archaeologists left much to be desired. But as time has gone on the discipline has grown and matured.
Could have been worse. Harrison Ford survived the crash of the plane he was flying. They carried him away to the hospital, but last I heard he was expected to recover.
1. Treaty ratification requires 2/3 of the Senators. There are 100 Senators. 53 is less than 67 so they can't ratify a treaty to spite the 47 Senators they don't like. On the other hand, 47 is more than the 33 votes that would be needed to block the ratification of a treaty. So they have the votes to ensure that any treaty they don't like won't get ratified. But hey, it's so much fun to rant, why let minor details get in the way?
2. Poor President Obama. The nasty Republicans won't let him do anything. If you honestly believe that I doubt we have a common enough view of reality to have a meaningful discussion. That also assumes that just because a President wants to do something that it should be done. In the vast majority of cases for the past several decades at least the reply to that should be a negative.
Just mull on this. Boehner was somewhat worried that nasty conservative Republicans were so dissatisfied with his performance that they might replace him as Speaker of the House. But it turned out he didn't have to worry. Nancy Pelosi agreed to back Boehner as Speaker, thus guaranteeing he will remain in that post. So, given that Pelosi is now openly backing Boehner, how effective do you think he was at actually opposing anything the Democrats really wanted to do? Hint: don't rely on mainstream sources for your information to answer that question.
Hmmm, let's see... The President has in general been using the Constitution for toilet paper, arrogating to himself the power to act unilaterally in areas that are explicitly reserved to be under the purview of Congress
As opposed to every other president for the last... ever?
Not just every President since the Civil War, but the lion's share of all the members of the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and all the various unelected bureaucrats in their increasingly multitudinous offices. Still doesn't make it right or something that people should automatically be given a pass on. It would appear though that Obama is being especially egregious in this regard. Of course, he wouldn't be able to get away with anywhere near as much as he has if Boehner and McConnell weren't running interference for him.
There is a lot more going on than the overly simplistic public side show of Democrat vs Republican, but trying to get to all the details can be problematic, time consuming, and most definitely not explainable in sound bites.
Hmmm, let's see... The President has in general been using the Constitution for toilet paper, arrogating to himself the power to act unilaterally in areas that are explicitly reserved to be under the purview of Congress. Now he has his nose bent out of shape because some Senators have written the Iranians basically letting them know that the President can't make a valid treaty without their consent.
My response is three fold. The first is that the Senators haven't told the Iranians anything they couldn't have learned for themselves by reading the Constitution. Secondly they have likely put the Iranians on notice as to some of the aspects of what they would consider a valid treaty should have. Again, nothing too horribly out of the ordinary there.
Last but not least, Article III section 3 states, "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. ..."
The reason why that is worded that way is because the definition of "treason" that the Founding Fathers had potentially been subject to while they were under English law could be somewhat flexible. Treason could potentially have (and had actually been held to be in some cases where people had been executed for it) such things as sleeping with the Queen (even in one case where somebody had slept with her before it was known that she was eventually going to marry the King and was legally just another woman like any other) or in disagreeing with the King over various matters of theology. The Founding Fathers didn't want people to potentially be put to death under the government they were forming for specious reasons that were made up after the fact.
Now, let us look at some of the relevant facts pertaining to the case in point. The current government in power in Iran is known to be a sponsor of state supported terrorism. The current government of Iran is on record as stating that one of our treaty allies has no right to exist. The current government of Iran wants to be able to make nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile our President is widely perceived as being at best wishy washy on attempting to prevent the Iranians from making nuclear weapons. It has also been observed that the President will lie to people in order to advance various agenda items that appeal to him. Therefore his public pronouncements can not be taken at face value. ("If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.")
With all that as background, the Senators have put the Iranians on notice that they will not give their consent to any treaty that they think will make it too easy for Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
Now I am going to challenge people to actually sit down, take a deep breath and attempt to think logically. In the matter of attempting to prevent a government that is on record as proclaiming the United States is "the great Satan" from developing nuclear weapons, who is actually "adhering to their (the United States') Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort"? The Senators who have essentially said that they don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons? Or the President who doesn't seem to care about such "trivial" matters?
Oh, silly me, I forgot that the Senators are Republicans and the President is a Democrat. Therefore the Senators must be guilty of something. Off with their heads. Who cares why.
After thinking about it a while I'm going to go with a gnome that has a couple of alternate racial traits (Darkvision and Academician) and then let him take the Deepsight feat (Dad was a Svirfneblin). He's going to be a ranger/rogue gestalt. I probably won't have him finished until sometime on Thursday (or possibly Friday morning).
Update: The developers say they have a patch coming that should fix various issues "early next week". Hopefully that will solve the problems The Lion Cleric, I, and other people are having.
There is an ongoing problem with the board here which has been preventing some people from being able to create new aliases and or edit old aliases. The developers are aware of the problem and are working to fix it. However, they have not said anything about when they might be finished. All I can say for sure is that I am also having the same problem, and the problem persists whether or not I am using my smartphone or a computer at the library to access the site.
For as much as I hate having to do lots of data entry twice, I will give a thumbnail sketch of the crunch on the character I have.
Kazmuk Mithralsmith, Dwarven rogue. Level 4, chaotic good
_____________________Total check mod
Acrobatics___________+10
Bluff_________________+7
Climb________________+11 (includes bonus for climbing kit)
Disable Device_______+12 (Includes bonus for MW Thieves' tools)
Knowledge [D]_________+9
Perception____________+8 (does not include trap finding & stonecunning)
Sense Motive__________+8
Sleight of Hand______+10
Stealth______________+10
Swim__________________+9
Use Magic Device______+7
Favored class bonus taken as skill point.
Kazmuk is currently wearing armor with an ACP of 0
Knowledge [D] = Dungeoneering
Combat stats:
AC = 18, touch = 13, flat footed = 15 (+1 Mithral chain shirt)
CMB = 5, CMD = 18, Initiative = +5 (+3 DEX, +2 trait)
Fort +4, Reflex +7, Will +2
Base speed: 20
Hit points: 35
Character Traits:
Combat - Reactionary: +2 trait bonus on initiative checks
Faith - Sacred Touch: As a standard action you may automatically stabilize a dying creature merely by touching it.
Feats:
Deepsight - 120 ft darkvision
Point Blank Shot - +1 to hit and damage with ranged attacks at 30 feet or less.
All of which accounts for 3,782 gp spent and weighs in at 48 lbs
He also has a "handy haversack" that weighs in at 5 lbs, but can carry up to 120 lbs worth of gear while still weighing only 5 pounds. The haversack cost 2,000 gp. He's got a bunch of stuff in it, but it's mostly various different mundane supplies.
Hopefully the developers will solve the problem that is preventing me and various other people from editing aliases soon and I can properly enter all the information that is needed. For now that should hopefully be enough to evaluate the character from a crunch perspective. If the problem with the boards persists for too long I may end up entering everything into a message post, but I would prefer not to if I can avoid it.
