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To all the friends I have made here, to all the relationships that have formed, to all my fellow Fawtlies...

Happy Anniversary Guys.

to visit to south Carolina! To steaks and shakes!

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I miss Sharoth.

me too. Don't tell him that though. It'll go to his head.

Fabulous!

You remain my #2 pony.

Zuckerberg is my hero.

You are an abomination in the sight of the Lord.

Hehehehehehahahahhaahohohohohohehehehhahahhahahuhuhuhuaahhahahahah!!!!!!!!

You remain one of the most villainous villains ever.

Another crappy day. At least this time it didn't leave the prickly mass of frustration after taste that yesterday did. 2013 is not shaping up to being a very good year for this dwarf.

at least there is Family, FaWtL, and gaming.

I am really looking forward to Memorial Day.

I know that feel man. I know that feel. ..

Freehold DM wrote:

Orthos wrote:

Spent the majority of the evening doing Kingdom Building (which involved a lot of random item rolling, as the group has a Market and a Caster Tower now) and catching up with my ex-roommate in the army, who's stateside one leave until either today or tomorrow. So admittedly wasn't much for foruming last night >_>

How do you go about rolling up those items? I just use a website based random generator.

I use the tables on d20pfsrd.com.

Starting here then moving on to the individual item types as necessary.

A generator would save me a lot of time though >_> Where's the one you use?

the awesome one at dunknet is no more, so I use the donjon one. nowadays I use donjon for everything.

Aberzombie wrote:

Anyway, time to get some stuff done. Later folks.

And, before I forget, Happy Birthday to our resident Monkey!

Thanks Zombeh! Good luck with moving. That's one of my least-favorite things to do (especially since I own a library =/)

hey happy birthday mankey!

Freehold DM wrote:

Aberzombie wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

Poor non nyers. Can't enjoy the simple beauty of a large cheese pie. :)

There is no simple beauty about it. Pizza was meant to have toppings. Anything less is unnatural and an abomination. I will agree, however, that from everything I've heard New York does indeed have the best pizza.

Not that I'd ever find out, since I'll more than likely never set foot within the confines of that place.

interesting you should say that as I am on Houston as we speak. Sympathetic magic could teleport you here against your will, but that would be mean.

No worries. I've got Bracers of Protection from the City That's Too Full of Itself +5.

:)

so...no houston for you then. ;)

Oh don't even get me started on New York style pizza. Can't stand thin crust. Give me a pizza with some substance.

(The best kind is the kind that has the thick outer crust, so it's nice and tall and deep, but the actual crust of the pie itself is relatively thin. That way all the thickness is actual toppings and not dough. But lacking that, I'd rather have the thick crust and extra dough than not. Thin-crust pizza that's just all thin New York style is just meh.)

eat your Chicago deep dish. Flavor it with your TEARS!

Poor non nyers. Can't enjoy the simple beauty of a large cheese pie. :)

I can see where brookes is coming from. The title of the thread should lack spoilers. However, this is a minor spoiler.

Sissyl wrote:

I do realize that asians are victims of similar charming ways of expressing themselves, but that was not my question. Simply: Is it worse for a white man to call a black man a "N@#!!@" than if an asian does it, or are both situations equally offensive?

I'd say that, today, it's pretty close. Barring of course something more personal, like, "I wish I could still lynch you people the way my granddaddy used to" -- that would nudge it into pure fighting words, I'd think. People, rightly, tend to get annoyed at that sort of thing.

I've had asians call me the n word before. It's quite offensive. I don't allow black people to call me that either, for what it's worth.

Vinegar please...

if vinegar, sauces based on vinegar, brazil nuts or what have you are actively being used in place of a racial slur, then yes, it is offenSive. It is a potentially lethal mistake to assume bigots are idiots, some are quite good at hiding their feelings or speaking in code in public. Does this mean we should be paranoid about the aforementioned substances? No.

Group task we were given: we are a UN committee during a nuclear Third World War. One of the bunkers with ten people has supplies that will last only for half of the time they'll need to spend there. We will have to decide which five person will live and which not basing our choices upon incomplete records:

Survivors:
- 16 year old girl, elementary school, no job, drug-user.
- 25 yo priest who is factory worker.
- 35 yo woman, medical doctor.
- 32 yo homosexual male, Nobel-prize winning biochemist and pharmacologist.
- 30 yo male cop.
- 42 yo famous musician.
- movie star, can sing and dance.
- 48 yo male miner.
- Olympic athlete.
- terrorist who is student of law.

I hate these things.

Minus 40°C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40°F.

that sounds heavenly.

Freehold DM wrote:

Skeletal Steve wrote:

meatrace wrote:

Skeletal Steve wrote:

You'll have to help me remember the other 49.

Here's some (including some you mentioned) after a quick google search.

Most of these failed to penetrate the inner Embassy. Almost all of those killed were those outside of Embassy security. Each one did not occur over hours, involve constant gun battles with drone surveillance in Washington that decided to provide no combat support to them despite a clear and present need.

What is presented here are quick strikes by small groups that almost all end with the perpetrators killed immediately. We're still rather short of that 54 number. Where did that come from, by the way?

so.... these attacks don't matter?

Of course they matter. But the issue at hand is an ongoing attack over hours by an organized force involving artillery clearly seen by a drone on scene with Americans fighting a desperate battle for survival in a tiny building and somebody seeing that and deciding to do nothing.

But we can continue to move the goalposts all over so I can be portrayed as a Republican Apologist, if you so wish.

if asking your opinion on similar attacks that have occurred is moving goalposts, then we have little to discuss.

meatrace wrote:

Skeletal Steve wrote:

You'll clearly note that I never once mentioned Obama in anything I said.

I find it fascinating how any misstep suddenly becomes an us vs them game rather than finding out what happened, why, and exactly who is at fault regardless of their current standing or party affiliation.

Then you'll stand with me in my call to reopen or launch investigations into each of the 54 attacks on US consulates during Bush's 8 years. Right? Since it's not political or anything.

Sure. Bring me solid information about who knew what when, and then refused to do something despite seeing live images of what was going on at the scene? I'd be happy to see an investigation there as well.

This may surprise you, but some of us are more interested in justice than just taking shots at the rival political party.

I have yet to see this.

Az glad your brother is okay.

aeglos wrote:

Berchtesgaden is bavarian since just 200 yearsit was an indipended church state before 1820 ruled by Lord- Abbots

It would be an interesting alternate history story if all the small German polities had survived into modern times. There were quite a few iirc.

May I direct you here , sir?

Also, FHDM, does it seem weird when I say I miss nekkid drow chick?

I'll change it back. I miss nudity.

Freehold DM wrote:

its ch and fhdm and az in the CLUB!

Sorry. CH lied to you.

It'll be more like Wolfthulhu, Tordek, Jess, and AZ in the CLUB. Along with my brother, and any other Houston FAWTLies I can't think of.

... Soooo... EVERYONE is moving to Houston street? That's interesting. ....

Celestial Healer wrote:

Aberzombie wrote:

Also, might as well let it be known......

You know how all those Houston FAWTLY folk are always encouraging people to move to Houston.......?

You're moving to Houston Street? That is ironic!

The street? Not just no, but hell no.

The city? That's almost 99.9% certainty.

soooo.... someplace else in the village?

kmal2t wrote:

tomorrow wrote:

If you're being truly unreasonable by quitting, MAYBE... but even then not usually, unless your play group is really immature. Roleplaying is playing, its right there in the word. Playing is something you do for fun. If a player is being so frustrated, agitated, or outright pissed off by the way game is being run by the DM, that they are no longer capable of enjoying themselves then they honestly should quit. Sure, if its possible to talk things out and amend things so everyone can have fun, do that... but in practice that isn't always possible.

Something being a game is not an excuse for poor sportsmanship and piss-poor behavior. If I'm playing Monopoly and I don't like the strategy someone uses to beat me I don't say "I'm not having fun now" flip the table and walk out. Players in the NFL play a game as well. If they "aren't having fun" losing and are frustrated with someone holding them or the reffing they don't have a b#@#@-fit and storm out of the game. Players that do things like this get booed for a reason. Yes, it's their job but they already have enough money to do just fine and players at the end of their career don't do this either even though they could. Why? Because it's childish.

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If other players are going to burn bridges with you for that, then... well... those bridges need to be burnt, because that makes them pretty immature people. Seriously, if your buddies are telling you they don't want to hang/play with you anymore because you didn't stick around and suffer through one of them being an absolute jerk to you... FIND NEW FRIENDS or rather simply FIND FRIENDS, because that last group of folks does not actually even qualify.

Trying to put the blame on them for this behavior is beyond absurd. How are they immature? You walked out like a child..and they finished the game. Why would I want to be friends with someone that acts like a little kid and throws tantrums? This is epic douchebag behavior to say you need new friends to

...

I think there is a divide between people who have had a table flipper and those who have not. one side will never understand the other.

There is a three legged dog sitting here outside the food coop my wife has joined. He looks like he has a story to tell.

taig wrote:

Orthos wrote:

so Hyperbole and a Half has updated after a long hiatus

And man do I sympathize a lot more than I thought I would =/

It's good to see her back. I also sympathize with her.

thank you. I look forward to using this in My group next week.

Just ran it supervisor, who thinks this is an excellent idea. Can't wait to run group next week.

HAIL AEGLOS AND SABINE! I will send you guys a ny possum!

gooooooooooooooooooood mooooooooooooooooooorniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnng

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Wedding day ! (Part1)

I will try to keep you informed

awright aeglos! !!!! May god bless this day and union.

If I do it nekked I can claim insanity.

why didn't I think of this. ..?

Got Kingmaker saturday this weekend myself. I am grappling with the realization that this ap is dm work intensive because its up to me to fill in the dark edges of the map-the book standard stuff is not enough for my group. I've already changed up the gigantic lake in the east to be thick with fey because there is a kernel of/portal to the plane of elemental water at the center of the lake that the pcs have yet to discover. I've made a minor cyclops civilization in the mountains wreathing said lake that the pcs have just annihilated by themselves in orderto make the events of the next book more believable for me as the survivors head west and link up with you know who as elements in his army/scouts. The pcs have also saved a group of petrified dwarves who were overtaken by the cockatrices that make their home there-I included a hilarious scene of a maniticore being overrun and petrified by a flock of cockatrices.I wonder if I should turn them into a swarm...

And we're nekkid!!!

Hanging out with CH! Doing strand and forbidden planet and allllllllllll sorts of debauchery!! Woooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

You're always going to have people who are trying to kill things by expanding a folding boat in their gullet, regardless of the creatures size. It happens.

Freehold DM wrote:

Icyshadow wrote:

Got a day off tomorrow, and no signs of that darn bag.

Also, currently would want to try out a Chaotic Good Holstaur Cleric of Groetus with bipolar disorder.
The other idea I got is a Paladin of Magdh who's race I have yet to decide, though I am leaning to Elf or Aasimar.
Last idea would be a Lawful Good Fetchling Inquisitor of Tsukiyo, who'd play out as a friendly but kinda creepy Shrine Maiden.

Holstaur? Like monster girl?

More or less, yeah. I made a playable version of them with a different backstory depending on the setting.

In most versions of the story, they're the result of a deity trying to turn a few repentant female Minotaurs back into Humans.

When/if the DM doesn't allow homebrew races (for whatever reason), I just play an Agathion-Blooded Aasimar that looks similar to a Holstaur.

I...I think I love you.

Nekkid laughter. One of the best kinds.

Orthos wrote:

Mathwei ap Niall wrote:

I can't seem to muster the suspension of disbelief necessary to think any rational government would spend billions on A giant robot to melee a giant monster rather then spend a fraction of that on a few thousand tactical nukes or orbital microwave emitters.

Why bother even letting the giant lizard out of the water when you can fry it from 100 miles away?

Because it's awesome.

Realism is intentionally left at the door in these kinds of things.

And that's the flaw with this genre of movie. If you have to so completely let go of realism to this extent then you're going to alienate a HUGE chunk of your potential market. I can't get behind this, it hurts my widdle head to let go of that much.

... You do know this is based off of a VERY specific genre of Japanese animation that has been around since the 60s, right?

Losses abound. Me, I've been waiting for this genre to be taken seriously on this level in this medium. It could suck, sure. But I'm going to see it with my fellow giant robot fans and at least cheer for Rocket Punch/Boost Knuckle/Big Impact on the big screen.

I love boobplate. But i understand not everyone does.

I find that anticlimaxes are very interesting storytelling tools. They can be very well done by a good writer and neatly subvert the expectations of the reader into something thought-provoking. They can be very badly done and come across as scrambling to end a story when the author realizes they did not give their characters the proper tools to solve the problem. And then they can just be a punch in the face to the reader because the writer is an utter troll.

So if you need me, I'll be avoiding fire and acid damage. ;)

agreed. The writer needs to be astonishingly good to pull it off. IIRC, xenogears had a few good ones.

Flash! It's good to see you!!

Matthew Morris wrote:

My somewhat snarky point that got lost was, if we ignore Hemidal's appearance in the comics and other material arguing 'film continutiy' then we can ignore Khan's TV/Movie apperances too.

Not to mention, Nick Fury...

Seriously? David hasselhoff vs Samuel L Jackson? Good luck with that one.

Orthos wrote:

All in all I'm loving most of these monsters and there are a great many I can already make use of. I think the most prominent is all the kaidas - I think I'm going to have them replacing the local pseudodragon population when I run Crimson Throne in the future.

Thanks, Orthos! This means a lot to me, especially your comment about the kaidas. They've turned out to be my favorite monsters to work on, so it's really neat to see that they'll get some use.

the Darklight Sisterhood just might run into a unique monster or two.... Created by a dastardly wizard working for the Pathfinder society, that is.

OKay..recovering from a straaaaaaaaange weekend. But first, a set of pics that I have been promising myself to post. A gift from my Darklight Sisterhood gaming group in light of the ill luck I have been complaining about with some this year. I screamed like a little girl. LIKE A LITTLE GIRL. I displayed her with pride during the one day of the Sakura Matsuri I went to this year, and one person took a picture. My wife carried her for a bit, and people mobbed her for pics. It was awesome.

I wanted to write a long thank you to my(all female!!!!) Darklight Sisterhood Group, but I gotta go to work. I will gush later, I promise.

Kajehase wrote:

Just found out you can get wienerschnitzel for €7 in München. Thought it was a nice place when we were there - and this does not change that opinion!

Ha, I buy food for almost one and half of a week for €7 (i.e. about 30 zloty). For some unexplained reason most people don't belive that I manage to survive on that...

what in the world is a zloty? It sounds like something taig has in waiting for us to fight.

All sexual preferences and fetishes appear in my games. But not all at once.

BluePigeon wrote:

Double Huzzah!

Passed the drug test. Time for my physical.

Way to go BP!

Give me a b! Give them your...well, you get it.

Today I learned how reach works.

That fits nicely on a headstone.

Salt and Pepa...

Here! And we're in effect! Want you to push it babe!

Excellent.

As much as I truly despise math, I must point out confirmation bias is a serious problem in all fields.