Zyren's luxurious campfire... this time with marshmallows...

[Zyren Zemerys]

Dachte ich mir ;( Da sind aber genau ein paar von denen dabei, an die ich kommen will :)

@ Tirion: Oh my god, how shall I ever afford that?! But yay for 5000th post!

[Tirion Jörðhár]

Er, your the DM, just print the money like the ECB and the Fed do.

[Bilbo Bang-Bang]

Mark Sweetman wrote:

Bilbo Bang-Bang wrote:

I was wondering about that. I heard you guys don't even like Fosters. It is just trick to sell to us over here. lol

Correct - very few people in Australia drink Fosters, and it is very rarely on tap in any pubs.

I knew it! Thanks for the confirmation.

[Mark Sweetman]

Grr - getting frustrated with all the slippages in schedule for Skulls and Shackles. First volume isn't due to 'pre-order' till April now!

[Zyren Zemerys]

goblinworks is taking its toll..

[Mark Sweetman]

In this case not so much - I can remember seeing some comments about shipping delays from China, so it must be caught on a boat somewhere...

[Bilbo Bang-Bang]

I can attest to the fact that the slow boat to China does, in fact, exist. lol.

[grmnbln]

Hello. I disappeared. This disappearance has an explanation. The explanation is my innate power of procrastination and 6 exams in a 2 week period. This is the first time I have been on the paizo forums for about a month. Installed one of those programs that limits your internet use to a few pages (in this case wolfram alpha and my course websites) and then got my house mate to change the password to unlock it and not tell me. They only gave me the password yesterday. It has been a fun month.

If I've been replaced in all the games I disappeared from I totally understand, I feel really bad about up and vanishing. Came back to explain where I went really.

[Zyren Zemerys]

Oh well, you haven't been replaced anywhere (except HORI), we were just sad :(

*pokes all others around the fire* - but if Corvax is still up for the challenge he is also welcomed again!

[grmnbln]

Alright then! I know how I am spending my evening now. I imagine there is quite a lot too catch up on.

[feytharn]

welcome back grmnbln!
I just sunk a kitchen knive about 1cm into my right index finger, not too bad it seems, i can move it and definatly still feel it, but my own bandages are quite a hindrance to typing and I guess the ones the doctor will replace the with will not be much better - my post count might slow a bit for a few day (or might at least be riddled with typos or abbreviations.).

[Mark Sweetman]

Waves to grmnbln.

Heart of Pulp fell over too unfortunately.

If people would prefer I backed out of Riddles for Corvax to step back in I'm cool with that - don't want to un-necessarily overload the party with too many.

[grmnbln]

Nah don't do that. If the the party gets too overloaded with people Corvax can wander off to the nearest tavern (provided he can get off the island) and disappear into a haze of alcohol. Only fair really, I'm the one who vanished and had to be replaced after all. And curses on the heart of pulp falling over thing, it was rather slow but I did enjoy it.

[Zyren Zemerys]

@ Fey: Well done :/

@ grmbln: No problem - maybe a heads-up next time, kay? :)

[feytharn]

Zyren Zemerys wrote:

@ Fey: Well done :/

I told you I knew about that sort of injuries...

At least I managed not to hit anything important but the bone - and that didn't get hurt, and since it is a finger and not a toe it shouldn't take that long to heal :-)
...four edits to remove the worst typos...

[Zyren Zemerys]

I could need a helping hand from one of you US based people:

I would like to order this from the FFG store.

But they charge like 70 dollars shipping...I guess it's about 10 dollars shipping if you do it via USPS. Anyone willing to help me and buy it and send it to Germany?

I could send you the money it costs (item + normal shipping to you + shipping to me) via Paypal.

[grmnbln]

Long overdue level uppishness

Kanyk HP 1d10 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

James HP 1d6 ⇒ 5

[Stiehl9s]

A very belated congrats to Bilbo on his promotion. Well done!

and a welcome back to grmnbln. Howd you do on your exams?

[grmnbln]

No idea of actual marks yet but they seemed to go well.
The only one that may end up being subpar is Quantum Mechanics, had a complete brain fart on one of the questions which may have cost me about 10-20%. All the others went dandy though.
Galaxies was just a case of brain dumping all the things I'd revised for the course into the exam paper, not much thought or any complex maths involved really.
Waves was quite tough in places just because some of matrices involved were unpleasant.
Photonics exam was part memory and part calculation but nothing too taxing.
Energy and the environment is pretty much a doss course, a mix of a level physics and geography and the exam lived up to expectations and was super simple.
Linear algebra again not hard, I had done so many practice questions and past papers by the time I did the exam that I could answer most of the questions with out even really thinking about it.

[Meowzebub]

My brain hurts just reading that list of exams. Congrats on getting through them.

[Stiehl9s]

I second both of those notions!

[Tirion Jörðhár]

I took some of those courses many years ago, but only 1-2 per quarter, not all at once. Ouch. And I remember Waves and Vibrations - I still have nightmares about the equations in that course.

Congrats on finishing them.

[feytharn]

Zyren, should we make use of the new PM system instead of spoilers from now on?

Sorry about the delay with Airship Pirates, I am still on it, but I might need a tad more time due to real life issues.

[feytharn]

Grmnbln - congrats for finishing your exams!

[Zyren Zemerys]

How can we send PMs now?

No, for rping I would prefer spoilers, PMs are good for certain kinds of ooc.

[Stiehl9s]

There's a little mail envelope by your name at the top where it says 'Welcome, *****'

Great addition to the site. Definitely needed.

[feytharn]

You can also send a PM using a users profile page.

[DM Harpwizard]

Zyren, I would be willing to help you out with your ordering. Please email me a list of what you want ordered and your mailing address and I will see to it.

[Zyren Zemerys]

DMHW:

Thx Bill- I just need one item:

Faith of Sigmar

Address:

Christoph Langmandel
Käthe-Kollwitz-Str. 4
46539 Dinslaken
Germany

[DM Harpwizard]

Zyren:

I have ordered Faith of Sigmar. It will probably arrive sometime early next week. Once I get it, I will ship it forward. I will let you know the cost once I send it off.

[Zyren Zemerys]

DMHW:

You're great, thx! How much did you pay for inner-US shipping?

[Zyren Zemerys]

fey:

Sag mal: Wie läuft das bei COC bei der Charaktererschaffung:

Wieviele Punkte habe ich für Fertigkeiten und kann ich nur die steigern, die bei den berufen aufgezählt sind? Und wird die Grundchance dazu addiert?

[DM Harpwizard]

Zyren:

So far I have spent $6.95 + $4.69 shipping for a total of $11.64. That is shipping 1st class mail.

[Zyren Zemerys]

@ DMHW: Sounds good!

[feytharn]

Zyren Zemerys wrote:

** spoiler omitted **

Spoiler:

Bildung x 20 Punkte auf Fertigkeiten die beim Beruf aufgelistet sind, Intelligenz x 10 auf beliebige Fertigkeiten (sollen Hobby Fertigkeiten sein, daher erlaube ich nur in Ausnahmefällen dies auch noch auf Berufsfertigkeiten zu verteilen) außer auf Cthulhu Mythos/Mythoswissen (Übersetzung variiert je nach Edition). Die Grundchance wird dazuaddiert, aber der Maximalwert bleibt bei 99%

[Zyren Zemerys]

Fey:

Super, das hab ich gestern im Bett in dieser Charaktererschaffungszusammenfassung auch so gefunden!

So richtig viel Regeln hat das Ganze ja gar nicht, oder? Ein bisschen was noch für Kampf und was die geistige Gesundheit angeht, aber sonst?!

[feytharn]

Zyren Zemerys wrote:

** spoiler omitted **

Spoiler:

Stimmt, CoC / RRPG ist regeltechnisch extrem einfach. Außerdem erkennt man auch ohne Rollenspielerfahrung ziemlich direkt, was ein Charakter kann, weil alle Fähigkeiten in Prozentwerten ausgedrückt sind, das macht das Spiel ideal für OneShots und als Einsteigersystem, für die klassische Cthulhu Ermittlergeschichte hat es außerdem den Vorteil, das man gar nicht in die Versuchung geführt wird, den Spielern zu viel 'Arbeit' durch erwürfelte Erfolge abzunehmen

Wenn das Spiel allerdings in eine kampfintensivere Richtung abdriftet als für CoC üblich, was z.B. bei Delta Green oder in Cthulhu Mittelalter Spielen leicht passieren kann, sind meine Gruppen bei dem System oft angeeckt (und das nicht wegen der sehr hohen Todesrate).

Deswegen spiele ich meine Delta Green Runde z.Zt. mit den alten (und von mier heißgeliebten) Alternity Regeln.

[Mark Sweetman]

Anyone else keeping track of the OotS reprint Kickstarter?

$416 k raised in about 12 days... not bad for a comic about stick figures eh?

[Zyren Zemerys]

wow, not bad!

[Zyren Zemerys]

Fey:

Kennst du ein COC 1X1 Abenteuer? Einer meiner Spieler würde gerne mal reinschnuppern. Am besten online zum Runterladen, er will nämlich morgen vorbeikommen - oder kennst du eines, was man einfach mit einem Spieler machen kann?

[feytharn]

Zyren:

Spoiler:

DieEinsteigerabenteuer kann man beide denke ich gut auch mit nur einem Spieler spielen, du solltest aber vermutlich einen NSC (Ehefrau, Verlobte, Verwandschaft o.ä, zur zusätzlichen Motivation und zur atmosphärischen Interaktion führen. Die Solo bzw. Solo und Gruppenabenteuer die du hier findest habe ich noch nicht gespielt, aber ich schätze sie sollten mit ein bischen Arbeit (du hast ja noch eine ganze Nacht Zeit ;-) ) auch gut verwenden lassen.

Die Abenteuerbände sind alle etwas lang und vermutlich auch etwas schwierig, die im Spielleiterhandbuch habe ich gerade nicht mehr gut genug im Gedächtnis.

[feytharn]

...comes by, putting a few logs and some tinderwood on the dying flames, walks of, hunting marshmellows...

[Tirion Jörðhár]

I think that DMZZ forgot to buy the marshmallows. However, I do have an everfull decanter of Microbrew and we have all the remnants of that Stay Puft Marshmallow Man elemental lying around.

[Bree Longfield]

Bree enters carrying a large pillowcase full of chocolate, graham crackers and marshmallows. After passing them around to the group and stoking the fire she curls up against a large rock and takes out a book entitled Globalization and Change in Fifteen Cultures: Born in One World, Living in Another and begins to read the second chapter, "2/Change in the Lives of a Brazilian Indigenous People: To Pluck eyelashes (or Not?) among the Canela".

[Tirion Jörðhár]

Tirion looks over Bree's shoulder at what she is reading and wonders whether it would be more effective to also read the book, or simply pith himself.

[Bree Longfield]

After a page and a half, she flips back to the front cover, then looks at a piece of parchment laying to her side. "Grrrr. Wrong book. Why does this teacher insist on identifying the books only by the authors last name and not the title..." a few more grumbles escape her lips as she shifts the books around in her backpack and pulls out yet another book. She opens Culture and Change: An Introduction to the second chapter "Culture Context" and begins reading once more.

Seeing Tirion looking over her shoulder, she shoves the first book into his hands.

[TarkXT]

Drinks a coke.

[Tirion Jörðhár]

After glancing at the book, Tirion realizes that he will gain more intellectually by pithing himself.

[Bree Longfield]

Lol, I'm aware of the meaning of the word and I tell you with how I'm feeling about school lately, I'm not in disagreement.

[feytharn]

Just remember: You are learning for school, not for life!