I'll consider it, but no promises. And we've all had our failings at some point. I hold no grudge or anything like that.
We're at rank 4.
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We're at rank 4.
Awesome. Alright, I think that does it. I'll be posting the updated version of my character sheet real soon. Also, do you mind if I start posting in the Gameplay?
Go ahead. You're part of the group with Tarngius, Bazzle, and Rexandi.
Go ahead. You're part of the group with Tarngius, Bazzle, and Rexandi.
Cool! BTW, I dropped the Savage Skald archetype and kept the other two as I don't think I could use the changes it makes.
Also, I took a potion of cure moderate wounds as the gift that we received at Rank 3....I think that was what it was.
Anyhow, I added some occupations to Kethaera's profile. I think y'all we get a kick out of the last one. ;)
Although I'm puzzled: do we have a large following of supporters?
I know you took down the Rebellion sheet for time restraints, but it did give me a clear indication of how well (or how awful! Pray that doesn't happen!) we were doing.
Hey there! I am the other kind and loyal player :D
Nice to meet you!
Also I think we should utilize the books and soul tomes to increase our secrecy, security, and loyalty. It'll help us later on as we continue to work against Thrune.
Also I think we should utilize the books and soul tomes to increase our secrecy, security, and loyalty. It'll help us later on as we continue to work against Thrune.
Roger dat
I just looked at Kethaera's sheet and it looks like she got rid of bonded mind, which is why I changed that.
Bonded mind is a great feat. If you travel with NPCs at some point I'll make sure they eventually pick it up as well.
Next level I can start giving people Teamwork Feats as long as I have them so maybe that'll work better. It can be a little situational for people who are feat-starved.
Ah sorry about that. I actually forgot to put that in. I'm pcgen and it's the latest alpha version at the moment. I have to see which source book it came from and I can put it back in if y'all want me to.
Oh GM could you put me back into being active into this campaign please? It keeps saying that I'm inactive.
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Ah s%!$ I forgot about that. Sure on that right now
Ah s+#% I forgot about that. Sure on that right now
Lol! It's cool. I actually almost forgot myself.
It's in Distant Shores gazetteer or however you spell that.
So I was re-watching Thor Ragnorok this weekend. I couldn't help but think of you all when Korg the rock guy mentioned being imprisoned for the failed revolution. "We didn't print enough pamphlets only my mom and her boyfriend showed up, and I hate him."
Bottom line we need more pamphlets.
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#1. Looks more like Edér from Pillars of Eternity.
The second is too piratey.
The first one. Especially the one with the white striek variation. Said the guy with a natural white striek in his hair.
The second one does look a little pirate-y, but I think the first one looks a little old?
I went through my collection to see if anything fit, and I came up with These. Do any of them work for you? The last one isn't elven, but he's got the right look I was imagining.
The second one has that kind of subtle smarmy arrogance that just makes you want to punch. So that one :)
ha sorry, the first one(Eder as Rexandi pointed out) or that third one of Fox's has my real vote.
The second one looks like Orlando Bloom bulked up.
Hahahaha Bazzle - he does doesn't he?
The second one has that kind of subtle smarmy arrogance that just makes you want to punch. So that one :)
Hey! Why do you wanna punch Ederion, he is an agreeable fella :D
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Overall, thank you for the feedback guys, and for the suggested images Fox.
I kinda do agree your suggestions look more like an elf, and that the first one I linked does 'feel' a tad older than what could be pictured from my avatar image, but.... I think it is my favorite - the one with the white streak variation as pointed out by Bazzle :D
Roger dat ^^
He's the one with the eye patch and the nose bandage, right?
Nop - the middle one :D
Sorry guys. Ive got a new shift at work thats 16 hours Wednesday 16 Thursday 8 friday and got kind of Shanghaid into 16 today too thats why I haven't been posting.
oh my god that's absolutely brutal
I've done a few 12 hours back in the day, but I'm not sure if Canada even allows 16 hours.
Sleep well O_O
Pardon me. I got overwhelmed for a bit
Wait? That's bad? I want your hours!
Where I work they consider 30 hours full time and anything over 40 overtime. 15-25 hours is part time. Yeah....I'm not going into it. I work in a bookstore. Hopefully they'll give me more hours in the next few weeks (doubtful).
Depending on how busy said bookstore is, I might want to work in one. I'd only want 10 hours a week though.
On my to-do list is to make a document with all the homebrew rules we come up with. I'd like to stay consistent.
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Well I work in juvenile mental health so "working" could mean playing magic or 5e with the boys or it could mean wandering the woods with a clipboard asking a moody teenager about his feelings every 15 minutes or teaching them how to solve for x or make an omelette. 16 hours of caring for people who are fundamentally illogical is very taxing and it's all one day after another so come Friday night I am wiped.
Yeah I would have keeled over if I were in your situation. That's really good though, Tarnagius. I'm sure you've played a very meaningful role in those kids lives. I also imagine that you're 100% fluent in Japanese to do that well, right?
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Well I work in juvenile mental health so "working" could mean playing magic or 5e with the boys or it could mean wandering the woods with a clipboard asking a moody teenager about his feelings every 15 minutes or teaching them how to solve for x or make an omelette. 16 hours of caring for people who are fundamentally illogical is very taxing and it's all one day after another so come Friday night I am wiped.
I know your pain. I work at a shelter for kids coming into foster care. When the investigators have to take kids they bring them to us until longer term care is available. So we have any age kid, experiencing fresh trauma. Today was the first day we have not been at max capacity. So I played some Madden, Mario Kart and facilitated a volunteer doing a puzzle with some elementary kids.
Yeah I would have keeled over if I were in your situation. That's really good though, Tarnagius. I'm sure you've played a very meaningful role in those kids lives. I also imagine that you're 100% fluent in Japanese to do that well, right?
I'm actually back in the US for now, saving money for grad school back over there. I'm hoping to either teach college or maybe be a school counselor over there or something like that. Mental health is not one of the better things about living in Japan.
I know your pain. I work at a shelter for kids coming into foster care. When the investigators have to take kids they bring them to us until longer term care is available. So we have any age kid, experiencing fresh trauma. Today was the first day we have not been at max capacity. So I played some Madden, Mario Kart and facilitated a volunteer doing a puzzle with some elementary kids.
Yeah it sounds like we take a lot of those guys after you have them. Our placements are usually somewhere between 6 months to a year or two, but that's not always a good sign, since we're a pretty high-level placement so we don't want kids at our level for too long.
Sounds like really hard, but rewarding work. As someone who is struggling hard with mental illness, I have a lot of respect for what you guys do.
Is there a specific course that you'd like to teach in college? If I were to be a professor, I'd want to teach history. Most of my interest comes from late medieval weapons and armor though, so that's a pretty narrow view.
I have to say my hat is off to you guys for the kind of work you are carrying out - all I can say is my line of work (IT related) feels kinda hollow compared to you, and definitely not rewarding at all (at least for now) :P
I have to say my hat is off to you guys for the kind of work you are carrying out - all I can say is my line of work (IT related) feels kinda hollow compared to you, and definitely not rewarding at all (at least for now) :P
If it helps you also have to learn about stuff like secondary trauma, tons of stress and getting a mouthful of pills vomited on you.
Funny thing I was really happy the kid spit the pills on me because I really didn't want to deal with him swallowing the handful he had put in his mouth.
Oh god... yeah that's a very hard job
My hat is off to you gentlemen. Helping those that need help is a truly honorable profession.
Fox, history is lovely choice. My professor-ship would be computer science, algorithms specifically. The science of solving problems. I do love it.
I'd teach legal philosophy and cultural studies. Why are different things illegal in different societies, and stuff like that.
Unfortunately if you think the state of mental health care in Japan is bad, you may not have seen the U.S. lately :/
Interesting! I've never heard of legal philosophy, but that's a very thought provoking realm of studies. If I were studying at university I would pick up that course in a heartbeat.
Computer science is pretty fun. I took a semester in computer science before I crashed. I probably won't continue in it, as I've come to love history and English literature more, but it's cool nonetheless.
I don't know much about US (or Japanese) mental health care, but I would hazard a guess that it isn't good. I've been frustrated with the system here in Canada, but I don't know if it's really nation specific. I just feel like I'm constantly rolling dice to find good, affordable help (and I keep losing).
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Japan has a better health care system than the US (imo) with better access to resources but mental health is harshly stigmatized and not taken quite as seriously. Schools need permission to place kids into special education classes even if the kids are being disruptive to the classroom environment or dangerous. I had a kid when I was a junior high school teacher who would literally climb on people, scream randomly during the middle of class, throw things and kick her desk around the room but the school couldn't put her in special education or even really punish her beyond failing grades because her grandmother was a stubborn individual who insisted that whatever our difficulties were it was all our faults and that we were incompetent and not that her granddaughter was a raging hellion who needed specially-trained individuals to get her to a place where she can function in society, so we just had to deal with it.
One reason (among many) that Japan has as high a suicide rate as it does is that one of Japan's most fundamental societal rules is 我慢 gaman, a zen term meaning something like quiet endurance or stoicism, so people deal with s~%%ty situations in their life until suddenly they can't so they just end it. Mental health wasn't even seen as a societal need until the 2000s or so, and Japan's cultural homogeneity make it even less likely to be something your average person seeks out out of shame or ignorance that it is even available.
I feel bad for that kid. She's going to be extra hampered since she can't get any help, thanks to her grandma (and the rules). Everyone else also has a much harder time.
I don't have a clue what the word is, but I've heard that there's a word in Japanese to describe death-by-working. I wouldn't be surprised if it has to do with gaman, or maybe it is gaman.
It is kind of ironic that Japan has a better mental health system than the US despite the extra dose of stigma.
Yeah, one time I had to talk her into not jumping out a second-story window onto concrete to get a bag, and another time I caught a 5 lb shotput she threw at her classmate.
That's called karoushi 過労死. It's kind of related, but I think it's more closely aligned with Japanese concepts of loyalty. Employment in Japan used to be for life, so since the company provided for you and your family for as long as you were a member of the workforce and since you were such a major investment for them, you gave them every little thing you had, like a samurai giving his life for his lord. That's not nearly as common as it used to be, thankfully, but my ex still had nights where she worked until 3 am, slept in the office on a cot until 6, then went back to work. As a schoolteacher a lot of the things we made we reused the next year, so that was less of a problem for me but I still wanted to punch her boss in the teeth every time I saw him.
What's the point of existing if you can't even pursue that which you value?
My girlfriend has a really bad employer that makes me want to kick their teeth in, but it pales in comparison to your ex's situation.
I do question the concept of 'a major investment for them'. Unless the employee is a highly trained specialist, employees are disposable and replaceable... Unless there was a rule that the employer couldn't fire that employee?
Guys, dropping a line to let you know I will be going on vacations from the 20th until the 30th June. Will have access to internet, and will probably be able to post here and there during those 10 days, but in between family, SUN, beach, swimming pool and summer beverages, the posts will have to wait a tad ;)
Yeah if I had the luxury of a vacation, I probably wouldn't be going online to play these games either.
Oh and I never answered your question, Fox, it's not that they couldn't it's that incompetent employees used to be pretty well-hidden because supervisors would often be blamed for their subordinate's mistakes, so why not just hide incompetent staff instead of getting yelled at?