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I got some really good news at one of my doctor's yesterday. Despite some indications pointing to Amyloidosis, she says I do not have it, at least not the inherited type. But we're going to do a couple more tests next month to look for one more thing.

Worry about this has been hanging over me like a burial shroud waiting to fall on my mind and spirit. I still have quite a bucket list of other issues, but none that are as serious as that. Thanks for all the good vibes!

Fantasy Monster: Blasphemouse

If you found a hole gnawed in your holy robes, it might be its fault.

I laughed right out loud at the name!! I love it!

Yesterday was a huge success here at least. Had the drunk night crew over, with multiple Xbox setups playing games and chicken dip and drinks. I got to run two games of Blood on the Clocktower and then they had a run of Magic afterwards while pizza bagels were cooked up for dinner. And I think only one person got sick, so that’s not a bad record.

I miss nights like that!!

I ended up having to bow out of my friend's First Game of the Year. My back muscles are in a constant, unyielding spasm of tightening and I can barely move. I can't even turn my head. Fortunately I didn't have to go to hospital with the THIRD UTI of last year.

I don't want to get into it much right now (and on this forum) but I'm being tested for a pretty severe disorder and so far the Medical 8-Ball keeps saying, "All signs point to yes", and recurring UTIs and kidney disorders are one of the largest indicators.

Stay tuned.

Facebook's "People You May Know" algorithm has been hitting me for months with a young woman whose last name was the same as a friend I made in St. Louis. I finally messaged her. She's his daughter. She told me he passed away in October 2023 from a stroke.

Dan was a great guy and a fun person to play D&D with. I'm very sad to learn of his passing.

Game tomorrow at my friend's house. I'm not GMing, but another member of our friends/gaming mob is. All this is contingent upon my not being put in the hospital. Stay tuned!

How about everyone else? First games of the new year?

I love you guys.

Merry Christmas, everyone! May your stockings be stuffed with dice!

Fantasy Monster: Saint Of Claws

Clack-clack-crunch!

This is fabulous!

Sounds like a fantastic session!

What's everyone doing this weekend? Around Sweet Home Calabama the final wind up to Christmas is the big event the weekend. Final gifts purchased, dinner plans finalized, and the fight to keep the cat named Bandit (we've started calling him TaliBandit, actually, because he's a terrorist) out of the the Christmas tree continues unabated.

How about everyone else?

Andostre wrote:

Busy weekend!

Today's CoC game was cancelled, because the GM is ill, but that works out, because last night's block party was a lot more fun than I expected! (I didn't get drunk; I just stayed up too late.)

Uh huh. ;)

Dang it. I want a zen-cow now.

This is my favorite time of year. Cold weather (sorry, Quibs!), spending time with family and friends, holiday movies, etc. I'm a complete sap for Christmastime.

No game at Sweet Home Calabama this weekend, just going to spend some quiet time with family. And work feverishly on the ideas I have for my next game session LOL

How about everyone else?

Hi, all. Strange doings are a-foot. I'll elaborate more when I, in fact, know more. Doctors sure love their tests...

Hi, fellow kids. Sorry I missed dropping in on Friday. I don't want to get into particulars until I know more but I received some pretty distressing health news on Thursday and my brain is all a-dither. I hope everyone had a great weekend!

"You can do what thou wilt at Alistair's Restaurant".

My son is always in charge of the turkey prep and cooking. My contribution is eating it.

For those who celebrate Thanksgiving, here's hoping you have a wonderful day full of good food spent with family and friends followed by gaming madness. I was supposed to play in a friend's game Saturday only to learn just today I'm needed to house sit for a friend of mine who's going out of town for the weekend. sigh....

Welp, my evening just freed up. The GM left all of tonight's game prep on his desk where he works and the building is locked for the weekend and he can't get access to retrieve it. Dang it. We play at another friend's house and he always makes a LOT of wonderful food for game nights. So now I'm not only hanging with no plans I have to cook my own dinner! There is no justice in this world.

I have a game tomorrow night in my friend's PF game. This is the game where nearly every game is nothing but one 6 hour long combat sequence. Makes me glad Fighter is my preferred class LOL.

So a couple of my long time players missed the first game in the new campaign, but should make it for the next one, coming up in January. I asked what they had finally decided to play and one said, "A Wizard, of Human origins." Which prompted the other guy to say, "What, like Australopithecaster?"

I was slain.

I just got back from my friend's all Goblin game. Imagine you're playing Pokemon Silver on your Gameboy from back in the day, but with Goblins. When we kill something, we hear a "ping!" in our heads and our "bank" is updated. If you attack a boss that has something you want, you can see it floating above its head. It's literally a classic Pokemon game with elements of "Delicious in Dungeon" and smatterings of other anime and manga things thrown in. Not my style of game, but I'll keep attending. It's only fair since he's playing in my new campaign and our friendship goes back over 30 years now. And I had a good time meeting his gaming crew. Everyone brought food LOL.

That sounds suspiciously like a plan to me. Hmm.

Playing in a buddy's all Goblin campaign tomorrow. I've missed the first couple of games but I'll be caught up tomorrow. Wish me luck as Buck Damnitbuck makes his Druidic debut!

Fantasy Monster: Polyscorpion

Don't mind the multiple claws, it's the stingers that you should be worried of...

Horrifying.

We had a Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett stop by.

That's fantastic!

I'm a secret tree hugger so I don't rake my leaves as over a hundred species of tiny organisms winter under them.

And yes, each spring I battle them as they lay siege to my house.

Happy belated BDay wishes Cal!

Thank you!!

No game this weekend, but last weekend's launch of my new campaign went well. I can tell NONE of the players were aware of the dos and don'ts of Appalachian horror lore LOL. They're terrified of the forest, now.

What's everyone doing this weekend? Oh, and Happy Halloween!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAL!

Thank you!

Good luck with your game, Cal! And happy birthday!

Thank you very much!!

I just realized my game is completely ready to go. I planned on working past midnight. Now I'm not sure what to do!!!

Good luck to all of those undertaking physical endeavors! I will not be one of them. HOWEVER, unless I jinx myself with this post tomorrow will be the launch of my new campaign, "The Bones of The World". I'm starting off with our traditional Halloween game AND it's the day before my 63rd revolution about the sun. The stars are right for this weird admixture of Appalachian, Korean, Japanese, and Central European folk-horrors into what I hope will be a creepy, dramatic game.

Ever get so caught up in a creative groove you end up making something that will likely never see actual use in the game but it makes it all better for you regardless? I did that this week. Waaaaaay back in 1988 I ran an all nighter type one shot game featuring a demi-goddess I'd created on the spot, Dath, Bastard Daughter of Lolth. It was a fantastic game with comedy and heroics that would bring a tear to the eye. S'anyway, a 3.5e race I'm going to incorporate into the setting are Ghost Elves, from Dragon Magazine #313. I tweaked a bit here and there and then suddenly Dath became their patron goddess and I was up way past sunrise creating her. I also dredged up the Whisper Gnomes from 3.5e's "Races of Stone" to further populate this new land they're exploring. I may take the fan-converted Birthright's Shadow Halflings and throw them into the pot, too. I have 27.5 hours to put the finishing touches on things (this is also the third utter rewrite of the inaugural game since I began feeling the familiar itch to take my place behind the GM screen again back in January).

I didn't make it to the game today. I woke up around 5 this morning with...gastronomic distress. Yeah, we'll call it that. I've grown accustomed to the taste of Imodium, I think. Blech.

I completely forgot this part; after defeating the Cyclopes, a nosy old man kept harassing with questions about why were we there, why did we fight the monsters, how come this and how come that, and so on. Then he reveals himself to be Poseidon, magically fixes a boat and sends us on to the next part of the campaign.

Anyway, what's going on with everyone this weekend? I'm playing in a different friend's game on Sunday, which should be interesting. Sort of an all Goblins as PCs/anime style game. I am skeptical...LOL

How was the game, Cal?

It was fun! He has a bad habit of just pitting us against opponents in long, dragged out fights that literally take the entire five hour sessions to complete, but this one had a lot of roleplaying with only a random encounter fight at the end (5 seventh level players against eight

Game tomorrow! Woot! It's my friend's campaign and I get to be a player. No responsibilities beyond rolling dice and killin' stuff!

How about you all?

It was the lad's birthday on Tuesday, so he has a party at a trampolining place with his pals tomorrow. Other than that, possibly galloping through the storm, brandishing my black runesword at the clouds and laughing maniacally.

In the distance, Deep Purple begins to play...

No games here, but two next weekend! And I'm rewriting the inaugural game of my new campaign to be the traditional Halloween game we've always played. I'll be running it on the 25th, my birthday eve, so it's a good sign that we'll have a good time.

How about y'all??

Maltino?

Oops. I was out of town all day yesterday and forgot it was Friday.

What's happening, everyone?

And hiking requires zero effort? I'm all about economy of motion but I'm not seein' it.

My plan for the foreseeable future is to nurse this cold until it goes away or kills me, whichever comes first.

It's making my teeth ache. The ones I no longer have.

Yeesh. Feel better soon, man!

Godspeed, Erik.

Brilliant lol

Oh my goodness. I followed his Kirthfinder project for a long time.

Hey all! What's shakin'? Not much happening here this weekend. The roommate is a roadie for my son's band and they're leaving tomorrow until Sunday evening. I'll probably do some catch up on the housework and deal with some black mold that's trying to get a foothold in my bathroom. Other than that I'll be tweaking the opening game of my new campaign to run as both the debut and my annual Halloween game for later in October.

How about y'all?

Today, September 18, marks the 40th anniversary of the first AD&D game I ever played. I don't know why I remember this date more than many others, but I do LOL. Forty years ago I sat in on a game with an ex-player's character sheet and was told, "Just do what we tell you and you'll catch on." I ended up leading the party through a homebrew dungeon and becoming the first party to ever make it through to the end. I guess I did, indeed, "catch on".

The city I live in has a population of about 72K. Our DMV, the "Office of Driver Control", has always been really efficient and fast moving. I see the trope of the snail's pace DMVs and thank my lucky stars ours isn't like that.

But, moving on. What's going on this weekend? The game I was supposed to play in last week didn't go on, so I'm still sitting here, staring forlornly at dice. Tonight or tomorrow my ex is coming over for Chinese food and "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" as she's several episodes behind and the season finale was last night (I sure miss seasons that lasted 26 episodes instead of ten).

Anyway, that's the weekend here at Sweet Home Calabama!

Fantasy Monster: SNiffer

*sniff-sniff-sniff-SNIFF?!*

Just add obsessively trying to lick every human being to death and you have my dog Archie.

I'll probably visit our local plasma place next week, myself.

Greetings, fellow droogs! What are the plans for this weekend? I'm playing in a friend's brand new all-Goblin campaign Saturday afternoon. I'm a week behind on the start of the adventure, but they're just gonna love Buck the Gardener!