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Sunday is "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" at Tinseltown, followed by dinner at Monte Alban. No gaming this weekend.

Your correct link gives the same "access denied" error as the original.

First watch ended. Now I watch for the box to arrive.

We have a store here you might like. It's called "Beers Of The World". :-)

I had a pretty good drive to the office, though. Once I got past the idiot from my subdivision who was far too much of a wuss. Not to mention the a-hole bus drivers who deliberately get in the way of people trying to exit the subdivision.

Is it deliberate, or are they just obliviots?

His name's Dave. :-)

Marilyn Monroe, faced with Matzoh Ball Soup at a White House dinner: "Don't they ever serve any other part of the Matzoh?" Allegedly. :-)

Pre-Easter dinner tomorrow.

Improving the forums when discord / reddit etc exist doesn't seem like the best use of resources in my opinion.

Personally I very rarely if ever go to reddit. I do go to discord for some things, but where there are decent forums I much prefer them.

When I started with this game, I had subs to the pathfinder rules line and the player companion line. Now, looking at the "My Subscriptions" list in Account Settings, I have twenty subscriptions across both Pathfinder and Starfinder, some of which are defunct (Pathfinder Tales, anyone?) In most cases I have both the regular sub and the special edition sub. My original reason for that was to avoid wear and tear on the special editions. Still valid, imo, but I spend more time in the pdfs than in the hardcopies these days. I also get (so far anyway) all the pocket editions, even though these old eyes have trouble with them. Cost has not been a problem so far, but it's getting to the point that it may become one, all things considered, even though I don't have to worry about international shipping (I'm in New York State). Then there's the "where do I put it?" question. I can't use my dining room table right now; it's covered in books, and there are piles here and there in the living room. So I'm seriously considering cancelling some of my subs. Not all, certain things (maps, for instance) IMO need to be hardcopy. OTOH, I don't play much any more, and if I do I can play on Foundry, so maybe I don't need hardcopies there either. One choice is to cancel all my subs and just hit the store once a month and look for whatever's new and buy the pdf. Pretty sure Paizo would rather I not do that, but I might. Would save me money in the long run, and space too. But I like books, and that's why I haven't made that jump. Also, manually searching for what's new would be a pain in the butt, and besides, I might miss something. :-(

Ah, well, the saving grace, sort of, is that I'm old enough that there will come a time in the foreseeable future when I won't care, 'cause I'll be dead. <shrug>

And so it begins again. :-)

The Starfinder Galaxy Guide is part of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Special Edition subscription?

Well, I did manage to stay awake for the whole bridge tournament today. Not that it mattered. We were dead last anyway. I'm beginning to think that either I've lost the ability to play the game, or my choice of partners needs revision. Not sure which.

I am re-watching seasons one and two of Bosch: Legacy before I watch season three.

Bridge Tournament tomorrow. Hope I can stay awake. :-)

We have arrived at the point where people in the news today were born well after I became "over the hill". :-(

Hm. Interesting idea. Unfortunately, I'm lousy at art. Any art.

Ed Reppert wrote:

I got a Ninja Air Fryer for Christmas. One of these days I'll get rid of the 12 year old Breville Toaster Oven sitting on my counter and set up the Ninja.

That Breville was really useful in my classroom at my old school, because I could do baking projects with the children, like making mini-muffins for snack. And when the school cook went on vacation, we would make pizzas.

If I had room for it, I'd keep both.

"No, no, he inserted his face in front of my birdshot. Not my fault."

I got a Ninja Air Fryer for Christmas. One of these days I'll get rid of the 12 year old Breville Toaster Oven sitting on my counter and set up the Ninja.

Current:

Slam Bidding Made Easier, Marty Bergen
Vital Endgame: The Shape Of Things To Come, Janice Kim
Suzy Spitfire Kills Everybody, Joe Canzano
Modern Libertarianism, Brian Doherty

On deck: lots of stuff.

What the heck is fufu?

Got my pdfs and shipping notice on Monday. Watch now shifts to "where's my stuff?" :-)

I stopped going to my former favorite eating spot this week. It's a bar and grill about 3 minutes from home, with some really good specials most days. But a week ago last Tuesday I walked in for lunch about 3:30. Two tables with folks eating. No wait staff. So I sat myself down, as I usually do -- I was told I should do that years ago -- and waited. Fifteen minutes of nobody checking the room, I got up and went home. Then this Tuesday I walked in, there was a guy I didn't know at the door, told me to sit anywhere - I took my usual spot. New waitress (at least, I didn't know her) comes out, says "no specials for you - it's almost four o'clock". This was annoying; I said so. Mentioned last Tuesday's disappointment. She gave me a lecture about "don't seat yourself, wait for someone to seat you". Then she said "I'll give you time to look at the menu", and headed for the kitchen. A couple of steps from the table she said "We don't need your business here anyway". So I got up, went home, and did something I've never done before: posted an adverse review on their facebook page. To Hell with 'em; there are other places to eat.

Huh. I guess I'm still a little steamed. OTOH my good friend Donnie reminded me that he and The Lovely Susan quit going to the place two years ago. So maybe I'm just a little slow to catch on. Anyway, had lunch at Tom Wahl's (local pretty decent burger joint) today. :-)

As does mine.

Dot.

Shooter. Is that the one about Bob Lee Swagger?

We played in our game last Saturday, and I had fun hanging with my friends but to be honest the game was dull as dishwater. It was a five hour long combat as the PCs and townsfolk tried to hold off an army of dire wolf-riding barbarians AND werewolves. I'm honestly not even sure if anyone won. We were given enough XP to advance to 5th level as a sort of Christmas gift and apology for not playing since October. No word yet on when the next game is.

The very first D&D game I played, ca. 1977, had the party of six first level characters stuck in a walled town surrounded by 100,000 orcs. GM asked "what do you do?" Somebody said "open the gates and attack the orcs". GM rolls a couple of dice. "You win. You are now third level." I'm like "wtf just happened?!"

Ed Reppert wrote:

I've always been interested in heraldry. I wonder how accurate (in terms of English and/or mainland European heraldry -- they're different) this implementation will be. Looking forward to reading it when I have time.

Heads up on this, it isn't a heraldic rule set. It's a series of lists of images that can go together and can be rolled on to create symbols that look like heraldry. If you want heraldry rules, you could use your own knowledge. It's all surface, any depth has to be GM provided.

I see. Oh, well. :-(

"I'm the thing that monsters have nightmares about." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

I've always been interested in heraldry. I wonder how accurate (in terms of English and/or mainland European heraldry -- they're different) this implementation will be. Looking forward to reading it when I have time.

Got the shipping message. Battle Cards JPG file doesn't download. Click on it, nothing happens.

Did you remember to check the closets? :-)

I should reorganize mine. Both of them. :-)

Ah, that's better.

Invaders From Mars, the 1986 version, was a remake of the 1953 original, which scared the crap out of me when I saw it. I was six.

As has mine.

Dot.

Reading and more reading. Mostly Timothy Ellis' stuff. I'm currently on the "Undone" series, where Lyla Cowan, who was cashiered from the Imperium military for royally screwing up and "nearly getting a dozen people killed" has just found out that she didn't screw up at all -- she was framed.

Andostre: heat. :-)

Your daughter's anger is irrational. :-)

If life hands you lemons make lemon meringue pie. :-)

I've been busily sitting at the computer and falling asleep all day. Probably more of the same tomorrow. In between bouts of reading Harnmaster: Kethira and playing around with character generation.

Got my shipping notice. My watch will end when I have the shipment (and the remastered G&G pdf) in hand.

Well, the remastered G&G book has shipped with my February shipment. Still no updated pdf though. :-(

Currently:

Unruly - Tim Ellis
Bergen For The Defense - Marty Bergen (this is about Contract Bridge, the card game)
A Kingly Pattern - Jonathan George (about Hnefatafl, aka "Viking Chess"

On deck: too much stuff to list.

My watch begins.

I would think that if you're searching for secret doors there's a good chance you're going to find hidden adversaries as well.

Personally, and maybe this isn't the best place to put this, but personally, I would just as soon that no settings book should contain any rules elements at all. Strictly "here's Absalom (or Kyonin or Varisia or Brevoy or whatever)" or "here's what we think we know about the gods" or whatever else about the setting, but nothing about character or class options or any other rules element. Seems way too late for that now though. :-(

You wanna buy a watch? I know you need a watch, 'cause if you had a watch, you'd know it's night time, and night time ain't no time to be in this neighborhood!