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Flynnster - I just sent you an email about your tattoo.

Thanks...just replied....

Shiney is pretty good at tattoos, if I recall correctly.

Shiney, if you'd email me, I'd love to get in touch with you with the information I have for this tattoo....

I actually need a tattoo designed for me....I have a pretty good writeup of it with some sample art...to give an idea of what it is that I am looking for...

If anyone might consider helping me out, I'd greatly appreciate it...please contact me...

flynnster at rocketmail dot com

thanks!

Cuban sandwiches rock....

OK, here goes:

Suffice it to say, I'd throw you out of my game, and vice versa.

Ciao.

Orange and Flange do not rhyme...at least in a masculine sense...

Orange breaks into two syllables...OR and ANGE...Flange breaks into FLAN and GE (heavy G sound)...

hence, in at least the masculine form of rhyme, the two don't match...just as INGE doesn't rhyme with ANGE (for rhyming syringe and orange)....

Lord Fyre wrote:

... Must keep this thread alive!

One of those is a guy, right?

Thank god someone noticed...I was desperately holding in the vomit...

I fail to see how taking the easy way out, denying, restricting, limiting, banning, and preventing your friends from playing what they might want to play, demonstrates any more "cajones" than opening up the possibilites, facing the challenges that may arise, and dealing with those challenges in a mature and responsible, yet open-minded, fashion.

In fact, I'd be inclined to believe the opposite.

Before you draw conclusions...perhaps you should ask questions...or read the conversation that Kirth Gersen and I are having in this thread...then come back and tell me your thoughts...

That's where the talking would come in, I guess. If you were clear up front (like, before we starting rolling initial stats) that barbarian MUST be a starting class, OK, no problem. But otherwise, I always try to steer clear of DMs who swing the ban-hammer with gleeful abandon, without warning, based on personal preferences, whims, or time of the month.

No, I say this upfront. I also state that I prefer the PRC version of the Paladin as well...

Yeah, me, too. But like I said, sometimes there's a fine line between character concept on the one hand, and silly nonsense on the other. You'd have banned my dwarf fighter/rogue/bard in a second, but I needed all those classes to make my character Vortigern, who aspired to be a noble warrior-poet, but who unfortunately often gave in to his larcenous impulses.

HAHAHA...come on now...no, I would NOT ban a fighter/rogue/bard....first of all, I do see a naturally progressive connection between the three...second, if you discussed this with me...I'd say "Ok, here's what I'd expect to see from you with regards to roleplaying to achieve this..."

Had a friend try to talk me into a Druid/Rogue before...

*shakes head*

To me, these two classes are simply polar opposites...the druid is a wilderness critter...and the rogue is an urban critter...

I asked him how he saw the two fitting...what kind of personality...etc...and REALLY justify it...

He couldn't.

RiseFlynnsterRise wrote:

Don't forget ImmatureChildMunch 12 !!!!

OK, I'm still confused -- maybe you can help me out. Say I've got this idea for a super-wilderness character; he's a druid/ranger, which is exactly what I want him to be. Am I childish right off the bat for wanting to multiclass? For the sake of argument, let's say you're having a good day and decide to condescend to allow it for a while. Suppose I'm sticking with the wilderness thing, but the PC sees a grove of dryads get torched, and he gets REALLY mad about it. Fighting mad! In fact, he gets so far into a righteous fury over it that I want to take a level of barbarian to reflect it. NOW am I being an "immature child munch"? I mean, like, where do you draw the line? Or is the line the initial "slash" mark after the first class?

KG, if you were in my game and came to me saying this was a concept you wanted to play..we'd discuss it.

Druid / Ranger? No problem..I see them as fitting pretty well together. I'd want you to have a good reason in your character and playing of that character for it (simply to keep the game grounded in roleplaying)...and if you started as a druid, i'd want you to find a Ranger to teach you the basics (most likely an NPC contact that you could learn from in game "downtime").

The change to barbarian..hmm...here's my issue with that. I personally see the barbarian as a social construct not so much as something that is "learned". Honestly, the way you explained it sounds pretty good...actually one of the better scenarios I've heard of someone becoming "barbaric"...but, alas...I still feel as the DM that it is something that you must START as...

Now, if you started as a barbarian...and learned from a druid and or ranger their skills...I think I'd be cool with that.

Frankly, my issue is when someone simply says "Hey, I'm not going to take a level in X this time...I'm going to take a level in Y" without any kind of thought to the roleplaying of it, the motivations, the training, etc.

Is my point that alien? My statements of childishness and immaturity reflect the folks that I've seen do this kind of thing and whine about not being allowed....

Good, because the last thing we need is that can of worms opened. ;p

Can of worms? I've played with people from the Lebanon...Israel...France...Ireland...England...Germany...Just because you don't agree with a countries policies does not mean that you wouldn't like someone because of their heritage or nationality....

Hell, if I was correct about Nerrat being an egyptian name, one of my more respected bosses was an awesome man from Cairo named Nasir. He absolutely rocked!

And, here's my heritage...in order of dillution...

Scottish/Irish/English/Sioux/Cherokee/Dutch

RiseFlynnsterRise wrote:

Tarren Dei, I'm really very curious about your son's name, Nerrat. Am I correct in assuming that it is egyptian? And if you don't mind my askihng out of nothing greater than just passing curiosity, is that your heritage?

Um, "Nerrat" is "Tarren" backwards...

As far as his cultural background, I know, but I ain't telling!

:P

I was genuinely asking out of sincere curiosity...nothing nefarious or otherwise intended....

Cool! Does this mean I get to play my Wuxia Master 4/Über Ninja 3/Disciple of Camembert 5 with monkey grip now?

:)

Don't forget ImmatureChildMunch 12 !!!!

The girl under the Gamer link. Just...wow!

Wow, as in, really...you should be covering that up?

Tarren Dei, I'm really very curious about your son's name, Nerrat. Am I correct in assuming that it is egyptian? And if you don't mind my askihng out of nothing greater than just passing curiosity, is that your heritage?

Moff Rimmer wrote:

Cuchulainn wrote:

"It's a MUTE point."

It's not a MUTE point, it's a MOO point -- you know -- a cow's opinion.

Mooo?

*waves the red cape of POLITICS in front of TD*

What good are imaginary numbers?

Engineers use them....

I remember one year I had grades that were C's...Dad was none too impressed...He took my D&D books (the original blue set) away until I had B's...

This, in my humble opinion, is the kind of thing parents SHOULD be doing today.

When I was in high school (freshman in college now) I always angered my teachers to no end. I was one of those students who could pass easily and with high grades if he doodled and read unrelated books throughout the entire class. Even AP classes weren't difficult.

So I made a point of seeing how little I could work and still achieve "acceptable" grades. It's the only thing that kept me from going insane; I knew I could easily ace every class I had with no difficulty, the challenge came in seeing if I could fail without intentionally giving the wrong answers on quizzes and tests. The fact that I consistently passed with "acceptable" grades made me hate the system.

I remember my most ironic achievement was writing an essay for AP English, the period before it was due in chemistry, and getting an A+ on it. I didn't even read the thing after I wrote it, I didn't edit, I didn't even really pay much attention to what I was writing.

Kirth, that teaching style would have made me wake up and pay attention.

ROCK ON!!!!

Hmmm. Tempting, they brew some great beer in Colorado (no, Mr. Coors, I'm not looking in your direction).

I'm not one for the micro's....

Frankly, what I LOVE is Yuengling Black & Tan from Pennsylvania. Only distributed on the east coast though :(

The stuff tastes so good that even once it hits room temp, it tastes great...which, most beers begin to taste like urea at that point...

flynnster wrote:

houstonderek wrote:

Hmmm, considering it was the teachers hiding the dumb kids so they wouldn't screw up the test results...

I can vouch for the fact that not ALL of the teachers were hiding the dumb kids....

Quite a few were. And, frankly, kids didn't get dumber because of "No Child Left Behind", they got dumber because teachers taught the test instead of teaching their subjects. The test is a cakewalk, frankly, most standardized tests are, and kids could pass them without being taught the test if most teachers could effectively teach their subjects.

I merely vouched for SOME of the teachers out there....and frankly, I feel that the problem is systemic.

Bread and circuses. People demanding more and more from the government coffers. Hiring outside mercenaries because Romans didn't feel the need to serve their nation. All reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire in addition to your point.

Some of that sounds remarkably familiar...

You ever make it up to Denver? I'd like to buy you a beer....

THAT said... a great reason to play a non-human is because of roleplaying decisions. Playing an elf or a dwarf or a gnome or a half-elf or a half-orc gives you some cool built-in roleplaying stuff to play with that the generic human lacks.

Tsk,tsk,tsk Mr Jacobs...haven't you caught on to the fact that apparently, ROLE PLAYING is no longer part of the game? NO...people want to dip into different classes for a level...people what to play the BEST character there is...Why play something that is functionally INFERIOR to the BEST combination of class/race/stats?

Hmmm, considering it was the teachers hiding the dumb kids so they wouldn't screw up the test results...

I can vouch for the fact that not ALL of the teachers were hiding the dumb kids....

Witness the fall of Rome…although I attribute it to giving up responsibility rather than students failing to grasp rudimentary reading, writing and arithmetic.

Although, if more people played Hero maybe we, as a country, would be better at math.

Just sayin'.

Really, I feel it is students failing as well as a lack of responsibility. I also think that the two aspects are probably symptomatic of each other.

And yes, the once Great Republic of the United States of America is on it's way down the spiral.

Kirth Gersen wrote:

I was asked, more or less point-blank, "What gave you the impression that you're here to teach these kids anything?"

God Bless America and the N.E.A.!

Don't you mean "God Bless Bush Jr" ?

Failure, unless it results in death, is always an "opportunity for improvement". If I fail at something, it pisses me off so much that I do anything I can to get better at it. When I played basketball in high school, I missed a game winning free throw (and we lost in overtime). My coach told me it was ok, people don't always make the winning shot, but it didn't keep me from shooting literally thousands of free throws until I was consistently hitting 50 in a row. My free throw percentage increased 15 points (from 70% to 85%) by the end of the season.

Accepting failure is a character flaw, imo.

Well, what I meant was that in the U.K., they are at least banetering around the idea of no longer giving children a failing grade of an F...but rather marking it as "Opportunity to Improve"...

Is it a valid idea? Yes. However, allowing children to feel that they cannot fail is a bad idea. Failure, and acceptance of failure, is unacceptable in our society and truly in the world.

RiseFlynnsterRise wrote:

And truthfully, I find it difficult to believe you are coming after my own usage of the language. Compared to the examples given (that is the focus of this conversation) it is relatively flawless.

When I taught high school, there was a prize for best English composition; each piece submitted was evaluated on the spelling and correct use of complex grammar. In the last 10 consecutive years, no American student had ever won first place. Rather, it was consistently demonstrated that ESL students from Germany and India consisitently had better spelling and grammar than "relatively flawless" American students. This tells me that perhaps perfection should be our goal -- that way, when we inevitably fall short, we're at least better in our native language than are adolescent foreign nationals.

I'm no longer a high school teacher because my 35% failure rate was deemed "unacceptable." I was asked, more or less point-blank, "What gave you the impression that you're here to teach these kids anything?"

Although I am loathe to admit this *chuckles*....I agree with you whole-heartedly, Kirth!

RiseFlynnsterRise wrote:

Nope...head and neck still intact...thank you very much!

I see your self imposed vacation only lasted 18 days. It's a shame you didn't have more vacation days to use.

It's a shame you think the way you do, but hey...we're both bound to find certain aspects of life to be a disappointment :)

Good flick, but my point still stands. Kids don't seem to give a crap anymore, and see a teacher failing them as "unfair", not as motivation to improve themselves.

Well, I mentioned the movie because it is about the H.S. I went to...

As for students and teachers and failing as unfair...this is societies fault. Failure is failure...not "an opportunity for improvement". Did you know that Australia has banned the use of red pens on a students paper?

Um, your horns are showing...;)

Well, even Saints have their down periods, you know?

And besides...munchkin'ism isn't allowed at my table...nor at the table of any of my accumulated friends that run games either.

The example I gave of the Dwarven Fighter was a player that was soon asked to leave the group.

You, apparently, have not attended an American high school...

Denzel Washington, Remember the Titans. I attended T.C. Williams H.S. in Alexandria VA, class of 1988.

Nope...head and neck still intact...thank you very much!

RiseFlynnsterRise wrote:

C) If a town decides that they wish to recognize it's constituents and post general signage (road, business, government) in another language, it should be posted in english as well.

Stuffy Grammarian wrote:

"Its" is possessive; "it's" is a contraction of "it is."

Also, "a town" cannot properly receive "they" as a pronoun. In addition to requiring ESL courses for immigrants, we should also do a better job of teaching our own population the rudiments of proper English. Then again, in the defense of the spelling and gramatically challenged, English is the only language rated a "5" by the U.S. Army (said rating indicating the greatest difficulty facing those seeking to attain perfect fluency).

Perfection is not the goal here.

And truthfully, I find it difficult to believe you are coming after my own usage of the language. Compared to the examples given (that is the focus of this conversation) it is relatively flawless.

So you've never met anyone in real life who bounced around from one major in college to the next, and then one career to the next after school?

Maybe those people are immature, but saying that a player who wants to play a character who acts like that is immature is way off base.

Here's a rope for you. You're stretching far enough you might fall off the ledge.

That was unnecessary.

No, it was entirely necessary. Sorry you disagree.

RiseFlynnsterRise wrote:

Mature adult players don't do that childish crap.

That's your opinion.

Different people play in different ways. No need to judge people. You play how you play and other people play differently. That's one of the things that makes this industry great.

Not opinion, fact.

For example, a human Rgr 1 / Pal 1 / Mnk 1 / Clr 1 is a pretty spiffy character, better in many ways than a 4th Level character with a single base class.

It's amazing...really....Mature adult players don't do that childish crap.

Tarren Dei wrote:

EDIT: Thanks for the intentional misspelling to get the thread back on topic. It is much appreciated.

Actually, whereas I am normally pretty good with spelling, I goobered on that one!!! But thanks for assuming I did it intentionally!! :)

Pretty ironical, ain't it! :)

EDIT: Thanks for the intentional misspelling to get the thread back on topic. It is much appreciated.

Actually, whereas I am normally pretty good with spelling, I goobered on that one!!! But thanks for assuming I did it intentionally!! :)

I've sworn off political threads.

*slowly backs out of thread*

Well, you could simply go back to the original intent of the thread...which is mispellings...

I prefer to handle multi-classing in the game. I rule that no Player can multi-class. I offer opportunities to multi-class based on what the player does in the game. If they are constantly searching arcane lore and rogue at some level I'll offer an in game opportunity for the player to level up as a wizard.

A well written background story can also open the doors to mult-class.

I just plain don't allow total freedom to multi-class and that eliminates the class dipping.

YEAY!!!! Someone with cajones that looks at this realistically....

Well, the original thread was about incorrect spellings...not about folks who come here speaking other languages.

Whereas I can cut someone who does not speak english as a first language alot of slack...I do believe that we are entirely too liberal when it comes to languages.

Personally, I feel that we (as a nation) need to do the following...

A) Establish english as the official language of the nation
B) Require immigrants to go through ESL courses before being able to enter the workforce. Sweden requires two years of this before a work permit is issued...
C) If a town decides that they wish to recognize it's constituents and post general signage (road, business, government) in another language, it should be posted in english as well.

I am not saying that people need to leave their language and culture behind, I am however saying that we need to preserve ours.

Just to let you all know, I did tell him that if he sought out a priest of the god he wished to become a cleric of...and petition to begin training as a priest...he'd be allowed to do so with certain caveats...

Shocker of shocks...the player said "nah..."

I chalk it all up to "Does it make sense for your character".

Had a player one time who was playing a Dwarven Fighter. All of a sudden he announces "I take a level of Cleric". BS!!! He had NEVER once in game play mentioned anything about worshipping a god...uttering a prayer over his beer...NOTHING...

So sorry, if there's no character development to ground the multi-classing in, I don't allow it.

flynnster wrote:

irrelevant stuff

Welcome back…officially. :P

Wait..(adjusts halo to hide horns)...

As if you didn't know...just look at the names for christ's sake...

Well, it is pretty damned disturbing how people intentionally slaughter their own language for the sake of brevity.

BRB instead of Be right back for instance...

Did it really save you any time to not type that out? Is it that you don't know how to type and you are a henpecker on the keyboard?

And then, oh dear lord...the frakkin l33t speakers...christ...nothing gets my head spinning quicker than this.....on WoW...it's been things like ne1 instead of anyone ...makes me wonder how people can function in a corporate environ when they casually type like this...it's GOT to creep into work somehow...you know?

I hate to say it, but don't waste your breath veector. Sam is convinced that every Muslim is out there just waiting for him to fall alsleep so the can turn him into a dhjimi.

Your accusations towards Samuel Weiss are as myopic as you yourself acuse him of being.

Samuel, I am with you in your assertions.

RiseFlynnsterRise wrote:

Sean K Reynolds wrote:

I think that sort of stuff would be a good addition to this type of book.

WOOHOOO!!!!!

I'm packin mah bags for Paizo-land now!!!!!

i'M FEELIN all Sally Fields..."You like me!!! You really REALLY like ME!!!"

lol

Over twelve hours later and I still feel all Sally Fields...umm...help?

Isn't this like Viagra where I should seek out a Dr if the effects last longer than four hours?