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I played with a group in Cambridge for a few sessions before my work schedule made me unable to play on Saturdays. I'm moving away in a month, but I'll let them know this thread exists (If one of them didn't start it, that is) That'd be MY group... We're still here, in Cambridge. Playing Pathfinder with some 3.5 elements thrown in [mostly whatever we need to refit for PFRPG on an as-needed basis]. Got two adults in their 40s, and we each have two boys, ages 11-15, involved as well. Hope you guys are still around. Our group still plays but had been on hiatus for much of 2013. PM me for more info if you're still around.
Passing Through Gethsemane - one of my favorite episodes and one of the best guest stars ever!Rewatched this episode with my girlfriend (who is watching the series for the first time) and was reminded just how good it is. Really powerful episode, great symmetry throughout. Probably the strongest non-metaplot episode in the series. Agreed! Great episode. Moral questions. A little thriller-esque. Makes ya think. Brad Dourif is SUCH an underrated actor (at least since the early 1980s, once his career somehow didn't explode after his amazing work in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest").
Atheism killed more people in the 20th century than all the wars of the Bible put togther.
Just an observation, because my only objection, so to speak, to same-sex marriage is semantic and I don't feel like that discussion right now... If memory serves, every time there has been a voter referendum on this issue, it has been voted down, i.e., the populace as a whole has not backed it. I may be wrong, but I don't recall this passing by referendum. At the state-legislative level, however, I think the success rate of same-sex marriage being allowed by law is a little over 50% passed.
361. Paper or plastic? 362. The bomb thrown at Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, 1914, is batted away (as happened historically) and detonates harmlessly, injuring no one. No need to go to the hospital and vary from the planned route, then... 363-418. Every presidential election in the US since 1788 (56 of 'em, wow -- a second John Adams term, anyone? Maybe Tilden wins by a landslide in 1876 and there's no deal made to put Hayes in, thereby ending Reconstruction in a slightly different way, with a Democrat in the White House instead of a Republican thanks to a deal). 419. Garfield survives his 1881 assassination attempt.
Guess what Libertarians. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ASKED FOR. Buisnesses making decisions unfettered by government regulation. Libertarians like their Tea Party cousins have been preaching that the only true evil is government regulation. There is no regulation about the price of ebooks. And we're not likely to see action from Congress in this matter for a variety of reasons, including desires to see resentment build towards Obama's administration. Obama needs no help in earning resentment. He can earn that all by himself (with his teleprompter close at hand, of course). That being said, price fixing has been around for a long, long time, even in the electronic media world. Anyone remember that MASSIVE class-action suit against CD manufacturers over the cost of CDs all being amazingly similar(ly high)? It got settled
The most simple rule to determining market value is this: What is something worth? Whatever someone will PAY for it. If people had a viable alternative to paying $3+ per gallon for gas right now, they'd do it in a heartbeat. But since all the patents for high-mpg engines are bought for millions by car makers and buried, or by oil companies and buried, or if not sold to one of them, the patent somehow disappears, then we still have no such true alternative. So we pay $3+ a gallon right now. Don't get me started on the Department of Energy being essentially useless, or politicians giving the caribou their own really BIG state. That's for another time. In the final analysis, the people - that's you guys, plus me -- have a responsibility to themselves, if not posterity, the common good or some other lofty, half-bs ideal, to save money by not overpaying (at least, in their mind) for something. Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #3: Never pay more for an acquisition than you have to.
And, in my case, since I acquire (had to say that) so many books for [ahem] nothing, #109 - Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.
IMO, this is not an astroturf movement (unions are starting to get involved only now) like the Teaparty demonstrations, but a genuine organic movement... Silly, spoonfed talking point alert! (Saves thinking critically, I guess...) Anywhooo, wow. I'm astroturf. And so are the 14 people in my neighborhood who went to a protest in DC. The 15 million people in Tea Party Patriot groups... Astroturf. Union members waving machine-printed signs in Madison, Wis., last year, a day after Scott Walker's bill went to the state Senate floor (while the Dem Senators spent weeks on the taxpayers' dime in Illinois, on the other hand) -- oh, they're right-minded individuals, though, acting independently. [gales of laughter] It really isn't just a river in Egypt, is it? Keep saying it, I guess. Maybe public-school students will believe it. Irony: at least one OWW protester landed a job on Wall Street, too. She was holding up a sign that said "ask me for my RESUME," and lo! someone did! Hmph. How about that. The way to fix things and get us some real fiscal responsibility in government, for example, might be to get rid of withholding taxes, another bad FDR idea (thank God his Supertax didn't fly in 1942, at least!), and make everyone pay up like they used to, on or before April 15.
And have any bank exec from a firm which got federal bailout funds serve electable terms, too. And if they don't get a majority vote, NOBODY gets the job. "None of the above" could do as well, considering how much we spent on TARP, methinks... "Republicans believe every day is July 4. Democrats believe every day is April 15." -- Ronald Reagan
As if I didn't have reason enough to prefer Star Trek over Star Wars -- what with George Lucas having cast off all pretenses of being little more than a very successful TOY SALESMAN and devolving to the point where even the stuff he writes on cocktail napkins, in crayon, while using a rather unkempt men's room at a Denny's in L.A., are turned into merchandise lines the fanboys gobble as quickly as Jabba the Hutt with a fresh-from-the-microwave Hot Pocket -- I find out that Hooper X was RIGHT AFTER ALL!! [flashback] "Hooper: Bust this: Those movies are about how the white man keeps the brother man down, even in a galaxy far, far away. Check this ****: You got ****** farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god! Banky Edwards: What's a Nubian? Hooper: Shut the **** up! Now... Vader, he's a spiritual brother, y'know, down with the force and all that good ****. Then this ******, Skywalker, gets his hands on a light saber and the boy decides he's gonna run the ****** universe; gets a whole clan of whites together. And they go and bust up Vader's hood, the Death Star. Now what the **** do you call that? Banky Edwards: Intergalactic civil war? Hooper: Gentrification! They gon' drive out the black element to make the galaxy quote, unquote, safe for white folks. And Jedi's the most insulting installment! Because Vader's beautiful black visage is sullied when he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man! They tryin' to tell us that deep inside we all wants to be white! Banky Edwards: Well, isn't that true? [Hooper pulls out his gun, shoots Banky] " [/flashback] Thank you, Kevin Smith, for that amazing, yet now proven definitively to be true, conspiracy theory, though it was, I see now, thinly veiled as social satire.
41 as of October, former Army but had played for nearly a decade before going in. And whoever said the military changes you WASN'T LYING. Some for good, some for ill, but mostly for good.
To all my former co-adventurers who benefitted from that: you're welcome.
You guys sure are ripping Fox -- but there ain't a man among ya that can tell me with any semblance of certainty what Oscar the Grouch's Touch AC is. Can ya?! NOOooOO! Do that, and THEN AND ONLY THEN will I "listen" to this! (It's 8 by my guess. Size Small minus Dex penalty, and I may be a bit generous with his Dex since he's a snarky, shut-in little spud)
They don't call him the Creative Director for nuthin', folks.
Now, game-rule question: Aside from having him relegated to owner-operator of an anti-magical rust monster farm, what's the best way to stymie a party featuring a profoundly min-maxed warforged spellthief without destroying all the fleshlings?
You have four minutes.
And did you bring enough for the rest of the class? Apparently it was all used up at the polls in 2008. Newt over Obama? The former Speaker of the House who shut down the government in 1995 (or was it 1996?) to get the spendthrift President then in office to toe the fiscal line, or the man who actually SAID "We're going to spend our way out of this recession" ... and after ripping the Bush administration on overspending, equaled eight years' worth of fiscal abuse in less than two? Yeah, that's a real head-scratcher, gang.
On overspending alone, Obama lost me. Wow. $200 billion in overspending JUST IN OCTOBER 2011. On his do-nothing Senatorial record alone, Obama lost me pre-election.
On violating the 14th Amendment with the Affordable Care Act by creating an excluded class of citizen (Nebraskans don't have to follow it for 10 years), he should be impeached. Simply by not knowing there AREN'T 57 states, as he claimed in 2008 -- or not knowing how to proonounce "corpsman" -- by saying "corpse-man" three times -- while presenting a medal to one of our troops, he lost me. For touring the world -- repeatedly -- to apologize for the greatest country God ever gave Man the concept of creating -- Obama lost me. For nominating a tax cheat as the man in charge of collecting revenue -- Obama lost me. For appointing more Czars than the Romanovs ever got crowned, he lost me. For his wife's "don't eat fatty foods -- I'll have the big-a%% rib platter, please!" I was lost. For having, "hey, let's raise taxes and create more federal jobs" as his answer to EVERYTHING, he lost me. For having a teleprompter as a Siamese twin... And sharing a brain with it... And blaming everything he can't do (read" that means everything) on the Republicans, on Bush, yadda, yadda, yadda, well, guess what he did for me. Go ahead and defend him. The most common response -- and one many offer first because they lack a cogent argument -- is "you're a racist!" And I actually peed myself laughing at this once, since, as we all know, his mother was white. I guess those same people playing the skin-color card in that fashion have conveniently forgotten the 1963 speech of a man few on the Left will ever, except while being waterboarded, admit was a Republican -- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. -- who said, and let's all say it all together, that he longed for a day "when a man would be judged not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character." "But he got bin Laden!"
Newt may not win the nomination. He may implode and Romney, the Mormon Milquetoast, may get the nod next summer, and lose next November by eight points (thanks to a slanted media -- for instance, name a network which would've crowed joyously over 8.6% unemployment under GW Bush like CNN/MSBNC did last week!
As for the discussion of education funding, it's not the teachers' fault. PARENTS SUCK. I worked as a substitute, and lemmetellya, gang, half of American children are being raised by WOLVES. The other half? Xbox. Can't make chicken salad with THAT part of the chicken, campers. Here endeth the rant. Let the condescension from myriad parents' basements by twentysomethings who don't go to work at Taco Bell yet begin..... NOW!
Having literally just finished what you're about to start, here's how it went. They blundered into one of the little guard posts, thanks to having a druid who can go through the bramble thicket without any trouble. Landing directly on top of one of the goblin guards, the fire bolts cast by one PC missed and caught the brambles on fire.
And people scoffed when I said I'd never spend a penny on WotC stuff once 4E came out. I'd only buy 3.5 and that's what I've done. 4E is lousy anyway, so WotC will reap what it's sowing. Even the munchkins who got all stoked about it and who haven't learned yet will... eventually. Public education ain't what it once was. Why don't they just go ahead and halt all third-party sales of everything if they're so hell-bent on making money? Why not allow purchase of their crap, er, new game and elctronic crap, er, stuff, from only their site at whatever price they want to dictate? Oh, sorry. Did I give them another stupid idea? E.G.G., you are so missed...
Howdy. Got a group which meets in Talbot and Wicomico counties, over here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, if anyone out there's interested, the Green Hand Gaming Company.
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But be warned: if you spam me, I will have to polymorph you into a tree, and then use you to make envelopes. One at a time. With a spoon. Slowly.
Folks, doesn't anyone else use Method Eight from the 3.5 DMG? 5d6, drop the lowest two. If the "rookie DM" theory is the case here, he might use just that and be considering that possibility, which greatly increases the chance of 18 in each set of five rolls by, what, a factor of six?
My party currently includes: Human samurai 8
At one point, we had a human necromancer, but the player faded away. I've just started a log of the campaign on my website. Here's the link: http://www.geocities.com/templeton_algrith/2005_Campaign
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So after getting some amazing rolls I wanted to make a character that is very gear-independent so since this is a Gestalt game I wanted to roll up a Unchained Monk with the Dreamscarred Press's Psion (Or 3.5 Erudite) Now where I got my rolls is kind of a funny story. My DM uses a flat screen TV connected to his PC to show us pictures of creatures or to play battle music and so forth for scene. But when we were hanging out and planning our next campaign so he brought out the laptop and the tv and he was showing up the Errata that came out and so forth so we knew what was what. Now we let him do our dice rolls for us using BrockJones for dice rolls. Well I headed to the bathroom while he did the dice rolls for the others. We all did well but mine were amazing. Well I am in the bathroom and finishing washing my hands and hear "Dude! you have to f***ing see this!" and I come out and ask "What?" and then see the screen [Here is the link] The reason for a Psion Monk is due to the way they seem to flow together as the being who is perfecting their mind and body. I was gonna take Elan and use a Venerable Elan and +2 floating free should go to the Dex. Any advice on which my first feat should be because I don't know if I should focus on the psion class first or the Monk class. 
I want to make a character who is as close as possible to the Dread Pirate Roberts from the Princess Bride. I know one side would likely be Swashbuckler, due to his speed and skill tricks with a blade I could say he is an expert duelist. But the other side alludes me, I know this would do best with a Cha based class but I am not sure what. 
So using the idea provided here about monster orphanages and sanctuaries I wanted to make a Troll Character. Now I am debating on which Troll to use. The default Troll or the Cave Troll Now the class I want to use is Monk, to show that he was raised differently and brought up in a well structured environment. Though LG will likely not work. So using the Adopted and Enlightened Warrior traits I can make him NG I was thinking of using Feral Combat Training to make my Claws work into my flurry, as I think it allows me to use my rend if I land two of my claw attacks during a flurry. With CR buy off I gain a class level at level 3 and again at level 6 which would drop my CR down to either CR 2 or 3 depending on which troll to pick, but at level 9 I could drop it down to CR 2. Dropping Wealth By Level by an additional 2 levels should reduce that to a CR 1 and down by 2 should get me to Class Levels so long as I remain 4 levels of wealth behind the party I think. Which Troll best suits a Monk Cr 2/Monk 18 is still pretty good overall. With Regen 3 or 5 I don't have to worry too much. But I would like advice to somehow gain a higher resistance to Fire, Acid is less likely to come up.
This character is a Half-Orc with the Half-Troll Template applied.
The Scarred Witch Doctor Witch on one side, and the other side will be a Hunter. The Animal Familiar will be a Viper, to aid in his bluff that he is just a Half-Orc. As for the Animal Companion for the Hunter side, I am at a loss, I know the Dinos seem to be the best suited for combat and have all the lovely buffs but I dont know if it fits the theme of the character. The character's goal is to create a nation of the green, the Orcs, Goblins, Half-Orcs, and so forth into a nation state that can rival the human lands and demand a fair and equal footing in the world. Basically to form a nation to get the adventurers in the world to stop XP grinding their brethren. But to do that he needs power and experience to do that. So he will be taking part in missions and such that adventurers do to learn what he needs, harden his mind and body, and potentially find recruits for when his climb to power comes. I am considering A Big Cat, Always wanted my own Battle Cat. While I know Slumber is the King and High Lord of all Hexes what Hexes would best fit with this style of character, who is clever and wants to imposes hexes in the midst of battle or at least at the onset of. 
Alright so in a game we play now and then we have a situation ongoing and I wanted to get some input on what I should do. The reason we only get to play this now and then is the DM lives three hours away and we get to play when he comes into town when off break from school so its been a few weeks since last play but he should be coming back in this week. Now for the Cliche question.
The characters are currently in a Half-Orc village and we have been brought in to help push back a small tribe of Trolls that have been making attacks on the village. One of our NPCs had a wife attacked and of course she is pregnant when we got there. It was not till last session she admitted to being raped by the chieftain of the Troll Tribe. So now the baby may or may not be a Half-Troll creature. So what do we do? I mean it is in an established village, the mother will likely survive and if not has family in town. The village could raise the baby but it is a half-troll and might need to be dealt with. One member of our party is a Half-Orc himself and his background is that he is a local from this village hence why our group was called in. there is a chance the baby is not a Half-Troll so I OoC don't want to act to soon and risk a pissed off village on our ass for killing one of their kids, including one of our own being ticked. A secondary question I always had was. I had heard of the Orc Baby morale situation but what I always wondered it.. what if it was a half-orc baby. I mean any of us can play a half-orc and yet I see Goblins and Orcs as example but never Half-Orcs as an example? Is it because they are a playable race and so are not always considered pure evil? 
Well as you can see this question involves 3.5 and PF.
Now for those of you who don't know who this character is Bullseye was also in that Ben Afleck Daredevil movie played my Colin Farrel and is known as a top grade assassin with his forte being that he can kill you with virtually anything around him, but especially throwing objects at you. I was wondering if there was a way to make a character like that in PF/D&D and so I am asking for advice, this is pretty much just a theorycraft but I might be able to use it either as a villain later or give it to one of my players who would love a thrown weapon specialist. 3.5 feats are allowed and the feats Brutal Throw and Power Throw are obvious choices for a Str centric character. Gloves of Endless Javelins would also be a bit of fun as it would always leave him with a weapon on hand but I didn't want to focus to much on using a highly specialized one weapon build but more a generalist. As far as stats presume optimal scores, full range of races that are available to players, perhaps even a doppelganger (Favorite of mine)
I am a fan of Doctor Who obviously, I am also wanting to play something similar in an upcoming game. The game begins at level 5 and will likely run till 13-15 range.
I thought about the Resurrection Druid, using the Dragonlance feat of either Academy Priest or Dynamic Priest to switch his casting stat to either Int or Cha which seems more Doctor-ish. |
