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Curse you. Now I want pizza…

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…And a mustache.

I had great success playing an elf wizard in D&D 3.5. The proficiency with long bows was extremely useful. Especially at low level.

Waterhammer wrote:

If people finally figure DST out, it will go away.

... to be replaced by something worse...

You gave me a chuckle, so thanks for that.

:)

If people finally figure DST out, it will go away.

BigNorseWolf wrote:

I tried to buy a sharpening stone in a hardware store and they handed me a file...

My father was obsessive about sharpening every tool he owned; even individual drill bits.

And he used a file to sharpen all of them. (An extremely fine-grain metal file he'd bought for the purpose, but still, it was a file.)

Yeah, I knew someone who did that too. If it was a knife he would finish it off by stropping the blade on his Levi leg. The thigh, with the cloth pulled tight.

Drejk wrote:

You mean that Talky talked them into doing something?! Unconceivable!

That word... I don't think it means what you think it means...

Would you say that I have a plethora of piñatas?

My neighbor invited me over for some heavy lifting. It was great, we loaded his ladder rack onto the truck and bolted it down. Good times, good times.

Yeah, my neighborhood wasn’t rough at all. Not being sarcastic either.

When I was in 6th grade my parents left me and my younger brother home alone. So I left my brother home by himself, stold borrowed my older brother’s 10 speed and rode 4 miles into town for the school dance. The bike had one of those little generators that runs on a wheel to power the head light. The faster you go the brighter the light. It was mostly uphill coming back from town so the light was pretty dim for a lot of it. The real danger was from cars though.

As far as I know, my parents never knew about that.

I used to hike into town (without permission) to go to the library, shoplift, and play video games at the little pizza joint. There was a good chance of running into friends from school at the pizza place, too.

I saw a news item about black blobs being washed up in Australia. Of course, there’s no connection…

Limeylongears wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

My understanding is that nowadays many, if not most, countries do it that way.

We do too.

Yeah, the tax return from Her Majesty kept my finances up for a large part of another year...

Britain is ruled by a king these days, you know.

And now I want to watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But I was already wanting to watch the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Live at Slane Castle), because it’s Flea’s birthday. So many things to do… So little time.

Waterhammer wrote:

TriOmegaZero wrote:

Yeah, I've seen some cats that just ignore the dogs and never trigger the prey drive.

If the cat is ignoring a coyote and not a dog at all; then you have a missing cat and a coyote with a satisfied belly.

Coyotes aren't dogs tho.

Yeah, that’s true. Guess I’m saying that an inside/outside cat’s life can be full of hazards. We had people call our office because I had locked their cat in the water treatment building. I didn’t mean to, I never saw it enter the building, so I didn’t know I needed to chase it out.

My co-worker got over there and let the cat out, it wasn’t in there for too long. So that all went well. But just recently the same people wanted me to check our building for the cat again. It was not in there this time, but it’s gone. Coyotes are high on the list of possibilities.

Yeah, I've seen some cats that just ignore the dogs and never trigger the prey drive.

If the cat is ignoring a coyote and not a dog at all; then you have a missing cat and a coyote with a satisfied belly.

When you are the GM you are playing because you love the game. Then you end up with players who maybe aren’t that in to it. Players who just might be more interested in being disruptive. After a while it gets old.

I deleted Clash of Clans today. I’d been playing it for years. But now they want to use it as a spy platform, so it’s gone.

I just got asked to be the best man at my friend's wedding. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. Anyone have any experience with this?

You probably will need to make a speech/toast to the married couple. It’s good to put some humor in there.

Bad music is universal.

Yeah, I meant Hell Knight Signifier.

Thanks Northern Spotted Owl for providing the address, I should have done that.

The Hellknight Signifer might be of interest. I put one together awhile ago based on Slayer and Wizard, but it might work better based on cleric and something.

Never mind. I was reading more about what is wanted. Hellknight Signifer is probably not it.

Doom!!! Gloom!!!

It was only 100*F here today. It almost felt cool. Almost…

‘Round here, fencing means bobwar.

I was imagining him drifting the Celica into town, then playing hackey sack with his friends.

I’m a little sad now…

I remember people talking about wanting to “flatten the curve” rather than stop COVID completely, anyway.

Or both.

Yeah, I would have expected the bear to go at the hotdogs with great gusto.

Reminds me of the first time I gave my dog a shrimp. She nibbled a bit, then spit it out. I went to pick it up and throw it away. Then she wanted it. And after eating it she developed a definite taste for shrimp.

A county sheriff’s deputy. There are some very large counties in the west, a person could see some strange things while patrolling the vast empty spaces.

Combined enjoyment today. Rode my motorcycle in to see the Deadpool and Wolverine movie.

1/4 inch scales to 10 feet. That’s actually pretty easy to work with. A typical U.S. tape measure is graduated with 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 inches.

Waterhammer wrote:

Everyone imagines a swift apocalypse.

Everyone thinks it's a great event if humanity dies out, ignoring all the other extinctions on the planet. Things will be fine, we'll be screwed.

Humans, cockroaches, rats, these will abide. Hummingbirds, butterflies, whales. Gone.

Everyone imagines a swift apocalypse. Seems to me, it’s going to be a slow decline.

Over the moon, baby.

What were we talking about again?

Unexpected new plan for tomorrow. Replace my water heater. I’m so giddy.

I have five and 2/3rds feet.

My height must remain a mystery.

I’m basically bipedal, so I just have two feet.

Well, you know, somebody’s gotta eat the leftovers…

The only place to rumble tonight.

I would suggest using a trident.

I park in my driveway. I did have to pour a strip of concrete to make room for two vehicles.

Ah, yes. Everyone’s favorite road song. 299 Eyes Glittering in the Dark. “Poke one out, give a great shout; 298 Eyes Glittering in the Dark!” Etc, etc.

Spicy, mashie peas to go with your fish and chips.

Spam and beans, spam and beans, spam, spam, spam and beans.

I suppose that you could also point out that marbles are not typically made of marble.

How do you know you're doing a great job? When a German marble specialist compliments you on your craftsmanship.

Do the Germans also play jacks, pick-up-sticks, and perhaps roll a hoop with a stick?

The first one seems better to me, but the sentence should start with “The”.

I actually agree with quibblemuch, and Cal. Except that I find it somewhat less fun as a player to when I’m shorted on magic items.
My especial favorite experience was in pbp when the GM would bring in replacement characters who got to build characters with proper wbl, while my character was well below the expected wbl. The power difference was noticeable.

But, yeah, the magic shoppe feels just wrong, most of the time.

You gotta stab the q-tip really far up the nose. Get some brain tissue on there.

Bad tactics can take many forms. In the Iron Gods game I was in, the archery wizard and my switch hitting fighter were sticking a bunch of orcs with arrows. Meanwhile the bloodrager was mowing them down with a falchion. Then, suddenly the bloodrager decides to use his obscuring mist power. Shutting down the work that we archers were doing. Luckily the battle was almost over.
Later, when the bloodrager was near death, and needed to hide from lasers, he didn’t use the obscuring mist and ended up dead.

Looks like my first post happened in 2012. I didn’t hate 4th edition D&D, but when the play by post died off after 5th edition was announced, I came over here looking for a game. PBP might not have been dead on the WotC boards, but I couldn’t get a game there.

Welcome to Drumworld. Flat on top, hollow in the middle. Catastrophic earthquake/sonic booms happen when the huge drummer boy strikes his instrument. Luckily he plays at cosmic tempo , so hundreds of years pass between drumbeats.