Hey!
I've really enjoyed reading the 'place your rant here' thread. Brilliant! Whilst I've not posted myself, I share a lot of those sentiments. ;P
Anyways, I thought what's needed is a thread to counter-balance that; so go nuts! Share what you *love* about roleplaying!
I love 3rd edition.
I love it when players react to NPCS.
I love it when the players win.
I love it when the characters win.
I love that I can multiclass.
I love that I don't.
I love it when players talk to me about the game outside of the game.
I love eating too much every session.
I love working out ways to surprise my players.
I love templates.
There's a lot more, but that'll do for now.
Go on - spread the love! ;)
Peace,
tfad
I love creating custom character sheets.
I love planning the next session through email.
I love coming up with character backstories.
I love the speed of progression and an development (if only I could match it in real life).
I love the idea of magic and that (at least in my imagination) I can wield it and create new ways for it to manifest.
I love the interaction with people around the table, the mix of practical experience, book learning, rules lawyering, interpretation of different elements from folks of different maturity levels, experience, education, and interests.
I love the look of horror on my players face when his charished character dies...
I love lusting after every new book that comes out.
I love getting home and seeing my new Dungeon or Dragon waiting for me.
I love the feeling of unlmited possibility while preparing to run a new game, for me and my players.
I love Kyuss. The band. And the deity.
I love painting metal miniatures ... and having them get used in the next gaming session.
I love it that the AoW AP opened my eyes to the wonders of Greyhawk.
I love it that there will be a third AP.
I love it when I buy the download of an old product and discover known names on it (e.g. Bruce Cordell, Erik Mona, etc.)
Especially when it is accross settings (e.g. Eric L. Boyd working on "Dragons of Greyhawk")
I love it when authors of novels or RPG books take the time to reply to the players like us and even enter into debates.
I love it that someone thought about creating such a positive thread.
I love the purifying effect that the Rant thread had on me the other day. It was good to get rid of all of that bad energy.
I love the fact that WotC are putting out adventures again.
I love it that I finally found a European-based online shop selling single D&D Minis for a decent price.
I love it when I discover and understand an obscure reference to an old module in a Dungeon adventure.
I love three-adventure arcs in Dungeon (e.g. Vampire lord of Waterdeep or the Dragonshards one).
I love playing Monks.
I love lecturing the chaotic Rogue of the group when I play the Monk.
Bocklin
I love creating custom character sheets.
Yes! I love this one too. Everything ends up where I want it and I don't get loads of redundant boxes. And I can add cool watermarks too. :)
Keep them coming! It'd be sad if the 'love thread' is shorter than the '%$*ked off thread' about our favourite hobby! :)
Peace,
tfad
I love a good encounter where the DM manages to pull the rug out from under the PCs feet. Wild magic, narrow passageways and creatures with climb speeds, no gravity, or plain old fog.
(in the same vein)
I loved it when I managed to run that encounter with three elite wyvern-riding orcs against my players. It was nice to see them crawl under their wagon and try to avoid ride-by-attacks and hail of arrows. A great gaming moment.
I also love it that they are going to face their first really menacing and dangerous dragon (a juvenile blue) next session on Tuesday. Can't wait to run that encounter, although it's going to be a hard one to run.
I love the liveliness of the Paizo board and how I feel much more "at home" here than on WotC's one.
Bocklin
I love 3rd edition
I love the look on my players after something they deducted.
I love When they talk about adventures and pc´s to everyone else with a glimmer in their eyes
I love Umber Hulks and Kobolds!
I love dragons, any type from wyrlings to great wyrms!
I love traps and dungeon crawls.
I love the trill of combat
I love to see a party spent and happy after a very dangerous fight!
I love when i can create a so much hated NPC that the entire party decides that if the only way for him to die is to blow up a staff of mage and the entire party with it ok then!
I love to have so many dice!
I love the feeling of a new book on my hands
I love Dragon and Dungeon for each month of discovering something new.
I love to advance monsters and create custom npcs for something special.
I love the Deck of Many Things!
I love how plans work in perfection
I love when they don´t ;)
I love complete randomness!
I love that D&D will ALWAYS be better than any rpg MM or otherwise.
I love that I can do anything in this game!
I love describing a monster or trap to the party and watching their eyes widen as they realize they are looking at one of my personal creations
I love that no one on this site jumps on me for bad speling
I love Rogues! Wizards! Monks! Bards! Rangers! Fighters! Barbarians! Druids! and Clerics!
I'm trying very hard to start to love sorcerers, sorry Paladin
I love making traps and monsters that are strange and twisted
I love Beholders and Mindflayers and frost giants and Dragons and all their deadly friends and companions.
I love a spell being cast and everyone watching to see what it will do.
I love a spellcaster with a huge collection of d6's frantically searching for more
I love the fact that I can use the word love so many times without judgement!
I love Monks, Rogues, Wizards and Druids again!
I love explosions
I love describing explosions
I love this thread, all the satifaction of the rant thread with none of the homicidal rage! AND half the fat!
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I love DnD. I don't really care what edition. I just love it.
I love the d20 system and the fact that you can adapt different sets of rules to your games (we are currently using Iron Heroes).
I love using the older, D&D Core Rules 2.0 version of Campaign Cartographer to create maps. World Maps! City and Town Maps! Dungeon and building maps. I can spend days just working on stuff like that. Even if I never use them.
I love that they brought back monks.
I love the mature content books (Book of Vile Darkness and Book of Exhalted Deeds).
I love the Demonomicon articles that Dragon has been doing.
I love that they are doing big things with old stuff (like Kyuss and the update-to-3.5 modules on WotC's site)
I love ranting about things I hate and things I love. Hell, I love ranting in particular.
I love that Hollywood finally has ability and seeming willingness to make decent (and even excellent) Sci-fi/Fantasy movies (Lord of the Rings, Narnia, etc)
That's enough for now.
There's so much to love about D&D, but here's what I can think of right now:
Socializing with friends you probably wouldn't see quite as often if you didn't game.
Yelling at the kids "turn down the TV, mom is rolling initiative!"
Players pulling each other into private conferences because the encounter is giving them fits. "Sorry dude, we gotta go have a smoke!" He he he he he
D20's plug and play adaptability
Getting in between game e-mails from players about the game
Fiddling with my campaign world
DM's best friends: Post it notes, 4x6 cards and Microsoft Excel for organizing a bunch of data for easy reference
The new Spell Compendium--what a great book!!
Shackled City AP
Yes, More APs to come!
These message boards
Extra large dice
Seaborne Adventures
Feats---best thing about 3rd edition--feats!!
Determining the campaign events that don't directly involve the players--it's like my own private D&D game--and then I love it when the players realize that the world evolves and things happen whether they were involved or not..."oh, the NPC's don't go into limbo when we're not around?"
Ok Sunshines, here goes…
I love riddles (giving them or solving them),
(Actually, I’d love it if there was a thread for riddles!)
I love giving my players neat hand-made hand-outs,
I love Dming low-level to mid-level adventures,
I love, at the end of a session, saying “well, that’s another story…”
and to hear my players go “Aaawww! Just when it was getting good!!”
I love that they ditched that old THACO system,
I love poutine,
I love stirges (I don’t know why, but I ALWAYS have them at least once in every campaign).
I love playing a genius nemesis,
I love watching the light bulbs slowly turn on when my players ultimately figure out the sub-plot I’ve been building up to for the last two years or so.
I love dungeoncrawls,
I love this online community,
I love you guys!!!
Ultradan
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You asked for it.....
I love Gricks in all their wormy slimy goodness!
I love my DM. He can twist it up like no one I've ever known.
I love my gaming group.
I love only using classes from the 3 core rulebooks.
I love a gritty, hard, dungeon crawl.
I Absolutely love random encounters that are way too hard for our current party level. I love fleeing like a little wus from random encounters that are way too hard for our current party level.:)
I love paizo.
I love rolling initiative.
I love beating evil creatures into the ground.
I love rolling dice.
I love Ultradan, Sexi golem, Kyr, Great Green God, and all the other posters that I can recognize by Avatar and writing styles.
I love the above mentioned posters for the amount of humor, wisdom, and flavor that they bring to this messageboard.
I love that paizo.com messageboards feel like a whole group of friends that I just can't put a face on:)
I love Metal Church.
FH......spreadin' da Luv!
I love wizards.
I love AoW for the magnificent encounters- even at 1st level, they're riveting.
I love building a super-genius bad guy who has tendrils of his plot reaching everywhere.
I love planning huge, many-level campaign arcs (even though they've yet to be fully played out, ever).
I love that something I started, the rant thread, has found such wide acceptance and approval.
I love that there's a love thread to counter it.
I love scheming wizards, whether PC or NPC.
I love adventures with excellent pictures.
I love every base class in the PHB, particularly wizards.
I love developing backgrounds for characters.
I love rolling dice to make a new character- so many possibilities!
I love ancient mysteries and epic scope in adventures.
I love Dungeon for all the resources it provides to me.
I love these boards- anytime I have a question, it's quickly answered.
I love running an enemy that drops one or more characters to negatives, but doesn't kill them. Stll get's the "I'm a bad ass" message across without overly drastic consequences.
I love detail.
I love high CR Baatezu and Tanar'ri.
I love wizards fighting high CR Baatezu and Tanar'ri.
I love deep immersion, high fantasy role-playing.
I love having a character that's important to what's going on around me.
I love PC backgrounds that actively affect the campaign.
I love players jumping up fromt he table yelling, "Yes! Oh my god! YES!!!"
I love it when people don't look at NPCs and monsters as a bunch of numbers, but as real creatures, and act accordingly.
I, too, love ranting about loves and hates.
I love ginger ale. And red cream soda. And bratwursts, but not normal, puky hotdogs (sorry, that last bit's better for the rant thread).
I love developing unique encounters that will be remembered for months or years.
I love the first campaign I ever ran. God, that thing was so messed up. WE misread manyshot as being a normal attack action, not a standard.
I love 3.5 D&D, though I've never played any other.
I love my recent switch from homebrew to FR. So much time saved!
I love that I don't use miniatures at all, and save myself so much apparent headache and money, according to what I've read here on Paizo.
I love magic staves.
I love rolling amazingly high on the minor magic item chart and getting a +3 keen longsword (though they never found it...)
I love people who can actually spell and use grammar properly.
And, I love wizards.
Everybody, give those twelve-siders -- the forgotton die in our dice bag -- a little love today!
I love Dungeons and Dragons.....nuff said
Ok, here goes.
Ilove running deep well crafted story.
I love when players get so into an encounter that you can see the emotion in their eyes.
I love reoccuring villians.
I love Lawful good Kobolds and evil paladins (Not blackguards).
Ilove seeing fear in the eyes of my players.
I love destroying munchkins.
I love throwing a monkey wrench into my players plans by throwing in something that they over looked.
I love taking a small detail in a characters background and turning it into a huge game or a new villian.
I love keeping my players guessing as to what side I'm on.
I love to sow disention in the ranks.
I love to have man that the groups fighter just threw a drink at in a tavern turn out to be Artemis Enterie.
I love to watch a player spend 45 minutes wording a wishin such a way that I can't twist what they are saying into something destructive or funny.
I love a Deck of Many Things.
I love interloaper gods.
I love it when a plan comes together.
I love when you can use the game to meet new people. I love the games where everyone brings food, and everything is shared. I love it when, in the heat of the moment, you can accidentally grab someone else's d20 and roll it without getting a dirty look (one of my old groups actually had a communal "dice cauldron" that everybody grabbed dice out of). I love being free about letting others borrow my gaming books for a week, and getting to see someone else's in return.
I love D&D!
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I love reading a good story, including the adventures in Dungeon. My favorite parts of that magazine are the adventure backgrounds and synopsi (spelling?).
I enjoy the (imaginary) 'thump' a villain makes when you put the smackdown on him, especially if the DM has been playing said villain as being very arrogant.
I love Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Prydain, Dragon Lance, and Forgotten Realms novels.
I love Pretzels and Red Beans & Rice.
I enjoy the time I spend posting stuff here and reading other people's replies.
I love Nagas (but only if it gets cold enough).
I laugh my a$$ off reading Order of the Stick.
I like coke (the drinking kind).
Oddly enough, I like the idea of having a PC melted down to a puddle of goo by a black dragon's acid.
I thoroughly enjoy watching a fellow party member Bull Rush a bandit on horseback and not only stopping the horse, but knocking it back 5 feet.
I love fond rememberances of my original gaming party and all the fun we had. It sucks that we all moved on to different areas, but...that's life.
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I love putting the players in a moral quandry, and sitting back for half an hour to watch them argue it out.
I love it when they really, really, really hate an NPC I've created.
I love it when I come up with a monster that causes the players to exclaim "what the @!#% is that?!".
I love it when the players tell me they were talking on the phone between sessions about their characters' plans and goals.
I love it when I'm organized, and have everything ready for a session.
I love that I have great players when I DM.
I love that they see the look on my face when they say they are going to the area I haven't prepared that night, realize it, and then go where I expected them to.
I love 3d edition. Thanks for bringing back barbarians, monks, and assassins!
I love the look of appreciation on their faces when I give a grisly description of how they just killed their latest foe.
I love the look of appreciation on their faces when I give a grisly description of how they were just killed or disabled by the next one...
I love to add adult content to my game, and actually have resources that help me do it.
I love Dungeon and Dragon Magazine.
I know its been said before, but I love the feeling of coming home and seeing either of my favorite magazines in my mailbox.
I love customer service at Paizo. You guys rock! I went years without one problem with my subscriptions, had two problems in a row, and both times the folks there did a great job cheerfully helping me. Again. YOU GUYS ROCK!
Most of all I love Adventure Paths! Both have been great, and here is looking to an even better third.
Man...everything that everybody's said I agree with. Totally.
I love the look on my player's face when I say, "Oh, and by the way..."
I love it when I can see the sweat bead up on their temples in a critical portion of the game.
I love it when they put their heads together and discuss a tactically sound battle plan. Totally in character.
I love it when two characters are completely at odds with each other, verbally arguing over an issue, but the players are best friends.
I love those moments when the only sound you hear is the sound of a dice rolling, and all the players are hunched over the table, hoping and praying that it is (or isn't) a natural 20.
I love it when catchy one-liners that happen in game creep in to real life.
I love it when I order pizza during the work week and see that my player who works there adds "+1 pizza of mightiness" to the top of the box or "Guaranteed not to be a mimick" or "chicken strips of munching."
I love it when I see "Chaotic Neutral" as a bumper sticker on somebody's car and laugh my hiney off, because I get it.
I love it when I give the "I survived the Tomb of Horrors" bumper sticker to my friend, and she laughs maniacally.
Oh, and I love being able to walk into the FLGS and buy whatever book I want, instead of having to save up my allowance for it.
I love making the charecters think
I love the look of terror when they think they are doomed
I love making them laugh
I love the junk food that I eat (reese's dipped in sweet + sour)
I needs me a +1 Pizza of Mightiness.......mmmmmmmm. Mightinesssss.
FH
Just watch out for those pepperonies of sharpness!
Ultradan
I'll qualify my list once again with the verbiage. Love is another word tossed around way too often in everyday language...it is a word currently in danger of being "slanged" into an idea that carries far less gusto than intended. I love my faith of choice, my wife, my family, my closest friends, and myself.
I enjoy comradarie, teamwork, and selflessness. These traits foster community growth and development.
I am fond of discussion, discourse, open acess of information, healthy debates, and concessions. Considering the perspective of others allows one to understand the concept of "point of view."
It pleases me to no end to create or witness creation of something new. No matter in what medium, format, or venue; constructing something is an expression of self or community and is subject to both self- and sociatal interpretation.
And, finally, it heartens me to engage in of all of the aforementioned interactions every time we gather together to game.
As ever,
ACE
I'll qualify my list once again with the verbiage. Love is another word tossed around way too often in everyday language...it is a word currently in danger of being "slanged" into an idea that carries far less gusto than intended. I love my faith of choice, my wife, my family, my closest friends, and myself.
I enjoy comradarie, teamwork, and selflessness. These traits foster community growth and development.
I am fond of discussion, discourse, open acess of information, healthy debates, and concessions. Considering the perspective of others allows one to understand the concept of "point of view."
It pleases me to no end to create or witness creation of something new. No matter in what medium, format, or venue; constructing something is an expression of self or community and is subject to both self- and sociatal interpretation.
And, finally, it heartens me to engage in of all of the aforementioned interactions every time we gather together to game.
As ever,
ACE
I concur wholeheartedly.
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I'll qualify my list once again with the verbiage. Love is another word tossed around way too often in everyday language...it is a word currently in danger of being "slanged" into an idea that carries far less gusto than intended. I love my faith of choice, my wife, my family, my closest friends, and myself.
I enjoy comradarie, teamwork, and selflessness. These traits foster community growth and development.
I am fond of discussion, discourse, open acess of information, healthy debates, and concessions. Considering the perspective of others allows one to understand the concept of "point of view."
It pleases me to no end to create or witness creation of something new. No matter in what medium, format, or venue; constructing something is an expression of self or community and is subject to both self- and sociatal interpretation.
And, finally, it heartens me to engage in of all of the aforementioned interactions every time we gather together to game.
As ever,
ACE
I love myself too. Often several times a week!;)
FH
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I LOVE GREYHAWK!!
I love my groups that I play with on Shadowrealms. Just like some of the people here, we may never meet, but they are great friends.
I love Druids!
I love Paizo and what they have done with Dungeon and Dragon.
I love the Tony M. and Kyle Hunter comics.
I love gamer food...Funyons, Diet Mt. Dew, pizza.
I love it when I kill of a beloved NPC and the players faces are masks of rage and horror. You know the connection has really been established.
I love being a completely devious bastard.
I love it when my players care enough about a plot to try to outmaneuver and out think me. I love it when they succeed, I love it when they don't.
I love the look of relief on player's faces because a combat is so evenly matched that they had to fight like hell, almost lost, but pulled it out of the fire.
I love it when I'm a player and I feel that way after a combat.
I love it when I catch references to other geeky stuff...cross-geek training, if you will (S. Baldric's name being one of my favorite examples from around the messageboards).
I love thinking up new character backstories and taking a character in a new direction.
I love that my wife is not a gamer, but will give it an honest shot and enjoy it well enough when I have a group together.
I love the Demonomicon and that BAPHOMET is up next!!!
I love the feeling of wonder I get reading a well-written RPG article or supplement.
I love reading the classic modules, and I love the fact that my group is actually using some of them ... next up, the G-(Giants) series!
I love playing all editions, even with their unique problems.
I love that monks are now playable.
I love the Dragon/Dungeon staffs and their spirit.
I love the Dungeon cover art and APs.
I love Greyhawk.
I love seeing the look on my players' faces when I surprise them or create a memorable villain.
I love hurling handfuls of dice, despite all the PC-aiding gaming available.
I love my girlfriend, and that she puts up with my geeky hobbies and gamer buddies.
I too love that Wizards is printing adventures again, it's been too long.
I love some of the good non-Wizards d20 products the OGL has made possible.
I love being to still get together with my friends and game, even as we crack 40.
I love these boards, and the regulars that keep me on my toes, make me laugh, and prove to me every day just how sharp games can be.
I love Greataxes
I love the fact that I have the opportunity to share my creations with my friends. I love that "sharing" mostly consists of me describing it and them reducing it to tiny piles of gore.
I love a good old fashioned tavern brawl, on a related note I love drunken masters.
I love that I have a community of like minded people that I can turn to to get help or just throw my opinions around. You guys ROCK!
*sniff* i love you guys
I love my wife.
I love my country.
I love the fact that my best friend will turn 30 before I do.
I love that someone finally said "there are enough martial weapons."
I love pillaging.
I love Vikings.
I love Dwarven battle plate armor worn by a character with Greater Heavy Armor Optimization.
I love scimitars.
I love large threat ranges coupled with the 'keen' special ability or the Improved Critical feat.
And most of all...
I love crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women.
Amal -- I smell Conan in that last line! (laughs)
And the word in my last line should have been "gamers" not "games" but I'm sure everyone figured that out. (I found at least 3 other hideous mistakes in my post, the result of banging out a message during a short working lunch!)
I love crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women.
I just listened to the Conan OST today, matter o' fact. SUCH good inspiration.
Oh, and watch out for those peppers of piquantness, cheese of entanglement, sausage of slaying and the olives of oneiromancy in those +1 pizzas of mightiness. ;-)
Another thing I love - all my friends are gamers and get my jokes.
If it weren't for gaming, I wouldn't be with my sweetie (almost 8 years)!
If it weren't for gaming, I probably wouldn't be doing any artwork. (And that would make Lilith a sad Lilith...)
one of my old groups actually had a communal "dice cauldron" that everybody grabbed dice out of).
We have a gumball machine...
I love crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women.
I love Conan.
I love anyone who quotes him, from any format.
I love my country, too, and the fact that I can say what I please.
I love that there are people on here who agree with me, and those who disagree with me.
I love that we can discuss stuff.
I love the unbridled foolishness of newbies making god-awful NPCs, and the intricate designs of veterans that make great NPCs.
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I love my country.
Hell yes!
I love the fact that my best friend will turn 30 before I do.
What's so bad about turning 30, huh?
I love crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women.
You know, I still love the original Conan movie. However, after reading Howard's stories, I can't help but think that the movie could have been so much better. Oh well.
one of my old groups actually had a communal "dice cauldron" that everybody grabbed dice out of).We have a gumball machine...
Oh cool, can you put in a quarter and roll a natural 20?
What a great tool to gather funds for community pizza or snacks....DM to player "Keep feeding it quarters...you'll make your save eventually!"
My non-gaming loves:
My wife, my kids, all my relatives and in-laws, my country-of course, golfing, firearms, European vacations, Las Vegas vacations, smell of jet fuel, military history, alternative history books (Harry Turtledove rocks), Rush (the band, not the talk show dude), being free to vote for whomever I want, an occasional fine cigar, homebrewing mead, homebrewing beer, drinking in moderation, college football!!
You know what I'd love?
I'd love to get a half-a-dozen of you guys (and gals) in my garage/D&D room, roll up some characters and play a campaign from heaven.
Ultradan
I love stats!
I love story!
I love my brand spankin new leatherbound core books, and peeling open the pages that've been sealed with the gold finish!
I love Eberron!
I'm starting to love Greyhawk!
I love Paizo!
I love this messageboard!
I love gaming!
I love the unlimited depth of our imaginations!
I love rakshasas!
I love dungeon crawling!
I love offing the bad guy with a single lucky attack! (Thrown Soulknife to the groin for 75! (multiclass paladin/soulknife, smiting critical with divine sacrifice for near max damage vs that poor flying bastard ^^)
I love earning a hard fought battle!
I love d20!
I love miniatures!
I love Age of Worms!
I love the Dragon Compendium!
I love backstory!
I love action points!
I love house rules!
I love D&D!
You know what I'd love?
I'd love to get a half-a-dozen of you guys (and gals) in my garage/D&D room, roll up some characters and play a campaign from heaven.
Ultradan
Does that mean we have to be dead to play in your campaign? ;p
I'll skip it, thank you....if you mean run a heavenly campaign...then I would be totally for that....plus I love Canada and beer, so I think I would be welcome at your house, Ultradan, right?
I love having my players go to an area that I exclusivly created and they don't even bat an eyelash because it was done well.
I love having players tell each other they hate or love specific NPC's (Tells me I'm doing my job)
Pick your six Ultradan.
As ever,
ACE
Does that mean we have to be dead to play in your campaign? ;p
I'll skip it, thank you....if you mean run a heavenly campaign...then I would be totally for that....plus I love Canada and beer, so I think I would be welcome at your house, Ultradan, right?
This means that us two homebrewers would need to smuggle the 'brew across the border into Canada. I'll bring the mead, Belgian Abbey ("Enunciator Terminator") and my honey's Uber Oatmeal Stout (that's so dark that you can't see through it with a Mag lite in a shot glass).
Mmmm....beer...
This means that us two homebrewers would need to smuggle the 'brew across the border into Canada. Mmmm....beer...
It would be less trouble than smuggling myself into the states, since my body surely contains more beer than your beers.
Just kidding (though it would explain why I look like a keg so much!)
Ultradan
Pick your six Ultradan.
As ever,
ACE
Please, don't ask me to choose... I couldn't!
Ultradan