BTW, HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS!
That's 15 pages of commentary and 12 pages of pbp in 2 or 3 weeks.
w00t!
How'd I do?
You're the p.i.m.p.
I think there is a future in collecting old D&D stuff, and it may be related to you-know-what.
I mean, have you guys seen some of the prices of the Expanded Psionics Handbook online? Criminy!
Woah...I saw a Dark Sun module at Half Price Books today. It had like githyanki trying to invade Athas or something.
Sounds like Black Spine? That one is slick, because there are already Gith on Athas, only they are degenerate. Then the powered up ones arrive and raise hell.
Welcome to 2008. ;)
congratulations
Happy New Year! and all that jazz!
hehe mine is more like happy new years with the blues; sigh; another year, wonder what is in store this year.
Whelp, my good deeds are done for the entire year, glad I got that out of the way. Stopped twice to dig cars out of the ditch on the way home this morning, and I didn't cut the morning guy for being late on my non-holiday paying holiday.
Happy New Year! Hope it's better than last year for everyone.
Happy New Year! Hope it's better than last year for everyone.
The optimist thinks things can’t get any better; the pessimist is afraid he’s right.
Woah...I saw a Dark Sun module at Half Price Books today. It had like githyanki trying to invade Athas or something.Sounds like Black Spine? That one is slick, because there are already Gith on Athas, only they are degenerate. Then the powered up ones arrive and raise hell.
And then the Revised Box Set went and completely contradicted it. Grr, damn meta-plots!
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I think there is a future in collecting old D&D stuff, and it may be related to you-know-what.
I mean, have you guys seen some of the prices of the Expanded Psionics Handbook online? Criminy!
I've been meaning to pick up the 3.0 Monster Manual, but I haven't had time. Not really planning on actually using it, but I like the artwork more than the 3.5 version. Mainly the R.K. Post version of the dryad.
Question for Heathanson - do you find yourself happier for not posting in any 4E threads? I wish I could succeed on my Will save not to do so... :(
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Question for Heathanson - do you find yourself happier for not posting in any 4E threads? I wish I could succeed on my Will save not to do so... :(
Not really, not yet...
I feel less soiled, and might feel even less so if I could quit posting snarky passive aggressive crap in the off topic thread.I just think that in 3 or 4 months, I won't have shit all over my face from it, and whatever is going to happen is going to happen anyway.
I'm in the "opposed to 4e" camp, and if 4e jumps the shark, I think we'll get blamed for it, not the fact that it's drek and/or that WOTC is being a bunch of goofballs right now.
Good analogy.
Now... what's going on with this caravan?
Really, I dont see the point of the 4e thread; it is all speculation and what they have released about the system is of no interest to me. Different strokes I guess, I am willing to play most anything; have dice; will travel :)
am pretty sure the caravan is moving off; we are letting it go; meeting back up with the guys we left that are not sneaky gits; and hopefully, gonna rest up and go to the city and somehow get some supplies; how sticky are heathys fingers I wonder :) anyone a good negotiator hehe or are we gonna look for a pc group type job :) i could use some armor and the amount of arrows I have wont last too long.
Unless Raam has a large population of thri-kreen or kanks, I'm probably not public relations material. It's not my fault everyone is soft and full of sloshy organs!
Just watch out for dad; he likes to throw apples, which may or may not lead to your slow death. It's either the apple in the thorax or the feeling of creeping alienation from everyone you once held dear.
sounds like you need a druid; how many hd's is that creeper?
Raam, it's comin up your poop-shoot
I did a little more Raam mapping last night. Added some asymmetry to the arena.
The city proper is supposed to be in a depression (40-50 ft), and there are a lot of dwellings built into the side. I reckon a lot of people build their sleeping areas underground if they have the means.
I haven't named anything, and I'm too sucked dry from pointing and clicking to do it now. Suggestions are needed, I'm taking "Urethra" under consideration for the main drag, Beeler, after rotating the whole thing cw 180 degrees... and maybe pisshole for the east oasis. I was thinking that prostrate tumor would be a great name for the slum... yum, the orange thing on the pull away.
And yah, look at the pull away and see the whole mess on a plateau. I'm gonna put some more crap on there, a little agriculture and some hovels.... some this and that below.
I missed the part about the caravan moving away from Raam . Uh...Nevermind. ^-^
Blimey, that map is amazing.
How do you do that, o cartographer?
Hey, if we call the plateau Emesis plateau, then the city core is in Emesis basin.
I rememember you made me look that one up...
I'll put a few farming villages on the plateau, maybe I should go open up a medical dictionary for those.
Blimey, that map is amazing.
How do you do that, o cartographer?
OCD and Adobe illustrator. You paint minis, you must have what it takes, too.
And I'm taking critical suggestion and naming ideas, including the districts. Anything can be changed except the penis shape.
I have made one or two maps in GIMP for PbP battles, but that is a heck of a nice map. It's the whole layers thing that always trips me up, that, and renders always seem to be a bit naff when I try using them for ground texture etc.
Scabies is... unpleasant. University accommodation taught me that. And the girl in the room along the corridor had hives. That was a fun few weeks. Not.
I have made one or two maps in GIMP for PbP battles, but that is a heck of a nice map. It's the whole layers thing that always trips me up, that, and renders always seem to be a bit naff when I try using them for ground texture etc.
I don't do textures usually, esp on big maps because Adobe is seriously hard on RAM and a large map with textures can kill my 2.5 gigs pretty fast. And good color selection can, at times, out-do slick texturing.
And now I have become kind of fond of the cartoony look of my maps.
So for names we have Scabies, Hematuria, and Emesis basis. Nice.
Hey, if we call the plateau Emesis plateau, then the city core is in Emesis basin. I rememember you made me look that one up...
I find emesis easy to remember: When I was doing my clinicals I made someone urinate in one of the vomit bowls by mistake (hey, they should have explained better).
Now I just foley everyone. Problem solved.
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This lady--a Physician's Asst.--when I was a student, she had this guy blowing chunk. She says to me, "Basin!!! Basin!!!" sounded just like a chicken or something. So I grabbed one of those big basins because it was handy, and she wanted the little kidney-shaped one.
Well, hell. She never saw me bust a chunk, cos I'll blow that little thing outcher damn hand, lady.
Amen.
I have made one or two maps in GIMP for PbP battles, but that is a heck of a nice map. It's the whole layers thing that always trips me up, that, and renders always seem to be a bit naff when I try using them for ground texture etc.
I’m kinda glad you are avoiding the caravan (at least, assuming Shiny doesn't jump in front of it, that's how things appear to be leaning). Now I can throw those homicidal gophers at the party without too much work.
Tryin' to give Shiny ideas?
If I knew you better maybe I wouldn't be so suspicious, Beeler. Then again, maybe I would be even more suspicious.
Does anyone ever really know anyone else?
You wound me, sir; why, I’m above reproach!*
On a side note, my wife says I’m not allowed to put in any more monsters that come out of other monsters. Apparently, there is some sort of “constant Russian Nesting Doll Monsters shows you’ve really got some kind of complex” rule I wasn’t aware of.
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I met the fantasy illustrator Adam Rex once and he was talking about how he became the "Zombie Guy" at WotC for the Magic: The Gathering art department. Swamp zombies, elf zombies, giant zombies, tiny zombies. His favorite was a zombie that pukes out other zombies. When he started turning them down, explaining that he was working on a children's book, there was a pause on the phone.
"...A children's book?! Don't they know what kind of person you are?!"
"329 days has Boovember, and every human should remember, all the rest (Mitch) have 31, except Humanuary, which has 5, you are lucky we don’t kill you.”
Fricking priceless.
My idea for a children book was rejected. I can’t tell you how many stinking brats I had to press into that thing too.
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