So what was the picketing about? What is Xpedx doing?Vive le Galt!
Stuff about pension plans, health care, and they want another year's extension on the old contract with no wage increases even though the union already gave up the last wage increase from the expired contract.
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Mad Badger, you should call your Hollywood agent.
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Mad Badger, you should call your Hollywood agent.This is what happens when you are awesome there are alot of pretenders out there. No worries I have the awesomeness of Gruumash behind me.
Did you just call Taig a pretender?! Hold still for half a minute while I arrange a Thor shot on you...
Well I was disappointed not to see you in the pictures you are going to have to work harder and get on film and the rest otherwise how else are you going to gain the infamy you desire;)So what was the picketing about? What is Xpedx doing?Vive le Galt!
Stuff about pension plans, health care, and they want another year's extension on the old contract with no wage increases even though the union already gave up the last wage increase from the expired contract.
It's okay; they only took pictures of the good-looking Teamsters.
[Cognitive dissonance alert!]
I loved this when I saw it in the theaters and I loved it when I watched it on DVD.
I've seen people on here talk shiznit about it, but I think it's the best D&D movie evah! A+.
I saw Prometheus again last night and will downgrade my official Doodlebug Anklebiter grade to, eh, a B-.
Then we played some D&D. Well, I didn't, of course, because my character was already dead. The Black Goblin, who had been doing okay for two sessions despite killing me over some bullshiznit, was in totally bad drunken, obnoxious form last night, and, even with me co-DMing, our quiet, mild-mannered female player was moved to start screaming at the top of her lungs, ripped up her character sheet and threw it in his face.
Looks like we're taking a couple weeks off for Halloween-related goodness and then it's back to Carrion Crown for us.
Luckily, I hooked up with another game meeting every second Tuesday to go through Rise of the Runelords.
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I saw Prometheus again last night and will downgrade my official Doodlebug Anklebiter grade to, eh, a B-.
Then we played some D&D. Well, I didn't, of course, because my character was already dead. The Black Goblin, who had been doing okay for two sessions despite killing me over some bullshiznit, was in totally bad drunken, obnoxious form last night, and, even with me co-DMing, our quiet, mild-mannered female player was moved to start screaming at the top of her lungs, ripped up her character sheet and threw it in his face.
** spoiler omitted **
Looks like we're taking a couple weeks off for Halloween-related goodness and then it's back to Carrion Crown for us.
Luckily, I hooked up with another game meeting every second Tuesday to go through Rise of the Runelords.
Who is this Black Goblin by the way? I always thought it was an alias of yours.
No, it's my BFF.
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I'm sorry.
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At some point you have to ask yourself: would you rather have a bff who will always be well-behaved and polite at the dinner table or would you rather have a bff who would tackle a cop in riot gear to save your ass.
I have no regrets.
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I loved this when I saw it in the theaters and I loved it when I watched it on DVD.
I've seen people on here talk shiznit about it, but I think it's the best D&D movie evah! A+.
I saw it in the theater, too.
NEEDS MOAR GRATUITOUS NATALIE PORTMAN ASS SCENES
I AM DISAPPOINT
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At some point you have to ask yourself: would you rather have a bff who will always be well-behaved and polite at the dinner table or would you rather have a bff who would tackle a cop in riot gear to save your ass.
I have no regrets.
Especially if tackle is a euphemism.
Shame that you're a paranoid bolshevik cafone with regard to social networking, Trotsky Redbeard. You miss out such remarks from me like I made earlier:
Note to self: refrain from delving into analytical psychology and mutualism economic theory back-to-back without any form of caffeine the entire day. It's a dangerous initiation rite of passage where one comes to grips that laissez-faire capitalism is a de facto oxymoron as the phenomenon denies the free market enterprise while purportedly exemplifying it within the public eye by paying lip service to the emperor's new clothes at the bal masqué.
To the few which this brief soliloquy of delirium makes any lick of sense, I adore you. But enough of this affair with Jung and Proudhon; I need a Red Bull.
Or a finely poured cognac.
Or in your case:
<bubblebubblebubble>
I, too, try not to read either Jung or Proudhon without a heady dose of [bubble bubble bubble].
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I, too, try not to read either Jung or Proudhon without a heady dose of [bubble bubble bubble].
I may well be living in the wrong house to cast this particular stone, but can you name any author you'd read without a heady dose of [bubble bubble bubble]?
You know what else [bubble bubble bubble] helped me enjoy?
A 2 1/2 hour movie about aboriginal Taiwanese headhunters fighting against the Imperial Japanese army that makes Masada look like a party.
B+.
Stopped sobbing and went back to Asian people getting their heads chopped off.
I would like to see the original if I could, but it's not on Netflix.
:(
Anyway, I though the first hour was awesome, and the final, 40-minute long battle sequence was okay, but not as awesome. Also, at the end the bad guys made me think of this thread: Link
B+.
That thread reminds me of a lot of things. My current character is a sorcerer who carries a crossbow "just in case" and has actually had to use it once. Before that I played a wizard who didn't have a ranged weapon and instead would use Acid Splash. It became a running joke in the party after everyone in the group saw this video. Now at least once a game, even though my wizard is dead, some one will yell out "Use Acid Splash!".
I thought this was okay, but, unfortunately, drones and whatnot don't make for highly exciting films.
I mean,
All in all, I'd say, a C+/B-.
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Yesterday my gaming group was supposed to continue our Kingmaker game. I knew one person wasn't going to be there and I was told by the GM that he "may be late" but otherwise was going to be there. BTW, we usually game at my house since I have a crap ton of books/minis/space/etc and a basement. So, around 2 I get a text from the GM that says "I 'might' not be there due to something coming up" (it was personal and not important to this story). Anyways, it's time for everyone to be there and there are 4 people there ready to game with no GM. So, I did what I always do when our group doesn't have a GM, I ran a "Lord of Chaos" game.
What is a Lord of Chaos game you ask? Well the concept is simple really and only takes little to no prep time. Spoilered for space reasons.
So, that's what I did last night. Later, I'll post the characters and some of the highlights.
Sounds like beautiful insanity. Awaiting the madness.
Sounds like beautiful insanity. Awaiting the madness.
Sounds like an average game with The Black Goblin.
Sounds like beautiful insanity. Awaiting the madness.Sounds like an average game with The Black Goblin.
I think a TBG game involves more drinking, more shouting, more cursing, and more claiming to be Good when you're clearly not.
;)
Sounds about right.
JMDwhatever, that sounds like a pretty awesome (and familiar) game.
Sounds like beautiful insanity. Awaiting the madness.Sounds like an average game with The Black Goblin.I think a TBG game involves more drinking, more shouting, more cursing, and more claiming to be Good when you're clearly not.
;)
{moves Orthos over to the "Chaotic Naughty" list}
Pfhah. I have never once claimed to be Good. I am pretty solidly LN.
I'm Lawful Good.
Stop laughing, it's true.
I just don't follow your laws.
Lawful's not about laws, it's about orderliness ;)
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This Lord of Chaos game has three players and one NPC-PC.
All the players are level 5.
Player 1 is a Human Fighter (Armor Master) who believes he is a robot. His name is Ro-Bert. Anytime he is unable to live up to his delusion it is an "obvious glitch in my programming."
Player 2 is a Gnome Bard....who plays the spoons. [Insert spoony bard joke here]. His name is Cyril, like from Archer.
Player 3 created his own race and decided to call it "ManBearPig" who is half Man and half BearPig or something like that. He chose Gunslinger as his class and is using the Pistolero archtype. This character is named Pumba.
NPC-PC is another created race. There was a discussion about what this character should be and it was finally decided that he would be a "Panda Samarai". The character's name is Jack and he is "really lazy and eats all the time."
To get the ball rolling, I handwaved the whole "getting to know everyone" part and set the beginning location in Alkenstar since one of the characters had guns. They decided as a group that they wanted to "find an airship and become sky pirates" which right off the bat I had to figure out what to do because as I looked on the forums here there are no set locations for airships in Golarion. So, I decided that some random drunken former adventurer who was a bard told them about Numeria as a means of setting them on a path. They were told that they would have to "cross the ocean in order to get there" so they set off to find a ship. I didn't let them look at the map and asked them which direction they were headed and one of them stated "we're going north" and so they went. They head out on foot and their trip is fairly uneventful until night time when Ro-Bert states that he will "do all the watches because I am a robot and I don't need to sleep." On the third "shift" three humanoid looking creatures approach the camp. Ro-Bert asks if they are "hostile" and I inform him that it is hard to tell in this light. Ro-Bert then yells out "are you friendly?" and then said "I repeat, are you friendly?" When they did not respond he started "making alarm noises" and charged the closest one. This woke up Jack and Pumba while Cyril continued to sleep. Cyril was smart and casted an alarm spell around the camp before he went to sleep so he won't stay asleep for long. Anyways, long story short, the party fights three Wights and goes back to sleep.
The next day the party gets to the next town up the river in hopes of getting a boat. The bard goes to the bar to make some money and the rest of the party goes to "acquire" a boat. They find a "nice boat" and try to figure out a way to "acquire" it. There is a scuffle with the First Mate of the ship when the Gunslinger shoots at him in an attempt to "acquire" the ship. The gang plank is up so Ro-Bert throws Pumba up onto the deck. Normally this wouldn't work, but Ro-Bert has "robot strength" and he rolled really well. A fight ensues on the deck and eventually the First Mate is a bloody stain on the deck. Oh at one point the crew tried to fire a cannon at them but then I read the rules for cannons...and it was a complete waste of my time. Moving on. The local city guard comes to investigate the ruckus and gets into an altercation with Ro-Bert. Ro-Bert kills one of them and the other gets away. The gang plank is lowered and they break into the Captain's quarters to find "ownership papers" only to find loot. They bribe one of the crew members to "go along with whatever I say". A city watch Sergeant shows up and requests to "know what's going on." Since Ro-Bert is "hiding in the Captain's quarters pretending to be a suit of armor", Pumba meets the Watch Sergeant on the docks. The Sergeant just wants some "questions answered" and he states that he wants Pumba to come down to the garrison for "questioning". At this point Ro-Bert comes charging out of the Captain's Quarters and gets entangled in a net. (The one guard who lived told them about Ro-Bert). So, now the Sergeant is taking everyone down to the Garrison for questioning when Pumba draws a pistol and holds it against the Sergeant's head. A "mexican standoff" ensues but is ended when Jack arrives and "takes care" of the Sergeant. They then kill the remaining guards and go to the nearest shop to get supplies. Pumba pays for some supplies and then asked the shopkeeper to take them to the boat. The shopkeeper has his boy take them to the boat and for some reason Ro-Bert decides to kill him and the shopkeeper. They then remember that Cyril has been in the bar this whole time and go to fetch him and while the others go and put the supplies on the boat. The session ends with them leaving the city on the boat they "acquired" and setting the shop on fire.
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Highlights from other games include: Using a catapult to launch another PC up in the air to land on a dragon in order to attack it since it was being held back by the Repulsion spell, Turning an entire town into soft cheese with a wish, getting hired to "clear the drow out" and then killing exactly 3 drow returning to the town demanding payment and then feebleminding the mayor and running like hell, returning to said town with different characters and "healing" the mayor by "hitting the guy in the head and yelling BE HEALED!" And so much more.
JMD031 for rants and his strange dry humor and being nice to people
Strange dry humor? Does this mean that I need to add water to my humor? I'm not even sure how to do that. Like, should I get a hose or something?
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I guess you'd do that by telling more jokes about water?
You just need a jar of dehydrated martians and a bucket of water... they'll laugh at anything.
I'm asking for assistance of ideas for my Lord of Chaos game. So what exactly am I asking for? Well, basically any ideas for adventure that seems off the wall or unusual. I'll take your ideas into consideration and may even use them in my game. If you don't want that to happen simply don't post any ideas. Thanks in advance.
Orthos, you are my hero. I was reading the <<Ask JJ all your questions>> thread and I wanted to reach out and...give a stern talking to that guy asking about potions.