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... how do you assign the sorcerer class to somebody in real life? Bard I can get because it comes with alot more that identifies it than magic, but sorcerer is pretty much fantasy only.Yeah. I strongly suspect my ladyfriend of being a bard - and I know my two best friends are a rogue with a couple levels of ranger and a sorcerer with a level of rogue....... Guilty.When I see fictional monsters/creatures on television, I wonder what their CR is....I routinely mentally assign stats and classes to people I know.
I am not saying LOL HE DOSE MAJIK LOL. I am saying that it mostly closely fits his personality and temperament. In the same way that I could say that I know another person who pretty much would have levels of paladin, despite that he is a) wholly agnostic, b) not at all capable of miracles, and c) does not crusade around trying to smite evil.
It would be silly to try to directly map the class itself onto a real person. It's the concept at the core of it. Wizards are studious. Paladins are noble. Rogues are sneaky. Bards are sly. Sorcerers are volatile and at times unpredictable. Barbarians are prone to fits of rage. Druids are much more fond of nature than people. So on and so forth.
Wizards are studious. Paladins are noble. Rogues are sneaky. Bards are sly. Sorcerers are volatile and at times unpredictable. Barbarians are prone to fits of rage. Druids are much more fond of nature than people. So on and so forth.
My entire life is filled with sorcerers then!
Mind you, I am married with kids so I guess that can be expected.
As a confession (maybe not strange, but it is true) when I come home from a relatively bad session of gaming, I always tell my other half that it went "really well!" just because I'm scared she might start asking "Why do you do this then? Stay at home and watch Gavin & Stacey and QI with me instead!"
She almost certainly wouldn't say that, but I cannot, just cannot, get away from that response...
It's even worse when I go to the session and we don't actually play D&D... due to all sorts of unforeseen factors, normally. I feel like I'm betraying her concession to my role-playing.
Ah well. Sorry it's not humorous.
Just saw this one and thought...
One of my players once came across what I told him was a refuse bin in the caverns below a mansion. When he asked what its contents looked like, I told him "fecal matter". He then asked what did it smell like. The answer was the same, then he had his Ftr touch it, "What does it feel like?". After getting the same response..... he then asked "What does it taste like?". None of us knew how to respond, so I said once again "Fecal Matter!". After a moment of thought he looked at me and said ...Good thing we didn't step in it!
LMAO Cheech and Chong for the win!
I was in a story arc which started with a prophecy about the fall of civilation after the moon turns completely red. Throughout the story the GM kept telling us how red the moon was becoming. The party gets to end of the story and finds a tablet which allows the holder to get a wish from an elder god. The player that found the tablet said "make the moon as it was before." The god appeared and then the almost completely red moon exploded returning it to the dust it was before the start of all time.
The player then looks at the rest of the table and starts talking about the importance of not playing the blame game and accepting that these sorts of SNAFUs happen when dealing with elder gods.
From then on every screw up was measured against blowing up the moon.
Wish SNAFUs can be a lot of fun, if not a big pain in the rear. In our old Scarred Lands campaign, we came across a small crypt-like room in the middle of the desert. We happened upon it completely by chance, and there would be absolutely no way to find our way back(DM said not even Greater Teleport, since the desert was so featureless or something to that effect). The room contained a Genie, which would grant the party 3 wishes. This was our first real experience dealing with wishes, so yeah, we blew it. Here goes...
First wish: We wished the entire chamber was filled with gold pieces, up to our elbows, but not enough to harm us, like being crushed under them or something. BAM! Done. We're wading through gold like Scrooge McDuck in his vault.
Second wish: We emptied all our coin bags into this pile as well; every copper, silver, etc. We wished that every coin in this room was turned to platinum. BAM! Done. Every coin, millions of them, turned to platinum. We could've wished for this first, but we were jumpy and excited, so we weren't exactly thinking straight.
Third wish: This is where it gets good. We were on our way to Shel'Zar, the equivalent to Las Vegas in that campaign, so we get overly eager and simply say "We wish we were in Shel'Zar!" BAAAAAM! Done.
We were teleported to Shel'Zar. All of the coins were left in that room. The room we would never be able to find again. It gets better. Turns out, the Genie couldn't actually create the coins, he just swiped them from EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN A 500 MILE RANGE. That's where allthat platinum came from. So, we appear, and shop keepers are screaming in rage at their money disappearing, people are in fist fights everywhere because their money is gone, and here we are, with a fistful of platinum... Can you say, "pariah"?
... how do you assign the sorcerer class to somebody in real life? Bard I can get because it comes with alot more that identifies it than magic, but sorcerer is pretty much fantasy only.Yeah. I strongly suspect my ladyfriend of being a bard - and I know my two best friends are a rogue with a couple levels of ranger and a sorcerer with a level of rogue....... Guilty.When I see fictional monsters/creatures on television, I wonder what their CR is....I routinely mentally assign stats and classes to people I know.
There are people who are just... magical. And than there are computer wizards; much more fitting than experts IMO. Many computer wizards I know have cat familiars at home, or some kind of blackberry/i-phone bonded item.
I always considered my daughter to be a bard not because of her artistic talent, but because of her ability to charm and implant suggestions... Her twin brother's a barbarian, nor doubt about it.
A long-time gaming buddy of mine is using his Magic:TG collection to pay his lawyer in his divorce proceedings.
My buddy got into M:TG when it first hit the big-time, amassed a huge collection, then dropped out around '98.
The cards have been collecting dust in his garage ever since.
When he started looking around for a divorce attorney, another gamer pointed him in the direction of a lawyer who happened to be active in the local CCG community.
This lawyer took one look at his collection and agreed to take some compensation in the form of old-school Magic cards. They're up to around $1500, and I don't think he's finished going through the entire collection yet.
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A long-time gaming buddy of mine is using his Magic:TG collection to pay his lawyer in his divorce proceedings.
My buddy got into M:TG when it first hit the big-time, amassed a huge collection, then dropped out around '98.
The cards have been collecting dust in his garage ever since.When he started looking around for a divorce attorney, another gamer pointed him in the direction of a lawyer who happened to be active in the local CCG community.
This lawyer took one look at his collection and agreed to take some compensation in the form of old-school Magic cards. They're up to around $1500, and I don't think he's finished going through the entire collection yet.
Back (gods!) 10 years ago, I knew a guy working at the Drowsy Dragon who was buying a car by using the singles trade.
A long-time gaming buddy of mine is using his Magic:TG collection to pay his lawyer in his divorce proceedings.
My buddy got into M:TG when it first hit the big-time, amassed a huge collection, then dropped out around '98.
The cards have been collecting dust in his garage ever since.When he started looking around for a divorce attorney, another gamer pointed him in the direction of a lawyer who happened to be active in the local CCG community.
This lawyer took one look at his collection and agreed to take some compensation in the form of old-school Magic cards. They're up to around $1500, and I don't think he's finished going through the entire collection yet.
I'm sorry to hear your friend is going through that hell. It's never good.
But damn if that isn't the coolest lawyer ever.
"LIIGGGGGHHHHHTNIIIIIIINNNNNG PAUNCH!"
"ULTRA ULTRA FATALITY"
I probably would have said "GAME!!"
Hilarious either way :D
Whenever I see the abbreviation for Nebraska, I think Neutral Evil.
Heh, it was Fatality because of the gory, epic finish. It wasn't the cartoony fly off the screen thing.
Touche ;)
But yeah, heck of a way to end a fight (vs a full HP adversary out of 3)
And how!
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Not quite Gaming, but its' so much a part of me I forgot it. When I get to work, I always text "Down and safe" to my roommate (and to my wife previous, though I didn't realize it might be taken as "You've 8 hours to screw around behind my back.")
*headtilt* I'm guessing that the reason she's your ex is because of *ahem*?
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Not quite Gaming, but its' so much a part of me I forgot it. When I get to work, I always text "Down and safe" to my roommate (and to my wife previous, though I didn't realize it might be taken as "You've 8 hours to screw around behind my back.")*headtilt* I'm guessing that the reason she's your ex is because of *ahem*?
Yeah, but I'm not bitter...
I use a lot of 'ex wife' lines at work.
"Of course I'm evil, ask either of my ex-wives!"
"If I wanted this kind of abuse, I'd have stayed married!"
"Cute, trying to knife me in the back and we're not even married!"
Morbid joke:
Yes, I know I'm going to hell for that one...
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Yes, I know I'm going to hell for that one...
Oh wow. Thank you for making my day. I feel less bad about bagging on my ex now. Haven't seen her in over a decade and I still have some bitterness. Must be because I haven't started the divorce yet.
I'm following in my dad's footsteps, just waiting for her to die... it's cheaper.
Back (gods!) 10 years ago, I knew a guy working at the Drowsy Dragon who was buying a car by using the singles trade.
Man, I haven't heard that name in a loooong time. I remember going back there in my late teens. It was practically the only place to go on the east side.
Yes, I know I'm going to hell for that one...Oh wow. Thank you for making my day. I feel less bad about bagging on my ex now. Haven't seen her in over a decade and I still have some bitterness. Must be because I haven't started the divorce yet.
I'm following in my dad's footsteps, just waiting for her to die... it's cheaper.
"You see, I'm streamlining it. I'm gonna find some woman I utterly hate, and buy her a house."
One of my players was trying to roleplay a really badass half-orc who's seen the rough side of life. One day, they were fighting off a Cockatrice that was giving them some serious trouble, and he managed to deliver the final hit.
On a complete whim, he utters the line "Cocka-doodle-don't, m&!$*! f~@$*!."
Now, when someone delivers the final hit to something, its customary to say the aforementioned phrase with gusto.
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Yes, I know I'm going to hell for that one...Oh wow. Thank you for making my day. I feel less bad about bagging on my ex now. Haven't seen her in over a decade and I still have some bitterness. Must be because I haven't started the divorce yet.
I'm following in my dad's footsteps, just waiting for her to die... it's cheaper.
"You see, I'm streamlining it. I'm gonna find some woman I utterly hate, and buy her a house."
Where's that from?
Where's that from?
I mentioned in a previous post that I work part-time in a local library, well this past saturday I saw something there that seems very D&D-appropriate. I was putting out onhold items out and we put a piece of paper with the borrowers last name on it on the spine of the item and the name I saw on one of the books was Mwangi. Yes EXACTLY like the Mwangi expanse. Didn't realize it was a valid name but cool nonetheless.