
Orthos |

My family has four dogs. Three of the dogs - our two Boxer puppies (who are still technically puppies despite being waist-high on me; apparently they won't stop being puppies until age 3) and my sister's corgi/collie mix - are mostly inside dogs, though we'll let them run around outside if the weather is nice and we're not home, rather than caging them up. The fourth dog, a collie/blue heeler mix, is exclusively an outside dog, and lives in the garage when not in the yard. He also has a bad habit of climbing/leaping the fence and getting loose into the neighborhood. A habit that, until recently, we thought he'd finally stopped.
Now he's getting out again, which means we have to keep him in the garage except to let him go out to run around and do his business, and we have to be out there to watch him while he does. Because he's too darn smart for his own good, and only tries to escape if no one's looking. Which means that instead of leaving him outside all day and letting him tend to himself, with the doggie-door on the garage door to let himself in and out as he wants or when/if the weather turns bad, we have to leave him in there all day, close the doggie-door, and babysit him four or five times a day.
He's the oldest of our dogs, and really should know better. So it's kind of annoying to have to rearrange morning routine to spare ten minutes to let him out just because he can't behave... which we know very well he can, because he's been doing just fine for the past six freakin' months.

Orthos |

Orthos wrote:Chapter 2 of Kingmaker starts tonight!!! SO MANY EVIL THINGS PLANNEDI pretty much completely rewrote that one myself. Party seemed to like it. :)
Alternatively, my players could attempt to challenge Candlemere, which I've stocked with my Lovecraft-lite Dark Song in place of all the Will-o-Wisps. Lots of mind-affecting, sonic, and insanity-based powers. They might be a tad low-level for it though.

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The joy of being actually in position to actually be picky... :(
I definitely appreciate the fact that I am in a position to be picky. I know when I got the job I have now, I was not. It's kind of a novel experience.
I wish all hiring managers assumed their candidates could be picky, though, and treated them with respect and consideration, regardless of that individual's circumstance. It's become very rare, it seems.

Ragadolf |

Hey all, question,
I don't get to haunt the threads as much as the rest of you . ;P
Have they determined the trouble with the '# new posts' function since the last update? Seems mine keeps updating with new posts, but keeps adding them all together on top of old posts. Basically all posts I see since the last update are 'new posts', even if I've read them several times.
What did I miss? ;P

Treppa |

Hey all, question,
I don't get to haunt the threads as much as the rest of you . ;PHave they determined the trouble with the '# new posts' function since the last update? Seems mine keeps updating with new posts, but keeps adding them all together on top of old posts. Basically all posts I see since the last update are 'new posts', even if I've read them several times.
What did I miss? ;P
Robot Chris says they know about the new post bugs and are fixing. If you want to make the new post tag go away, click on the thread name rather than the new posts link, then scroll through the new posts. If you're like me, that will clear the new posts and you'll never get them again unless YOU post. :(

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Jess Door wrote:What did you change? Book 2 is so open, I'd like to see what you do there.Orthos wrote:Chapter 2 of Kingmaker starts tonight!!! SO MANY EVIL THINGS PLANNEDI pretty much completely rewrote that one myself. Party seemed to like it. :)
Looks like the changes I made are similar to the ones Orthos is planning.
I used the Monster Kingdom idea to tie all those crazy random encounters together into one central enemy. I also changed the candlemere island a bit to make it more Lovecraftian, as some of my party members enjoy that a lot.
My party was more than 50% half orc, and had already accepted "monster" races into the kingdom, so they had more fun than normal, I think, with the rival "Monster Kingdom" idea.
I even did kingdom rules with the monster kingdom so it grew according to the rules same as the players' kingdom. :)

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Freehold DM wrote:Jess Door wrote:What did you change? Book 2 is so open, I'd like to see what you do there.Orthos wrote:Chapter 2 of Kingmaker starts tonight!!! SO MANY EVIL THINGS PLANNEDI pretty much completely rewrote that one myself. Party seemed to like it. :)Looks like the changes I made are similar to the ones Orthos is planning.
** spoiler omitted **
so. jealous.