One other question: I desperately need a change of internet username. "The Eldritch Mr. Shiny" is way too long and complicated, and it's been my online handle for the better part of a decade. I'm in the process of drawing up business cards and getting a professional website, and I really need something memorable. The sticking point is that pretty much all permutations of my name are already taken (I share a name with a professional basketball player, a high-profile corporate lawyer, and an Irish politician). Does anyone have any ideas?
I say keep Eldritch Mr. Shiny. You could find a way to "mature" it up a bit by turning it into Eldrich Mr. S or something like that. It can be frustrating when you have a name that's very similar to someone who's in the public spotlight.
It's hard to give advice while naked. But still...
I wonder if I should head to work naked.
Not unless Finland is a lot warmer than Sweden at the moment.
I'm obviously talking about outside the saunas/basturna
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Unless my connection dies on me again, I should be playing a 6 foot 6 polynesian-inspired bard tonight. :D
I said bard, not vampire.
Vampires don't need glitter. They just need sunlight, eh?
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I was an AV tech for a LOT of conventions, including a lot of medical conventions, for over 12 years. AND I have nurses on both sides of my family. And I only understood 4 out 5 of those words! ;PSay what?Since a bout of pancreatitis and a cholecystectomy, ingesting lipids exacerbates my pyrosis.I find that starchy foods give me worse heartburn than greasy food. Have you noticed that? It was counterintuitive to me, as I always thought of breads and pastas as fairly inert. YMMV.I slept eight hours last night with only one interruption (to let the dogs out). And we went grocery shopping last night, so was able to cook a sensible, light breakfast and start some soups cooking for lunch.
It's odd: I do not have heartburn, I'm not tired, and nothing really hurts. This may be what is known as 'feeling good'.
I understand 6!
Vampires don't need glitter. They just need sunlight, eh?
Not if I get to them first with a fireball.
Aww hell yeah, almost got my homebrew pantheon done.
Though I wonder if three gods of each alignment is too much for a core pantheon...
I understand 6!I was an AV tech for a LOT of conventions, including a lot of medical conventions, for over 12 years. AND I have nurses on both sides of my family. And I only understood 4 out 5 of those words! ;PSay what?Since a bout of pancreatitis and a cholecystectomy, ingesting lipids exacerbates my pyrosis.I find that starchy foods give me worse heartburn than greasy food. Have you noticed that? It was counterintuitive to me, as I always thought of breads and pastas as fairly inert. YMMV.I slept eight hours last night with only one interruption (to let the dogs out). And we went grocery shopping last night, so was able to cook a sensible, light breakfast and start some soups cooking for lunch.
It's odd: I do not have heartburn, I'm not tired, and nothing really hurts. This may be what is known as 'feeling good'.
Ingesting is such a hard word. To simplify, it means eating :P
Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovebirds out there.
Somebody needs to stat up Cupid.
Aww hell yeah, almost got my homebrew pantheon done.
Though I wonder if three gods of each alignment is too much for a core pantheon...
I havent sat down to count but I'm fairly certain mine has at least that many... lemme go check.
LG: 5
NG: 4
CG: 2 (Though I can see at least 3 slots that are currently empty that a CG avatar should probably fill)
LN: 5
TN: 6
CN: 7, +4 if you count the Fae Lords (Titania, Mab, Cernunnos, and Danu)
LE: 4
NE: 6
CE: 4
The pantheon as a whole is not complete though, there's a few holes/roles yet to be filled.
I see. I just wanted to put enough options for default deities so there's something to choose from, but to avoid giving the players the problem of having too many choices to start with. Of course I'm going to have a lot more deities added (such as regional ones) but they're not in the default list of the main continent. I'm also kind of worried about my players' "rollplay instead of roleplay" tendencies getting the better of them and my work getting the TL;DR treatment as a result.
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Aww hell yeah, almost got my homebrew pantheon done.
Though I wonder if three gods of each alignment is too much for a core pantheon...
Too much? Certainly not. There is no such thing as too much deities.
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And speaking again of my elf wizard from last night's game....
...Introducing him to the existing party was a blast. We're playing FR, and the original party has done some work for the Red Wizards Enclave in Daggerford. They're in good with the leader of the enclave.
So my character, having journeyed to Daggerford to negotiate some exchange of knowledge with the Red Wizards and not making much headway, sees these "dirty humans" making good with the enclave leader and being invited inside. When they came out, my elf walked over to them, let them know just how much they needed his help, and invited himself to join the party.
And that Shift ability is really awesome when you've got a face full of werewolf.
Oh, that's the archetype one of my KM players had taken. I was wondering how he could teleport and stuff.
Ah, the classic elven wizard with double serving or regular arrogance - once for being elf and once for being a wizard... He is gold elf, right?
I was gold elf wizard's familiar once.
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Hell no! I don't really like the Gold Elves all that much. Hated the way they characterized them. Naah, he's a Moon Elf.
But he's really smart, and he realized that these smelly little primates are in good with the wizard he wants to get in good with in order to get some more magic. So he made sure he'd get in good with them. I'm gonna try to play him up similar to "V" from order of the stick - only very much a dude.
My... Er, master, was very much dude as well. To the point he got himself a child with the party's wood elf ranger. And planned to run away with the child if it happened to be gold elf or deny parenthood if it was not.
Also, he would make a great witch... 'Cause he always wanted me to pick his prepared spells. Witch spell selection probably wouldn't match his preferences, however.
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What is up with zombies? I always wondered this.
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One other question: I desperately need a change of internet username. "The Eldritch Mr. Shiny" is way too long and complicated, and it's been my online handle for the better part of a decade. I'm in the process of drawing up business cards and getting a professional website, and I really need something memorable. The sticking point is that pretty much all permutations of my name are already taken (I share a name with a professional basketball player, a high-profile corporate lawyer, and an Irish politician). Does anyone have any ideas?I say keep Eldritch Mr. Shiny. You could find a way to "mature" it up a bit by turning it into Eldrich Mr. S or something like that. It can be frustrating when you have a name that's very similar to someone who's in the public spotlight.
Or TEMS, which would be pronounced like the river in England.
I played a master-less pseudodragon who was trying to find a suitable wizard. Zephyrus fancied himself as a much larger and more powerful dragon than he was, though.
Happy valentines day to everyone!
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Nascent Demon Lord?Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovebirds out there.
Somebody needs to stat up Cupid.
I see Cupid more as a daemon. :)
What is up with zombies? I always wondered this.
Zombie pheromones.
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I see Cupid more as a daemon. :)Nascent Demon Lord?Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovebirds out there.
Somebody needs to stat up Cupid.
You guys are kidding right?
Marriage.
Vows.
Oaths.
Contracts.
Sign on the dotted line.
Clearly an archdevil.
I played a master-less pseudodragon who was trying to find a suitable wizard. Zephyrus fancied himself as a much larger and more powerful dragon than he was, though.
Closest I've come to this was playing a shadow dragon wyrmling. She was fun though, for the two sessions I got to play her.
I see Cupid more as a daemon. :)Nascent Demon Lord?Happy Valentine's Day to all the lovebirds out there.
Somebody needs to stat up Cupid.
You guys are kidding right?
Marriage.
Vows.
Oaths.
Contracts.
Sign on the dotted line.Clearly an archdevil.
But love ain't marriage. And love is one of the most chaotic, upsetting things I know.
Cupid = Demon.
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But love ain't marriage.
I think I am going to grow old and die before I get past the notion that not everyone follows the paradigm I was raised under that one leads to the other. (Since we're specifically talking about the context of romantic love, since that's what Cupid's associated with, and not the more brotherly/friend love. I'm pretty inept but I do know the difference >_>)
It's too bad I pretty consistently test out as LN rather than LG. Otherwise I could just smite the little bastard regardless of species.
Why no one mentioned possibility of Cupid being Kyton? Or Rakshasa?
At least we know he does not qualify as Qlippoth. They are older than such puny concept as love.
Gah, stupid messageboard ate my post.
I was saying that Shiny's personal Cupid might be a tiny but sadistic Kyton (seeing Dave's bad luck and attraction to women of varying degree of weirdness).
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Vampires don't need glitter. They just need sunlight, eh?
No amount of sunlight can brighten my mood.
*waits outside Bella's window*