This week needs to be over now.It almost is.
Naked week-ending? Dear me.
Best kind.
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Got a call from company I applied through my friend. First 15-20 minute phone interview scheduled on Monday noon. Will include speaking in English.
I do think we need an offical ruling on that pronunciation issue.
friday night gaming time
I have to DM "Lost caverns" again, our "Temple" can't make it - again
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I do think we need an official ruling on that pronunciation issue.
There was one in an old Dragon magazine. Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd: An informal index of the right things to say Dragon (Issue 93 - Jan 1985)
where they are available and common-practice pronunciations or TSR rulings where they not. For more general pronunciation help, see the article "Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd" by Frank Mentzer in Dragon #93 (Jan. 1985). For help pronouncing words and names specific to the Forgotten Realms setting, see the Forgotten Realms box and the trilogy of Forgotten Realms deity books. For help pronouncing the names of the various tanar'ri and baatezu types, see MC8 Outer Planes Appendix.
Aarakocra: a-rah-KO-krah
Arquebus: AR-keh-bus
Baatezu: bay-AH-teh-zu or BAH-teh-zu
Bardiche: bar-DEESH
Bulette: boo-LAY
Catoblepus: kuht-OH-bleh-puhs, also kah-TA-ble-pus
Chatkcha: CHAT-k-cha (thri-kreen throwing weapon)
Chimera: ky-MAEE-ruh, or ky-MAIR-ruh (rhymes with "care of")
Chitin: KITE-in
Cuirass: KWEE-rass
Drow: DRAU (as in drowsy; rhymes with now and how)
Dweomer: DWEH-mer (rhymes with "hem her"), or DWIH-mer; sometimes DWEE-mer
Falchion: FAL-chun
Geas: GEE-ass, or GYASS (both with a hard "g")
Gygax: GY-gaks
Halberd: HAL-berd, (not HAL-bread)
Herb: ERB
Ioun: EYE-oon
Iuz: YOOZ or EE-uz
Ixitxachitl: iks-it-ZATCH-i-til or ik-zit-zah-chih-tull
Lich: LITCH (as in ditch), *not* LIKE or LICK
Lycanthrope: LY-kun-throhp, LY-kan-throhp (like lichen rope/my tan rope)
Lycanthropy: ly-KAN-thruh-pee
Mage: MAGE (as in age), *not* MADGE (as in badger)
Melee: MAY-lay
Otyugh: AHT-yuhg
Sahuagin: sah-HWAH-gin
Scythe: syth (rhymes with tithe)
Svirfneblin: svirf-NEB-lin
Tanar'ri: tah-NAHR-ree
Tarrasque: tah-RASK
THAC0: either THAK-oh, or THAKE-oh
Vargouille: var-GWEEL
Vrock: vrahk
Wyvern: WIH-vern (as in did learn), or WHY-vern
Zaknafein: zack-NAY-fee-in
Bulette: boo-LAY
I think this is the only one on the list I've had issue with. I've always just pronounced it Bullet.
I thought the "Drow rhymes with bow" thing was a joke, since likewise "bow" can be pronounced two ways.
Take a bow before picking up your bow and arrows.
On old desktop.
Pfff... Drow rhymes with crow!
Also, isn't geas pronunced gesh?
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Got a call from company I applied through my friend. First 15-20 minute phone interview scheduled on Monday noon. Will include speaking in English.
So cool! I hope it all goes super well for you!
and I hope having to type English to us lazy Americans all the time helps you out too! :) That would be FAWESOME!
We're pulling for you, Drejk!
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I use the term "Dark Elves," you know just to clear up any troublesome contractual issues.
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Just finished my 9th level rogue for our upcoming Doom Comes to Dustpawn game. My youngest son will be gm'ing the module for us. Our goal is to play it before Gen Con. Based on what he has read, he thinks we will enjoy it very much. Can't wait.
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To all my Houston Fawtl friends, y'all want to help me unpack on my birthday? Solnes informed me that we will be unpacking on it this year. :D
Indeed, my friend! I'll even bring beer. And a furniture dolly. And maybe even a hand truck (as soon as I buy one).
Edit: I don't suppose you know what part of Big H you'll be settling in?
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Man. When I do my round-trip tour of half the country in a few years (after I move out; first to KS to visit Scint, then AZ to visit Ebon and my brother and pick up a bunch of stuff I left out there when I moved, then back home) I might have to make a point of swinging through Houston and saying hello to the gathered FAWTLfolk. Especially since I probably will be going to Texas anyway to visit the family members and friends I have there in San Antonio, San Marcos, and Victoria.
I'll have to work the logistics of that out when the time comes.
To all my Houston Fawtl friends, y'all want to help me unpack on my birthday? Solnes informed me that we will be unpacking on it this year. :D
YEAH!!!
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To all my Houston Fawtl friends, y'all want to help me unpack on my birthday? Solnes informed me that we will be unpacking on it this year. :DIndeed, my friend! I'll even bring beer. And a furniture dolly. And maybe even a hand truck (as soon as I buy one).
Edit: I don't suppose you know what part of Big H you'll be settling in?
Solnes says the North West part, she is looking for within 20-30 minutes of her office.
Just finished my 9th level rogue for our upcoming Doom Comes to Dustpawn game. My youngest son will be gm'ing the module for us. Our goal is to play it before Gen Con. Based on what he has read, he thinks we will enjoy it very much. Can't wait.
Cool! I hope you all enjoy the module.
Good luck with your phone interview, Drejk!
I'm still sick with the most annoying not-a-flu-since-it-is-summer-but-sure-as-hell-feels-like-the-flu cold. I think I'm finally beginning to recover, though.
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Congratulations on the upcoming move, Moorluck and Solnes! I need to make another trip to Houston soon. :)
Critical mass of FaWtLies in Texas growing...
Ramel's (Polish Savage Worlds publisher and owner of GRAmel company) status: "Mary (his five or six old year daughter) discovered Dead Can Dance. After learning that I was on their concert she asked 'Will you take me to one too?' "
Fantasy/SF gamers, corrupting youth since 1970-ties :D
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Solnes says the North West part, she is looking for within 20-30 minutes of her office.To all my Houston Fawtl friends, y'all want to help me unpack on my birthday? Solnes informed me that we will be unpacking on it this year. :DIndeed, my friend! I'll even bring beer. And a furniture dolly. And maybe even a hand truck (as soon as I buy one).
Edit: I don't suppose you know what part of Big H you'll be settling in?
This is good. I'm sort of in North Houston area. So we're probably only going to be an hour or two away from each other. :)
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Dinner sounds good actually. We're makin' tacos.
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GURPS game tomorrow, Kingmaker got postponed.
They're probably my favorite recurring theme on your site.
I'll probably be replacing the native pseudodragons in Crimson Throne with kaida populations when I run it.
Too hot.
Too hot.
Preach it!
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As have I. I will also point out that list it contradicts itself and says that Drow rhymes with row and bow. So in the end as much as it annoys me, it doesn't really matter.Bulette: boo-LAYI think this is the only one on the list I've had issue with. I've always just pronounced it Bullet.
I've always pronounced it as if it were a French word. Basically bullet, but with the stress on the first syllable, and with a slightly different u-sound.
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