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Tonight, a chap is coming over to teach us Bartitsu
That isn't him in the pics, but check out them 'taches.
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I just started working on a quick adventure I want to run my friends through in an RPG called Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors. I have so far written the following background for the BBEGs. Does it seem comedically terrifying enough?
** spoiler omitted **
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I just started working on a quick adventure I want to run my friends through in an RPG called Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors. I have so far written the following background for the BBEGs. Does it seem comedically terrifying enough?
I love it! It looks like a Buffy chapter!
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That's just crazy...Cap is giving gran a day off apparently.I just realized... This is all just part of a plot to replace us all with cap-bots.
He's feeling out gran's job so he knows how to program that cap bot, and once he has given us all a "day off" each will be replaced in turn...
O_O!?!?!?!?!
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Whoo hoo! Monday!!
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Have I mentioned how much I love my Sunday group?
(Whingy Wizard is amazing in his ability to insist that he only plays for the "roleplaying" aspect of the game, yet the moment you use a "party" resource for such purposes he hits the ceiling and lets you have it. In the Crimson Throne game, the cleric tried to use 1000 gp of diamond dust to pay for raising the ranger's animal companion, and it was a good 20-minute argument because 'the rules let him just get another one. Why are we paying to raise this one?'
"YOU aren't paying. *I* am."
"But *I* might need to be raised later, so *you* shouldn't be "wasting" diamond dust!"
In fairness, he also objected to going a day out of the party's way. But given that they knew they weren't working against a time limit, both arguments were rather forced.)
So yesterday was a very good game...
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July is ending. Feels a bit odd, with school coming up in a few weeks.
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Woo! Awesome job, FH!
Im not saying I'm stealing this...I just started working on a quick adventure I want to run my friends through in an RPG called Demon Hunters: A Comedy of Terrors. I have so far written the following background for the BBEGs. Does it seem comedically terrifying enough?
** spoiler omitted **
Speaking of stealing things, I recently did a three year necro in celebration of running my first successful 1st level commoner game!
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Well, I have to admit, I am both happy and frustrated that U.S. citizens are still somewhat interested in science.
For those not paying attention, hotel rooms along the path of totality for the August 21 eclipse are up to $1000/night(!!).
We decided we were going to do the whole thing "in style" and rented a giant RV.
Today was half an hour of phone calls trying to find anywhere to park it within 200 miles of the path of totality. It was NOT easy.
Finally we found an 'eclipse festival' where a couple are renting out space on their 2000-acre ranch to let people dump their vehicles.
Happy that the eclipse is so popular. Unhappy that that means so many people will be around...
...and on the bright side, parking the RV less than 15 miles from the center of the path so we don't have to drive at all if we don't want to is pretty epic. And at 1/5 the price of a hotel room.
Not bad at all!
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The eclipse is within a day of my birthday.
I'm genuinely scared society might fall if I put any effort whatsoever in seeing it.
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The eclipse is within a day of my birthday.
I'm genuinely scared society might fall if I put any effort whatsoever in seeing it.
But... but... it's all of a 334-mile drive for you! That's practically a day trip!
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It turns out after hardly any research my out of state brother lives along the path.
It isn't worth it.
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It turns out after hardly any research my out of state brother lives along the path.
It isn't worth it.
My manager's appalled that I'm paying the extortion-level price on the RV parking, but once I got 100+ miles outside of the area and was still getting, "Yeah, I don't know of a place within 50 miles that isn't booked solid already," I figured I had two choices:
(1) Spend a ton of money on an RV, bring a whole bunch of hopeful kids along, and risk not getting there because I have to drive 200 odd miles the morning of the eclipse.(2) Pay an extra $180 and guarantee that even if I sleep in, the RV's engine explodes, and my wallet is stolen by wombats, my kids will still see the eclipse.
Yeah, I'll pay the $180, thanks.
EDIT: And in an odd bit of insight into NobodysHome's psychology, I really don't mind when venues up their rates for "special events"... especially places like this poor rancher, who you KNOW is going to be spending the next month on heavy equipment in the hot summer sun making RV parking spaces to get the extra cash. I don't envy him one whit.
But the moment a parasite scalper gets involved, I won't even pay list price. "Wait a minute. You bought out ALL the spaces just so you could resell them to other people at a profit? Nah, I'm not doing that. I'd rather miss the show."
Just an interesting bit of my own psychology...
EDIT 2: OK. I admit it. I turned my "Nice Guy" meter up to 11 while making the calls because I really wanted a space. So I just got a call back from one of the other places, and he'd managed to rearrange things so he could fit me "Out back o' the pasture."
I really loved the consideration, AND the offer to be in the back of a pasture, so I told him that xxx had already rented me space. His response, "Aw, well that was nice of her! I'm glad you got a space. Have a fun time at the eclipse!"
I'm really beginning to like Eastern Oregon. Of course, I haven't been there yet.
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But all the best hallucinogenic mushrooms grow on the poop at the back of the pasture!
You're doing it wrong!
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After hearing today's news stories, Impus Major decided he is going to start the Rock party.
Every year he will run randomly-selected rocks against all the carefully-selected candidates.
He feels he has a strong chance.
The saddest part? I cannot disagree with him.
The saddest part? I cannot disagree with him.
It likely wouldn't be the first time in history something like that has succeeded...
In other news...
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Knock knock.
Who's there?
Nuisance.
Nuisance who?
What's nuisance yesterday?
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What do you get when you cross a pig with a centipede?
Bacon and legs.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Waddle.
Waddle who?
Waddle I f@$# if you don't open the door?
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Why does the ocean roar?
You'd roar too if you had crabs on your bottom.
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What do you get when you cross a caterpillar with a parrot?
A walkie-talkie.
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Is it hard to spot a leopard?
No, they come that way!
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Knock knock.
Who's there?
Aardvark.
Aardvark who?
Aardvark a million miles for you.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Waddle.
Waddle who?
Waddle I f%*# if you don't open the door?
1) There is no duck, here.
2) Waddles is a pig. Dang it.
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The picture was a duck.
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My boss does this irritating thing where he'll sit us both down in front of a screen to do a long bit of digital paperwork. He will then proceed to have me type everything out -- rephrasing, correcting, changing his mind repeatedly, recorrecting, forgetting what he told me to write weeks ago, explaining to me why his (new) way is better than what I already wrote, and getting occasionally distracted. But not volunteering to cut out the middle man and do it himself. He knows much more about the process than I do.
I'm not sure whether he has ADD, some work-motivation to saddle me with the keyboard, or maybe he wants me to do the typing b/c I'm fast and accurate.
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My boss does this irritating thing where he'll sit us both down in front of a screen to do a long bit of digital paperwork. He will then proceed to have me type everything out -- rephrasing, correcting, changing his mind repeatedly, recorrecting, forgetting what he told me to write weeks ago, explaining to me why his (new) way is better than what I already wrote, and getting occasionally distracted. But not volunteering to cut out the middle man and do it himself. He knows much more about the process than I do.
I'm not sure whether he has ADD, some work-motivation to saddle me with the keyboard, or maybe he wants me to do the typing b/c I'm fast and accurate.
My boss has me attend meetings because I take better notes than she does. But at least she's honest about why I'm there.
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Yeah I feel ya gran. I'm not that enthusiastic about it myself.
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My boss does this irritating thing where he'll sit us both down in front of a screen to do a long bit of digital paperwork. He will then proceed to have me type everything out -- rephrasing, correcting, changing his mind repeatedly, recorrecting, forgetting what he told me to write weeks ago, explaining to me why his (new) way is better than what I already wrote, and getting occasionally distracted. But not volunteering to cut out the middle man and do it himself. He knows much more about the process than I do.
I'm not sure whether he has ADD, some work-motivation to saddle me with the keyboard, or maybe he wants me to do the typing b/c I'm fast and accurate.
Reasons can be surprising things.
I spent seven years as the Exec Ass to the COO of a large nursing home company. Every year when we did our annual budget, I would spend day after day sitting in her chair in front of her PC while she stood behind me and told me what numbers were supposed to go where and how they were all supposed to tie in.She gave various explanations, i.e. "I want you to learn the budgeting process," or "You need to understand this so you can work directly with the department heads to help them with their operating and staffing budgets", etc.
Turned out what was really going on is that SHE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO USE FORMULAS IN EXCEL. She basically thought it was just a big sheet of digital graph paper, and she was "teaching me the budgeting process" so I could insert formulas and tie everything together so that the CEO and the CFO wouldn't find out she didn't know how to do any of it.
I got some really nice presents as a reward for my discretion.