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Also, I can't say enough about how much I hate Strix and Gillmen.
Why? They were the thinking man's Grand Funk Railroad at the time, though they were never the same after Mike Carpuccio left, I must say.
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Also, I can't say enough about how much I hate Strix and Gillmen.Really? Why?
I don't want to put words in CY's mouth, but my experience is that players make these choices not for roleplay purposes but for min/maxing, "mess with the GM" choices. Strix especially. "Well, I can fly at 1st level, and virtually all APs assume you can't, so you're going to have to significantly adapt the AP to suit my whims."
GothBard hated running the first book of Skull & Shackles because every single player had a PC with a swim speed and darkvision. It seriously messed up a lot of the book.
For homebrew, it's easy to adapt to players' choices. For APs, players' choices can force significant rewrites and make you wonder, "Why did I pay money for this book again?"
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Also, I can't say enough about how much I hate Strix and Gillmen.Really? Why?I don't want to put words in CY's mouth, but my experience is that players make these choices not for roleplay purposes but for min/maxing, "mess with the GM" choices. Strix especially. "Well, I can fly at 1st level, and virtually all APs assume you can't, so you're going to have to significantly adapt the AP to suit my whims."
GothBard hated running the first book of Skull & Shackles because every single player had a PC with a swim speed and darkvision. It seriously messed up a lot of the book.
For homebrew, it's easy to adapt to players' choices. For APs, players' choices can force significant rewrites and make you wonder, "Why did I pay money for this book again?"
This.
Plus, the strix remind me too much of The Wizard of Oz and underwater Atlantis has been done to death.
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Yeah this reads like a race created by a 16 year old who wants to one up the DM/has gotten tired of being one upped by the DM. Getting some Children of Osiris-esque vibes.
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Personally, I really liked Strix and Gillmen, conceptually. But I know people have different experiences. And both have very difficult elements to reconcile in games.
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My dad (elderly, cancer survivor) just got the call late this afternoon. He finally has an appointment Wednesday morning to get his first Moderna COVID vaccine shot.
Hopefully, I didn't just jinx it.
Alright Freehold, stop your Wunian snow linedancing for a bit. My dad's vax appointment was canceled and rescheduled to next Wed because they couldn't get vaccine out of Texas. If you must make it snow in Texas, please confine it to a deep blizzard only over Governor Abbot's and Ted Cruz's houses.
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It was only -13 this morning, things are warming up!!
Those shaved bears must be very cold.
You guys gotta send all that snow here! Nothing could go wrong! :V
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Discord has been mentioned twice without CY asking "Discwho?"
Glitch in the matrix?
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Glitch in the matrix?
No, Neo in The Matrix. Glitch in the ReBoot.
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Discord has been mentioned twice without CY asking "Discwho?"
Glitch in the matrix?
The what?
I don't remember if it was snow or just a heavy frost that happened when I lived in Florida, but I do remember that people thought the world was ending.
Yeah, it’s snowed here before. Ten-ish years back I actually had to scrape my car window!
But then again, this isn’t Texas’ first rodeo (heh) with cold weather or iced roads. I even drove through the two-hundred car pile up back in the 90s! (Well, rode through the pile up. I was too young to be doing the driving.)
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Ah, the joys of growing older! It looks like I didn't post about this, so:
(1) On Friday the 5th the kids were horsing around in the kitchen running into each other, so I said, "I really need to teach you guys how to do a proper shoulder strike," at which point Impus Minor, with his entire 190-pound frame, struck me with his shoulder just to the right of my solar plexus. I don't think he cracked a rib, but he definitely bruised one, so for the next week my chest was pretty tender.
(2) On Friday the 12th we needed all the painting supplies so I moved a large amount of stuff out of the studio shed, including ladders, dollies, and a ping pong table. I thought I was moving things "properly", using my legs instead of my back and whatnot, but guess what? When one part of your core is injured (for example, your chest), the rest of your core overcompensates, so I managed to strain my back.
(3) After three days of attempting to rest it, knowing full well that it's a 1-2 week healing process, I had to take yesterday off of work.
(4) I'm trying to work today, but I now understand the appeal of those sit/stand desks. With an injured back, standing is much more comfortable than sitting.
Anyway, we'll see how the day goes, but hoo, boy. Back issues are a PITA.
Yeah, back issues can be rough.
At least they can be ordered from most websites!
:V
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Yeah, back issues can be rough.
At least they can be ordered from most websites!
:V
Yeah, but my house is already too full of c**p. Ordering a sit/stand desk that I'm only going to use for 2 weeks, ever, seems both wasteful and more of a pain than it's worth.
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Ah, the joys of growing older! It looks like I didn't post about this, so:
(1) On Friday the 5th the kids were horsing around in the kitchen running into each other, so I said, "I really need to teach you guys how to do a proper shoulder strike," at which point Impus Minor, with his entire 190-pound frame, struck me with his shoulder just to the right of my solar plexus. I don't think he cracked a rib, but he definitely bruised one, so for the next week my chest was pretty tender.
(2) On Friday the 12th we needed all the painting supplies so I moved a large amount of stuff out of the studio shed, including ladders, dollies, and a ping pong table. I thought I was moving things "properly", using my legs instead of my back and whatnot, but guess what? When one part of your core is injured (for example, your chest), the rest of your core overcompensates, so I managed to strain my back.
(3) After three days of attempting to rest it, knowing full well that it's a 1-2 week healing process, I had to take yesterday off of work.
(4) I'm trying to work today, but I now understand the appeal of those sit/stand desks. With an injured back, standing is much more comfortable than sitting.
Anyway, we'll see how the day goes, but hoo, boy. Back issues are a PITA.
I guess this is a bad time to ask you to help me rearrange the snow pile in the front yard?
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TMI Moment: Our contractor just put in the "tiling floor" (I have no idea what you call the layer between the plywood subfloor and the tiles, but it's the special stuff you glue the tiles to). As part of the job, he had to hook up all the drains, including the toilet drain.
He pointed at it and looked at me conspirationally: "I know you don't have a toilet yet, but from personal experience: You're a dude. Just get an inverted traffic cone, stick it on in there, and you're good to go!"
Er... thanks?
Hope you recover quickly, NH!
Also! I meant to add the gist of this instead of silly posts about back-issues!
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I disagree with your contractor about toilets.
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Captain Yesterday fun fact: I've never actually seen The Matrix or any of it's sequels.
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Alright Freehold, stop your Wunian snow linedancing for a bit. My dad's vax appointment was canceled and rescheduled to next Wed because they couldn't get vaccine out of Texas. If you must make it snow in Texas, please confine it to a deep blizzard only over Governor Abbot's and Ted Cruz's houses.My dad (elderly, cancer survivor) just got the call late this afternoon. He finally has an appointment Wednesday morning to get his first Moderna COVID vaccine shot.
Hopefully, I didn't just jinx it.
I will do my best to contain the storm to these isolated areas.
Captain Yesterday fun fact: I've never actually seen The Matrix or any of it's sequels.
As much as I like them (well, the first one and the world building and concepts), this isn’t a bad thing. The only thing you’re missing is (ultimately empty) philosophical rambling (with occasional fun but not major insights) and some pop culture references.
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Ah, the joys of growing older! It looks like I didn't post about this, so:
(1) On Friday the 5th the kids were horsing around in the kitchen running into each other, so I said, "I really need to teach you guys how to do a proper shoulder strike," at which point Impus Minor, with his entire 190-pound frame, struck me with his shoulder just to the right of my solar plexus. I don't think he cracked a rib, but he definitely bruised one, so for the next week my chest was pretty tender.
(2) On Friday the 12th we needed all the painting supplies so I moved a large amount of stuff out of the studio shed, including ladders, dollies, and a ping pong table. I thought I was moving things "properly", using my legs instead of my back and whatnot, but guess what? When one part of your core is injured (for example, your chest), the rest of your core overcompensates, so I managed to strain my back.
(3) After three days of attempting to rest it, knowing full well that it's a 1-2 week healing process, I had to take yesterday off of work.
(4) I'm trying to work today, but I now understand the appeal of those sit/stand desks. With an injured back, standing is much more comfortable than sitting.
Anyway, we'll see how the day goes, but hoo, boy. Back issues are a PITA.
Well, there is a good sign. Impus Major hadn't rechecked with you where are all the documents and instructions you prepared in case of your demise... Yet.
Sink's backed up, full of gross water. Have tried plunging for about 10 minutes, but it's not unstoppering. Fairly certain I'm going to have to get under the pipe. I'm fairly certain one of the kids dumped an entire bowl of melted butter into the sink where it resolidified and is now coating the inside of the drain.
Ooooooooh my. Hugs!
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I disagree with your contractor about toilets.
The funniest thing about that (though I haven't watched it yet) is that I kept telling GothBard we were up to a 15th-century toilet: A hole in the floor under which you could put a bucket for the servants to empty, a tub with no running water so the servants would have to fill/drain it, and walls for privacy but no door...
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Captain Yesterday fun fact: I've never actually seen The Matrix or any of it's sequels.
The Matrix had sequels? I don't remember that...
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Sink's backed up, full of gross water. Have tried plunging for about 10 minutes, but it's not unstoppering. Fairly certain I'm going to have to get under the pipe. I'm fairly certain one of the kids dumped an entire bowl of melted butter into the sink where it resolidified and is now coating the inside of the drain.
Er... you SURE you don't want to hire a plumber for that? That is going to be one horrible, terrible, filthy, stinking job.
Make someone who gets paid to do it do it.
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Well, there is a good sign. Impus Major hadn't rechecked with you where are all the documents and instructions you prepared in case of your demise... Yet.Ah, the joys of growing older! It looks like I didn't post about this, so:
(1) On Friday the 5th the kids were horsing around in the kitchen running into each other, so I said, "I really need to teach you guys how to do a proper shoulder strike," at which point Impus Minor, with his entire 190-pound frame, struck me with his shoulder just to the right of my solar plexus. I don't think he cracked a rib, but he definitely bruised one, so for the next week my chest was pretty tender.
(2) On Friday the 12th we needed all the painting supplies so I moved a large amount of stuff out of the studio shed, including ladders, dollies, and a ping pong table. I thought I was moving things "properly", using my legs instead of my back and whatnot, but guess what? When one part of your core is injured (for example, your chest), the rest of your core overcompensates, so I managed to strain my back.
(3) After three days of attempting to rest it, knowing full well that it's a 1-2 week healing process, I had to take yesterday off of work.
(4) I'm trying to work today, but I now understand the appeal of those sit/stand desks. With an injured back, standing is much more comfortable than sitting.
Anyway, we'll see how the day goes, but hoo, boy. Back issues are a PITA.
True story: Impus Minor was helping Impus Major clean his room and found my instructions as to what to do in the case of GothBard's and my sudden demise. Impus Minor thanked me profusely for doing it, then took ownership of the paperwork because, "Impus Major would never know what to do, even with these instructions."
On the one hand, he's right -- he's far more assertive and better at bureaucracy. On the other hand, they'd be getting handed $2.3 million in liquid cash that I would expect to pay for BOTH of their college educations and let them live at home for at least the next 10 years. Impus Major is extremely financially conservative, and could do that with ease.
Impus Minor? I'm sure within a year the living room would be the most epic gaming center ever, and the kids would be wondering how they'd be able to afford college.
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Alright Freehold, stop your Wunian snow linedancing for a bit. My dad's vax appointment was canceled and rescheduled to next Wed because they couldn't get vaccine out of Texas. If you must make it snow in Texas, please confine it to a deep blizzard only over Governor Abbot's and Ted Cruz's houses.My dad (elderly, cancer survivor) just got the call late this afternoon. He finally has an appointment Wednesday morning to get his first Moderna COVID vaccine shot.
Hopefully, I didn't just jinx it.
Amby gets all the cookies. For the week.
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Sink's backed up, full of gross water.
Oh, how terrible. You've got all my positive thoughts flowing your way.
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Hermione has a bit of a stomache ache and a slightly elevated temp, threw up once, and is too sluggish to read.
I keep telling myself, "There is no logical way it's covid," but I have no idea what it might be. Cities around us are under "boil water" orders because of power outages at treatment plants, but we're not, and the rest of us are fine.
Worried about her.
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Hermione has a bit of a stomache ache and a slightly elevated temp, threw up once, and is too sluggish to read.
I keep telling myself, "There is no logical way it's covid," but I have no idea what it might be. Cities around us are under "boil water" orders because of power outages at treatment plants, but we're not, and the rest of us are fine.
Worried about her.
Oof. Fellow parent prayers and e-hugs. That’s how fun at all.
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TMI Moment: Our contractor just put in the "tiling floor" (I have no idea what you call the layer between the plywood subfloor and the tiles, but it's the special stuff you glue the tiles to). As part of the job, he had to hook up all the drains, including the toilet drain.
He pointed at it and looked at me conspirationally: "I know you don't have a toilet yet, but from personal experience: You're a dude. Just get an inverted traffic cone, stick it on in there, and you're good to go!"
Er... thanks?
Sooooooooooooooooooooo
Plywood floors...........................................?Eh... Its very dry where you are but that still sounds not OK to me.
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Sink's backed up, full of gross water. Have tried plunging for about 10 minutes, but it's not unstoppering. Fairly certain I'm going to have to get under the pipe. I'm fairly certain one of the kids dumped an entire bowl of melted butter into the sink where it resolidified and is now coating the inside of the drain.
Oof. Good luck!
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I disagree with your contractor about toilets.
The funniest thing about that (though I haven't watched it yet) is that I kept telling GothBard we were up to a 15th-century toilet: A hole in the floor under which you could put a bucket for the servants to empty, a tub with no running water so the servants would have to fill/drain it, and walls for privacy but no door...
You made me google some supposed technological details regarding XV-XVI century installations in nearby royal castle, and now, somehow, I have downloaded "Waste Management In Medieval Krakow 1257" from academic.edu website.
Also, I ended reading article on local musea network about sanitation in aforementioned royal castle...
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Sink's backed up, full of gross water. Have tried plunging for about 10 minutes, but it's not unstoppering. Fairly certain I'm going to have to get under the pipe. I'm fairly certain one of the kids dumped an entire bowl of melted butter into the sink where it resolidified and is now coating the inside of the drain.Er... you SURE you don't want to hire a plumber for that? That is going to be one horrible, terrible, filthy, stinking job.
Make someone who gets paid to do it do it.
Ok, now you can be officially considered too wealthy for your own good. Plumber is called for serious things, not doing simple crap like cleaning the drain. Yeah, it's messy, but unless there is some more serious issue behind it, it's not really much of skilled work.
Though personally, I might have start with pouring some pipe cleaner first and try manual clearing only after that fails.
Note that refers specifically to sink (assuming it's a standard one with easy access to piping beneath).
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True story: Impus Minor was helping Impus Major clean his room and found my instructions as to what to do in the case of GothBard's and my sudden demise. Impus Minor thanked me profusely for doing it, then took ownership of the paperwork because, "Impus Major would never know what to do, even with these instructions."
On the one hand, he's right -- he's far more assertive and better at bureaucracy. On the other hand, they'd be getting handed $2.3 million in liquid cash that I would expect to pay for BOTH of their...
Interesting, I got the impression that Impus Major is the more assertive one and Impus Minor is much more shy. Of course that was when the later was but a wee imp tadpole, and he might have grown much more mature since that time.
In the hindsight, your reference to Impus Minor being 190 lbs just a few posts ago should have been a giveaway...
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...they'd be getting handed $2.3 million in liquid cash that I would expect to pay for BOTH of their...
You sure you are not dying, dad?
What about now?
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True story: Impus Minor was helping Impus Major clean his room and found my instructions as to what to do in the case of GothBard's and my sudden demise. Impus Minor thanked me profusely for doing it, then took ownership of the paperwork because, "Impus Major would never know what to do, even with these instructions."
On the one hand, he's right -- he's far more assertive and better at bureaucracy. On the other hand, they'd be getting handed $2.3 million in liquid cash that I would expect to pay for BOTH of their...
Interesting, I got the impression that Impus Major is the more assertive one and Impus Minor is much more shy. Of course that was when the later was but a wee imp tadpole, and he might have grown much more mature since that time.
In the hindsight, your reference to Impus Minor being 190 lbs just a few posts ago should have been a giveaway...
I've never been entirely sure whether Impus Minor is really shy/introverted, or whether he just has an extremely low tolerance for other people's bulls**t and is really good at setting boundaries to insulate himself from it. My suspicion is 1/3 option A, 2/3 option B.
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Hope the little lass gets better, LM!
I'm working with some fellow reesurchurs in the US at the moment, and of course they're in Texas, which means that they have no power or internet and hence can do precisely bugger all. I feel for them (and anyone else in the same situation)
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TMI Moment: Our contractor just put in the "tiling floor" (I have no idea what you call the layer between the plywood subfloor and the tiles, but it's the special stuff you glue the tiles to). As part of the job, he had to hook up all the drains, including the toilet drain.
He pointed at it and looked at me conspirationally: "I know you don't have a toilet yet, but from personal experience: You're a dude. Just get an inverted traffic cone, stick it on in there, and you're good to go!"
Er... thanks?
Sooooooooooooooooooooo
Plywood floors...........................................?Eh... Its very dry where you are but that still sounds not OK to me.
Er... check under your house. I suspect that it has:
(1) A concrete foundation that touches the ground with a crawl space underneath.(2) Plain old wooden pillars resting on the concrete supporting the rest of the structure.
(3) Massive wooden joists connecting all the pillars and providing a framework for the house.
(4) Either (a) planks (old) or (b) plywood creating the subfloor.
(5) Whatever nice stuff is on top to create the "real" floor.
This has been true of every wood-frame house I've been under in every area of the world, including England and Scotland, not known for their dryness.
Admittedly, I didn't crawl around under your house, but I'd expect to see a wooden frame supported by wooden subflooring...
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Sink's backed up, full of gross water. Have tried plunging for about 10 minutes, but it's not unstoppering. Fairly certain I'm going to have to get under the pipe. I'm fairly certain one of the kids dumped an entire bowl of melted butter into the sink where it resolidified and is now coating the inside of the drain.Er... you SURE you don't want to hire a plumber for that? That is going to be one horrible, terrible, filthy, stinking job.
Make someone who gets paid to do it do it.
Ok, now you can be officially considered too wealthy for your own good. Plumber is called for serious things, not doing simple crap like cleaning the drain. Yeah, it's messy, but unless there is some more serious issue behind it, it's not really much of skilled work.
Though personally, I might have start with pouring some pipe cleaner first and try manual clearing only after that fails.
Note that refers specifically to sink (assuming it's a standard one with easy access to piping beneath).
A entire bowl of melted butter isn't just pipe cleaning; it's disassembling and reassembling the pipe. There's no solvent that will resolve that issue in any reasonable way. So you're going to have to pull, clean, and replace the trap, snake down the drain to where the trap was, then snake down the kitchen drainpipe all the way to the sewer lateral. It's a non-trivial job involving removing and replacing a pipe. By the time you've gone to the store and bought the tools and parts you'll need and spent the 3-4 hours doing the job, you'll have worked up enough frustration and filth that a plumber might have been worth it.
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I've never been entirely sure whether Impus Minor is really shy/introverted, or whether he just has an extremely low tolerance for other people's bulls**t and is really good at setting boundaries to insulate himself from it. My suspicion is 1/3 option A, 2/3 option B.True story: Impus Minor was helping Impus Major clean his room and found my instructions as to what to do in the case of GothBard's and my sudden demise. Impus Minor thanked me profusely for doing it, then took ownership of the paperwork because, "Impus Major would never know what to do, even with these instructions."
On the one hand, he's right -- he's far more assertive and better at bureaucracy. On the other hand, they'd be getting handed $2.3 million in liquid cash that I would expect to pay for BOTH of their...
Interesting, I got the impression that Impus Major is the more assertive one and Impus Minor is much more shy. Of course that was when the later was but a wee imp tadpole, and he might have grown much more mature since that time.
In the hindsight, your reference to Impus Minor being 190 lbs just a few posts ago should have been a giveaway...
He's introverted and doesn't want to deal with other people. But when he wants something from someone he knows, he's quite bull-headed.
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Amby gets all the cookies. For the week.Alright Freehold, stop your Wunian snow linedancing for a bit. My dad's vax appointment was canceled and rescheduled to next Wed because they couldn't get vaccine out of Texas. If you must make it snow in Texas, please confine it to a deep blizzard only over Governor Abbot's and Ted Cruz's houses.My dad (elderly, cancer survivor) just got the call late this afternoon. He finally has an appointment Wednesday morning to get his first Moderna COVID vaccine shot.
Hopefully, I didn't just jinx it.
Hey, what about me? I'm the one showing snow clouds out of your yard and into theirs!