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While I usually enjoy my friends' impulsive generosity (as long as it does not involve my receiving physical things), sometimes it can be a PITA.
Shiro knows that I enjoyed the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert last year, and he knows the kids enjoy their music. So he looked up when they'd be coming this year, found out it was a single show (tonight), and bought tickets for our entire family. Very generous of him.
Except... it's a weeknight. Impus Major has two tests tomorrow. Impus Minor is in his usual late-week doldrums. So Impus Major has done the responsible thing and said, "I can't go." Impus Minor immediately jumped on the bandwagon and said, "I don't want to go, either."
NobodysWife is upset with them for not telling us sooner (to be fair, Impus Major's physics teacher just moved the test on Monday, and neither he nor I are aware of anything more than a week in advance), and I'm sure Shiro will shrug it off, but there will be the discomfort of paying him back for the tickets we don't use. (He and I have a weird relationship that I also had with my best friend back before he died -- whoever has the money at the moment pays, and it all works out in the end, so we never pay each other back for anything. So NobodysWife is going to try to pay him back, and he's going to refuse, and it's going to get all kinds of nonsensical.)
Just one of those weird, "First World Problems": Oh no! Somebody, without my permission or say-so, bought me tickets I can't use! And now I feel bad about it!
Talk about problems most people can't relate to...
EDIT: And money really is one of those weird things that makes no sense:
Situation 1: You all plan to go to a concert. At the last minute you invite friends. They buy tickets themselves. Everything's good, and they paid for themselves.Situation 2: You buy extra tickets for a concert. At the...
please tell your children I am very proud of them, for the mature decision they have made. I would not have done the same at their age. Or even now.
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Obviously, because I'm naked right now. Naked people can't go to concerts.
Or so the police keep insisting.
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It's just an outdated way for Ed Greenwood to get his (most likely) liberal, academic players to worship deities in his campaign.At the risk of flaming bikes,
...Is this speculation based on something Greenwood has said?
(I'm not invested in Greenwood or FR one way or the other, your comment just came out of the blue for me.)
not yet Fritzy. Hold. Hold...
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Obviously, because I'm naked right now. Naked people can't go to concerts.
Or so the police keep insisting.
Ok. You are SO obviously NOT from California.
I thought nudity at concerts was a requirement...
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And, while programming often utilizes math, it's more like logic.
Programming is like giving instructions to a person with a very narrow and literal ability to think, and perfect obedience. They won't recognize that you asked for something stupid or misspoke. They will try to do it anyway. So be careful what you ask it to do.
The analogy my C prof used was "like a genie of old -- it does exactly what you tell it to. Nothing more, nothing less." :)
Anyway, this seems like part of a reply to my question about coding v. programming...?
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Let us not forget the naked painted hippy bike riders of Seattle.
Edit: Man, how I wish I could forget them.
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EDIT: And I'm curious -- in what way did Orthos and Freehold agree upon FF6?? :)
That it's the best in the series.
It's my third-favorite game of all time, just behind Chrono Trigger at 1 and TerraNigma at 2.
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not yet Fritzy. Hold. Hold...It's just an outdated way for Ed Greenwood to get his (most likely) liberal, academic players to worship deities in his campaign.At the risk of flaming bikes,
...Is this speculation based on something Greenwood has said?
(I'm not invested in Greenwood or FR one way or the other, your comment just came out of the blue for me.)
Just assumptions on my part based on the obstinate nature of players and my own head canon of what his friends must look like based on his picture (I'm imagining a lot of tweed jackets, old T-shirts, and long, long beards).
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Man, I looooooove FR. It, Eberron, Blue Rose, and Golarion rank among my favorite settings.
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I do love Forgotten Realms and Eberron (which is definitely the D&D campaign that would benefit most from Pathfinder's versatility).
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Honestly, I wish there were such a simple and compelling explanation for "Why don't the gods take an even more direct physical role in the world?"
Possibly that:
1) If god A decides to intervene personally, god B will do the same in order to counteract what they're doing. You'll then get into a colossal 'arms race' and Ao will get very cross.
2) They can't, due to some outside force/barrier that's stronger than they are and which obliges them to use mortal pawns
3) Laziness
4) They don't have a physical form, as such, so can't manifest on the/a material plane.
I think 1) is the closest to FR's conception, though I may be wrong.
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RE: FF6 -- Well, we've found something about which we agree! :)
I only got to play it as FFIII on SNES, but the story, characters, and soundtrack (oh, wow -- so good!) were terrific. I even went so far as to start hammering out a conversion of the musical score for our high school band -- may even finish that someday. Another labor of love I haven't finalized . . . . *sigh*
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Man, I looooooove FR. It, Eberron, Blue Rose, and Golarion rank among my favorite settings.
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I do love Forgotten Realms and Eberron (which is definitely the D&D campaign that would benefit most from Pathfinder's versatility).
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FR's take was that Ao aggressively kept things balanced for reasons known only to him.
At the stinger end of one novel that one time, he was apparently in service to some other creature called the "being of light" or some-such (and it was implied to be many-or-one-or-something, I'unno).
At least one thing I read one time suggested it was supposed to be the GM or something similar.
Also (1), by technicality, but (1) was generally given as "the" reason because Ao isn't really able to be talked about - even when he directly intervened with an extreme and obvious direct action that the whole world learned about and was written about by scribes and sages, the knowledge of him just... kept fading. People forget about him.
- 1) this was given as Greyhawk's reason
- 2) this was given as Eberron's reason (though it's possible that they never actually existed); this mixed with (1) is also kind of the question of Blue Roses' thing, though it was never made explicitly clear (and it's less "be WARNED" as it is "bad things will likely happen if they interfere too much")
- 3) this is effectively the reason for one of my settings (sort of), in that, eventually, the ascended gods had a "stable" source of power/life energy and had no particular reason to do more; once their worshipers all went to their heaven, there wasn't a reason to get more... also...
- 4) this was the other reason in said setting (they literally became too powerful for a physical form, and ascended past it)
Man, I looooooove FR. It, Eberron, Blue Rose, and Golarion rank among my favorite settings.
She loves FR, too! Her favorite published place, ever, is Silverymoon, FR!
She also loves Blue Rose and Golarion though there isn't a particular place (kind of "Taldor" and "Cheliax" (pre-Aroden's death) in general). And Eberron has Sharn, which reminds her of home.
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Man, I love the 3.X Epic rules...
... also Mythic rules.
XD
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*Cynicism mode engaged*
Gods? caring? pfff...
It's a business relationship, pure and simple.
A God comes in and offers you a tangible benefit - this can be security, belonging or community in case of your average "lay believer", or even the power to bend reality to better suit your cause incase of your true faithful types.
And the price for that?
Well it depends, on how much of a power package you received.
But the base price is always the same, no matter what kind of package you received, the God will get your soul once you pass on...
So if the Gods care, its the caring a farmer has for his fields, a shepherd for his sheep or a merchant for his inventory.
Our souls are their livelihood.
- Kjeldorn, while deep in his cups, discuss the "nature of the Gods" in a filthy, rundown inn.
*Cynicism mode disengaged*
So...
I've missed a lot.
Pizza
Programming
GM'ing
The Gods
Settings
A lot of people having health issues...Hey I'm sorry not to have offered any condolences to those affected, as I have been mostly indisposed for a while...
But I should be in better working order now, so hope to follow up here again some more.
So sorry again, please accept a *hug* as compensation and hope you all get/got better ^^
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It's a combination of 1 and 2, with the "something" of 2 being "if you put out a full avatar if of yourself, you risk someone killing you."
1 and a gentleman's agreement between the five Aspects (Good, Order, Evil, Chaos, and Creation) that provide gods their power is the reason in my homebrew world.
A wild Kjeldorn has appeared! Huzzah!
And, though he already answered...
... still a good time, for...
THIS THING, FaWtLers! Booyah! ... in a good way!
I'd originally been planning on updating this once per page.
HAH! FaWtL put a stop to that~!
Original Post with a question for everyone to answer!
YAY!
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And now the results so far of EverFaWtL:
01) aatea: paladin (cloistered cleric archetype); hellknight PrC
02) baron arem heshvaun:
03) CH: oracle (deva bard archetype); bard with Radiant Servant PrC
04) Crookshanks: ___________________
05) CY: medium (brute vigilante archetype); mammoth rider PrC
06) doctor_wu: investigator (tetori monk archetype; for better hugging); ??? <no PrC suggested>
07) Drejk: psychic OR int-based sorcerer (archeologist bard archetype); ??? <no PrC suggested>
08) Freehold: martial artist monk/lust wizard (solacer bard archetype); ??? <no PrC suggested>
09) Game Hamster: cleric (archetype granting smite evil or inquisition??); ??? <no PrC suggested>
10) gran: wizard (warrior of the holy light paladin archetype); PrCs (I'unno, maybe being "that guy" - i.e. me - who wants a non-evil assassin?)
11) Icy: ______________
12) J4rh43d: empericist investigator (with blossoming light cleric archetype) OR blossoming light cleric (with empericist investigator archetype)... OR paladin (with blossoming light cleric archetype); sanguine angel OR alchemist/brewkeeper OR wizard/<any full casting PrC to fix stuff>
13) Jess Door: Paladin (archeologist bard archetype?); Loremaster [ALT/ADTL: just a cat]
14) John (Napier): Traveller d20 Grand Admiral [Imperial subrank “archetype”] OR Gunslinger (bounty hunter slayer archetype); duelist PrC
15) Kileanna: __________________
16) Kjeldorn: druid (archivist bard archetype); home brew paladin PrC OR brewkeeper PrC (lacking religious flavor);
17) Limey: fighter/rogue/mage (all with the musketeer archetype); toss up (duelist, eldritch knight, assassin [3.5] )
18) lisamarlene: in need of coffee PATHFINDER CHRONICLER, ALL ELSE MEANINGLESS (it’s close to being Indiana Jones! Squee!)
19) lynora: witch (crashing wave cleric archetype water bending); ??? <no PrC suggested> :)
20) Mort (Just a Mort): since I know for a fact that a certain Chinese kitty sometimes hangs out over here (but rarely posts anything!! >:I): wizard (urban ranger archetype); student of war PrC (oh: and/or assassin?)
21) NH: paladin of some sort, and definitely not the Core PrCs or the early archetypes thereof! (also, as of lisamarlene, is now given bonus levels in grumpy-pants! )
22) Orthos: wilder (unknown archetype that nabs Dark Knowledge from Heroes of Horror); wilder/dragonfire adept/<the PrC that combines those>
23) Scint: alchemist (archavist bard archetype; yay know-it-all mad science (so basically a female Bill Nye, which is now the coolest thing ever)); "soracle" theurge (sorcerer/oracle/theurge)
24) Sharoth: 20th level commoner (weakness: fear of house cats)
25) Sissyl: NO ARCHETYPES; optimized cleric/wizard/mystic theurge
26) Syrus: warpriest [Healing, Tactics domains] (unknown archetype of something for smite and/or marshal auras); Evangelist (with The Deity ;D)
27) Thomas Seitz (): Paladin, duh!; ??? <no PrC suggested>
28) Me!: psionic erudite (unifier tactician archetype) or erudite/wizard/cerebromancer
29) taig: ________________
30) TOZ: Oracle (Unbreakable Fighter archetype); Oracle/Holy Vindicator (sneaking suspicion that he may, just possibly, perhaps, have a type)
31) TS: fellow erudite psion with some “expanded knowledge” feat-focused archetype (OR a wizard with access to both wish spells, and the missing 9th level wizard spells); any PrC with +1 ML (and/or +1 CL) per level (“thou shalt not sacrifice…”)
32) The Vagrant Erudite: juju oracle (churomancer wizard archetype) (look, he just wants all the dead things; also to wear white); ??? <no PrC suggested>
33) Vanykrye: kensai magus (empericist investigator archetype); paladin/monk/<Iroran Paladin-monk-PrC>
34) Vidmaster: magus sorcerer (with the celeberty bard archetype) or bard (with the spell blade magus archetype); ??? <no PrC suggested>
35) Wei Ji: bard (spirit guide oracle archetype); sorcerer (or bloodrager)/dragon disciple
... and anyone else that comes next!
Enjoy!
And now, some random stats I noticed:
- 4/35: unanswered
- 31/35: at least partially answered
- 17/35: fully answered
- 11/35: totally followed the all the rules!
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I love the idea of epic play, but oh man, the 3.0 ELH is best used as a lesson in MISTAKES WERE MADE. :/
One of the reasons I like 4e so much is that epic play was built right into the core game, and so long as you avoid early-4e elite & solo monsters it is actually playable.
Don't know how mythic rules work, but I hear that they kinda reset martials v. casters to 1st level balance?
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She loves FR, too! Her favorite published place, ever, is Silverymoon, FR!Man, I looooooove FR. It, Eberron, Blue Rose, and Golarion rank among my favorite settings.
How could a woman so beautiful and intelligent be so wrong?
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How could a woman so beautiful and intelligent be so totally awesome in every way?!She loves FR, too! Her favorite published place, ever, is Silverymoon, FR!Man, I looooooove FR. It, Eberron, Blue Rose, and Golarion rank among my favorite settings.
I know, right? She just keeps getting better!
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I love the idea of epic play, but oh man, the 3.0 ELH is best used as a lesson in MISTAKES WERE MADE. :/
One of the reasons I like 4e so much is that epic play was built right into the core game, and so long as you avoid early-4e elite & solo monsters it is actually playable.
Don't know how mythic rules work, but I hear that they kinda reset martials v. casters to 1st level balance?
1) Yes, but... eh. I love the concepts and elements used - it's the specific application of limits and poor implementation of progression that's the real problem (also the vague way that the authors half-followed the rules, half-didn't without adhering to their own suggestions). And while lots of thought was clearly given to high levels, not much of substance for mechanical differentiation and the full ramifications of what they'd already printed. And god rules were not made with them in mind at all. (As an aside, FR epic characters as presented in 3rd FRCS didn't use the actual epic rules, but a "half" set of "almost" epic rules; the ELH had their full epic stats, but I'm not sure how much that second set were ever used in lieu of their first set. Also, I love the epic NPCs so much. Look, I know I like things many people don't yes, including Harpers, let's move on.)
2) ... *takes breath, raises hand... lets out breath and hand down* ... *takes breath, raises hand... lets out breath and hand down* ... *takes breath, raises hand... lets out breath and hand down* ... nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnot. Er, not... exactly. I'd recommend reading them for yourself. There are awesome things, there, but they still cause problems in really weird ways that are difficult to explain. Basically balance (what balance there was) is moved to a completely different fulcrum. But martials focused on martial things get ever-better-at-total-eradication; this just also allows them to diversify. Some mythic powers are exceptionally and weirdly specific and feel like they shouldn't be mythic powers. Others are broad and do, in fact, feel mythic (though it might be a bad idea to allow into campaigns). And some are just... they're just... huh. In both good and bad ways.
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Honestly, I wish there were such a simple and compelling explanation for "Why don't the gods take an even more direct physical role in the world?"Possibly that:
1) If god A decides to intervene personally, god B will do the same in order to counteract what they're doing. You'll then get into a colossal 'arms race' and Ao will get very cross.
2) They can't, due to some outside force/barrier that's stronger than they are and which obliges them to use mortal pawns
3) Laziness
4) They don't have a physical form, as such, so can't manifest on the/a material plane.I think 1) is the closest to FR's conception, though I may be wrong.
Yeah now that I'm thinking about it, I remember reading a speculation somewhere (a Planescape book?) that "Maybe the gods tried direct conflict once, and all they accomplished was mutual destruction."
Within the context of D&D gods in general, rather than strictly FR, I can come up with three explanations:
1. The FR situation, where gods can interfere with the mortal world all they want, but are engaged in a sort of divine cold war in order to avoid mutually assured annihilation of worshippers and/or selves. So they spend time and divine mojo arming & supplying allies abroad (clerics), fight proxy wars (holy wars), and may even establish new missile bases (avatars) near enemy territory in order to deter enemy action. But they don't fully manifest themselves or directly intervene, because that's bad for everyone.
Of course there's always that one psycho god that even the other evil deities don't trust to keep his finger off the nuclear button.
2. Gods can manifest and intervene in the mortal world, but the very existence of their divine realms are dependent on their continual presence there. So gods are very reluctant to leave their divine realms, knowing that even a temporary absence will result in dramatic decay that will require much time and divine mojo to restore upon return.
Of course there's always that one freewheeling god who wanders the world pretending to be a crotchety old man, rather than maintaining a divine realm.
3. The very makeup of the mortal world is anathema to the nature of divinity, so gods can't manifest or directly intervene. Granting spells and the occasional miracle or vision is all the gods can do.
Not sure which one I like more.
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Hour and a half round trip to meet a potential date who didn't show, because she thought I hadn't confirmed (despite mesaying 'Yes, we'll talk about on Thurs' in an earlier text). We've rearranged for this Sunday, so second time lucky..
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* All the different secret societies and cabals
* The various vanished civilisations (Netheril, Illefarn and so on)
* Some of the rogue-y gods, like Mask, or Vhaerun, or Erevan Ilesere, were pretty cool
*Lots of wonderfully detailed settlements
* All the fluff. So, so much fluff
* Ancient Egyptians. Not an FR equivalent thereof, but just Egyptians, plonked down at random any old where .
* None of the smashing conspriraceys ever did very much in the way of conspriring.
* Too many super-beings
* Crowded out all the other settings
* Isn't Greyhawk
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And, while programming often utilizes math, it's more like logic.
Programming is like giving instructions to a person with a very narrow and literal ability to think, and perfect obedience. They won't recognize that you asked for something stupid or misspoke. They will try to do it anyway. So be careful what you ask it to do.
The analogy my C prof used was "like a genie of old -- it does exactly what you tell it to. Nothing more, nothing less." :)
Anyway, this seems like part of a reply to my question about coding v. programming...?
also a response to freeholders comment hat it sounded like math.
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I like how Pathfinder handles the gods.
And while I say I love the forgotten realms, it's definitely in the sense that one still loves an ex wife.
There's no way I'll ever go back to it after what they did to it with 4th edition.
Eberron had some great ideas but felt too small.
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I really have only used homebrew and golarion mostly. Only forgotten realms things I have is really the baldurs gate games.
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I like how Pathfinder handles the gods.
And while I say I love the forgotten realms, it's definitely in the sense that one still loves an ex wife.
There's no way I'll ever go back to it after what they did to it with 4th edition.
Eberron had some great ideas but felt too small.
i love the spellplague.
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I really only have ever used homebrew or golarion.
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I am feeling lonely now but am having problems with my dad keep on changing my schedule when I set out on doing things.
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I am feeling lonely now but am having problems with my dad keep on changing my schedule when I set out on doing things.
Make him give you a written schedule, telling him it'll "help you remember". Make plans during free time. When he changes the schedule on you, say, "But Dad! I had this printout and I was very careful to schedule this during my free time!"
It will get the point across.
Dad SHOULD care.
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Looking for recommendations:
My daughter has decided that she is "into comics", even though (a) she's six and a half, and (b) the only comic books she's actually seen are a few old Wonder Woman comics of mine.
What are some good "starter" comics that are more or less age appropriate? She likes superheroes, magic and witches (both Hermione and Kiki), and I want to give her "real" comics, not crap like Wendy that well-meaning idiots foisted on me as a child.
Suggestions?
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Why a decent IT department matters:
As I've mentioned, I spent a lot of time tuning a Pandora station to my liking for work listening, but then I made the mistake of adding ONE Disney song and I was suddenly flooded with enough saccharine crap to give the entire population of China diabetes. So I hit "Skip". A LOT. And once I hit 250, Pandora said, "Nope. You've reached your limit. Can't skip any more!"
So I'd been listening to Pandora less and less, as the station is slowly regaining a large number of songs I don't like. Cue Pandora sending me a handy, "Try our premium service! Skip as many songs as you like! No ads!"
Just what the doctor ordered! I like Pandora because it plays songs and artists I've never heard before instead of just, "Whatever you put into your playlist". So I signed up, activated the account, etc.
And here I sit, 2 hours later, and I turned on Pandora. Some absolutely awful song combining Things NobodysHome Hates the Most (gangsta rap and a whiney male singer. In one song!). I hit Thumbs Down. *Bzzzt!* "You have reached your thumbs-down limit."
So either:
(a) It is taking HOURS for my registration to propagate to the playback system, or
(b) Their "unlimited skips" is not in any way, shape, or form related to what most of us think "unlimited" means
Either way, Pandora's about to lose the revenue stream it just gained, because I'm not a patient man once I'm paying for a service.
Bad IT, Pandora! No biscuit!
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Looking for recommendations:
My daughter has decided that she is "into comics", even though (a) she's six and a half, and (b) the only comic books she's actually seen are a few old Wonder Woman comics of mine.
What are some good "starter" comics that are more or less age appropriate? She likes superheroes, magic and witches (both Hermione and Kiki), and I want to give her "real" comics, not crap like Wendy that well-meaning idiots foisted on me as a child.
Suggestions?
LUMBERJANES WOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Looking for recommendations:
My daughter has decided that she is "into comics", even though (a) she's six and a half, and (b) the only comic books she's actually seen are a few old Wonder Woman comics of mine.
What are some good "starter" comics that are more or less age appropriate? She likes superheroes, magic and witches (both Hermione and Kiki), and I want to give her "real" comics, not crap like Wendy that well-meaning idiots foisted on me as a child.
Suggestions?
Aren't YOU the one who loaned Impus Major the Myth Adventures books? Or are those too old for her?
And Kiki's Delivery Service started off as a manga. If Hermione needs a Christmas present, the series could mysteriously appear on her doorstep. NobodysHome has ways. Or at least Amazon...
Other than that, if you're looking for good Marvel/DC comics, I started on The Amazing Spider-Man at around 7 years old. But that was in the Dark Ages. I don't know how much "adult" comic books have changed since then. I'd honestly focus more on manga than traditional 4-color comics.
Unfortunately, the only ones I can lend you right now are One Punch Man, and I think that's a little above her level.
Also, I don't know whether the right-to-left style of manga would cause her issues...
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i love the spellplague.I like how Pathfinder handles the gods.
And while I say I love the forgotten realms, it's definitely in the sense that one still loves an ex wife.
There's no way I'll ever go back to it after what they did to it with 4th edition.
Eberron had some great ideas but felt too small.
I don't mind the Spellplague, what I didn't like is their "rock falls, everyone dies, let's advance the timeline 102 years, because..." explanation.
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LUMBERJANES WOOOOOOOOOOOOLooking for recommendations:
My daughter has decided that she is "into comics", even though (a) she's six and a half, and (b) the only comic books she's actually seen are a few old Wonder Woman comics of mine.
What are some good "starter" comics that are more or less age appropriate? She likes superheroes, magic and witches (both Hermione and Kiki), and I want to give her "real" comics, not crap like Wendy that well-meaning idiots foisted on me as a child.
Suggestions?
See, now I'm just picturing Freehold in his tightie whities (looking much like the Old Spice Man) running down the streets of New York, waving his arms insanely in the air and screaming this.
No, I don't know why, either.
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I don't mind the Spellplague, what I didn't like is their "rock falls, everyone dies, let's advance the timeline 102 years, because..." explanation.i love the spellplague.I like how Pathfinder handles the gods.
And while I say I love the forgotten realms, it's definitely in the sense that one still loves an ex wife.
There's no way I'll ever go back to it after what they did to it with 4th edition.
Eberron had some great ideas but felt too small.
Didn't 5e go "Rocks unfall, everyone's alive again"?
I've heard that Greenwood still DMs his original 1e-era FR campaign. Isn't picking and choosing which era to use with which edition half the point of FR?
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I refuse to even touch anything 5th edition.
It doesn't matter which era is used, forgotten realms is forever after dead to me.
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Why a decent IT department matters:
As I've mentioned, I spent a lot of time tuning a Pandora station to my liking for work listening, but then I made the mistake of adding ONE Disney song and I was suddenly flooded with enough saccharine crap to give the entire population of China diabetes. So I hit "Skip". A LOT. And once I hit 250, Pandora said, "Nope. You've reached your limit. Can't skip any more!"
So I'd been listening to Pandora less and less, as the station is slowly regaining a large number of songs I don't like. Cue Pandora sending me a handy, "Try our premium service! Skip as many songs as you like! No ads!"
Just what the doctor ordered! I like Pandora because it plays songs and artists I've never heard before instead of just, "Whatever you put into your playlist". So I signed up, activated the account, etc.
And here I sit, 2 hours later, and I turned on Pandora. Some absolutely awful song combining Things NobodysHome Hates the Most (gangsta rap and a whiney male singer. In one song!). I hit Thumbs Down. *Bzzzt!* "You have reached your thumbs-down limit."
So either:
(a) It is taking HOURS for my registration to propagate to the playback system, or
(b) Their "unlimited skips" is not in any way, shape, or form related to what most of us think "unlimited" meansEither way, Pandora's about to lose the revenue stream it just gained, because I'm not a patient man once I'm paying for a service.
Bad IT, Pandora! No biscuit!
try slacker radio.
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I am feeling lonely now but am having problems with my dad keep on changing my schedule when I set out on doing things.Make him give you a written schedule, telling him it'll "help you remember". Make plans during free time. When he changes the schedule on you, say, "But Dad! I had this printout and I was very careful to schedule this during my free time!"
It will get the point across.
Dad SHOULD care.
Won't work with his health problems he has great sleep schedule problems. Been messing me up for years especially when I wake up and he is grumpy.
When I looked into 5th edition I was like where is my longspear but that is a crunch thing.