Deep 6 FaWtL

[David M Mallon]

In Patrick's Reign of Winter PbP, my character has made a total of 17 d20 rolls. Out of those 17, precisely five of them have been over 10. Of the remaining 12, six were rolls of 1 or 2. I'm f%$$ing cursed.

[Icyshadow]

I feel like giving the current campaign a recap once I get home...

[Freehold DM]

Add me to the list of fawrls who saw Avengers this weekend.
I did not enjoy it.

[Freehold DM]

It is so easy to navigate manhattan when noone is on the street.

[Tacticslion]

David M Mallon wrote:

In Patrick's Reign of Winter PbP, my character has made a total of 17 d20 rolls. Out of those 17, precisely five of them have been over 10. Of the remaining 12, six were rolls of 1 or 2. I'm f**!ing cursed.

I have an item for you.

It takes up your immediate actions, but it's sorth every penny.

My two recommendations are e to see if your GM will allow you to:
- a) make one, preferably a variant that works for your character
- b) reverse-engineer the pricing guidelines to add more/day uses over time

With the latter, it'd be 5,600 per daily use (2,800 to build yourself). After you have five daily uses (28,000 to buy or 14,000 to make) you can make it "at will" by doubling that (56k for at-will, or 28 if you make it).

Again, it eats up your immediate actions, but if you really can't roll well, it is behind worth it.

(If you can get it as something like an imbedded ioun stone, even better! Double all prices/costs, though.)

EDIT: also, clothes, man. Clothes. :)

Edit 2: Seriously, though, it's an amazing item.

[Freehold DM]

MAY THE FAWT BE WITH YOU

[Tin Foil Yamakah]

Freehold DM wrote:

Add me to the list of fawrls who saw Avengers this weekend.

I did not enjoy it.

It didn't have anything to do with whedon did it? BTW I have no interest in seeing it, perhaps I am an anti-whedonite also.

[captain yesterday]

I hate James Cameron!!

[Kajehase]

Wow... This Swedish film from 1949 has had enough swears to get a US R-rating in five minutes of screen time.

[Kajehase]

Admittedly, it's the kind of film where the leading lady sticks some money down the top of her stocking before heading out to meet with her escaped convict ex-boyfriend, so some salty language should be there.

[Kajehase]

And, of course, everyone smokes.

[AngryNerdRageDemon]

Kajehase wrote:

And, of course, everyone smokes.

Now that's just going too far!

Because they weren't actually fire. Teases, the lot of 'em.

[Tacticslion]

Treppa wrote:

Sorry for your loss (really). It's aggravating.

That said, Chrome + Lazarus = reduced frustration.

David M Mallon wrote:

Treppa wrote:

Sorry for your loss (really). It's aggravating.

That said, Chrome + Lazarus = reduced frustration.

Or Firefox + Lazarus.

I thought I did, and, as it turns out, I did. The problem? I was in Incognito mode (Incognito mode saves me loads of time pruning my history daily - I use my history as a way of keeping sites I want to go back to in my "auto-fill" lines in Chrome), and hadn't authorized Lazarus to touch that mode. Grrr. Lesson learned, I suppose.

Anyway, it's allowed now.

[Ragadolf]

Freehold DM wrote:

MAY THE FAWT BE WITH YOU

MAY THE FORTH, I mean, FAWTL BE WITH YOU! ;)

[captain yesterday]

I 've got the shinin':-)

[NobodysHome]

The kind of weekend that makes you wish you were pushing 30 instead of 50:

A looong weekend!:

Friday: Up at 5:30 am. Get conveniently-packed backs and half-asleep Impus Major out door (thanks, Past Me!) in time to catch bus with 80 other middle schoolers for a whirlwind tour/performance for middle schools around the south bay. The choir teacher (bless her soul!) provides me (as a chaperone) with a minute-by-minute list of what I'll be doing from 6:15 am to 11:30 pm. Because I'm OCD, I love her for it. When we manage to keep 80 12-14-year-olds on that schedule, I am truly blissful. And the kids are all just plain awesome! I love this trip!

Saturday: Another 5:30 am wakeup, this time to set up the breakfast tables so the kids can eat-and-dash to the actual competition. (Great America's Music in the Park festival, for those familiar with it). The choirs do their thing, and off to Great America to run amok for 5 hours until the results are announced. One kid gets detained for passing a counterfeit $10. Tensions are high, as he only entered the park with $20's, but private security isn't trained to deal with 14-year-olds and are totally panicking him. Fortunately, I happened to be in the right place at the right time and talked security down. I am good at such things, and he got to go on his way with a replacement $10. (EDIT: Being fair, the private security guys were absolutely by-the-book and very professional, but "by-the-book" usually means not providing ANY information to the detainee. This escalates tension FAST. So I just kept asking, "So at this point you're going to do xxx," they'd say, "Yep. That's right," and kid knew what was happening and calmed down.) One kid gets robbed (cell phone and wallet right out of her purse while she's on a ride). I find a "bonus purse" with no I.D. and no one claiming it. The good news is that it's a $10 purse with $3 and change in it, so the person who lost it didn't lose a ton. No one claims, so to the dark depths of the park's Lost and Found it goes. Not only do both choirs take #1 in their categories with scores of "Superior" (90/100), but both accompanists take personal achievement awards for "best student accompanist" in their categories! GREAT day! Home by 9:30 pm, Rift 'til 11, to bed.

Sunday: Leave at noon for Yosemite to take pictures of the stars. Forgot to check. Tioga Pass closed. Full moon. Clouds. Improvise! Spent 14 hours of quality time with Impus Minor driving 450 miles. Got to see a few coyotes, and they surrounded us and howled a bit on Granite Point! Beautiful! As I told Impus Minor, "Well our data is terrible, but now we have traumatic psychological scars that will last a lifetime! What a GREAT day!"
He is unimpressed.
But it was a wonderful day, even if I rolled into the driveway at 2:00 am and had to start work at 6:30 am.

This morning I am a coffee achiever!

EDIT: Impus Minor informs me he no longer wants to ride in the Celica. Ever.

[captain yesterday]

We had thunderstorms last night so I got to stay up and watch lightning :-)

[Treppa]

9:30, time to toddle off to Urgent Care. :(

[captain yesterday]

Where did the counterfeit 20 come from?

Egads! Has Freehold's Plucky Brooklyn Orphan Army already spread to the west coast!

We're all Smurfed now!!

[captain yesterday]

Treppa wrote:

9:30, time to toddle off to Urgent Care. :(

No fun:(

Be well, think positive and grab as many free magazines as you can :-)

[Ragadolf]

Treppa wrote:

9:30, time to toddle off to Urgent Care. :(

Ugh! Hope yours is better than the average here in Lousy-anna. (Ours tend to be LACK-of-Urgent-cares) ;P

Hope your ok, be well!

[Sharoth]

Treppa wrote:

9:30, time to toddle off to Urgent Care. :(

I hope that you feel better soon.

[Drejk]

*sigh*

I turned on Lords Of The Rings Online letting it run update 16, and played it for about 10 minutes... The minor lags that haunt higher level regions disheartened me, though, especially after playing so many graphically better and more dynamic games like Far Cry 2 or Tomb Raider without any problems.

[Freehold DM]

Treppa wrote:

9:30, time to toddle off to Urgent Care. :(

good luck, lady Treppa. I hope everything works out.

[Treppa]

And back home with antibiotics. Infection, not blood clot, woo!

And permission from the doctor to do anything I like. Doctors should be careful about granting such license.

"But officer, the doctor said I could do anything I wanted. Anything!"

[Freehold DM]

Treppa wrote:

And back home with antibiotics. Infection, not blood clot, woo!

And permission from the doctor to do anything I like. Doctors should be careful about granting such license.

"But officer, the doctor said I could do anything I wanted. Anything!"

thank god its infected!

Phrases I never thought I would say for 400, Alec....

[David M Mallon]

Tacticslion wrote:

David M Mallon wrote:

In Patrick's Reign of Winter PbP, my character has made a total of 17 d20 rolls. Out of those 17, precisely five of them have been over 10. Of the remaining 12, six were rolls of 1 or 2. I'm f**!ing cursed.

I have an item for you.

It takes up your immediate actions, but it's sorth every penny.

My two recommendations are e to see if your GM will allow you to:
- a) make one, preferably a variant that works for your character
- b) reverse-engineer the pricing guidelines to add more/day uses over time

With the latter, it'd be 5,600 per daily use (2,800 to build yourself). After you have five daily uses (28,000 to buy or 14,000 to make) you can make it "at will" by doubling that (56k for at-will, or 28 if you make it).

Again, it eats up your immediate actions, but if you really can't roll well, it is behind worth it.

(If you can get it as something like an imbedded ioun stone, even better! Double all prices/costs, though.)

Honestly, that sounds hella overpowered, especially in the form of an Ioun stone...

[Treppa]

Thank you for the good wishes, though I had nothing more alarming than a 101 fever most of the weekend and a suddenly very sore calf. But The Internet said to See A Doctor Immediately, so....

[Treppa]

David M Mallon wrote:

In Patrick's Reign of Winter PbP, my character has made a total of 17 d20 rolls. Out of those 17, precisely five of them have been over 10. Of the remaining 12, six were rolls of 1 or 2. I'm f~+$ing cursed.

I have been having the same problems in a couple of pbps. My average d20 roll in one pbp is 7.5. I rarely break 10, but when I do, it's by a lot. The situation is horribly frustrating, particularly when you craft a character to be really good - only missing on, say, 1-5 even at low levels - and they always seem to roll 1-5 on important d20s. Sucks the fun right out of the game.

[David M Mallon]

Treppa wrote:

David M Mallon wrote:

In Patrick's Reign of Winter PbP, my character has made a total of 17 d20 rolls. Out of those 17, precisely five of them have been over 10. Of the remaining 12, six were rolls of 1 or 2. I'm f~+$ing cursed.

I have been having the same problems in a couple of pbps. My average d20 roll in one pbp is 7.5. I rarely break 10, but when I do, it's by a lot. The situation is horribly frustrating, particularly when you craft a character to be really good - only missing on, say, 1-5 even at low levels - and they always seem to roll 1-5 on important d20s. Sucks the fun right out of the game.

It's been happening with such frequency that I'm wondering if there's something going on with the site's number generator.

[Orthos]

Yeah I have never been exceptionally fond of Paizo's die roller. It seems incredibly biased toward lower rolls pretty much all around.

[Treppa]

I've also wondered about the generator, but other pbps don't have that same problem. I'm not sure what the sample size is to get a significant result, but we don't really have a lot of d20 rolls in any one game.

Funny thing is, I have the same problem IRL at the table, to the point that people joke about it, won't touch or borrow my dice, and (sometimes) don't want to sit next to me.

They claim it's the dice.

[David M Mallon]

Treppa wrote:

I've also wondered about the generator, but other pbps don't have that same problem. I'm not sure what the sample size is to get a significant result, but we don't really have a lot of d20 rolls in any one game.

Funny thing is, I have the same problem IRL at the table, to the point that people joke about it, won't touch or borrow my dice, and (sometimes) don't want to sit next to me.

They claim it's the dice.

I've honestly been having similar problems in other PbPs for the last year or so, just not as bad. I usually play spellcasters, so die rolls don't matter quite as much, but this character is a highly-specialized archer, which means that if the die rolls are bad, my character just fails at everything.

It's not a big deal, and I'm not mad or anything, but it's unusual enough to give me pause.

[captain yesterday]

For those die hard Seinfeld fans (I'm looking at you Orthos:-p) Hulu got the rights to put the entire series on this summer :-)

Personally I'm not sure if I'd put in my top five all time, bits it's pretty close and absolutely in the top ten :-)

Still good stuff :-)

[Orthos]

Dunno where you got the impression I like Seinfeld... unless that's supposed to be sarcasm.

[Tin Foil Yamakah]

I loved that show, it's in my top 5 fo show. Along with The Sopranos, GoT, X-files, The Wire...man it's tough picking favorite shows.

[The Doomkitten]

This is why I sacrifice an Iconic character sheet and/or a goat to the dice gods before I head to every game.

[Orthos]

Oh my live-world dice roll fine, I get some low numbers from time to time sure but the middle-range stuff is more common and the high numbers make regular appearances.

Whereas on the Paizo boards, rolling above 10 is a rarity and above 15 a miracle.

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Treppa wrote:

And back home with antibiotics. Infection, not blood clot, woo!

Hope your fever comes down quickly and infection clears up soon.

Treppa wrote:

And permission from the doctor to do anything I like. Doctors should be careful about granting such license.

"But officer, the doctor said I could do anything I wanted. Anything!"

Absolutely Anything, only starring Treppa instead... yeah, I definitely watch that.

[Freehold DM]

Orthos wrote:

Dunno where you got the impression I like Seinfeld... unless that's supposed to be sarcasm.

see orthos? We can agree on things!

[Rarity]

Orthos wrote:

Oh my live-world dice roll fine, I get some low numbers from time to time sure but the middle-range stuff is more common and the high numbers make regular appearances.

Whereas on the Paizo boards, rolling above 10 is a rarity and above 15 a miracle.

1d20 ⇒ 1

[Scintillae]

...About that.

[havoc xiii]

Freehold DM wrote:

Orthos wrote:

Dunno where you got the impression I like Seinfeld... unless that's supposed to be sarcasm.

see orthos? We can agree on things!

Seinfeld :/ how I loathe thee not funny.

[Orthos]

Freehold DM wrote:

Orthos wrote:

Dunno where you got the impression I like Seinfeld... unless that's supposed to be sarcasm.

see orthos? We can agree on things!

This throws my whole worldview into chaos!

... well, Nurn and Ensirio will be happy at least...

[captain yesterday]

Well I didn't mean it in a sarcastic way, more of a gentle ribbing because you'd said "meh" earlier, however judging from the reaction I'm guessing myself and TFY are in the minority :-)

[captain yesterday]

My top five favorite T.V. shows
1. Archer
2. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
3. The Simpsons (mostly pre-movie)
4. The Office (with Steve Carrell)
5. 30 Rock
6. Drunk History
7. Arrested Development
8. Robot Chicken
9. Family Guy (especially the Star Wars episodes)
10. Futurama

Yes I added more, guess Seinfeld didn't make my top ten after all :-)

Edit 2: if I wasn't on my phone I'd switch Arrested Development with The Office

[Orthos]

I don't watch enough TV to have a top ten list.

Right now the only things I really watch are Mythbusters, Adventure Time, and Gravity Falls. I need to continue watching Gallavant and watch Agents of SHIELD and Daredevil, but otherwise that's really it for TV for me.

Of the ones on your list, I've only seen Futurama and only a few episodes of it, and the occasional Robot Chicken clip on Youtube relevant to whatever conversation it was linked in.

[Tin Foil Yamakah]

captain yesterday wrote:

Well I didn't mean it in a sarcastic way, more of a gentle ribbing because you'd said "meh" earlier, however judging from the reaction I'm guessing myself and TFY are in the minority :-)

Well you know like everything else to each his own, if only that would apply to every thread.

I forgot about Lost and Arrested development, I'm on the fence about Justified maybe top 30

[Treppa]

Our roommate is going on a week-long vacation. I thought it would be a nice surprise to replace her dishwasher racks because some of the tines have broken, so when she returns, everything would be shiny and new.

I looked up prices today.

Racks run from $130 - $200 EACH, meaning it would cost $260-$400 to replace both top and bottom. A new dishwasher is under $500.

I... what the... I can't even.

[Freehold DM]

Tin Foil Yamakah wrote:

captain yesterday wrote:

Well I didn't mean it in a sarcastic way, more of a gentle ribbing because you'd said "meh" earlier, however judging from the reaction I'm guessing myself and TFY are in the minority :-)

Well you know like everything else to each his own, if only that would apply to every thread.

I forgot about Lost and Arrested development, I'm on the fence about Justified maybe top 30

best friend recently came back from driving his brother(also a friend) to Kentucky to see the marshal building and visit many of the locales of the show. got to get a few pics of the buildings and spoke with the shows liason to the deputy building on the phone. Ate a lot of good Kentucky food. They had a great time.

Did I mention my friend is obsessed with the show? He was dressed as raylan the WHOLE DAMN TIME.