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Yodeling is greatly feared throughout the land.
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Will the yodelling killer stork we're fighting in our PF2 game finish us off, after the psychic mole rat with adamantine teeth failed to do so?I'm going to say yes, it sounds like the mole rat softened you up so fighting a yodeling stork will only lead to doom.
Possibly you are correct, but you never know what the Party Duck may be able to pull out of the bag.
Hello, fellow eukaryotes! It's Friday. What's going on this weekend? We were supposed to kick off my friend's new campaign, but family obligations have pushed us back until February 10th, which affords me time to help my ex-wife and another friend put their characters together.
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Glad to see you're getting to play, Cal!
My son's debate tournament was cancelled for Saturday, so that opens that day up. Good thing, too, because I need a new car. The cost to fix what's wrong with it is over double it's trade in value, so no thanks. Going to try and test drive two or three replacements tomorrow.
On Sunday, my wife bought us tickets to Les Misérables, which I've never seen.
Glad to see you're getting to play, Cal!
My son's debate tournament was cancelled for Saturday, so that opens that day up. Good thing, too, because I need a new car. The cost to fix what's wrong with it is over double it's trade in value, so no thanks. Going to try and test drive two or three replacements tomorrow.
On Sunday, my wife bought us tickets to Les Misérables, which I've never seen.
Ugh. Car shopping. Best of luck!!
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Making a raised bed, and I should also like to finish off my cudgel that I made out of the Christmas tree.
Making a raised bed, and I should also like to finish off my cudgel that I made out of the Christmas tree.
That's fantastic! When you finish it I'd love to see some photos.
Another Friday rears its head and asks, "What's going on, everyone?"
I am so very, very glad that you did not ask, "“How is everybody doing?” .
Egads. Poor Elmo.
It's sort of like that here in the American south, too. Unless you want to hear about all of their aches and pains and those of their immediate family, we don't ask it.
Also, I asked the Friday question on Thursday. Time meant nothing; never would again...
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Also, I asked the Friday question on Thursday. Time meant nothing; never would again...
That's why I didn't answer. When I saw you did that, I logged off in disgust. FYI.
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Hopefully, we're deciding on a car and beginning the process of purchasing it, this weekend.
Also, I asked the Friday question on Thursday. Time meant nothing; never would again...That's why I didn't answer. When I saw you did that, I logged off in disgust. FYI.
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Hopefully, we're deciding on a car and beginning the process of purchasing it, this weekend.
If I may ask, what sort of vehicle are you looking for? Car, SUV, Abrams?
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I have finished the raised bed, and the cudgel. The latter has had powdered metal poured into a hole in the end and been finished off with linseed oil, and is presently drying outside.
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If I may ask, what sort of vehicle are you looking for?
A "crossover" SUV Hybrid. I'm deciding between the Hyundai Tucson and the Honda CR-V. I'm leaning towards the latter.
Abrams?
...now I'm reconsidering.
If I may ask, what sort of vehicle are you looking for?A "crossover" SUV Hybrid. I'm deciding between the Hyundai Tucson and the Honda CR-V. I'm leaning towards the latter.
Abrams?...now I'm reconsidering.
I drove a CR-V for 13 years before getting a new car. I absolutely loved it. Granted, it was a 2002 model and I don't know anything about the current ones, but I think you'll really like it if the quality has held up.
I actually had two of them. The first I'd had for twelve days before it getting totaled by someone running a red light. I credit that car for saving my life. I ended up with a broken leg from it and could have just as easily died. But despite being useable even for scrap purposes, the way it was constructed kept things from being worse.
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I can give the Rav4 a positive recommendation.
It was #3 in my consideration! But I'm buying new, and Toyota hasn't really updated the interior much from the previous years, whereas the other two look less dated.
Plus, the dealership was more aggressive than I would have liked.
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How is everyone this fine Friday? Any plans for the weekend? Barring a meteor strike I'll get to be a player tomorrow, but I'm faced with a dilemma. It's sort of like a "What do I wear?" but instead it's "What dice to I take?" (I have a lot).
**squee**
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I have a juror questionnaire to fill out, a couple of bills to pay, and a new computer to set up. Other than that I plan to sleep and read a lot.
oooooh...possible jury duty? I have ALWAYS wanted to sit in the jury box but the both times I was summoned I had already moved from the county sending the summons so I couldn't participate. Dang it.
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If I may ask, what sort of vehicle are you looking for?A "crossover" SUV Hybrid. I'm deciding between the Hyundai Tucson and the Honda CR-V. I'm leaning towards the latter.
We bought a new car today! We went with the Honda.
Also, the old car that I was trading in has had the Check Engine light on for the past couple of weeks. The timing chain in the engine was rattling so much that it was causing the water pump to leak. Starting Wednesday night, I had to start putting half a jug of coolant into the reservoir to be able to drive the car without it overheating. In fact, on the drive to the dealer so that they could appraise it for the trade in, I had to pull over halfway there and put more coolant in. As you may expect, I didn't get very much for that car, but every little bit helps.
Also, the stress of buying a new car, dealing with the broken old car, and some stuff at work seemingly turned off my immune system. I've come down with some sort of cold or something. Feeling pretty cruddy right now. Hopefully that passes soon.
Barring a meteor strike I'll get to be a player tomorrow, but I'm faced with a dilemma. It's sort of like a "What do I wear?" but instead it's "What dice to I take?" (I have a lot).
I'd love to hear how the game goes!
Also, the stress of buying a new car, dealing with the broken old car, and some stuff at work seemingly turned off my immune system. I've come down with some sort of cold or something. Feeling pretty cruddy right now. Hopefully that passes soon.
Turns out I have Covid! This is my first time. Bleah.
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Get well soon, Andostre!
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Barring a meteor strike I'll get to be a player tomorrow, but I'm faced with a dilemma. It's sort of like a "What do I wear?" but instead it's "What dice to I take?" (I have a lot).I'd love to hear how the game goes!
First off, my condolences about catching The Bug.I've had it three times (with preventive vaccinations yet) but each time has been very, very mild when compared to what others have gone through. I do have some Long Covid effects, though, such as a greatly diminished sense of taste, occasional vertigo, and brain fog. Hang in there!
The game (a short synopsis). The party was tasked to find a mythical item to save the kingdom from being overrun by another country which has already conquered much of the continent. The champions of the realm were sent out, but knowing the enemy would scry on them they are essentially the decoys to allow our party of first-level nobodies to embark on the quest.
We had a fourteen-day journey by sea to get to a point where we think the enemy nation wouldn't have any advance forces to alert the kingdom of our task. We were attacked once by a group of Skum that clambered aboard. During the fight, our Wizard went down but my ex-wife's (we get along great and are each other's best friend) character, an Omdura, healed her after the fight and we sailed on. A day before we made landfall, a warship from Gotar (our enemy state) spotted us and began a pursuit. There were three ships in our group to its one, and being very large and somewhat armored, it was slow to make its run toward us and one of our ships, a clipper designed for speed, positioned itself between it and our ship. We got away but the fate of the other two ships is unknown. One of them was carrying the realm's champions, too.
We were dropped off just off the very marshy and dreary coast of a country to the south (I need my notes to remember its name). We had used up some of our provisions on the journey, so we haggled with the locals over buying dried, salted fish and used the two lifeboats they gave us to go ashore to travel upriver toward a location on the map where history indicated the last time the item was used in battle, over a thousand years ago. During the early morning hours, a Dire Boar came tearing through our camp, but our Druid used her Animal Empathy ability and then a spell to calm it down and send it on its way without harming us. That's where we left off.
So, it's a basic sort of "Find the MacGuffin to Save the Kingdom" set up. Nothing fancy, as the GM was pretty rusty. But we all had a blast. He used the names of some of our own characters from ages past as names for some of the champions and places. It was a really nice touch and we all told him so. Even the item of our quest, The Black Unicorn, is based on an actual event that took place between myself and a friend when we were introduced to another player who, we came to find out, was a diagnosed pathological liar somewhat detached from reality. He introduced himself as "The Black Unicorn" and that moment is crystalized into the lore of our gaming experience (the introduction went as thus;
Mutual Friend approaches me and my friend Wolf, which is his actual first name. Lots of my friends called me by my surname, which is Roach.
Mutual Friend: "Hey, Wolf, Roach. I'd like you to meet Alan McDonald."
Alan: "Roach and Wolf!! Are those your D&D names? They call me The Black Unicorn!" Wolf politely walked away, holding his laughter as long as he could. His mirth echoed in the concourse of the mall. Alan proceeded to launch into an explosion of of verbiage, to the point of telling us that he drew all of the illustrations in the AD&D 1e DM's Guide but they ripped him off and refused to pay him. I think he'd have been about nine years old when the book was released. FASA Games were always demanding he create Mechs for their games because he was the greatest game designer they had ever seen. Hint: He did not design Mechs.)
And so on it went. I came to find out my ex (then fiancee) knew him from her Political Science classes and a little later I found out he went to high school with two of my players. He is immortalized in our world lol.
Sorry for the wall of text, but there you have it; the first adventure in The Quest For the Black Unicorn is underway. We're only going to play once a month, which is just fine. I'm just grateful to not be the driver of the clown car this time.
The Fellowship of The Golden Horn contains the following classes:
Druid - Played by GM's girlfriend
Wizard - Played by his 17 year old daughter
Ranger - Played by long time friend and power gamer
Omdura - Played by my ex wife
Fighter - (Two-Weapon Warrior archetype) Played by me
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That sounds fantastic, Cal! Glad it wasn't cancelled or postponed or anything like that... which, considering how some of your previous posts from the past year have gone, I was half expecting.
Thanks all for the well-wishes. The symptoms sucked, but I'm mostly passed them now. Everything I eat tastes metallic, though. The worst part of all of this is isolating from the family.
What the heck is an Omdura?
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It's a class Paizo made for a 3rd-party. A comic book's role playing game, specifically. It's not part of Paizo's core/supported classes, but since they made it under the OGL, PFSRD slapped it up on their site.
Same deal with the Vampire Hunter.
I really like the Omdura class. One of the stipulations for my friend's campaign is that all PCs had to be of good alignment. My ex didn't want to go as extreme as a Paladin but liked the Omdura. It draws its spells from the Cleric and Inquisitor classes and has some nice built-in abilities of its own.
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I really like the Omdura class. One of the stipulations for my friend's campaign is that all PCs had to be of good alignment. My ex didn't want to go as extreme as a Paladin but liked the Omdura. It draws its spells from the Cleric and Inquisitor classes and has some nice built-in abilities of its own.
I skimmed the PFSRD entry, and it looks interesting, even if the name sounds like a blood pressure medication.
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Ask your doctor is Omdura™ is right for you!
"What are you asking me? Is this some sort of game? I don't know anything about this. Is this why you came in here? Sir, I have patients with actual medical needs to address, so you'll need to leave so I can go help them.
"I'm going to bill you for a full visit, though."
BAHAHAHAHAHA!!
What's everyone up to this weekend?
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Today is my last day of wearing a mask! Which is good, because my 13 year old son's birthday party is tomorrow, and the last thing I want to deal with is other parents worried that I'm contagious with Covid.
Technically, my son is having a "hang out," not a party, but he still wants cake and presents. And the hang out is going to be at one of those axe-throwing venues. We've rented a lane for him and a few friends.
I've been assured that giving 13 year old boys axes to throw is a fantastic idea with absolutely no downsides.
LOL What can go wrong?
Glad you're past The Bug!
Friday boldly strides in and shouts, "What is everyone doing this weekend?"
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Setting up my new Mac Mini. :-)