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Clearly a nap is in order. Mmm... nap...I love naps. So much so that I carry them with me in a bag, a napsack if you will.
HiYO!
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Just got back from Ghana. UK BORDER FORCE didn't confiscate the sticks I brought back, which was nice.
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Just got back from Ghana. UK BORDER FORCE didn't confiscate the sticks I brought back, which was nice.
Wot's all this then? Sticks?
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Pointed sticks?
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*explodes after being poked with a pointed stick*
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Pointed sticks or bananas?
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Heh, heh, heh... are you familiar with the "sword-cane" concept? It's like that...
*Peel! Stab!*
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Howdy, folks. Pathfinder came up in a conversation I was having on Discord, which made me think of you folks over here, so I thought I'd drop in to say "Hi!"
Cal: Sorry to hear about your health scare, but glad to know you're on the mend!
What I'm up to gaming-wise... I'm actually playing a lot these days!
Right now, I'm in four regular weekly games and one fortnightly game...
Sunday: Ex-Capes, an in-playtest game about retired superheroes getting pulled back into Cape Life. GMed by the author. Powered by the Apocalypse. I'm playing city forester Bob Moore, once known as "Captain Neutron."
Monday: I'm getting my OSR on playing through the weird post-postapocalyptic science-fantasy pointcrawl setting The Ultraviolet Grasslands. The setting is inspired by 1970s Heavy Metal magazine and Thundarr the Barbarian. For the rules, we're using an NSR system by the same author called Synthetic Dream Machine. My character is a technimagical advertising engineer from the Decapolis, who is seeking to sell his company's dreamtech to ghosts. (Why yes, I rolled all that on random tables! It's kind of amazing!)
Tuesday: I just started playing in a campaign of Dune: Adventures in the Imperium that uses Modiphius Entertainment's in-house "2d20 System." The PCs are members of a minor House that's on the other side of the galaxy from Arrakis, so we won't actually be going there. I'm playing a Nyssa Delerenn, a Mentat (human computer) who's chief advisor to Viscount Willem Krakov, Lord of the House.
Thursday: I've been playing or GMing various one-shot RPGs so far this year (including Broken Tales, Desperation, Witch: the Road to Lindisfarne, and Oh Captain, My Captain!), but starting next week I'll be GMing a 12-session series of the old West End Games "d6 System" Star Wars Roleplaying Game, published in 1987. I haven't played this game in decades, but I'm re-reading the rulebook and I think it's really going to hold up!
Every other Friday, I'm playing D&D 5e. It's far from my favorite game, but my adult kid is the DM, and I couldn't really say "no" when they invited me to play. I'm playing a barbarian. We're running through "Lost Mine of Phandelver."
And on three Saturdays in March, I'll be in some one-shot community play games, including playing in a one-shot of Urban Shadows with Magpie Games, facilitating a session of Superstars: Racing Icons with Open Hearth Gaming, and a GMing a one-shot of Escape From Dino Island with the Happy Jacks RPG Network.
All of these games are online, with the exception of that fortnightly D&D game, which is in-person at my kid's apartment.
Anyway, hope things are going well with you all!
Oh, and if you're interested in any the games I mentioned...
Ex-Capes isn't yet available to the public.
Dune: Adventures in the Imperium
Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne
Star Wars Roleplaying Game from West End Games is long out of print, but it's pretty easy to find reasonably-priced copies of the rulebook on the used book market, and unauthorized PDFs are likewise easy to find on the Internet.
You're a busy, busy bee! Glad to hear from you, Haladir!
We played in our game last Saturday, and I had fun hanging with my friends but to be honest the game was dull as dishwater. It was a five hour long combat as the PCs and townsfolk tried to hold off an army of dire wolf-riding barbarians AND werewolves. I'm honestly not even sure if anyone won. We were given enough XP to advance to 5th level as a sort of Christmas gift and apology for not playing since October. No word yet on when the next game is.
Another friend of mine is running a really high level PF game right now and said if I was interested in sitting in with his group he'd let me know when it's finished. So I'm waiting to hear on that.
How about everyone else?
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Sorry to hear about the dull game, Cal. I feel you pain--right now I'm bored pretty stiff by the current campaign our table is on. It's not the campaign itself... but if you can't say anything nice, as they say, talk to Monkey Santa.
This weekend it's going to be 74 on Saturday and 47 on Sunday so I'm going to be as confused as a groundhog in a strobe light.
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Hi Haladir! Hi folks!
I'm board-gaming with friends tonight. The host sent out a video explaining how to play the game... and spending 16 minutes watching a pasty nerd's* YouTube video to learn a resource-management game inspired by a fishing village in Norway is not really how I want to spend my time. I mean, I get that getting people prepped so that the gaming can start sooner is a laudable goal, but these resource-management games are so technical and the theme isn't very engaging. Further, I'm probably only ever going to play this game once in my life (because I don't get to see this friend very often and he trades and acquires board games like they're baseball cards), and as I get older, it gets harder and harder to focus on things I don't care about.
* (I'm a hypocrite; I know.)
Sorry for the griping. At least I get to hang out with friends tonight.
Other than that, both kids have stuff going on this weekend, so we'll work the rest of the weekend around that. No other hard plans, though.
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...as I get older, it gets harder and harder to focus on things I don't care about.
*raises hands; sways*
Testify!
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Oh, and if you're interested in any the games I mentioned...
Ex-Capes isn't yet available to the public.
Dune: Adventures in the Imperium
Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne
Star Wars Roleplaying Game from West End Games is long out of print, but it's pretty easy to find reasonably-priced copies of the rulebook on the used book market, and unauthorized PDFs are likewise easy to find on the Internet.
UVG is the tops. Even if you never play the game, the setting's very much worth your time reading.
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We played in our game last Saturday, and I had fun hanging with my friends but to be honest the game was dull as dishwater. It was a five hour long combat as the PCs and townsfolk tried to hold off an army of dire wolf-riding barbarians AND werewolves. I'm honestly not even sure if anyone won. We were given enough XP to advance to 5th level as a sort of Christmas gift and apology for not playing since October. No word yet on when the next game is.
The very first D&D game I played, ca. 1977, had the party of six first level characters stuck in a walled town surrounded by 100,000 orcs. GM asked "what do you do?" Somebody said "open the gates and attack the orcs". GM rolls a couple of dice. "You win. You are now third level." I'm like "wtf just happened?!"
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One would have thought that defeating that many orcs would get you higher than third level.
The very first D&D game I played, ca. 1977, had the party of six first level characters stuck in a walled town surrounded by 100,000 orcs. GM asked "what do you do?" Somebody said "open the gates and attack the orcs". GM rolls a couple of dice. "You win. You are now third level." I'm like "wtf just happened?!"
That's absolutely the best thing I've heard all weekend!!!
Sorry, guys, it's all I got LOL. Everyone, go! Do!
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Never saw that movie, but that disco beat is a catchy opening.
Not much planned this weekend, just a couple of hangouts with friends.
I took a two hour mid-day nap after lunch today. Don't be jealous.
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I love naps.
It's a terrible movie. Really.
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If I could find a way to take a nap WHILE taking a nap, I would. Like, napception or something. Man, that would be amazing...
Spent the weekend (and half of last week) visiting family out west. Got back at midnight last night and I'm exhausted. I really need an napception.
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If I could find a way to take a nap WHILE taking a nap, I would. Like, napception or something. Man, that would be amazing...
If you ever have a lucid dream, have your dreaming self take a nap!
I used to have the same recurring lucid dream when I was a kid. I would be floating amongst the skyscrapers of a city at night. Pretty high up. I would look down and see the car lights moving around as they drove the street grid below. Most of the windows were dark, but occasionally I would see someone inside their apartment or working late at their office. The first couple times I was freaked out and tried my hardest to wake up. The only way I could do that was to have my dream-self reach up and push my eye lids closed. When they'd open again, I'd be lying awake in my bed.
Eventually, I thought to make myself fly around above the city looking into the different windows, but nothing interesting happened that I recall. I stopped having those dreams after a while, but I don't really remember how old I was.
I'm a lucid dreamer, and as such I almost never have nightmares. If I don't like the direction a dream is heading, I can change its direction and content or wake myself up. The most recent ones I've had came from switching to a new muscle relaxer about a year ago and I had three recurring sleep paralysis events, the first I'd had since I was ten years old.
So, it's Friday. What's going on? Not much here. My son's band is playing in town tonight and I hope to go see them, but I also took a bad fall onto concrete earlier today and I might still be in too much pain or too medicated to go.
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I just finished the Player's Guide for a one-shot I'm running at the end of the month. We got a former table member back in town and it's another player's birthday weekend, so I said I'd run a long session one-shot.
However... my ulterior motive is to get the group excited about something other than the PF2e Kingmaker campaign we've been playing, which is causing me excessive boredom drool.
The campaign is a homebrew called Ascension of Thieves, about a gang of thieves in the city of Vyre (think Vegas of Golarion) who pull a heist that kicks off a cascade of events leading to their attempting the Test of the Starstone and supplanting Norgorber as a god. This one-shot is just the initial heist. They think they're procuring a simple valuable onyx egg, but it turns out to have been stolen from Norgorber's realm Duskfathom, and contains a fragment of the mask he wore as a human thief before his own ascension to divinity...
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I know Norgorber is a deeply sinister deity, but it does sound like the name of someone who ends every sentence with 'Uk uk hyuk!', and whose only hobby is repeatedly hitting themselves in the forehead with a hammer.
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I know, I know. I have a small brain tumor from stifling a *snerk* every time I say his name.
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Norbert Gorber? I was in 3rd grade with him.
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GAH!
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The session sounds like it will be a lot of fun, though. I love a good heist adventure.
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I have acquired some Overpower decks to try out a sealed tourney with my home crew. Might be able to get that done tomorrow night, depending on how my brothers workday treats him.
Sunday is Strange Aeons, as we continue to explore the Dreamlands for the NPC we need to McGuffin.
Monday night is board game night as an alternative to anime. Going to have Cthulu Death May Die on the table and see if we all die.
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The plan for this weekend involves yard work. So much yard work. I turned my back on March for, like, four days, and now all of the sudden there's a meter of weeds sprung up everywhere.
Anyone have a flamethrower? We're probably not zoned for it, but if I fwoosh fast enough, maybe I can discard it before one of my elderly neighbors gets around to summoning the police and feign innocence...
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Happy birthday, TOZ!
My parents are up visiting, so we're going on a Grand Expedition to get my Dad a new woolly hat. He also wishes to swap his Melodeon.
Happy birthday, TOZ!
My parents are up visiting, so we're going on a Grand Expedition to get my Dad a new woolly hat. He also wishes to swap his Melodeon.
It's good to do that before they get too many miles on them.
I mean, I'm still working on it and not doing anything special, because I don't celebrate them much. But I am now the answer to life, the universe, and everything. So that's cool.
Happy birthday! Lawd, I'm almost 20 years older than you. Gonna spend the rest of the weekend looking at nursing home brochures.
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Happy birthday, TOZ! Good job getting older!
Busy weekend for me. So busy that I didn't get a chance to respond to this thread until Saturday evening.
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There is a thick layer of yellow dust on everything. It's as if some reclusive misshapen villain, shunned by the bright, loud world, found a Hasturite volume bound in human skin and read aloud the contents therein, opening the gates to Carcosa and allowing the savage chill winds off Lake Hali to blow the decay of that dark-sunned nethercity into our own vernal land, drowning all, all, all, all... and on that ice-flecked desiccating mistral rings forth the shoggoths' relentless self-devouring cry 'Al-ler-gi! Al-ler-gi!'
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I am very fortunate to not have pollen allergies. The air here is a delightful shade of yellow green. And if not for the color, it looks like Black Sabbath made a coke deal on the hood of my car.
It's Friday once again! It looks like Quibs will be busy hating spring, but what about everyone else?
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...it looks like Black Sabbath made a coke deal on the hood of my car.
*depollens*
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It's Friday once again! It looks like Quibs will be busy hating spring, but what about everyone else?
Shan't be lying pollenblind in the sun, I hope.
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We had our pollen event week last week, so those allergies are dying down, helped by a good two days of rain to wash the tree waste away.
My wife and I showed Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure to the kids a couple months back, and they've asked a couple times about watching Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, so we saw that last night. My ten year old daughter loved it, and ever since she's been singing "God Gave Rock and Roll to You" by KISS* ever since. Kind of hilarious coming from someone who listens to Taylor Swift and similar music every chance she gets.
* (Well, first by Argent, then by Petra, and then by KISS, but KISS' version was in the movie.)
This weekend, my wife is out of town, so I'm Single-Dadding it until she gets back. Shuttling kids to their various things, doing laundry and grocery shopping, cooking, and waiting until they're in bed so I can grab some free time for myself... but more likely I'll just fall asleep.
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♫ Looked outside
Looked at the air
Just right out there
Yeah, it was all yellow.
Couldn't believe
how thick in the road
Like Black Sabbath's blow
And it was all yellow.
So then I hid inside
and waited to die
Cause it was all yellow. ♫
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I like it. It's got a good beat and I can dance to it. I'll give it a 65, Dick.
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Strange Aeons continues this Sunday, where we return to the cliffhanger of the nightmare dragon entering the ongoing battle!
My kineticist killed the dragon! Which was way too close for comfort, being at 58 hit points with 56 nonlethal from burn.
Anime night is canceled in favor of board games, but it's Scythe at other friends house, so Cyz and I will spend a quiet night in catching up on homework and housework.
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...being at 58 hit points with 56 nonlethal from burn.
Yep. That sounds like every kineticist ever. It's the ultimate Game Of HP Chicken class!
Nothing planned this weekend but more bad weather. I've been invited to play in a friend's group starting sometime later this month and my regular bunch are supposed to get together next Saturday evening. For now, I'll be battening down the hatches and singing along to the tornado sirens.
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Bridge Tournament tomorrow. Hope I can stay awake. :-)