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Happy belated BDay wishes Cal!
Happy belated BDay wishes Cal!
Thank you!!
No game this weekend, but last weekend's launch of my new campaign went well. I can tell NONE of the players were aware of the dos and don'ts of Appalachian horror lore LOL. They're terrified of the forest, now.
What's everyone doing this weekend? Oh, and Happy Halloween!
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I can tell NONE of the players were aware of the dos and don'ts of Appalachian horror lore LOL. They're terrified of the forest, now.
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!
*banjo tune*
Sounds awesome.
Nothing too exciting on tap this weekend. More leaf raking. I hate the sound of leaf blowers, which run almost constantly from now till January, so I refuse to use one. I can't force my neighbors to stop (not without it taking years and costing millions of lives) but dammit, I can at least refuse to add to the problem.
There's a big Halloween neighborhood party that I miss every year and this year will be no exception, since I have to pick my wife up at the airport. So no awkward small talk with the neighbors for me. I'm sure they're relieved too.
Been debating getting my grubby mitts on Bloodlines 2, the long-delayed Vampire: The Masquerade CRPG game. Still on the fence.
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I'm a secret tree hugger so I don't rake my leaves as over a hundred species of tiny organisms winter under them.
And yes, each spring I battle them as they lay siege to my house.
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I agree with you, but my wife feels they should be raked up. I do spread a bunch of them in the plant beds, both because it's good for the soil and for the wee critters of nature. It's a compromise.
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Ah, compromise. The leaf strewn path to Hell.
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Aside from passing out candy to Trick-or-Treaters tonight, nothing else out of the ordinary going on this weekend.
Kids dressed as characters from K-Pop Demon Hunters was the clear favorite costume, but I also saw quite a few kids dressed as Peely, a banana character from Fortnite.
That's what's popular with the young folks, today. What's hip. What's happening.
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We had a Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett stop by.
That's fantastic!
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Scint and I went as Granny Weatherwax and Archchancellor Ridcully respectively.
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Ah, compromise. The leaf strewn path to Hell.
Meh. It's not so bad.
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Sonic went out as Michael Jackson (again), Shanna as some sort of faun, or deer/human hybrid.
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Holy crap, is it the weekend again?!
I have no plans. NO PLANS! GAH!
*rapid descent into madness, I assume*
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That sounds suspiciously like a plan to me. Hmm.
Playing in a buddy's all Goblin campaign tomorrow. I've missed the first couple of games but I'll be caught up tomorrow. Wish me luck as Buck Damnitbuck makes his Druidic debut!
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It’s a buck, dabnagit!
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Waiting for news of if the Ravenloft game is on tomorrow, or off on account of sick DM.
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Might be joining an IRL Old School Essentials game, though it's using the 'advanced' (i.e. AD&D 1E with the serial numbers filed off), as opposed to the Basic set. I was looking forward to playing Just Elf...
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Call of Cthulhu tonight!
I was told at one point that the setting was the classic 1920s. We are employees at a small private investigator office. I created a young college kid, who was very eager to be there and hoped to learn the trade. He'd be willing to do any task from getting coffee, to doing research, to donning a city workman's vest and setting up cones around a manhole cover to create a distraction. He'd say things like, "Yes sir, Mr. Marlowe sir! Right away! You can count on me."
But then I found out after I finished the personality that the GM has a mid-2000s game in mind, and the PC I described above doesn't feel right to me. But I didn't have the motivation to go back and re-tool the character, so I kept the skills the same and decided to just have him be less eager and more directionless, and his attitude is closer to, "Why not stick with this job and see what happens?" The general gist is the same, just a bit more... snarky, maybe.
And THEN I realized this morning that my college kid doesn't know how to use a computer, because the 1920s character sheet I was using doesn't have the Computer Use skill, but the CoC Modern Era sheet that I transferred to (because it printed out better) does have that skill.
Oh well!
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I just got back from my friend's all Goblin game. Imagine you're playing Pokemon Silver on your Gameboy from back in the day, but with Goblins. When we kill something, we hear a "ping!" in our heads and our "bank" is updated. If you attack a boss that has something you want, you can see it floating above its head. It's literally a classic Pokemon game with elements of "Delicious in Dungeon" and smatterings of other anime and manga things thrown in. Not my style of game, but I'll keep attending. It's only fair since he's playing in my new campaign and our friendship goes back over 30 years now. And I had a good time meeting his gaming crew. Everyone brought food LOL.
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I found out a few weeks ago -- when my wife put it on our family calendar -- that we're going camping this weekend. We were supposed to be going with three other families. Two of the families have cancelled, so the trip keeps getting shorter and shorter so we're not all bored of each other, and when the trip was truncated to just Saturday and Sunday (instead of the original Friday through Tuesday), the other remaining family decided they didn't want to pack everything up for camping just for one night. But, they are going to come and hang out with us at the campsite on Saturday. The state park where we're camping is about 90 minutes out of town.
What's going on with everyone else this weekend?
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Jam session on Sunday; tomorrow, I said I'd take the boy to get his hair cut, and teach him to shave, so we'll see how that goes.
I have a game tomorrow night in my friend's PF game. This is the game where nearly every game is nothing but one 6 hour long combat sequence. Makes me glad Fighter is my preferred class LOL.
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Doctor visit today, walking the dog later, then hopefully doing something creative, either writing, working on dungeon building, etc.
Sleep in tomorrow, then 5e Ravenloft game in the afternoon. Scint is out of town this weekend so her bard got bird-napped at the end of last session. Imagine we'll be giving chase.
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Welp, my evening just freed up. The GM left all of tonight's game prep on his desk where he works and the building is locked for the weekend and he can't get access to retrieve it. Dang it. We play at another friend's house and he always makes a LOT of wonderful food for game nights. So now I'm not only hanging with no plans I have to cook my own dinner! There is no justice in this world.
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No Blood on the Clocktower today, the patreon is having a livestream. Cyz has her Scion game tonight, so I'll be free to faff about on my own.
Tomorrow is pup training as always, then we get to get back in the dungeon in Strange Aeons. Waiting for the horrible things we saw in our Dreamlands nightmare to pop back up. They haven't, but that doesn't make me trust this place any more!
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I found out a few weeks ago -- when my wife put it on our family calendar -- that we're going camping this weekend. We were supposed to be going with three other families. Two of the families have cancelled, so the trip keeps getting shorter and shorter so we're not all bored of each other, and when the trip was truncated to just Saturday and Sunday (instead of the original Friday through Tuesday), the other remaining family decided they didn't want to pack everything up for camping just for one night. But, they are going to come and hang out with us at the campsite on Saturday. The state park where we're camping is about 90 minutes out of town.
Well, the final family cancelled (with a legitimate reason), so it was just us for the weekend. We had a nice time, though!
Sorry to hear about your game, Cal!
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For those who celebrate Thanksgiving, here's hoping you have a wonderful day full of good food spent with family and friends followed by gaming madness. I was supposed to play in a friend's game Saturday only to learn just today I'm needed to house sit for a friend of mine who's going out of town for the weekend. sigh....
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My son is always in charge of the turkey prep and cooking. My contribution is eating it.
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Since Scint's employer is an American company they did get Thurs and Fri off for Turkey Day.
There was no turkey to be had, but we had a chill day relaxing at home on Thurs with the puppy and Fri we went to a hot pot place with a couple friends then grabbed ice cream.
Saturday was another chill day with just a shopping trip to break up the monotony.
Gaming today! Dru is now level 5 Warlock. Pew pew!
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Went down to the coast for the long weekend. It was nice--alternated between long beach walks with the dogs, eating, and watching ~72 hours of football. Saw a seagull and a vulture having a stand-off over a dead fish. There were unexpected chickens roaming the island we were on. I'd heard of feral horses down that way, but never feral chickens. Majestic creatures... if I were a reckless billionaire I'd hire Morgan Freeman to narrate a documentary about them with lots of slo-mo footage.
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Familiars in 5e are surprisingly fun, and far less of a headache.
In 3e, your familiar was a one-and-done situation for the most part. It costs 100 GP to perform the ritual that gets you a familiar, though every DM I've ever played under allowed this to be considered something paid for in backstory at game start, so if you were a class that got a familiar at level 1 you didn't have to shell out some of your very sparse game-starting coinage for it. If you need to replace your familiar at any point before say level 5, though, 100 GP is not cheap change! Hells, we're level 5 in my current 5e game and we only JUST earned enough money to have over 100 GP apiece! (Granted, we've sold none of the cool magical items we've found, because they're all useful. But still!)
If it died, you lost XP (200 XP per level!!), and could replace it... after a year and a day. How many campaigns that aren't Kingmaker do you have over a year in in-game time pass? You can raise the familiar from the dead, but if it dies at low levels you may be past the time-limit threshold of raise dead by the time your cleric reaches that level, and your party will probably look at you like you've grown a third head if you ask them to shell out the diamond cost for resurrection when you get that high up, if you ever do.
Things like taking the Improved Familiar feat let you bypass some of this - you don't have to wait the year and a day to replace your current familiar, but if the new one dies you still have to, though you might be better able to convince your party to have it rezzed... IF it's the kind of creature that can BE rezzed, and wouldn't you know it, most of the best Improved Familiars are Outsiders like the Lantern Archon, the Imp, the Quasit, and so forth, things that can't be resurrected without True Rez.
In 5e, none of that is an issue.
Familiars are handled instead through the find familiar spell, which has a material component cost of 10 gp worth of incense (far more manageable at low levels, if still costly at first) and is cast as a ritual, meaning it takes 10 minutes but doesn't cost a spell slot to cast. Cast, pick familiar type, done.
If it dies, it goes poof, but will be immediately reconstituted if you just cast find familiar again. The game rules even specify that it's the same entity. And of course, because 5e, no XP loss.
Don't like your original familiar choice anymore? Or got a feat or class feature that opens up new options for the type of familiar you can have? Cast it again. The game rules specify that casting find familiar while you already have a familiar doesn't remove your current one or replace it, but rather "allows it to take on a new form". It's the same entity, just reshaped.
With Dru I flavor this as the familiar being the strange vine that's been rooted into her arm ever since she arrived in Ravenloft - a "gift" from her unknown Warlock patron along with her newfound magic and transformation into a Yuan-Ti, or at least that's her current theory. Now that she has find familiar, I describe the vine as weaving itself into various shapes like a mini topiary whenever she uses it to alter its form.
By default she's using the Sphinx of Wonder (which I describe as looking like a cat-shaped shrubbery, with a snake's head and tail and birdlike wings made of leaves) but she swaps to the Sprite (described as a doll made of woven vines with, again, leaf wings) when she wants it to be sneaky and scouty and the Skeleton (basically just a skeleton-shaped pile of sticks and vines with a branch covered in thorns for a sword) when she wants it to fight.
Hi, fellow kids. Sorry I missed dropping in on Friday. I don't want to get into particulars until I know more but I received some pretty distressing health news on Thursday and my brain is all a-dither. I hope everyone had a great weekend!
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GAH!
Hope things work out.
This weekend I removed the hornets' nest. It's been sub-freezing for over a week out and I didn't see any activity, so figured it was safe. And, much to the chagrin of my friends who wanted a viral YouTube clip, it was! Except it was full of wood roaches who had moved in. Pretty cool actually. I like to think they were stripping all the copper wiring and whatnot.
Other than that, it's freezing fog out this morning. Freezing. Fog. Pick a lane, meteorologist!
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Sorry to hear that, Cal. Hope it works out.
My son had a swim meet Saturday morning, and I got to relax for a bit Saturday afternoon, and most of today has been grocery shopping and food prep for the week.
EXCITEMENT