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Perhaps ironically timed, we came home from work this afternoon to find that Sophie had destroyed the plastic floor of her cage. Just splintered it to pieces. We're going to need something tougher to replace it, I think.
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<sits amidst the scattered wreckage, tail wagging madly and wanting to be let out or taken for a walk>
There are only a handful of things that interest me on Youtube. A small number of paleontology sites are pretty much all I ever go there for. I don't care for music videos much, having gotten over all that in the late 80s, and I really don't like watching the videos from that era because so many of them look truly awful on Youtube and they're almost impossible to watch because of their quality.
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I enjoy 'History With Cy' on YouTube - nice short, digestible videos about the Ancient Near and Middle East. 'Tasting History' is also grand, if you like cooking as well.
Also swordfighty things, and music (records and hardware)
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Huzzah! WFH starts next Tuesday.
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So am I the only one that uses YouTube for training videos? I've learned GM'ing tips, 5e D&D guides, lots of cooking modules, how to fix issues with my furnace, and still other stuff on the site.
And then also, putting on atmospheric music to run for hours while I make game stuff can be pretty handy.
No, you're not. My ex-gf and I learned how to replace the window actuator in her old Ford Explorer via YouTube. And the thermostat...which is when I saw the gaping hole in the engine head cover...
Damn YouTube.
Made me see things.
Doesn't Cosmo run YouTube?
So am I the only one that uses YouTube for training videos? I've learned GM'ing tips, 5e D&D guides, lots of cooking modules, how to fix issues with my furnace, and still other stuff on the site.
And then also, putting on atmospheric music to run for hours while I make game stuff can be pretty handy.
I'm not sure I've ever used Youtube for training videos. I don't possess the right tools to do anything but drive a nail and a couple of screwdrivers so they wouldn't be much help to me.
I have a hard time watching tv or videos, anyway. After 10 minutes I'm ready to move on. I make exceptions for two or three television shows, but even then I sometimes have to pause them and come to them later. There's this one DM who has a Youtube channel a friend watches and recommended I take a look at. I can't remember his name but he comes across as a "not sold on television" pitchman; loud and flashy and ridiculously upbeat. He's like the Billy Mays of gaming. Three minutes into his first video and I was done.
**that should have read "not sold in stores"
No sleep + pain meds. Errors.
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I enjoy 'History With Cy' on YouTube - nice short, digestible videos about the Ancient Near and Middle East. 'Tasting History' is also grand, if you like cooking as well.
Oh, yeah, that guy is great.
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So am I the only one that uses YouTube for training videos? I've learned GM'ing tips, 5e D&D guides, lots of cooking modules, how to fix issues with my furnace, and still other stuff on the site.
And then also, putting on atmospheric music to run for hours while I make game stuff can be pretty handy.
I've learned a lot of useful martial arts things off Youtube.
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A couple of friends (and occasional members of my gaming group) used to live in the same house I do now. Occasionally one or the other will get some mail here and they usually tell me just to throw it away. Some mail for Stephanie came today from a major insurance company and I messaged her to see what she wanted me to do with it. She said, "chunk it". I didn't do it right away and it's a good thing. In the plastic address window, I saw the words "Pay to the order of Stephanie...". I messaged her again and she said to open it. Good grief, it's a check for $7502.04!!! I'm so glad I caught that before I shredded it. I messaged her to tell her and haven't heard back yet. I wonder if she fainted...lol
O.O
That's a lot of cash! Wonder what big settlement or payout that was from.
O.O
That's a lot of cash! Wonder what big settlement or payout that was from.
She has absolutely no idea...lol. She's really puzzled by it. She said she's never been with that company before. She's coming by around noon today to pick it up.
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Fantasy Monster: Chemix Gremlin, infester of hospitals and laboratories.
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Fantasy Monster: Chemix Gremlin, infester of hospitals and laboratories.
This dude is the worst bartender ever! He mixed up a pitcher of margaritas for a bunch of us grems after work last week and only half of us made our saves vs poison. Chuck is permanently fluorescent green now, Larry was baleful polymorph-ed into some sort of nougat ooze, and Huey still thinks he's a chicken.
>_>
<_<
{punts Huey across the road}
＼(＾ω＾)／
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Wait, the nougat was Larry?
... Larry makes some good nougat. <incorporeal burp>
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She has absolutely no idea...lol. She's really puzzled by it. She said she's never been with that company before. She's coming by around noon today to pick it up.O.O
That's a lot of cash! Wonder what big settlement or payout that was from.
It's an actual check and not one of those loan advertisements made up to look like a check?
It's an actual check and not one of those loan advertisements made up to look like a check?
Yep, it's an actual check. She came by a bit ago and picked it up. About an hour later she messaged me saying that after she'd thought about it might be from a life insurance policy her job used to offer but had dropped a few years ago.
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You could do something similar to the cursed magic item check--unless the alchemist beats the Craft (alchemy) check to identify the altered potion by 10, they wind up thinking it's Cure Moderate Wounds (e.g.). Making it a flat DC increase as part of the monster ability would probably be easier so you wouldn't have to roll checks as often (and not tip off players with rolling checks at a time when you usually didn't).
You could do something similar to the cursed magic item check--unless the alchemist beats the Craft (alchemy) check to identify the altered potion by 10, they wind up thinking it's Cure Moderate Wounds (e.g.). Making it a flat DC increase as part of the monster ability would probably be easier so you wouldn't have to roll checks as often (and not tip off players with rolling checks at a time when you usually didn't).
That sounds reasonable.
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Heh.
So last night we had our second session of Starfinder. At one point, we needed to block up a water pipe, so as to prevent some creature within trying to get to us when we filled up water.
YSOKI (rolling Engineering check): Can I find a decent sized rock and then wrap it in the native fungus so it forms a plug?
ME: Wow. That's us, science fiction role-playing. 'I know, we can solve this problem with a ROCK! That's futuristic!'
*facepalm*
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Hey, it worked for Kirk.
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The old ways are the best ways.
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Tried and true. Anything more advanced would require a power source or other tech that would ultimately break. Or be eaten.
(So says the present day IT guy.)
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*eyes rock*
Is it USB or firewire?
Hey, folks. This is totally last minute, but I'm running a game in 90 minutes over on The Gauntlet Online Gaming Community, and two players just dropped.
The game is the sci-fi/horror adventure "Dead Planet", originally written for the OSR RPG Mothership. I am running it using the "Powered by the Apocalpyse" RPG Offworlders.
Gauntlet Calendar: Offworlders - Dead Planet (3/4)
If you are interested, please sign yourself up for the game via the above link. Alternatively, DM me.
The game rules are lightweight and very simple. Character generation will take maybe ten minutes, tops.
Next week's session is also down two players, so if you're interested in playing next week too, please sign up for that as well!
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*eyes rock*
Is it USB or firewire?
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time, a long time.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: G*%#!!N I love that alias.
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Fantasy Monster: Mother Of Pain.
Beware trigger warning. Might be influenced by politics...
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Fantasy Monster: Mother Of Pain.
Beware trigger warning. Might be influenced by politics...
It's too bad there's already a monster named "handmaiden" in Pathfinder.
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Fantasy Monster: Mother Of Pain.
Beware trigger warning. Might be influenced by politics...
Holy crap. It's broad daylight and Halloween is still 6 days away. I've closed all the blinds and have barricaded my doors. Now I'm going to figure out a way to hide my fat a$$ under my bed.
Fantasy Monster: Mother Of Pain.
Beware trigger warning. Might be influenced by politics...
OK...this creature might be what I use for my Halloween game next Saturday instead of something fey oriented. What are some ideas for why this creature might be the central focus or BBEG of the game? I've been trying to bounce things around in my head but since Tuesday I've felt like doodoo and nothing is really coming together in my cerebrum.
She seeks the fiendish father of the fetus that drives her?
The child she would gave birth to was supposed to be an important heir (aristocracy? royalty? priestly lineage?) so confirming her and the heir's demise is vital for inheritance reasons.
There are multiple mothers of pain that serve the BBEG who is a fiend and the father of the fiendish fetuses.
The pregnancy was a result of experiments of a magician or a mad scientists and she seeks the one responsible for her torments. The culprit might not even have been malicious in the first place—maybe it was a honest attempt to cure infertility that was hijacked by fiendish spirit.
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Happy Spawnday Cal!
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So, I've gotten into the habit of brainstorming item rewards for my NWN server in a draft email so I don't trigger the school's filter. I also have Grammarly installed. Grammarly has an interesting feature where it tries to gauge your tone.
It's a bit funny to me that my word salad idea plop regarding quest souvenirs about a Sharran cult of murderous art collectors and a Gondian blackguard trying to create a magitek death ray has triggered a "worried" tone.
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I'm reminded of Masters of Orion II. The Death Ray in that game was so overrated. Just pile a whole metric fecal-ton of shield penetrating phasers on your ships. So much more effective.
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I went to college with Death Ray. Wonder what ever happened to him...
I'm reminded of Masters of Orion II. The Death Ray in that game was so overrated. Just pile a whole metric fecal-ton of shield penetrating phasers on your ships. So much more effective.
Disruptors forever.
I did favored insane science focus (plus Creative species trait) though, allowing me to upgrade them into heavy auto-fire version AND miniaturize them to have loads and loads of them on my titans.
Unless the aliens got to steam-roll over me before I got to focusing on weapons, as they tended to research them after infrastructure-related research. No point in researching weapons if your industrial base isn't capable of building ships that will carry them anyway, nor is your dust energy money production sufficient to buy and maintain them.
And by the time you could possibly get a death ray you usually had better technology needed to safely defeat Orion's guardian.
Or were on the other side of galaxy and someone got there first anyway...
Happy Spawnday Cal!
Thank you very much!!
She seeks the fiendish father of the fetus that drives her?
The child she would gave birth to was supposed to be an important heir (aristocracy? royalty? priestly lineage?) so confirming her and the heir's demise is vital for inheritance reasons.
There are multiple mothers of pain that serve the BBEG who is a fiend and the father of the fiendish fetuses.
The pregnancy was a result of experiments of a magician or a mad scientists and she seeks the one responsible for her torments. The culprit might not even have been malicious in the first place—maybe it was a honest attempt to cure infertility that was hijacked by fiendish spirit.
I can use any of these as a hook. Thank you!
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Fantasy NPC: Arlan The Blessed.
Because I need something for detoxication.
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I can use any of these as a hook. Thank you!She seeks the fiendish father of the fetus that drives her?
The child she would gave birth to was supposed to be an important heir (aristocracy? royalty? priestly lineage?) so confirming her and the heir's demise is vital for inheritance reasons.
There are multiple mothers of pain that serve the BBEG who is a fiend and the father of the fiendish fetuses.
The pregnancy was a result of experiments of a magician or a mad scientists and she seeks the one responsible for her torments. The culprit might not even have been malicious in the first place—maybe it was a honest attempt to cure infertility that was hijacked by fiendish spirit.
If you are into First Person Shooters AND horrors, I'd suggest playing Fear series. It's a bit aged by now but it is a great series, though rather bleak and pessimistic.
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I went to college with Death Ray. Wonder what ever happened to him...
Derro and I used to call him Jay. Derro, on the other aklys, used to call him Johnny. Claypipe Pete called him Johnson once. Once.
{sighs} We miss Claypipe Pete.
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If you are into First Person Shooters AND horrors, I'd suggest playing Fear series. It's a bit aged by now but it is a great series, though rather bleak and pessimistic.
I'm guessing that by "First Person Shooters" you mean a video game. I am not a video game player, never have been, much to my son's disappointment when he was younger. He finally stopped asking me to play with him when he realized I was absolutely hopeless at learning the controls. I'm from the arcade era, where there was a single joystick and one button to shoot things with. Once it went beyond that I was lost forever.