Especially the thingamie that looks like it should go squooka squooka squooka!
I love that I can completely hear you saying this. And see you doing little hand motions as you say it.
Helper. As ever.
t beams Yes, I am!
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Pix - Jun 12, 2008 7:57:20 pm PDT #937 of 26132
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
billytea - Jun 12, 2008 8:37:09 pm PDT #938 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'd read Kovalic's review. He generally seems to like it. I've heard many positive reviews, though at least some were positive-but-not-my-thing or positive-but-not-D&D. I know of at least one playtester/freelance designer who thought the game was good, and well done, but his plans for his own campaign were going to stick with 3.5.
Sod his opinion, I'm looking forward to running a party against an L. Ron Tarrasque.
Yeah, the pro-4E people I don't get are the ones who seem to want 3E to just hurry up and die. Ok, there were flaws, and obviously those flaws bug 'em more than they do me; but it still has lots to recommend it.
My Eberron campaign will probably stay 3E for some time if it ever converts at all, and I'm fine with that. I sank a lot of money into 3E, and I haven't finished getting my money's worth. Though I've house-ruled a few 4E notions, like the new death and dying rules, a simpler skill list, and of course skill challenges. I'm running the first one tonight, they have to act as an honour guard at an elven funeral. A few different levels of success or failure, and they could wind up fatigued when the after-party is crashed by a magebred brown bear gone nutbar after a wraith killed his Vadalis handlers.
Oh! And I agree with your mate Manny, the minion idea is a good one. I must try to find a niche for them somewhere. Oh, got it! I have a planned bridge toll thing for 3rd level, a bearded devil with a bunch of hobgoblins. I might have to turn the hobbos into minions. I can scale things back that way too, the encounter was overpowered.
Still can't link directly to F2F conversations. Sorry.
Dammit Sean, when are you going to get the USB port linked directly to your inner ear? I thought you were running a Shadowrun campaign, fer cryin' out loud.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 12, 2008 9:06:53 pm PDT #939 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Dammit Sean, when are you going to get the USB port linked directly to your inner ear? I thought you were running a Shadowrun campaign, fer cryin' out loud.
Yeah, he is such a slacker! Still, don't ask him about his Firewire port.
billytea - Jun 12, 2008 9:16:02 pm PDT #940 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah, he is such a slacker! Still, don't ask him about his Firewire port.
Rule 1 about Firewire Club: do not talk about Firewire Club! Rather, use the language of the gods, the language of mime.
Miracleman - Jun 13, 2008 3:22:11 am PDT #941 of 26132
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
"Warlock" is a gendered term.
Also, it doesn't mean "male witch" or whatever, it means "traitor" or "betrayer".
t /muttering pedant
hippocampus - Jun 13, 2008 3:39:58 am PDT #942 of 26132
not your mom's socks.
makes note to buy MM an OED whence lottery is won. to assist in further pedantry.
Miracleman - Jun 13, 2008 4:55:03 am PDT #943 of 26132
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
makes note to buy MM an OED whence lottery is won. to assist in further pedantry.
I think Aims would tell you I need no help whatsoever to be, in her words, "a pedantic ass."
Aims - Jun 13, 2008 5:01:06 am PDT #944 of 26132
Shit's all sorts of different now.
No, you don't help being one, however, new material with which to torture me and our friends would be nice. We get sick of the same old pedantry. We'd like some new and possibly improved pedantry.
Miracleman - Jun 13, 2008 5:35:03 am PDT #945 of 26132
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
All right, you got it from the Empress' very own mouth. If you win the lotto, I will be happy to accept a big ol' OED.
hippocampus - Jun 13, 2008 5:37:58 am PDT #946 of 26132
not your mom's socks.
If you win the lotto, I will be happy to accept a big ol' OED.
If I win the lotto, I will be more than happy to buy you one. With a magnifying lens.