'Sleeper'
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Nothing sucks like having to stat out heaps of monsters in 3.5
By Tiamat's five unholy sphincters YES.
Even using pre-statted monsters out of published materials doesn't really help a whole lot if you don't know the stat blocks for the creatures inside and out. And learning the stat blocks doesn't all that much less time than statting them up in the first place, especially at mid-levels and beyond, when specific powers, abilities, spells and magic items become ever more important.
I kept trying to use the DMgenie and WotC's computerized tool, but every program got the rules wrong somehow. Still, I thought it was faster to just do that and then scan the results for errors.
(Or make it up on the fly)
I love the word "nerdgasm" from that listing about the Roman d20.
Feh. So even though I pre-ordered back in March, Amazon is telling me it can't send me my 4th Ed books until July. Though, at the moment I don't know if I'd even have time to crack the books until July, anyway, so it's mostly just annoyance at the moment.
Thanks for the review, BT and the link to that excellent forum post, Pete.
Feh. D told me months ago he wanted 4e for his birthday this month. Now he's saying he wants to go to Medieval Times instead. As much as I love the knights and horsies it seems so overpriced and you get nothing tangible from it. Ah well, he's the birthday boy.
Okay. Just ordered my 4e PHB. It should be here by Wednesday.
Also, I just ordered two bags of organic Earl Grey and a bag each of organic detox and calming moon (licorice, fennel, mint and citrus) from Mighty Leaf, but that doesn't really have much to do with gaming.
You could give the different teas personalities and start role-playing them. (I see the organic detox as having a bit of a dominatrix vibe going on.)
Of course, at some stage you would have to exclaim "Oh! You teas!" Otherwise it's just weird. A Flock Of Seagulls weird.
Of course, at some stage you would have to exclaim "Oh! You teas!" Otherwise it's just weird. A Flock Of Seagulls weird.
Uh huh.
Crap, Sean. I was going to give you one of those teas and I forgot. Ah well!