Good luck with everything, posh. I suppose getting sacked might be inevitable after what happened, and I can only imagine the worries you must be having for your family right now, but I feel like you'll be better off and happier in the long run than if you'd let them get away with that baloney. When I was a kid my granddad got bullied into accepting a buyout of his job and his pension and it made him and everyone around him miserable for a long time.
Poster: I have a question about mordenkrads.
Aegeri: [three-paragraph comparison of the relative merits of various two-handed superior weapons and the Brutal property]
DevoutlyApathetic: I disagree!
Skycaptain: In my campaign mordenkrads and claw hammers were exterminated in the great purge of the Thirteenth Era.
tastydonuts: meh
that is pretty much how it goes
occasionally ravensmuse or I will then mention how things used to be in 2nd edition
I keep my second edition jokes here mostly because I'm afraid I'll remember something wrong.
What's funny is that everyone remembers stuff about second edition wrong. Like, that's its defining characteristic. There will be these huge furballs on rpg.net as people fight over, like, the rules for bonus XP for classes with a 16 in their prime requisite and it always ends with someone going "wait, I never saw that chapter."
I've forgotten most of those rules.
2E was really a mess of a system but I am still really fond of the art and the writing style. A lot of people get nostalgic for Gygax's writing in the first edition but I find him bombastic and he does that thing autodidacts do where he'll use a twenty-dollar word in an awkward way in an attempt to sound portentous (calling a city a "habitation", for instance). Whereas Zeb Cook's writing in 2E was really clear and friendly and always got me fired up to play, even if I never remembered half the rules.
It had a nice feel. Broken mechanically but I don't remember caring. And it lead to some fucked up shit.
D&D nerd story within.
So I have seen what a deck of many things can do to a campaign. A friend and I had a bit of an OOC rivalry going on when the DM gave a Deck of Many things to a party of level sixes. And this rivalry caused us to engage in a bit of card drawing. Along with other party members we all drew cards from the deck. Except that my friend and I didn't stop at one or two. We drew seven each before he finally blinked. Cards were flipped up right, and he learned something important that night. Do not challenge the party bard to something that will make a good story. By the time all of the cards were flipped upwards, he had seven black cards, and I had seven red cars. I had gained 10 levels, had some wishes and a bunch of phat loot. He went through three characters in under ten minutes and the one that did survive was broke, magic itemless and level drained.
I wonder if I should go try to sleep with some girl who is mildly attractive and not very smart. See, because I have this notion that -'m picky, which I kind of am, but I'd be kind of douchenozzle if I was all about being picky but I couldn't land one of the girls I shun if I wanted to.
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Good luck with everything, posh. I suppose getting sacked might be inevitable after what happened, and I can only imagine the worries you must be having for your family right now, but I feel like you'll be better off and happier in the long run than if you'd let them get away with that baloney. When I was a kid my granddad got bullied into accepting a buyout of his job and his pension and it made him and everyone around him miserable for a long time.
what happened?
He was a bigshot at Hobart, who make industrial-sized kitchen machines (if you've ever worked in a restaurant, they probably had some Hobart products in there) and some bullshit 80s corporate M&A outfit did a leveraged buyout and got rid of most of management. So he was forced into early retirement at, like, 55 with way lousier terms than the 30-year pension he was about to qualify for, and he spent the next year or two just basically hanging around the house being angry and depressed and generally on a short fuse, and this is while my dad and I were living with him and my grandma after my parents' divorce.
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ThomamelasOnly one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered Userregular
I think I should maybe run Mori a 2e solo D&D game so he knows what it was like back then
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
I wonder if I should go try to sleep with some girl who is mildly attractive and not very smart. See, because I have this notion that -'m picky, which I kind of am, but I'd be kind of douchenozzle if I was all about being picky but I couldn't land one of the girls I shun if I wanted to.
Wait, what?
You're worried that the kind of girls you don't like might... not like you in return?
How is this a problem?
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Good luck with everything, posh. I suppose getting sacked might be inevitable after what happened, and I can only imagine the worries you must be having for your family right now, but I feel like you'll be better off and happier in the long run than if you'd let them get away with that baloney. When I was a kid my granddad got bullied into accepting a buyout of his job and his pension and it made him and everyone around him miserable for a long time.
what happened?
He was a bigshot at Hobart, who make industrial-sized kitchen machines (if you've ever worked in a restaurant, they probably had some Hobart products in there) and some bullshit 80s corporate M&A outfit did a leveraged buyout and got rid of most of management. So he was forced into early retirement at, like, 55 with way lousier terms than the 30-year pension he was about to qualify for, and he spent the next year or two just basically hanging around the house being angry and depressed and generally on a short fuse, and this is while my dad and I were living with him and my grandma after my parents' divorce.
Same question is directed at Niall also, btw
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I wonder if I should go try to sleep with some girl who is mildly attractive and not very smart. See, because I have this notion that -'m picky, which I kind of am, but I'd be kind of douchenozzle if I was all about being picky but I couldn't land one of the girls I shun if I wanted to.
This post contains so much concentrated stupid.
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also no one seems to have noticed my nails being jet black today
Show up tomorrow with another part of you painted black as well. Eventually you'll go full black without anyone noticing.
But she'll never go back : (
Do you need me to post a picture of someone in a latex catsuit?
Need? No.
Want? ...
I need to move my hands over ten cubic yards of latex a day or I get aches and pains. It's a valid medical condition and the government should totally give me the latex I need.
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I always need a picture of someone in a latex catsuit.
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Poster: I have a question about mordenkrads.
Aegeri: [three-paragraph comparison of the relative merits of various two-handed superior weapons and the Brutal property]
DevoutlyApathetic: I disagree!
Skycaptain: In my campaign mordenkrads and claw hammers were exterminated in the great purge of the Thirteenth Era.
tastydonuts: meh
that is pretty much how it goes
occasionally ravensmuse or I will then mention how things used to be in 2nd edition
I keep my second edition jokes here mostly because I'm afraid I'll remember something wrong.
What's funny is that everyone remembers stuff about second edition wrong. Like, that's its defining characteristic. There will be these huge furballs on rpg.net as people fight over, like, the rules for bonus XP for classes with a 16 in their prime requisite and it always ends with someone going "wait, I never saw that chapter."
I've forgotten most of those rules.
2E was really a mess of a system but I am still really fond of the art and the writing style. A lot of people get nostalgic for Gygax's writing in the first edition but I find him bombastic and he does that thing autodidacts do where he'll use a twenty-dollar word in an awkward way in an attempt to sound portentous (calling a city a "habitation", for instance). Whereas Zeb Cook's writing in 2E was really clear and friendly and always got me fired up to play, even if I never remembered half the rules.
It had a nice feel. Broken mechanically but I don't remember caring. And it lead to some fucked up shit.
D&D nerd story within.
So I have seen what a deck of many things can do to a campaign. A friend and I had a bit of an OOC rivalry going on when the DM gave a Deck of Many things to a party of level sixes. And this rivalry caused us to engage in a bit of card drawing. Along with other party members we all drew cards from the deck. Except that my friend and I didn't stop at one or two. We drew seven each before he finally blinked. Cards were flipped up right, and he learned something important that night. Do not challenge the party bard to something that will make a good story. By the time all of the cards were flipped upwards, he had seven black cards, and I had seven red cars. I had gained 10 levels, had some wishes and a bunch of phat loot. He went through three characters in under ten minutes and the one that did survive was broke, magic itemless and level drained.
I hear at Quakecon, the setup is half the room playing competitive multiplayer games while the other half swaps porn collections. Gigs and gigs of the stuff.
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In my Fantasy Football matchup this week, I'm ahead by four with Dallas Clark and Steve Smith left to play for me, and my opponent has Payton Manning. My only hope lays with the New York Giants Defense.
also no one seems to have noticed my nails being jet black today
Show up tomorrow with another part of you painted black as well. Eventually you'll go full black without anyone noticing.
But she'll never go back : (
Do you need me to post a picture of someone in a latex catsuit?
Need? No.
Want? ...
I need to move my hands over ten cubic yards of latex a day or I get aches and pains. It's a valid medical condition and the government should totally give me the latex I need.
It's like the opposite of a latex allergy.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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I hear at Quakecon, the setup is half the room playing competitive multiplayer games while the other half swaps porn collections. Gigs and gigs of the stuff.
Because he brought up a specific porn video in chat as being awesome earlier so I got my hands on it and it sucked.
I wonder if I should go try to sleep with some girl who is mildly attractive and not very smart. See, because I have this notion that -'m picky, which I kind of am, but I'd be kind of douchenozzle if I was all about being picky but I couldn't land one of the girls I shun if I wanted to.
I wonder if I should go try to sleep with some girl who is mildly attractive and not very smart. See, because I have this notion that -'m picky, which I kind of am, but I'd be kind of douchenozzle if I was all about being picky but I couldn't land one of the girls I shun if I wanted to.
Wait, what?
You're worried that the kind of girls you don't like might... not like you in return?
How is this a problem?
Because then I won't feel superior to them!
But I get your point.
I am very ruined by this notion of a guy who could get any girl if he wanted, and my proximity to being such an individual.
Mostly because I met him and he fucked my girlfriend.
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nope
many of the new moves and pokemon are really interesting, gameplay-wise
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Are you in night school?
:P
what happened?
Part of a Halloween costume, I hope.
Show up tomorrow with another part of you painted black as well. Eventually you'll go full black without anyone noticing.
But she'll never go back : (
'cism
It had a nice feel. Broken mechanically but I don't remember caring. And it lead to some fucked up shit.
D&D nerd story within.
Pretty close. I've been going to a nightclub with themed parties. The last one was a glitter party so I got all sparkly. The next one is cat-themed.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
nope, just wandering around my house
I think after I learn how to paint
I'm going to get glitter for them
He was a bigshot at Hobart, who make industrial-sized kitchen machines (if you've ever worked in a restaurant, they probably had some Hobart products in there) and some bullshit 80s corporate M&A outfit did a leveraged buyout and got rid of most of management. So he was forced into early retirement at, like, 55 with way lousier terms than the 30-year pension he was about to qualify for, and he spent the next year or two just basically hanging around the house being angry and depressed and generally on a short fuse, and this is while my dad and I were living with him and my grandma after my parents' divorce.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Wait, what?
You're worried that the kind of girls you don't like might... not like you in return?
How is this a problem?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Do you need me to post a picture of someone in a latex catsuit?
Need? No.
Want? ...
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
dig with your hands like a man
This post contains so much concentrated stupid.
I need to move my hands over ten cubic yards of latex a day or I get aches and pains. It's a valid medical condition and the government should totally give me the latex I need.
That's awesome. I never had the nerve to draw.
o_O How would you know what winky faps to?
I hear at Quakecon, the setup is half the room playing competitive multiplayer games while the other half swaps porn collections. Gigs and gigs of the stuff.
brb
no catsuit but I do have a spiderman suit
It's like the opposite of a latex allergy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Dig up
Because he brought up a specific porn video in chat as being awesome earlier so I got my hands on it and it sucked.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Because then I won't feel superior to them!
But I get your point.
I am very ruined by this notion of a guy who could get any girl if he wanted, and my proximity to being such an individual.
Mostly because I met him and he fucked my girlfriend.