Woot woot!  Just got a hard bite from reddit!  We'll see if the player has any writing chops - and if I scared them off. 

Posts made to facebook and to reddit to look for players.  I may look at the player database where I found bree, though it does require me hitting one person at a time. 

Congrats, Eol!

Haha @ breebles.  That was totally it.

Japanese is offered now; from what I can tell, they are adding languages at a steady pace.  The only difference I can see in the paid version is that you don't have limited "hearts" - you can  make any number of mistakes without having to quit and wait for your hearts to regenrate.  But the thing is, you can just choose to practice, which always yields one heart... and you can watch an ad after that to get a second.  To be honest, I have found the practice feature to be super helpful, so I'm not sure that it's worth skipping that.

Oh, and the paid version offers some customized quizzes, too.  Meh. 

Haha, Bromern has about seven times the experience in the app that I do! 

They make learning a language pretty darned easy.

I see that there is a paid version, but I don't really see the need.  If you make a mistake, you lose a heart.  Run out of hearts, you can't do more lessons until they recharge.  You get five hearts per day... but you can choose to practice at any time for one heart (and when you're done, you can watch a 30 second add for an extra).

Seeing as how CRITICAL practice is to developing actual skill, it seems like a "no fail" version is actually a bad thing.  Better to practice to get those hearts, anyway.

What Eol said.

I am quite happyto roll with the game as is.  I have five reallty outstanding players, and I selfishly want to see any potential additions rise to a similar level of writing skill. 

Also, I need a character concept that really works well for the game.  So if you're interested, please read the first post where I detail what I'm looking for. 

Let me know how it goes! 

Irish is very interesting due to several items, not the least of which being the wonky sentence structure.  Instead of subject/verb/object like in English, you get verb/subject/object... or sometimes, verb/object/subject.  Add in a lack of the words "yes" and "no", really no indefinite articles like "a", how verbs gets changed due to the identity/gender of the subject, and don't even get started on the pronunciations veruses spelling... it takes some getting used to. 

But it's a lot of fun, too! 

I've been feeling... stuck in neutral for a while.  Like I'm not challenging myself, not growing.

I've decided to learn Irish, and while it is DEFINITELY a challenge, I am really enjoying it!

If you'd like to read, I made a blog post about it.

Oh yeah!  Oh yeah!  Oh yeah!  Oh  yeah!

@ Marine Corps math.

Yep, we have crossed through the holidays, and I'm back at regular work this week.  I'm going to refresh my recruitment stuff elsewhere.  If any of you know of another potential hunk of dynamite to play with us, invite away!

Falcons
Vikings
Browns
Packers
Jaguars
Chiefs
Patriots
Saints
Bills
Giants
Ravens
Titans
Cowboys
Rams
Broncos
49ers

Holidays are eating me alive, I tell you...

Ravens
Patriots
Colts
Dolphins
Broncos
Buccaneers
Falcons
49ers
Saints
Reskins
Raiders
Jets
Seahawks
Cowboys
Chiefs
Vikings

Cool, that is helpful!

Miracle isn't too strong of a word.

My little man just turned two years old, so I decided to share the story of his birth - and of how awesome my other kids were.  I hope that you enjoy.

www.homebrewdad.com/christmas_preemie

I remember the whitehouse.com thing being a surprise to so many back in the day. 

>Send me all your nipply books. WHATEVER.

Y'all all saw this quote. 

>I almost ACTUALLY leapt on my computer.

>Strippers > Telemarketers

This was ever in question?  Who ever heard of a "telemarketer with a heart of gold", hmm?

@ old AF.  Talk to me when standing up hurts pretty much every time.  Whippersnapper.

I have my own office, so it's no big deal to just page down past that cover illustration.  It just didn't occur to me!  To this day, I wonder why the composer of that PDF decided to put that picture there. 

Though I do admit, it does create a temptation now to Rickroll bree with gifs of nipply Vallejo-style fantasy women. 

I just don't do coffee.  If I need caffeine, it's soft drinks or - on bad days - evergy drinks.

You know how lots of people have those "early in thier lives" jobs they are ashamed of?

Between the fact that I have no body/rhythm interface (aka I can't dance) and the fact that people aren't lining up to see milky/freckled skin covered with red fur hair (apparently, hairy asses are not actually in great demand), I was unable to secure regrettable employment as a stripper in my younger days.  Instead, I settled for telemarketing. 

Now, I was GOOD at it.  Raised a lot of money for the Alabama Sheriff's Association, let me tell you.  When I left, they offered to let me come back any time I wanted, just to work an odd hour here or there doing nothing but renewal calls (which have a much higher success rate and were given as a reward for cold call performance). 

But while I was there (I bet you were wondering what this had to do with coffee), all there was to do was to talk, talk, talk... and to drink coffee.  I drank so very much awful coffee there, which I would turn tan in color from all of the creamer/sugar in order to choke it down.  I don't know that I've had so much as a sip in the twenty plus years since. 

I was just teasing you about pulling up the pixellated nipples from the cover of the book at work. 

Hey bree, will you open the complete D&D rules there at work and check the proficiency rules for me, pleaese? 

Warriors don't get another full NWP until level 6.  We can work it in, however.

Nothong to do right at this very moment. 

I haven't decided yet what the character level will be.  4th level will be the minimum.  Can I justify enough unwritten side adventures to bump you guys to 5th level (which is honestly the power level I'd like the next adventure to be at)?

We ARE doing several months of gap.  So... maybe?

I've had one good, hard bite from Facebook.  This player is interested in knowing what they need to read up on in terms of world building and such to ensure that they make a good character concept.  You may recognize this is as a SUPERB attitude to have. 

I don't know if they will work out of not, but it's good to have a possibility.

I strongly recomment that we look at adding a rogue character; beond that, I think that a second arcane caster, or perhaps a fighter/mage type, would be ideal.

But I'm not going to force people to play things that they don't want to play.

I've floated the idea to Eol to have this cleric of mine stop by Meadowbrook, do some work wth Ara. 

Are  you up for that, Reralae?  Obviously, you need to be on board for me to bother, since it's your character that is impacted the most.