Topic: Chat?
Subject: Really?
It's working again? I guess I'll have to come around sometimes, then.
Posted on 2007-06-12 at 03:38:09.
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Topic: yet another movie thread...
Subject: Movies
The DragonLance movie looks good so far, lots of input from Weiss and Hickman from what I hear. I hope they do it right, there's so much potential for a truly great movie there...
Posted on 2007-06-10 at 17:15:40.
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Topic: The Guiding Light Recruitment Thread (formerly known as A New D&D game - players needed)
Subject: OK
Sorry about the absence, I sort of moved a little and didn't have net access for about a week there...If the spot's still open, I'm eyeballing that wizard spot... Something tells me a bladesinger just isn't going to cut it when you need some serious spellcasting thrown around. Also, how do you feel about a dual-classed human? I think thief into wizard would be fun. Possibly specialist Summoner if I can get the stats for it... otherwise specialist Transmuter (since the 15 Dex requirement is matched by the requirement to DC out of Thief in the first place).
Do you allow kits? Nothing from the Wizards' Handbook, specialist wizard is kit enough for me, but maybe a nice thief kit from the Thieves' Handbook? Just a thought.
Posted on 2007-06-09 at 16:33:35.
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Topic: yet another movie thread...
Subject: Dressing up...
I was pretty disappointed that I didn't get to dress up to see Pirates 3 opening night... I've got a T-Shirt that says in giant letters "JACK SUCKS!" on the front, and "Who's going Sparrow huntin'?" on the back.
Posted on 2007-06-09 at 16:13:32.
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Topic: The Guiding Light Recruitment Thread (formerly known as A New D&D game - players needed)
Subject: The Curse
Well... I've been thinking about getting into a good old-fashioned D&D game for a while now... I hesitate to threaten your game with the Rystefn Curse, though.
Posted on 2007-05-31 at 23:04:35.
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Topic: yet another movie thread...
Subject: SM3
Oh, I've complaint aplenty, and you've heard all of them already.... but I still call it a 15 on the Gygax Standard Scale. Yes, they did some things wring, but it was still a DAMNED GOOD MOVIE. I highly recommend it.
Posted on 2007-05-25 at 03:27:53.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: WishBone
I loved that show...
*sings* What's the story Wishbone!
Posted on 2007-05-12 at 06:40:08.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: Wow
I can see how that might alter your perceptions a bit.
Posted on 2007-05-03 at 05:54:33.
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Topic: Fantasy characters
Subject: *nods*
I can understand that. Now, if you give me a character, I'll gladly give you my take on the person, possibly introduce a twist or two, something you may not have thought of. I've done that sort of thing for a lot of PCs in the games I run and play in.
Posted on 2007-05-03 at 05:53:22.
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Topic: Fantasy characters
Subject: Characters
I don't think I could bring myself to just hand characters to someone else, I put too much into them for all that, I'll gladly help in other ways if there's something you need.
Posted on 2007-05-02 at 06:21:25.
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Topic: DND Trivia Game
Subject: Be that as it may...
A different answer which is nonetheless correct, is nonetheless correct. I'm not wrong... although you could make a case that since the question was "WHO" is the Burning Man, that I should have answered the wicker stature, not the festival surrounding him.
Posted on 2007-05-01 at 09:17:24.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: Oh...
I guess I just showed what I nerd I'm not. I was about to correct you, when I googled it and saw that Empire Strikes Back is the second one. I was thinking of Return of the Jedi...
I suppose now we let the smiting commence. I deserve it.
Posted on 2007-05-01 at 09:14:13.
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Topic: DND Trivia Game
Subject: Burning Man
http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/
Posted on 2007-05-01 at 06:39:19.
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Topic: DND Trivia Game
Subject: Nope
He lives in ShadowDale currently, which isn't terribly far from the ruins of Myth Drannor, and is a bloody long way from WaterDeep.
Burning Man is a goofy thing a bunch of dirty hippies throw in the middle of the desert every year.
Posted on 2007-04-29 at 21:51:10.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: Memory
For the longest time, I thought that my youngest memory was of my younger brother being born (I got in trouble for jumping on the bed that day)... It turns out, upon doing a little research, that I was wrong. I hadn't realized just how young I was until someone pointed out that the movie came out the previous summer - I'm such a nerd that my earliest memory is seeing Empire Strikes Back in the theatre.
Posted on 2007-04-28 at 06:28:24.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Drunk
I think the second
Posted on 2007-04-26 at 17:40:22.
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Topic: DND Trivia Game
Subject: Nicely done
They are cousins. First and second cousins, once removed on either side, in fact.
Posted on 2007-04-26 at 05:54:20.
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Topic: most unusual/thrilling end to a campaign...
Subject: Ummm...
Ok Alghi with 2-handed sword is robbing himself in most fights. they do d10. Bare-knuckles, Alaghi do 2d6 - higher min damage, higher average damage, higher max damage. Only pull them out when you're fighting a big nasty and get the 3d6.
The baddy who can only be hurt by his own sword, the rest of the group shouldn't have been wasting their time shooting non-damaging missiles, they should have been tripping, disarming, sundering equipment and the like.
As to my own best ending - I think I covered that in "groovy sessions" with the saga of Cedric.
Posted on 2007-04-24 at 06:40:48.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: What?
You took away my questions... Now my post doesn't make a lick of sense...
Posted on 2007-04-22 at 19:40:52.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Answers
1. I doubt it. They never seem to actually look like the people that I've seen.
2. Sure. Last I checked, regular people would have to standing at a pretty odd angle to get any amount of sunlight up there...
3. Lack of pigmentation.
4. It does. They are.
Posted on 2007-04-21 at 21:37:28.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: You misunderstand
Style isn't what I'm talking about. Style is important. No, I mean that the director's job is to take you through the movie, but if you feel like you're being lead (unless that's what the movie's about), then it's been done poorly. It should be smooth and seamless, you should feel like you're there, not like you're looking at a screen. If you feel like you're watching a movie more than fifteen or twenty minutes in, it was done wrong. By then, you should so immersed in it that everything in the real world is one, and there is only the story being told... When it's done REALLY well, not only are you so immersed that the world disappears, you yourself are also gone for the duration. THAT'S why I love Kubrick. There is no Rystefn, there is only Alex and his goons and tormentors. There is no Will, there is only Joker, Cowboy and the Viet Kong. While the movie is playing, I'm not just transported to another place, the rest of the world just vanishes away.
Posted on 2007-04-21 at 09:28:29.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: Directors
The highest aspiration of a great director is that the audience never notices his touch on the screen. If you notice the directing, it was done poorly. That said : Kubrick.
Posted on 2007-04-21 at 07:56:31.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Exactly
People who are sensitive to that sort of thing are not going to play the games or watch the movies enough to desensitize themselves to it.
Some people are bent by their lives, and some people enter the world bent, but the only thing movies and games do to affect it is to give bent people ideas for how to express their mental misalignment.
Posted on 2007-04-21 at 07:52:18.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: Casablanca
The best movie I've ever seen.
I got to play the part of Rick Blaine once... It was awesome. One of the highlights of my life.
Posted on 2007-04-19 at 08:38:13.
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Topic: DND Trivia Game
Subject: Drizzt
I find to be a hollow and one-dimensional character. He can't grow and evolve because the fan-base would riot. Entreri, on the other hand, can and did. It was masterfully done. I think that it's high time the dark elf hero was retired, however. We all already know what's going to happen. Drizzt falls into ennui and gets all emo, beats the snot out of everyone and everything that crosses his path, then gets all philosophical about stuff.
Now a series of novels following Jarlaxle... THAT I could get behind. You never know what side he's on or when he'll change his mind. There's so much room for backstory we don't know and ongoing adventures. Furthermore, he's a character that can grow, evolve and change, which Do'Urden simply can't.
There's a word for characters like Drizzt, and it's not complimentary: Mary Sue. Bob can write with depth, I've seen it. The sooner I see the last of Drizzt, the happier I'll be.
Posted on 2007-04-19 at 08:36:58.
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