RPG: ?!?!?!

Yeah.. We were supposed to play tonight. And, except for Brad and me, we did. Brad, as you know, isn't able to play anymore. I was unable to play because my character was tied into Brad's. (We were brothers, and were searching for our sister.) It seemed to me that the concept wouldn't work with just the one brother. So, I decided to make a new character. The problem is: I couldn't think of a concept that I could work out!!! :( Oh well, Hopefully I'll think of something tomorrow. At least I know I'm looking forward to Sunday's game. If anyone thinks of a concept, feel free to post a comment. :) For now, I'm going to bed.

Strange, isn't it, how being sleepy makes one more nihilistic? Or is it just me?

What kind of bookworm am I? Let's see...

Book Worm Meter for Tek2way

Shut In 71% . . 29% Out Of The House Intellectual 95% . . 5% Moron High Attention Span 95% . . 5% Low Attention Span Bookitude 96% . . 4% Book Burner Book Worm 89.25% . . 10.75% Bug Stomper

Take your bookworm readings.

Ahh.. I'm *THAT* kind of bookworm. :)

Drama's end, and other things..

Well, it appears that Kevin has isolated the issue in the server computer: a bad stick of RAM. Yep, bloody crashes, incriminating evidence pointing at me, and it was bad memory. Guess it was getting old? :)

On another, note, I actually feel like I accomplished something: I cleaned my room. Not just the toss the dirty socks in the hamper, throw away the burger wrapper, put away the game books, kind of clean. I actually got out the Pledge, the Windex, the Febreze, and the vacuum cleaner! :) Yep. It's not just clean, it's squeaky.

I reorganized my miniatures today. I realized that I have about 15 that I'm really proud of my paint job on them. If I had the means, I'd post them, just so you could point and laugh. :)

Tomorrow is the Forgotten Realms game that I am running, and I have yet to make the map for the dungeon that the party will deal with. (Yes, and Stephen's character is still at -4 HPs. Don't worry, I have a plan. :) ) No, really, I do. Fortuneately, guys, Stephen's said that he's leaning heavily towards doing something cleric related. I told him that it's his choice, but I have to say that I will definitely breathe a sigh of relief when I don't have to worry about the random guy walking by, healing them. :)

I still have to come up with a character for next Friday's game, though. *sigh* I wanna do a magic user, but I'm not sure a single-classed one will survive. The group last night were fighting a guy who got 5 attacks a round with two weapons. That means that he was at least 11th level. I wanna balance spell-casting ability, combat prowess, and a good backstory. So far, I've come up with a couple of neat concepts:

• A fighter who, through the intervention of Tymora, survived when he shouldn't have. He's been her cleric ever since. (Her weapon is a shuriken!?!?!)


• A cleric/wizard of Mystra. Good firepower, good combat. I can't work out a backstory for it, though.


• A Uthgardt barbarian/cleric of Uthgar. (Uthgar is a little on the.. uh... chaotic side. Part of his dogma involves scorn for civilization. Not sure I can do that..


• Some kind of adventurer from the Silver Marches. (Well, I have been reading the book, and it's chock full of story-esque goodness.)
  

Lastly, for the moment, I would like to say that I have had the opportunity to work with D&D ETools. Not entirely bad, if it was free. For $30-40 USD, though, one would expect something more than a 17MB install executable on a CD. Yes, seventeen megabytes. If ya gotta get a character generator, get PCGen. Yes, it's java. However, it's insanely stable, it's updated regularly, and it has just about any d20 material that you could hope to see. Scarred Lands? Got it. Ravenloft d20? Got it. Mongoose Publishing's Quintessential series? Got the first two. Anyway, having looked at both, and used them both, I have to say that ETools does NOT live up to the hype that surrounded it. Perhaps if the electronic division of WotC hadn't been sold, we'd have a product similar to the generator we got in the Player's Handbook. As it is, get PCGen. That's just my NSHO. :)

Will I ever tire of these quizzes?

Probably not.. well.. not soon, anyway. :)





Take the What High School
Stereotype Are You? quiz, by Angel.

Many thanks to Featherhawk for that one!!

Character update...

Well, so far, I've decided on either a Ranger/Barbarian/Sorcerer, or a Ranger/Barbarian. Of course, there's still Sorcerer (Monte Cook's version, courtesy of the Book of Eldritch Might II). Now, I have to narrow it down, and buy equpment. *sigh* Easier said than done. Picking out magic items for a ninth level character isn't easy.. There are so many good items to give them. :)

I have to be at work in less than 8 hours. It's Sunday, and I have payroll to do. (Not payroll in the typical sense. I check all employees' times, punch in vacations, and make sure that everything's correct before I upload it to the REAL payroll clerks.

Today was quiet, and uneventful. I need more days like this. :) Good night, all my friends. I'll see you later. :)