I love cool quizzes...

This one is neat. It actually tests your knowledge of gaming. ;)

( The Real Gamers use Dice Test )

I should be leaving for work now, but I still have to get dressed. I scanned through my various D&D books last night before I went to sleep, and what did I find? Metal balls. It's not quite a wooden ball, Meimei, but it's just a ball nonetheless! :) (Though I began to seriously think about Halberd, Flail, or Trident.) Well, time enough for that AFTER work. Later folks!

EDIT: Scott, you'd signed off both MSN and AIM. Call me at work, and I'll tell you the answer to what you asked me.

Another workday done..

Today went really well. I was going to get there half an hour early, since I had to do the store close, but I piddled around until I was just 10 minutes early. I clocked in, and got to work. I must admit that I forgot how efficient I can be when I'M ON TIME. (While I was late to myself, I wasn't expected there until 500am, so it was almost like I got there on time for my regular shift.) Anyway, double standards and such aside, I had a very good morning, and had everything taken care of long before 10am, so I didn't get a call this week. I ran into overtime a little at the end, but that's mainly because I had to redo the spreadsheet to handle Wage Percentage instead of Sales Per Labor Hour. (Basically, sales percentage is a figure that represents how much of a store's weekly sales are used up by paying the employees. It's not as cold-hearted as it sounds, honest. :))

Now, I'm at home, and I have a D&D character to make. To my right sit my D&D books: Player's Handbook, Arms & Equipment Guide, Complete Adventurer, Complete Arcane, Complete Divine, Complete Warrior, Draconomicon, Expanded Psionics Handbook, Frostburn, Libris Mortis, Manual of the Planes, Planar Handbook, Unearthed Arcana, Eberron Campaign Setting, Sharn: City of Tower (Eberron Supplement), and -- of course -- Forgotten Realms: Silver Marches.

From the digital realm of my PC, I have Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Faiths and Pantheons (FR Supplement), Librum Equitis Compiled, Librum Equitis 4: Sidhe Kin, Player's Guide to Faerun (FR Supplement), Minions of the Shadow (Midnight Supplement), Races of Destiny, Races of Faerun (FR Supplement), Races of Stone, Salt and Sea Dogs (Kalamar Supplement), Serpent Kingdoms (FR Supplement), Shining South (FR Supplement), and Underdark (FR Supplement).

In total, that's twenty-nine books to assemble a character. Heh, I should be ashamed, but I'm not. I imagine that I will wind up chucking half of them as worthless. So you see, I *NEED* all these books, just so that I have a good selection of material AFTER I've done some whittling. :)

Now, to dive in..

EDIT: 4:15pm - Minions of the Shadow is a monster book. Oops..
4:18pm - Librum Equitis 4 fell first. Stay tuned..
4:19pm - Not long thereafter, Librum Equitis Compiled fell..
4:24pm - Races of Destiny is CRAP!
4:37pm - Races of Stone...gone.
4:39pm - As is Serpent Kingdoms.
4:43pm - Salt & Sea Dogs didn't grab me.
4:46pm - Underdark didn't work. Why'd I pick all these? Oh yeah, so I still have good books when I'm done. :)
4:47pm - Deleted the FRCS without even looking in it. If there's something worth getting, it'll be reprinted in Player's Guide to Faerun..
4:58pm - Faiths & Pantheons? What was I thinking?! I'll pick a deity to worship AFTER making the character. :)
5:06pm - No cool weapons. No neat races. Shining South is gone.

We interrupt this afternoon..

...because I got tired of going through books. :) So, for a break, I watched some of my Tom & Jerry Spotlight Collection*. You know, there's just something fun and therapeutic about watching those two try to kill each other. :) Now, after a break, I'm ready to dive back into picking out classes, weapons, races, and hopefully, get this character done.

One might even say that I picked out WAY too much source material to build it with, and am just wasting time. That's possible, but I so rarely get to play anymore, I want to make this character exactly what I want to play, you know? Use some of the material that I long to use. That's why psionics are calling me strongly. However, where would I be from, if I was psionic? I doubt Faerun is crawling with psionically active characters. Well, it'll come to me. :)

And remember, kids....

Tom & Jerry is good for you!

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* - It now says "Premier Volume". Interesting, Mr. Bond. Very interesting. I'll have to see what's on the next one. It's sometime in the sixties that Tom & Jerry morphed into something I didn't care for. I like the cat-and-mouse chases and such, not them being all buddy-buddy, and I *loathe* the music that Bill Lava makes for anything but RoadRunner cartoons.