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elsajeniBoy, the office is irritating the shit out of me today. I want to go home and read. And Complete Champion turned up yesterday, so I have something new and exciting to read! (Although I glanced through it and it actually looks kind of disappointing. All I've seen so far is elaboration of the rules for affiliation with an organization presented in PHBII, this time specialized toward churches, and the prestige classes and feats don't interest me much. I was hoping it was actually going to be, you know, kind of paladin-oriented; instead it seems to be "How To Play A Paladin-Ish Character Without Actually Having To Put Up With The Paladin Rules". I have nothing against the idea of creating a religiously-powered bard ((it provides alternate class features for several things like this)), and I recognize that, as core classes go, paladin is probably the worst-designed, but give me some support playing it. Oh well; together, Complete Warrior and Complete Divine give me something to work with, at least, and when I can afford Complete Scoundrel I'll be giving the Grey Guard prestige class a serious, evaluative look. Although, since my character has already built up the entire feat structure and in-character background and motivation for Knight Protector, I'll almost certainly be sticking with that.)
I also want to go home and play Pokémon Diamond. Which I've had for less than a week. And played for I think 17 hours so far. I can stop anytime I want. I swear. Really. (So far, the most exciting thing that has happened in Pokémonland: I found the guy who lets you rename your Pokémon. I though this was fantastic, since I had somehow caused my very first Pokémon to be nicknamed "AAA" and was not entirely happy with that name. Now instead his name is Greenie, which is not very exciting or original for a Grass-type Pokémon, but is at least better than AAA.)
(Incidentally, if you are wondering how I managed to unintentionally name a Pokémon "AAA", the answer is: I have no idea.)
I'm also getting fidgety and excited about the prospect of Zack running a game of Pirates of the Spanish Main. I already have my character all planned out: either the lost Dauphin or a con man, depending on whether you believe him or not, and Master of Sails on our ship, with as many silly swordfighting tricks as I can possibly accumulate. A key part of the attraction here is that, although I love my current D&D character and our campaign, I'm getting sick of being lawful good. Before this campaign, we played the Serenity RPG, in which the party routinely shot people mostly because they were irritating us, and that was really a lot more fun most of the time and will once again be our MO in the Pirates game.
And I hope to give the DM's side of the screen a shot before too long; I've been planning on doing a one-shot or mini-campaign of the Star Wars RPG, but recently bought a used copy of Fist Full of Zombies and might switch to All Flesh Must Be Eaten just for the excitement of using that.
I didn't intend this to be A Big Post About RPGs (With Brief Pokémon-Related Interruption), but I suppose that's fine, really.
P.S. I have high hopes that the "e" in every usage of the word "Pokémon" in this post will come out with an accent over it. If it comes out as a regular "e" or as numbery-boxy-gibberish, I will be, um, mildly annoyed.
Edited P.P.S. IT WORKED HAH. EVEN IN THE SUBJECT LINE. MY GOD I AM SO GOOD AT THE INTERNET.
I also want to go home and play Pokémon Diamond. Which I've had for less than a week. And played for I think 17 hours so far. I can stop anytime I want. I swear. Really. (So far, the most exciting thing that has happened in Pokémonland: I found the guy who lets you rename your Pokémon. I though this was fantastic, since I had somehow caused my very first Pokémon to be nicknamed "AAA" and was not entirely happy with that name. Now instead his name is Greenie, which is not very exciting or original for a Grass-type Pokémon, but is at least better than AAA.)
(Incidentally, if you are wondering how I managed to unintentionally name a Pokémon "AAA", the answer is: I have no idea.)
I'm also getting fidgety and excited about the prospect of Zack running a game of Pirates of the Spanish Main. I already have my character all planned out: either the lost Dauphin or a con man, depending on whether you believe him or not, and Master of Sails on our ship, with as many silly swordfighting tricks as I can possibly accumulate. A key part of the attraction here is that, although I love my current D&D character and our campaign, I'm getting sick of being lawful good. Before this campaign, we played the Serenity RPG, in which the party routinely shot people mostly because they were irritating us, and that was really a lot more fun most of the time and will once again be our MO in the Pirates game.
And I hope to give the DM's side of the screen a shot before too long; I've been planning on doing a one-shot or mini-campaign of the Star Wars RPG, but recently bought a used copy of Fist Full of Zombies and might switch to All Flesh Must Be Eaten just for the excitement of using that.
I didn't intend this to be A Big Post About RPGs (With Brief Pokémon-Related Interruption), but I suppose that's fine, really.
P.S. I have high hopes that the "e" in every usage of the word "Pokémon" in this post will come out with an accent over it. If it comes out as a regular "e" or as numbery-boxy-gibberish, I will be, um, mildly annoyed.
Edited P.P.S. IT WORKED HAH. EVEN IN THE SUBJECT LINE. MY GOD I AM SO GOOD AT THE INTERNET.
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Date: 2007-06-13 06:02 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I imagine Star Wars lends itself more readily to mini-campaigns rather than AFMBE--or, at least, it I imagine it has a lower casualty rate among PCs. Really, it all depends, as I'm sure you know and think me an ass for going on about, what kind of game you want to run. (PRO TIP: combining Star Wars with zombies might make for an interesting game if you want to scatter genre expectations to the four winds.)
Cheers,
--Bob
P.S. No, I'm not back from Greece yet, I just finally broke down and bought me a 10-Euro internet card. And that's considered cheap around here.