John-- No matter how badly I want to get in the last word, I call it settled in two conditions. The first, is that you accept my appoligiy for not posting in a more artciulate manner or contacting you in another way, and second, that my game continues and that you continue to play.

We play my game tonight and every other Tuesday from here on out, as required by Dustin's work schedule. If Dustin chooses to his game will run on the alternate Tuesdays. This is the schedule unless I hear otherwise. If need be and Dustin's game is done I can/will run mine every week until another one is started. As much as I dig CoC it would be cool if the every week thing didn't last too long.

Dustin--Lets settle this. You can't attend my game because of work, and I won't attend your game due to our difference of opinion. This works out best for everyone. This entire conversation will be dropped. Deal?

Dustin--No one wants you to quit your job. Arbitrarily imposed schedules are a horrible, horrible thing.

I believe everyone still wants to play in your game. (If I'm wrong, someone post saying so.) We are frustrated that you had been showing up late or not showing up at all, but that doesn't mean we want to stop playing in your game.

John and Dustin--Will you two work it out who runs when, please? I don't think any of us players care about the exact details of the alternating schedule, we just want games each week and to know which stuff to bring.

Have a happy Monday!

Jeremy--Pants!

Jeremy--Is it a naughty feeling?

Dustin--Conversation over. I could call you names, but most of them are far over you limited vocabulary. I guess I'll not bother with it.

I'm torn.

Worlds of Warcraft comes out in a few weeks.

Saga of Ryzom is out today. I've been watching the trailers for this game, and it's been giving me a special feeling.

In my pants.

John-- I appoligise for not begging permission to swith Tuesdays, apparently I made a few too many assumptions, the first was that people were having fun and wanted to continute to play in my game, the second was that you would be ok with moving your game so that I could still run mine, and the third was that you didn't want me to quite my job so that I could conform to your scheduel. If any of my assumptions are incorrect let me know.

All--I will be running my game on Tuesday. I have lots of funs stuff. If need be and Dustin sticks to his post I will be able to run my game every week until someone else is ready.

Dustin--Of for christsakes! I took exception with you because of your behavior that annoyed me. I put just as much effort into my game as you do yours. You have a tendancy to be a bit selfish at times. For example just moving the schedule around without asking. I have friends who wanted to join the CoC game, and I already told them when to come. This combined with your habit of just not showing up for your game recently has me a little bent out of shape. The game itself isn't a big deal, but your bailing on your friends is. I may be the only vocal person, but I can't believe that I'm the only one who feels that way. So what now? You have a problem with me I wont' come to your game, that fix it? Don't take your "ball" and go home on my account. I would reconsider you canceling your game, you going to feel pretty silly when you get your panties out of the bunch they are currently in. If you really feel that you can't continue, so be it! Please think about if first.

Dustin--It's your choice to cancel your game. But it's a petty act. John calmed down from earlier; you should too.

Someone let me know if we're playing on Tuesday, through all the name-calling.

Shatzer-- I don't really care If you want to move your game or not, If you don't, then there will be no more drow game, and no I didn't know that the schedule was gonna change when I played the cthlu game, I was just having fun, which is the point of playing any game. You know what, bite me, my game is canceled permanently.

FYI Gamers - I will not be at the game tonight- due to schedule conflicts, I will no longer be coming to the Thursday game sessions. Apologies in advance.

I will still be attempting to make the Tuesday game, assuming everyone figures out what the hell is going on. ;)

Shatz- Honestly, I feel $100 is far too much for the helm and gun even if it WAS a metal cast. (No offense, but for a company that's supposedly making stormtrooper armor, that Dread helmet is a piece of shit. Hell, the front visor is a sheet of clear plastic cut that looks like it was cut from a 2-litre bottle, and hot-glued to the facepiece. That, and the "ammo select" display on the side of the Lawgiver is a really amature job...

I found out the gun was plaster, since the barrel was "bent." I attempted to straigten it, and snapped the fucker clean off. The repair isn't a big deal- I'll just drill a hole in both ends, stuff a dowel in there to hold it steady, fill the crack with epoxy plumbers putty and paint over the scar.

I got no problems listing it. That's why the seller pays all E-bay fees. If it doesn't sell, he covers the listing and reserve fees. If it doesn't sell, all I'm out is a bit of time...

He does know the rest of this stuff probably isn't going to sell for much, right? We're talking a few bucks on average for the action figures, if they sell at all...

Supplimental- I'll make sure to check the boxes before I sell them. If I find anything, I'll let you know.

Jeremy--D'oh the name of the fake company is CyberDyne. FiberDyne are the guys that made the helmet and gun. As far as the gun goes I hadn't seen it. Do you think that 100 is unreasonable now? You da ebay guy so you would know. Also my wife thinks that you may have some non game stuff in the boxes of board games that I gave you on Saturday. If so please don't sell it and let me know what it is. If it is already listed send me an email and I'll ask her if it was something she wanted to sell.

Dustin--Upon further review I'm not sure that you intended me to run my game this Tuesday. If you didn't please disregard some of my rant. Notice I said some of my rant, moving my game without asking still sucks. Mostly because I have a couple of players coming from the College. Also did you know that you weren't going to be able to play anymore this past Tuesday? If so was that why you went a little nuts with the kicking down of the door? Just asking.

Jeremy--His name is Richard Duda. He is my brother in law. The name of the group is CyberDyne (I think!). The name is a take off on company from Terminator I think.

Dustin--Okay honestly dude you need to learn some manners. You have just told all the players that I'm moving my game to this Tuesday and will be prepared to run it. Did you ask me if I was okay with that? NO! Now of course I'm happy to do it, but that isn't the point. I wouldn't think to commit you to something without asking if you were okay with it. Honestly would it of killed you to call or email me? Hell you could of even asked me on the blog (even if it is ass slow to load most of the time!). All that being said I will run my game this Tuesday and then alternate every other week after that. I will also have my game prepared if/when the Tuesday comes that you are unable to wake your butt up :-/

Shatz - For the records, who is this guy I'm selling stuff for again?

And who did you say the Dread helmet was made by? (BTW- that "metal" Lawgiver is cast plaster....)

John-- bite me, I was there before you.

All-- My schedule for work has changed, I will now be working on Tuesdays during the day every other week from 3-9 pm. My game that is scheduled for Tuesday the 21'st will be postponed until the following Tuesday, and then my game will alternate with Shatzmans on Tuesday as normal, which also means, that I will have to drop the cthulu game.

I have some good stuff for everyone tonight! See you guys at 6pm. Oh yeah someone needs to smack Dustin to wake him up!

Grunt, Growl, and Tear: lighthearted game of brutal monster combat where you dismember your opponents, attach the "liberated" limbs to your body, and use the second-hand body parts to claw your way to victory

Holy crap it doesn't take a couple of days for the blog to load!

Everyone--Please remember to bring your character backround for the CoC game.

Jeremy--Yep the game rocks!

Wooooooo! Hey Shatz, I just got invited to the Warcraft Stress Test! After a fuckin' two GIG download, I finally got it to install properly, and have been playing all freakin' night!

Almost no lag. Gets a bit choppy in near the cities, but nothing bad enough to mess with gameplay.

Sweet, damned sweet game. I'm one of those big Minotaur guys. A hunter. Big axe. Big gun. Mahahaa!

I've only got three days to get my fix, though. Stress test ends on the 12th.

Damn you and your beta invite. Damn you to hell, I say!

So yeah. It's September, but tentative spring schedules are out.

I will have Spring class on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and possibly even more nights.

*sigh* I mayneed to drop Spring gaming due to work shifts or shift my lone playable night to Monday. Dunno yet. Stupid schedules.

Dustin--I ran my Cthulu game. I still need to run it next week, I may have a new player coming then. So I guess your's in 2 weeks?

Good morning, Im realy sorry, I had set 3 seperate alarm clocks, and had been awake for like 3o some ode hours.

Jeremy--Street punk? Hmmmm.... sounds cool. I'll have my stuff with me tonight, since Dustin won't show up for a couple of hours :-P

http://animatedtv.about.com/library/graphics/Frylock.jpg

Uh. Damn.

Hey Shatz- Pop on E-bay and do a search for "Warcraft Beta."

Shatz- Guessing from the names of the Cthulu minis, I'm guessing there is a "Street Punk" character class? I think I'm going to go with that. If you want to meet sometime this weekend to flesh it out, lemmie know.

Sheesh doens't anyone like to post? :-P

Caroline--The more I look at the faith rules for CoC the more I like them. It fills a void in the game. Still haven't decided if I will use them or not.

All--Each player who has a interesting backstory on how his investigator first discovered the Unknown will get something cool in game. I haven't decided what yet, but it will be worth the effort.

Caroline--Actually the faith rules for CoC could be kind of cool..... seriously!

This seems to be the basic Chaosium system, although it leaves out some of the specific CoC setting information.

This page, in general, seems to have useful info.

Here's info on what Christian gamers think about Call of Cthulhu. *snickers* (pages 16-20)

These two links are a houseuled Character Creation system and Setting.

It's supposed to be Zack's. I'll be there in about an hour.

Is everyone else coming? Dustin is it your game tonight? Ah the chaos!

Dunno. It's either Dustin or Zack.

I won't be making it to the game either way... sorry.

What game is going on tonight?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-08-25&res=l

Anyone got a spare Ethernet coupler? Or say, 50 ft of Ethernet cord? (My 25 doesn't reach.)

I would use my hub, but no outlet where the cord runs out.

Jeremy--Okay my response.

1. No problemo. Of course I'll hate Dustin forever, even though he is my beyatch.

2. I haven't watched it yet. But from the screen shots I agree WOOT! Have you heard anything about it?

John-- Okay, two things...

1. Didn't check the blog until I'd already gone to work. Won't see my house again till after the game. Sorry. BTW- Dustin probably won't be awake to check the blog in time to make a copy, either.

2.) Woot!

Jeremy--Okay two things.

1. Make me a copy of Bastard now. RIGHT FREAKIN' NOW! I'll see you tonight to pick it up. BTW the manga of Bastard is freakin' awesome!

2. I have the movie of Harlock. I'll let you "borrow" it.

We have Bastard on DVD. :)

Harlock is on the list. Eventually... sometime. Not soon. But it's in there somewhere.

Jeremy--Okay so I acutally purchased my first Manga. I have the first 2 volumes of Bastard. It is way cool... a bit different than the anime. Speaking of which, is this something we can get on dvd? Not the butchered stuff of course! On another note, have you ever heard of The Harlock Saga? It is from the same group that did Star Blazers and looks pretty good. I've got it on dvd. Sheesh you've turned me into a regular anime fan!

Jeremy & Dustin--Sorry guys I totally forgot that tonight is my last doctor's appointment. I have to get my test results. Sorry I'll be in Canton tonight, so I won't make it to the last *sniff* movie night. I will be there Thursday. See you then.

I am beliving so. Unfortunately, I think it may be the last one. Shatzer's shedule isn't very flexible, it seems, so we may not be able to reschedule a regular meeting to another day...

So... any suggestions for a good one-shot (no long series) as a cast-off to the official movie night?

Jeremy & Dustin--Are there movies this week? If so, I can actually see them this week. If not, no biggie.

Bah too much gaming conversations on the gaming blog...... uh nevermind :-)

Leon- Gotcha. Thanks.

Caroline- I guess the party could make do with Cure Light Wounds wands between my single-levelled cleric and Jeremy's single-levelled bard. *snickers*

So some of the party treasure goes towards healing. It's not a big deal.
I've got 100 charges worth of healing. God forbid we actually run an adventure with more than an hour down-time between dungeon delves. We'll sleep it off...

we've got two fighterish tanks (me, Jeremy)

Uh. Tank? No...

Oh... and yeah. She's right about the 3.5 Bard. The updated SRD has 'em at 6 skill points per.

Wait a second, do we have a full cleric? *mock-glares at people* If nobody else will play one, I could have a full-leveled bard again. I guess the party could make do with Cure Light Wounds wands between my single-levelled cleric and Jeremy's single-levelled bard. *snickers* That would be highly amusing. So someone could play a cleric or the party'll spend a lot of money on wands or Zack can bring in an NPC cleric.

I think Zack wanted a cleric/healer, fighter/tank, rogue, and arcane caster. Anyone else remember specifically? From what I can remember of people's concepts, we've got two fighterish tanks (me, Jeremy) and one caster (Dustin).

Leon--As I recall, Bards do actually get 6 sp/level in 3.5, along with losing Medium armor proficiency and random spell changes.

Maximum possible ranks is 8 (level+3) since it is a class skill for at least one of your classes. Points spent as a fighter are halved as normal for a cross class skill, but where they come from doesn't matter when calculating the maximum possible rank, always assuming you can find enough points to get it there. If you wanted to, you could spend 16 of the points you get as a fighter to get it that high (and then even Farva would laugh at you, but you could)

Almost forgot. It does actually matter a little when you take your bard level. Best way to do multiclass skills is to make a level 1 character and level him up one level at a time. Say you take bard first. You probably start with 4 ranks and your max at each level will be level +3 since it's already a class skill. To max it at 8 you'll need to spend 2 skill points at each level of fighter.

It's not that different if you take bard later, but you'll either need to spend more than 8 points from your fighter levels (and remember to observe the cross class max ranks limit until you actually take bard) or spend most of the points you get from that one level of bard to raise it. If you want a max performer, I'd suggest maybe taking bard first. You'll lose 4 hp but gain 8 skill points (guess this is not time for my bards should get 6 skill points a level rant). Ultimately, which you'd rather have is up to you. I suppose it depends on what other skills you want.

Actual game question...

I'm confusing myself trying to figure out how to add cross-class and class skills together.

Level 5 character- 4 fighter / 1 bard. Trying to throw as many points into Performance as possible. Would my max rank be 7 or 8?

(Fighter spends 6sp for 3 Ranks cross-class + 4 sp Bard = 7?) or
(Bard spends 8sp = 8)

Bruce Campbell said he wouldn't touch that project with a ten foot pole last year when the rumors first showed up. Plus they would ruin the character and let Freddy or Jason win. BASTARDS! On a different note:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1262804,00.html

HOLY FREAKIN' SHIT GEORGE ROMERO GOT AROUND 20 MIL TO MAKE HIS FOURTH AND FINAL ZOMBIE MOVIE. THEY ARE GOING TO START SHOOTING IN/AROUND PITTSBURG THIS YEAR!

Uh anyone want to make a road trip? I needs to be da zombies........ Dustin you could be someone's zombie beyatch!

John--Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash Infinite chainsaws?

Zack--Chaotic Good mostly dwarven fighter. (She gets bored a lot) Fighter 3/Sorceror 1/Cleric of Kord 1. Will probably take a level of barbarian 6th level.

Jeremy--Oops I'm gonna try them tonight. I'll let you know tomorrow.

Shatz-

You never did get back to us about those DVDs. Did they work on your player or not?

I wanna make sure our home movies work on as many players as possible. Y'know. For Grandma...

That is the funniest damned thing I've seen in a long time.

Jeremy--Did you like the trailer? Muhahahahahahahahahahahahaha...........

Snicker doodle

Jeremey and Dustin--Well it is kind of hard for me to move movie night, wifey poo and all. I may have to just take a couple of months off. Good news is I have my hand back! Stitches are out, and I feel pretty good.

John-- pretty much any night is good for me, as long as it isn't Saturday, or Sunday, I usually work al0t on thoes days.

I dunno what's going on right now, Shatz...

If the "movie night" does get shuffled around, are there any other days of the week you might be good to go?

John-- There Is no other game on Tuesdays that any of us play in, and we could move movie night to a day when you could come, thats if you dont want to drop entirely.

Dustin & Jeremy--We never did figure out what you guys were going to do. Are you going to start gaming on Tuesdays? If so I'll have to bail on movie night (I assume that it would move to Thursday). You guys may want to figure this out. By the way isn't there a game already on Tuesdays?

All Thursday gamers--As I've said a couple times before, my schedule's changing yet again this semester. I can play on Tuesday nights, not Thursday nights.

My schedule change goes into effect on Tuesday, August 31, so there's three more Thursday games (August 12, 19, 26) before then.


Dustin--If you'd show up on time, then I could show you how to do Initiatives easily in Excel. :P

John- S'ok. Actually, I think we're going to be calling off next week's movie night anyway. Got a buisness meeting with Phill regarding the E-bay buisness. S'posed to goto some meeting over dinner.

Jeremy--Sorry but I'm not going to make it to the upcoming Tuesday night fun. I am getting my stitches out that day at 6pm. So that is good, but it sucks I'm going to miss some anime.

Dustin--Dude you can do more with a couple of excel spreadsheets than any special program is going to do.

Hello, guys. Due to events that unfolding, i have a job that i need to do. I will be suspending all my Thursday as well as everyday extra activity until further notice. You guys are a great group and hope to play with you guys agian soon. Thanks for the fun. Enjoy your Game....

Wayne

All-- Your mission, should you chose to accept it, find me a good usable dm software that i can use during the game, It should inculed a initave tracker and a xp calculator. Your reward will be based on how good the software is, it must run on windows xp.

Jeremy & Dustin--Please note that the con is earlier than I thought.

http://www.cinemawasteland.com/show.html

Pointy Sticks! ^_^

American martial arts fans have waited long enough for Hero. Now director Zhang Yimou's 2002 epic, the second-highest-grossing movie in Chinese history, is finally coming to the US. When it arrives stateside August 20, audiences will get to see Jet Li - whose kung fu flicks made him a Hong Kong megastar - show his mettle in China's other leading martial arts film genre: wuxia.

Based on the mythical exploits of early swordsmen, wuxia has been a part of Asian cinema since the silent era, but most Westerners got their first taste from Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Zhang's picture is much truer to the tradition. Set in the third century BC, when the king of Qin was waging a brutal campaign to become China's first emperor, Hero presents Li as a classic wuxia figure, a lone warrior who eliminates a trio of assassins to secure an audience with the king. As he sits before the future emperor, his story is told and retold in dazzling flashes of swordplay - bravura, gravity-defying displays that turn on such exquisite details as the flight path of a single drop of water.

"Wuxia is actually a spirit, a philosophy," Zhang told Wired on his way home from Cannes, where he premiered his second wuxia picture, House of Flying Daggers, a medieval actioner expected to hit US theaters later this year. "A martial arts person is willing to sacrifice his life to help somebody, but the best fighter never kills. The theme of wuxia is to use your heart to change people. In this, I believe, are the roots of China."

Anime Night: The Movies scheduled will be the same as last week. Ninja Scroll, and Ghost in the Shell.

Dinner will be... umn. A nice egg pie.

Or I could just do a little sword jousting on a motorcycle. :)

Well, I daresay a few rockets can compensate for that. :D

Well, tonight your gonna have to do with out my 70 point head shots, I got called into work, and im the only one who could cover the shift, so Im not gonna be at the game.

Random Plot Hooks

So Bandai's fussing about Anime Piracy. Blah to them.

With only two people, it's kinda stupid to cook a full meal. It doesn't keep that well in the fridge, either.

I got a hankerin' for chicken wings. You at all cool with running by BW3's? (Or I'll just get me an order of something, and you can grab some Mexican, Chinese, etc etc etc... somewhere else?)

Dustin just gave me a ring earlier, and said he's been called in for work, so he's not going to be there, either...

Hmmn.

Now what...?

I found out at lunch that Todd can't come tonight. He has to meet with his new roomates. Have no fear Shatzman will be there!

Shatzer- Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell (If we have time for two movies...)

Tonight's veggimitarian-friendly dish (with meat on the side for the rest of us) will be Fajitas.

Jeremy--So what is on the schedule for tonight?

Jeremy--Oh there it is.... That is the rank and file goblin troop. I think the are call mobs? I can look at the Codex on Tuesday if you remind me.

Jeremy--Ahhhh that would be the dreaded invisible noodle doos......... Sorry don't see the pic :) Oh yeah I forgot all about Final Fantasy...... it really sucked didnt' it :-P

Need this figure ID'd.  John, you know what these are called?  Can't find 'em in the codex.

Damn why did you have to ruin it for me :-p
 
Revenge for Final Fantasy...

You guys are welcome.  I had a great time. Next lan at Caleb's house. I will have to get Dusty Caleb's address so he can invite him to this blog.

I gather the LAN party went well then? :)

Drow Roleplaying Tips

A bumper sticker I saw the other day...

"My girlfriend said she'd leave me if I didn't stop gaming. I'm sure going to miss her!"

*amused* Hey, priorities are priorities.

Lydda, thanks once again to you and your husband for letting us use your home for the LAN. 

My house at 11:00 am. call John for directions

So, what time are we supposed to meet for this LAN thing? And where?

 

It's going to suck.  Just wait. It'll be a live-action version of Transformer: Pokemon Edition.  They'll be questing to save the Mini-cons from the evilDecepticons, who want to pollute the earth. With a guest appearance by Captain Planet.

HOLY FREAKIN' SHIT!

Hasbro's ''Transformers'' line to be developed into movie

By Associated Press, 7/23/2004 12:29


PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) Toymaker Hasbro is teaming with Academy Award winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg on a live-action movie that will bring the ''Transformer'' toys to the silver screen.

Dreamworks, the film company co-founded by Spielberg, will develop the movie, scheduled for release in summer 2006. Spielberg, who won a directing Oscar for ''Saving Private Ryan,'' will be its executive producer.

''The possibilities for a thrilling action adventure are virtually endless,'' said Adam Goodman, the company's head of production.

Pawtucket-based Hasbro created Transformers, shape-shifting robots who turn into cars, airplanes and tanks, in 1984. The product has been expanded into a comic book series, a television program on the Cartoon Network and an animated feature film.

Hasbro, the nation's second-largest toymaker behind Mattel Inc., will act as a consultant to the film. Dreamworks will distribute the movie domestically, while Paramount will distribute it overseas.

Jeremy--Snoogins..... I shall purchase a couple of the new discs from you. Can you bring them Saturday?

HA HA You guys are funny

Those were recorded on the older -R disks.  (Which now that I think of it, I think max out at 2x, not 1x...)

Since they play fine on the PS2 it's not a bad burn.  It's entirely possible your DVD player just doesn't like +R disks.  Some machines are fussy about that.

I'd try one of our... uh... home movies burned on this new batch of +Rs before you give up entirely. Sometimes the brand name makes a difference. The +Rs and -Rs are both from the same company, same dye, etc...

 

Jeremy--You know the home movies of the *er* Cowboy that you burned for me work fine. What media did you use on them. I wonder if it may just be that particular batch of media giving me fits. Is this possible o'great jedi master of *er* home movies?

Jeremy--My *uh* home movie played great on the Play Station.

Hmn.

The new spindle we just bought are 4x +R.   I've still got about 20 or 30 or so of my
original 1x -Rs, too. 

Oh- and if you have it hooked up, try to play those... uh... home movies in your PS2.  It's supposed to do a great job. (And you already have the DVD controller for it...)  If it doesn't play in the PS2, you might just have a bad burn....

Jeremy and Dustin--What type of media do you guys have? Is it +/- R? I noticed that my DVD player won't play +R media. So um my home movies wont' play on my tv.... yeah that is it :) I'd like to pick up a disc or two and try it out, if it works I'd take another 30. Is this cool?

I'm coming. I know that Todd is going to come as well (with his Bubble Gum Crisis stuff. That is all.

I've got more than enough material to fill the evening with random episodes alone, if need be...
 
 

Unfortunately, Real Indians were not in season, so your gonna have to deal with imitation Indian meat ( tofu). With our time extended from not going out to eat, we would also be able to watch a movie and do a sampler, We have Ninja scroll for your viewing enjoyment. It would be polite to get a head count on the number of people attending, so we know how much food to make.

Jeremy--MMMMMMMM....... Indian food. Did you use real Indians? :)