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. :)