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stsquad's house for Red Dwarf related antics, which was fun. While I was there I happened across a Dixons and so bought myself a replacement DVD player. While I was there I realised that there was too much money and not enough remote controls in my life, so I also bought myself one of those and - oh bugger, I could have saved myself ten pounds. Well, never mind.
They offered me a SCART cable at the same time, but I thought p'shaw, my old DVD player will have one of those. Turns out the old one used some crazy moonman analog-to-SCART cable thing. Well, that will do for now, but I will at some point have to buy myself a new SCART cable, or possibly rummage around to see if I have one spare, which is possible.
Celebrated connection of new DVD and fancy remote by watching an episode of Futurama. It was "Where No Fan Has Gone Before," guest-starring almost all the orriginal Star Trek cast (plus Jonathan Frakes) in an affectionate parody of themselves. Possibly the finest Futurama episode ever, challenged only by "Godfellas" (starring a giant talking galaxy as God).
D&D this evening. Review: Good. Used Woodrun's once-per-day Barbarian Rage (took one level in Bbn for the enhanced move, really) to good effect: when cornered by malevolent entity posessed of threat range larger than 5 feet (so the 5-foot-step will not take you out of threat where you can safely shoot arrows), drop bow, unsheath sword and go apeshit. Raging Woodrun has same melée attack as his normal Ranged (albeit sans point blank shot and rapid shot), and does considerably more damage.
Pop quiz. Do magic items automatically change size to suit user? There seemed to be some confusion on this point. From a game-balance point of view I would be in favour of the one-size-fits-all, as Small characters are already being discriminated against with normal equipment; I don't know if there's even a column for "scale" on the Random Magic Items table. Bad enough having to find a trader to swap your hard-won composite bow for one more suitably scaled down, but composite bows are at least freely available. Enchanted stuff is remarkably harder to find a "customer service" counter for. I'm mostly just curious - I'm sure Talindra will put those +2Dex gloves to just as good use as Woodrun would have. Though I'm going to be after some sort of AC modification soon, I'm level 7 and still only in normal (masterwork) armour. The acquisition of magical defences are figured into D&D level progressions and XP awards, after all.
Oh, yeah, and there was some character interaction stuff as well. I like to think I forget to talk about that because it goes without saying, of course we had fun roleplaying or I wouldn't still be interested in playing after all this time, but it's entirely possible that I am in fact all about the numbers.
stsquad's house for Red Dwarf related antics, which was fun. While I was there I happened across a Dixons and so bought myself a replacement DVD player. While I was there I realised that there was too much money and not enough remote controls in my life, so I also bought myself one of those and - oh bugger, I could have saved myself ten pounds. Well, never mind.They offered me a SCART cable at the same time, but I thought p'shaw, my old DVD player will have one of those. Turns out the old one used some crazy moonman analog-to-SCART cable thing. Well, that will do for now, but I will at some point have to buy myself a new SCART cable, or possibly rummage around to see if I have one spare, which is possible.
Celebrated connection of new DVD and fancy remote by watching an episode of Futurama. It was "Where No Fan Has Gone Before," guest-starring almost all the orriginal Star Trek cast (plus Jonathan Frakes) in an affectionate parody of themselves. Possibly the finest Futurama episode ever, challenged only by "Godfellas" (starring a giant talking galaxy as God).
D&D this evening. Review: Good. Used Woodrun's once-per-day Barbarian Rage (took one level in Bbn for the enhanced move, really) to good effect: when cornered by malevolent entity posessed of threat range larger than 5 feet (so the 5-foot-step will not take you out of threat where you can safely shoot arrows), drop bow, unsheath sword and go apeshit. Raging Woodrun has same melée attack as his normal Ranged (albeit sans point blank shot and rapid shot), and does considerably more damage.
Pop quiz. Do magic items automatically change size to suit user? There seemed to be some confusion on this point. From a game-balance point of view I would be in favour of the one-size-fits-all, as Small characters are already being discriminated against with normal equipment; I don't know if there's even a column for "scale" on the Random Magic Items table. Bad enough having to find a trader to swap your hard-won composite bow for one more suitably scaled down, but composite bows are at least freely available. Enchanted stuff is remarkably harder to find a "customer service" counter for. I'm mostly just curious - I'm sure Talindra will put those +2Dex gloves to just as good use as Woodrun would have. Though I'm going to be after some sort of AC modification soon, I'm level 7 and still only in normal (masterwork) armour. The acquisition of magical defences are figured into D&D level progressions and XP awards, after all.
Oh, yeah, and there was some character interaction stuff as well. I like to think I forget to talk about that because it goes without saying, of course we had fun roleplaying or I wouldn't still be interested in playing after all this time, but it's entirely possible that I am in fact all about the numbers.