tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77251092011-07-08T05:43:43.868-07:00A Geek Weblog looks at you, ready to attack. What would you like your tombstone to say?Busshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12271200350182493216noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725109.post-71394079497745383472008-01-14T11:55:00.000-08:002008-01-14T12:20:00.711-08:00

Going to start up Earthdawn again when we next game, so 'tis time to share what happened on the last session. I think I'm skipping a session here, so I will post again if I find that update. We start out with Neryl heading outside into the rain to check on Naya after she attacked the ork high chief Grathis, thinking Grathis had killed her parents in an ork raid. The two of them had a

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On the way back to Sharn, Antonius convinced Tosh to accompany him to give his report to the council of twelve. The two parted for an hour while Tosh tracked down Zhen. Upon contacting her, Zhen said she was with Tosh's "LOVELY sister in law" at the inn. Tosh headed down there and walked right into the room where his wife's sister sat meditating and Zhen was pacing. He walked right up to Zhen and

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The last thing Tess heard as blackness overcame her was the priestess exclaiming "That's impossible!"Ten minutes later Raza came out of the church and told us the baby had been born and that he was healthy and normal-looking (and acting). Tosh asked about Tess and Raza sadly shook her head. He nodded and started giving orders to gather the baby and her up. He and ANtonius would be teleporting up

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As Tosh watched Zhen go, he made the decision that he couldn't give up Melendra (Tess's little elf sister) to the dragons, but that meant he had a bigger problem. He had less than three hours to find Tess herself, and bring her before the dragons.Thirty minutes later the group marched up to a Finder's Guild office and bribed their way in. Tosh had Tess's double-bladed scimitar and the mirror the

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We recently ended chapter 1 of our Eberron story (the original Eberron story) and I wrote up a decent amount on it. First some background....Tess had been taken prisoner by Kaius, lord of Karrnath, and he coldly informed Tess she was pregnant with her demon-lord "husband's" child, and had mere months to live. He was going to lock her away until she had her baby, which would doubtless kill her (

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In MMO news, Tal (my elf druid) just hit level 60. God bless patch 2.3 and the xp bonus! Thanks to Aaron's very kind wife, he is now riding his epic mount and looks sexay. And I am LOVING Outland.In RPG news, we have been playing Scion lately, which is White Wolf's new game where you play the sons and daughters of gods. It's quickly turned into one of my more favorite games.Oh and the Eberron

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The girl nervously said that she couldn’t stay and excused herself. She was halfway to the door when four men with cloaks and wide brimmed hats came into the bar. She saw them and almost collapsed with fright. They called her a witch said she needed to come with them. Kaelan really should have stayed in his seat this time…..He was at her shoulder in a moment, asking what was going on. The

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Just back from a long trip, we had hung up our gear and were getting ready to test the limits of blood alcohol content when a page showed up with a summons. We were about to tell him to go away when we saw the name Merrix d’Cainnith signed on the bottom of the summons. To our credit, we still briefly discussed blowing him off. No job given to us by him was going to go well and both Rork and

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Kaelan (last name TBD): Kaelan was born and raised in Northern Aerinal. He accompanied his mother and her warclan to Khorvaire, where he fought in the war with them as mercenary forces. When the war was over and Valenar declared its sovereignty from both Cyre and Aerinal, he left the warclan and took command of a group of bandits operating around the deserts. Pickings were ripe for

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It was funny…we sent email after email about the numerical advantages of these characters, entering a state where there was some pressure to take advantage of the carde blanche attitude of the game, along with all the new classes that became available with this latest book purchase.Then…the evening before we started…it all of a sudden became about the GAME instead of the min/maxing. We

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We started up a new Eberron campaign this weekend, and in it we decided to notch up the power level a bit. We uppped the level to 12 and decided to allow some of the "questionable power level" classes from the new Book of Nine Swords for D&D. In this game I get to try out my Fleshforged concept (Warforged with human skin who doesn't know they are human) as well as a Daelkyr Halfblood (mmmmm...

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I'll admit, I love these things. I have a huge list I check almost daily and have been for quite some time. I reccommend every single one of these comics to any gaming/fantasy/computer geek.WTF Comics - WTF is a serial comic set in pre-cataclysm Norrath (the world of EQ1), it chronicles the adventures of Annashi, a young wood elf, and her unlikely Iksar companion Straha. The comic is funny,

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I said the hell with it and decided to make a Buffy fansite. I needed an excuse to mess with CSSs and Dreamweaver anyways, and I'm experimenting with a more open style of webpage than my uusal jpeg boxes. I have based it off of the Minima Black style of blog theme. That way I could copy everything across for the CSSs and make sure I understood what all of them did. Okay understand what MOST of

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Buffy! Three weekends in a row! I'm not sure whether to enjoy it all or be suspicious of Ragnarok...Sometime after sunrise, Sascha came home and discovered Arthur had fallen asleep at the kitchen table waiting up for her. She thought it was kinda sweet but weird (Sascha isn’t exactly used to parental types that act parental). She explained what happened and Arthur said that Broom and the rest of

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Buffy recap. Yes it’s long but I think worth the skim. A big event happened.Whilst the scoobies were in Frisco researching Ember’s untimely demise, Sascha was feeling the effects of the Harry Potter Bone Knitting potion she took, having her bones snap and knit back into place. Once that 3 hour fun period was over, she headed upstairs to join the search for the harbinger of this vampire god, who

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You know, the Unisystem rules that Buffy uses aren’t my absolute favorite, but I will say this. It does a bang up job of running a fast paced Buffy-like game. It’s simple, it’s easy to pick back up, there aren’t a ton of skills and it’s difficult enough o make rolls, while allowing you to spend points to make those REALLY IMPORTANT rolls. Using this system I have successfully thrown an axe

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Played a decent bit lately and advanced the Buffy storyline somewhat. The brief recap (can’t type forever like I used to thanks to time constraints) will follow. Note: This will require a basic working knowledge of the Hellboy universe to understand it all. If you've seen the movie that should be enough.Aaron has decided to bring the Hellboy universe (or at least elements and characters from

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I should be doing my taxes right about now. I promised my wife I'd be doing taxes right about now. Buuuuut For some odd reason I'm in a really good mood today. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I am finally coming out of a full 2 weeks of dizzy spells, I just found out I have enough money to buy the game book I have been pining for lately. With any luck it'll get here

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I'm back. :-)Will post what I can very soon. If nothing else I've been messing quite a bit with RSS feeds and Digg.com, and I will pimp those to you as much as I can.Note: I have turned on word verification for comments. Sorry for that, but the amount of spam comments was just getting out of hand. Laters!

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Okay before I post too much on the IK game, I want to get a brief background post out of the way, building the backstory. First off our cast (apologies for anybody whose name I didn't spell correctly):Prelate Sebastian Redgrave - A battle chaplain of Morrow who is known for being a very capable witch hunter. When he was 5 years old, his family was killed and his house burned by necrotechs. He

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My level of anger with the world has finally risen to the point where I feel compelled to write again. It amazes me how when I'm generally feeling okay with myself and the world around me that I don't feel the need to put my feelings of goodwill into print.Do my opinions only really matter to me when I'm cheezed off enough to shake off the apathy and express them? If so, bless my wife and my

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From the Scifi Wire news:Dark Crystal Sequel AnnouncedThe Jim Henson Co. announced that it will produce a feature-film sequel to its 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal, with the working title The Power of the Dark Crystal. The original movie was directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, with conceptual designer Brian Froud, and has remained a fan favorite with consistently strong worldwide home video

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Take the quiz at dicepool.comThere's two ways to end up with this result. Either you picked the silliest possible answer to each question, or you answered honestly, and happen to be hyperactive, manic, loon. Assuming you answered honestly, your profile is as follows: You are the 100-sided dice, also known as the legendary Zocchihedron. You are the bit of data that registers so far off the chart

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This review isn’t going to be as long as the last one. Rather than a full review, I think I’m going to (in this case) go with my impressions of the game. So last night I fired the game up for the first time and played through the first three levels. It was….very pretty…. Star Wars: Battlefront is a somewhat cool and interesting concept in the franchise. Capitalizing on gameplay over storyline,

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Got a few PS2 related toys for christmas and wanted to give my thoughts on them here. Please note that these are my personal views only and just because I didn't like it doesn't mean it stunk. Blockbuster exists to give you the chance to form your own opinions about games for a (albeit very large for what you get) fee. Ratchet & Clank 3: Up Your Arsenal: I admit I am predisposed to this game.

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Yikes. So my life has been taken over. See, around the time of my last post, this interesting thing happened. I got onto the open beta for World of Warcraft. I openly scoffed at the game, pointing at EQ2 and laughing in WoW's face, but it proceeded to win me over with it's pretty quests and engaging environments and easy leveling system, and before I knew it I was in love. Quests! LOTS of

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Just got out of one of the bigger stories for our two elves as they entered the Blood Wood. In it Tal discovered that Alia was once married to his uncle (a blood elf himself), and had a child by him that she believed dead. This was two years ago and was the last time Alia was in the wood. Tal disovered his heritage. His connection to the Carithasca Ranelle as well as his family was revealed.

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As we've been playing Earthdawn for the last few weekends I figured I'd post the cast of our game. I'm not completely sure on all the names, but I'll put the major cast on there and then will post updates to the game. Keep in mind these are VERY general 1-2 sentence descriptions and don't really explain a whole lot about the story so far. Talanithir Carithasca (now Talanithir Blackthorne) –

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This is how the story has been going lately, for better or worse.... Cameron is getting attention from a beautiful, older, rock star chick. One slight problem. She’s kind of a ghost… He’s also getting attention from a beautiful, older European brunette…but she kind of wants to kill him. :-) And the one girl that WOULD be good for him (Opal) is getting hit on by the bad guy who WAS hitting on

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Continuing the Buffy theme, here are Sascha's band of Scoobies (the short version): Arthur: Watcher. Basic old british guy. Owns a coffee shop called the Daily Grind which he and Sascha live above. Oscar: Fat black kid. Computer geek and hacker. Lazarus (Laz): Goth kid with lots of piercings. Warlock from a warlock family. Kim (Opal): Chinese girl. Nerd/hippy. Budding Psychic. Opal, Laz and

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Wrote this in a brief email to Ryan about one of my characters in our current Buffy the Vampire Slayer game. Sascha is one of the new crop of Slayers who came up after the Buffy series ended and has been assigned to Pleasant Hills, WA, a sleepy little rich-man's town in the woods outside of Seattle. It also happens to have its very own Hellmouth. Description: Sascha Romanov stands at just over

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Yep that's me. This weekend we were supposed to play Stargate SG1. We wanted to get it at least one week down the road before succumbing to other games. I know some people play one game. One game with one character every week and it's got to end up great. We are not such people. We can't do it. I have lost count of the games we have going currently, but we have at least 1-2 games going in every

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My thoughts on player killing in RPGs. Copied from a debate post I wrote on Ryan's site: Okay kiddies, the topis is this. Should the ST arbitrarily kill characters because of bad die rolls? One thing that I think we can all agree on is this. Bad decisions can kill characters. If the first level wizard is going to rush a red dragon, and the player is aware of the consequences, there is no

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We started a new game this weekend. It was literally thrown together on the spur of the moment after seeing the premiere of Stargate: Atlantis and I think it turned out pretty well. I wrote up a brief description of what we had so far to my buddy Ryan and I'll repost it here. Note that this may not completely jive with the Stargate SG-1 timeline, and it borrows a bit from Atlantis, but the

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WTF Comics - This is an online episodic comic set in the world of Norrath (Everquest). It follows the adventures of a young Wood Elven girl named Annasha, who unwittingly gathers a group of rather unique individuals around her as she searches for her father who has been gone the last two years. I really enjoy this comic. It's funny, smart and has tons of fun plot ideas.   GU Comics - One-shot

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So last nigt I levelled up my EQ Enchantress Lethanna to 16. She has a mana regen spell now which should make her quite popular in groups, and cut down on the amount of time I spend with her sitting on her butt meditating to get mana back.   Playing a Chanter is actually turning out to be quite the challenge. They have such glass jaws that any mob that gets through that I can't Charm, Mesmerize

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Alabrax.com - This is my buddy Ryan's site. Ryan posts on the White Wolf forums as Alabrax and is one of the bigger regulars on that site. His site has sections on all the games he plays, and his Exalted section is one of the better ones out there, with the Combat 101 rules, houserules and homebrew Charms, as well as some good setting material. I went to this site long before I knew Ryan

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I'm making this blog as a bit of a secret for buddies of mine and to be able to discuss things I wouldn't normally be able to talk about on my family-friendly blog. While general thoughts and amusements will be on http://bussblog.blogspot.com, this blog will have all my geeky shat on it.   I will feel free to update you all on my Everquest characters, the RPGs I play, new characters, and anything

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