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11:37 am - Cord?

Is this the missing cord?

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03:52 pm - Computer is in the hospital

They are suppose to call sometime tomorrow and give us an estimate. I hope it doesn't have kidney stones, those are pretty pricey.

03:50 pm - A rose ...

So Sci-Fi has officially become SyFy. Yup, stupid it does look.

Someone suggest an alternative name that would have been cooler.
Psi-Phy

12:59 pm - Transmorphers

Transformers meets Virus meets the Arrival meets Terminator 4. Yeah, it was pretty much as bad as it sounds. :D

01:07 pm - A bit late for Father's Day, but this is too good

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01:00 pm - Edward Cullen meets Buffy Summers

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12:55 pm - Possible party line-up

gnome druid
human scout
half-elf duskblade
(?)possibly a human ranger (this is what I am remember people mentioned)
(?)possibly a sorceress (I am also remembering this)
(?)

04:24 pm - Here are the base classes a brief description of each

Player's Handbook:
Barbarian - raging warrior
Bard - singing 5th wheel, some magic, some combat, some skills
Cleric - divine caster
Druid - divine nature caster with animal companion
Fighter - weapon/combat specialist with lots of feats
Monk - kung-fu master
Paladin - holy warrior with magic mount
Ranger - nature based hunter type with animal companion
Rogue - skill based adventurer, good at get in cheap shots
Sorcerer - spontaneous arcane caster
Wizard - studious arcane caster

Player's Handbook 2:
Beguiler - spontaneous arcane caster mixed with rogue skills
Dragon Shaman - auras aid party members, becomes dragonish
Duskblade - warrior/arcane caster mix
Knight - auras(?), calls foes out

Complete Divine:
Favoured Soul - spontaneous divine caster, picks cleric spells
Shugenja - asian type, picks one of the four elements to relate to
Spirit Shaman - spontaneous divine caster, picks druid spells

Complete Warrior:
Hexblade - arcane casting warrior, very limited in casting (consider a weak class)
Samurai - two weapon fighting and demoralizing fighter
Swashbuckler - dex based fighter

Complete Adventurer:
Ninja - sneaky guy
Scout - sneaky woodlands guy
Spellthief - steal other people's magic, has some magic of his own (complicated mechanics)

Complete Arcane:
Warlock - fiend/fey blooded spell-like ability user
Warmage - arcane blaster
Wu Jen - asian style wizard

02:27 pm - Current Party List

gnome druid
human fighter scout (ranger/rogue hybrid class)
half-elf duskblade

01:33 pm - Must see movie

Blood: The Last Vampire

Buffy the vampire slayer crossed with Blade crossed with Japanese school girl with a katana. Yup, you know you want to see it.

12:51 pm - Day off and doing some painting

Got a couple of figs at the dollar store yesterday and did some painting of them.
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12:32 pm - Bravo Ford, I have been waiting for this exact ad

As I was leaving town to head to work I passed a billboard. The billboard said:
SAY NO TO GOVERNMENT MOTORS
BUY A FORD
DRIVE A FORD

Bravo, Ford, well played.

08:36 pm - Professionalism in action

I just got pwned by Erik Mona, the publisher of Paizo. Yup, he took time out of his busy schedule to go into a thread and make a personal attack on me. So cool!

05:55 pm - Truth in Advertising

So Paizo has produced a poster for the Pathfinder game system. On the poster it says "3.5 Lives" which is striked through and then underneath it says "3.5 Thrives". Now keep in mind there is the following statement on Paizo's FAQ about Pathfinder:

A new RPG? Why not just stick with 3.5?
In a sense, that's exactly what we are doing. All Pathfinder products will be written for the 3.5 rules set until August 2009, at which point new releases will transition to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game rules. That means that Legacy of Fire (the current Adventure Path) uses the 3.5 rules, but Council of Thieves (which begins in August, 2009) will use the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Both rules sets are similar enough that conversion between the two will be an easy affair for most Game Masters.

The core rulebooks for the 3.5 rules system are already out of print, and we feel it is important to keep a core game available to new players. Plus, as great as 3.5 is, there remains room for improvement. The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game enjoyed a year of open, public playtesting, making it the most robustly playtested game in the history of tabletop RPGs! We're sure you will find many of the changes intriguing and worth consideration for your campaign.

So is it 3.5 or not? Well here is what one of the Paizo folks had said.
"The poster is a marketing device, aimed at fans of 3.5 who are disappointed that their favored game is no longer supported. Since Pathfinder is built from 3.5's SRD and is quite compatible with those rules, 3.5 lives on in Pathfinder and thus thrives AND survives. Since it's marketing... essentially a giant advertisement... the poster's goal is to get its point across fast and without cluttering up the art that much, which I think it does quite well.

It's not meant to be a full explanation as to what the Pathfinder Core RPG is, why it exists, and what's inside. That's the job of the game store owner, in theory, or of whoever put the poster up in the first place, I guess..." -James Jacobs (Editor-in-Chief, Pathfinder)

03:34 pm - Possible problems for Obama with the Car issues

The government is looking like it is going to get a controling interest in GM (Government Motors?). If that happens then claims that calling this government socialist is insane will seem insane themselves. Government controling manufacturing is almost textbook socialism.

Another issue that may be a problem is that some are now claiming that almost every single Chrysler dealerships that are being closed are from dealers that supported Republicans or democratic contenters of Obama. Supposable only 1 Obama surporter dealership is being closed.

04:14 pm - Elizabeth was a handmaiden?

I don't know if I realized this before and forgot or never realized it. The "decoy queen" in Episode 1 was Keira Knightley.

08:00 am

The Snowball's Chance in Hell (QTBM)
Quirky Traditional Beta Male
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06:17 am - Star Trek Thoughts

Spoiled for your protection.

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10:57 am - How I seduced my wife into marrying me.

01:17 pm - WotC goes nuts

So some folks let the PHB2 get out (that is the 4e one I am assuming) for free on the webz. And WotC is taking a bad lesson from the movie and record industry and going nuts about trying to stop folks. They have pulled all of their legal download pdfs off of the various sites. Yes, you can now no longer download WotC material legally. You are no longer allowed to purchase old material in pdf format. Yup, because all of those old 1e folks are really hurting the 4e sales.

Worse, they gave retailers apparently no warning before demanding this. In fact some sites are not allowing people who have purchased a pdf in the past to download it now. So if you didn't get around to downloading it earlier you get shafted.

Smooth move, WotC.