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8:57 am
February 14, 2010
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Tink
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At the moment, Unseen Academicals. I'm about halfway through!
Watching the Olympics?
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12:50 pm
February 14, 2010
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Bounty
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Just the part where they failed to get it up during the opening ceremony.
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea:
Good Idea – Getting your Insider character into the comic
Bad Idea – Joining the EOD to do so. Gratz to Jacobus for the New Avatar!
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3:31 pm
February 14, 2010
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Not including comics (on that front I've finished Nation X Part 2, and will soon finish Captain America Reborn), I recently completed Alan Moore's Writing For Comics.
No, not watching the Olympics. Long ago, did I lose interest in watching sports.
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Do not allow yourself to ever give in to despair or self-pity…that's my job and it's copyrighted, bucko!
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9:46 pm
February 14, 2010
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Tink
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I am. What can I say? I love moguls.
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12:07 am
February 16, 2010
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Bounty
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT…
My wife got me Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail Fluxx for my birthday. Now I need is a day to play it.
What 'new' card or board game have you loves recently?
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea:
Good Idea – Getting your Insider character into the comic
Bad Idea – Joining the EOD to do so. Gratz to Jacobus for the New Avatar!
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2:07 am
February 16, 2010
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DanialArin
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Anything from SlugFest Games, particularly Fishing for Terrorists and the Red Dragon Inn games. Fluxx of course. Munchkin Quest. Looking for a chance to play my recently-acquired copies of James Ernst's Totally Renamed Spy Game (formerly known as Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond), and Girl Genius: The Works.
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Side-question for D.Rod and D-Rey… I'm trying to track down the RPG system/setting corebook that goes with the character book pages that were posted a while back, but I'm coming up totally blank on "Ages of Wonder". In fact the top search result is to the OGL page here on the Shadowgirls site. Are there any references online for finding the books or docs?
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3:14 am
February 16, 2010
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Dave Reynolds
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Well, currently, the RPG book has been going under rewrite, after rewrite after rewrite as the project develops, that most if not all current RPG material out there has been withdrawn until we can say it'll be out with more confidence. (It'll still happen, but until we got a cemented release date, we're not talking about it too much these days.)
That said, Tim Brannan did up a really good RPG states for the girls (among others) that you can find here:
http://timbrannan.blogspot.com…..girls.html
http://timbrannan.blogspot.com…..-yeoh.html
http://timbrannan.blogspot.com…..mckay.html
Hopefully that helps a bit.
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3:28 am
February 16, 2010
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DanialArin
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Thanks, Dave, that does help a bit. I do have the PDFs from when they were originally posted, so that helps; what I'm looking for is enough of the rest of the system and setting to allow an experienced GM to tie it together. Also, I noticed that the links contained in those blog posts back to the site no longer work; particularly the ones that would have led either to the PDFs or to the pages of the webcomic which provided extended character backgrounds and profiles unrelated to the game itself.
At this point, would it be safe to say that either Mutants and Masterminds or Witch Girls Adventures would provide the baseline with which to use the PDFs?
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10:27 am
February 16, 2010
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Pujardov
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I'm sorry to say that I've not played any 'new' card games for years – last time I played Magic the 'Urza's Saga' stuff was new (and my Black/Blue deck decimated all that fell before its myriad of evil tricks – bent the rules like a Stretch Armstrong and made people call me many naughty names heh heh heh).
The last set of cards I bought was a trad set of playing cards… I have a weakness for card games, regularly play Gin and Canasta with my other half, and would like to improve my poker game (but I settle for watching Jennifer Tilly on the late-night poker  ).
So, anyone else playing with cards or rolling the D20's with anything new?
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11:29 am
February 16, 2010
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Inara
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Actually, we just started a campaign to play-test my husband's new gaming system/world. No D20's, though. Everything is D10-based, which makes it a little hard to get used to. But, so far, it's been a lot of fun.
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1:41 pm
February 16, 2010
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DanialArin
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Currently playing Dark Heresy, the Warhammer 40000 RPG system. It's about 80% percentile, and the rest is mostly D10s with a scattering of D6s. The "turn-based" initiatives aren't bothering me as much as they did in D&D 3rd, but I don't know whether that's because it'd been so long since I'd played anything last, or if it's because of the relatively fast pace compared with D&D. I'm also liking the skill advancement system. Not as much gradation as Serenity or White Wolf, but enough to satisfy.
Same question to next poster.
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2:06 am
February 17, 2010
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Bounty
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I have a buddy who's play testing a d12 based system that runs a lot like White Wolf's stuff. All based around astrology. It's looking pretty interesting, but I don't get down to San Diego often enough to play at his table.
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea:
Good Idea – Getting your Insider character into the comic
Bad Idea – Joining the EOD to do so. Gratz to Jacobus for the New Avatar!
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8:07 am
February 17, 2010
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Tink
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I just got done with a True20 module, and I'm waiting for the next guy to DM in the group to get his act together on Call of Cthulu. Some Munchkin in between.
So should I call in sick today?
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12:30 am
February 18, 2010
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Bounty
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Shake things up, call in dead.
Have you ever told anyone you're dead over the phone.
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It's time for another good idea, bad idea:
Good Idea – Getting your Insider character into the comic
Bad Idea – Joining the EOD to do so. Gratz to Jacobus for the New Avatar!
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12:02 pm
February 18, 2010
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Pujardov
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Bounty said:
Shake things up, call in dead.
Have you ever told anyone you're dead over the phone.
No, I don't think that one would wash… I've used a plethora of other excuses, once going for the exploratory surgery gambit and not getting busted for it.
Since it's been that time of year, some of us will have been swept up in the Hallmark Day of Looove and tried the ol' romantic gesture to try and impress that someone special. I've tried a few oddballs in my time, mainly in my college days, including the well-known 'Ramirez Gambit' on a girl's room via stepladder (thankfully her boyfriend, who opened the window, found my drunken shenannigans amusing… thanks for nothing, Sean Connery), drinking half a bottle of amaretto out of a full ashtray (in hindsight, no woman could be worth that experience) and leaving a crate of mangoes on a girl's doorstep (because you should never let a good man-go… believe it or not, I wasn't drunk that time). These days I keep them low-key and less likely to cause broken bones or blood poisoning, but I'm still a sucker for them (as is my other half  ).
So, what's been your most memorable grand romantic gesture – successful or otherwise?
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2:01 pm
February 18, 2010
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Inara
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It's not on par with any of yours, Pujo, but I put together several photos and poems into a frame for my now-husband for our "Negative First Anniversary" (one year before we tied the knot). It brought tears to his eyes, so I count it as memorable and successful.
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7:36 am
February 19, 2010
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Tink
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It's not so much "romantic" as it is trying to drop hints. In order to keep what little I have of my dignity, I decline to elaborate. Suffice it to say that I am still single.
However, I have been on the receiving end of a romantic gesture that, while may have been well intended, went wrong. He gave me a stuffed toy buzzard for Valentines Day.
Now, can you tell me about the times when you've been on the wrong end of a bad romantic gesture?
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8:32 am
February 19, 2010
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Tink said:
However, I have been on the receiving end of a romantic gesture that, while may have been well intended, went wrong. He gave me a stuffed toy buzzard for Valentines Day.
"Let me be the carnivorous scavanger bird that pecks at the entrails of your heart." Now that's romance.
Even though I've been incredibly anti-social most of my life (to this day), there was this one time…
I was 17/18, and for some time had a crush on this girl I met in my junior year (where is another story altogether). I knew where she lived and while I'd already told her that I liked her before the end of Junior year (she had a boyfriend), I had this…feeling inside me urining to get out. I felt that I LOVED her. I didn't REALLY think she'd leave her guy, but it was one of those "you only live once" moments that I'd always let slip by before.
So I wrote her a letter that flat out let her know how I felt. Two pages, double-spaced, and in a fit of teenage stupidity (the kind to which I clearly was not immune) even threw in a couple song lyrics from a band I got into at the time. No, I'm not telling you what band, song, or lyrics. Now–
I said NO! Stop asking!
Now, being the tremendously shy, anti-social dink that I was, I left it at her door and drove off. She never responded or reciprocated. Then, around Valentine's day (when I was 18), I did the same thing, only I left a stuffed bear with Godiva chocolates and a Christian card that was more platonic in its message than anything. Last time I tried contacting her was inviting her and other friends for my 20th birthday, to go bowling, get some KFC, and watch a movie at my place. I'm not surprised she didn't reply. She had her own stuff going on, and I was too stupid to know when to stop.
Now I've convinced myself that I scared her [bleep]-less, so even though I've no intention of attempting a relationship with her (least of which being a Great Lake between us), I can't even bring myself to contact her through MySpace (yes, she has a profile, I've seen it) just to say hi. I think that verges on stalking. And I'd be living in the past, which doesn't help.
Now, can you tell me about the times when you've been on the wrong end of a bad romantic gesture?
Nope…at least not recieving. There was that one girl I occassionaly talked to on the bus that gave me her number (that I never called), but I don't know if that was romantic. As far as exporting said gesture…see above.
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Do not allow yourself to ever give in to despair or self-pity…that's my job and it's copyrighted, bucko!
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9:35 am
February 19, 2010
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DanialArin
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SporkBot, did you forget to ask a question?
Lacking SporkBot's new question, I'm assuming Tink's continues?
If I've ever been on the receiving end of a romantic gesture gone horribly wrong, I was alas unaware of it. I have something of a white-knight streak and might have tried to salvage it for her (in which case it might have gone horribly right)… if such had ever happened and I had found out.
Same question to next poster.
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12:40 pm
February 19, 2010
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Inara
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My first date.
I was fifteen. He was sixteen. We were going to a movie, then dinner. We got horribly lost, and finally made it to the theater thirty minutes after the show had ended. We wound up eating at Taco Bell and going home.
Eight years later, I married that poor lost boy, so I guess it worked out.
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