Sunday
I really, really, really, really, REALLY hate how addictive "Run To You" is. Maybe I ought to go play some PIU today later. Hmm, it's ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nickjong's birthday - we could drag him to D&B :)
No, so anyway, today there was Carl D&D, which went kind of annoyingly... I had a big rules debate - namely, can you make your players make saving throws when they aren't actually saving against anything? and left at the end screaming at him and walking out. Of course, after 20 minutes of pinball and thinking I realized that I suck and called him to apologize. But, the session really sucked for me. I haven't had much of an attention span lately for D&D... I dunno if it's because the groups are too big or if it's just me.
I did run into bunches of people in the UC though. Saw Roman, and ran into some PGSS people on their way to dinner.. Neil Simonetti is still doing math for them. Geez, he was one of *my* TA's, 9 years ago. Some of my students from 96-98 are various forms of TAs and reslife people, which is also sort of scary. And so on.
After all that I went to Sunday dinner. We grilled! Wheeeeeee! Also Lori's sister is in town now, which was sort of fun. Paul and Mary showed up, and I hadn't seen them since like April. Actually, I hadn't seen Ralph in a while either. It was cool to show off my ring more, and Lori lent me a bunch of wedding books. (It seems to be a theme.) The cats are huge now - not really kittens anymore. Also, turkey burgers are tastier than I thought they'd be. Ralph and Lori's one-year-old wedding cake also wasn't so bad, although I was just really really full at that point. We played a game called Gouda Gouda which involved trying to get your mice to the top of a thingy so you could get some cheese. It was a lot of dice rolling but was surprisingly complicated.
I drove home. I hate street cleaning. Hi.
nickjong's birthday - we could drag him to D&B :)No, so anyway, today there was Carl D&D, which went kind of annoyingly... I had a big rules debate - namely, can you make your players make saving throws when they aren't actually saving against anything? and left at the end screaming at him and walking out. Of course, after 20 minutes of pinball and thinking I realized that I suck and called him to apologize. But, the session really sucked for me. I haven't had much of an attention span lately for D&D... I dunno if it's because the groups are too big or if it's just me.
I did run into bunches of people in the UC though. Saw Roman, and ran into some PGSS people on their way to dinner.. Neil Simonetti is still doing math for them. Geez, he was one of *my* TA's, 9 years ago. Some of my students from 96-98 are various forms of TAs and reslife people, which is also sort of scary. And so on.
After all that I went to Sunday dinner. We grilled! Wheeeeeee! Also Lori's sister is in town now, which was sort of fun. Paul and Mary showed up, and I hadn't seen them since like April. Actually, I hadn't seen Ralph in a while either. It was cool to show off my ring more, and Lori lent me a bunch of wedding books. (It seems to be a theme.) The cats are huge now - not really kittens anymore. Also, turkey burgers are tastier than I thought they'd be. Ralph and Lori's one-year-old wedding cake also wasn't so bad, although I was just really really full at that point. We played a game called Gouda Gouda which involved trying to get your mice to the top of a thingy so you could get some cheese. It was a lot of dice rolling but was surprisingly complicated.
I drove home. I hate street cleaning. Hi.
Re: Issues
And my character is too stupid to do anything but go along with the shit he suggests, which is the really frustrating part. I don't think I like playing a dumb character in a campaign with a munchkin. I've played dumb characters many times before, and they can be a lot of fun, but not in certain circumstances. Janthina and Elif, for example, were the perfect pair of dumb elven chick fighters, and were a LOT of fun to play. Even Michiko, the dumb bard/rogue/prostitute, was really amusing. But, I guess my last few characters have had ints of 14+, which has been nice, since I don't have to come up with stuff and then go "but my character is too stupid to figure this out".
Re: Issues
This is true--Dan's character is still healthy. Must plan more carefully in the future, although probably nothing like this will happen again.
On the other hand, in the future if Dan's character makes any assertions at all ("They're Hylfigs! We can only hurt them with granite weapons!", "The mage surely won't notice us sneaking in, I'll cast this Invisibility spell!") are you going to believe him?
Feel free to air random suggestions, especially if you think you can pass them off under Wis. Stifling yourself sucks. Perhaps more opportunities to smite evil and less time chasing after elusive NPCs is also in order.
With some few exceptions like shadows, I'm sure (as in, I just looked it up (DMG 72)) that Con loss is the only one that kills you. If your Str falls to 0 you're still alive, you just can't move.