And now for a blast from the past. Because.


just mathilda: wanna say hi to my cat :D
just mathilda: hold on let me get him
notaskcantmaster: Your cat can use the internet now?
just mathilda: sdlko
just mathilda: 3jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
notaskcantmaster: ...kid, your cat is Shakespeare.
just mathilda: :D
just mathilda: he is wonderful
just mathilda: maybe i should name him that!!
just mathilda: Tony i think you and Shakespeare need to have an outing together.
notaskcantmaster: Wait, what?
just mathilda: i'll PINpoint him over
notaskcantmaster: No, seriously, what?
just mathilda: OK there you go! :) He has to be home in an hour, take good care of him!
notaskcantmaster: I don't believe thiYOU SENT HIM INTO MY KITCHEN

I've realized something at once hilarious, awesome, and mildly embarassing. On entering an rp-related chatroom the other day and being asked to introduce myself, I noticed something that's happened dozens of times before but never clicked until now.

That is to say: nobody recognizes me until I rattle off a few of the characters I've played before, at which point complete strangers will suddenly shriek HOLY CRAP I KNOW YOU THAT WAS YOU I SAW YOU YEARS AGO IN THAT THING etc.

Combine that with my tendency to pick up weird, obscure, offbeat, and generally secondary/minor/bit part characters, and you come to the same realization I did.

I'm the gamer equivalent of a character actor.

lulz.

That's it, I give up. XD KIFFIE I STILL HAVE RP-ER'S BLOCK. PLZ TO HELP ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO MINE SCENE NEXT TIME YOU'RE ON. I CAN'T STOP FAILING.

( o_o) lol

It is possible that I am uncontrollably in love with Go Nagai's The Devil Lady and something may happen as a result of this once I've finished the second half of the series.



Possibly.

Someone posts on BRPS about dear_mun as a community, but that's not the part that's got me lollin. This is, although I'm not entirely sure why:



I am a terrible person. I'm also saving this screenshot forever.

I saw a new Question posting on dear_mun today, while kiffiebutt and myself were goofing around on an entry of our own. I lold at the username (rorschach_sucks, nerdiest/best ever), then pretty much forgot about it.

But then.

BUT THEN.

takhys: ed.
takhys: We need your help, ed.
takhys: http://community.livejournal.com/dear_mun/2735645.html
notaskcantmaster: ...other rorschach auto-fails for saying "dan"
notaskcantmaster: HOW DO PEOPLE GET THAT WRONG
notaskcantmaster: THEY ALL DO IT, TOO
takhys: ;o;
takhys: This is why we need you.
notaskcantmaster: That's it, I'm going in.
takhys: For justice.
notaskcantmaster: damn straight

Lulz were had.

notaskcantmaster: man. like I was tellin del earlier, I suck at dropping pups.
notaskcantmaster: they lurk in my mind. waiting. ( o_o)
Vayavia: I know. :( I JUST GET SO EXCITED ABOUT OTHER THINGS AND OR OTHER PUPS.
notaskcantmaster: exactly! but then, like, when I think I've dropped old pups forever, like a year later I get blindsided OH GOD WANT TO PLAY THEM AGAIN
notaskcantmaster: and then I feel lame
Vayavia: yeah :S ADD sucks.
notaskcantmaster: I've cycled through so many pups I can't even remember them all anymore :V
notaskcantmaster: like, for instance
notaskcantmaster: YOU JUST HAD TO BRING UP LUPIN III
Vayavia: SORRY
notaskcantmaster: ( ._.)9



In other news, I need to tag kiffiebutt. And help come up with new fractals plothooks. And write moar shitty fanfiction. And write moar shittier original fiction.

I'm probably going to end up playing Pandemic instead because oh my god there are no jobs in this town anywhere ever. Fuck you, world. :(

notaskcantmaster: ahaha kiffie has found the worst rorschach rper ever
takhys: ;o;
notaskcantmaster: http://community.livejournal.com/hearts_andminds/1469758.html WITNESS THIS
notaskcantmaster: Profanity, inability to spell the character's name, use of exclamation points...
takhys: B|
takhys: ed.
takhys: Why do you love me like this?
notaskcantmaster: vengeance?

Seriously, wow. Just...wow.

EDIT:
Agent BartNeder: I imagine him acting liek that dude from a streetcar named desire or whatever
Agent BartNeder: STELLAAAAAAA
Agent BartNeder: JOONNNNNNNN
Youko Inari: LDSfhlsdfhskdmgfsjkngfsj oh my god
Youko Inari: I can HEAR IT NOW TOO
Agent BartNeder: YES

I remember seeing some bitching on various forums way back when re: the shitty quality of some of the later DnD Monster Manuals. I was rarely in a position where it mattered to *me* due to the fact that I don't think my gaming group ever really used anything but the original. But right now, for no real reason, I feel the urge to fix this one critter.

It's a gravecrawler, also called the ancestor worm. And I think it's cool. The problem is that whoever designed this thing had a good idea and absolute nil in the way of design ability.

Concept: A three-foot stonelike worm with a vaguely human face that dwells in graveyards, cemeteries, and necropoli. They are neither evil nor good, lawful nor chaotic, just pure neutral. They can communicate with the dead and learn their secrets, which as you might imagine means they know a whole lot about a whole lot. Some societies view these worms as beneficial creatures, and they are frequently sought out by those that seek knowledge and lost history.

Number problems: A challenge rating 16 creature with insanely low AC (17) that any fighter-type at that level can hit with their eyes closed. Decently high hit points (165), but that doesn't do much good when you're being smacked like a bitch every round. While an aura of Constitution drain is normally awesome and deadly, any reasonably tough melee fighter can make the save over half the time - and even when they don't, 1d2 Con damage is something they can suck up for several rounds while killing the shit out of this monster. Meanwhile +13 to hit is not that great, and even if it hits it's only doing 1d4 points of damage. The bite *also* drains Con, but again, a reasonably tough melee fighter is going to make the save over half the time. It does have Spell Resistance to ignore roughly half the spells being thrown at it, but a 16th level spellcaster only needs one or two spells to work to end the combat. Archer types will shred it easily. Spellcasters can bypass the spell resistance problem by just protecting the melee fighters from ability drain, which is easy enough one way or another.

Concept problems: As a burrower, it could be fairly dangerous if able to use its aura while burrowing...except the text specifically states it has to "erupt from the ground" before the aura can take effect. Also they cannot use Speak With Dead on any corpse they have turned to stone - which means that they can speak with the average human corpse for roughly 30-60 seconds total, and that doesn't scream "repository of knowledge" to me.

Fixes: I think the aura is stupid and should probably go. If this is to remain a high-level critter, tougher armor class and/or the addition of spellcasting abilities is pretty much required. Otherwise, remove the aura and cut the hit dice/hit points/spell resistance in half and let it be CR 8. A low-level party can have a grand old time with it, but if it's gonna be CR 16 it needs more magic or more physical toughness or it's basically useless. I dunno, I'll have to think about it.

http://community.livejournal.com/dear_mun/2585345.html

http://cale-anon.livejournal.com/618.html

sdjfskfgsjgmsg you magnificent bastards

Some random really awesome aboleth art.

The six eyes don't really do it for me, though. Three looks better.

fridge_ninja
strigiformes

GUESS WHO'S BACK, BITCHES



can't fucking keep 'em retired, can we






i bet you saw what i did there

http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/158

I know Ye Olde Writer probably thinks he's way cool and all, but the latest update makes me twitch and gibber - and it's not just because the whole page is a sudden exposition fart and an overload of tell-don't-show character development. "Like Cale" my behind. I swear to fuck if they're about to stage a repeat of the beyond retarded SRS ANGSTY BIDNESS WOE GRR DESTINY WAH crash and burn that completely ruined my ability to like Cale at all, I will stage a rebellion.

I'll also pretty much stop reading LFG entirely, since, well.

Cale: severely infested with wangst and bland generic kingly destiny. silly "he's the good/easily shocked/heroic one that plays off the rest of the group" humor gone entirely.

Richard: MAKING ME WORRY

Benny and Krunch: Once in a while they get a line of dialogue. I actually forgot Benny's name for several months. While still reading the comic. That's not good character handling, sir. The recent Bloodrage stuff was nice, but it kept being overshadowed by that stupid Legara army plot nobody cares about.

Pella: Oh. Yes. Scottish dwarf. Never seen that before. I wish she'd die. :|

The next page featuring Richard had better be "tee hee that last one was just an elaborate setup for a hilarious punchline." It just better. X|

Does anyone besides me and del remember Digger the ghoul? It's been like two years since I played him, or even brought him up, but we were talking about undead and now I very much want to dust him off. Reviewing my notes and lore for his home setting could make for a nice fractals subplot, and he'd be another personality type I'm not playing at the moment. Variety makes for the most fun. :9

I'd also completely forgotten that I wrote him a little short story, "The Road to Avernus." Despite that it's OLD and I never like my old writing, I actually do still like it. And so does del, which made me hapy. :3

http://dig-it-up.livejournal.com/

I think I may have to dust this one off, yes. :3