Oh I love it when I get a work email that asks "how do we do X?" where X = something that requires major software changes due to policy changes that we didn't bother to tell IT about
No, I work for a government. Another branch of my department (which would be the client in this case) is apparently changing their operating procedures
which changes how they're managing the data, which requires software changes
and they didn't bother to tell us
I mean they're down the hall, and we see them all the time. This is just absurd.
@JoshuaAslanSmith You'd be amazed how often I (or someone else on my team) wind up being a business expert because the business area doesn't totally understand their own business.
So they come in and tell us that something's wrong with the software, when the real problem is that they weren't following their own policies
because software is magic that does everything you need it to do and if it doesn't thats the programmer/designer's fault, not the people who set the reqs or use it
This is why I'm popular as a graphic designer: I'm also passingly proficient at text editing, image creation/manipulation, and I've got a rudimentary understanding of local social pitfalls that one might run into with print media (like the politics of orthography).
@JoshuaAslanSmith Nah. I don't mind if people ask me questions about it. iencourage that. I don't like it when someone tells me I'm wrong because they don't know what they're talking about.
If I say something and you're going to argue with me about the thing I'm an expert on, make sure you actually look at it first.
Well. That, and it's not like I've yet run into anybody else on the island who would know the Golden Mean Ratio Theory of Margins if it bit them on the --nose.
We've got good designers, but nobody in my specialty.
@BESW An australian graphic designer... That reminds me of 27/6, but I guess there more than one graphic designer in australia. You're not from Adelaide, are you ?
@Trajan Hard to find players who play what I want to play, and at times we're all available.
A lot of the RPG players are off-islanders --military or contract workers-- and the local player base is mostly playing D&D at 3.5 or before and think 4e was The Doom of Gaming.
So most of my players have been friends I recruited and taught personally.
I've had up to 10 or 12 at the game table once or twice, but more often it's between 2 and 5, and right now it's one.
The urge to substitute every instance of "untyped damage" and "physical damage" with "Batman damage" is great, but I must resist... — Zachiel5 mins ago
When I had a sudden exodus of gamers leaving island all at once (dropped from 5.5 players to 1.5 players in about four months), I considered going through the FLGS for new guys.
@JoshuaAslanSmith Well, it seems like half of them believe that instead.
Hey, @Zachiel and anyone else who knows European geography... my wife and I want to play a game with a bit of a grim-fairy-tale feel. Are there any super-awesome legendary spooky forests in (medieval) northern Italy?
"Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient Jedi religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you enough clairvoyance to find the rebels' hidden fortress... "
The Bookworm () is an 1850 oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter and poet Carl Spitzweg. The picture is typical of Spitzweg's humorous, anecdotal style and it is characteristic of Biedermeier art in general. The painting is representative of the introspective and conservative mood in Europe during the period between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the revolutions of 1848, but at the same time pokes fun at those attitudes by embodying them in the fusty old scholar unconcerned with the affairs of the mundane world.
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I am creating the following question does it sound good to you guys?
Specifically I am building a homunculus and am adding 3 HD to it so it has 5 HD. I know this adds skill points and 2 feats. I have read this page but am having difficulty understanding it can anyone clarify what exactly happens depending on the HD added?
title is "What does adding HD to a construct affect?"
Specifically I am building a homunculus and am adding 3 HD to it so it has 5 HD. I know this adds skill points and 2 feats. I have read this page d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/rules-for-monsters/monster-advancement but am having difficulty understanding it can anyone clarify what exactly happens depending on the HD added?
I guess a list of things to check while leveling up a monster, in general, would be a better answer. So it's feats, skill points, hit points, bonus ability points... what else?
@Aaron Is there a specific thing you're not understanding? If you follow the page you linked it pretty much tells you what to do. Generally speaking it's not a lot different from levelling up a player
Where's Wally? (known in the United States and Canada as Where's Waldo?) is a series of children's books created by British illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things at a given location. Readers are challenged to find a character named Wally hidden in the group. Wally's distinctive red-and-white-striped shirt, bobble hat, and glasses make him slightly easier to recognise, but many illustrations contain "red herrings" involving deceptive use of red-and-white str...
We didn't have cable, and the reception was pretty bad because we lived out in the sticks, so we didn't watch much TV. But Nova, Square One TV, Reading Rainbow, Long Ago and Far Away... the good PBS stuff.
My parents were very aware of Star Trek and such things--my mother named our mucky, animal-infested back porch Dagobah--but I was pretty sensitive to violence and the only Star Trek I was able to watch was The One With Whales.
I'm tempted to hyphenate, but I've seen the awful ordeal that causes for the rest of your life whenever people try to cram a hyphen into a computer system that doesn't like them.
@besw that very nice. My wife and I talk about adoption vs. child birth a lot and I am up for adopting but I also want to have chidren by birth because Im the only male left on my father's side of the family likely to have kids.
which I may feel even more strongly about since my father died when I ws 6
I was almost named aslan as my first name, but going to school in a rough neighborhood my parents decided against it as I the innumerable bad things that people could do with aslan.
You do have a good memory for trivia. I answer to "Eric" for reasons that even I don't understand, as it's got nothing to do with any of my actual names.
@BESW I saw it on a google doc you once posted here. Stupid trivia.
That would have bwwn a better reference for Erik but I didn't know how ok you would have been with me writing your name here, since you never did it yourself.
Two or three days ago I was coming home and I was humming Invaders Must Die. I told myself "now I go in, I turn my laptop ON and I go listen at it on YouTube.". I completely forgot it until your link.