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<-- Mono. WTF

*fun

I think by definition that's the opposite of fjn

Yeah just got a diagnostic blood test. Yay needles

I was braggadocious about having not had the flu.... And well... Here I am

just checking in. been ill and busy. will get to stuff asap

As much as I'm not an FPS guy, that even sounds fun to me!

@waxeagle Ugh, you are the bane of FPS dudes everywhere

@waxeagle I'm sure it was a blast though!

@waxeagle oh man! i remember going to the computer lab in HS and playing Counter Strike (and not being any good at it)

And no, Wii's don't count!

@waxeagle Ahhh, opposite for me. Never got hugely into PC gaming and feel more comfortable with a controller. Such is life!

:D

@waxeagle ahhh. Simple solution: Consoles

@waxeagle It's also divine. How did you avoid playing it all of these years?!

Skyrim took everything good from Oblivion and mixed it with everything they fixed with Oblivion and the other improvements from the new Fallout series and made into a melting pot of awesome. It also is addicting, so be wary. Once you fight your first dragon it's all over. Your free will is gone.

@waxeagle Oblivion?

I have a suggestion for you: If you value your time (or don't have enough of it already), do not purchase and/or play Skyrim.

It's being used, and damnit, that's what matters!

@waxeagle Ohhh, I just like it because it was in Dragon Age

Feels less common place, I suppose

Ser and Sera, they make me happy and I don't know why

@waxeagle Ah, my favorite spelling of "sir" none the less!

@waxeagle howdy

Alright, gotta get to class. have a good one

@waxeagle I also think maybe a little bit of Wheaton was present for the Eladrin.... aka the pretentious prick part, so it was fitting! I've seen him in TV shows and the like, he plays that role too well

And Half-Elves... don't even get him started

@waxeagle Exactly, Elves are, after all, "the hill-billy cousins" of Eladrin

@waxeagle Exactly why I found it fitting. I also just imagine Eladrin looking down on Elves and Elf-derivatives

The old farmer Elian? I've basically made him Deckard Cain from the Diablo series and he is a major NPC in the game; moreso, funny enough, than Lord Paidrig. Valthrun, the Eladrin Wizard guy, is a total douche (he is Eladrin, though...) but helpful to the party (though he doesn't care for the dark elf or the half elf and will only really converse with the Tiefling)

Winterhaven has a fairly distinct personality due to this, which has, at least from my perspective, helped with the immersion

@waxeagle Maybe some day once he masters one ruleset. I have played up the NPCs a lot and their interactions for his (and the rest of the groups') benefit and that's helped a lot.

I offered to help him build it and co-DM and help him with rules/rulings when he does DM for us

Also looks like I might have solved the "I'm the only DM" issue (wanted to say problem, but it's totally not a problem as I love DMin') for when I will be blind due to eye lasers. The one person I kind of expected to be excited about doing a multi-session one-shot when I'm blind/recovering volunteered almost immeadiately. He apparently had been tossing around ideas before I ever mentioned anything

@waxeagle Lol, yeah that'd be helpful for him

So he's mechanically dense, but he's a good friend, and as I've said, come up with some of the most creative solutions in the game. He actually is way more into the roleplaying aspect than the other two. That said, his mechanical non-sense is annoying but forgetable in light of everything else

Last night he asked if he could trade his minor for a move.... Everyone just looked at him (other newbs included) and just shook their heads. I explained that would be like if you tried to trade a dime for a dollar... it's just not happening.

@waxeagle Every time...

Though, he still thinks he can move and shift.... He saw a Kobold do it and at least 1/session I have to remind him he can't do that unless he plays a Kobold

Now, for all the dogging on this guy, he's come a long way. He's pretty creative in what he wants to do in game and he's finally getting the mechanics down (Despite having played for like 2 months now)

@waxeagle exactly. i told him to put points into con over str any day, so that way he has more hp and a better fort

i told him that while cha, depending on his build might be important, it's not that important to warrant that much expenditure and that if wanted his MBA to be more powerful, to take the melee training feat in dex

His Dex/Cha were both at 18. So probably one of the cha-heavy builds. I suggested that he shoot for an 18 dex (with a +2 racial from drow -> 20 dex at l2 not shabby)

@waxeagle I honestly don't recall. But it wasn't brutal rogue...

Ranged Changer Rogue invedsted in STR as a stat..... :p

@waxeagle I think this depends. I think asking for it after the first session, seeing a few combats is acceptable. Anything after that i have issue with, because then it feels less like "oh, i thought this power was cooler/more effective than it was, let me swap it" and more like "i'm rebuilding this character specifically for this campaign"

@waxeagle I like how a lot of powers are melee OR ranged. It makes for a very versatile Rogue. Especially if you have a magic dagger that can easily be ranged or melee on a whim

Though, to be fair, he asked if he could tweak it a little and i told him to have at it. He's changing his stats (invested WAY too heavily into Cha) and some power choices, which was wise on his part

@waxeagle EXACTLY! Changeling Ranged Rogue? None of those powers... And I know they exist at level 2...

@waxeagle Exactly. Though I thinking a Drow Rogue could make better and more frequent use of Darkfire for CA granting