Recent content by ichabod

Aaaaand here we go again.

I prefer the TL;DR in the front. It's nice and obvious, and I can just read it and move on.

I used to like a lot of game. I played a lot of Rolemaster, 3.5, GURPS. I have come to like the amount of game in 5E, though. But there's got to be game. Roleplaying is cool, and can really enhance the game, but I really want dice, tactics, and character advancement.

I've had pet rats. They are extremely social animals, living in large colonies. If they bond with a human, they are serious about it. My rats would break out of their cage, but it was never a problem because they came straight to me. They just wanted to hang out with me.

Some of them were. The scope of the work I was doing was just "toys." It was everything from toys you would give to a baby in a crib to toys you would find on an office desk. From my perspective the main use of the report was to get coding changes made to the database. I got them to split...

I was doing work on toy data and kept have to search online for toys to properly categorize them. I started getting lots of diaper ads.

No session due to fire. (Everyone is okay)

Never mind.

I know, right? If they would just shut up for a minute and let me get some work done on my campaign...

I had a campaign and a one-shot that I really liked but I wasn't sure where to put them. The campaign was my GURPS Illuminati campaign, where one player played his dad and another played his mailman. Then there was the GURPS Atomic Horror one-shot I ran at a convention in college (Invasion of...

The Re-Loring thread made me think of the changes I am planning for dragons in my world. It also made me wonder if and how other people have redone dragons in D&D. This is how I am redoing dragons: Dragons hatch out of eggs as generic "unformed" drakes. They go out and find a territory they...

I have redone the lore on hags, changing the name to kerl (an older word for churl) and allowing them to be of both sexes. I did this to reduce the number of "women are bad" monsters. However, I decided to make them all rabid sexists to parody all of the "women are bad" monsters. So the male and...

I'm just imagining him doubling the size of all the planets to double the resources, and then everyone being crippled by the increased gravity.

We had a guy at work who downloaded ransomware that locked the data for an entire federal agency. And that was really all of it, because we were not allowed to keep stuff on our personal machines. Everything had to be on the server. Thank god for daily backups. Well, except for the time they set...

Try the following when loading the file: with open(r'..\Data\us-names-by-gender.csv', encoding = 'utf-8') as name_file: That might helps with the accents.