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Goodbye linguasoft in headware; hello iPod. Now if only there was a smartlink app....

Argh--as you might have been able to tell my my quiet on the matter of planning, I'm out for this weekend's Gameday. My deployment has gotten bumped up, which means I am westward bound. The Wheels of Bureaucracy move slowly, but with inexorable momentum (....actually, the Wheels of Bureaucracy...

So, about that world inside the Rift.... Anyone else notice that it looks like it has some pretty low-latitude polar caps (or was that just a shroud of cloud)? Looks like the world is in the middle of a minor ice age.... [Okay, spot the geologist....]

About a gallon a day per person is a typical recommendation for hot and arid climates.

Only just barely--I'll be heading west to Oregon later that week to start a new two-year gig that will keep me heading back to the Ice! (I wonder if Portland Game Days are anywhere near as much fun as Boston's). Which is to say, good timing!

Count me in as a player! It would be great to see the gang again before I head west (for semi-good) the following week.

From the d20 srd: Ale: Gallon 2 sp Mug 4 cp Banquet (per person) 10 gp Bread, per loaf 2 cp Cheese, hunk of 1 sp Inn stay (per day): Good 2 gp Common 5 sp Poor 2 sp Meals (per day): Good 5 sp Common 3 sp Poor 1 sp Meat, chunk of 3 sp Wine: Common (pitcher) 2 sp Fine (bottle) 10 gp For...

Playing a first level bard, I've found that the hardest part about staying in character is coming up with new and insightful insults to fling at hobgoblins (using the Vicious Mockery at-will). Reading through the Compendium Bard information, I definitely got more of a foul-mouthed pirate feel...

Being a mission-oriented player, I'm wondering how this fits into the goals of the OoTS campagin. If V makes the deal and saves his family in realistically, two, three rounds tops, the Fiends have his soul for a comparable amount of time. Say, having long-term goals, they decide to cash-in...

I'd say make a dash for the shore, and hope that there's Clashing Rocks (TM) to race through (Sailing skill challenge), Harpies on the cliffs that will prey on all ships alike (but they don't have adventurers aboard!), or Merrow pirates basking on the rocks. Dreying around on the open sea is...

This reminds me of the background rules for Traveller. *Rolls* Curses, my sword died before it ever got a chance to be wielded. That being said, neat table. This would lend itself beautifully to being a widget for a lap-top enabled GM (especially if someone plugged in a largish random string...

A world without monsters sounds a lot like the Conan setting--sure there were some large, fantasy creatures, but they were unusual "bosses." Most of the baddies are just mercenaries, thieves, cultists, or slavers. I kind of like a compromise position where the Really Evil Things From Beyond have...

*Veil*? How disappointing (don't most adventurers accrue enough potions of tree shape over time that they would want to clear out the ol' BOH?) Still, an awesome strip. Anyone think Belkar and V are going to commiserating and convalescing together sometime soon? They're starting to both look...

Definitely the first time I've ever seen Tree Shape used: By means of this spell, you are able to assume the form of a Large living tree or shrub or a Large dead tree trunk with a small number of limbs. The closest inspection cannot reveal that the tree in question is actually a magically...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/sports/othersports/11jump.html?ref=sports Some examples of real-life standing leaps, courtesy of the Czech Republic (yes, armor would definitely impose a penalty!) How have folks found the new standing/running jump rules in 4e?

Not that OOTS is going to 4e or anything, but which of the epic destinies available to Belkar would involve never drawing another breath? I think the rules have not been kind to the Belk-meister, so I could imagine him trying to finagle an edition upgrade.

This reminds me that I always to build a dual-wielder (definitely daggers...or six-shooters for a Deadlands campaign) with weapons named, "Good News" and "Bad News" (which do you want first?).

GenCon has definitely earned a Dark Side Point for this. That being said, I wouldn't settle out of court. I can see Lucas declaring, "I am altering the settlement. Pray I don't alter it any further."

Double Arrgghh!! I'll be in Ecuador, volcano hunting.... ...which is to say, one day I really will run a Shadowrun adventure at a Boston GameDay involving a secret research facility in a volcano underneath the south pole!

I guess that means it's time to break out the mead and flagons. Note to self: acquire flagons.