G'day, I'm Merric!

[MonsterMash]

I think the Merric the eternally youthful has to do with the not drinking and not smoking (not smoking is good, but an Aussie that doesn't drink - strewth).

Interesting place to live there.

 

[Masquerade]

Your home is jealousy-inducingly spectacular. I am so building a house with a tower some day.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I think the Merric the eternally youthful has to do with the not drinking and not smoking (not smoking is good, but an Aussie that doesn't drink - strewth).

Interesting place to live there.

Heh. I have a friend who's of German descent (and a few other cultures) and doesn't drink either...

Nice house and tower!

I don't have that many minis. I don't think our GROUP has that many minis!

 

[MerricB]

One of the interesting things is that I'm slowly gathering players who like DDM around me. Last week I played in two 6-player games of DDM, mostly with newbies. They loved it. (Mostly we used my minis).

I've had some of those friends go out and buy minis as a result. That's great for me, as it offers me more chances to trade to complete my collection.

I use DDM far more for role-playing than skirmishes, but I like using it either way.

I'm trying to work out if I have an adventure idea cool enough to submit to the Wizards Design Test... I'm thinking something related to the Plane of Shadow.

Cheers!

 

[Imruphel]

(snip) Yes, I'm an Australian and I don't drink. (snip)

Try being an Australian living in Asia and convincing people that you're an Australian who doesn't drink...!

Great house. I mean, really great house. I want one! However, I want mine in the Sunshine Coast hinterland in Queensland. Hmmm, methinks I may need to wander back to Oz soon....

 

[Angel Tarragon]

House looks good. You enjoy having a lot of open space around you? The only minis I have are the ones that came with my DnD Basic boxed set.

 

[MerricB]

Yes, I enjoy being where I am. It's not exactly open space as there are all those trees cluttering the landscape. And rocks.

It's about 1 km to the nearest house, and another 3 km (so 4 km in all) to the one after that. It's early morning as I'm writing this, the sun has gotten up enough to bathe the mountain in sunshie, and the birds are saying good morning to each other. (Or possibly "My tree! My tree! My tree!")

I see quite a few gray kangaroos and rock wallabies here; there are also koalas, but I only see them *very* rarely. They tend to hide, and there aren't that many of them.

I see echidnas far more often. They're extremely cute - and nervous. I once saw one crossing the road by the dam. It would move a few inches, and then the geese would honk at it. It'd crawl into a ball, wait for a minute, and then try to move again. HONK!!! Back into the ball.

Cheers!

 

[romp]

oh very nice place to live...

you have phones and 'net connection, but your electricity is solar power? woodstove for heat? what about fresh water, well? that would require electricity for pumping.

 

[MerricB]

Yep. Getting the phone line wasn't a problem at all (though at the moment I can't get broadband). Mains power requires a lot more care and expense when it is laid - quite likely chopping down trees - so the cost of that was prohibitive. The government gave us a rebate on our solar power.

Woodstove for heat, cooking and hot water. Solar power for electricity.

We have a petrol generator for electricity when there are extended periods of darkness. Water is rainwater, captured in tanks (and we have a *lot* of roofspace, so there's more than enough, even with the drought), and a petrol engine to pump it up.

We have an electric pump as well that we use to pump dam-water to be used in watering the garden, but it needs a *lot* of electricity, so can only be safely used in the height of summer. (Guess when we need to do most of the pumping, anyway? )

Cheers!