Sagiro's Story Hour Returns (new thread started on 5/18/08)

[Piratecat]

We play tonight, and I'll seize the opportunity to make appropriately pithy comments to Sagiro about timely updating. Mind you, I'm not exactly on the side of the angels with this - it's a crunch week at work, and I'm not done with my own story hour update - but hopefully I'll spur him on to more writing!

 

[KidCthulhu]

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Many of these have become the Iconic characters to me, the ideal that groups should be aiming towards.

Ernie for Iconic Halfling. Cast your vote now! Tell your congressman that you want a return to the jolly, round-bellied fellows of JRR's dreams, not these wierd, skinny Kender-wanna-bes.

A vote for Ernie is a vote for hairy toes, waist coats and second breakfasts!

 

[el-remmen]

A vote for Ernie is a vote for hairy toes, waist coats and second breakfasts!

What about Elevensies?

 

[Brogarn]

I think I'm the only one in the universe that vastly prefers the new halflings as opposed to the old hobbit wannabes. Ah well. Anyways...

I just read "I cannot remember the password". Were those bread rolls vorpal, perhaps? Because that was just evil. >.<

Oh, and the party needs a bard to spread the song "I am the Very Model of Halfling Personality."

 

[Everett]

Me have no comment until update. Update scatter mana across the skies. Update sit in eye of raven as it struts across the barnyard. Update lie in shadow on cave-wall, in buffalo on plains, in point of spear, in eye of needle. Is easier for rich man to enter kingdom of heaven than for un-updated thread to work on needlepoint. Yes?

Update good.

*******
Lex: What was it my father always said to me?
Kitty: 'You're losing your hair'?
Lex: No, not that...
Kitty: 'Get out'?

-Superman Returns

 

[Spatzimaus]

Ernie for Iconic Halfling.

Well, I can see this one both ways. The Tolkien-style Hobbits were utterly unsuited for adventuring, which was basically a key point in the stories, and so they had to change them for D&D. On the other hand, I just think they took it way too far in 3E by making them half-Kender.

I think the various Halflings in this SH are good examples of the range of the middle ground. Even Ernie would never quite fit in in the Shire; he doesn't seem to mind fighting, he gets along well with other races, and he acknowledges that the battle of Good vs. Evil is more important than what's for dinner (well, most of the time anyway). But contrast with Flicker and Yoba? Or how about TomTom? (Not this Story Hour, I know, but it's most of the same people involved.) To me, Flicker and Yoba would NEVER fit into the Tolkien mold. And TomTom's focus on money, spying, psionics, and squirrels?

 

[Piratecat]

We played last night, an "interim" session where we trained (to 17th level!) and cast communes (man, are we in trouble, but it's that vague sort of trouble that means something horrible is coming although you won't be able to identify it until it is possibly too late) and made items. Lots and lots of items. In fact, we spent 235,000 gp in making items - woot! We're now poor but mighty, festooned with magic geegaws.

Which is sort of a shame, considering that we ended the game learning that someone stole from us the evil cauldron that summons null shadows...

 

[el-remmen]

we ended the game learning that someone stole from us the evil cauldron that summons null shadows...

Jeez, man! I just borrowed it! I'll have it back next Tuesday. That's the last time I borrow an evil artifact from you!

 

[StevenAC]

Oh, and the party needs a bard to spread the song "I am the Very Model of a Halfling Personality."

I can't help but agree with you -- and I'm still waiting for an Original Cast Recording...

As you'll see in the next chapter, I ended up doing a number of G&S-inspired songs around that time. I blame KidCthulhu for the encouragement.
But I think "I am the Very Model of a Halfling Personality" remains the best of them.

 

[spyscribe]

...Which is sort of a shame, considering that we ended the game learning that someone stole from us the evil cauldron that summons null shadows...

I wouldn't worry too much. I'm told that they're friendly.