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The Ruarti faction managed to decode the language of the bone creatures. With this, they were able to understand and therefore use the controls of the giant skeleton ships capable of space travel, which were left behind in the wake of the creatures' extinction.

I'm eating Wizz Fizz for the first time in years!

I looked up the Wikipedia article for this, and was confused by the fact that it was called a brand of sherbet, since it was mentioned as being sold as a powder. In the US, sherbet is a type of sorbet made with dairy, whereas it appears in the UK and Commonwealth it is some sort of fizzy powder.

I love:
A. Vinegar
B. Lemon fresh
C. The way people look at me when I order the fresh and then drink it with noticeable pleasure

I'm not sure what you mean by lemon fresh, other than perhaps Pine-Sol, a cleaning agent. You'd certainly get some looks if you drank that. Are you perhaps talking about lemon juice?

I've been doing a bit better about communicating to people about my and their needs, in such a way to facilitate the functions of social interaction. I just sent off an email several minutes ago (and a further one clarifying that I accidentally sent it from the wrong address), and so I now have no immediately pending communiques that I need to fret over. The balls are currently in everyone else's courts.

I was about to get started on a TWotWoOtAoOtA (took me 5 rerolls to get it) and checked Monk12's updates thing to try to find all of them. There were two listed, but I was sure there was another one, since I didn't see anything in the updates that suggested they needed Al to preside as judge, and I was pretty sure there was a map somewhere.

So I did some searching and found the missing TWotWoOtAoOtA #3, which should probably be added to the updates list as soon as possible.

Maybe the crappier mugs or whatever could be used as a component to make the better mugs somehow?

Maybe I am old...I was playing back when the red book was out, well before the hardbound stuff. I know I may sound like some old bastard shouting at kids to get off his lawn, but its like this:

If your stats, and thusly the rules books, are the only way to make viable characters then your DM is doing it wrong.

Well, all editions since 3.0 have made stats more important because, since then, modifiers have increased and decreased linearly with ability scores, whereas in earlier editions, bonuses and penalties tended to only accrue on the higher or lower ends of the spectrum. Whereas in 3.0+, anything less than a 9 is at least a -1 and anything more than a 12 is a +1 or more, in AD&D (going by OSRIC since I don't have an actual copy of 1st or 2nd edition) penalties don't appear for most abilities scores unless you have about a 6 or lower, and most bonuses aren't gained for anything less than at least a 15. And I don't have any copy or retro-clone to check, but I've heard that in OD&D, stats were just used to decide what races/classes you qualified for, and if you rolled really high you got a slight xp bonus.

This is why I'd be more willing to roll for stats for an older or retro-inspired game than for anything 3.0+.


As for the other discussion that popped up while I was typing this reply, I'd say 5e solves the 3e Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit problem without the 4e problem of all classes using the same sort of framework.

+1 to printing things to Proxxy's visor. Also to moving on from the obviously trapped chest.