Geekdoms Collide!

[jilesa]

I suspect that this will make sense to very few people, but I'm having a sudden urge to create a power called 'Cataloger's Judgment' for my 4th Ed. D&D character.

Fear me, for I shall organize your chaos!

Ahem. Yes, I know. Too nerdy for words.

Comments

[janetmiles]

That would be a marvelous power! Let's see -- it would give you a bonus on recognizing and classifying both monsters and treasure, a bonus to charisma when assigning duties to party members, what else?

[jilesa]

The ability to alphabetize terrain features at will during combat! ;)

[thnidu]

Librarian, huh?

[jilesa]

Worse. Cataloger.

(Well, technically I'm a cataloging manager these days, but I can't escape my roots.)

[thnidu]

Neither can I. You know the difference between an entomologist and an etymologist? The etymologist knows the difference.

Dr. Whom
Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody

[jilesa]

And an ichthyologist can give you fish. Yes, it's random and unrelated. I just love writing (and saying) ichthyology. :)

[thnidu]

Yep. "We've got to... oh, is that a runic inscription?"
The Reader

[jilesa]

Hmm... Cool background, but I think I'd whomp on my fellow player if she had a character who did that. But with only the two of us, we rarely have slack in our encounters to allow for wandering off in the midst of battle. :)

[jilesa]

Really? Cool. When you start the class, would you object to sharing the syllabus? I'll be very interested to see what's being taught in a cataloging class these days, given the upheaval the field is going through right now.