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Random stuff about books
So I just read the most recently published (this year, I think) book in a series that was apparently started forty+ years ago, and then proceeded to reread the chronologically later but written forty+ years ago books that followed it. It's sort of surreal to see how the writing has changed -- not that the older books are bad, but the author is so ( Read more... ) -
Things found while cleaning my room
- A piece of paper with a list of schools and their characteristics, in Madison's handwriting.
- A partial character sheet for Roall sen Iallar, who is "a slightly elvish nomad" and "easily bored in class", also in Madison's handwriting. This at least makes sense, since he's her character.
- A doll-sized tome constructed out of folded paper and a ( Read more... )
- A piece of paper with a list of schools and their characteristics, in Madison's handwriting.
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The tale of the Cabbage-dwarf
(Because clearly I should continue using this space to tell stories about my D&D game.)
In the style of my gaming advice posts, although this is an anecdote rather than a request for advice, let me introduce you to the characters:- Ath, human paladin/rogue.
- Chou, dwarf fighter.
- Emgeri, human ranger/fighter.
- Perk, gnome/halfling cleric/bard.
- Rino, ( Read more... )
- Ath, human paladin/rogue.
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Could've sworn there was a frying pan around here somewhere . . .
Update on that in-game rescue mission in Orkinya: Rino and Ath decided to sneak back into the country carrying a scroll of teleport (enchanted so that it doesn't look magic), hoping to overhear or otherwise stumble upon information leading them to Emgeri and Perk.
. . . What? It's really hard to come up with a viable plan for acquiring ( Read more... ) -
In-game problem solving
I could post about how job-hunting is terrifying, and so is trying to make sure I have/will have done everything needed to graduate by the appropriate deadlines, or about how I have forty students in my class and the next largest section only has 30, but instead I'm going to pretend like life is all frivolity and happy butterflies and ask for ( Read more... ) -
Everyone's mother is reading my nano
. . . Let me explain ( Read more... ) -
Miscellany, mostly irrelevant
I had a dream yesterday morning which involved evacuating the entire continent of North America by walking through a tunnel from California to Chile, and then through another tunnel to London. I don't think the reason for the evacuation was even clear in the dream. But one minute we were standing around talking about job stuff, and then we were ( Read more... ) -
more books
Despite all my brilliant plans, I still didn't write commentary as I went, so . . . more short bits of babble and what I remember. Things which are not plot facts are of course subjective, and even plot facts may be misremembered, since I don't have the books in front of me. (This list does cut off a month after the last, even though I'm late ( Read more... ) -
Distractions
I have been playing far too much Battle for Wesnoth lately. I'm tempted to start writing my own scenarios, but do I really have any idea how to balance difficulty? No, I do not. (But the two-player campaign, which tells the tale of the forbidden love between an elf ninja (er, sorceress) and an orcish ninja (er, assassin)! Or the revisionist ( Read more... ) -
(too many) books
I'm going to post this now, even though commentary on the books in question is incoherent to nonexistent in many cases, because I'm only going to fall further behind on writing commentary (and really, the commentary thing would be much easier if I wrote it just after reading the books, rather than waiting until I've forgotten everything I meant to ( Read more... )