So, it’s that time of year again. I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone’s looking forward to this year– though, for once, I’ve begun and have ideas for most of you already.
Comment below with your list. (I’ll email Eric a login for his family, so that they can all get in to post.)
Not too tricky, though I almost read 10-5 as 1.0E-4, instead of the obvious. I guess they haven’t hit exponentials yet…
The Blog Archive Meme, poached from Artichoke Heart:
1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
It concentrates power, feeds the vrondi, and does other nifty magical stuff.
That’s certainly a bit of strangeness. (from my post IRE #4 Zuider Ze).
Shaman Info. Spells, talent builders, etc. Very good.
Shaman Talent Builder, Alt Shaman Talent Builder, Shaman Talent discussion
From the Shaman FAQ on the WoW boards–
5.2 Are there any talents that I *shouldn’t* point points into?
In my opinion, there are four talents that I would recommend staying away from:
* Improved Stoneskin Totem. This talent will increase damage reduction by about 2 hit points for the average shaman, because the stoneskin totem decreases damage before damage reduction from armour is calculated. See my post here http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-shaman&t=27379&tmp=1#post27379 for a more detailed reason why this talent is not a good usage of talent points.
* Combat Endurance. From my testing, HP is regened according to the following formula: regen = 9 + spirit/9. With 279 SPI, you regen 40 HP per tick (one tick is about 2 secs). Ten percent of 40 is 4. So, this talent will allow you to regen 4 HP per tick during battle.
* Improved Grounding Totem. Currently, grounding totem is bugged such that any damage spell it absorbs will destory it. This bug has been around for the majority of beta, and it is pretty much been accepted by the shaman community as “broken as intended”, and there is some uncertainity that this bug will even be fixed. Whatever the case, this bug makes this talent very ineffective.
* Improved Healing Totem. Five points here give 20% increase on 14 HP every two seconds. Over the course of 70 seconds, this talent will give 2.8*35 or 98 more health.
The small things in life are the strangest.
At lunch I wandered out to eat, then popped by Rite Aid for an ice cream cone. The place was dead; after ringing me up at the register, the older lady led me over to the ice cream counter. I ordered a scoop of Pecan Praline.
She replied, “That’s been my favorite since I was a little girl.”
Just cool strangeness in the world.
Martin at Treasure Tables asked:
A simple question to which the answer will, I suspect, vary pretty widely: how did you learn to GM?
Dad has been complaining about the same typekey login problem that Kev has. Here’s what I think’s going wrong, based on my use of his computer & account.
When you want to comment
1) Click sign in
2) After it takes you to the typekey page, hit login. (If it doesn’t keep your name/password, re-enter those then hit login).
3) You’ll be returned to the website, but it won’t look like you can comment. Don’t hit sign in again! Instead, hit refresh.
4) You should get the comment box. Happy commenting!
Here’s a ton of links that I found interesting at the time– some are still quite intersting. Combing through was also a good chance to update my RPG Styles page.
(It’s amazing how many links are already broken. I’ve eliminated all of them that I found.)
I’ll try to upgrade this to 3.2– it has a lot of convenient features (particularly anti-spam and organization) that I’d like. Unfortunately, I’m flying blind, so I’ll back up and cross my fingers… but posts and comments could be lost if I’m too klutzy.
(Um, I now notice that they’re advertising 3.2, but it’s not out yet. So no worries for a while. Plus the backup is easy (and done).)
Over at Blog, Jvstin Style , we’re asked:
Today marks the 340th anniversary of the reincorporation of New Amsterdam by the English into the colony of New York. Its an important and momentous occasion, a turning point not only in the development of New York, but America in general. ((L.E. Modesitt Jr. Ghost books, as a divergence, have a Dutch-dominated New York and New England surviving British attempts at incorporation).
So, the handover of a valuable colony or country between rivals…and the people in the colony caught in the crossfire…
I liked the whole Maquis sub-plot for Star Trek, but that’s pretty much a done thing. Since I’m gearing up for Shadowrun, let’s see where inspiration leads me.