Twenty Sided

By Shamus Posted Saturday Dec 30, 2006

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Right now, on Bioware‘s front page, they have a poll asking people for their favorite webcomic. There are 11 listed. DM of the Rings is one of them.

Really cool.

I’m getting pasted though. This is not a bad thing. Scoring 1% of the vote on a poll with PvP, Penny Arcade, Dork Tower, and StrongBad is still a great honor. It’s like being the guy with the most strikeouts in the world series. Sure, I did terrible, but hey: World Series!

Even nicer that it came from a cool company like Bioware. (Makers of the excellent KOTOR) This would have been less exciting coming from some console company that I was never attached to, or from someone like EA, who I lothe.

LATER: ~~Hey! They left out OotS!~~ No they didn’t. Geeze. I’m goin’ blind here, blind.

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DM of the Rings XLV:
Last Disrespects

By Shamus Posted Friday Dec 29, 2006

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Last respects to Boromir. Totally retarded. Forgetting something.

How to motivate your players:

Entice them with a compelling story.
If you can’t do that, then bribe them with treasure.
If you won’t do that, then let them know that if they don’t play along they will be stuck in this boring, treasure-less campaign forever.

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Session 13, Part 2

By Shamus Posted Thursday Dec 28, 2006

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The party rides away from the Dwarf camp, and heads around the southern side of Lake Emlin. By nightfall they reach Della Minera, where they freed the slaves a couple of weeks earlier. To the north is now a huge area of tents and soldiers. The last shreds of the Alidian army are here, defending the bridge nightly against attack.

They rest here for the night and then head to Fol Thron.

They head for the Citadel, but as they pass by the Mages Guild they see the place is surrounded by a crowd. Skeeve stops to see what is going on. The place is surrounded by town guards, who are keeping everyone at a distance.

Skeeve asks a nearby guard what is going on. The guard begins to explain, but is cut off by a thunderous BOOM from the tower above. Another town guard comes sailing out of one of the second-story windows and lands with a thud nearby. Black smoke pours from the window.
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Liquid Clock

By Shamus Posted Thursday Dec 28, 2006

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This is a fun and amusing gift from my wife. A novelty clock with different liquids with differing weights. You can rotate the clear section and watch the liquids change places like an hourglass.

Cool.

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DM of the Rings XLIV:
The Exodus Continues

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Dec 27, 2006

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Kidnapped by orcs. Best plot twist ever.

Merry and Pippin were about the most underused characters in this campaign. I imagine the two of them sat on the couch playing XBox, and if they were needed for anything they would shout their actions over their shoulder without looking away from the TV. Now that I’ve come to this point, it would have been nice to have a gag where (during some tense or serious moment) the two of them were playing something like Halo 2 and their chatter was distracting the roleplaying. Ah well. Maybe I’ll go back and add it once the story is over.

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Session 13, Part 1

By Shamus Posted Tuesday Dec 26, 2006

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The party spends four days in the Mages Archives. They take a generous and well-deserved rest. There are many challenges ahead, but they sense the tide has turned.

At last they depart, heading west towards Washport. They re-seal the Mages Archives before they leave. As far as Eomer is concerned they own the place now, so they may as well start taking care of it.

The great cloud of ash has dissipated and been blown out to sea, but the ground is still black with it. The wind has tossed it about, leaving greay dust in every opening and on every surface. The mountain is still slightly smouldering in the distance, warning the inhabitants of the land against challenging its slopes once more.

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Merry Christmas

By Shamus Posted Monday Dec 25, 2006

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If your Christmas was half as good as mine, then you had a great Christmas. If you’re 35 and you’re still getting toys for Christmas, then you’re doing something right.

In particular I want to say Merry Christmas to Steven, David, Pixy, Cineris, Don, Ubu Roi, Otaku, Mark, and Jay.

There’s a reason I hit those blogs every day, and I wish the best to my various blog friends.

We didn’t get a Wii, but we did get Animal Crossing. Holy Kawaii. This game has sucked in the entire family, and is the first videogame that has brought all five of us to the Gamecube together. As a bonus, it is creating an incentive for the girls to read, which is always good.

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