Miscellaneous matters
Two and a half hours to get into work today, thanks to the snow. I'm not looking forward to the commute home, and I hope I can get out an hour or two early. Rush hour is going to turn this place into even more of a parking lot than it is currently.
I still have a few people to shop for Friendsmas. Dennis, Dan, Richard, Nick, and Alicia are taken care of, but Tim, Jon, Kat, and Shawna are still gift-less. I'm sure we'll find something when we go out on Saturday. I may also do a bit of shopping on my lunch breaks. If there's one good thing about working in Overland Park (and there are several), it's that there is plenty of shopping opportunities within just a couple of miles.
I've been kicking around more ideas for a one-shot D&D Fourth Edition game for the crew playing in my semi-monthly Basic D&D game (which is one of the most lethal games I've ever seen, by the way). My main struggle is the struggle between getting every detail just right and getting just enough of them right to avoid major bizarreness. My problem is that I tend to heavily skew towards the former, which gets me caught up in analysis paralysis of sorts. Sometimes, being so detail-oriented is a blessing; this is not one of those times. I'm sure I have plenty of time, but I'd like to start getting the groundwork done now. Since this is just a one-night thing, I'll probably use the stock setting from the DMG. However, I probably won't use the adventure. Kobold Hall, well, it sucks. The layout of the dungeon underneath the hall doesn't even make sense - why would anyone build a dungeon like that? (See, there I go again.) Seriously, though, it wouldn't be hard to make the whole thing make sense by redoing the map. Oh, and dropping/redoing the White Dragon at the end. I don't even see how a dragon could get in and out of a sealed cave hidden behind a secret door at the end of a narrow hallway. Did someone just misplace an egg back there? (Again with the detail checking.)
In WoW news, I'm not yet to 72, but I'll be wrapping up Borean Tundra soon - I only have a handful of additional quests to complete - and then it's off to the Howling Fjord, and the Dragonblight after that. In the next week or two, I'm going to try to get a Nexus run as well, as I have all 4 quests for the non-heroic version. Also, hidaman and richman1 and I tried our hands at taking down Onyxia last night, just the three of us. Fifteen minutes later, we had a dead dragon, 60 gold each, and some sadly-underpowered (and vendor-cheap) classic-era raid loot. We might also start going after a Molten Core run, but if nothing else, we'll take fifteen minutes every Monday to drop her and take her money (and eventually get Tier 2 helms, because let's face it - the Judgement helm is awesome).
I still have a few people to shop for Friendsmas. Dennis, Dan, Richard, Nick, and Alicia are taken care of, but Tim, Jon, Kat, and Shawna are still gift-less. I'm sure we'll find something when we go out on Saturday. I may also do a bit of shopping on my lunch breaks. If there's one good thing about working in Overland Park (and there are several), it's that there is plenty of shopping opportunities within just a couple of miles.
I've been kicking around more ideas for a one-shot D&D Fourth Edition game for the crew playing in my semi-monthly Basic D&D game (which is one of the most lethal games I've ever seen, by the way). My main struggle is the struggle between getting every detail just right and getting just enough of them right to avoid major bizarreness. My problem is that I tend to heavily skew towards the former, which gets me caught up in analysis paralysis of sorts. Sometimes, being so detail-oriented is a blessing; this is not one of those times. I'm sure I have plenty of time, but I'd like to start getting the groundwork done now. Since this is just a one-night thing, I'll probably use the stock setting from the DMG. However, I probably won't use the adventure. Kobold Hall, well, it sucks. The layout of the dungeon underneath the hall doesn't even make sense - why would anyone build a dungeon like that? (See, there I go again.) Seriously, though, it wouldn't be hard to make the whole thing make sense by redoing the map. Oh, and dropping/redoing the White Dragon at the end. I don't even see how a dragon could get in and out of a sealed cave hidden behind a secret door at the end of a narrow hallway. Did someone just misplace an egg back there? (Again with the detail checking.)
In WoW news, I'm not yet to 72, but I'll be wrapping up Borean Tundra soon - I only have a handful of additional quests to complete - and then it's off to the Howling Fjord, and the Dragonblight after that. In the next week or two, I'm going to try to get a Nexus run as well, as I have all 4 quests for the non-heroic version. Also, hidaman and richman1 and I tried our hands at taking down Onyxia last night, just the three of us. Fifteen minutes later, we had a dead dragon, 60 gold each, and some sadly-underpowered (and vendor-cheap) classic-era raid loot. We might also start going after a Molten Core run, but if nothing else, we'll take fifteen minutes every Monday to drop her and take her money (and eventually get Tier 2 helms, because let's face it - the Judgement helm is awesome).