My vaguely Sherlock Holmes-influenced insufferable genius elf alchemist wound up *not* being the most obnoxious character in Saturday game. Our usual DM likes to ham it up when he gets a chance to play, and he was playing a loudmouth, unkempt, aggressively unsophisticated gunslinger with an even lower charisma score than Miss Charis Havelock.

Since Our Current Overlord has the Pathfinder religion guides, I've had a chance to look through them during gaming lag-time ( Read more... )

Azula - the Killer DM to end all killer DMs ( Read more... )

I've decided that one of the fields of obscure technology more common in Rahadoum (the secular-humanist country in the Pathfinder setting) than elsewhere is what could be described as magical assistive tech. If you're in the market for a really top-quality prosthetic arm and you don't want to patronize a creepy subterranean fleshcrafter, that's ( Read more... )

It's getting to be gardening season, and the family went through our stockpile of seeds this afternoon. We shouldn't need to buy arugula seed for the next couple of years barring some unusual unforeseen circumstances ( Read more... )

Maybe it's just because I just made a huge BPAL order (all imps), but sometime I'd like to play a D&D alchemist who's also a sort of pre-industrial cosmetician. It seems like they'd go together, since perfumers who are working from scratch need to know about distillation and other basic chemistry skills. She could make her mutagens and elixirs as ( Read more... )

Some ideas for hypothetical perfume blends inspired by the iconic D&D dragons. Unfortunately, I don't have as much familiarity with perfumery as I'd like, so I have no idea if any of these would actually smell good.

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Playing pallies is fun. I think I might do one for my next character, too, if I don't think of another concept that's more compelling and my group doesn't need to fill another niche in the party too badly. Melee combatants who can heal are always useful in any case ( Read more... )

I was contemplating a slightly Lighter and Softer incarnation of the Warhammer 40K 'verse - one in which the majority of the factions are at least somewhat sympathetic, although it's still Everybody versus Everybody in the galactic military arena a distressing amount of the time - and it's really rather depressing. In a setting in which Catholic ( Read more... )

A young succubus and a young erinyes are roommates in Sigil (or a similar place), develop an odd sort of grudging friendship, and have wacky adventures. I see the succubus as a cabaret singer and the erinyes as a university student (she's studying Interdimensional Contract Law, or working towards her MBA, or something.) The succubus is a sort of ( Read more... )