Developments.

[metallian]

• I have been super-motivated and productive since New Year's. I don't think it's due to any sort of New Year spirit. It's simply because I haven't been traveling! I'm making up for lost time and putting my frustrated "putting my life in order" energy to use.
• What's the #1 thing I've been working on lately with all of this energy? Figuring out our

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[mearls]

If you can talk your DM into letting your cleric use Intelligence instead of Wisdom as your casting stat, you can take the trickery domain and have a pretty good single classed rogue-y cleric. The key failing of Trickery is that it gives you extra skills, but not the ranks to spend on them. Swapping Wis for Int really helps that.

[metallian]

I don't think that would fly with him, sadly. Originally I was going to have a high Int and Dex and a modest Wis (resigning myself to being half-assed at Cleric things), but for various reasons I decided to give in to reality and go with the high Wis and Dex instead. I also decided to more tightly focus my skills on Wis-based skills like Spot, Listen, and Sense Motive. These will set me apart from the other skill-monkeys in the party, who have higher Cha (so I wouldn't have been competitive at Diplomacy anyway) but lousy Wis.

My DM also recommended I take the Able-Learner feat from Races of Destiny, so now I will be able to make my Domain choices based on spell selection and special abilities rather than on the additional Cleric class skills they give me. So essentially, all Rogue and Cleric skills will become class skills for me all the time once I take my first level of Cleric.

[sad_genius]

A single classed Cleric with the trickery domain does make a pretty uber social-warrior though, esp. if combined with a decent Cha.

Also, that Wiki idea sounds brilliant.

[metallian]

With the Able Learner feat (all cross-class skills cost one point, though it doesn't change your max ranks limit...but of course I'll be multiclassed so max ranks won't be a problem), I won't even have to take the Trickery domain just for the class skills if I don't want to. I might want to take it for the spells, though. That and/or the sweet, sweet Travel domain.

[slyppi]

The wiki sounds wonderful! I've been using backpackit.com to accomplish much the same purpose for both work and home. Sadly, the work portion is much more utilized than the home portion, but I have big plans!

[metallian]

Backpack is great! I originally intended to use that, but all of the features that really set it apart (the calendar, a reasonable number of email reminders) were paid-only and you only get 5 pages with free accounts. If I was going to pay for something that's definitely what I would have chosen, though. $5/month isn't bad - I'm just cheap. They're a good company, I used their Whiteboard site to organize our beach trip last August, and I've used their Basecamp for projects at work.

[llargh]

YAYAYAYAY! Let me know when you guys are visiting Dartmouth and I'll go up there too! :P

[metallian]

Green Key and Homecoming for sure! Whether I can free up time for any additional trips (like DartCons) is the question...it's not looking good at this point but we'll see...

[vors]

That's an excellent idea. I rely on gmail to store all my travel plans, but during crazy periods it can still get to be cumbersome.

[metallian]

Exactly my problem, except my information was scattered across several of my email addresses (and some of mrsmetallian's to boot).

It's basically a glorified piece of scratch paper, but it's one that you can get to from anywhere with an internet connection and won't end up crumpled up in your pocket.

[vors]

I just started one up to check it out. It does seem like it could become very handy.

[metallian]

Cool! Here are some hacks I found (in particular, I liked the "Put the Side Bar on the left," "Rename the Side Bar," and "Make Wiki Information at the Bottom of the page Collapsible" hacks). I made some additional tweaks myself but those were the main ones that made the site more usable for me.