December 2nd. I unpacked my laptop, booted it up and went to get some hot water. While windows was logging in I prepared my diffuser with a tablespoon of loose tea leaves and began steeping my tea. I was just about to take my first sip of tea when my "boss", Steve, stopped by my cube. "Do you have a moment to talk, Jon?" (in retrospect this was a ( Read more... )

Some wow folders inside a cut to not aggravate other people's friend pages. ( Read more... )

... you voted to put someone a heartbeat away from the presidency who didn't know that Africa is a continent. This should give you pause, but you voted for McCain, so you probably just learned that Africa is a continent.

...because it's your birthday and it should be happy.

Because I'm some sort of obnoxious creep I'm going to be grading your roleplaying to a slight degree. I've always done this, made some sort of arbitrary call on how well someone roleplayed and then given them an xp bonus arbitrarily accordingly. This time around I'm going to try to remove the arbitrary portion out as much as possible. To this end I ( Read more... )

First, the link.

What is it? It's a three part villain musical by Joss Whedon. It is free. It is only available until July 20th.

Then it will be gone.

After that you'll have to pay for it or steal it (but you'll only steal it if you are a worthless sack of shit). Go and watch it now, it is WORTH YOUR TIME. What are you going to do otherwise? Read ( Read more... )

This is the current list of modifications to the 4th edition rules for this campaign. This list will probably grow and otherwise alter over time as our understanding of the new ruleset and how it interacts with the spirit of this campaign's setting develops.
Healing Surge and Second Wind

• Second Wind is removed from the game
• First Aid, instead of ( Read more... )

NOTE: What follows is related to my ongoing D&D campaign. I'm endeavoring to make the story interesting with or without its relationship to the campaign, but if this sort of thing is uninteresting to you it will be uninteresting to you. Funny how that works out.

Preface: This is the first of Aldan Fox's yarns that I've set out to put on paper. If ( Read more... )

Friday night I went to go see Iron Maiden with John Green and a few of his friends. I've been an Iron Maiden fan for a long time... The cliff notes of my musical interests figure them prominently: I grew up listening to classical music and playing violin. In 7th grade I won a school drawing that allowed me to pick a free audio cassette. My best ( Read more... )

1. Don't start coming up with a background for your character.
2. Don't pick a character class.
3. Don't pick a race.
4. In general, just avoid the temptation to design anything about your character ahead of time.

Okay, maybe that one is a little unrealistic. If you absolutely must start conceptualizing your character now, maybe you're just very indecisive and ( Read more... )