What a shock, I'm bored

[kierthos]

Pretty much done with work for the night. Only one thing I could work on, and we kind of want to talk to the customer first before running it. I did do all the major set-up on the order, so on the off chance that I am making all the correct assumptions on the order, it's an hour's worth of printing and some small amount of finishing work.

The WoW forums are not readable. I mean, beyond the normal trolling, whining and stupidity... all the links and text are showing up very oddly on the work computers (at least in IE, and I cannot even run Firefox as a remote process), and I left other reading material at home. Quite by accident, of course. I had to go back upstairs to grab an umbrella, and I left the book I was bringing in.

I'm blaming early onset Alzheimer's.

However, I was reminded yesterday that the 10th anniversary of one of my favorite D&D characters had occured. 10 years ago, last Saturday, was when I joined the "Company of Dawn" campaign, bringing in my Wizard (Wu-jen kit from 2nd ed.) Haruhiko. Much fun was had with mithras's character, aptly named Mithras, jimcyl's characters (first a Lizardman swooshbuckler, who got permanently polymorphed into an elf, and then a humanoid cat thing which was a monk), and some other friends (who I believe are not on LJ) a human paladin (with a touch of silver dragon blood) named Serin, a "reformed" drow named Eldrikor, and an Athasian half-giant who, although he later died, still managed to be part of the adventuring party as a penitant (I think that's what it was called...)

This was mildly important because I'm going to be creating a new character for a 4th ed. game that will start in the next couple of weeks. I'm leaning heavily towards a Tiefling Warlock, but that may change after I look at some of the other material. The game is being run by the same guy who ran the "Company of Dawn" game, and it's taking place about 125 years later in roughly the same setting (Planescape). Apparently, my old wizard Haruhiko is still going to be around, living on his own little demi-plane.

Comments

[egearman.livejournal.com]

Be prepared to do the same thing over and over and over again in 4th ed.

There is very little in the way of class customization early on (and in my opinion, later on as well).

[mithras.livejournal.com]

That's because they wanted to make something that translated to an MMO well.


Ignoring the fact that more and more MMOs are starting to offer greater degrees of customization, not fewer.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

And yet, WoW still doesn't have housing.

[egearman.livejournal.com]

I do wish player housing/guild housing existed.

I would go back and get all the tier 1 and tier 2 stuff I could to put on an armor stand.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

*nod* DAOC has had housing since, what, late 2003?

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

The GM is using some house rules, but basically, we're going to give 4th ed a decent try, and if we really don't like it, we'll probably go back to 3.5 (but steal some of the neat stuff in 4th.)

[egearman.livejournal.com]

4th has neat stuff? I must have missed that. I couldn't see anything that wasn't a direct lift from either a previous edition (somewhat expected), trite, overdone or a MMO reference.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

.... Dopplegangers can be a playable race?

Racial powers that don't suck? (Dragonborn breath attack is neat...)

Rod of corruption is pretty cool.

Okay, there's not a lot, but there's some there. Anyway, we're going to give it a try, see if we like it. Knowing Jason, he's going to pick apart all the things that irritate him in it anyways.

[egearman.livejournal.com]

Doppelgangers were in complete humanoid or something like that. Not new.

There have been racial powers before that didn't suck, the whole point was to balance them out with the rest of the races so that you didn't end up with a party of drow.