Archive for September, 2004

RPG Jokes

Thursday, September 16th, 2004

My favorites from a few threads.
Tell Us Your Best RPG Joke

I need bad D&D jokes

Did you hear about the evil wizard who liked to give people hickies?
He was a neck romancer.

Q: How do you get a chord from half-orc bards?
A: Ask three of them to play the same note.

Q: Why do dwarven bards sound better by candlelight?
A: You can shove the wax in your ears.

How many Elves does it take to light a candle?
A. Three: one to sing, one to dance, one to summon the spiritual guardian of joyous flame forth into the realm material.

Myconid walks into a bar.
The bartender says, “I’m sorry, we don’t serve your kind here.”
The myconid says, “Why not? I’m a fun guy!”

An Archmage with a drinking problem has a brilliant idea: he animates his shoes so that no matter how stinking drunk he gets, the shoes will always be able to lead him home.
And for a month or so, this works wonderfully. But soon, he finds himself waking up in strange places - he begins drinking in Eversink and wake up in Gaunt, or the Underdark, or Sigil. Finally he realizes that the shoes had gotten bored with just going back to his home every night, and had become adventurers.
This won’t do at all. He sells the shoes. They come back. He gives the shoes away. They come back. He opens a portal to Elemental Fire, and tosses the shoes in. They don’t come back.
Soon the archmage starts to feel guilty. After all, he’d given the shoes life, and then casually destroyed them when they became inconvenient. So he searches out all the greatest clerics on the face of the world, hoping for some way to ease his guilt. Finally, a half-mad hermit tells him that he doesn’t need to worry - the shoes entered the Seven Heavens immediately,a nd are enjoying eternal bliss.
Because it turns out, shoes have souls.

A group of players are sitting around a table waiting for their DM to get his notes together and start the game.
Travis, who plays a rogue, couldn’t attend the last session because of a family event. The DM’s policy is to let another player run the absentee’s character. Travis, doesn’t know who nor does he care. His gaming buds are a fairly trustworthy lot.
Travis: “So what happened last time? Did my rogue get enough experience to finally gain a level?
Steve: “No, actually your character died.”
Travis: “WHAT?”
Nods of affirmation come from the other players.
Steve: “Yeah. Sorry, but your character had an alignment change. He suddenly went from being just plain neutral to chaotic evil. He tried to kill and steal from the group. My paladin had to kill him.
Travis: “No way.”
Steve: “Yeah, the only good thing that came out of it was that my paladin got enough experience to gain a level.”
Travis: “Wait, who ran my character?”
Steve: “I did.”

Did you here about the priests of the Dairy God? Apparently, they have the power to churn undead.

A guy wearing black robes and reeking of the grave walks into the tavern. Strangely the man is being strangled by a severed hand.
The bartender mumbles “We don’t serve no death mages here…”
The guy in the robes gasps and mangages to whisper, “One drink…”
The bartender looks at the poor guy shakes his head and says “Ok, one. What will you have”
The customer says “Make it a stiff one” As he says stiff the hand seems to squeeze harder.
The bartender puts out a Mug of Ale. “It’s pretty strong, made it myself”. The guy in robes gasps “Stiffer!”.
The barkeep puts out a Elven Wine. “Stiffer!” The guy in robes is starting to pass out.
The barkeep quickly runs to the cellar and gets a flask of dwarven whiskey. When he runs up the guy in the robes is on one knee.
The barkeep wants to honor this guys last request so he pours him a shot and hands it to the guy in robes. The necromancer pours it on the hand and it falls to the ground.
The mage regains his composure, throws some gold on the bar and leaves with the hand following behind him.
The bartender yells after him “That was amazing, what was that all about”
To which the necromancer says, “It takes a potent spirit to control the dead.”

How many elves does it take to sharpen a sword?
Three: one to sharpen the sword and two to write a song about it so that when the first elf is done, four hundred years later, they’ll remember whose sword it was.

Hear about the Mystic Warrior from Mystic Eye Games , he refused to wear shoes so his feet became hard and tough,he went for long periods fasting and refused to eat meat, even when he wasn’t fasting and both the fasting and his diet gave him extremely bad breath also he was of lean, slight build, especially in his later years?
So he was a super callous fragile mystic plagued with halitosis.

An animated Rope walks into a bar and orders a drink.
The 1/2 Orc bartender says gruffly: “We don’t serve Animated ropes in here - now get out!”
Dejected the rope leaves.
5 rounds later, the rope returns wearing a bad disguise: one end has all the strands unraveled resembling a blonde wig, and the other end tied up in a bow.
The savvy Bartender is not fooled. Enraged he says: Hey! Are you that animated rope I kicked out of here just a few rounds ago?!
To which the rope smoothly replies: Nope, I’m a frayed knot…

A skeleton walks into a bar and ask the Bartender: “Do you serve skeletons here?”
Times being what they are the wily Bartender replies: “sure, we serve anyone.”
The skeleton hands the man a silver and says: “Fine, I’ll have a pitcher of beer…and a mop”

A Halfling, a Gnome, and a Half-Orc are running away from the city guard when they come to a forest, and they each decide to hide by climbing a tree.
When the Guardsmen arrive, they go to the first tree where the Halfling is hiding and shout, “We know you’re up there, come down!”
The Halfling, thinking fast, says, “Tweet, tweet, tweet!”
The Guardsmen, thinking that it’s a bird, move on to the next tree where the Gnome is hiding and once again shout, “We know you’re up there, come down!”
The Gnome, thinking fast, says, “Whoo, whoo, whoo!”
The Guardsmen, thinking that it’s an owl, move on to the next tree where the Half-Orc is hiding and once again shout, “We know you’re up there, come down!”
The Half-Orc thinks for a while and then says, “Moo, moo, moo…”

Zombies just can’t dance. They haven’t got any soul.

What is the most disliked giant? Easy, a gas giant! (Bad astronomy pun, and a horrible idea for a monster.)

I am not saying that the knight is a bit dense, but everyone calls him a paladim.

Keeping the Faith (2000)

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

Keeping the Faith was a very, very good movie. I’ll have to pick it up on DVD some day.

What Should I Do With My Life?

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

What Should I Do With My Life? looks to be an interesting article. It matches a lot of what I’ve observed.

via Six Foot Two

Bookstores

Monday, September 13th, 2004

Here’s a nice list of bookstores in Western Canada. Not comprehensive, but still a very nice list.

Shop the States

Monday, September 13th, 2004

Shop the States - the online shopping service for shoppers outside the United States might be useful. I know that when I’ve had things shipped from the States I’ve paid double the value in crossing the border. UPS is very, very bad for this. Where FedEx or the Post Office might charge $5 UPS will charge $30, minimum.

how to be creative

Saturday, September 11th, 2004

gapingvoid: how to be creative (long version)
is an interesting article. I’m still not sure where creativity is going to come alive for me. Basically, I’m trying various things here and there and seeing what appeals to me enough to work at it.

Roots and Wings

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

An article on Premarital Counseling for Parents prompted these thoughts on Roots and Wings by Hollie Atkinson (who I think of as Real Live Preacher’s dad). Hopefully when my kids grow up and get married I’ll realise that I’m done raising them and let them make their own choices for better or worse.

Getting started with Getting Things Done

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

I’ve seen Getting Things Done recommended an number of places. 43 Folders has an intro to Getting started with Getting Things Done.

Importing Mozilla Address Book to Outlook

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

We use Mozilla for mail in the office, but our iPAQ comes with Outlook so I need to download the addresses from Mozilla to Outlook. Here’s the simplest solution I’ve found.

1. In Mozilla, export the address book as LDIF (fast)
2. Open Outlook Express and import the LDIF (fairly fast)
3. Open Outlook and import address book from Outlook (slow)

Netflix in Canada

Wednesday, September 8th, 2004

I’ve been considering one of the Canadian Netflix-like rental places for getting DVDs. Basically it’ll be up to Jaimie as she’s the one who will watch them (or more accurately, be subjected to endless viewing of kids movies).

Prepared Spells Generator for Arcana Unearthed

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

Prepared Spells Generator for Arcana Unearthed looks as though it would be very useful. I’ll have try it out next week.

Buying RPGs (and other games) in Winnipeg

Saturday, September 4th, 2004

I’ve found it hard to find much information on where to get RPGs (DND, d20, World of Darkness, etc.) in Winnipeg. Here are some of the stores that I’ve found.

GameKnight is definitely a small shop. I found out about it via ENWorld. It’s located in the back of Grape and Grain Brew supplies at 978 St Mary’s Road. I chatted with one of the owners, Scott, and it is very easy to tell that he’s an enthusiast. Their selection isn’t huge, but their prices are good (10% off list) and they’re very willing to order stuff in. I’m fairly sure they are open M-W 10-6, Th - Fr 10-10, and Sat 10-4.

Jogo is mainly focused on board games. They do have a small RPG section, but selection is very limited. On the other hand, they’re right across from St. Vital Mall, which makes it very convenient for me. They are at 9-200 Meadowood Drive and their hours seem to be M-Sat 10-9, Sun 12-6.

Pendragon Games doesn’t have a website that I could find. I’ve looked a number of times and can’t seem to find anything online. They are quite large, but they’re downtown (1354 Main & 561 Portage). The location on Main is open M-Th 10-6, F 10-9, Sat 10-6. The location on Portage is open M-Th 10-6, F 12-8, Sat 10-6.

Campaign Outfitters is a little closer than Pendragon but it doesn’t have quite as large of a selection. It’s located at #15-584 Pembina Highway and is open M-Th 10-7, F 10-9, Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5.

Chapters and other bookstores tend to have at least some RPG books.

Here are a few more from the ENWorld boards Comments are those made there
Book Fair Winnipeg Inc Phone: (204)944-1630 366 Portage Avenue
Face Off Cards 3043 Ness Ave (near Ness and Sturgeon). 204 832 3921 They offer a flat 15% discount on RPG products, and lately have been charging the american price in canadian funds. (eg. Book is $40 american, you pay $40 canadian, less the tax).
McNally Robinson Booksellers Portage Place and Grant Park.
Face Off Sportscards, Phone: (204)832-3921 3043 Ness Avenue - mediocre selection, but quite cheap compared to Pendragon and Campaign Outfitters, and the stock new books quite quickly.

PCGen and Arcana Unearthed

Saturday, September 4th, 2004

I bought the Arcana Unearthed and Diamond Throne datasets from Codemonkey Publishing. I am having a heck of a time getting them to be useful.

Code Monkey Publishing :: View Forum - Monte Cook’s Arcana Unearthed

The output character sheets are very nice indeed, but when I have to go in with whiteout and correct them, it wastes a lot of time and doesn’t wind up looking anywhere near as nice.

RPGA Network Home Page

Friday, September 3rd, 2004

I may want to consider joining the RPGA . The key will be finding time to read through the information to make sure that it interests me.

This article at the 20 x 20 room made it sound very interesting indeed.