Seriously, what the FRELL is up with Livejournal?!?! I try to start posting my Serenity d20 stuff and the post goes all wonky past the first couple of paragraphs. Whole descriptions dissapear and everything near the bottom gets mangled together. I may have to save what I have as HTML and then try to copy and paste that.

And why isn't www.margaretweiss.com working? Seems like all the links to the site AND ones to supporting serenity RPG sites are down for the count. What gives?

Must go buy equipment suppliment for Serenity RPG. I need stuff for my d20 version. Mmmmm... shinies!

Speaking of which... since that game is practically finished I really should post it...

Okay. I don't mind occasionally talking about personal real-life stuff from time to time on a public message board that is really suppose to be about gaming. Especially since it's specifically for women. There are few enough women voicing opinions in gaming circles as it is.

But honestly... If you really don't want someone to give advice WHY ARE YOU POSTING IT ON A MESSAGE BOARD?!?!?!?!

I posted a response that someone 'didn't want to hear right now'.

Well, you know what? Tough.

I am sorry that I upset her even more, but the simple fact is- don't expect everyone to just respond with 'oh, I'm sorry about your troubles' and 'I'll be praying extra hard for you.' because it isn't going to happen. Not all the time.

My point was we all have issues. With ourselves, with loved ones. We all deal with it differently. I just said how I deal with it. She didn't want to hear how I deal with 'stuff'. Bascially I said 'hope for the best but expect the worst'. She really couldn't deal with that.

Oh. Well.

Is it cold? Yea. It is a bit chilly. But it's not like she said HOW she wanted responders to respond. She just vented. Then apologized for it. I'm okay with that. But seriously, if you don't want opinions then don't publicly post something.

That's what journals are for. You can opt to have comments or not. You can delete comments or not. You can make your journal public or not.

*sigh*

You can read all parts of Potato Moon on peterdavid.net. For now, here is mine.

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Challenge: Write a sonnet using your webcomic ala kimonos-house.livejournal.com/49383.html.

'Kay.



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I get an IM with an ID that I might recognize. Something 'Trek' involved. Next I ask if I know the person. Then the IMer is like 'wut? who r u?'

*adds to ban list*

I must have this pattern...

Star Trek... How shall I put this?... WAS THE AWSOME!!!
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X-posted on nightmrstallion 

This... Thing... This thing right here... This THING that I saw as I skimmed a copy of yesterday's The Buffalo News...



This angers me in ways that it's simply difficult to express. But I shall try. I'm temproarily going to use some Keith Olbermann speak, because there is quite frankly no other way I can think of to get my point accross.

Michael Ramirez, you are a disgusting person.

How dare you, sir?! How dare you use the most tragic event in recent American history for your own devices? Your own political agenda. You disgust me. To equate the deaths of thousands of innocent people with the illegal actions of Bush appointees to subject human beings to torture AFTER the events of 9/11 is sick and horrifying. You're using the image of the burning towers as a means to anger the populace. Well, you have succeeded in making THIS American angry. But not in the way you intended.

You dare, DARE, to use the deaths of these souls to pull at the strings of the readers of newspapers like some demented marionette? Are you saying that if we started imprisioning people before 9/11, and tortured them for information, that this would never have happened? Are you saying that it's all right to be exactly like the enemy that we face? To lie, and kidnapp, torture and kill? For what? Revenge? Do you really think that in your psychotic little world of  'we are always right because we say so' is the best way to go because you say so? 

Horrific things happened on 9 September 2001. No one is going to deny that. But to say that strapping people down to tables, forcing water up their noses and down their throats and do so repeatedly over and over and over and over and over again happened because of 9/11 is simply disgusting and irresponsible to say the least. Enhanced interrogation is nothing more than code for torture. Pure and simple. This is nothing more than torture that was carried out by a presidency that was clearly and undeniably looking for excuses to do what it wanted to do. Reguardless of what the law, or even where ethics and moral gound, stood.

The same people that cry that abortion is wrong because the suffering and death of human life is horrible.

Tell that to the two men that combined, were officially, tortured over 200 times in one month.

Where is your morality now, sir? You make me sick.

I am really excited to be part of this. Here's hoping I'm not too far down on the list of contributing writers and I get to write my chapter close to the top. There will be angsty pining, oh yes, there shall be angsting over the angst.

http://www.peterdavid.net/index.php/2009/04/24/potato-moon-part-1-by-ariel-david-and-her-dad/#more-2615

If anyone wants to know the whole story about Potato Moon, you really have to read the last several posts on Peter David's blog peterdavid.net.

Once again: Aliens and Threats have seen another critter added and some more tweaking. Wow. LJ does not like to keep it's html consistant from edit to edit. Cripes, I always have to dig through the code and find the bits and bobs that I have to move around. I still CAN'T get the paragraph alignment squared away. It LOOKS okay on the rick text edit but the html get's all screwed up. Tables are centered but the text is left aligned, tables are centered and text is center aligned... At least nothing is aligned to the RIGHT. That would be another headache.

Buggy load of crap.

Once again there are updates to Aliens and Threats. I added a couple more and tweaked the XP award for the Lupine. CR 12 was excessive. According to the calculation using the Modern d20 cultist with the werewolf template (D&D Monster Manual) would give the creature a CR of 12 total, because you add the CR of the lycanthrope to the CR of the animal type and add it to the CR of the humanoid you're using. I dropped the CR animal type.

See, this is why I like simplification. Just gimme the damned monster stats and let's play.

Made major updates to Who d20: Aliens and Threats. Added a couple of things and also included XP awards for those of us who just don't want to deal with all of that CR stuff.

 
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I really had no idea that my Kodak camera could take such clear video. I should have played with it years ago.

Heh. Time Lord Peace. *grins*

And what in the name of all the gods happened to pocket watches? I used to be able to find these things everywhere what I WASN"T looking to buy one, and now that I am I can't find one. Well, a good one anyway. I might have to break down and get that Full Metal Alchemist one at this rate. And it's not too big either.

I managed to get a rather large round locket at Dollar General. It's deep and it might fit a watch face inside pretty easily.

I have also worked on d20 Who Aliens and Threats. I kinda forgot a couple of important pieces of information and I tweaked the Autons a bit. The D&D Monster Manuals are finally useful for something! Woot!

Basics
Doctor Who envelopes ordinary people in a modern setting into a brand new universe that most people don't have a clue exists. This is a concept that the Unearthed Arcana setting for d20 Modern runs with. Just replace monsters with aliens and magic with technology and you have the same exact game. You can practically use any class or any race from any d20 Modern suppliment or guide, including from any time period! Wanna see a tyrranosaurus rampage through Tokyo? Wanna have a laser pistol packing cowboy? Sure. As long as your gamemaster says it's okay.
Nessesary Publications: d20 Modern Core Rulebook and d20 Future. Recommended: d20 Future Tech, d20 Past and d20 Menace Manual. All published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

Characters
Any of the basic classes are fair game for standard character creation. If your dealing with higher level campains, especially not ones set on modern day Earth, I would definately allow some aliens in as player character races. I might even allow a time traveller as a new starting occupation for a character.
New Starting Occupation: Time Traveller
Time travellers hail from all over the known universe. They come from all races and genders, some actually performing a service to government bodies, such as Time Agents, while others just hitch a ride to wherever or whenever a fellow time traveller is going.
Prerequisite: Age 15+
Skills: Choose any two of the following skills as perminant class skills. If a skill you select is already a class skill you recieve a +1 competence bonus on checks using that skill.
    Computer Use, Knowledge (technology, time or history), Survival.
Bonus Feat: Select one from either Alien Weapons Proficiency (pg. 11; d20 Future), Planetary Adaptation (pg. 13; d20 Future) or Spacer (pg. 13; d20 Future).
Wealth Bonus Increase: +1
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