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Enderlord's Random Banter #230 (Friendly warning: Might teleport. Don't get wet.)
It's too bad there are so few friends still here. Friendly suggestion: let someone start threads #231+ after waiting for the turns of... say... a dozen friends? One dozen seems like a friendly number.
RANDOM BANTER #230
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Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina
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Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one)
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Re: Enderlord's Random Banter #230 (Friendly warning: Might teleport. Don't get wet.
Nice new thread smell!
I hope folks are well!
(Among other stuff) 2020 is a year that I lost about 25 pounds without trying to, my waist size hasn't been this small since the '90's, which is weird.
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Let's go with twelve. Twelve is a nice number.
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I need to know: can I feedthe thread after midnight?
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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Use your thumb to count on your other fingers phalanx bones.
Like so.Forum Wisdom
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So hey, If someone has played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons 3.x, but absolutely no 5e, what are some good 5e books, sets, or kits to get (beyond the core rulebooks)?
Starter kits, splatbooks, campaign settings, adventures, you name it. What are the best books to get started with in each category, and what are the best books that you wouldn't necessarily recommend starting with but would recommend looking forward to extending the experience?
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5ehas books?
Xanathar's Guide to Everything and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything are where you'll find most of the extrs zfeats and Subclasses as well as some (hit or miss) subsystems. For the others I don't hae a clue, I don't own the monster books and was only interested in one setting book, and also don't personally buy modules or the like.
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No limbs were lost, the weight loss was among the reasons my "primary care physician" told me that there was an "80% chance you have lung cancer" (rescinded after a week), so far it's a mystery, I was fairly overweight after the '90's so probably a good thing.
I made characters but never played much 3e, but I played a lot of 0e/1e, and I have played a little 5e and have some recommendations.
The Starter Set and its "Lost Mines of Phandelver" is excellent, and frankly it and the free online rules are all you need, of the "corebooks" The Player's Handbook has an excellent bibliography, The Dungeon Master's Guide is fun to read and has some good rules options inside, and The Monster Manual is easy to use and well illustrated.
Of WotC adventure modules I'd say Tomb of Annihilation, Saltmarsh, and Tales from the Vagabond Inn are best, but the Goodman games reprints/revisions for 5e of '70's/'80's adventure modules are as good or better and I highly recommend them staring with Into the Borderlands.
For "splat" there's Xanthar's, Tasha's, Volo"s and The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, Xanthar's is probably the one you want but it's version of the "Swashbuckler" Rogue sub-class is very slightly weaker than than the same sub-class in the SCAG.
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I believe I've mentioned this before, but sometimes I wake up wondering why I'm not a dragon.
I just want my wings to be a hurricane, is that so much to ask?I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep.~ That's your horoscope for today.
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I can't wait for Christmas. I'm going to watch Christmas movies all day on Christmas.
It's time to get my Magikarp on!
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Oh, like In Bruges, or First Blood, or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys, The Last Boy Scout, Lethal Weapon, Last Action Hero, really anything by Shane Black, or maybe Rocky? Rocky is kind really more of a holiday movie in general, though, since it also nets Thanksgiving and New Year's.
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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It's time to get my Magikarp on!
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Thanks Qwertystop, and Tvtyrant
My two favorites are 1938's Alexander Nevsky which features medieval sword fighting, a shield wall, and ice, lots and lots of ice, and 1990's Metropolitan which features witty downwardly mobile young adults, a little sad, but very funny.
Seconding In Bruges, 'tis a fine film, features gangsters and fantastic architecture.
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Oh please dish, tales of young love are irresistible, first: How serious is it?
Have you exchanged mixed tapes (or whatever your generation's equivalent is) yet?
Have you stood outside her window holding up a boom-box playing "In Your Eyes" yet (or "Love You More" by The Buzzcocks instead)?
I had it on good authority (in 1980) "If you want to get the girls you have to feather your hair" - totally worked!
Spiky medium length hair (on a boy or girl) gets you older men taking public transportation "hitting on you" instead as you and a girl who has almost the same hair ride the bus or wait for the train.
And that's about all my dimming memories can think of romance-wise now, except that (IIRC) you (me back then) won't feel as intensely "in-love" with your second girlfriend as you did with your first, but the (likely in the future) breakup doesn't hurt nearly as much, and you feel more gratitude that she was with you at all than the pain of loss, and 31 to 32 years later you're friends and dish and kvetch about step-kids and current spouses together pleasantly, don't try this with your first girlfriend though, those scars run deeper.
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2020-12-20, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Enderlord's Random Banter #230 (Friendly warning: Might teleport. Don't get wet.
Hey, I'm also happy about that!
It's easily become one of my favorite movies.
Also, it's like a ****ing fairy tale.
Feathered hair looked amazing. Shame it went out of style by the time I came of age.
Also, two statements you made me think of.
1.) "1980's John Cusack movie" is a full-fledged genre of its own.
2.) I love that genre.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 1
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2020-12-20, 09:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Enderlord's Random Banter #230 (Friendly warning: Might teleport. Don't get wet.
The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep.~ That's your horoscope for today.
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2020-12-20, 09:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-12-20, 09:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Enderlord's Random Banter #230 (Friendly warning: Might teleport. Don't get wet.
And thank you kindly Peelee!
like a ****ing fairy tale.
It was indeed!
Feathered hair looked amazing. Shame it went out of style by the time I came of age.
Let me tell you of ancient times...
Spoiler: back in my dayBACK IN MY DAY
(in no particular order, '70's, '80's, even a little '90's):
Supermarkets had cigarette vending machines.
Seat belts were optional
People smoked on airplanes.
"Candy cigarettes" were a thing.
Slept on a waterbed.
Had two VCR tapes (Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Things to Come) that we watched over and over again.
Star Wars (1977) was still in the movie theaters, was awesome and you got coolness points based on how many times you saw it (no way you saw it 12 times Ben, where are the ticket stubs?).
Same for Wizards
The rules I had for Dungeons & Dragons were only 48 pages.
Girls bought the liquor.
Ten teenagers in a station wagon driving to nowhere was how you spent a weekend, unless you just hung around The Pacific School of Religion after dark begging from each other.
The sound of gunfire could be heard every month for years, sometimes every week.
When Car Wash came on the radio on Sundays, all the men in the neighborhood would rush out, turn on their car radio's to the same station and start polishing their cars.
Most houses in the neighborhood had pictures of [people who were assassinated] on the walls, ten years later it was Hannibal, Shaka Zulu, and other "Great Kings of Africa" on the same walls.
Male teachers would get marijuana from their 12 year-old female students (and years later get arrested for having sex with a minor).
Three times I left my night shift job and walked out into a riot complete with cops wielding billy clubs, looting, and (once) with a car set on fire.
A friend died of AIDS, I was still a teenager.
Beggars on the streets were uncommon, and mostly young and white hippies (until '82).
Gasoline had lead in it, tasted great!
All the girls in high school loved "wine coolers".
Hair memories! Into at least the late '80's there was an all night dinner on Broadway in Oakland (the building is still there, but it's inside a used car lot now) and some of the "old" (they probably were the age I am now) waitresses still had "bouffant" hairdo's! The oldest looking waitress (who had the most impressive 'do of all) was "Bev".
1983, at the U.C. Theatres in Berkeley two "New Wave music" films were screened ('Breaking Glass' with Hazel O'Connor and "Starstruck" with No Kennedy) and many seats just behind the front row are empty because a large section of the front row is occupied by late teen/20's ladies with "beehive" hairdos, and I knew them! Usually their hair (while still impressive) wasn't so high, but this was an occasion! Despite my still being a young teen boy (while they already were out of their parents houses) they sometimes let me tag along, I had medium length spikey bleached blonde hair, was rail thin and usually wore a raincoat (despite it being sunny California) or dressed like an imitation Elvis Costello (complete with glasses) and with my looking like that me and "M" (with a magenta "B52") rode an A.C. Transit bus together, an older man approached us and spoke at length to us - especially to me, after he got off the bus she told me "You know he was trying to pick up on you right?" (no I didn't, I was 14 and pretty naive), and in a subsequent year ('84 or '85), I was at a BART station with "K" (who I met when we both attempted to see The Dead Kennedys at the Mabuhay, instead we just got drunk in an alley) and an older man approached us and (this time I could tell) tried to pick her up, and her hair? Medium length bleached blonde and spikey. So...
...boy or girl, if you want to be hit on by older men taking public transit go with medium length and spikey, BUT if you want to be remembered by a younger man even more than thirty years later?
Rock the bouffant.
Laundromats still had large hair dryers that ladies would pay a quarter to use.
At dances when "Rock Lobster" by The B52's played every one would slowly drop to the floor at "down, down, down".
You'd smoke Indonesian "clove" cigarettes as a teen, the grown ups didn't.
I wore paisley pattern J.C. Penny shirts with at least two buttons unbuttoned and "flared" corduroy pants, two years later: black "pegged" jeans stuffed into black socks, "China flats", shirt buttoned all the way to the neck, raincoat, two years after that: black leather jacket, black t-shirt, and Doc Martin boots.
It was "death rock" not "Goth".
All the girls loved "Tainted Love" by Softcell.
Ramones in '85, best show EVUH!
Operation Ivy in '88, damned good show.
Motorhead in '88,.such a violent show, still glorious.
Both boys and girl teens knew all the lyrics to "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang, and "Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies.
It was "New Wave", not "Alternative", or "Indie"
Two "Star Trek" shows, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, every week on broadcast television.
It was "slam" or "thrash", never "mosh"
Ska started cool, then became lame.
Wonder Twin powers activate!
1.) "1980's John Cusack movie" is a full-fledged genre of its own.
2.) I love that genre.
Yes!
Not the '80's, and ir only has a little bit of John Cusack, but 1992's "Roadside Prophets" is excellent.
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2020-12-21, 12:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Enderlord's Random Banter #230 (Friendly warning: Might teleport. Don't get wet.
It's good to see you around again, 2D8HP, and that you are doing well.
I have never gotten the impression that Ska is lame.