Gaming soon and such

I'm at work right now, and game starts in about 3 hours, so here I sit wanting to not be here. Surprise surprise. I want to go home, see my love and her parents (if they're still here), then take a very nice nap for about an hour, then get food and run some errands and go play DnD and slaughter some imaginary bad guys.

I feel kinda bad because there was some roleplay stuff my girlfriend and I should have done over e-mail with our DM this week, but we've both been very distracted by life. So we're going to have to do that as soon as game starts, and I feel bad that everyone will have to sit through it because it only concerns the two of us...but I'm still really excited about it. Our characters are alone in the quarters they've been given on the island we're on now, and a strange envelope was just slid under the door with my girlfriend's character's name on it. It also appears to be magically sealed, and it seems fancier stationary-wise than anyone we know would use, so I really wanna know what's going on. My character, Zoey, does too, as both she and Tharf just got done having a sort-of-argument with her mother. She's kinda nervous that its exploding runes or something.

I'm really happy about game right now though because last session, Zoey got to slaughter a bunch of goblins (which she loves to do), and then I got to do all this roleplay stuff concerning her mother and her recent marriage to Tharf. It was a lot of fun, and since apparently that's carrying over into tonight's session, I'm excited. Wheeee. Its not often that I get to be this happy about playing Zoey, as playing her frustrates the hell out of me. Through playing her I've discovered that I hate playing melee-combat-based classes, and I miss casting spells, and she's just so angry all the time. Ugh. But the roleplay stuff like this, concerning her relationship with Tharf and her parents, is still a lot of fun. Hopefully there will be more of that through the rest of the campaign. Though I guess that's asking a lot, since there's not much left of this campaign at all. We might be done before the semester's over.

But what I want even more than that is for this purple envelope thing to be a plot hook for Tharf. My girlfriend gets overlooked in game so much, and I don't know why. Apparently our DM did have some plot hooks for her, but she "passed" on them, which is ridiculous because her character wouldn't have done what these plot hooks needed of her. Its just not in her personality. But because my girlfriend mentioned this, er, neglect (for lack of a better word) to our friend Heather, who is married to the DM and mentioned it to him as well (even though that wasn't the point of telling her), maybe now he's thought of something else. I hope so, because Tharf is awesome, and deserves something in the plot that's just for her, like the rest of us have gotten.

...And now that I've rambled about game quite a bit, I better go actually do my job.

And happy early St. Patrick's Day, everyone! May we all drink to forget the bastard entirely *raises an imagined glass of Bailey's*

Some Gary Gygax humor that I hope he would appreciate

Me friend Heather sent me this, and I feel the need to post it. I think Gygax was the kind of guy who would have found this amusing anyway. Oh, and it comes from here - http://www.woot.com/Blog/BlogEntry.aspx?BlogEntryId=4118

16 Gary Gygax Jokes We Better Not Catch You Making
by Lydon, Norman, Toon, Rutledge, & Duff Tuesday March 4, 2008 2:35 PM

1. “Quick! Someone cast Raise Dead!”
2. “Don’t worry – he’s just playtesting the Astral Plane for the next edition.”
3. “He’s gone the way of Star Frontiers.”
4. “Analysts warn of a free-fall in Mountain Dew futures.”
5. “In the next town, you meet a stranger named Barry Bygax.”
6. “Now who will lead our young people to Satan?”
7. “With his last breath, he cursed the name of Marlon Wayans.”
8. “I wonder how they’ll divide up his XP.”
9. “Pallbearers, make a Bend Bars/Lift Gates roll.”
10. "At least he didn't live to see Disney's Greyhawk On Ice."
11. “Lorraine Williams is behind this somehow, I just know it.”
12. “The worlds of adventure gaming, fantasy fandom, and van painting will never be the same.”
13. “When I heard, I cried 2d10 tears.”
14. “Is there anything in the will about electrum?”
15. “Heart condition? Wow, I always thought it’d be owlbears that got him.”
16. “Suddenly, nobody in Heaven wants to hang out with Marilyn Monroe on Friday night.”

In Memory

Unfortunately, yesterday one of the creators of Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, passed away. Though I did not agree with how he seemed to treat the Barbarian character in his commentary on the second D&D movie, I do recognize that if it weren't for him, we would not have D&D at all. So rest in peace, Gary Gygax. We roll high in your honor.

If you want to know more about him, click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax