Hope you will have a great time :)

Enter travel montage....

Just a reminder I will be offline until Monday. Thanks for understanding!

"Hi OH! Silver!"

It's the Loan Arranger ...

These extra, uncharacteristic, mid-week updates by me brought to you by my wife's emergency appendectomy.  I'm home with the kid, helping her out for several days, while the first stages of healing from surgery are going on.

Damn.  That's two major abdominal surgeries in the first quarter of this year, when you add in the fact that our daughter was delivered by caesarean section.

Give your wife our best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Hope all goes well for a speedy and healthy recovery!

Yes, tell your wife, that's quite enough of that !  No more surgical emergencies, thank you !  But seriously, give her our best and hope she's on the mend soonest !  :>

I heard rest and ice cream are good for that!

You can add me to the chorus of voices wishing your wife a full and swift recovery.

What they said. Speedy and complication free recovery. :)

+1 to the above

She's feeling much better today, although we're told that it will take about six weeks for her to finish healing completely.  I'll be heading back to work tomorrow, but will be helping around the house even more than usual for a bit still.

Thanks for the well-wishes, guys.

I am away Easter weekend too. I forgot to put this up in advance. Posting will be sketchy as we will be on the road for my daughters Spring Break too. The dates of sketchy posting will be March 29, 2024 to April 8, 2024. Thanks for understanding.

Great we can all have some in character discussions of esoteric nature whilst you are away!

On the Zen of penance?

I've been reading some LitRPG material my adult son recommended to me.  Characters in the story are aware that they have levels and classes, along with skills (feats).  It's interesting to ask the question, "What if the characters knew some of this stuff, from a rules perspective?".  The story only sort-of does this, but it's still and intriguing question.

If you've never heard of it, you must try Order of the Stick then (https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html) - not only are the characters fully aware of the game mechanics, they've got a good grasp of the narrative process too !  :>

That's definitely one of my favorites.  I've been reading since the early 2000s, but have paid less attention in recent years.

Here's one of my early favorites.

... and now I'm enjoying them all again, from the very start !  ;>

My current favourite quote (from https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0050.html):


Elan: I'm a bard.
Nale: My father taught me that bards were underpowered.
Elan: Really? So what class are you?
Nale: I'm a multiclass fighter/rogue/sorcerer who specialises in enchantment spells.
Elan: And that never struck you as needlessly complicated?
Nale: Not until this moment, no.
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 For those familiar with Savage Worlds, this is also a rather good take on player-and-world storytelling in comic form:
 https://www.uptofourplayers.com/

In reply to Artifex (msg # 671):

Hahaha...

Leeroy Jenkins!!!!

In reply to Sir Constantine Godalming (msg # 675):

 https://youtu.be/vu0W5SdNuis?si=Od5y0PcqALhnhpyn