{"id":4691,"date":"2003-07-21T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:37:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:37:04","slug":"weekend_round_u-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/21\/weekend_round_u-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekend round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy, crazy, hazy days &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Doyce&#8217;s <i>Star Wars <\/i>&#8220;Prince of Alderaan&#8221; campaign came to a crashing halt on Friday, just hours before the game was to begin.  He was kind enough to forward the players a synopsis of What Was Going To Happen in the remaining sessions.  Pity &#8212; there were some scenes in there I&#8217;d have given money to see.  And I&#8217;d just mapped out how Dag was going to end up prestiging into Privateer.  Ah, well.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Testerfolk and Randy came over to our house, we sat and chatted, and did some character design for Jackie&#8217;s <i>Necropolis<\/i> campaign.  Is it just me, or is anyone else daunted by a campaign distributed as a thick, hard-cover tome.  Eek.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning and early afternoon somehow just slipped past us.  Later afternoon and into the evening we had our <i>Nobilis <\/i>fix for the week, which was plenty fun.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, after the usual morning churn, I did up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bears-cave.com\/nobilis\/archives\/cat_game_logs.html#003242\">game notes <\/a>for <i>Nobilis<\/i>, then opened up the home theater box to start putting things together.  Which is when I learned that it had no auxiliary audio inputs.  Feh.  <\/p>\n<p>We spent the rest of the afternoon taking it back and hitting the local big boxes.  Nothing seemed an automatic win.  The runner-up, available in a number of places, is a Panasonic receiver, which has a built-in 5-disc DVD\/CD changer.  Since we already have one of those, I&#8217;m not sure we need another one, nor am I eager to be swapping between CDs and DVDs (it sounds organizationally nasty to me).  On the other hand, it does have an Aux port that the current CD changer can plug into.  Still, it&#8217;s a good $80-100 more than the RCA system, and one more incompatible remote; I wish I could find an RCA system a tick up from the one that won&#8217;t work for us.<\/p>\n<p>More searching today.<\/p>\n<p>We then swung past the Testerplace to pick up all the stuff we&#8217;d managed to leave behind the evening before when whisking a sleeping Katherine away, and ended up chewing an hour or two&#8217;s worth of additional time.<\/p>\n<p>That was an unfortunate chew, because I&#8217;d gotten New Character Fever in the afternoon.  My original plan for <i>Necropolis <\/i>had been a scaled-down gold dragon character (recycling Aughto from Rey&#8217;s abortive epic campaign).  That was fun enough, but I was still fiddling with personality issues.  Meanwhile, Margie had been considering a comment by Doyce that we could really use a <s>meat shield<\/s> powerful stand-up fighter sort.  So she was going through <i>Savage Species <\/i>and looking at the anthropomorphics there.  <\/p>\n<p>Well, at first, that struck me as a shame, because the deva she&#8217;d come up with had some kick-ass abilities the party could use.  And then the penny dropped, and I suddenly got a yen to run an anthropomorphic elephant barbarian sort.  I do like simple, straightforward characters (mechanics-wise), and a large humanoid elephant wielding a mongo chopper of some sort qualifies quite nicely.<\/p>\n<p>So I stayed up too late last night doing the initial write-up.  Tsk.  And decided quite early on that, yes, this is the character for me.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, I can always open each meeting with a rousing rendition of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/28\/colonel_hathis.html\">Colonel Hathi&#8217;s March<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy, crazy, hazy days &#8230; Doyce&#8217;s Star Wars &#8220;Prince of Alderaan&#8221; campaign came to a crashing halt on Friday, just hours before the game was to begin. 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