Depths of Madness

I'll be out of town this friday doing the Austin house hunting thing. Just wanted ya'll to know ahead of time.

I waited till I could let some of my friends know ahead of time, but the wife and I are relocating to Austin. My job wants me working from there and they've made a decent offer to do so.

So, anyone looking to buy a 3 bedroom / 2 bath house in Lewisville? =) Despite what Russel says, it is a fairly quiet neighborhood. His parents, which live around the block, may not like their neighbor, but I've had no such problems.

Ah well, going back to work, later all.

Just wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! I hope all is well and your wishes come true!

Ok, so after the tail end conversations of the last gaming night I checked out the SWD20 website and saw a new core rulebook was released, nice to see some actually work being done in the genre! I got my hands on a copy of this and overall I like it, but I believe it has many of the DnD 4th edition features:

Talents - not only do you get skills and feats, but you get talents to pick from as you level. 4th might have this too from some of the stuff I was reading. Overall, I like these. Talents are not limited to your class, as you gain access to more via prestige classes and force sensitive feat. The part I liked the best, Sneak Attack is a talent. Yes, you can make a rogue type char who just doesn't know how to backstab someone! Let's you customize things better overall.

Skills - Ok, you either have trained skills, untrained skills, or skills unusable when not trained. You don't put skill points into them. The die bonus you get for all skill checks are as followed:

trained skills = 1/2 your level + ability modifier + misc modifier + 5
untrained skills = 1/2 your level + ability modifier + misc modifier

You get to choose your base skills at 1st level based the class you've choosen (and Int mod) from that class's list of class skills. You can add more 'trained' skills later on by taking the Skill Training feat. Overall, it simplifies things a lot, but some likely will dislike it a lot.

Force Powers - They are in a once per encounter type of setup, but you dont get as many as you would in the once per day thing. I'll got over that a bit later..

Thoughts? I'd love to try running a game if I can get folks interested, but I want to pickup the hard copy of the book first.

Yeah, a bit sore from the trip and all, but we're all back. Talk to all ya'll soon.

Ah, it has been a while...

Home - Started working on cleaning up the bushes in the back yard on the weekends.. Man, that's rough work. Our new electric weed-wacker started on fire too! lol, was damned funny as hell, but now I need to pester Toro to replace it... I suspect they will.

Work - Got a promotion and I'm now (technically been for a month or so) a developer. Wee!

Video Games - Wife dragged me into WoW (Gorana - Alliance), and I still log into EQ once and a while. I still have Final Fantasy 12, Final Fantasy 7 part 2, and the new Wii Zelda to play now and then as well.

Other Games - I am looking forward to playing my new char in Maleficent's MnM game. It should be an interesting experience for sure given her dual nature. On top of that, I'm dieing to see the new Chaos Codex for Warhammer 40k that's being released in September, not to mention the new models! I have a feeling I'll be spending too much on that stuff... =)

Been busy, but I'll post the current big thing on my radar..

Wife gets in wreck w/ the truck, truck is getting it's frame replaced (still amazed it's not being totaled!) and shelle is hurting with a fractured rib. Unfortunately, the wreck was during the ice and she was avoiding the big wreck that closed down the 35 on friday morning, so it's all out of our insurance.. weee, thank god she didn't get more hurt though.

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I start work at my new place of employment on the 5th, making a decent increase in salary and I get to play with linux a lot! Happy Happy Joy Joy! /charliebrowndance /charliebrowndance

So, I'm chilling at my current work just getting them caught up as much as I can. Doing the christmas hanging thing tonight if the wife ever wakes from her nap, so I'll play video games till then! (hehe!)

edit: spelling error fixed for the picky bastards.. =P

I'm awaiting a reply from the company I interviewed with, should have some responce this week.

While waiting, I've been working on a Dawn of War: Dark Crusade mod project. The base game itself is fun, but I'm a true warhammer 40k fan. So, I am assisting with a mod team that's working on making the game 'closer to codex', this means the units should follow the official w40k codex rulings.

In my case, I've been working on the chaos army (my fav!) and man do I have a ton of work cut out for me! The core game only really touches on the undivided and khorne side of things, and even there not completely. There will have to be new models for many of the missing units (bikers, noise marines, plague marines, nearly all the deamons, etc) Fortunately, several of these are already done and open to public usage, or are being worked on for another mod.

Ah well, I need to get to work!

Today, an old friend contacted my and let me know of a business opportunity I would be interested in.. Seems his company is in dire need of a decent Linux Admin, so before I even get home I've already received a call on the answering machine! The potential here is fairly decent, I'm excited.

Well, an exciting week. Got lvl 75 early in the week and raided and conquered Uqua later in the week (the final flag I needed for access to the Qvic zone) within everquest, was gifted Final Fantasy XII and Dawn of War: Dark Crusade on my birthday, and had some friends over for a bit on the weekend to celebrate... I even beat 2 harry potter freaks at HP Trivial Pursuit! It's been a good week, I've enjoyed it.

Thanks to all who showed up on Saturday /hug

Another year gone like the wind.. 33 now.

Well, they weren't done with the cube rebuilding yesterday, so none of the 6 ppl that need to move have moved and today at work I'll still be cubeless. Oh well, less for me to do. And of course I'm getting hassled about installations of SMS clients on workstations and such.. what a pain!

pnp-gaming, made some feeble attempt to clean up my character sheet for maleficent's game and figured out how I'm spending my points I've earned so far... Least I think I earned.. lol

Evercrack, did it again.. spent the night killing mobs in verg mines instead of finishing the laundry or dishes. Wife is yet going to kill me. I got like 4 aa's though! Updated my magelo yet again..

Ok, kinda new to this stuff, so deal.

Work, they're making me move my double cube full of 9 computers into a single cube (I loose 2 cabinets and 2 wall shelf thingies..) I'm un-amused by this to the point I asked my manager if they couldn't find room in the basement for me so they found this cube instead, and asked him if he had my red swingline stapler... bastards!

Home, wife is getting over sickiness, yay! I've put off dishes/laundry/other house work, boo! Dogs are bathed, yay! But I had to do it, boo! More painting and repair work needs to be done as well.. *sarcastic voice* yay!

Programming, emailed Green Ronin again asking which parts of True20 are OGL, still no answer yet. Hopefully someone will reply. The Open Gaming Software License says I can make a video game under it, but I have to have all OGL content 'open' for end users. This seems reasonable, and depending upon GR as to what's OGL content in True20, I will begin working on a system for space combat. I'd like it to be real time, but that may be harder then one may think. The FP mode while within a ship/station/colony will be real time as well. Just going to be interesting to do, but it's possible and been done before (aka D&D Online)

Gaming, about 35% away from 75th level on my necro in everquest, just recently got the item from the Ikky4 trial, only took 2 tries due to low number turn out. We're doing Uqua next week for the first time, that should be interesting. The strategy post our raid leader put up is harsh, but I think we'll get it done eventually.