Recent content by Richards

You mean...someone's going to try to cut the Cheese? Johnathan

Assembled crowd at the Oddball PC Designers Anonymous meeting: "Hi, Dannyalcatraz!" Johnathan

In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs: Paid to have my petrified sorcerer returned to flesh. Queried an NPC bard friend about what to expect in the chamber we'd unearthed (and in which we fought a beholder the previous session), specifically asking him: Is that magical metal statue...

Iron golem. Glabrezu. In sequence. Johnathan

I'm trying something a little different after a whole string of 500+ page Lisa Jackson thrillers: A Mortal Bane, by Roberta Gellis. It's a murder mystery...set in London...in the year 1139...involving the murder of a foreign traveler whose body is found at the doors of a church which adjoins a...

Tieflings hatching fiendish dinosaur eggs. Johnathan

ADVENTURE 52: A GNOLL IN THE ROAD PC Roster: Ageratum Purslane, halfling rogue 12 Alistair Mandelberen Pastlethwaite, human sorcerer 12 Chaevaris Noarunal, elf archer 12 Harlan Starblade, half-elf paladin 12 NPC Roster: Orchid, elf druid 12 Game Session...

Yeah, they stuffed me in an extradimensional space, teleported to our home city, and paid a wizard to cast stone to flesh on me. So I'm better now, just ticked I didn't get to see the killing blow get delivered on the stupid beholder. Still and all, it was better than that time a ghost...

I'm willing to accept that. Johnathan

When I was in high school (class of 1982 - yeah, I'm old), I joined the Science Fiction Book Club, and one month I didn't return the order sheet in time and as a result was shipped (and billed for) the two featured selections for the month. One was a book by C. J. Cherryh and the other looked...

I guess I FAed and FO. Johnathan

In tonight's "Ghourmand Vale" session, the PCs: Were returning home to the Vale (a three-day trip), when on day two they found a dead gnoll in the road Saw the gnoll's head had been crushed to a pulp (likely from one blow), and noted there was no blood and no footprints anywhere around the body...

%@#&ing beholder petrified my sorcerer! Johnathan

ADVENTURE 51: SHRINERS CONVENTION PC Roster: Ageratum Purslane, halfling rogue 12 Alistair Mandelberen Pastlethwaite, human sorcerer 12 Chaevaris Noarunal, elf archer 12 Harlan Starblade, half-elf paladin 12 NPC Roster: Orchid, elf druid 12 Game Session...

I got a smile out of an elderly lady in the swimming pool when she was showing off her new swimming suit, and I told her it looked "quite fetching." She said she couldn't remember the last time she'd heard that word used in that context. So I guess, in that instance, I made "fetching" happen...