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Word of the Week: RAPACIOUS

Gail — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:40:56 +0000

Rapacious is to be aggressively greedy. An example of rapacious that comes to mind is Smaug, the dragon from “The Hobbit”. Smaug, like many dragons, loves to hoard gold and will kill, and even destroy villages for it. While adventuring we usually have a rapacious thief in the party, who is a little nicer about getting their loot than a dragon. At the end of an adventure will tell you that “there were Seven, um…, I mean three gems in the chest”.
Have you had any interesting rapacious characters during your adventures?

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No LAN play for Diablo III, Really

shent_lodge — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:27:33 +0000

I was just settling down on deciding to buy Diablo III, because we love Diablo II so much around here, when I read there will be no LAN play support. Ack! Please tell me I read wrong! LAN play made the game so much fun, and is pretty much why I have a home network! Yeah, I use the network to share printers and files, or at least that is the excuse I used to get the wife to approve the infrastructure in our home. But we almost exclusively use it for LAN games with Diablo II being the main LAN game in our house for like 10 years or more. We have like six copies of the game and we play it with friends and relatives often. Oh well. I was going to buy 4 copies for the house, but now it looks like we will only buy 1 and “share” watching one person play it. Lame.

No LAn play for Diablo equals no fun

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Word of the Week: QUAGMIRE

Gail — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:22:06 +0000

A quagmire is a ground surface that is soft,such as a bog. A quagmire can also be a situation that is difficult to get out of. The Lord of the Rings that has a great example of both definitions of quagmire. Golem leads Sam and Frodo through the marshy bog, and Frodo starts to realize the burden of taking the ring is much more than he expected, and he must do this alone.
Can you name any other fantasy or sci-fi movies that have dual meaning of quagmire?

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Word of the Week: DOOHICKEY

Gail — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:12:15 +0000

My mom used ‘Doohickey’ to describe anything she couldn’t remember the name of, and trust me that was a lot. In fact when she wanted to call one of us kids she would go through every name (7) including the dogs’ names before she got the correct one. I’m surprised one of us did not have the nickname Doohickey! But she also had a great collection of Doohickeys; from an old phonograpgh that you would wind up by hand, to a really cool hall tree in our hall.
In an adventure, I always bring every doohickey imaginable. In one adventure I had a ladder, because I once got stuck in a 10 foot hole, as a dwarf it was kind of hard to get out of. I also had an hour glass, and in every fight I would flip it over and say “What time is it?” and I would answer “Time to kick some butt!” And of course I always carried a fish hook with string. What was your most unique, or most fun Doohickey, gadget, or thingumbob your character took on an adventure?

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Word of the Week: PANACEA

Gail — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:01:09 +0000

Panacea is a remedy or cure-all for all diseases. This week I have a word that is actually easy to relate to game play. A good adventurer will not venture too far without either a cleric who can heal them, or a healing potion which is essentially a “Cleric in a bottle”. (Oh, that would make a good theme song if sung to Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a bottle”.)
Well, a healing potion is a panacea that is essential for an adventurer.

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