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Word of the Week: ICHOR

Gail — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:31:53 +0000

Mythologically ichor refers to the “blood of the gods”. It is a gold liquid that runs through the veins of immortals. In a medical or pathological setting it is used to refer to a watery discharge from a wound or ulcer. If referring to Gods ichor is a sacred life source and normal, but to mere mortals ichor is a sign of and infection or a fetid discharge from a sore.

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Word of the Week: HALIDOM

Gail — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:55:59 +0000

Halidom is an archaic word that means a holy place or thing. In role playing games we often pursue someone who wants to use a holy item or holy place in an unholy way. Maybe to raise an undead army, or a demon to wipeout their enemy, or to become an imortal being. So, even though we look for a halidom, it is usually not a nice or holy experience.

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Ending the Year with Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box

shent_lodge — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:19:58 +0000

For Christmas I bought my son the Pathfinder RPG Beginner Box, because we felt it was time for him to try the game we play. Lucky for us, Paizo came out with an excellent product to introduce role-playing games to people who have never played them before. Seriously, there is some cut and polish to the product that just makes it stand out as something you want to try. Back in the day, I started with the Basic Dungeons & Dragons game, I had a blast, and bought more, and more, and more… maybe I should not let my son play this game?

I do know my perception of graph paper changed drastically after I mapped my first dungeon for the game; from that day on graph paper was a tool for mapping dungeons and nothing else. I hoard graph paper.

The Pathfinder Role Playing Game Beginner Box is cool and here is a quick comparison between the old and the new; I am sure the other flavors of Dungeons and Dragons over the years had beginner box sets, but none spoke to me from the shelf the way this one did, that, and it was Christmas, and my son was ripe to try something more advanced than Shoots and Ladders, or Settlers of Catan. We are also trying to get him away from his DS. Who let him get that?

My son wants to play the fighter; Borg wins again, though Valeros is way cooler than Borg from the ODD Basic rules.

He read what a fighter can do and said, “That’s me I want to be a fighter”.

The character sheets are very well designed; there are also “pregen” characters to start right away, that come with hints and notes in their booklets, yes booklets, on what to do and when to do them, to really make the game easy to start off. There are also paper cutout PCs and monsters, printed on some seriously thick paper to place in plastic bases. Most importantly, the box set came with a decent set of dice that are now my son’s, so starts his hoard of game dice.

I just wonder what my son will get from this new shiny game? I hope years of adventure and cool trouble shooting skills.

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Word of the Week: GEOPHAGY

Gail — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:28:35 +0000

Geophagy is the habit of eating soil. Animals, such as earthworms are geophagus, and certain tribes have been known to eat earth or clay.
Time to relate this to game play. We came accross a bulette (boo-LAY) or landshark that desimated our party because it can attack from below, so you have no idea you are being stalked. If I remember correctly it can burrow back into the ground and erupt anywhere. On top of that, it can strike with all four feet! So my questionis, are Bulletes geophagus? I think “yes”, but they also like the treat of live flesh, and that is why they jump out the earth to attack unsuspecting victims.

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Word of the week: FACTOTUM

Gail — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:19:52 +0000

A factotum is a jack of all trades; a person who is employed to do all kinds of work around the house, or an employee that has many different responsibilities.
When I think of factotum, i think of a recent post on Facebook I saw. Althought this is WD40 and Duct tape are not people, if you own them you can do just about anything!

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