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Got it! Looks interesting!

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If you still have room for another player, I'd be interested. I've been a bit out of it recently due to family stuff, but things should be easier now. If not I'll just read along. I would probably dust off my werebearkin elemental monk/druid that I built for a campaign that never flew.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Mark Haddon Christopher is 15 and is a person with autism. He lives with his dad outside of London and one night finds the neighbor's murdered dog in the garden. He decides he wants to solve the mystery of who killed Wellington and at the urging ...

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Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson This was the first book in the four "Secret Novels" on Kickstarter that Sanderson did last year. I backed the project to the tune of ebooks and audio books for the four novels. This first installment is a standalone story set in Sanderson's &qu...

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Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes by Travis Baldree This book has come highly recommended to me from a couple other sources, so I'm glad to hear you liked it as well. I tried it a few months ago, and it just wasn't for me. After the first chapter, I just put it down and n...

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Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes by Travis Baldree This fantasy novel with a twist is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! It's the story of Viv, an Orc Barbarian adventurer who decides to hang up her sword, Blackblood, and set down roots, opening up, of all things, a coffee shop. Goin...

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Looks cool. Backed! Hope it gets funded!

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I called my doctor's office today and talked to his nurse. She said she'd consult the doctor about what he wanted and called me back to tell me he had prescribed the oral medication (Paxlovid or whatever it's called) and wanted to make sure I had someone else to go get it for me, since I'm on isolat...

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The ending where she goes over to the little girl is precious!

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He was the original host of Wheel of Fortune, before they discovered that Pat Sajak does it better. Then he did Love Connection, Scrabble, and the Dating Game. He also had a talk show for 65 episodes... I think that counts a failure in that business. Disagree. I've talked to many, many people about...

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Well, a few weeks ago, my daughter twisted her ankle when she stopped by a store on the way to work. This happened to be the day after she FINALLY got her driver's license, so she was feeling good about herself and going into the store on the way to work to get some necessities and adulting and all ...

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My daughter played it for me this morning. I love it!

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It seems that the Republican leadership might have gotten wise to certain facts: 1. Trump has never won a popular vote. 2. The Republicans haven't "won" on the national level since Trump took office. 3. The two largest voter turnouts in mid-term elections in modern history were in 2018 and...

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So, I backed a kickstarter a while back for a card game that at the time was called "Wizard's Duel", but evidently that was too close to someone else's copyright so they changed the name to Arcaven's Duel . It's a simple game, really... not sure why I haven't been able to beat my daughter ...

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What kills me about musk is that way back in the days of Tesla, it was Martin Eberhard and the other guys who actually built the cars and the company and made a superior product. Musk was perhaps the one most responsible for the initial difficulties the company had scaling up production, and appare...

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This video is of a "Flash Mob" organized by the singer/songwriter of the song "I Know Victoria's Secret", outside a Victoria's Secret store... She's an indie artist that isn't signed and released the song herself and it actually made it onto the Billboard 100. (She also lucked in...

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He was the original host of Wheel of Fortune, before they discovered that Pat Sajak does it better. Then he did Love Connection, Scrabble, and the Dating Game. He also had a talk show for 65 episodes... I think that counts a failure in that business.

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I just had my 5-year reaming a few weeks ago... I don't even remember waking up and not feeling pain. So sad... it's the only time I get the really good stuff...

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Makers of insulin lost market value due to impersonators using new verification rule https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2022/11/10/twitter-elon-musk-insulin-eli-lilly-fake-tweet/69639067007/ What a disaster. Also a bit funny, screw the profiteers, but I hope no one will actually get hurt. When you...

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Wow... that's a name I haven't heard in a while... glad to hear he's still got it.

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First actual lockdown of my career. It was over after about 10 minutes. Turns out that it was a drill--they wanted a more "authentic" reaction, so they didn't tell us until after it was over. Hmmm... On the fence about whether that's an effective way to judge preparedness or a dick move? ...

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This profile from an artist on Webtoons has given me a new goal in life:

I think I'm about one barrel of coffee and a trenchcoat short of the goal at the moment...

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Paizo is doing a playtest of a new character class that will be featured in an upcoming sourcebook, Pathfinder Rage of Elements . The class is the Kineticist and is pretty much a Bender from Avatar. The class comes across as more of a martial artist class, using elemental powers magically to enhance...

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Reincarnated as a Familiar, Vol. 1 by D. S. Craig This is a Light Novel written by an American author. The basic storyline: A young elementary school teacher, who seems to barely be keeping her head above water in life, dies tragically and, while her spirit lingers in some state of limbo, muses on ...

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The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood Brilliant. Simply brilliant. The book is almost four decades old. The TV series is a five-season phenomenon. I've never experienced either until now, but I had a fair idea of what I was getting into. I read it because it's an "important book". What I...

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Any idea when we'll be heading off to our deaths?

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All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay This is the third novel set in the same basic time period in this "Historical Fantasy" world that has been used by Kay for several novels, including: The Lions of Al-Rassan Last Light of the Sun Sailing to Sarantium/Lord of Emperors (The Sarant...

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Kiara would also be suitable as a scout or guard for the caravan, but could also serve as an entertainer.

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This reminds me of the classic scenario from a crime drama where the cops take the two suspects into separate rooms to question them and after someone comes in to whisper something to the interrogator, he tells the suspect that his buddy already rolled over and pinned the crime all on him, so unles...

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This reminds me of the classic scenario from a crime drama where the cops take the two suspects into separate rooms to question them and after someone comes in to whisper something to the interrogator, he tells the suspect that his buddy already rolled over and pinned the crime all on him, so unless...

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The whole student loan industry is an amazing racket. In the past two decades, it has ballooned out of control: https://educationdata.org/wp-content/uploads/369/national-student-debt-as-a-percentage-of-gross-domestic-product.webp A large part of this has to do with laws put into place under Clinton ...

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I'd just like to ask...

https://usaroadtripsbymax.com/2019/02/2 ... raska/amp/

SERIOUSLY Nebraska? Carhenge? WTF?

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Happy Birthday, Tahlvin!

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Looks AWESOME!

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Kiara never saw the need to hide her sexuality, so she doesn't have a beard.

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1. I'm pretty free. Work is about to get crazy, but evenings should always be OK. 2. I am open to whatever. I have used Discord for various things. I might have used zoom for a meeting or two with work, though we usually use other providers. 3. Yeah... Roll20's mapping stuff is pretty awesome in my ...

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Oh... I picked it up a while ago... I might entertain the Swashbuckler class after all... We'll see. Actually, I was just informed through secret back-channels** that SarahBeth is playing a swashbuckler, so best to leave Kiara as she was. **It turns out that Andrew and SarahBeth have both lost the ...

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I'm deciding to open up options from the Advanced Pleyer's Guide, as I just recently purchased it only to discover I had already purchased it earlierr. No goblins, catfolk, kobod, ratfolk, or tengu characters. Orcs are ok. Oh... I picked it up a while ago... I might entertain the Swashbuckler class...

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So... we just purchased a countertop dishwasher . I didn't even know these things existed, but they're kinda cute. They're like the top rack of a dishwasher that sits on your counter and attaches to the sink the same way as a portable dishwasher. We had a portable dishwasher back when we first bough...

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Are we considering getting together tonight?

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I think we have a winner!

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Must be an age thing... I'm pretty sure most of the people on here were voting-aged adults when that happened. Yes, but do you remember Nixon resigning? That is my first memory of the political world at large. Then, when I was older and starting to get invested in politics, Reagan came along. I don...

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Sometimes I'm just floored by the persistence of companies that I haven't patronized in YEARS! For example, there is a restaurant chain in Chicago that was pretty much our go-to place back when my daughter was going to Loyola and we frequently were going to Broadway in Chicago shows. It is one of th...

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Must be an age thing...

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Am I the only person that Bill Clinton destroyed the word "Intern" for?

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Perhaps it was a psychological test...

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Memories from Home Kiara arrived back in Sandpoint after finishing a job in Magnamar, catching her favorite ship back up the coast. She preferred taking that ship for a couple of reasons. One was to save time getting back to Sandpoint, but more importantly, that particular ship had the best galley ...

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[This is the first in a series of character building/flavor posts for Kiara about her time spent in and around Sandpoint leading up to the beginning of the Jade Regent adventure path.] The Long Bounty Kiara was leaning near where Ameiko was whistling a happy-sounding tune while wiping down the bar. ...

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I realized I was silly not to be using a short bow instead of a crossbow, since they're the same price and the short bow is one of the weapons listed in the Elven Weapon Familiarity list, so it will be better in the long run... so I switched that... a compound longbow will be better in the really lo...

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Unless you take Dwarven Weapon Familiarity, which turns Advanced Uncommon Dwarven Weapons into Martial.

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