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[featherynscale]

Yesterday, I was sick as the proverbial dog. This may have been related to the chili-pepper pakora orcjohn and I had with dinner on Tuesday night, but dammit, if I can't eat deep-fried hot peppers, what good is living?
Anyway. So mostly I slept all day and then dicked around with various role-playing game paraphernalia for the rest of the afternoon. triadruid bought me a copy of Unearthed Arcana at the Half-Price Books the other week. I'm sad that we didn't have it when we started building the current campaign world. Some of the rule variations we made might have been better to be the rule variations published, but hell, it's too late now. We didn't need aquatic goblins anyway.
After that, triadruid came home and we put together our salvaged bookcases (we got them out of somebody else's trash last Bulky Item Pickup Day, because that's how we roll, apparently). They're now holding all of the religion books, which is good, because frankly, the religion books fit a lot better on two very tall bookcases than they did on the one very tall bookcase that had previously been housing them. I have been warned that simply because we seem to have some empty shelf space now, that is no reason to go out and buy a lot of new books. I consider myself thwarted.
Also, kittenpants' dad came by and dropped off a bunch of furniture that he was giving us from his old place, and some other stuff that they wouldn't let him put in his storage unit. Like large quantities of gasoline, and fertilizer. Our garage is now an explosion hazard. triadruid said he re-attached the smoke detectors downstairs, but I'm thinking, you know, if that all goes up, the smoke detector is going to be pretty damned irrelevant.

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Sad RPG news

[crookedface.livejournal.com]

One of the folks with whom I worked on Gygax's current game died of a heart defect. He was 42 and the defect ran in his family. One of the artists I knew and sucked into the project ended up marrying him, so I was in part responsible for getting them together.

Dan and I butted heads a bit during the project and came out of it with respect for the other fellow. I am surprised at how deeply his passing is affecting me; we haven't spoken in several years as I haven't done work with him since then.

For those with a copy of Lejendary Adventure, one of the characters in the cover painting is modelled after him. Find me sometime with book in hand and I'll point him out.

Not that I expect anyone to have the game nor have much interest in the identity of a dead stranger....

Instigating

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Since when does one need an actual reason in order to buy a book?