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Yesterday was a Headache Day until like ten at night, which is annoying because I couldnt sleep through all of it, I was mostly doing Feeling Stupid for aaaages, and then when I got the yipee nothing hurts phase it was time for bed again.

I also listened to one (1) Doctor Who adventure. In two parts. Loud was... not good, but its incredibly boring doing actual nothing.

I think I dont like Tamsin as an idea, she screws up a lot and keeps trying to apply Acting but badly and I think that was funnier to the actos than the listeners. But I had a headache so its possible that's, like, all my opinion.

Didnt get any further with reading. Keep on thinking things like
hmmm, what size settlement is it if you only bring your Followers (Village)
or if you got to level 20 and took capstone The Boss (Small Town)
or if all of you in a party did that?
Turns out you can get up to about 9000 people if a party of six are all The Boss.
On Pathfinder scale that's a Small City.
Just of your Followers.
No wonder an adventure party doing Kingdom building seems plausible.
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So I'm feeling a lot brighter today so I just chattered about Pathfinder pibraries and universities.

By the end of Wrath of the Righteous on the computer, on the Legend mythic path, as a Rogue / Bard Archaeologist 20/20, Ianto has the highest possible Knowledge modifiers.
Meaning he probably knows the most of anyone in the world.
The single best thing he could do for Golarion is write it all down
and teach as much as he can.

Bit tricky with all the politics going on, but, nobody else on the planet even *can* be level 40, no one can have that many skill ranks, and most of them came to him via mythic power and contact with multiple deities, so it didnt come out of books in the first place. That's some quality knowledge to redistribute.

Wrath on the xbox has a very limited set of skills though, and it changes some Knowledge to Lore to fix the thing where clerics arent typically statted to be the best at Knowledge (religion).

I dont know what his skills would look like with the book list. Pretty good though, given the Bardic Knowledge boost and all.

Actually I can't remember if it was Bard 20 or if I put the last 3 into some specific prestige class. Could go look if I go play the new DLC.

Still. Level 20 character with All The Skills. It's just kind of sad for the planet if they kite off for adventures in the Great Beyond without leaving notes.


... hence the Pathfinder Chronicles...

So I have now seen the first three eps of season six and it is doing a thing ( Read more... )


I have a headache. I was trying to ignore it until it went away but it did not. So that's kind of my mood about the episode.

Ah well.

Today I fiddled with rule books until I had designed a castle that works in Pathfinder but resembles the one the D&D 3e Stronghold Builders Guide says you get with the Throne card.
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I watched the Vixen animates movie that goes with Arrow and Flash and all that on TV.
I say movie, it had several distinct parts, I think it was pasted together from somethings?
It had many good aspects. Women, black people, story with enemies like smugglers and warlords as well as the usual criminals, and the whole sisters and family and finding your heritage thing to give it a heart.

I have a headache so I'm not exactly excited about the world right now, but the movie was pretty okay.

I got the season 1 box set of Lost Girl the other day, and today I started watching.

How much am I liking it? I have the kind of headache that, even after painkillers, would really quite a lot suggest I should curl up in a dark place quietly and maybe not move so I don't feel quite so sick, yet instead I am watching Lost Girl.

I am up to the start of the third episode. The plots aren't, like, profound or astounding or very surprising at all, but I really like these characters. There are women. There are lots of women. ( Read more... )


So I'm hoping I can continue to like this show. Because I like it a lot right now.
I'm trying not to just get worried it'll start doing all the things I hate later. but TV has me trained.
But right now it's a kick arse urban fantasy sexy happy place.

A thing I don't get: I am reading about older characters. As in, not teenage. Probably middle aged. They've accumulated a bit of milage, got their scars, and while they've still got strength enough to be going on with, they're better padded than they used to be. Bodies that are comfortably worn in, like good leathers. Possibly they have less hair than they used to, probably it's going a little grey, or a lot silver. These are all features of these guys, distinguishing characteristics, and from where I'm standing good things.

So I read fic, and what happens? Some writers have them loose weight, change their exercise regimen (even characters who canonically get very plenty exercise as it is), grow their hair (!) and change their clothes (!!) and generally write about them like they got twenty years younger and decided 'pretty' was more important than 'apocalypse' in the grand scheme of things.

It's like they looked at these guys and decided 'They're so dreamy, I'll just change everything about them!'

I mean, I get writing about the younger versions, seeing how people got to be the way they are, maybe liking a certain season better than others, or appreciating the way regular exercise reshapes a person. But what I do not get is, if they're going to make them have different bodies, why start with those other bodies in the first place? Just... find different guys. Who are in fact younger already. It's not like Hollywood has any shortage.

And while it might logically seem likely they choose those guys for the personality, personal histories, relationships and all that unique stuff... no. Not so much, that I can see. I mean, there might be some really well characterised stuff that just thinks guys look better when they're starving themselves and spending all day at the gym, but the ones I've seen, if they're going to reshape their outsides, they go for the 'bringing them out of themselves', 'more confident', 'freer', totally redone different personality. Just tweak every aspect of their personality. And forget all that save the world stuff, that's what canon is for, the guys clearly would rather be in bed.

Maybe it's for the pairings. If they keep the pairings. Just... if they want them to look different, act different, and live in different stories, why do they care about the pair at all?

... okay, I'm done now.

I'd just like to read stories about (a) old friends-turned-enemies who try and make it work again and (b) teachers with adult-enough students, probably with swords involved or (c) protector/protected pairs that are based on age/ability not gender, and all of those require people with a bit of history on them. I like the little lines and the silver. It's all good. All this instant teenage reversion stuff... it's like the auton replica versions, hello plastic.
... except Rory-auton didn't look plastic, or act plastic, so plastic is not necessarily a bad thing, but you know what I mean.

I'd say it's like the Hollywood recasting of everyone but quite a lot of TV was in LA to start with. Still, LA people are less likely to look as various as British TV people, to my eye, and it gets peculiar sometimes.

Okay, I should take a painkiller and do something completely different now.
/rant

Romana is cool! Has adventures, saves people, and goes off to save own universe! Gets fed up of the Doctor and dumps him. Can see why. Romana gets K9 and Doctor gets Adric. Romana wins.

Story quite often didn't make even a tiny bit of sense, but hey, no worries. Had fun running around and fighting shiny skeleton warriors anyways.

Best bit: Somewhere in the middle of that my headache wore off, only having lasted about eight hours. Win! Doctor Who clearly cures everything! Or at least makes waiting around for it to get better much less boring.