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Since I got so many comments playing D&D in Chicago about not using enough active voice, I figured I’d start a thread that has some in it. Besides, with all these threads on who to vote for, where to vote, who you did vote for, I decided there was an empty niche for a thread declaring intentions to vote. And when I get back maybe I’ll start a thread declaring that I have voted, not active voice I know, but one can only expect so much change.
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Is "I voted" still active voice, as in "vote" in the past tense? I believe it is. It's when you say something like eh...how can you make the process of voting passive?
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Let it also be noted for the record that Hobbes, at his request, played a seven-foot-tall albino covered in mystic runes accompanied by an animated stuffed tiger about two feet high. For his first "turn" of the game, he entered a local bar and announced that he desired to look inconspicuous.
But seriously, this is why I could never play D&D. I'm just too indecisive, and would have problems making decisions on what to do. It's a shame, really, because I love the idea of D&D, but I find it way too nervewracking to play.
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They might have been two feet tall, but they kept landing blows on my head! When your head gets knocked you try to get it lower.
I'm back from voting by the way.
And as a side note to Tom, I was supposed to shrink into the corner totally covered by my black cloak, I wasn't being inconspicious, I was being unnoticed. I did have a pretty high rating in that area.
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Yeah, because you put all the points you could into that category. And it helped matters that you were a Rogue. Posts: 873 | Registered: Apr 2003
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What I remember most is the scene in the library.
Tom intones, "The book is covered with runes." I perk up. "I read runes!" Tom gives me a look that's a mix of exasperation and pity. I mumble, "Maybe I don't read runes." and go back to sleep.
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::laughs:: I remember Bernard reading it and the pages turning to dust. He just gave up two into it.
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Yah, Tom made him role to read every page, to see if it turned to dust, and each page had like two sentances (at most) on it, I think it was most fitting for his charecter to give up.
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I still don't understand why I couldn't read them. Tom looked so sad that I offered to that I couldn't bring myself to ask.
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It was because he, out of the goodness of his heart, had already let you choose a language you speak by convience, and now you wanted to add another one onto your aresnal just because it came in handy.
quote: What I remember most is the scene in the library.
Tom intones, "The book is covered with runes." I perk up. "I read runes!" Tom gives me a look that's a mix of exasperation and pity. I mumble, "Maybe I don't read runes." and go back to sleep.
*giggle* Yes, that caught our attention across the room, playing Scrabble.
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*grin* Katie, as a wizard, knew several languages. But because it takes forever to draw up a D&D character anyway, and I didn't want to waste more time explaining the utility of various character languages and/or coming up with anything resembling a detailed world setting -- which, believe me, this wasn't -- I determined that she spoke every language spoken by everyone in the party, and then did an INT check every time she encountered another spoken language to see if it happened to be one of her other known tongues.
The runes in question, however, were the complicated written language of an orthodox dwarven sect, a sect which had been completely exterminated to the last dwarf three thousand years ago -- and, even when they existed, had not shared their written language with anyone except earth elementals. The book itself was a concise breakdown of the entire friggin' plot, and existed to reward the group if they somehow managed to figure out a way to translate it -- and read it, which due to its advanced age and the not-so-careful nature of our group was in fact a matter of some doubt.
Bernard's cleric, luckily for everyone, thought to pray for a blessing which permitted him to read any one language, regardless of its origin.
Where Katie's ridiculously high intellect failed, Bernard's simple faith succeeded. Although Katie's simple faith in her ridiculously high intellect almost carried the day.
quote:Let it also be noted for the record that Hobbes, at his request, played a seven-foot-tall albino covered in mystic runes accompanied by an animated stuffed tiger about two feet high. For his first "turn" of the game, he entered a local bar and announced that he desired to look inconspicuous.
quote:The runes in question, however, were the complicated written language of an orthodox dwarven sect, a sect which had been completely exterminated to the last dwarf three thousand years ago -- and, even when they existed, had not shared their written language with anyone except earth elementals.
Aw, man, I miss gameplay.
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My favorite Zev moment was his reaction to being possessed by the book and subsequently attacked by the entire party for no apparent reason. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Blessed is the alchee-hol! Hours upon hours of meditation and prayer each day is not simple! Satwyagraha
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I had a friend who cast eternal light on his bow so that he could always have it handy, then proceedd to try and hide from the bad guys, and couldn't figure out why they always found him.
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There has to be a way for hatrackers to play D & D long-distance. That was the most fun I've had in a long time.
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