Quote from: Antiquation!;1115158You are perhaps the strangest and one of the most entertaining posters I've ever encountered. Please post more, and welcome to therpgsite gilbrinur.

So shall I dance for you and wear a funny suit and hat with a little propeller on the top?  And if I should stop being "strange" and "entertaining" to you, what then? You'll have me... banned, perhaps? Is that the veiled threat looming beneath the seemingly placid surface waters of your comment? Well hear me now: I am not your little performing trained little beetle or whatever it is. And I'm not a "poster", as you say, to be tacked up on your smelly, sweaty bedroom wall between the 1976 Corvette and the extreme close up of Pamela Anderson's camel toe. I'm a man. A man like you. A man with hopes and dreams.  A man with aspirations, wants, needs, drives, impulses, urges, lusts, memory lapses, regrets, and shame. Yes. I am a man. And yet I will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of all the cigarettes and banana peels I smoked just to make it through one more miserable day out there in that rat infested sh*t hole they call "the world". And why?  Why, you ask?  Because.  That's why.

(To Never Be Continued...)

Quote from: gilbrinur;1114665I get what you're saying; it's not a typo.  But the "rounded up" part was not clear to me from the text.  Even now that I know it I find it difficult to parse the rule that way.  The book says the wand will do "1d6+1 damage for every 3 levels that the magister had at the time of activating the blasting wand."  Suppose you read this rule:  "Each participant will receive one candy bar for every 3 box tops he presents on the final day of the contest."  Would you expect to receive 2 candy bars for handing in 5 box tops?  I wouldn't.  Because I'm diabetic. So I wouldn't be in the contest in the first place.  And even if I was, I can tell you I would've collected way more than 5 box tops.  Because I play to win.  But box tops from what?  Sugar cereal?  Because with my diabetes I can't eat that either.  And I'm not going to go out and buy 3 boxes of sugar cereal I can't eat just so that I can get a candy bar that I also can't eat.  So I think the blasting wand rule is ambiguous and could be improved.

P.S., I'm not actually diabetic.  I only pretended to be in order to prove my point.

I think you are over thinking things.

Quote from: gilbrinur;1115201So shall I dance for you and wear a funny suit and hat with a little propeller on the top?  And if I should stop being "strange" and "entertaining" to you, what then? You'll have me... banned, perhaps? Is that the veiled threat looming beneath the seemingly placid surface waters of your comment? Well hear me now: I am not your little performing trained little beetle or whatever it is. And I'm not a "poster", as you say, to be tacked up on your smelly, sweaty bedroom wall between the 1976 Corvette and the extreme close up of Pamela Anderson's camel toe. I'm a man. A man like you. A man with hopes and dreams.  A man with aspirations, wants, needs, drives, impulses, urges, lusts, memory lapses, regrets, and shame. Yes. I am a man. And yet I will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of all the cigarettes and banana peels I smoked just to make it through one more miserable day out there in that rat infested sh*t hole they call "the world". And why?  Why, you ask?  Because.  That's why.

(To Never Be Continued...)

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Quote from: Snowman0147;1115203I think you are over thinking things.

Of course you do.  Dim witted people often accuse highly intelligent people of "over thinking" when the reality is they just can't keep up.  But get out your dictionary and your calculator and a note pad and some nice sharp pencils with juicy, plump pink erasers on the ends (you're going to need those) and go over what I wrote very slowly.  Perhaps invite that very patient friend from school who always got all the As to give you a hand.  Then after much struggle and furrowing of brow I predict that like Goldilocks you'll find the amount of thinking I did was not too little, nor too much, but juuuust riiiiiight.

Quick to the insult when none was given to you.

Quote from: Snowman0147;1115234Quick to the insult when none was given to you.

No.  Not quick.  Check the transcript. I waited a full 8 hours before striking.

And let's not forget your brutal, unprovoked "over thinking" attack. You drew first blood.  A man has the right to protect himself and his family.

Quote from: gilbrinur;1115309No.  Not quick.  Check the transcript. I waited a full 8 hours before striking.

And let's not forget your brutal, unprovoked "over thinking" attack. You drew first blood.  A man has the right to protect himself and his family.

That is not insult and never intended as such.  You choose to take that as a insult and in turn choose to insult me.  Now I demand a apology.

Quote from: Snowman0147;1115323That is not insult and never intended as such.  You choose to take that as a insult and in turn choose to insult me.  Now I demand a apology.

Snowman, this dude is either pulling an Andy Kaufman or is off his meds.  Either way, I don't think you're going to get much of an apology.

It's funny, really.

• First there was a rules question, which was explained.
• Then the explanation was said to be mansplaining, for comic effect, with something about pretending to be diabetic that I didn't understand.
• Someone said that was entertaining
• Then we had a paraphrase of the "I'm funny, how? Do I amuse you?" from Goodfellas.
• Then someone says they are maybe overthinking things which is an insult.

I'm struggling to see how someone could think that calling an explanation mansplaining, mocking diabetes, claiming that people want them banned and then claiming to be insulted is not more insulting than the thing they thought was insulting.

10 Posts and he's insulted three people. I think he'll fit right in.

He's entertaining, that's for sure.

I don't appreciate you people talking about me behind my back.

As for the big apology, I've been working on it.  It's currently 145 pages and I'm only just getting warmed up.  I plan to publish it in hardback.  It's going to have original art and one of those little ribbon bookmark things and everything.  If that snowman guy wants to read it he's going to have to pay for it though.  And it will not be cheap.  The title is going to be "Guess Who's Sorry".

Quote from: gilbrinur;1115578I don't appreciate you people talking about me behind my back.

It's okay.  You'll learn to appreciate us in time.

Quote from: Brendan;1115622It's okay.  You'll learn to appreciate us in time.

One of Us! One of Us!

This is the weirdest L&D thread ever.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1115844This is the weirdest L&D thread ever.

Hold my beer.