Beer, cider, friends, fun... and the GRE.

[glasseye]

This weekend was rather productive. I:

- Went to the farmer's market with ursule.
- Started a batch of hard cider made from apple cider bought at said market (pure juice, no preservatives!)
- Cleaned up yeast blow-out from the aforementioned hard cider.
- Finally bottled the pumpkin ale that I started in November. 8.1%, and darn tasty.
- Hung out with ursule, tejolote, and ryunohi during a general craft night at our place.
- Consumed beer, scotch, and pizza with the aforementioned people.
- Hacked together a holder for engraving coin dies.
- Did a bunch of GRE practice questions.
- Went for a nice walk through the forested area of Ravenna Park with ursule.
- Played some video games (okay, so this wasn't exactly productive).

Comments

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thank you - I checked the wiki a bit last night, reading up on the existing characters, the deities, etc, but I didn't get far enough into it to get the plot concept, I think. And then today... ugh. Silly work keeping me away from fun pursuits. :P With luck, I'll have a chance to read the rest of the wiki tonight.

Okay, here's where my brain is going - I'd like to go with a paladin, if you don't mind, so that I have the fighty stuff along with potential for a little healing when necessary (I'm pulling this off the top of my head without a reference, so correct me if I'm wrong - it's been a while since I've looked at the rule books!). I've got bits of the backstory brewing, but I'll have to go through the details in the story to see how it'll mesh.

Speaking of that last, what system are you running on? I'd love to keep my eyes open for my own copies of the basic manual.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ack - by 'system' I mean 3.0, etc. *Headdesk* It's been a long day.

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Sure thing. The wiki is far from perfect, but it does have a decent amount of info up.

A paladin is fine. They don't have much in the way of healing at level 7 (just a few level 1 spells + lay on hands, IIRC), but you can tweak the character a bit, especially with a high wisdom score. Or you could always multi-class.

We're currently running D&D 3.0 with some minor rule tweaks, but a 3.5 book would be perfectly fine (I'd recommend a 3.5 book, since I'd like to move to the 3.5 rules later on anyway). If you want to buy new, there's a pretty good gaming shop on the ave a couple of blocks north of 50th called The Dreaming (east side of the street).

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Nods* I really liked what I saw, I just need to get through the rest. And maybe take some notes so I don't get things mixed up when I'm doing character creation.

Multi-classing could be interesting... I'll have to take a look at the book, I've never done that before. Either way, I'd definitely be pushing for high wisdom, so that's good.

I keep meaning to pop into The Dreaming anyway, though I'll probably check the ones closer to home on the way, and the used stuff as well. I've been needing one of the books for a long time, anyway, so it's time to just buckle down and buy it. XD And some new dice, since mine seem to have vanished....

[ursula]

High Charisma is actually more useful than high Wisdom for a paladin, at least until you hit the super-high levels (the points you can heal by laying on hands depend on the Charisma score).

D'you know which god you're leaning toward?