Idzy
Commander
3082 Posts
    
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/09/2007 3:26 PM |
| | Well I threw together a couple quick warbands so I'm headed off to Game Knight. See you later. | | | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 02/09/2007 7:46 PM |
| | Hmm, the case of the disappearing dragonkith has yet to be solved. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/09/2007 9:09 PM |
| Who did you play last League session, maybe they grabbed it by mistake. (Checked my League minis, I don't have it.)
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 02/10/2007 8:44 AM |
| | Ok, that was weird. I just reached down to grab my game controller and in the process I looked at the floor. Guess what was lying between my computer table and the other table beside it? | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/10/2007 9:14 AM |
| | Hmmmmm...... a 5 year old ham sandwich? | | | |
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nicovk
Sneak
103 Posts
| | 02/10/2007 9:40 AM |
| | nico here...I might be back into the computer saddle...not sure though....if you got this I am doing better... | |
Pounce goes the cat!!! Felix the Flounder strikes!
All heed the Drunken Paladin who performs comedy!!! | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/10/2007 9:47 AM |
| Welcome back Nico.  | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/10/2007 9:58 AM |
| | Anyhoo...... I'm headed off to Game Knight for the DDM League, I'll smell you later. | | | |
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Omand
Commander
3120 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 02/10/2007 3:10 PM |
| Hello,
Good to see Nico back to the boards.
Nice to see 9 people out for the league. Disappointing 0-3 for me today.
Oh well, it is all in fun, right?
Cheers
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 02/10/2007 5:54 PM |
| Twas indeed a fun afternoon of DDM. Don't look now Jay, but happy-go-lucky Team Elan is gaining on ya. It's that new Dashing Swordsman Prestige Class I tell ya.
Sigh, if only I'd opened today's prize booster yesterday as my new additions. I coulda played:
Harmonium Guard
Fire Giant Forgepriest
Bluespawn Stormlizard x2
Greenspawn Sneak
Kobold Monk | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 02/10/2007 7:51 PM |
| To answer a few things that came up today:
(06/28/2006) Enhanced Mobility [#]: When using this ability, all of this creature's attacks must happen after its movement has finished; this ability does not allow this creature to move between or after its attacks. This ability has no effect when this creature charges.
(08/06/2006) Dragon Graveyard: The six large rib bones protruding from the ground around the central victory area are treated as statues.
Off to ask Guy about diagonally moving past an enemy.
Scratch that, I won't ask him, I'll just finish reading his webpage.
(08/02/05) Q. Assuming no walls are in the way, can a creature move diagonally between two enemies? Can a creature move diagonally between two squares of difficult terrain into a clear square without paying extra for the difficult terrain?
NOTE: This may be better with a diagram.
A. Yes on both. The rules say creatures cannot move through enemies, but to count as moving "through" an enemy's square, a creature must completely enter that square; diagonally moving between two enemies' squares doesn't put a creature completely in either of those squares. Similarly, a creature only pays the cost of terrain for squares that it completely enters. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/10/2007 8:00 PM |
| | Cool, I was correct in all three cases. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/12/2007 8:24 AM |
| | So Scott, Diplomacy for sure this week? | | | |
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stonefro2000
Sergeant
465 Posts
| | 02/12/2007 8:34 AM |
| Hey Beer Baron I found the wizkids version of star wars ships.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/wk_article.asp?cid=41243&frame=company | |
"Well maybe Mr. T hacked the game and created a Mohawk class! Maybe Mr. T is handy with computers! Had that ever occurred to you Mr. condescending Director!" | |
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stonefro2000
Sergeant
465 Posts
| | 02/12/2007 8:36 AM |
| Hey Beer Baron I found the wizkids version of star wars ships.
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/wk_article.asp?cid=41243&frame=company | |
"Well maybe Mr. T hacked the game and created a Mohawk class! Maybe Mr. T is handy with computers! Had that ever occurred to you Mr. condescending Director!" | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 02/12/2007 9:17 AM |
| | For those of you planning on heading to Gencon, hotel rooms can be booked now, you may want to get on that asap, I think they kinda sell out fast don't they? | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/12/2007 9:23 AM |
| Very fast and they ain't cheep either. Game Knight might have to install a 2 soda minimum for each tournamnent in order to get enough cans.....  | | | |
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The Beer Baron
Underboss
1553 Posts
"Champion of the Centaur Commander. Knight of the Gnoll Druid. Vindicated Champion of the Dragon Wrought Kobold!
| | 02/12/2007 10:08 AM |
| @Richard - Thanx for looking those up. I'm surprised at the ruling on diagonal movement through enemies though. I think this will come up at a tournament sometime and it will surprise people that it is actually legal. I hope a future rulebook/starter set clarifies some of these. If I am called on to support this as a ruling (in my capacity as a judge), I will be hard pressed to do so. Sigh......
@Jay - they do look cool don't they? I'm thinking of getting some, then swapping out the punch out models with WOTC plastic models and then playing it using wizkids rules (if it is like pirates). Well maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here, I should get the product in first......
GENCON trip - who's in? We should start planning it, booking hotels, budgeting for meals, transportation etc... I figure driving will be cheapest, but that ties up more time. Maybe flying would be best. How much? I don't know, but let's form a committee and see who is ready to commit to making this a go.
Who's in?
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/12/2007 11:04 AM |
| | I'm out. | | | |
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Idzy
Commander
3082 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/13/2007 7:32 AM |
| The Official Gencon website.
Watch that clock tick down.....
$75 US each just to get in the door all 4 days.
Hotel.ca will let you know how much rooms cost there.
Let's say you go with the Comfort Inn 15 minutes to downtown, that'll be about $100 a night. Assuming 4 people go and share a room that'll put the running total at roughly just under $200 so far.
Assuming it's a drive there gas money becomes the big variable. It's in the middle of August where the gas companies like to squeaze you for every penny. No way to accuratly plan exactly how much that will be now.
Food probably won't be a big issue, fast food is cheep and plentiful down there if of questionable quality at times. Mmmmm...... White Castle.......
After that the major expense is whatever everyone wants to spend on games and souveniers.
Oh yes, and everyone needs to get a passport.
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nicovk
Sneak
103 Posts
| | 02/13/2007 8:52 AM |
| Does it ever take a long time to go from page to page...and was it a ham and cheese sandwich found by the computer and the desktop for Richard the II???
Incidently what is all this passport business? Must of missed something? | |
Pounce goes the cat!!! Felix the Flounder strikes!
All heed the Drunken Paladin who performs comedy!!! | |
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ShadowBob
Warrior
201 Posts
| | 02/13/2007 8:58 AM |
| | lol nico, everyone needs a passport to travel down to the states now | |
Well, I would like to think my new profession is pretty simple... I kill people, very quietly and quickly and deadly and all the sort of the same thing.... or I can just force lightning the bitch and get it over with more destructively and loudly LOL | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/13/2007 9:00 AM |
| Scott's trying to get a group of people together to make the trip to Gencon this summer.
And yes, Maxminis is slow of late in particular during the day. | | | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 02/13/2007 9:57 AM |
| | Bleah. Who's up for a move to hordelings? | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/13/2007 10:59 AM |
| | I'll go whichever way the wind blows me. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/13/2007 11:02 AM |
| | By the way Richard, good luck at Winter Fantasy. Give 'em hell. | | | |
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Omand
Commander
3120 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 02/13/2007 1:07 PM |
| Hello all,
@ Richard II - Good luck this weekend. I expect to see your name mentioned in the standings or something. Plus, you have to come back with gifts for all of us. 
@ Beer Baron - There was a user over on the A&AM boards asking about Winnipeg gamers, so I have referred him to you and to this thread. Hopefully he will get in touch.
@ Beer Baron - Count me out for Gen Con. I am working on a big job application that will hopefully result in a nice government job around the end of August. Have to be free to commit to that if it comes through.
@ All - Hordelings? I seem to have the same loading problems there as here, so we will see.
Cheers
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ShadowLord XT
Commander
2646 Posts
Plane of Shadow
| | 02/14/2007 6:46 AM |
| No Hordelings for me. I can't access it from school which is where I do a lot of my posting anyways.
Good luck Richard. | |
Disipline is the only way to overcome chaos.
Champion of Half-Golems
Knight of Golems
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 02/14/2007 7:29 AM |
| | This could get interesting. Apparently the Washington airports are closed. Although they're supposed to open in like an hour, which is 10 hours before I'm supposed to get there, so here's hoping. | |
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Idzy
Commander
3082 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 02/14/2007 8:50 AM |
| Re Gencon:
I think I can budget around $1000 for the trip and I imagine that would be pretty close to what it would cost to drive and hotel it for the con and leave some spending money too.
Passports are only necesarry for flying into the US driving in you won't need one till 2009 I believe.
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Idzy
Commander
3082 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 02/14/2007 9:03 AM |
| I started some rough budgeting for Gencon, all in Cdn funds and based on 4 people going in a car:
Badge $100
Hotel $150
Gas $100
Food $100 -150
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$450 -500
My estimate for gas is probably high, its around 3600km round trip at a buck a liter and a car that does 10L/100km thats only $360, I think my car gets about 8L/100km.
So it might not be too expensive.
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/14/2007 9:39 AM |
| | Considering this crowd that food budget seems a little on the light side.... | | | |
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ShadowBob
Warrior
201 Posts
| | 02/14/2007 9:57 AM |
| | lol aggreed, however, it would depend on what kind of vehicle you guys take as well, like rob said, if u take his car that would be a lot in gas, round trip of 360, what about inter city driving, unless you guys plan to walk every where. | |
Well, I would like to think my new profession is pretty simple... I kill people, very quietly and quickly and deadly and all the sort of the same thing.... or I can just force lightning the bitch and get it over with more destructively and loudly LOL | |
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Idzy
Commander
3082 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 02/14/2007 11:11 AM |
| | I included around 250km of city driving, could be right about the food, but like you said earlier Fast food is cheap and plentiful in the US just not at the Con itself. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/14/2007 11:36 AM |
| The way I figure it, it would at least be 6 days (4 at the Con and 2 of hard travel) so given $150 that works out to $25 a day. That could work out, in particular if you load up on snacks for the trip down. Mmmmmm... snacks.
$600 should safely cover you not counting games, convention hookers, souveniers, booze, t-shirts, bail money, and other individual stuff. | | | |
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Idzy
Commander
3082 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 02/14/2007 12:18 PM |
| Still well within my budget.
So who all is in for the trip?
We should get the hotel booked and badges ordered ASAP as I have heard that the hotels go fast. | |
Champion of Champions (for all races! even Gnomes )
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ShadowBob
Warrior
201 Posts
| | 02/14/2007 12:38 PM |
| | really, one of the biggest questions i want to ask, is really what is Gen con? in your guys's view of a summary? | |
Well, I would like to think my new profession is pretty simple... I kill people, very quietly and quickly and deadly and all the sort of the same thing.... or I can just force lightning the bitch and get it over with more destructively and loudly LOL | |
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Idzy
Commander
3082 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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