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the_rckI ended up ordering a small pizza and a small salad for lunch yesterday. Scott got half of the pizza as his dinner and seems to have enjoyed it, so that’s good. I’m not sure the salad was a good idea because, eight hours later, I was still burping lettuce flavor. That happens about half the time when I have salad and is a huge reason why I avoid cucumbers which always have that effect.
I got through a bunch of library DVDs yesterday. I’ve got half of one left to watch and am not sure I will. I might just return the dratted thing to the library without finishing. I’m sort of vaguely interested in knowing what happens, but given that I’m about 1/3 of the way through, that seems like a weak reason to go on.
I have a book of poetry due back tomorrow. I’ve renewed it once and have only gotten about thirty pages in. I like it reasonably well, but there are so many other things that I want to get done that it’s low on my list of things to read. I’m not sure that renewing it again would actually lead to me reading more of it, so maybe I should just take it back. No one’s clamoring for the chance to read it, but…
Scott had to work early this morning, but they let him leave an hour or two early (I didn’t check my clock when he got home, so I’m not sure how early, just that he said they had). He picked up bagels on his way home and then fell into bed to sleep some more.
I woke with a headache. It had already started by the time Scott got home and was worse by the time I got up. I did manage to sleep in that gap, however, which was good. I took an Amerge, and that seems to have helped.
I still have two characters at 1/3 done and four characters at 2/3 done. Only five of the six will get played, even if the event fills up, but I want that extra character just in case because there’s one character who must be played as female while the other five can go either way.
I’ve only got one term left to define on the terminology sheet (Pattern is the one that’s left), and I’m trying to decide how to break up that sheet. Right now, it’s mostly alphabetical with a section at the end that explains some character sheet terminology rather than game world terminology. There are some terms that are both game world terminology and character sheet/rules issues, and I’m not quite sure how to treat those.
I’m trying to decide how many npcs I actually have to name in advance. A lot of the player characters have 'allies' and/or 'minions' as things they’ve paid points for, and I’m trying to decide whether those need to be solid in advance or if I’m willing to make them up as I go. It might make sense to leave them so that the players can ask for what they need as they need it. If I have a list of names to draw on, I can do that reasonably well. (Me naming characters on the fly doesn’t tend to work out so well. Scott will never let me live down the ultra-powerful npc mage that I named Ernie because that was the only name that I could come up with on the spot.)
Maybe I can get Scott to come up with some names. I have an excellent baby name book that has lots of variant names, so I could hand him that and ask him to make some lists. He’s doing the grocery shopping right now, and he still needs to rake leaves, do some of his own convention preparation, and pay the bills today, but maybe this evening… He can do it while watching the Star Trek movie he just bought.
Of course, he has occasional issues with selecting names that people can’t reliably pronounce. He once named a geo-political group in a LARP the Remaranans. We got a lot of very confused players as they tried to say that. I think some folks gave up and called them the Ram-a-lan-a-ding-dongs for the entire game.
Cordelia’s school had a middle school fun night last night, so she and her friends went to that. It ended at 8:30, so she got home much earlier than she normally would on a Friday evening. She ended up going to bed early, too, about 9:30 or 10:00.
I stayed up until a little after 11:00, just in case Scott’s work was going to call to say he didn’t need to come in. They didn’t, of course, but they sometimes do.
Scott tells me that conditions at work are improving under the new manager. Basically, the new manager understands people a lot better than the old one did. The old one was mostly the top expert in how the machines worked and didn’t much care if the workers were happy or miserable because he didn’t realize it mattered. They’ve shunted him sideways in order to keep his expertise with the machines, but he’s not telling people what to do any more.
I got through a bunch of library DVDs yesterday. I’ve got half of one left to watch and am not sure I will. I might just return the dratted thing to the library without finishing. I’m sort of vaguely interested in knowing what happens, but given that I’m about 1/3 of the way through, that seems like a weak reason to go on.
I have a book of poetry due back tomorrow. I’ve renewed it once and have only gotten about thirty pages in. I like it reasonably well, but there are so many other things that I want to get done that it’s low on my list of things to read. I’m not sure that renewing it again would actually lead to me reading more of it, so maybe I should just take it back. No one’s clamoring for the chance to read it, but…
Scott had to work early this morning, but they let him leave an hour or two early (I didn’t check my clock when he got home, so I’m not sure how early, just that he said they had). He picked up bagels on his way home and then fell into bed to sleep some more.
I woke with a headache. It had already started by the time Scott got home and was worse by the time I got up. I did manage to sleep in that gap, however, which was good. I took an Amerge, and that seems to have helped.
I still have two characters at 1/3 done and four characters at 2/3 done. Only five of the six will get played, even if the event fills up, but I want that extra character just in case because there’s one character who must be played as female while the other five can go either way.
I’ve only got one term left to define on the terminology sheet (Pattern is the one that’s left), and I’m trying to decide how to break up that sheet. Right now, it’s mostly alphabetical with a section at the end that explains some character sheet terminology rather than game world terminology. There are some terms that are both game world terminology and character sheet/rules issues, and I’m not quite sure how to treat those.
I’m trying to decide how many npcs I actually have to name in advance. A lot of the player characters have 'allies' and/or 'minions' as things they’ve paid points for, and I’m trying to decide whether those need to be solid in advance or if I’m willing to make them up as I go. It might make sense to leave them so that the players can ask for what they need as they need it. If I have a list of names to draw on, I can do that reasonably well. (Me naming characters on the fly doesn’t tend to work out so well. Scott will never let me live down the ultra-powerful npc mage that I named Ernie because that was the only name that I could come up with on the spot.)
Maybe I can get Scott to come up with some names. I have an excellent baby name book that has lots of variant names, so I could hand him that and ask him to make some lists. He’s doing the grocery shopping right now, and he still needs to rake leaves, do some of his own convention preparation, and pay the bills today, but maybe this evening… He can do it while watching the Star Trek movie he just bought.
Of course, he has occasional issues with selecting names that people can’t reliably pronounce. He once named a geo-political group in a LARP the Remaranans. We got a lot of very confused players as they tried to say that. I think some folks gave up and called them the Ram-a-lan-a-ding-dongs for the entire game.
Cordelia’s school had a middle school fun night last night, so she and her friends went to that. It ended at 8:30, so she got home much earlier than she normally would on a Friday evening. She ended up going to bed early, too, about 9:30 or 10:00.
I stayed up until a little after 11:00, just in case Scott’s work was going to call to say he didn’t need to come in. They didn’t, of course, but they sometimes do.
Scott tells me that conditions at work are improving under the new manager. Basically, the new manager understands people a lot better than the old one did. The old one was mostly the top expert in how the machines worked and didn’t much care if the workers were happy or miserable because he didn’t realize it mattered. They’ve shunted him sideways in order to keep his expertise with the machines, but he’s not telling people what to do any more.
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Date: 2016-11-07 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-07 05:09 pm (UTC)Does the site do place names? I have more issues with those.
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Date: 2016-11-07 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-11-07 05:27 pm (UTC)It sounds like the canon names are pretty eclectic. Is there a reason you have to change the original spelling? I know nothing about writing games obviously. You're not planning to sell this product so it's not a copyright issue?
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Date: 2016-11-07 05:42 pm (UTC)I came up with a bit of a list yesterday evening. Some of them are tweaked, and some aren't. Some, possibly as many as half, I will end up discarding as sounding too odd to English speaking ears (I don't think I'm going to get players at this convention for whom English isn't their native language. It's possible, though, as we're near a large university that has a decent sized international student population).
From the male names part of the book: Aquila, Arius, Brennis, Calvus, Cathmor, Druce, Dryden, Orel, Otram, Wilton, Winfrith.
From the female names part of the book: Acinth, Zakelin, Kassia, Koren, Radmila, Quiric, Nerice, Nolana, Zenena, Sunya, Ulva, Tryphosa, Tibelda.
I'll probably put another fifteen minutes or so into coming up with possibilities today. That's how long it took me to get the list above. The hard part is just getting myself to start.
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Date: 2016-11-05 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-05 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-05 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-05 11:11 pm (UTC)And I kept thinking of the Sesame Street character...
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Date: 2016-11-06 12:15 pm (UTC)