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Andrew Kelley & DJ Mekalek - Some Songs I Made For RZA
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Since 2009, Andrew Kelley has been involved in Wu Tang-affiliated projects as a producer and A&R. He's contributed to RZA's The Man With the Iron Fist soundtrack, compilation albums Chamber Music and Legendary Weapons and, most recently, Ghostface Killah's Twelve Reasons To Die.
Now, he has come together with longtime collaborator DJ Mekalek to bring listeners Some Songs I Made for RZA, a DJBooth-exclusive street album compiling highlights from his work with the legendary East Coast crew. Included among its 29 tracks are numerous Booth-featured jams, from "Laced Cheeba" to "The Rise of the Ghostface Killah."
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ESPN Insider Todd McShay has created his latest 2014 NFL mock draft. McShay has the Tennessee Titans selecting someone who's becoming a familiar name among the fan base, especially those who are aware of former UCLA defensive coordinator Lou Spanos. Spanos is now the Titans' linebackers coach.
Anthony Barr, LB, University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA)
Analysis: Even if Tennessee decides to move on from Jake Locker at QB, it's hard to imagine the team liking one enough to draft him at No. 11 in this scenario. Michigan OT Taylor Lewan and Alabama safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix would also fill needs here, but I think Barr would be a fit for new defensive coordinator Ray Horton's hybrid scheme, given Barr's experience working on the line and standing up as a 3-4 outside linebacker. I've been a little underwhelmed by what I've seen from him on tape so far, which is why I have him sliding a bit, but I still have more to study and he's a naturally gifted player with a unique combination of athleticism and size. He should continue to improve, as a converted H-back who has had limited experience playing defense.
In McShay's draft, he already had Khalil Mack (No. 7, Tampa Bay Buccaneers) and C.J. Mosley (No. 8, Minnesota Vikings) drafted.
The Titans have a good chance of seeing one of the three top linebackers fall to them at No. 11. If that situation arises, will they take one of them, or would they prefer an offensive tackle / safety?
Other AFC South Picks:
Houston Texans (No. 1): Jadeveon Clowney, DE, University of South Carolina
Jacksonville Jaguars (No. 3): Teddy Bridgewater, QB, University of Louisville
Indianapolis Colts (Traded Pick for Trent Richardson)
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How to Make Junk Look Good
We've all heard the saying, "one man's trash is another man's treasure". No one knows this better than Patricia Hamm, who bases her boutique, Whimseys, on this principle. She shared with us her tried and true tactics for making junk look good using more imagination than money.
1. Make collections out of anything that comes in multiples: dominoes, playing cards, marbles, silverware, keys, buttons, mirrors, toys cars or cupcake toppers. In our favorite example, Patricia made a bouquet of old artists brushes by sticking them in a garden urn and surrounding them with black-eyed peas. Brilliant!
2. Frame anything to make it stand out as art. In Patricia's home, she mounted an old paint palette on the wall and highlighted it with a vintage frame found in the trash.
3. Paint inexpensive old furniture a fun color. Brown wood furniture is boring, especially if it is low quality. A coat of white or black paint makes anything fresh again, but a color like orange makes it pop.
4. Group similar colors when setting up a vignette. Objects can be totally unrelated but if the colors are the same the grouping makes sense visually.
5. Nothing is precious. Interesting flea market and garage sale finds can come and go with your whims. Experiment with unusual pieces and repurpose ordinary items. When those treasures loose their luster, back to the trash they go for the next person to discover.
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The paint brushes are great, not that I would ever have enough to pull something like that off.
I got a few really nice candles, the over priced kind that come in gorgeous little vases, so after they melted away I soaked them and cleaned out the vases and use them for my make up brushes and paint brushes. They're beautiful, and didn't cost me a dime! lol
Love the brushes! Most of my favorite things were either found on the side of the road or hiding in an antique store.
Just found 2 beautiful hand-loomed wool rugs, they were filthy at the shop, but cleaned up beautifully.
I love the brushes too.
Number 4 really works. Most any kind of junk looks good when grouped by color.
no, the best stuff is in my parents' basement!
The brushes are beautiful. I just cannot pull off making junk look good, its in my DNA to keep things simple. I have a friend that should do this as a profession. Her place is full of things she found on the street, thrifted, handed down and her place is so fun to visit and has that feel of you want to linger all day with a cuppa and good book.
I have a jar of tiny light bulbs, mostly burnt out leftovers, but some from dad's garage of mostly useless wonders. I put a tag on it that reads "ideas, asstd."
I would say: get rid of the junk, lol.
The paint brushes look good though...
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This place is great. They have Udi's gluten free buns for sandwiches and burgers for $1 extra. It's so nice to be able to eat at a burger joint again using an actual BUN. And to top it off, their shakes are really good! I'll definitely be returning!
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Metro north is a great spot for a business lunch or neatly casual dinner. Their burger is absolutely delicious (sans bun of course). Their wine list is above average. Probably my favorite burger in the entire Princeton area.
335 Princeton Hightstown Rd, West Windsor, NJ 08550
I appreciated the fact that this restaurant had gluten free pasta. However, the pasta itself was not good. The bread that they brought to the table (not that I could eat it) looked very unappetizing. I was really looking forward to finding a new go-to restaurant in my area. Guess I will have to keep looking.
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Seriously doubt she´d get 11 years in jail. But even one year in the slammer would send a dreamy death rattle through the Dem Party. We can only hope.
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The REPUBLICANS will let her go.......just like Benghazi, just like them supporting Obamacare. It´s all an act to PRETEND they are helping us (meaning USA Citizens) when in reality, they are helping themselves. They are the hierarchy, the elitists. The rest of us can be, like Benghazi, murdered and it´s okay, as long as they are safe and taken care of. Just think about it.
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She isn´t going to jail. Even if convicted obama will pardon her and she will end up with a high paying job doing nothing with some Democrat organization. Democrats take care of those lawbreakers who take the fall for higher ups. She will be set for life and she knows it. We have a criminal President and there is nothing we can do about it.
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Telling Eric Holder to do anything is a waste of time. He will either chose not to prosecute, alla the Black Panthers or Fast & Furious, or he will "slow walk" the process until it falls off the radar screen. There is no justice to be had from the "Justice" Department. It has become nothing more than another usefull tool to the Emperor´s needs.
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Took way too long to get this post up. But anyway, I went to Venice last week to visit Sarah Kark! Venice is really beautiful and totally bizarre. There are no cars in the city, everything is serviced by a network of canals and footpaths. The architecture was a refreshing change from Rome because it incorporates many eastern influences, specifically Istanbul, the former Constantinople which at one time was the capital of the Roman Empire.
The following is something I wrote in my journal the morning I arrived and I think it describes it well:
The streets wind like a maze meant to be navigated only by locals. Paths onto alleys onto canals and dead-ends. I sit on a platform. To the left, a canal. In front, one of hundreds of foot-bridges. Locals pass by about their Saturday business. Tourists stop for photo-ops. Gondolas drift by at their leisurely pace. Lovers sit, side by each, heads on a swivel. The music of a piano floats down from an unknown place. Ragtime? In the distance a single church bell. I imagine the windows above hearing its call every morning for innumerable years. Clothes flutter on their line. Whites. I'm reclined reading Calvino. This is something new. Everything is turned to music.
Tumblr was annoying me by resizing my pictures so I have posted them in a series of posts below.
Religion, is one of those touchy topics that we tend to compartmentalize in order to avoid conflict. That said I won't go into much detail on my impressions of the Vatican save for these few things:
-The Church has spent a lot of money on art made of the most expensive materials by the most expensive artists.
-The Church is really good at building AWE inspiring spaces. Especially with the use of light.
-People were weeping in front of the tomb of Pope John Paul II. (No pics allowed)
-I want to be the Vatican "Zamboni" driver.
Studying in the city that houses the largest discriminatory organization in the world has been illuminating…
We went on a great day trip last weekend to the Village of Tivoli about 30 miles outside of Rome. It's located on the edge of a plateau below which, you can see the Italian country side rolling for miles and miles. While there we visited the Villa D'Este, a beautiful estate that was at one time Catholic property (no surprise there as most everything in Italy at some point). The main attractions of Villa D'Este are the fountains which start at the top of a terraced garden and work there way down to a series of Koi filled pools. It started to rain and get late so we did not end up viewing Hadrian's Villa which is an ancient estate built by the Emperor, but I hear it's equally impressive.
(One word of warning though DO NOT eat at a place called the Roof Garden. The owner is a swindler who thinks he can overcharge American tourists…)
The Italians sure like to demonstrate. This is probably the third protest I've seen while here, but the first that I had my camera for. We were coming back from Ostia Antica when I spotted these fine folks on the steps of the Ministry of Education. From what I could ascertain the Ministry was trying to cut public school funding. Apparently lack of money for public education isn't isolated to America…
I really like the spirit in the eyes of the leader. He was charging the protesters up with his emotion. From what I could tell his message was only positive, focusing on the benefits of a quality public school education.
Suppli. Here's the dope: Deep fried rice balls stuffed with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese. It costs .6 Euro at the pizzeria around the corner. Are you serious? Can I get this in the States?
While in Italy our main focus is creating short documentary pieces. We are primarily filming at the ruins of Ostia Antica. Ostia was an ancient port city of Rome, situated at the mouth of the Tiber river. It handled a majority of the import/exports for the empire.
It's an often made comparison, but the parallels between Ancient Rome and modern America are striking. In my research on Ostia I came across an interesting event…
Around the time of Cicero's rise to power, a group of pirates led a raid on Ostia Antica. These attackers set such a fire to the port city that the flames were visible from Rome. An outcry is sent through the capital. People are terrified and outraged that a group of bandits could strike so close to home. The citizenry begin to feel that there isn't anywhere safe…
In the following days some ambitious politicians used this fear to stir people into a panic. They then used this panic to force Roman's to give up many of their civil liberties and control over the government. Sound famliar?
Whats up everyone? For those of you who are unaware I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Rome three days after graduation. We are making documentary film shorts for the American Institute of Roman Culture. Its been a crazy two weeks so far. Life is slowing down a little now and at the urging of Pat Marshall I have created this blog as an outlet for pictures of all my favorite memories. I will update everyone on what has happened so far soon. But first some pictures!


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Abnormal Psychophysiology
2014 unit code: NEU30003 (formerly HET631)
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|1 Semester
|Contact hours
|5 Hours per Week
|HET527 Sleep and Attentionor HET528 Higher Cortical Functions or HET227 Neurophysiology or HET219 Neurological Monitoring or equivalent.
Related course(s)A unit of study in the and Bachelor of Science (Psychology and Psychophysiology).
Aims and objectivesProvide an understanding of the psychophysiology of emotional processes, affective and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and the processes of normal and abnormal aging.
- Emotional processes: psychophysiological correlates of emotional processes.
- Psychopathology: psychophysiology of affective disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform and dissociative disorders, substance abuse and organic disorders.
- Schizophrenia: biological factors, including biochemical abnormalities and brain imaging studies, information processing abnormalities, behavioural measures, models of the disorder and therapeutic approaches.
- Aging: psychophysiology of normal aging in the brain, and in the dementias.
Reading materialsKolb, B & Whishaw, IQ, Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, 3rd edn, Freeman, New York, 1990.
Kandel, ER, Schwarz, JH & Jessell, TM, Principles of Neural Science, 3rd edn, Prentice-Hall, London, 1991.


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Pete Licata of Parisi Artisan Coffee in Kansas City, Mo., won the 2013 World Barista Championship on Sunday in Melbourne, Australia, becoming only the second American to win the competition, which was established in 2000.
Mr. Licata wasn't the only American to triumph in Melbourne. Erin McCarthy, a machine technician for the Counter Culture Coffee training center in New York City, is the winner of the 2013 World Brewer's Cup.
This year, 51 competitors participated in the World Barista Championship. Each contestant is allowed 15 minutes to prepare three drinks for a panel of four judges, which scores the coffee, while other judges score the barista's technique. The drinks include a round of espressos, a round of cappuccinos and a round of a "signature drink" that must include espresso and may not include alcohol.
Mr. Licata, 35, used coffee from Colombia grown on Finca La Primavera, a farm owned by Arnulfo Leguizamo, who won the 2011 Cup of Excellence with a coffee that sold for a little over $45 a pound when high-quality beans were trading for about $2.83 a pound. (You can read a detailed account of the coffee on this post from Sprudge.com.) Mr. Licata's signature drink was cocktail-like in composition and execution, according to an account posted by Barista Magazine: Read more…


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The fans gave him a break, and even President Obama applauded Vick's return to the NFL. Tucker Carlson of Fox News? Not so much.10. Mark Teixeira says teammate Andy Pettitte's "probably leaning toward retirement," which is good news for the Texas Rangers and everyone else aiming to win the AL pen ... More >>
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You guys, spring break is over for another year. I spent all of last week working on things that I didn't have time for and then recovering for three days because Allen and I chose to go see The Hunger Games at the midnight opening instead of waiting a couple of days to see it at a reasonable hour.
That shit was off the hook (pardon my French!), and I am delighted to tell you that Allen and I loved it! (I know, it wasn't word-for-word, but I have all the books and can re-read them whenever I want.) Allen was incredibly embarrassed the entire time (as usual) as I insisted on making conversation with the other people in line, and then screaming "Every man for himself!" as I pushed past groups of schoolgirls to get good seats. One young lady got confused, ran into a pole, and rolled into the entrance. In the spirit of the event, I shouted "Stop slowing me down!" as I jumped over her, but was later chastised by Allen for not being nice to children…at a movie about children killing children. However, when I brought this up to him, he just shook his head and went to buy popcorn, leaving me to contemplate my own horridness.
Due to this movie (and all the dystopian fiction I read), I do not have a positive view of the future. I think the fact that the Denver Zoo has come up with a car that runs on poop is an omen that we are only years away from sending our children into an arena to bludgeon each other with bricks. A car that runs on poop, you guys. How does that even happen? More importantly, why am I so upset and worried that it is only a short time before Allen is forcing me into a high-fiber diet so that he can drive me around. Can you imagine the smell? Why does the article not mention the smell? Do you think there might be a smell? Can you imagine hipsters pooping into buckets in order to ride motorized bikes? Why am I so obsessed with poop? Why can't I stop?
Here's a question: How do snakes poop? I have never considered this before, but then I read about this dude who had 400 snakes in his house, and I started thinking about whether snakes produce pellets or, uh, goo. Also: Why are snakes so scary? I am sure they do not want to eat me, but I remember my second grade teacher reading us a book about a boa constrictor eating a kid, and I didn't know English too well and didn't understand that it was fiction. That was a horrible year for me.
Something that isn't poop but is super-gross anyway is Alicia Silverstone feeding her baby like a bird and then posting the video online in (I assume) a desperate attempt to stay relevant past the mess that was Excess Baggage. That was her worst movie—until this monstrosity. Listen, do whatever it is that you like with your obviously distressed kid, but do not post it online. That means you too, Jennifer Coburn, and that one mom who starved her seven-year-old and wrote about it for Vogue.
That's it for this week! Please send me links for next week and have a Wednesday not fraught with thoughts about poop!
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A new study finds that greenhouse gas emissions from the UK's meat and cheese trades add up to half of all the emission's from Britain's cars. Translation: If everyone goes vegan, it'll have the same effect as if everyone drove half as much. Or half of everyone drove the same amount. Or one quarter of people drove twice as much. See, math is fun!
Some more numbers (quoted from The Independent), because I know you can't get enough of them:
"[Fresh] meat has a carbon footprint at the checkout of 17kg of carbon dioxide per kilogram. Cheese has 15kg. Cooked meats are also high at 11kg per kilogram, with bacon at 9kg. Exotic vegetables* and mushrooms are high, largely because of freight and hothouse heating costs. Wine** has a carbon footprint of 2kg per kilogram, and potatoes, apples, milk, bread and cereals are under 2kg. Home baking comes in at just over 2kg."
*What counts as an exotic vegetable in England? Do they find our American stuff like blueberries exotic? Wait, that's a fruit. Chayote? Yucca? Kabocha squash? Stop exoticizing our vegetables, England!
**I think that means wine is better for the environment that home baking? Also wait, are they saying it's better to buy your bread than to make it? That's confusing. DAMN YOU SCIENCE YOU ARE COMPLICATED!
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The Humane Society has a car donation program, One Car One Difference, where you can donate a car (in any condition) and they will auction it off and use the proceeds for their anti-dog fighting efforts. Cool program but REALLY I'm posting this because that pic is just totally adorable! Isn't it? The dog is all, "OMG YOU'RE SO AWESOME I LOVE YOU TELL ME MORE."
But wait, there's more cuteness. They have this adorbs story about a little boy and his pit:
Terrance and Elmo diverted from dogfighting
Elmo was about to be sent into the horrific world of dogfighting. His master, then 11-year old Terrance, had seen it before and didn't understand that it was wrong. It was just what you did with your dogs.
But Elmo and Terrance are no longer on a path to dogfighting. In fact, they are now prime examples of how The Humane Society of the United States is ending dogfighting, one dog owner at a time.
Star students at dog training school
"When I first got Elmo, I was thinking about dogfighting," says Terrance, now 13. "Then I ran into a man with a dog and a dog training school."The man was from HSUS' End Dogfighting program. He changed Terrance's attitudes and behavior, and helped prevent Elmo from becoming a tragic victim.
Terrance continues. "I taught Elmo how to sit and stay and be a well behaved dog. Instead of teaching him the wrong thing, going out there and killing another dog, I'm teaching him the right thing, and encouraging him to be a good dog. He doesn't mistreat me, and I don't mistreat him." The young dog trainer and responsible dog owner concludes, "Be great with your dog, and no dogfighting!"
Holy cannoli try not to die of adorable overload.
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Shares of IHS (NYSE:IHS) traded down 0.79% on Wednesday, hitting $111.25. 99,108 shares of the company's stock traded hands. IHS has a one year low of $95.03 and a one year high of $123.95. The stock's 50-day moving average is $116.7 and its 200-day moving average is $112.8. The company has a market cap of $7.499 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 57.54.
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Located just minutes from our festival site. Delta Lot is a lovely, flat, partially wooded acreage where you can set up camp. There will be a potable water tank for cooking, tooth brushing, etc. Showers and porto' johns will also be available to park-and-campers. Bottled drinking water, ice, and much more will be available for sale at the Delta Lot Camp Store. Unfortunately because of the likelihood of burn bans, we don't allow campfires (charcoal and propane cook stoves are OK). That said… there will be a centrally located community bonfire!
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Mrs. Wendy Loeber's third graders at Immaculate Conception School in Port Clinton have been on a learning adventure as they have been reading the Magic Treehouse book, "Vacation Under the Volcano" by Mary Pope Osborne.
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It's going to be a few months before the DMG hits shelves, so until then the only real guidelines we have for experience points are the monster XP values provided in the Basic Rules.
However, I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about how XP was awarded in earlier editions (and in other "old school" games), and the ramifications thereof. In 1e, you got as much XP from treasure looted as monster kills, if not more– and you had to spend said treasure on "training" once you gained enough XP to level up, or you would stop receiving XP. Thus, if you had killed a horde of orcs without collecting a single copper, you were stuck. Alternatively, if you looted a dragon's hoard, but never engaged a single monster, you were also stuck (but at least you were stuck and rich).
2e loosened this up, and honestly, I don't know if I ever played in a game that actually required you to train to level up. We mostly just carried it around in bags of holding and wondered what we were supposed to spend it on. In 3.x and beyond, XP was all about the combat encounters, with a little bit of handwavy stuff about "yeah maybe you can give quest XP too." 4E did try to expand this a bit with the skill challenge mechanic and a little more emphasis on quests, but it was still pretty much "fight, fight, fight, plus variations."
On the principle that the actions that get rewarded are the actions that get repeated, that was one of the things that has led RPGs to their recent state of being all about the big set-piece combat encounter, which can be fun (I've certainly run my share of them), but is both exhausting and, honestly, monotonous when it becomes the main focus of the game.
5E, at least if you believe the introduction to the PHB, is instead built on the "three pillars of adventure," which add Exploration and Social Interaction as major foci for the game. Of course, I heartily endorse this– even my most hack-and-slashy barbarian characters want to have someone to talk to or see something amazing from time to time. So how can we incorporate these pillars into the XP mechanic?
Tunnels and Trolls had a very simple formula for this: the first time a party explored a new level of the dungeon, they received 100 XP x the dungeon level. (Thus, 100 XP for first level, 200 XP for second level, etc.) To earn this, you had to actually poke around a bit– you couldn't just wave your arm down the stairs and suddenly claim 200 XP. This required some judgement when out of the dungeon context, of course. Is the lizardfolk village a "2nd level dungeon," for instance? But on the whole it was a pretty good model, and worth adopting.
So here's my proposed rule: for each new "region" explored for the first time, the party will receive XP equal to a single creature encounter at the expected level of that region. A region can be a town hub, a dungeon level, or any point of interest on the map. The point is that it's someplace new and interesting that the party has never seen before. As usual, this XP is divided among the PCs, with hirelings and the like receiving 1/2 shares.
Using the Lost Mines of Phandelver as an example, that might translate to something like:
- Cragmaw Hideout (1st level/CR 1): 200 XP
- Town of Phandalin (1st level/CR 1): 200 XP
- Redbrand Hideout (2nd level/CR 2): 450 XP
- Conyberry/Old Owl Well/Wyvern Tor (2nd level/CR 2): 450 XP
- Thundertree/Cragmaw Castle (3rd level/CR 3): 700 XP
- Wave Echo Cave (4th level/CR 4): 1,100 XP
This award assumes the characters spent a significant amount of time actually interacting with the denizens or features of a given location and is awarded when they leave it or take their first long rest within the region.
Social Interaction
This is much trickier. Some classes are all about social interaction (lookin' at you, bards), while others are often better served by avoiding it (rogues), and it's one of those things where many people feel that the play is its own reward– not to mention that the inspiration mechanic is already tied into it. (What are BIFTs, if not roleplaying hooks?) Furthermore, what constitutes a "social interaction encounter" is often much harder to identify. If the party attacks and captures a band of hobgoblins which they then interrogate, was that a combat encounter or a social interaction encounter? If you count it as both, is that double-dipping XP? (And if so, is that really a problem?)
I think the way I shall handle this is to award XP for social encounters based on the CR of the creature encountered, awarding 1/2 XP if there's no real danger to the PCs. Again using Phandelver as an example, there are a couple of quests that may send the PCs to question a banshee. Normally banshees are CR 4, but the text specifically says she will not attack the PCs unless they attack her first. Thus, the encounter with the banshee is worth 1/2 the XP of a CR 4 encounter, or 550 XP. (This is skewed upwards a bit from the suggested XP in the module itself, which seems to treat it as a CR 1 encounter.)
If the PCs are in real danger– engaging in a riddle contest with a sphinx who will eat them if they guess wrong, for instance– then they are awarded full XP for the CR of the creature as if they had "defeated" it. (This is, among other things, to keep people from saying "Eh, the sphinx wasn't worth any XP alive anyway, and riddles are stupid.")
Not just any chatting up of NPCs counts as a "social encounter," there has to be some kind of victory condition. In the case of the banshee, "victory" consists of getting her to answer your question. In the case of negotiating with the bugbear king for the release of a prisoner, you have to actually secure the prisoner's release (and not get killed in the process), etc.
Quest XP, XP for Treasure and Other Oddities
I am still on the fence about these. I am reluctant to engage in "Quest XP" because that puts me back in the position of "pre-scripting the story" that I have been trying to get away from. There are already patrons in the setting who are willing to pay the PCs to accomplish certain things, and there are the XP and treasure awards in place for overcoming the challenges involved, so I'm inclined to let those take care of themselves. If I put a quest XP system in place, that rather feels like I'm giving the players an "assignment," which is great for something like Ghostbusters but not what I want from D&D.
XP for treasure is a slightly different beast. Advocates of such a system say it promotes clever and interesting play, when sneaking in to steal the rat god's gemstone eyes is worth more than slaughtering all the wererats and being done with it. It also makes it clear what players are expected to do: Find treasure! Which is down in mysterious dungeons (requiring exploration) and guarded by monsters (requiring combat).
Critics of such a system say it's nonsensical at best ("I stole a diamond! Now I can swing my sword better.") and creates perverse incentives at worst ("Why explore dungeons when I can gain a level every month by opening a Rat-On-A-Stick stand at the dungeon entrance?"). I can see what they're getting at, but everything in D&D is so abstracted anyway that I'm not sure it's a real problem. Modern OSR games such as Lamentations of the Flame Princess get around this by defining "treasure" as "loot removed from a dangerous place," as opposed from money you earn via crafting or rewards given to you by NPC patrons.
Awarding XP for treasure implies that there'll be treasure to find. Unfortunately, with the 3.x "magic item economy" officially gone the way of the dodo there's precious little out there for adventurers to spend their ill-gotten gains on, other than their downtime lifestyle. Granted, this is not an insignificant expense: 2 gp/day for "comfortable" racks up quickly if your characters lounge around for weeks, and any crafting/research you may want to do cranks up the cost. But it also runs the danger of making the game feel like Papers & Paychecks, and I wonder how many groups will actually use it.
Treating an extravagant lifestyle as one method of 1e-style "training," on the other hand, has a certain appeal… the wizard "trains" by pouring all their treasure into old tomes and reagents, the cleric tithes and supports good works, the fighter works on establishing a keep or going with the rogue to seek out ale and wenches, and the bard lives like a rockstar. It also simplifies accounting: instead of picking a lifestyle and paying the daily cost, you simply roll that into the cost of levelling up and calling it done.
A simple way to handle it might be to require the expenditure of the same amount of gold to level up as the XP required to go up a level: 300 gp to become second level, 900 gp to become third level, etc., but that seems rather high. (300 gp is a lot of money for a 1st level character!) But this could be tweaked. Maybe 1/3 as many gp as XP? Putting that much treasure out there for players to loot in order to level up suggests that they should not also get XP for treasure, however, or will inflate rapidly.
What do you think, gamerati? I'm very curious as to folks' opinions on this.
-The Gneech
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Post-AnthroCon commish from Abel Du Sable. Dude! Don't bogart the java, man!
Thanks, bud.
-The Gneech
Phandelver as Plot Point Campaign
I may be projecting, but I'm fairly sure I see some Savage Worlds influence in 5E, particularly around inspiration (which acts something like SW bennies) and around the organization of the Lost Mine of Phandelver adventure in the Starter Set, which has an uncanny resemblance to a smallish Plot Point Campaign.
Plot Point Campaigns (or PPCs), for those not familiar, are essentially "campaign-in-a-book" supplements for Savage Worlds in which there is a major story arc (the "plot points," so to speak), but there are also tons and tons of smaller adventure hooks. Generally speaking no single scenario (including the "big finish") is longer than a page or two, and everything is very sketchy and loosely-connected. The main thrust of the campaign is usually scattered across the map and delves deeply into the setting's backstory: in 50 Fathoms, the archetypal PPC, the main campaign is all about discovering the story of the three witches who are drowning the world, and thwarting their apocalyptic plans. But there are so many side stories that it could take years for the players to get there, if ever. The PPC gives you an opening scenario that immediately puts your players into the middle of the action, but where they go from there is pretty much up to them.
Usually in a PPC, later scenarios have "prerequisites" before they can happen: "none of the Colonize Monster Island quests can happen until the players have completed the Discover Monster Island quest," that kind of thing. But beyond that, there's very little structure. Don't give a damn about Monster Island? That's fine, there's plenty to do over in Adventurelandia. Some quests are stand-alones, some come in chains, some of them are cross-referencing, and so on. But all are short and usually only developed in the sketchiest way, allowing lots of room for GM interpretation and fleshing out.
The best PPCs also include a method for procedurally-generating content, when the GM needs a "filler adventure" or the players decide to wander off the map. It can be as simple as a handful of "insert here" encounters, or it can be as complex as a matrix of rolling on columns A, B, C, and D to get "The Prince wants you to kidnap/steal the sacred gem of Ul from the tomb of a cursed priest." 50 Fathoms also has a Traveller-esque trading system, designed to get your characters schlepping stuff from place to place so you can find the interesting patrons in each location. [1]
It occurred to me, as I was going through Phandelver, that it appears to have been written in a similar way. As a PPC, the Rockseeker Brothers, their attempts to excavate Wave Echo Cave, and the machinations of The Black Spider would be the main plot points, with the Redbrands, Thundertree, Old Owl Well, Wyvern Tor, and Conyberry all being side-stories, and the wandering monster table being the filler "adventure generator." The main difference is scale. In a PPC, you have a large-scale campaign presented in tiny, sketchy chunks; in Phandelver, you have a small-scale campaign presented in big, detailed pieces.
This, I think, is pretty nifty, and I'd really like to see WotC continue this approach in the future. How cool would a 5E Eberron Plot Point Campaign be, for instance? Not a single mega-adventure like Seekers of Ashen Crown, which only works if your players are willing to follow a single spoon-fed storyline, but a tapestry of scenario hooks so that if your players hop on an airship to Karrnath on short notice, you could just turn to the Karrnath section of the book and have five paragraphs of potential things ready to go when they got there? With bounded accuracy and the flatter power curve, I can imagine a supplement like this really working in a way that it couldn't have done in 3.x/PF or 4E, and I would actually very much love to see it.
-The Gneech
[1] There's probably a very interesting blog post to be written about how 50 Fathoms is basically a Traveller campaign with a fantasy skin… but that's for another time. Or perhaps another blogger.
Monsters! RAR!
I received my 5E Monster Manual yesterday and spent the evening and part of this morning devouring it. (Mmm, wood pulp! :d) It's a seriously impressive book, giving almost every monster a page which includes lovingly-rendered art, several flavorful bits of monster lore which the DM can use or ignore freely, and a stat block. This book, like the Players Handbook before it, has just that touch of whimsy (from the "delicious squishy brains" disclaimer buried on the facia page to the outhouse mimic sketch in the index) that both 3E and 4E lacked and I have missed. (Go back and look at the original AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide and you'll notice that at least half the illustrations were single panel cartoons nicked from Dragon magazine!)
It's not without its quirks, of course. Many of the creatures I find the most interesting have been shunted off into "Appendix A: Miscellaneous Creatures," by which they basically mean "beasts." But since the category includes such staples as blink dogs, giant spiders, worgs, and all of the swarms, you'd think they'd merit a little more respect.
Also, much has been made of the lack of an index by CR. Personally, I find this a non-issue, since the DMG is probably going to have all kinds of encounter tables and the like, but WotC has since published said index on their website, and Blog of Holding has done one that's probably more useful if you'd like such a thing.
But on the topic of CR, wow did CRs trend down in 5E! Creatures that have traditionally been unholy terrors at the "heroic" tier [1] such as manticores or wights, tend to top out around CR 3. [2] CR 5 is home of the "big league" monsters such as trolls or gorgons, and then the eldritch nasties such as mind flayers or hags start appearing in the CR 7-8 range. This is clearly a deliberate design decision, which I have a few theories about.
First of all, the encounter budget models that WotC have released so far all indicate that the number of monsters shoot the difficulty up quickly, which means that while a single CR 2 ogre would be a "hard" encounter for a 2nd level party, a pair of them would be considered a "ludicrous" encounter. [3] Since many DMs love to throw groups of monsters at the party, keeping individual monster CR down keeps the difficulty from going through the roof too fast.
Second, D&D has always had a certain "When do we get to the good stuff?" problem. The game's iconic monsters, things like adult dragons and beholders and mind flayers, don't tend to appear until 5th level or higher, while many campaigns struggle to get past 3rd due to player attrition, DM burnout, or whatever. Skewing the CRs down makes it more likely that the average group will advance to a level where the bigger, badder, "cooler" things can start showing up, hopefully sustaining interest in the game and opening the campaign to more varied scenarios than another March of the Goblins. [4]
Finally, bounded accuracy rears its head again: low level baddies can still hurt higher level PCs. One on one, a lower level critter will certainly run out of hit points long before a higher level PC will, but when you get a room full of them, that's another story. Lower CR monsters fill the niche that minions were intended to in 4E, without the "meta" aspects ("Why does this goblin have 33 hp, and that one only have 1? They look exactly the same…") So a creature's CR is not really as important a factor in encounter building as it was in previous editions, it's just a general indicator of a creature's toughness.
I'm looking forward to seeing how this works in play. And after this weekend, there'll be a two week break in my gaming schedule, so I'm also looking forward to retooling my Silver Coast game with a full range of monsters, rather than just what was available in the Starter Set. Now then, where on this map could I put the Tarrasque…?
-The Gneech
[1] I'll rant about tiers some other time. When codified as they were in 4E, I find them horrible metagamey constructs; fortunately, 5E just uses them as handy labels for the DM, which is fine.
[2] This means that my Summoner Conversion will need a serious retooling, probably topping out the eidolon's form at CR 4 or so.
[3] I'm not sure I agree with their assessment of encounter difficulty: my players have so far waltzed through multiple "hard" encounters without breaking a sweat. But then again, my players all have years of gaming experience, so it might just be a testament to their playing skill.
[4] Mind you, I love me some goblin invasions. But you can't do that every time. Nor can you make every campaign about Tiamat trying to break out of her extra-dimensional prison. Tyranny of Dragons, I'm looking at you. Didn't Red Hand of Doom kinda sew up that idea for a while?
I don't know if my Eberron game is savable, given how much resistance I felt to running it the past few times I tried, even with an adventure already prepped. However, Hantamouse and Sirfox have both expressed interest in it, so if I can figure out just what it is that was bugging me and fix it, there might be hope for it yet. I have pretty much decided to jump from Pathfinder to 5E, tho, which means conversions would be required.
The game had a very offbeat mish-mash of races and classes. The races are not a problem, I can do those easily. The classes are more of an issue, as PF operates on a whole different scale and set of assumptions about class complexity, spell availability, and so on. So today I'm looking at Summoners.
In 5E, the "Summon X" spells have all been replaced by "Conjure X" spells instead, and have all had their levels severely bumped. Conjure Animals, the lowest level summoning spell, is 3rd level, and allows you to summon critters of CR 2 or lower (as a 5th level caster).
Given 5E's "bounded accuracy" model, this is understandable: being outnumbered is much worse than being outgunned, and every creature summoned effectively doubles the summoner's ability to impact the fight. The "action economy" was already important in 3.x/PF, but in 5E it's a major deciding factor. This is why, for instance, beastmaster rangers effectively have the choice of taking an action themselves, or having their animal companion take one instead. 5E wizards are conjuring critters at around the levels where fighters are attacking two or three times in a round. Wizards can cast find familiar at 1st level, but familiars are specifically forbidden from attacking in combat.
So, how to build a 5E summoner class? It depends on if we want to match the Pathfinder class or just build something off the summoner archetype. Most of the summoners that have appeared in games I've seen seem to be tapping their own innate magic rather than studied wizards, so "Summoner" becomes a Sorcerous Origin (basically sorcerer subclass). At 1st level, they automatically know the conjure eidolon spell (1st level, ritual), which can be cast at various levels for various effects:
- First Level: Essentially as find familiar. Although obviously an otherworldly creature, the eidolon has the stats of a Tiny beast of CR 0 (such as a bat or weasel). The eidolon has either the celestial, fiendish, or fey subtype. The eidolon has all of the characteristics of a familiar, including the ability to be temporarily dismissed, the telepathic link with the summoner, and the ability to deliver touch spells.
- Second Level: The eidolon acts as a ranger's animal companion. It has the stats of a Medium or smaller beast of CR 1/4 or lower, but adds your proficiency bonus to its AC, attack rolls, damage rolls, and any skills and saving throws it is proficient in. Its hp maximum equals its normal hp maximum or four times your sorcerer level, whichever is higher. It can attack foes as directed by the summoner, as a ranger's companion.
- Third Level: As second level, but the eidolon has the stats of a Large or smaller beast or monstrosity of CR 2 or lower.
- Fourth Level: As third level, but the eidolon has the stats of a Large or smaller beast or monstrosity of CR 3 or lower.
- Fifth Level: As fourth level, but the eidolon has the stats of a Huge or smaller beast or monstrosity of CR 4 or lower.
- Sixth Level: As fifth level, but the eidolon has the stats of a Huge or smaller beast, monstrosity, or elemental of CR 4 or lower.
- Seventh Level: As sixth level, but the eidolon has the stats of a Huge or smaller beast, monstrosity, or elemental of CR 5 or lower.
- Eighth Level: As seventh level, but the eidolon has the stats of a Huge or smaller beast, monstrosity, or elemental of CR 6 or lower.
- Ninth Level: As eighth level, but the eidolon has the stats of a Huge or smaller beast, monstrosity, or elemental of CR 7 or lower.
Conjure eidolon does not count against the sorcerer's limit of spells known, and in all other ways acts as find familiar. All of the "Conjure [creature]" spells are considered to be on the Sorcerer Spell List for summoners, even though they are not normally on the Sorcerer Spell List. These spells cannot be cast while the summoner's eidolon is present, but they may be cast if the summoner temporarily dismisses the eidolon (as the find familiar spell).
At 6th level summoners gain Summoner's Call, the ability to instantly summon their eidolon to their side or swap places with their eidolon as if they had cast dimension door. (They cannot move themselves to their eidolon's side, they must either summon it, or switch places.) This can be done as a bonus action. Once this ability is used, it cannot be used again until the summoner completes a short or long rest.
At 14th level summoners gain a Life Bond with their eidolon. As long as the eidolon has at least 1 hit point, damage in excess of that which would reduce the summoner to fewer than 0 hit points is instead transferred to the eidolon. This damage is transferred 1 point at a time, meaning that as soon as the eidolon is reduced to 0 hp, all excess damage remains with the summoner.
At 18th level summoners gain the ability to Merge with their eidolon. This transformation includes all of the summoner's gear. While merged in this way, the summoner is protected from harm and cannot be the target of spells or effects. All effects and spells currently targeting the summoner are suspended until the summoner emerges from the eidolon (although durations continue to expire).
The summoner can cast spells while inside the eidolon by taking control of the eidolon for the duration of the casting. Any material components used for these spells are taken from the summoner's gear, even though they are otherwise inaccessible. The summoner can direct all of the eidolon's actions while merged, can perceive through its senses, and can speak through its voice.
Once the summoner uses this ability, it is expended until they complete a short or long rest. The can end this effect at will, emerging adjacent to the eidolon if able. If the eidolon is returned to its home plane while the summoner is merged with it, the summoner is immediately ejected, taking 4d6 points of damage, and is stunned for 1 round.
…Whattya think, sirs?
-The Gneech
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So apparently these take place sometime in the 1-4 year period after the end of the original SJ comic, as it's after Tiffany and Leonard get married, but before the actual birth of their son Louis.
(Trivia: Louis Liger is known as "Little Louis" to distinguish him from Tiffany's brother Louis Tiger, who is known as "Big Louis," even though Little Louis eventually grows to be something like twice Big Louis's height.)
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Liberty High School alumna targets title role in 'Annie Get Your Gun'
November 1, 2011
The title star in "Annie Get Your Gun" — sharpshooter Annie Oakley, a folk heroine — is a coveted role for actresses. So, too, is Elphaba, the green-tinted protagonist in "Wicked" and a witch infamous for menacing Oz.
Vicki Noon claims both roles — Elphaba in "Wicked" as the mega-musical embarked on a national tour and Oakley in a soon-to-open production at Village Theatre.
The actress, a Liberty High School graduate, said the ties between the characters, outcast Elphaba and country bumpkin Oakley, extend beyond the person in the role.
"Both of them have kind of been on their own," she said. "Both of them have kind of had to fend for themselves and pull up their bootstraps and get their life. They're both very independent people."
"Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Village Theatre on Nov. 9 and runs through the holiday season.
"For me, it's one of those ultimate female empowerment stories," said Kristin Culp, a co-choreographer on the show. "The song at the end, 'Anything You Can Do,' it's a story about if you put your mind to doing anything, you can really become a star or the best, no matter who you are or what your upbringing is."
The proto-feminist Oakley is a challenge for actresses in the role.
"You have to do the things that scare you, especially when you're an actress," Noon said before donning a red-and-turquoise getup for a photo shoot. "You have to put yourself in a situation that might scare you or make you feel a little uncomfortable. That's the only way that you grow."
Liberty girls cross country team gallops away with district title
October 28, 2011
NEW — 11:45 a.m. Oct. 28, 2011
The Liberty High School girls cross country team showed that history does repeat itself.
The Patriots, with four runners cracking the 20-minute mark, captured the Sea-King District 3A championship for the second straight year Thursday at Lake Sammamish State Park.
Liberty finished with 69 points. Mercer Island, which won the KingCo Conference 3A title the previous week, and Lakeside, of the Metro League, were second with 75 points.
The previous week Liberty finished second at the KingCo championships. It was a repeat of last year when Mercer Island won the KingCo title and Liberty was second only to see the Patriots come back to win the district championship.
Skyline, Liberty girls soccer teams keep on winning
October 26, 2011
NEW — 10:30 a.m. Oct. 26, 2011
The Skyline and Liberty high-school girls soccer teams, who have already locked up their respective KingCo Conference regular-season titles, kept on winning Tuesday.
Skyline, the KingCo 4A champion, closed out its regular season with a 1-0 victory against Redmond. Nicole Cangioglos, assisted by Anna Deweirdt, scored Skyline's goal just four minutes into the game. The Spartans again played tough defense by registering their eighth shutout of the season. Goalkeeper Sydney Martinez recorded the shutout.
The Spartans finished league play with a 9-0-1 record and had a five-point lead over second place Issaquah, which had a bye. Skyline and Issaquah, who both have secured berths in the Class 4A state tournament, meet again Nov. 1 at Skyline in the KingCo championship game.
Liberty Patriots clinch KingCo girls soccer title
October 25, 2011
Liberty eyes strong finish to No. 1 seed
They've already wrapped up the KingCo Conference 3A/2A title Oct. 20 with a 5-3 victory against host Juanita.
They've already clinched the automatic No. 1 seed in the Class 3A state playoffs.
But make no mistake — the Liberty High School girls soccer team is still focused on the here and now.
"We're not thinking about state yet," Liberty junior Kailiana Johnson said. "We've been focusing on games coming up next week and then we're going to focus on post-season during our off week and get prepared."
The KingCo title is the second straight for the Patriots, who captured the league's state 3A berth earlier in the week with a 3-0 win against Lake Washington.
This is the first time Liberty has won back-to-back titles since 2001, when the Patriots won their third straight KingCo title.
"Winning KingCo was No. 1 on our list," Liberty coach Jaime Giger said. "Obviously we're still looking at the next two games. I told the girls we're not looking at state yet. I want to take care of this league. I want to win all of the games before us."
Liberty High School girls soccer team nets conference title
October 21, 2011
NEW — 4 p.m. Oct. 21, 2011
The Liberty High School girls soccer team, already bound for the Class 3A state playoffs, wrapped up the KingCo Conference 3A/2A title Thursday with a 5-3 victory against host Juanita.
The KingCo title is the second straight for the Patriots, who captured the league's state 3A berth earlier this week. This is the first time Liberty has won back-to-back titles since 2001, when the Patriots won their third straight KingCo title.
Kaliana Johnson had a hat trick to lead Liberty in its victory against Juanita.
Liberty got a battle from Juanita, which has just one league victory this season. Juanita took the lead three times in the game but Liberty always answered with a tying goal.
Liberty girls soccer team clinches state berth
October 19, 2011
NEW — 11:15 a.m. Oct. 19, 2011
The Liberty High School girls soccer team clinched a Class 3A state tournament berth for the second straight year Tuesday when the Patriots defeated visiting Lake Washington 3-0 in a KingCo Conference 3A/2A contest.
Liberty improved its league-leading record to 11-0 and captured the KingCo 3A Conference's automatic Class 3A state playoff berth. As KingCo No. 1 the Patriots do not have to play in the league tournament for a state tournament berth.
The Patriots will enter the state tournament next month seeded as the District 2 No. 1 entry and will host a first-round game.
The Patriots, who have three games left to play in the regular season, stretched their lead to 11 points over Lake Washington, which entered the game tied with Interlake for second place.
Liberty girls soccer team blasts Sammamish
October 18, 2011
The Liberty High School girls soccer team took another big step toward repeating as KingCo Conference 3A/2A champions Oct. 13 when the Patriots walloped host Sammamish, 7-0.
Liberty improved its league-leading record to 10-0. The Patriots have an eight point lead over Interlake and Lake Washington, who are tied for second place, with four games left on the regular-season schedule. Liberty entertained Lake Washington Oct. 18.
Cassidy Nangle and Kailiana Johnson each had two goals for Liberty in its victory against Sammamish. Johnson also had two assists. Kendall Downing, Kali Youngdahl and Nicolle Marlow scored Liberty's other goals.
Kianna Hafferty had a hat trick Oct. 11 as Liberty walloped visiting Bellevue, 7-1. Hafferty also had an assist. Youngdahl had two goals and an assist, and Kimi Fry also had a goal and an assist for Liberty.
Issaquah High School volleyball team wins again
October 14, 2011
NEW — 4 p.m. Oct. 14, 2011
It took a while for the Issaquah High School volleyball team to get the knack of winning but the Eagles captured their second straight match Thursday by defeating host Eastlake 3-1.
Issaquah dropped the first set 25-19 but bounced back to win 25-18, 25-10, 25-18.
Sam Rogers led the Eagles with 21 kills and 10 digs. Lindsey Ferguson contributed 21 digs and Mckenzie Bostic had 42 assists. Kirsten Fischer gave the Eagles a strong game up front with 14 kills and Leanne Scott had 10 digs.
The victory was the second of the week and of the season for Issaquah, which is 2-5 in KingCo Conference 4A competition and 2-7 for the season. Eastlake dropped to 3-4 in league play and 4-6 overall.
Issaquah High School volleyball team notches first win
October 12, 2011
NEW — 11:45 a.m. Oct. 12, 2011
The Issaquah High School girls volleyball notched its first victory of the season Tuesday when the Eagles swept visiting Redmond 3-0 in a KingCo Conference 4A match.
Issaquah won the games 25-14, 25-14, 26-24.
This has been a rebuilding year for Issaquah, which graduated almost its entire team from last year's squad that finished second in the 4A state tournament.
The Eagles got several solid performances in its match with Redmond. Sam Rogers had a team-high 17 kills and three aces for the Eagles. Lindsey Ferguson contributed 26 assists and three aces. Cassie Elenes led the Eagles with seven aces. Kirsten Fischer had a team-high eight kills. Misty Siochi had seven kills and 10 digs,and McKenzie Bostic had a team-high 34 assists.
Liberty Patriots continue hot streak, blank Mount Si Wildcats
October 11, 2011
Two quick goals by Shannon Daly set pace for game
The Liberty High School girls soccer team has only dropped one game — its first — all season.