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Lutherans respond to the Haitian earthquakeJanuary 22nd, 2010
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
"If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it."
–1 Corinthians 12:26
Almost two weeks have passed since the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The outpouring of gifts from members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) to ELCA Disaster Response has enabled a swift response on behalf of this church.
Thank you for your generous financial support which now totals more than $1.6 million. Thousands of other gifts are still being counted. Our community-based partners are already providing:
- Two water purification systems to bring clean water to 25,000 people.
- Emergency food and medical supplies to thousands.
- Blankets and tents to shelter 10,000 people who are homeless.
Funding, distributed through three partners, will increase as giving continues.
- $300,000 has been sent to The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), a key responder and member of Action by Churches Together (ACT). The funds support LWF efforts to provide shelter to people left homeless by the quake.
- $150,000 has been sent to Lutheran World Relief (LWR), Baltimore, for material aid.
- $150,000 will be sent to Church World Service (CWS) for construction of temporary water systems and distribution of water purification materials.
In addition, $25,000 has been sent to Lutheran Services of Florida for initial support to refugees and Haitian Americans entering or returning to the United States.
We are pleased that Louis Dorvillier, director for International Development and Disaster Response in the ELCA Global Mission program unit, is part of a delegation to his country of origin with LWF and ACT.
Your generosity makes this life-saving work possible. As we celebrate this outpouring of gifts and prayers, we also know that we have a long road to travel together. There is so much more to be done. This church is committed to walking with our brothers and sisters in Haiti for years to come; your continued support is needed to provide ongoing care.
I encourage you to visit the ELCA Disaster Response (http://www.elca.org/disaster) Web site for updated information, worship resources, bulletin inserts and details on how to offer financial support. General mission-support dollars and gifts to ELCA Vision for Mission make it possible for 100 percent of your gifts designated for Haiti Earthquake Relief to be used entirely for this response effort.
To give today, go online (www.elca.org/haitiearthquake) or call 800-638-3522.
In God's grace,
The Rev. Mark S. Hanson
Presiding Bishop
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

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The employees, which the company executives said have been let go to tide over difficult times in the hyper-competitive telecom market, were from sales and other related functions, and from across locations in the country.
In yet another sign of the increasing stress on the telecom industry, reeling under the pressure of immense competition from the giant Reliance Jio, the Tata group firm Tata Teleservices has laid off 500-600 people.
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Underrated and pigeonholed as one of those players who merely 'does a job', Gareth Barry is in fact one of the Premier League's classiest midfielders - and now he's certainly its longest-serving.
Following his appearance for current club West Brom against Arsenal at the Emirates on Monday night, the former Aston Villa and Man City man notched up his 633rd appearance in one of Europe's toughest leagues.
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Congratulations on your @PremierLeague appearance record, Gareth Barry, from all of us at Arsenal 👊 pic.twitter.com/qdU2UVIf5T— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) September 25, 2017
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So this week we were asked to try out what we learned about Photoshop while in class and also to set up our gallery of images.
I decided to go for a walk in my local park and see if I could get some interesting pictures, as always Jen has a disaster. After nearly falling into the river when going onto the stepping-stones into the centre of the river, I figured I would probably be better off trying to take some photos on solid ground.
This brought me to the pond which is home to many ducks and swans, here is where I made my second mistake, trying to take a photo of a swan. Swans are not my friends, and apparently hate taking their photos taken. What was supposed to be a nice inspirational walk, quickly turned into me running away screaming from an evil swan who decided to try to attack me while I tried to take his photo. This was a bad enough experience until I saw an old man laughing his head off at me who had seen the whole thing, glad I made his day.
So this is when I gave up on the park idea and moved on to the docklands/canal idea hoping it would be a safer option. Who wants their headstone to read "death by swan" right?
I am now a happy camper and feel like I managed to take some pretty nice pictures, I would be really interested to know what you all think…
In my next post I will be showing you all the different elements I used in Pixlr, yes we did learn about Photoshop but after trying to download the free trial for two hours and then spending another while trying to get Photoshop through the college software system I decided maybe it was time to give up and try out Pixlr. I really had fun trying out various different things, not all of them made the cut so in my next post are a few of the photos I altered.
I will also be uploading my gallery of eight photos, I really like them but then I am biased!!!!!!
Lets hope I make it to Saturday without any disasters! See ya'll on the other side 🙂


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Ferdinand VII (El Escorial 14 October 1784 - Madrid 29 September 1833) was King of Spain twice, in 1808, and from 1813 to 1833 (from 1808 to 1813 in dispute with Joseph Bonaparte). He was also known as 'Ferdinand the Desired'.
The eldest surviving son of Charles IV, king of Spain, and of his wife Maria Louisa of Parma, he was born in the vast palace of El Escorial near Madrid.
Early lifeIn his youth he occupied the painful position of an heir apparent who was jealously excluded from all share in government by his parents and the royal favorite Manuel de Godoy, his mother's lover. National discontent with a feeble government produced a revolution in 1805. In October 1807, Ferdinand was arrested for his complicity in the Conspiracy of the Escorial in which liberal reformers aimed at securing the help of the emperor Napoleon. When the conspiracy was discovered, Ferdinand betrayed his associates and grovelled to his parents.
Abdication and restorationWhen his father's abdication was extorted by a popular riot at Aranjuez in March 1808, he ascended the throne but turned again to Napoleon, in the hope that the emperor would support him. He was in his turn forced to make an abdication on 6 May 1808 but his father had relinquished his rights to the Spanish throne on 5 May 1808 (the previous day) in favour of Emperor Napoleon, so Ferdinand effectively had given the throne to Napoleon. Napoleon kept Ferdinand under guard in France for six years at the Chateau of Valençay.
While the upper echelons of the Spanish government accepted his abdication and Napoleon's choice of new monarch, his brother Joseph Bonaparte, the Spanish people did not. Uprisings broke out throughout the country, marking the beginning of the Peninsular War. Provincial juntas were established, since the central government had acknowledged Joseph. After the Battle of Bailén proved that the Spanish could resist the French, the Council of Castile reversed itself and declared null and void the abdications of Bayonne on 11 August 1808. Several days later, on 24 August, Ferdinand VII was proclaimed king of Spain again, and negotiations between the Council and the provincial juntas for the establishment of a Supreme Central Junta were completed. Subsequently, on 14 January, British government acknowledged Ferdinand VII as king of Spain.
Five years later after experiencing serious reverses on many fronts, Emperor Napoleon agreed to acknowledge Ferdinand VII as king of Spain on 11 December 1813 and signed the Treaty of Valençay, so that the king could return to Spain. This, however, did not happen until Napoleon was nearly defeated by the allied powers several months later. The Spanish people, blaming the liberal, enlightened policies of the Francophiles (afrancesados) for causing the Napoleonic occupation and the Peninsular War by allying Spain too closely to France, at first welcomed Fernando. Ferdinand soon found that in the intervening years a new world had been born of foreign invasion and domestic revolution. In his name Spain fought for its independence and in his name as well juntas had governed Spanish America. Spain was no longer the absolute monarchy he had relinquished six years earlier. Instead he was now asked to rule under the liberal Constitution of 1812. Before being allowed to enter Spanish soil, Ferdinand had to guarantee the liberals that he would govern on the basis of the Constitution, but, only gave lukewarm indications he would do so. On 24 March the French handed him over to the Spanish Army in Girona, and thus began his celebratory procession towards Madrid. During this process and in the following months, he was encouraged by conservatives and the Church hierarchy to reject the Constitution. On 4 May he ordered its abolition and on 10 May had the liberal leaders responsible for the Constitution arrested. Ferdinand justified his actions by claiming that the Constitution had been made by a Cortes illegally assembled in his absence, without his consent and without the traditional form. (It had met as a unicameral body, instead of in three chambers representing the three estates: the clergy, the nobility and the cities.) Ferdinand initially promised to convene a traditional Cortes, but never did so, thereby reasserting the Bourbon doctrine that sovereign authority resided in his person only.
Meanwhile, the wars of independence had broken out in America, and although many of the republican rebels were divided and royalist sentiment was strong in many areas, the Manila galleons and tax revenues from the Spanish Empire had been interrupted. Spain was all but bankrupt.
Ferdinand's restored autocracy was guided by a small camarilla of his favorites, although his government seemed unstable. Whimsical and ferocious by turns, he changed his ministers every few months. The other autocratic powers of the Quintuple Alliance, though forced to support him as the symbol of legitimacy in Spain, watched these proceedings with disgust and alarm. "The King", wrote Friedrich von Gentz to the Hospodar John Caradja on 1 December 1814, "himself enters the houses of his first ministers, arrests them, and hands them over to their cruel enemies"; and again, on 14 January 1815, "The king has so debased himself that he has become no more than the leading police agent and gaoler of his country."
The king did recognize the efforts of the foreign powers on his behalf. As the head of the Spanish Order of the Golden Fleece Ferdinand made the Duke of Wellington, head of the British forces on the Peninsula, the first Protestant member of the order.
RevoltIn 1820 his misrule provoked a revolt in favor of the Constitution of 1812 which began with a mutiny of the troops under Col. Rafael Riego and the king was quickly made prisoner. He grovelled to the insurgents as he had done to his parents. Ferdinand had restored the Jesuits upon his return; now the Society had become identified with repression and absolutism among the liberals, who attacked them: twenty-five Jesuits were slain in Madrid in 1822. For the rest of the 19th century, expulsions and re-establishment of the Jesuits would continue to be touchmarks of liberal or authoritarian political regimes.
At the beginning of 1823, as a result of the Congress of Verona, the French invaded Spain "invoking the God of St Louis, for the sake of preserving the throne of Spain to a descendant of Henry IV, and of reconciling that fine kingdom with Europe." When in May the revolutionary party carried Ferdinand to Cádiz, he continued to make promises of amendment until he was free.
When freed after the Battle of Trocadero and the fall of Cadiz he revenged himself with a ferocity which disgusted his far from liberal allies. In violation of his oath to grant an amnesty he avenged himself, for three years of coercion, by killing on a scale which left his "rescuers" sickened and horrified. The Duke of Angoulême, powerless to intervene, made known his protest against Ferdinand's actions by refusing the Spanish decorations Ferdinand offered him for his military services.
During his last years Ferdinand's energy was abated. He no longer changed ministers every few months as a sport, and he allowed some of them to conduct the current business of government. His habits of life were telling on him. He became torpid, bloated and horrible to look at. After his fourth marriage, with Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies in 1829, he was persuaded by his wife to set aside the law of succession of Philip V, which gave a preference to all the males of the family in Spain over the females. His marriage had brought him only two daughters. The change in the order of succession established by his dynasty in Spain angered a large part of the nation and made civil war, the Carlist Wars, inevitable.
When well he consented to the change under the influence of his wife. When ill he was terrified by priestly advisers who were partisans of his brother Carlos. Ferdinand died on 29 September, 1833.
It had been a frequent saying with the more zealous royalists of Spain that a King must be wiser than his ministers for he was placed on the throne and directed by God. Since the reign of Ferdinand VII no one has maintained this unqualified version of the great doctrine of divine right.
King Ferdinand VII kept a diary during the troubled years 1820-1823 which has been published by the Count de Casa Valencia.
Marriages and childrenFerdinand VII was married four times. In 1802 he married his first cousin Princess Maria Antonietta of the Two Sicilies (1784-1806), daughter of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Marie Caroline of Austria. There were no children, because her two pregnancies (in 1804 and 1805) ended in miscarriages.
In 1816, he married his niece Maria Isabel de Bragança, Princess of Portugal (1797-1818), daughter of his older sister Carlota Joaquina and John VI of Portugal. Their only daughter lived only four months.
In 1819, he married Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1803-1829), daughter of Maximilian, Prince of Saxony and Caroline of Bourbon-Parma. No children were born from this marriage.
Lastly, in 1829, he married another niece, Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1806–1878), daughter of his younger sister Maria Isabella of Spain and Francis I of the Two Sicilies. She bore him two daughters:
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Friday, February 01, 2008
thinking outside the box...
An article by Damien Cox in the Toronto Star today puts forward that trading Sundin is not the Leafs' only viable option for getting out of the mess they're in. Cox made some good points, most of which hinged on the fact that if Sundin won't waive his no-trade clause and is not interested in being a rent-a-player, then reward his loyalty with another contract--the Leafs aren't even close to having a number one centre to replace him with and it doesn't look like they will anytime soon. I don't know what I think of this because I do love the guy and think he's a class act, but I also know that he could fetch some pretty good return if we traded him. Anyway, the article can be found here. Also, check this out.
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Ahhhh, I did it, sold my German Flames of War army. Hard to part with the Panthers though.
Now I get to start all over with new sculpts and better boxed sets. I think I will let my own political qualms go and do a strictly SS army. Yes, yes I know, but they look utterly fantastic on a table.
It's a whole new project, and a whole new beginning. See it unfold.


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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Here are the 3 things that we made in the fairly short amount of time we had available - all the girls did really well to finish on-time! This is always a bit of a challenge .... my usual classes often stretch up to an hour past the scheduled finish :)
Bit of a 'bird theme' happening, which wasn't entirely intentional - I just love owls, and my bird punch. I'm pretty sure Sal and her friends were happy with the cards and the cute little pillow box.
(If you want to know any of the 'ingredients', please feel free to email me, and I'll be happy to share.)
Here are the girls displaying their own finished projects:
Much to my dismay, I have to work a couple of days this week; hopefully I'll still get plenty of stamping time in, and will be able to share some more cards soon.
Please do come back and visit my blog this weekend, as on Saturday 3rd July it is time for my team's monthly blog hop. I have a few fun things to show you, and am sure the other 11 demonstrators taking part will also inspire you .... the blog hop has a theme of "Christmas in July", to help get you started on your Christmas projects. Mark it on your calendars, and come back to visit on the weekend if you can!
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Love the projects and love those gorgeous smiles! They all look so pleased with their creations.ReplyDelete
WOW they look grea and looks like the girls had heaps of fun.ReplyDelete
I've just been catching up on your blog, some gorgeous projects over the last few weeks!! Looks like the girls had so much fun!ReplyDelete
What a great way to pass a few hours. The girls did a fantastic job on their projects.ReplyDelete
The girls look very proud of themselves. What fun for you to have a lovely bunch of girls to hang out with in the craft room. Love the projects.ReplyDelete
These are gorgeous - really lovely colours - just right for girls!ReplyDelete
Great projects Christine! Looks like the girls had a great time. I am hoping to do something similar with my daughters friends on the holidays.ReplyDelete
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what great projects - no wonder the girls look so happy. I love the bright and of course pink is a must! Thanks for your lovely words of congratulations too - it was really appreciated :)
Oh, they did a lovely job, what a great choice of projects for a little bit of girlie time!ReplyDelete
- Judy May03 July, 2010 19:11
Love these gorgeous girly projects Christine; lucky girls.ReplyDelete


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It took me only 3 weeks to brave the 100-Mile Club, but I did it over this weekend in 3 days of not plugging in my Electric LEAF overnight. This morning, I headed out with 19 miles of range left and 83 miles into my 100-mile objective. So, my objective appeared to be within sight. I did a couple of errands and then with 8 miles of range left and 8 miles from home, and having reached my objective of 102 miles, I headed home. I arrived home with 4 miles of range left, so I started driving around our neighborhood until suddenly the 4 miles went to Zero and the display showed <- – ->. I was about 1 mile from home.
The car did NOT disintegrate. The LEAF did NOT stop. It did what I was quite confident that it would do. It kept going quite nicely.
I turned around and headed home again. I gave the accelerator a couple of bursts just to see how much torque I could muster. It seemed like a bit less than normal but still totally adequate for driving in traffic. I still went around another block until I finally drove into our driveway with a total of 114 miles, zero range and between 1 and 2 miles of driving on "empty".
I'll have to go and get a coulomb of electrons in a can so that I'll feel better about driving until I can't drive any further and really see what "buffer" we have after hitting zero range. Hey, I'm an electrical engineer … I'm curious … R & D is my middle name!
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We are several days into our trip to Upper Canyon Outfitters in Alder, Montana. It has been a great trip. Everyone has caught fish and I feel, become better fishermen. I have a great group with a lot of variety.
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I spent the first two days assisting the guides as we fished some incredible water on both the Upper and Lower Ruby. Yesterday, some of the group joined me for a short ride up the bluff above the ranch. Here are a few pictures from the last few days. I'll get more up when I come home.


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You can get barbecue from different restaurants as well but it will be great if you prepare the food at your own because it will let you enjoy amazing moments with your friends and family.
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This Is Why Melania Trump Often Appears Miserable, According to Former House Speaker John Boehner
It has been 22 days and counting since we saw First Lady Melania Trump publicly.
The last Melania sighting was three weeks ago, on May 10, when Trump joined the President at Joint Base Andrews to welcome home three American detainees from North Korea.
However, her recent absence from the public eye isn't completely unreasonable. On May 14, Melania had surgery for a benign kidney condition at Walter Reed Military Hospital. Though she was released six days post-op for a surgery that typically has a same-day discharge procedure, the operation was apparently a resounding success, according to the White House.
As the days turned into weeks since FLOTUS made an appearance publicly, the American people began to question: Where is Melania? Some believed she moved out of the White House, which isn't so far-fetched, at least not to former house speaker John Boehner.
The politician even suggested that her new life on Capitol Hill may also be why she often looks miserable. "I think Donald Trump promised Melania that he would not win. She didn't have to worry about ever living in the White House," he joked while speaking at a conference. "It's probably why she doesn't look real happy every day. Well, maybe one reason."
All jokes aside, Boehner's theory is in line with a source close to Melania, who told People that she isn't happy with the way things are going at the White House.
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This is my absolute favorite Pumpkin Patch!
It opens September 27th.
This is a "You Pick Pumpkin Patch" which makes it so much fun. The girls love running from one row to another to pick their perfect pumpkin and pulling it off the vine. They also have rows of "picked" pumpkins (nice the little wee one's).
They offer pumpkin patch tours, where you ride around in the tractor pulled wagon through the 30 acre farm.
We love taking pictures through out the pumpkin patch and picking our own fresh organic vegetables. My girls favorite thing to do is running through the corn maze.
I still can not believe in that this farm exists right in the middle of Irvine. I love watching the girls get their hands into the earth to pick fresh vegetables. It's beautiful and full of great memories for us.
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Why DO cherry blossoms grow at all? So prolific So temporary So beautiful From bare branches, dead-looking trees, uninspiring and not very attractive – absolute delight bursts forth! Unfolding petal by petal into delicate, pale-pink, frilly blossoms. Like tiny ballerina dresses [tutus?] And so many flowers clustered together on branches. All hanging down-wards so we… Read More
Retirement blues to opportunities
X's work recently ended. He's 60+. Some health issues. The change in daily routine is a challenge. Recognize this situation – for yourself or others in your life? Does it resonate…? Follow along with us on a journey of discovery, to gain insight into a way forward…
How's your life juggling going?
If you imagine areas of your life are represented by balls, what are you juggling in your life? friends and loves family other relationships home money work sport hobbies spirituality community service more? Juggling balls, like life, don't stay still for long: Balls in the air = those you are currently juggling. Balls on the… Read More
Where on this see-saw do you sit today?
Right this moment, where do your eyes place you on this see-saw? From -10 to +10 What does this picture say to you? I have been exploring further questions too and I'd like to share some with you. These questions have shown me how my view of the world colors what I see. As you… Read More
The Life I'd Love to Live, Crafting My Path, Part 4
Welcome to part 4 of the journey to live the life you'd love! Here we'll look at how we can craft our path and develop a way to live more of the life we wish. In part 1 we clarified who and what would be in the life we'd love to live. In part 2 we found… Read More
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Welcome to part 3 of the journey to live the life you'd love! In Part 3, we'll look at where we are now and then we can develop a way to get to where we would prefer. In part 1 we clarified who and what would be in the life we'd love to… Read More
6 resources for the life you'd REALLY love to live
How can I focus on creating something new, better in the busy life I already lead? Could I use resources, support and skills I already have? These feel to me like a strong foundation on which a dream can grow. For myself, I saw 6 main areas where I could draw strength and resources to live the life I wanted. I had… Read More
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How do we make life choices? Wherever you are in your life path, is now a good time for review? I am reminded me to 'stop and smell the flowers' and recognize the great beauty of ourselves – something it is easy to miss in the busyness of life. I found this flower gave me insight to explore… Read More
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William Breathes's post about the area left trashed on Earth Day in the wake of this past weekend's High Times Cannabis Cup drew a huge response from our readers. Fingers of blame were pointed out promoters, organizers and venue supervisors -- but this comment focuses on attendees, as well as fans of a certain back-in-the-day band.
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Much like the Grateful Dead fans that leave a wake of trash behind them, it confuses me when groups that you would think would care about our environment prove to be either too lazy or too stupid to remember to simply pick up after themselves and revert to acting like spoiled children. Regardless of profit, are we not educated and responsible enough not to do this?
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This is not a post by me; this is simply to redirect you to this rather brilliant article on The Alexandrian about Dissociated Mechanics, and their use and misuse in Role Playing Games. This is particularly pertinent to me because (1) dissociated mechanics and an understanding of them are what propelled me from 4th edition (which drew me into D&D) and into the arms of Pathfinder and OSR; (2) this blog is about tools that can be used by Players and (especially) DMs to enhance role playing, and those tools need to take dissociation into consideration; and (3) as we're collectively going over D&D 5E it is imperative that we understand dissociative mechanics because that was the great failing of 4th Edition and we need to make sure 5th doesn't carry forward the same or similar mistakes.
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On Dissociated MechanicsPosted: 31 May 2012 in Game Structure
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On WisdomPosted: 31 May 2012 in House Rules
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While I'm still slowly going through the 5E playtest materials, I've been looking around at what other people have to say about it. Reading a couple of posts on The Alexandrian and Blog of Holding, it strikes me that 5E seems to be highlighting a misunderstanding by the system of the Wisdom attribute.
There are two things that 5E is doing that spotlights the problem, but I don't think 5E is introducing the problem: it's just making clear a problem that we've all been living with for years, though it's been masked. First,5E is dropping the triumvirate of 3E saving throws, Fortitude, Reflex, and Will. Instead, saves are made directly based on attributes. You'll make Strength saves and Dexterity saves and Charisma saves, and so on. I'm not exactly sure what an Intelligence Save might look like (the materials say "against spells that try to overcome your intellect, but I'm not sure what they mean) but it's in there.
The Alexandrian is tentatively supportive of this change (as am I), but notes that it might introduce the old hierarchy of saves issue. It used to be you saves were based on what a thing you were avoiding was (death, dragonfire, ray), and later it was based on how you avoid the thing (jump out of the way, take the hit and power through, resist with your will). But there was a question on what Save to use if a thing fell in to multiple categories (a ray of death, or something you can dodge or resist with will) — do you use the best save, or the worst save, or just whatever save the DM cares to call for? This was relieved a little bit in 3E, I think, but in 5E it looks like both Wisdom and Charisma are fighting over the same turf. Wisdom saves are supposed to be used to resist being charmed or influenced (and it's noted that both Command and Charm Person call for Wisdom saves), but Charisma saves are supposed to be used to resist "magical compulsions."
The second point is 5E seems to be tossing away the idea of skills, generally. I may have misread it, but is you want to bust down a door you roll a Strength check, if you want to tumble to safety you roll a Dexterity check, if you want to search the room for traps you make a Wisdom check, and so on. Some character options give a bonus to certain actions (the Rogue character does note +3 to "open Locks"), and maybe there's a more-robust skill system than we're seeing here. But from the looks of it, if you want to be good at finding secret doors, you bump up your Wisdom.
Blog of Holding notes that this highlights the odd position we find ourselves in when the Cleric (who's whole schtick is based off Wisdom) is better at finding things than the Ranger, Rogue, or Barbarian (if you accept "feral awareness" or "aggression-fueled blindness"). In 3E this issue was masked by the fact that skill points and Class training could make up for a poor Wisdom, but all things being equal a Cleric would have higher Perception because it was based on his key stat. He goes on to suggest moving Perception in to Dexterity not because it makes any sense but because then the classes we expect to be perceptive (Rangers, Rogues) would have it keyed to their attribute of choice.
Frankly, I think that's just silly. Blog of Holding claims that Perception doesn't really fit under any of the 6 attributes and while there might be an argument for that the description of Wisdom says it represents "common sense, awareness, and intuition." I this that's something of a perfect fit for Perception. Definitely better than an attribute representing manual dexterity and agility.
The problem in both cases is one little word in the description of Wisdom: "Wisdom describes a character's willpower, common sense, awareness, and intuition." One of these is not like the others; one of these just doesn't belong. And in fact, I think the place that "willpower" does belong is under Charisma: "Charisma measures a character's personality, personal magnetism, ability to lead" (the 5E text says "ability to influence others and strength of personality"). Both of those lines were taken from the Pathfinder SRD, and I'm pretty sure it meshes with the 3E SRD as well.
So my solution is thus: move Willpower in to Charisma, with "strength of personality," where it belongs. Make Wisdom a stat of pure awareness and intuition so it isn't fighting with Charisma any more. And adjust Clerics so that their magic is based off of Charisma (like 4E Paladins), representing the strong personality and will necessary to draw the power and favor of the gods (bonus: Clerics are now best able to draw followers). It cleans everything up just by dropping one word.
IntermissionPosted: 30 May 2012 in Administrivia
Tags: alexandrian, character creation, dnd n5xt, feats, hexcrawl
So before the hex crawl that I did this weekend, I started working on a few of projects that should become posts when they're done. Turns out that there's a bit more effort involved than I expected, especially since I didn't touch any of it over the long weekend.
The first bit I'm working on is trying to address the issue of feats. So far I've gone through the Pathfinder SRD and binned the feats into Tiers based on how many feat prerequisites they have — this roughly translates to "what is the earliest level this feat could be taken," but not entirely (I haven't accounted for Base Attack Bonus or Level requirements, for example). even at that, easily half of the feats are simply unavailable to a 1st level character, and a good chunk are unavailable before 4th level.
The second bit is a review of the 5th Edition playtest materials that got released. Other people are already going over their first impressions — The Alexandrian made a couple of comments that hadn't occurred to me, such as "how much of an improvement on 3rd Edition can we expect" and the possibility of an infestation of disassociated mechanics. I've only gone over the "How to Play" packet and skimmed the others; my initial thoughts are positive, but there are a few things I'm unsure about. I may get my players to try to run through the playtest adventure with me this weekend and maybe that'll help inform my opinion.
Finally, I've been toying with the idea of reducing character creation to a high-density blurb. It's not a final solution and doesn't produce a completed character but I think it should distill the necessary choices a player needs to make, and that will hopefully speed up character creation. I think as it is it might only work for 1st level characters, and even at that some of my players have pointed out that I may have blind spots where my own expertise with the system makes things more intuitive for me than they are for others.
Go West, Young ManPosted: 28 May 2012 in Uncategorized
Tags: alexandrian, delta's d&d hotspot, game report, hexcrawl, papers & pencils, roles rules and rolls, untimately, welsh piper
This weekend, my brothers and I got together for the long weekend and I took the opportunity to try my hand at a hexcrawl game. We had limited time to work with, so I told them to keep it basic and make characters with whatever background they wanted, as long as it gets them to this town looking for adventure in the wilderness. The game itself was essentially the same idea as the Western Marches campaign I've heard about, though I've never read up on it specifically. Adventure is to the west, retirement is to the east, and in the middle is a town you can spend your money at, brag about your adventures, and prepare for new ones.
Setting up the game took a lot of work on my part. It's the kind of work that's done once and can be used over and over again, but as this was my first game it all had to be taken care of. I used Hexographer to build my map, following the guidelines of Welsh Piper. I really wanted to use the one-page hexcrawl encounter system from Roles, Rules, and Rolls, but I didn't have the time to hand-key even a significant portion of my hexmap, and I wanted to incorporate non-combat encounters. So instead I used a multi-table setup recommended by Pencils and Papers — I had a d20 table to determined if there was an encounter and what type, and then sub-tables for Combat, Location, Sub-Quest, and Special encounters.
Making those random tables took the bulk of my effort. The Welsh Piper guidelines make building a hexmap really easy, and the Pathfinder core rules have a lot of information for how to put together encounters (so my Combat table had entries like "2d4+1 Goblin Warriors"), but I haven't really found any good advice or suggestions on what a Random Encounter table should look like, especially not for non-Combat encounters. Sub-Quests were probably the hardest, but possibly because (for time's sake) I was restricting myself to one-line hooks. "Lay the Dead to Rest," "Explore the Ruins," "Stop the Mad Wizard." This also kept it general enough that I could build details around them during play, so that no two "Stop the Mad Wizard" quests necessarily felt similar, let along the same.
After all that I found that there were a few systems I wanted to have that I didn't have any good notion for. How to move around the map was pretty easy: I remembered reading a post on Pencils and Papers about movement points and went off what I remembered from there. My group had a Dwarf so their speed was 24 miles in a day, so they got 24 "movement points" to spend. I kind of wish I'd thought to look over that post again before playing, though — I gave plains a move-cost of 5 and pretty much everything else a move-cost of 10 and i like the better granularity that P&P offered (which I guess he inherited from Brendan – who was riffing off Delta? I kind of love all the cross-pollination I'm finding). Anyways, I decided that you paid the Movement cost when you tried to leave a Hex. I rolled for an Encounter whenever the group entered a Hex, and they could pay half the exit-cost to "search" the Hex and get another encounter roll.
Two systems I didn't have that I wanted were a method for getting lost (and a similar method for finding your way again) and a system for foraging. The latter, foraging, got preempted at the table by going with Pathfinder's rules on the subject from the Survival skill (though I did vary DC based on terrain). The Alexandrian hinted at what sounds like a really great hexcrawl system that included a mechanism for getting lost, but as far as I can tell he's never posted the details. The P&P/Brendan/Delta posts have a notion of getting lost based on Survival checks, and I spontaneously settled on a very similar system, with Survival for getting lost and Geography for finding your way again. Still, I feel like I want something more-defined than that.
The game went off really great. We had an Elven Ranger, Half-Elf Cleric of Gorram, Halfling Cleric of Pharasma, Human Fighter and Dwarven Druid. They heard rumors of a dragon in the woods and met the sole survivor of a group who were apparently attacked by giant ants. They got lost in the forest a few times, found a magic spring that got them drunk (the elf is the only one paranoid enough to not drink) and finally happened upon a dragon hunter who they joined up with to slay a Green Dragon wyrmling. The cool thing is, I never planned on that happening when I seeded the rumors about the woods, I just wanted to warn them that dragons were on the table for Forest encounters.
My favorite scene of the night came about thanks to some odd behavior by a player and my inclination to say "yes." Early on the group met a travelling merchant, and the fighter spent a bunch of time going through his wares while the others asked him for rumors about the wilderness. He finally decided that he wanted to buy a shovel, and then proceeded to make Perception checks at every opportunity, looking for "anywhere that looks like there might be buried treasure." I let him make the rolls and fail to find anything interesting, until he rolled a 1 on his check. I decided that he found something recently buried that turned out to be a goblin grave under an oak tree. Another of the players asked if goblin typically buried their dead in caskets, and the Ranger (who's favored enemy is Goblins) rolled Knowledge and recalled that some tribes of goblins bury certain of their dead under oak trees as a sign of deep respect. None of this was planned (I didn't think they'd question a goblin in a casket), and now we've determined that they desecrated the grave of a goblin king. (I found out later that all my players thought he was digging up another traveler's latrine pit…)
Weights and MeasuresPosted: 25 May 2012 in Toolbox
Tags: alexandrian, broken structures, delta's d&d hotspot, encumbrance, game structures, papers & pencils, tools
So I finally got the Strength Tables up on my Carrying the World on Your Back post; there has to be a better way to do tables in WordPress…
Anyways, I got the tables up and I wanted to share a few more thoughts on the topic. The primary complaint about the D&D/Pathfinder encumbrance rules is that they're too granular. Each individual item is tracked with weights down to the fraction of a pound, and characters have varying levels of encumbrance based on their strength. It's straightforward but not easy or quick to calculate a character's current encumbrance and, most damning, it is not easy or quick to figure out what the character needs to drop if he suddenly has to run from a monster. I have a MS spreadsheet-based character sheet I grabbed off the Internet that does a good job tracking such things, but a system that requires a computer to use effectively is not a good system for a tabletop game. Knowing what their biggest weights are should be as intuitive to my players as it is for their characters. This is the argument Pencils and Papers made that changed my mind on Encumbrance.
There are, I think, two ways to simplify the system, and both of them consist of moving to a coarser measure. Delta suggested the use of the Stone, an archaic measure of weight that was roughly 14 or so pounds. She kept herself to whole-Stone numbers, The Alexandrian introduced fractional-Stone measures with certain containers and the notion of Bundles (which he put as 5 Bundles to the Stone). The math in the Alexandrian's system bothered me, with talk about Stone and half-Stone and one-fifth-Stone (thanks to Bundles)… So my thought was to set a Stone at 15lbs and a Bundle at 5lbs (1/3 Stone) and only track to the Bundle level. I want to say that if it's less than a Bundle you should ignore it, but I think that may make problems later on.
One of the things I'm happily cribbing from the Alexandrian is his general notions on how much things weigh and how things should be carried. Basic weights for weapons and armor were taken by him from Delta, but he added containers and more granularity for miscellaneous equipment. It should be noted that adding granularity when our intent was to reduce granularity is something to be wary of, but at the same time we don't want to disassociate ourselves to much from the fictional world, and it's not desirable to me to allow a player to carry infinite arrows or other such things.
From Delta and the Alexandrian, Heavy armor is 5 Stone, Medium armor is 3 Stone, and light armor is 1 Stone. Shields and full-sized (one- and two-handed) weapons are a Stone each. Obviously characters should still recognize that a war hammer is weightier than a rapier, but I don't think so much so that our mechanics need to care. In particular, Items should be measured in whole Stone, as a single Bundle, or as a Bundle when collected (like arrows).
Light weapons in my system are a Bundle for 5, bolts and arrows are a Bundle for 20, and coins are a Bundle for 250. Miscellaneous gear should cover everything else from rations to potions to maps and whatever else you have. Light items like a compass or Holy Symbol (unless it's a particularly big or weighty holy symbol, I guess) can be ignored, and everything else gets put together in Bundles of 10. In most cases if it's less than a Bundle it can safely be ignored, but you may want to make exceptions if a character has several mostly-full bundles (3 daggers, 14 arrows, 200 coins and 8 misc. items should probably weight something). Treasure should be assigned a weight by the DM, with a Stone being a hefty statue, a Bundle being a large gem or sack full of coins, and smaller items treated as misc. equipment. Something unwieldy like a painting or rug may count as several Stone despite not actually weighing that much.
Containers include things like backpacks, belt-pouches, and sacks, and should be used to explain where a character puts his gear when he's not holding it. Weapons are assumed to come with sheathes and quivers which can attach to a belt or be slung over a shoulder, but other things need to be packed away. Empty containers are considered misc. equipment, containers holding things are ignored (just count the stuff they're holding).
Finally, creature weights. This will usually refer to familiars, who tend to be misc. equipment- or Bundle-sized. Small creatures are about 2 Stone, the average Human is 12 Stone, and a Large creature is 100 Stone. Individuals can weight more or less if you care to make a distinction, but should stick to whole-Stone numbers. I'm just taking this stuff from The Alexandrian, so look to his page if you want to deal with larger creatures, though I'm not sure I want to know when or how the weight of a Colossal creature needs to be tracked…
Finally, for a guideline on figuring out weights of odd things you want in your dungeon, just divide the weight-in-pounds by 15 and drop any remainder; that's how many Stone it weighs. If it's smaller than a Stone but bigger than misc. equipment, call it a Bundle.
D&D? NEXT!Posted: 24 May 2012 in The Hobby
Tags: dnd n5xt
So a little background, I didn't really encounter D&D until college, and by "college" I mean 2003, so it was right there with D&D 3.0 and 3.5. I had a few terrible experiences with a few terrible DMs and decided I'd stick to my RIFTS and World of Darkness, thank you very much. A few years later I heard about D&D 4E, saw the similarities with the MMOs I'd been playing for years, and felt it was an elegant solution to all the problems I saw with earlier D&D. I've backed away from that opinion, but that's maybe a discussion for another time.
By the time 5th Edition (are they really calling it D&D N5xt?) was announced, I'd already moved on to Pathfinder and figured there wasn't anything they could do to bring me back. Then I started reading about things like Hexcrawls and disassociative mechanics and complete game structures… Suffice to say I dismissed 5E out of hand as something I could even care to follow.
This afternoon, I saw a post by a friend of a friend talking about the playtest materials (which I guess got released today?) and how it was a mix of 2E and 3E, consisted of a whole bunch of book-keeping, undid a bunch of what 4E had established, was catering to players that WotC had lost with 4E… And now I'm thinking maybe I should rethink my initial dismissal of 5E. Maybe there's something there.
So, anyone out there been involved with D&D N5xt? Does anyone have the playtest materials and can give me a second opinion? Is there a way I can get the playtest materials?
Building CharacterPosted: 23 May 2012 in Uncategorized
Tags: character creation, papers & pencils
I just read an interesting post over at Pencils and Papers about Character Generation versus Character Building. P&P seems to take, or have taken in the past, a lot of time comparing modern games to the ideals of OSR gamers. OSR is the Old School Renaissance that's budded up in the community recently with a, some say overly-nostalgic, preference for the games and systems of the 1970s. I would have to say that I am at least on the fringe of that group (notionally, at least), but my interest is mostly in taking mechanics from the past that have been discarded and re-integrating them into modern games. I don't want to play D&D 2E, I want to play Pathfinder with hexmaps and random encounter tables.
But I digress. The post I referenced talks about old school "character generation" where you roll a few dice, pick a class, and you're done. P&P says there's a de-emphasis or discouragement for players to get too deep into the rules, ostensibly so they don't limit what they believe are valid options in play. This is contrasted with Character Building, where the player is presented a cascade of rules and options to play with and customize their character. P&P talks about how he loves Character Building, how he fiddles with his character and plans out his next level ahead of time and writes up character sheets for the NPCs in his background. This is exactly what I do, and I have the same level of glee. But P&P concludes that Character Building is harmful to the hobby. It can be daunting to new players and it can really bog down the excitement of starting a new campaign (never mind just getting a group together at random for an afternoon of gaming). When I had my players build characters for my Expectations game I feel that I set out fairly rigid guidelines in order to help limit the overwhelming options they had to deal with — they had a Standard array of stats instead of rolling or point-buy and I had soft and hard requirements their characters had to satisfy (generally, be an exemplar of your Race and Class in some meaningful way). it still took them roughly a month to finally get me characters, and even then their sheets were incomplete in places. Granted, I don't expect they were actually working on their characters for any significant portion of time, but that it took that long is ridiculous no matter how you excuse it.
There is a problem with Character Building, and like P&P no one I know (with maybe a few exceptions) enjoys the character creation process. That being said, I for one dislike the notion of character generation, even if it has the benefit of drastically cutting down the time necessary to create characters.
P&P talks about an imaginary system that makes equally balanced characters either through Generation or Building, to allow people like he and I to gleefully twiddle our characters while at the same time letting less-enthusiastic players generate a character 10 minutes before play. It's not clear that such a system is possible, and P&P claims to be working on a stop-gap to use with Pathfinder. I haven't checked to see if he's gotten anywhere with that, but I like the idea of it.
I'll take a note here and say that this is one of the things that I really like about some of the non-d20 games I've played. CAPES has a really quick, easy, and fun method of character generation, and it DOES work (in a sense) whether you generate a character with their templates or free-form (I've done both). Burning Empires uses a lifepath-style form of character creation, and while it doesn't necessarily make it quicker or easier to generate a character, background details naturally flow out of it (something which isn't true of most other systems).
For my purposes, I think I'll start putting together "generation guidelines" for my players to help streamline choices. I think I'll use his "X+INT skills at Level+3+attribute" idea (though, what happens if X+INT is bigger than the list of class skills?) and work on paring down Feat option. From my post on Massaging Feats I already plan on doing some pruning there. After that, you have issues like Stats, Class Features, Spell Lists, and Equipment that needs to be accounted for. I may take a page out of another RPG I played once (can't remember which) and just bundle up packages, like "Necromancer Spell List" or "Tomb Raider Equipment."
If anyone has thoughts on this or ideas on ways to help make Character Generation possible in modern D&D, let me know.


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