Caltrops and Flashcards and Clue ... Oh My!

Want.

Still want.

Dude. WICKED.

Want it want it want it!

OMGSQUEE!

So terribly sad that I a) get this, and b) want it.

I really must stop looking at ThinkGeek. So many T-shirts, so little money.

Don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I feel like hell and I'm not allowed to have more Lemsip for at least two hours. Argh. I can't afford to be sick. Well, if I still feel this shitty tomorrow, I'm going off sick. I can't be ill on Saturday. Joking aside, I'm not sure I could manage running demo games via flashcards. I mean, I'd have to come up with the likely phrases I'd need, for a start. At the moment, all I can think of is "ROLL INITIATIVE", "ROLL DAMAGE", "ROLL DODGE", "TAKE [number] POINTS OF DAMAGE", "MOVING SWIFTLY ON..." and "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THAT?" Oh, and let's not forget, "PARDON ME WHILE I DISPENSE A CLUE-BASHING."

Must go out and buy dice at lunchtime. There need to be a fair few, but realistically, I can get away with only getting enough for one group. Even if several get walked away with, I'll likely get enough d4s in my dice scoop adventure to not have to worry about it; there were last year, which is probably why I wound up coming up with a d4 dice system in the first place, sitting around and wondering what the hell to do with them all. Anyway, we can always pick up more d4s there if it's an emergency. I mostly just don't fancy the idea of walking into Forbidden Planet, Playing Games or Orc's Nest and asking for 100 d4s (some dice pools for weapons damage will go up to eight or higher). Then again, it's probably a good way to get Affils brought up in conversation in a non-chain gaming store, which in turn is probably a good thing.

In any case, it'll give me a chance to go gift shopping. 'Tis the bloody season, after all. At least I have the basics covered. Yeesh. There's too much on this winter.

Psychosis

Came in from lunch late. Got my d4s (40 of them should do) and some very strange looks from the guy behind the counter at Orc's Nest. He said "But you'll never be able to roll a 6". Nooooooo, not if you only roll one... Anyway, I just told him I was running a demo game for a new system and no one routinely uses d4s so I thought I'd provide some. He shrugged and said "Ah. Cool." Still looked at me like I was mad, though.

Got this link from kixie: Man gets life in prison for raping a four-month-old. However, he is up for parole in ten years. Yyyyyyeah. They doubt that he will be released, but still... I think people like that don't need jail so much as mental hospitals because they're obviously unstable. Why is it that the so-called 'normal' ones are allowed and encouraged to take antidepressents and mood-altering pharmaceuticals just to prevent them from having any negative moods at all while people who perform acts like that are merely thrown in jail and given no help at all? I don't get the psychiatric community.