Cough, cough, cough

[melchar]

Fever broke = yay! It's turning into a chest cold = ick. Gil_Liant comments that this means I likely caught it from him. [it's what he had last week] Sigh. If it gets worse, I'll have to cancel the Saturday game.

OTOH, I got a copy of 'Neverwinter Nights' [diamond edition] and installed it on my laptop.. Never played it before. [Thanks for the recommendation KensterFox!] It looks good, tho I have the screen set at 1024 x 768 resolution and thus can actually -read- the print size thereby without a magnifying glass. Have started a rogue PC and am doing the tutorials.

And drinking a lot of tea.

Comments

[dajagr.livejournal.com]

Awww, you broke it! Want me to come by with the super-glue and help fix it?... ;)

[melchar.livejournal.com]

[shakes head] Nah, I'd rather give it to someone who can repair it and keep it for their own. [the original pass-around fever]

[kaichi-satake.livejournal.com]

Eep! I'm sending lots of warm, heal-y type hugs. *shnuggles* <3

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Give a hugs back after cleaning germs off of it. ^_^ [chicken noodle soup time for me].

[nobarking.livejournal.com]

Let me know how NWN goes (is it 1 or 2?) -- I bought a used copy ages ago but my roommate stole it before I ever got a chance to install it, so I have no idea how it is!

BG and BG2 were some of my absolute most favourite games of all-time on the PC, so I was hoping it might be along those lines. Does it work off 3rd ed, or 3.5? Icewind Dale 2 did and confused the snot out of me, as our gaming company still hasn't made the transition from second ed. ;)

Also, I hope you feel a lot better soon! My docs have me drinking peppermint tea a lot for any kind of chest cold, and it's amazing stuff, clears you up better than a shot of Buckley's.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

NWN [the first one, diamond edition] is fun to play thus far. I picked a new copy up on half.com for $15 [with shipping], so it was very affordable. A chum recommended it & gave a few pointers. [good thing too - like about the large # of locks and traps.]

The game system it uses is close enough to 3rd edition to be familiar and playing 'swap a class' gives some good versatility. [If you are a complete rules stickler, there are enough 'hey that's not 100% 3rd ed' to make them complain ... a lot. But I referee 2nd ed and 3.5 and it doesn't bug -me-.

[I started as rogue/human because 40 skill points are compelling & there are a lot of locks and traps; did another level of rogue, swapped to ranger, then to sorcerer ... so I could use all the toys.]

I also loved BG - and wish NWN let you have more than 1 hireling at a time. The hirelings are pretty amusing tho.

[nods and agrees about peppermint tea.] I'm drinking lots of that - with some double bergomot [sp?] thrown in for difference. Hot tea and honey is good for chest, coughing and sore, scratchy throat.

[buull.livejournal.com]

I refuse to ever play nwn simply because it claims to follow 3.0 rules.

It doesn't.

If it was just a standalone game 'inspired' by 3.0 or something like that, fine. But their whole advertising campaign was that you could run a real d&d campaign inside the game.

Yet the games doesn't follow the rules and you can't change that.

Lies.

[shadowcatt-x.livejournal.com]

I have NWN also, and have never managed to finish the whole thing. Mostly that's because of the extremely annoying need to break EVERYTHING to get treasure. Every box, barrel and chest has something in it. Usually that something is total crap--a complete waste of my time. Unfortunately every now and then, there is something very nice in the chest. It happens often enough that I feel obligated to look, even though I know it'll most likely be useless. Now I know how pavlov's dogs feel.

My advice: ignore everything except the sturdy locked and trapped chests. And before you get into them, save the game. Then open them and if you don't get something super nice, keep reloading until you do. IMO, it takes the same amount of time as breaking every barrel, but you get better return for the investment.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

You must have wild chest skills. I swear I keep finding only gold in chests, while boxes are the things I find healing potions inside of. [shakes head] I have not been overwhelmed at the random loot; but the game is fun.

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[gil-liant.livejournal.com]

If you get this, please call me at work. I post this at 17:17 on 12 Nov. 2007.