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[TempAcc]

There are books about geodude? As in, multiple books?

YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED

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[scrdest]

I'm studying for an exam how to mess with insect cells, which uses a virus named Baculovirus, Bac for short. And oh my god, the puns, the awful, awful puns in the names of the kits that use it. BacPAK, Bac-to-Bac, BacMagic... It's almost like genetic engineers are nerds or something.

[Furtuka]

SO PEOPLE HAVE NOTICED A CERTAIN SOMETHING HAS POPPED UP IN THE CHINESE TRAILER FOR THE UPCOMING SUPER ROBOT WARS ORIGINAL GENERATIONS GAME

I WANT TO BELIEVE

CROSSPOSTING BECAUSE MANY FEELINGS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR AND SURPRISE AND FEAR AND JOY

[scrdest]

I'm studying for an exam how to mess with insect cells, which uses a virus named Baculovirus, Bac for short. And oh my god, the puns, the awful, awful puns in the names of the kits that use it. BacPAK, Bac-to-Bac, BacMagic... It's almost like genetic engineers are nerds or something.

Hmm, bacculo means 'club' in latin. Relation?

Yep, it's named for the shape.

[itisnotlogical]

Cooking with Dog genuinely makes me gleeful every time I watch an episode or two. I was having kind of a crappy night between busy work and hurting my legs, but it really cheered me up.

[NRDL]

Few things as purifying and just genuinely pleasing as a good shave with a straight razor. 

[Xantalos]

I've understood the therapeutic benefits of forgetting for a while, but I've never actually experienced it until now. Just going to sleep and letting go of the current stress that I've broken many an unfortunate object that happened to be in my hand because of was ... extremely gratifying. I felt peaceful for the first time in days.

[miauw62]

I made a D&D character today, im pretty hype :v (even if i still have to think up a backstory)

[Comrade P.]

I made a D&D character today, im pretty hype :v (even if i still have to think up a backstory)

Aren't you supposed to think of backstory first and then proceed to technical spreadsheets?

[Criptfeind]

Depends on the game and the person. Both are legit ways to do it.

[Graknorke]

I made a D&D character today, im pretty hype :v (even if i still have to think up a backstory)

Aren't you supposed to think of backstory first and then proceed to technical spreadsheets?

If you have no idea how the mechanics work it's not uncommon to be given a character with premade stats so that you don't have to do a bunch of prerequisite reading first.
Not that I have any first hand experience because my friends suck at being nerds.

[Arx]

I made a D&D character today, im pretty hype :v (even if i still have to think up a backstory)

Aren't you supposed to think of backstory first and then proceed to technical spreadsheets?

Sometimes! I just built an archer and spun out a backstory about him, because it's easier to think of something I know can be done in D&D and then backstory it than to think up a long backstory and then realise there's no real way of representing it.

But equally, I've played characters who were pure fluff that I then statted out.

[Flying Dice]

I made a D&D character today, im pretty hype :v (even if i still have to think up a backstory)

Aren't you supposed to think of backstory first and then proceed to technical spreadsheets?

It's a highly personal process.

Here's how I normally do it, for example:
1. Develop bare-bones character concept.
2. Figure out what sort of crunch would mesh with the concept.
3. Do all the statting-out.
4. Write personality and backstory, taking cues from elements of the crunch which would affect either.
5. Go back and edit the crunch with minor things derived from the personality and backstory--sentimental-value trinkets, perform/profession skills, &c.

Treating the mechanical and narrative aspects of a character as separate entities is almost as bad as only caring about one or the other.

[Rose]

http://imgur.com/a/vBKVV

Got fruits showing up in armok vision.

I think they look pretty good.

[miauw62]

I just went over to the DM's house and we sort of made a character, i just picked what seemed like fun (and based off of what the playgroup already has. i'm not saying party because the playgroup is pretty big and some people have come up with an elaborate system to keep it managable). Which is how it has come to pass that I am going to be playing a Gnome Wild Sorcerer.