Invasion

On Henry's beer brewing blog (check it out - he won a silver medal at a local homebrew festival!) he included the OOTS style avatars for the Blogtet. I thought that was a pretty sweet idea, so I'm trying it out on my blog. What do you think?

Yo ho!

Roland and I enjoy a web comic call the Order of the Stick. At the site they also have a forum, I mean who doesn't these days, where people discuss the comic, D&D, and just about everything else you can imagine. One of the quirks of the site is that people have taken to making avatars that resemble the characters of the OOTS. This is where all the blog-tets avatars came from. However, being the nerdly type gamers that they are the peeps over at OOTS also change their avatars from time to time to reflect holidays, life changes, etc. (now you know Roland and I fit right in). Being as yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate Day there was a rush of pirate themed avatars. The dude who drew mine is one of the best there is, Chris the Pontifex. He was kind enough to update mine to be piratey!



I love how she looks like she's daring you to ask how far up the peg leg goes.

Shannatar

Shannon asked for an avatar and Roland was kind enough to ask one of the best, Chris the Pontifex. He totally rules the avatar drawing and is has a wicked awesome portfolio. He kindly obliged with this:



And as an added bonus sent along this:



I love the stroller and an in awe of his ability to create drawings like this. You rule Chris!

It's ME!

Anne asked my about my cool new avatar and where I got it. Well, Roland could explain it better, but there is this very funny D&D related online comic called the Order of the Stick(OOTS) which are stick figures made in some paint kind of program. They also have a message board area of the website that has people talking about role playing, this comic, other comics, all sort of stuff. One of the threads there is called Arts and Crafts where people who are talented that way like to show off the OOTS type avatars they have made. They will also take requests from us less talented folk and Roland asked for one that was like me. So voila, there I am and with Bleys no less. I like it a lot and think it's awesome.

Drop

Roland pointed me to a new cartoon today. Its on par with the Knights of the Dinner Table and Dork Tower, both of which I find very humorous. Since I'm also reading D&D 3.5, the Order of the Stick is very funny. It sort of pokes fun of some of the new things in 3.5. Reading the players handbook is slow going but steady. I've been reading a bit before going to bed every night and that seems to work well. I think Roland wishes I would read faster though. He keeps having ideas for adventure bits and pieces and is excited to get going on the whole thing. I'm debating about what sort of character to create. I kind of want to go off the usual thing I do, but I'm not sure which direction to go. Maybe just a straight up fighter. Being just the two of us, I think Roland is going to have me roll up some other PC friends that he can semi-play with me, so I have a party to crawl with. So, yeah, that last sentence...I think that elevates me to queen of the nerds or something.

Apparently Jason is throwing a Labor-ween part for his birthday this year. That sort of made me sad because this will be the first party that Roland and I won't be able to go to. Kind of a bummer. I'm going to miss the getting together with peeps for made up holidays. It started with Thankmas, invented because in college we wanted to celebrate thanksgiving and/or Christmas with our friends but we all went to our respective homes for the real holidays. So we created one in between the two and it was dubbed Thankmas. The motto of Thanksmas is: You get what you want, because you bring it. So if a holiday isn't complete for you without green bean casserole, you bring it (I won't because I seriously dislike beans). If a holiday isn't complete for you without sugarbomb yams (with sugar, and marshmallows, and more sugar), you bring it. Whatever you need for the holiday to be right, you bring. In the beginning there was a secret santa option, but that sort of died out.

After Thanksmas, came the New Years Party (yeah, no special name there just a whole lot of drinkin'), then MemEaster - which then became Cinco de MemEaster for a three holiday punch, and Labor-Pendence Day. It was pretty sweet to get together with all the peeps so often. I will miss it.