alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

eventually i may do a more proper intro post, but as a placeholder for now:

hi, i’m alyssa, or lyssa, or alice. or a bunch of other names if you know me well.

i don’t know yet what i’ll about yet, but possibly my daily life, or things i read or watch, or write.

a lot of shops here close for vacation during january

strong temptation about changing what game i'm planning to run soon again

this is the problem with an extended delay between deciding to run something and actually starting play hehe

also me being a mercurial and capricious person but yk

for example that the encumbrance rules in most circumstances are "dwbi, just apply your armor penalties", or that 2-handed weapons get one and a half times your strength modifier as a bonus, or that when you do e.g. double damage, you roll the damage dice twice rather than just, rolling once and doubling the result.

my wife's gonna gm a 1-on-1 campaign of pathfinder 1e for me for spanish practice/fun combo reasons and i am learning that there's a lot of very basic 3.5e d&d/1e pathfinder rules i was not aware of before now (admittedly, i never played either but)

champions gives powers such such bizarrely high range. generally ranged powers have about 10 meters of range per point in the power. an energy blast that hits as hard as like, an average person's punch costs 10 points and therefore has a range of 100 meters.

this is a superhero game. obvs depending on the particular table people will have different power levels, but a typical attack power might be somewhere in the 40 to 60 point range. so 400 to 600 meters of range.

(however due to distance modifiers to attacks you probably won't hit anything at that kind of range unless you really optimize for it)

hustle: "you can't cheat an honest man"
nueve reinas: let's go scam some the first lonely old aunt we can find out of some money pretending to be her favorite nephew

good movie but yeah i can see why chaplin apparently said he wouldn’t have made it if he had fuller knowledge of what was going on at the time

#6 was huge power

five thick fat azurills in a row.

there is nothing more difficult to me in pokémon than understanding how pokémon-amie/refresh works

the threesome scene in challengers was overhyped

👀 the new class in Etrian Odyssey Nexus spawns illusions and heals allies on every attack
i am intrigued

relatedly it’s convenient that no one here has ever seen pudding before because last time at least the texture came out rather more.. cohesive than is proper.

for today's pudding we are operating on a metric cup translation standard (for reasons such as we have 1 litre of almond milk).

argentina categorizes wheat flour by size of the... particles? and names the categories with different numbers of 0s.

apparently 000 corresponds to what in EE.UU. would be called all-purpose flour

apparently there is at least one yu-gi-oh card that forces your opponent to shake your hand

i rolled above a 10 on an initiative roll!

two of the enemies rolled nat 19 and 20 on their initiative rolls so i was behind them but ah well.

but i looted a +1 striking pistol off an enemy so lookign forward to a whole extra damage die for the final boss fight (probably) against a giant wall of flesh or whatever

to avoid having to do the whole move reminder dance for breloom’s moves i’m raising a spore shroomish that i’ll breed with a paras

think i'm gonna train a battle frontier team (since i will need a BP item to evolve a weavile in the following phase).

thinking i'll do tyranitar, skarmory, and breloom

what're y'all's fav (3)ds / gba games?