So there was
an earthquake yesterday in the late morning. A pretty long one too,
lasting like 30 seconds. The Oracle building was swaying though when I
went to look at the other buildings I couldn't tell if they were
moving. These building are built way too solidly. Some people panic but
it wasn't a huge earthquake so I just kept doing whatever I was doing.
After basketball today we went to Applebee's in Fremont. Eric and I had
the All You Can Eat Riblets. The riblets were not that good. Not much
sauce, a little tough, hard to get at the meat. Came with good french
fries, so so baked beans, and kind of dry coleslaw. I had a chocolate
shake beforehand and it was pretty good, if not exactly very thick. We
also had the Spinach-Artichoke Dip and that was good.
The waitress was not that great either. Eric and I kept trying to get
some water and it was only right at the end of the meal when she gave
us water. I still gave a big tip though maybe I won't be going back to
that Applebee's. I have had good meals at Applebee's before. Still had
a good time and ate a lot.
So afterwards I played Diablo and finally got the Baal Doll. Combined
it with the other dolls to make an amulet. +1 to all skills, enemy
resistances at -5%, +83 (based on level) Strength and Vitality, lots of
extra lightning damage. Not too bad overall and it frees up a bunch of
space in my stash. So now I can go hunt for the dolls to the last set.
Meanwhile I've gotten three of the four pieces I need for Griswold's
Legacy. I only need the helmet which I tried but got the Armor of God
helmet. The Legacy has lots of open slots and I'll probably be putting
lots of extra resistance things if the set makes it to Hell level.
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As I've been
archiving Pyramid I came across a conversion article. Pocket Fantasy to
GURPS. Pocket Fantasy is a PDF RPG based on the PlainLabel rules which
is also PDF only. The problem being that Pocket Fantasy isn't being
sold anymore since I couldn't find it at all and the links are dead.
PlainLabel itself is sold as the Simply Roleplaying RPG by Microtactix,
whose web site has lots of broken links. Another problem is that Simply
Roleplaying is already at 3rd Edition and there is no sign of previous
editions. That and it's hard to tell what products are what on the
Microtactix site. Not so much bad organization as bad descriptions.
So we have two big problems with PDF products: one is that if the
company disappears the PDFs disappear. Since PDFs have little resale
value or even methods for resale it makes those PDFs impossible to
find. Second is related in that obsolete older versions/editions of
PDFs just disappear. Both factors make it very hard to collect PDFs,
especially from micro-companies that are essentially fly-by-night.
At least with the Hero PDFs I see a certain stability in the company
and in the PDFs. Once you have the PDF done, don't keep revising it.
New editions are sort of ok, but small revisions just means a lot of
different versions of the PDF out there. In general most sourcebooks
only have one edition anyways so the multiple-editions problem is not
that common. But core books which you get with a PDF-only line... Ack!
Some of the things people are suggesting for Steve Jackson Games' e23
are scary. Partial products and bits and pieces. I want complete books,
the kind that companies would publish. I don't want little 32-page
books each covering micro-subjects. That way leads to collecting hell
for me.
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