How do you know you're a girlie geek?
You get over-the-knee leather boots and a D&D combat pad for Christmas and you're equally ecstatic about both presents.
This combat pad is such a neat idea. Ever since we met some new people who used one during combat for D&D, I've been coveting one. I even MacGuyver'd one for myself when I DM out of an empty 8.5 x 11 frame using wet erase markers. Extremely useful when you're juggling a lot of PC's and Bad Guys and NPC's.
I can't even remember what we used to do to keep track of initiative in battle before this little puppy was around. But obviously, it was nowhere near this cool and efficient.
This sucker is gonna make my life as a DM so much sweeter. It's madness, but I'm currently DM'ing a group of 7 PC's, with 2 major NPC cohorts. The kicker? The group's at 19th level, and we were given god-like stats to begin with. And along the way from first level, we got access to every skill trick, feat, magic item, and razzle-dazzle available in the collective D&D 3.5 edition books. Oh, and some artifact weapons.
Running a group this large with this much power is like herding cats, except the cats are saber toothed lions juiced up on steroids and hopped up on speed. But this combat pad will be like catnip-filled crinkley toys, my secret weapon.
Another really neat thing is that one of our D&D buddies knows the guy who invented this. How amazing is that? It's really a small world. Six degrees of separation and all that.
Sadly, I have not had a chance to utilize either of my wonderful new gifts. I haven't DM'd my big 7-man group since before Christmas, and the boots were the wrong size. Damn my muscular calves. I can put the suckers on, even zip them up, but then my legs look disconcertingly like sausage casings.
I blame driving a stick. All that pedal work is a workout for the calf muscles in stop-n-go traffic. Oh and walking, lots of walking. And possibly my tendancy to tippy-toe. I've heard that can work out your calves as well.
But Saturday! Oh Saturday. There will be a trip to Macy's, and I WILL find over-the-knee leather boots that will accomodate my well-turned calves.
4 comments:
I so want to be a part of your life if only to join you to go boot shopping. Why can't we ever see pictures of that. You had me at 'over the knees'. That is practically a pirate baby.
I'll go boot shopping with ya anytime! I LOVE boots. They're both wonderful and practical when you live in the snowy lands of the north.
It is scary cool how much we have in common. Next we'll find out that we are related but for some reason I just won't care.
I know! I feel practically Canadian already, being a Minnesooooota girl.
I think all lovers of geeker things are related in spirit already. I have met very few mean geeks. That's why conventions are so much fun--everyone is always so nice & interesting and fun to be around.
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