Sunday, April 08, 2007
Birthday Cake for Geeks
I love having such geeky friends.
Three of us in our Saturday night gaming group have birthdays around the same time. As is tradition, the rest of the group threw a minor birthday celebration for us prior to me dishing out the pain as Dungeon Master in a game of D&D. Apparently, three of the geek ladies in our lives planned to do something special with the birthday cake.
They made a flat cake and decorated it with frosting in a grid shape. And then they used Dungeons & Dragons and Mage Knight miniatures to decorate it further, with a battle scene. Apparently, while we were busy discussing politics or something, they were composing the battle scene, arguing over flanking positions, cover, and who has already gone this turn.
(Yes, the ladies in our gaming group KNOW HOW to handle flanking and attacks of opportunity, thankyouverymuch... hard-won knowledge, that).
The results were - frankly, awesome. Best birthday cake EVAR. Fortunately, Kelly Olsen (another of the gaming geeks of the female persuasion in our group) had a digital camera on hand, and we took some shots.
Here's a shot of the entire Battle of Birthday Cake Plain from the side. It's hard to see what's going on, but it's entertaining. I imagine they are fighting over that treasure room on the side - a plate of golden cookies!
Apparently, John Olsen was the guy who decided that the D20s have all rolled 1's. He's got a sick sense of humor.
This archer apparently decided to take the high ground on top of the table and use his Point Blank Shot & Precise Shot feats to avoid the -4 penalty for firing into the nearby melee. Nevermind the fact that the furniture is of a slightly larger scale...Oh, and we got to divvy up the miniatures later. BONUS!
(Vaguely) related semi-randomly selected wordage:
* Spring and ... D&D?
* Adult Dungeons & Dragons
* Out-Gamed By My Daughter!
* Evolution of Computer RPGs
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Guilty as charged. What good are dice as part of a scene if you can't stage them as well? The only possible options were all twenties or all ones. And ones were funnier.
Oh, and the whole fighting while standing on top of a table has also come up in game. Multiple times.
Oh, and the whole fighting while standing on top of a table has also come up in game. Multiple times.
best cake. ever.
the archer-on-the-table reminds me of the time we were in Ravenloft and I decided to hop on an abandoned cart to fire a volley into a frakas with some undead the party was involved with.
Bad idea.
Critically fumbled and ended up killing our tank. whoops! :)
Needless to say I was banned from playing any ranged class.
the archer-on-the-table reminds me of the time we were in Ravenloft and I decided to hop on an abandoned cart to fire a volley into a frakas with some undead the party was involved with.
Bad idea.
Critically fumbled and ended up killing our tank. whoops! :)
Needless to say I was banned from playing any ranged class.
LOL. "Why they won't let Wazoo use bows anymore." I can see being a little miffed.
The joke around our group was when the monk was engaged in melee with only 19 hitpoints left against some nasty critter that had snatched him out of range. The pyromancer (a psion prestige class) had a good area-affect (I think it was a cone-effect) spell. The monk - who had high dex, insane good-agains-everything saving throws, and evasion (which let him take NO damage on a successful save) realized he had about a 75% chance of taking no damage whatsoever, but knew he was doomed taking another round of melee damage from the monster.
So he said, "Go ahead, I can take it."
He failed his save.
The player playing the pyromancer (one of the ladies involved in setting up the above cake) rolled pretty close to max damage, taking the monk down to negative 13 damage. As in, not just dying but dead-dead.
All of us looked in stunned silence, whereupon the pyromancer's player said, "You TOLD me to do it! You told me you could take it!"
The monk's player laughed it off as he pulled out a brand new character sheet.
The joke around our group was when the monk was engaged in melee with only 19 hitpoints left against some nasty critter that had snatched him out of range. The pyromancer (a psion prestige class) had a good area-affect (I think it was a cone-effect) spell. The monk - who had high dex, insane good-agains-everything saving throws, and evasion (which let him take NO damage on a successful save) realized he had about a 75% chance of taking no damage whatsoever, but knew he was doomed taking another round of melee damage from the monster.
So he said, "Go ahead, I can take it."
He failed his save.
The player playing the pyromancer (one of the ladies involved in setting up the above cake) rolled pretty close to max damage, taking the monk down to negative 13 damage. As in, not just dying but dead-dead.
All of us looked in stunned silence, whereupon the pyromancer's player said, "You TOLD me to do it! You told me you could take it!"
The monk's player laughed it off as he pulled out a brand new character sheet.
The archer-on-the-table was my idea. I didn't realize until yesterday morning, when I was looking at the minis Jacob had claimed, that she's female. Ah, the nostalgia....
# posted by 
: April 09, 2007 9:51 AM
: April 09, 2007 9:51 AM
I've let him know so he can update his post. But here's a direct link to the Dare Devil video and X-Men
and a better still image.
and a better still image.
As the one who snapped the photos...I got 'pulled' into this group by association or is that relation...it was much more fun to tag along with John O. than stay home with the kids.
But they knew they had me hooked when I showed up to a game night when John was out of town. :D
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But they knew they had me hooked when I showed up to a game night when John was out of town. :D
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