What Kind of d and d char are you?

I Am A: Lawful Good Human Wizard/Cleric (3rd/2nd Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-14
Dexterity-17
Constitution-14
Intelligence-15
Wisdom-17
Charisma-16

Alignment:
Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished. Lawful good is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and compassion. However, lawful good can be a dangerous alignment because it restricts freedom and criminalizes self-interest.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Primary Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.

Secondary Class:
Clerics act as intermediaries between the earthly and the divine (or infernal) worlds. A good cleric helps those in need, while an evil cleric seeks to spread his patron's vision of evil across the world. All clerics can heal wounds and bring people back from the brink of death, and powerful clerics can even raise the dead. Likewise, all clerics have authority over undead creatures, and they can turn away or even destroy these creatures. Clerics are trained in the use of simple weapons, and can use all forms of armor and shields without penalty, since armor does not interfere with the casting of divine spells. In addition to his normal complement of spells, every cleric chooses to focus on two of his deity's domains. These domains grants the cleric special powers, and give him access to spells that he might otherwise never learn. A cleric's Wisdom score should be high, since this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.

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Renaissance Fairs

Renaissance Fairs are neat where else can you go that they let you help defend a castle from invasion. Yes I got to play with swords. Ooooh I feel an evil gm idea coming on. Defending a castle. Could be interesting. In any case I do recommend going to the Fair next year, unless you would like to go tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last day unfortunately. Oh and by the way you do get a discount if you dress up. It was too hot for my gear but they gave us the discount anyway lucky us.

I usually enjoy watching the history channel. Okay, even today I enjoyed the program. The program was about the build up of military might and weapons by Ramses the Second in preparation to invade the Hittites. I was watching a channel on the history of ancient Egyptian weapons it was informative and interesting; however, the demonstrations left much to be desired. The first demonstration was to prove that the traditional mace as used by ancient Egyptian infantry was a useless weapon. The Egyptian mace was a large rock with the middle section hollowed out so it could fit on the end of a wooden shaft. (For pictures go to http://otlichnik.tripod.com/medmace.html)

For the demonstration of the mace they made a replica then used it to smash an animal skull on the place on the top of a pole. The guy doing the demonstration smashed the mace straight down on the skull crushing it between the mace and the pole. This was to demonstrate the mace was an effective weapon against an unprotected skull. The next demonstration they set modern reproduction of a steel helmet on the pole and smacked it at an angle so that the helmet went flying off of the pole. There were two problems with this demonstration. First, the blow was at an angle causing the helmet to fly away rather than the straight down blow as before. Second steel was not known to ancient Egypt of any of its contemporaries so demonstrating the effectiveness of a Bronze Age weapon against a steel helmet is not an effective demonstration of the weapon.

One of the other weapons that was highlighted by the history channel was a composite short bow. A composite bow is made form a bone or horn bonded to wood by resin the wrapped in animal sinew finally coated in resin to hold the whole thing together. The point of manufacturing a bow like this was to make a very effective weapon that fires arrows fast and hard but reduce weight and length to make the weapon more usable on a battle field. Archaeologists know that Egyptian’s used the composite bow because they have found some in King Tut’s tomb.

For the demonstration of the composite bow they used a reproduction not of an Egyptian bow but rather they used a reproduction a Mongolian bow. This is a bad demonstration because the Egyptians were just figuring out how to make and use the composite bow. The Mongols had about 2000 years to prefect the art. The Mongol composite bow is the pinnacle of composite bows. Comparing a Mongol bow to an Egyptian one is like comparing a modern assault rifle to a musket. The incredibly sad thing is they had on the show a military historian using the same techniques as the Egyptians had made reproductions of Egyptian composite bows why did they not use those bows in their demonstration.

The show was interesting but I think that they should have done a better job with the demonstrations.

Apartment Building

Here is the situation. The roof to the apartment building leaks during a heavy rain it leaks into the hallway. It has gotten so bad that that it has rotted though the wallboard in spots. This is not an unknown issue as our landlord has had his onsite manager cut away sections of wallboard to inspect the damage and to try to determine the source of the leak. The hole in the wall reveals that the interior of the wall is covered in mold and mildew.

Now for the fun part, one of our neighbors complained in writing stating that unless the situation was corrected she was going to contact the health department and withhold rent. The result of her complaint; the landlord has designed a new lease agreement contract that he wants us all to sign. One of the many clauses (this thing has 6 pages of size 8 font) basically makes us sign away our right to hold the landlord responsible for damages caused by mold or mildew to any property or health of residents or guests of the building. Also, according to the lease, we are to defend and indemnify the landlord in the case that he is taken to court as a result of a suite stemming from mold. It seems that by signing this lease it will allow the landlord to not make repairs and give us no recourse to hold him responsible. I know several people who live in this building. No one that I know is going to sign the lease agreement.

So anyone know of someplace to live?

P.S. I have pictures if anyone wants to see. We are thinking of contacting a lawyer. If anyone in the building is reading this we would be happy to make it a class action suite.