My D&D character

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Wizard/Sorcerer (3rd/2nd Level)

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Wizard/Sorcerer (3rd/2nd Level)

Ability Scores: Strength-11 Dexterity-13 Constitution-12 Intelligence-16 Wisdom-12 Charisma-11

Alignment: Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment when it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.

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: Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.

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The Third Silicon Revolution?

Ever so quietly and without anyone making a big fuss things are changing, again. Silicon is proving to be absolutely fundamental to this break through in our modern lives, and in an area non would have predicated. The kitchen. No, I’m not talking about the vaporware ‘smart fridge’ concepts, but something simple, age old cooking utensils. Spatulas, whisks, oven gloves, cake molds all these and much more are now available in heat prof silicon. And they are truly great, for we can now use a whisk in our non-stick fry-pans, we can clean the oven gloves in the dishwasher, our cakes and breads just slide out of there molds, no need to grease.

Segway…

Okay, today I saw my first real life Segway, the security guard down at the local supermarket was cruising up and down the street on it to show off. Gotta say… looked kewller and more fun than I’d expected.

Birthdays…

As August draws to a close my birthday is only about a week away and I can’t help but feel lackluster and a little depressed about that. I will be yet another year older, which is the way of the world and not the problem. I find myself feeling unsatisfied with myself and my actions over the last year, for while getting older I can not honestly say I am a year better than I was. There was so much I meant to do this year, but didn’t and I have for the most part no good reasons in hindsight. I wish I knew how to fix all this.

Logical fallacies

More and more I see people, in person, in print, on the tv, using and believing they are right in using logical fallacies. Most of these fall apart when expressed in simple language, but that doesn’t stop the bulk of people believing in them for their own use… There are lots of good solid websites that list the details, with easy to follow examples. This is the sort of stuff they should teach a school (rather than spending six weeks on ‘the middle ages’ or some such thing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html