Not accomplishing an awful lot today

What I ought to do is line up a video to dub and then go and do the dishes or somesuch. Right after I make a pointless post :)

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An emotional afternoon yesterday didn't leave me in top for for gaming, and the session suffered. It was however a lesson in just how potent highish (11th) level casters can be against an army of mooks - who would have thought a large air elemental can hoover up and spit out 42 medium creatures a round? The opposing orc horde didn't get within 20' of the fortifications supported by the PCs, although some of that was due to me forgetting stuff. I also should have had a better idea of the visibility (or lack thereof) and used that - the fact it was night was sort of handwaved.

The hill giants soaked up a few fireballs, but the orc general being dropped to his death from 200' in the air pretty much ended things.

So D&D unstructured mass combats - it's not necessarily how many casters you have on your side (the orcs had a number of 5th level clerics), but who can cast the biggest spells soonest which makes the advantage. A more disciplined force might have pulled back and waited for the short-duration spells to expire before renewing the assault.

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Racky update - front lump is also a 'benign' tumour.

Bewaring excellence

Got through some tapes. Will put a DVD on to burn when I go to bed, because the last time I tried that it tied up the machine for 4 hours.

The home movie of the muster from 1957 - a lot of it is just sheep running around the hills and over the river but really it's history.

For one thing those hills look a lot different today - all covered in scrub. DoC should take a look at it :(

The original Country Calendar episode seems to have been taped over by the first half hour of TV1's obituary for Princess Diana from 1997. Really lucky for us it was released as part of one of their compilations.
( Bewaring excellence )