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DFRPG / Re: Fudge Dice
« on: July 14, 2010, 01:07:24 PM »
I've been searching for Fudge dice in my area (and everywhere else I've been recently), to no avail.
For the time being, I've downloaded the full version of the Dicenomicon app for my iPhone ($4.99), which allows me to not only rull Fudge dice, but can also do custom dice roll macros for other games, such as HARP, D&D, HERO, GURPS, etc. Quite handy.
I have one more possible place where I could find a set -- Game Parlour in Chantilly VA. I'll hit there when I get to Manassas after my Ocean City MD trip comes to an end this Saturday, and before I head back to MA on Sunday.

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: July 14, 2010, 12:58:36 PM »
Got mine last Thursday, two days before leaving for vacation.
The only gifts I got were the bookmarks. Quite nice, and one for each books makes flipping around them easier.

And now, since I've gone and sprained my ankle while on vacation, I can't readily hit the beach, so I have plenty of time to peruse the books.


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DFRPG / Re: Other Games As Resources
« on: July 09, 2010, 01:46:28 PM »
For those who remember, Palladium's Beyond the Supernatural may also do well as an influence. I prefer the first edition, myself, as that's what I played back in the day before I realised how awful the Palladium system actually is. Great concepts and settings, bad system execution.

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: July 09, 2010, 01:28:39 PM »
Okay, so... went to the local UPS Distribution Center yesterday afternoon (after tearing arse down 495 from Chelmsford to Shrewsbury in my freshly-mended car), and managed to pick them up... after a few tense moments of WtF when they couldn't locate the package in the holding area. They managed to find it, signed for it, and brought it home after a couple of errands.
However, due to vacation preparations (read: packing), I didn't get to open the box until later that night. Man, they are beautiful. Have to say, much more impressive than the PDFs led me to believe.
This is going to be excellent vacation reading... along with the latest tome from Lee Child.
Jack Reacher... now he would make an interesting character build...

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: July 07, 2010, 07:57:34 PM »
I wouldn't have minded them leaving the package, but the front porch of a three-decker is not the place to leave it, as typically no one answers a knock at the front door (leads into a hall/stairwell), and anyone here in New England should know that most folks in three-deckers use the rear entrance/stairs. But nope...

So now I either go tonight to get them, or I wait until tomorrow afternoon when I have the time off to pick up my car from getting mended and get my books.

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: July 07, 2010, 06:56:56 PM »
You're lucky...


Just got off the phone with UPS Customer Service. Complained that my wife sacrificed her morning to wait for the package... didn't even hear a truck pull up or anything... as if the driver just wrote off the delivery.
So now I'm waiting for the local center to ring me back to arrange an actual pickup. I'm not having it out on a truck again, I want it handed to me with an apology.

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: July 07, 2010, 05:05:12 PM »
Well... here's the latest entry:

SHREWSBURY, MA, US     07/07/2010     12:09 P.M.     THE RECEIVER WAS UNAVAILABLE TO SIGN ON THE 1ST DELIVERY ATTEMPT. A 2ND DELIVERY ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE


One major flaw I see in this... my wife has been home the whole time. She checked both the front and back stairs of our three-decker. Nothing. Not even the notification. If he knocks on the front door, we won't know because we're on the second floor. Everyone else delivers packages to the rear doors.

So now I have to call and complain... and arrange to pick it up at the distro center either tonight, tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow evening.
Dammit.

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: July 07, 2010, 02:25:54 PM »
Progress... tracking lists as "Out for delivery."
Good thing the wife and kid are home today. :)

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: July 06, 2010, 03:44:39 PM »
Arrival scan at my local distribution center this morning. Which means... it'll be on the truck for tomorrow. *sigh*
Was hoping for an earlier surprise.

Everything becomes nail-biting time as my vacation draws near... Finishing car repairs, getting my DFRPG books...

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DFRPG / Re: Urban Sorcerer [Possible Setting/Resource]
« on: July 02, 2010, 06:22:05 PM »
Simon Green... the Droods... now there would be an interesting crossover...

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: July 01, 2010, 10:03:10 PM »
Just checked... mine are somewhere in the great state of IL... not Chicago, not Shermer... so they're about halfway here, I think... someone can get it here in a 24 hour drive. Proven when my then-gf drove from Chambana to Worcester MA in just under 24 hours.

So get haulin', UPS!

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DFRPG / Re: Audio example of play?
« on: July 01, 2010, 06:07:09 PM »
Not sure on a link. I got them by subscribing to WotC's podcasts in the iTunes store.

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DFRPG / Re: Audio example of play?
« on: July 01, 2010, 05:50:44 PM »
Sounds like it would make a good podcast, much like what WotC did with the PvP guys and Wil Wheaton... hilarious!

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: July 01, 2010, 02:16:03 PM »
Quote from: neko128 on July 01, 2010, 02:11:05 PM
It's a morale boosy, not a morale boost.  Go back and check his post.

So is that like getting a bit of Dutch Courage by having a wee dram o' the good stuff? uisge beatha?

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DFRPG / Re: So... a change in the shipping date for the DFRPG books.
« on: June 30, 2010, 05:44:14 PM »
Quote from: UltraTroll on June 30, 2010, 05:23:01 PM
UPS is one of the worst delivery companies on the planet.  :-[

I would say FedEx is.
I had a replacement mobile phone sent to my parents' house, as I live in a 3-decker in a semi-urban area. The street my parents live on runs into another street nearly directly at a crossroads, so the street changes names and numbering.
FedEx sent it to the right house number, but on that wrong street... and wouldn't make any effort to go and get it back unless three days passed or something like that. I had to go and retrieve it from the doorstep myself, risking having the cops called on me. (Fortunately, no one cared.)

UPS I can deal with, because they will hold a package for me to go and retrieve in the evenings if need be. Very few problems with them.

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