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Blood of Eden
Feb. 7th, 2018 03:42 pmA couple of weekends ago, I sat down for my first D&D 3.X game session in ... years. Maybe 15 years. I've played plenty of d20-derived stuff since - Spycraft, Fantasycraft, M&M, Pathfinder.
D&D 3.5 is still a pretty good game; the session was a tedium, though. DM had a script, and he was sticking to it. Pixel-bitching, and way too much time wasted in the PCs-meet-one-another. It's a good group, and I think they can pull the game out, so I'm calling this one a ball instead of a strike.
SpaceX achieved another first yesterday. First launch of the Falcon Heavy, a honking big launch vehicle. Three Falcon 9-derived boosters; two out of three were recovered, and the sight of those two landing within a couple hundred feet of one another was a hell of a thing. The third, the core booster, came in way too fast, missing the landing barge. A successful test, all things considered, with the second stage making it to orbit and restarting twice, putting a test payload of a Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver - in a SpaceX-designed space suit - into a solar orbit.
D&D 3.5 is still a pretty good game; the session was a tedium, though. DM had a script, and he was sticking to it. Pixel-bitching, and way too much time wasted in the PCs-meet-one-another. It's a good group, and I think they can pull the game out, so I'm calling this one a ball instead of a strike.
SpaceX achieved another first yesterday. First launch of the Falcon Heavy, a honking big launch vehicle. Three Falcon 9-derived boosters; two out of three were recovered, and the sight of those two landing within a couple hundred feet of one another was a hell of a thing. The third, the core booster, came in way too fast, missing the landing barge. A successful test, all things considered, with the second stage making it to orbit and restarting twice, putting a test payload of a Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver - in a SpaceX-designed space suit - into a solar orbit.