Via Sharikkamur.

Spellsword
51% Combativeness, 36% Sneakiness, 88% Intellect, 5% Spirituality

Aggressive, but with the brains to back it up: You are a Spellsword!
Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken after you’ve fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you’re an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn’t.
Spellswords combine arcane might with combat know-how. They’re much tougher than mages, like to wear armor, and can cast spells through their weapons. They’re very, very, good at doing lots of damage to a single target very quickly, and while not quite as tough as most fighters, are still pretty hard to kill.
You’re both smart and aggressive, which means that you’re probably pretty dangerous when pissed off. You also tend to be somewhat straightforward, which is nice, and don’t have much use for spirituality or mysticism.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

	You scored higher than 38% on Combativeness
	You scored higher than 48% on Sneakiness
	You scored higher than 87% on Intellect
	You scored higher than 0% on Spirituality

Link: The RPG Class Test written by MFlowers on Ok Cupid

Last night Lettice stayed up until half past four working on her thesis proposal. There was computer related stress as well. And there’s some sort of bug doing the rounds at work. I feel very fuzzy headed and just want to go home and sleep.

A while ago my head of department revealed that in a previous life she had been involved in the creation of the sort of game that people who read this blog would probably be interested in. However an eBay search for “Romulan Challenge” reveals four copies for sale and no bids.
Not exactly a cult classic then.

Essex’s finest, Hal Berstram - famous for his election blog over at The Voice of the Turtle, is threatening to return to the world of blogging but needs just a little bit of a kick up the arse to get going. Hal, consider yourself kicked.

After a month of cock ups and delays the sfsfw.net domain name is now back pointing where it should. I suppose I should make some time to update the site (especially as Steve F sent me the cover and contents for Rag 48 last night).

This weekend is SELWG which marks the end of the year as far as the Counting the cost of war(games) experiment. I need to update the running total with the past fortnight’s eBay purchases (a really random collection of stuff but more on that later).

Today a nice BT engineer fixed our line which had been down since Thursday. Whilst it was down PlusNet activated our ADSL. So now we have a nice fat 2Mb broadband connection and a wireless router. I could be posting this sitting on the loo. But I’m not … or am I?

I’m not at all surprised by this one.

You scored as Commander Samuel Vimes. You are Samuel Vimes! Captain of Ankh-Morpork’s city Watch! You are a knight, married to the very wealthy, noble lady Sybil Ramkin. You often walk the streets at night, and are able to tell where you are by the feel of the cobbles under your boots. You always do what is right – that is, what needs to be done – to keep the city safe, even when it seems bad.

Commander Samuel Vimes		69%
The Librarian		63%
Lord Havelock Vetinari		63%
Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax		50%
Death		50%
Carrot Ironfounderson		44%
Gytha (Nanny) Ogg		44%
Rincewind		38%
Greebo		19%
Cohen The Barbarian		13%

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics)
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New stuff from Dragonblood Miniatures. Very, very nice. I hope this (and the mount from their earlier Hunter sculpt) do become available au naturel.

Old stuff from Archive Miniatures available until the end of the month from Discount Hobby.

TMP has set up a discussion board for Prehistoric gaming. One interesting titbit I picked up there is that the rights to DZ Miniatures mammals have been acquired by Stratagem who are/will be making them in resin. Which would be great if Stratagem weren’t one of the most disorganised and uncommunicative outfits around.

Did anyone else see the recent BBC programmes on dinosaurs? The Truth About Kill Dinosaurs from last month was so-so. I have serious doubts about the validity of some of their “scientific” tests. The materials used to create the artificial dinosaurs looked like they had very different properties to actual bone and muscle. The second programme was more interesting as it covered Velociraptors and Ankylosaurs rather than the tired out T. Rex vs Triceratops duel of the first programme. Much more entertaining was the very silly T-Rex: A Dinosaur in Hollywood show on Wednesday.

Carlisle. Be nice to my wife or I’ll be up there to sort you out. Got it?

The bloke who “looks far too much like Tim Roth” who plays the husband in Medium is of course Jake Weber who was the the bloke who “looks far too much like Tim Roth” who played the doctor in American Gothic ten years ago.