gkestrel ([info]gkestrel) wrote,
@ 2006-09-01 16:36:00
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Ashland, Oregon
Heading off to Ashland, Oregon next week for the Shakespeare Festival.

Seeing 3 plays: Cyrano de Bergerac, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Merry Wives of Windsor.

I always enjoy Ashland vacations. It's a lovely small town, so intently focused on the theatre. Vacationing there for 3-4 days is absolutely perfect. Time enough for to see some plays, walk around town, and enjoy the place.

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[info]eriksdb
2006-09-02 01:17 am UTC (link)
One of the things I miss about living down in Oregon -- the Shakespeare festival!

Have a wonderful time. :)

Cheers

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[info]frabjousdave
2006-09-02 09:43 pm UTC (link)
Me, seething, jealousy. I miss Ashland.

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[info]realvirginmary
2006-11-27 08:20 pm UTC (link)
My goddess do I love Cyrano de Bergerac. You must tell me how well a rendition they did.

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Re: Cyrano
[info]gkestrel
2007-01-03 01:57 am UTC (link)
Incredible! Fantastic! Such panache!

We saw the performance in the open air, Elizabethan theatre. The weather was mild and pleasant.

I've long loved the play ever since I read it as a young girl in a small, clothbound book with faded yellow pages published around 1890. That book was a treasure of mine (and I still have it). I love the story, the wit. I did also want to shake Cyrano and Roxanne by the shoulders and tell them to just TALK to each other. They wasted so much time that they could have spent much more happily together as lovers. :-(

The translation was superb. I marveled at how incredibly well-written the English version was. Eminently understandable, yet with a lyric beauty. The translator was Anthony Burgess. His name rang a bell with me and I tentatively leaned over to Andy and said "I think it's the author of A Clockwork Orange." His brow furrowed like mine, but we later checked and I was right. Goodness, Burgess is quite talented as both a writer and a translator.

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[info]realvirginmary
2006-11-28 01:15 am UTC (link)
Sorry to double port but I forgot to wish you a happy birthday. I always thought it would be a tad annoying to have your birthday so close to christmas. Your sun sign is Sagittarius which is a fire sign. Considered to be Extroverted, Positive energy related, and Masculine. (Complete opposite to the Pisces which is my sign)

Anyway have a good one!

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Birthday
[info]gkestrel
2007-01-03 01:52 am UTC (link)
Remise of me to reply so late, but I wanted to thank you for your well wishes.

Indeed, it's a horror to have one's birthday at such a busy time of the year with Christmas, year end projects at work, and more. Parties or get togethers are difficult to schedule with so much holiday stuff going on. As a child I also grew accustomed to the "well, your birthday is so close to Christmas, here, I got you one thing for both." (Disappointing to a 7 year old, and even at 39, I think it's lame.)

So, that's why I now celebrate my birthday on June 11, moving it 6 months (neither forward nor back). I firmly believe in creating your own reality. I didn't like all the hassle and hecticness of a December 11 birthday, so now I don't have one. June is a great month for a celebration. :-)

I'm the only Sagitarrius with a June birthday.

Thanks!

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Who listens to what music?
(Anonymous)
2006-12-04 09:11 am UTC (link)
Hello. Good day
Who listens to what music?
I Love songs Justin Timberlake and Paris Hilton

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Oregon
[info]evan_of_ar
2006-12-31 06:43 am UTC (link)
I live in Oregon. I took my boys to a store to buy D&D cards and saw a book by you; something about erotica and roleplay games...It was in a locked case and I didn't want to go into it with my teenage boys about...what is this book about?

with piqued interest,

Evan

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Re: Oregon
[info]gkestrel
2007-01-03 01:46 am UTC (link)
Well, that's likely The Book of Erotic Fantasy that I cowrote a couple of years ago. It explores sex and erotica in the D&D world with rules and writing akin to any other D&D or d20 sourcebook. Duncan and I took a mature, practical approach to the topic. You'll find feats, spells, prestige classes, and new monsters along with discussions of how different alignments and races approach sex.

It's written to be fully 3.5 D&D compatible.

The illustrations in the book are photography, rather than drawings or paintings, one way in which the publisher wanted to book to be different. I think it works fairly well, but it is different and can be a bit jarring at first.

Yes, it is quite adult, but I doubt that there's anything in there that a teenage boy doesn't already know. :-) Of course, it still seems a better call not to read it in front of your sons. ;-)

It was published by Valar Project with a run of 10,000 copies, and has since been sold to White Wolf who has done a reprint of it.
http://secure1.white-wolf.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=806

So, I hope that answers your questions.

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Expedition to Demonweb Pits
[info]razzelmire
2007-04-22 09:45 pm UTC (link)
So I finished reading through Expedition to the Demonweb Pits and I have to say, great job! But I've come across a strange creature on page 49, a Wild Hunter.

I looked through a personal file of mine where I keep tabs on monsters produced by WotC/Paizo for 3E and I didn't find it anywhere. So I figured it was brand new. However, there's no description for it in the Appendix section of the book.

Strange.

So I looked on page 41 where they talk about the encounter with it and then read the encounter itself on page 49. There's absolutely no description of it, no picture, nothing. Just a vague mention of it being humanoid and that it rides a megaloceros and attacks the PCs in the Beastlands.

So I study the entry for the Wild Hunter. No entry states what book it's from. And I don't even recognize it by memory (and I have a keen memory when it comes to which creatures exist and don't exist in 3E).

So what and where did this creature come from? Is it a new creature from Monster Manual V!? Wolfgang Baur directed me here from his webpage to ask you about it.

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Re: Expedition to Demonweb Pits
[info]gkestrel
2007-07-20 05:07 pm UTC (link)
Sorry I hadn't checked my LiveJournal earlier. It is a new creature I created. There had been a possibility that it would appear in MM V, so it didn't appear in DWP. To remedy this, I've been talking with the web team about getting it posted up on our website as a bit of a supplement.

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Re: Expedition to Demonweb Pits
[info]gkestrel
2007-07-20 09:16 pm UTC (link)
Followed up and found out that the creature in full (with art!) was posted as errata. Follow this link, if you'd like the stats for the Wild Hunter.

http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20070601a

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(Anonymous)
2007-06-17 02:08 pm UTC (link)

.Good luck!





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