Married!!

Yay. Sorry to all of those who only read my blog for the RPG stuff, but I can't help it. After many months of preparation, I finally married my beautiful bride yesterday. Everything went off without a hitch.

Leaving on my honeymoon today. Should be good.

In other news, ran a game of M&M on the night before the wedding, which was a lot of fun. Will be posting details when I get back from the honeymoon.

Character Stats: Kineticist

Hey all. Sorry it's been so long since I've posted. Suffice to say, I've been swamped since exams (studying for another one), not to mention preparing to get married. I think you have to be some sort of hero to just survive that .... Not just physically (heavy suits and dresses in potentially 30-40 degree weather), but mentally (dealing with photographers that won't call back, dress-makers that lose dresses, and so on). Let's just say I won't be sorry to just be married and move on. My fiance has been a whole lot of awesome about the whole thing. She's been organising it since January, and therefore there's actually surprisingly little for me to really do (just confirming things, and running around after musicians). So, yeah. Hopefully it'll all go well. November 30th = the big day.

Anyway, on to why you're actually here. I was thinking about doing a little actual play example, so I figured I'd create a quick and easy character to beat up some bad guys with. One of the beautiful things about M&M is the hero archetypes. It makes it so easy to build a character and customise it to your liking without hours and hours of prep time.

I have just been watching Heroes Season 1, so I had the idea of building a Kinetic Controller (aka. one of Sylar's powers). So, turning to page 18 of the core rulebook, and picking Kinetic Control as the energy control power, I have my ready-made hero. A bit of tweaking of abilities and skills (I wanted someone who relied more on reflexes and intelligence), and I'm done. This guy can blow your face off with a kinetic blast, deflect your bullets with a force-field, and fly away when he's done. For more infiltrative missions, he's got good computer use, and his Dex gives him a decent stealth.

So, here they are. All he needs is a back-story, a motivation and one of Greywulf's awesome DAZ renders, and he's good to go.

Kineticist, PL 10, 150pp

STR 12, DEX 20, CON 12, INT 16, WIS 12, CHA 10
Tough +11/+1 (without forcefield), Fort +6, Ref +14, Will +5
Attack +10, Defense +5, Init +5

Acrobatics +13, Computers +11, Concentration +9, Notice +5, Profession: Computer Engineer +5
Accurate Attack, All-out Attack, Power Attack, Precise Shot, Quick Change, Acrobatic Bluff

Flight 6 (500mph)

Force field 10 (extra: impervious)

Immunity 5 (kinetic damage)

Kinetic Control 12 (DC 27, Feat: Accurate):

• AP: Paralyse 12
• AP: Telekinesis 12

Sad news

Yes, sad news indeed. I have not done well in my exams at all. In fact, I am required to sit a supplementary exam in March, 2009 in order to graduate.

After a few days of shell-shocked helplessness, I have decided this is not the end of the world. I did not feel overly confident in my skills anyway. This gives me a second chance, and the motivation to not just succeed, but do well.

If all goes well, I will graduate before June, and join the June/July intake of interns. If all goes extremely well, I'll end up at Liverpool Hospital (which I'm told is likely anyway), and I'll only have lost 6 months.

So, yeah. It sucks, but it's not the end of the world.

2nd Exam Done!

Yay! I've finished my viva voce exam, which was the exam I was most petrified of. A massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders, but I fear it will not fully lift until I find out that I passed. Ah, well ... back to procrastinating...

Mutants and Masterminds Core Rulebook Arrived!!

Wooo!!! This is going to sound odd, since I blog about M+M characters, and have made a few, but until today, I have not owned a copy of the core rulebook. It has been on order from Amazon.com for a few weeks, and in the meantime, I have been using pdf's.

I realise the illegality of this practice, but I enjoy the try-before-you-buy aspect of it. As a uni student, with precious little money to spend on RPG books, I prefer to download a pdf copy of game systems I hear about, and read them before I decide to spend my hard-earned dollars on them. If I find that this is a system I want to play/run, then I will naturally buy the book.

Like I say, not strictly legal, but it works for me. As far as I know, I've never used any rules from a book I don't either own or intend to order at some point.

Anyway, back to my shiny new book ...

Exams!

Oo, while I'm posting, I have finished my first exam! I think it went fairly well. I have my viva exam (where I answer questions about management of various conditions) next Thursday (the 2nd), and if that goes well, I will be happy, because the last exam (multi-choice questions) will not need much preparation.

So ... yay!

Medical school sucks

For all you bright-eyed bushy-tailed people straight out of school who want to save lives, and cure cancer, and make lots of money like those hot people on Gray's and ER ... No.

It's just not like that at all. Real medicine is hard, and degrading, and gritty, and policital, and nothing like the TV.

As you might guess from the title and the bitterness in this post, I'm preparing for my exams which are in about a week's time (probably what I should be doing rather than posting here ...), and I'm really really sick of it. Being a med student is a really humbling thing. Back in school, I was really good at being smart, and good at music, and I actually felt like I was "best" at some small things. In med school, you are treated like dirt, constantly reminded that you don't know anything, don't know how things work, aren't getting paid, and so on. It's ... depressing.

Still, on the bright side, hopefully I will pass my exams, and drunken hilarity will ensue, and my return to tabletop gaming will too.