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Post by Deider » Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:43 am

Great liebnitz, what were they thinking? :D

Nothing changes, folks. I'm still gonna be down in the trenches, kicking it with the DM client. I'm still gonna be on the Wilderness, hassling whoever dares enter that unforgiving stretch of land. And I'll be continuing my love affair with gnomes... those poor, underrated gnomes... play that gnomish music, white boy...

Thanks for all of the nice sentiment. But a DM is only as good as his players - it's you guys that perform the actions that I respond to, you guys who actually write the stories.

I actually have to apologize for something. When I finished my last long plot I asked what people wanted, and most of you said you wanted short adventures that could be finished in a single session. I said OK, I'd concentrate on doing that for a few months.

I lied. I didn't mean to lie, folks, honest. It's just that all this stuff started happening... I started playing with the palette, I started sponsoring a few guilds, I started working on some other behind-the-scenes stuff... and before you know it three months blew by. And this idea crept up on me, something that's already happening because I couldn't resist.

We've got a ton of new DMs now who are handing out cookies and running one-shot adventures. What can I say? I'm just not that kinda DM - I can do that stuff, but I favor the big stories. I like it when we crash the Wilderness because 40 people have logged on for the climax of an event and we're all in the same area.

Big stories are coming. Not just from me - if you could see what I see behind the curtain, you'd wet your pants. You may not think you're going to be involved in these big stories, but you are wrong, because THEY will involve YOU.

Game on.
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Post by Badtznik » Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:50 am

Wow... Congratulations~!! :D
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Post by GreyLynx » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:13 am

Congratulations!

Just don't make me stuff my familiar into dirty underwear again, okay?
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Post by _Wake_ » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:14 am

Congrats ! :D
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Post by Brock Fanning » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:54 am

I'm really starting to like that damn song!! :x :x

Well played Deider! :D
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Post by Vanor » Fri Apr 09, 2004 4:06 am

Congrats Deider :) It's well deserved.

To everyone else, we the Management applogize in advance for the horror we just unleashed on you. ;)
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Post by Diamond » Fri Apr 09, 2004 4:30 am

Congrats! :)
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Post by Gairus » Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:21 am

Well earned, Deider. Congrats.
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Post by Sindol » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:06 am

Deider wrote:... play that gnomish music, white boy...
You want it, you got it. 8)

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Post by Arandil » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:08 am

Well done Deider, thoroughly deserved. Now that you are senior, it means you can rise above giving regular ass kickings to indiviual PCs who annoy you by always targetting your uber villains with Bigbys Fist of Self Abuse.... :wink:

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Post by Malathyre » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:13 am

Dammit, it's freaking 2 am and I open this thread to hear that gnome music!!! I think I laughed loud enough to wake the neighbors. :lol:

Eh? What was this thread about? Oh yeah, congrats, Deider. :P
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Post by Baggie » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:18 am

Congratulations!!! 8)

Lay down and boogie and play that Gnomish music til we die! :shock:

Bugger that's most of the time when your DM'ing!!! :lol:
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Post by Heronimous Fox » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:22 am

:D

Want this music released......

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Post by Lilith » Fri Apr 09, 2004 8:51 am

All hail the Gnomeister :P
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Post by Nighthawk4 » Fri Apr 09, 2004 8:51 am

Hey, nice one. Well done Deider :lol:

BTW, that music is really annoying :?
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Post by Xoc » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:01 am

Congratulations
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Post by Xeo » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:05 am

Deider!

That good news to wake up to the morning to, with tons of sleep dust in your eyes...Hehe Nice Deider!

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Post by frogmella » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:06 am

Brilliant! Well deserved.

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Post by Dirk Cutlass » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:16 am

Yeah! And Deider's got his own theme tune now too :) :D :lol:

Well deserved, for all the hard work DMing, behind the scenes (palette, player guide and probably a ton of stuff us mere mortals don't know about), and on the forums (many words of ganoomish wisdom). Congrats, and BOOYEAH!
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Post by denor firefly » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:44 am

great :D
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Post by Jorio Alerian » Fri Apr 09, 2004 11:18 am

All I can say is... stay out of my yard!

Congrats, you deserve it!
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Post by Fifty » Fri Apr 09, 2004 11:34 am

I rarely bother entering these DM congrats threads, but Deider is different.

'grats.

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Post by Croton » Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:24 pm

Congratulations. the work you've been doing is just fantastic.
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Post by Melakin Skywieder » Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:31 pm

Way to Go...well deserved!
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Post by KTA » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:33 pm

Deider wrote:if you could see what I see behind the curtain, you'd wet your pants
*puts some reserve pants into a bag before entering the Wilderness...*

Good news! :D

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