You can sleep when you're dead!

So, as it turns out, only getting about five hours of sleep a night wears me down to the bone. Apparently my traitorous body requires something called "rest" to function. I've tried reasoning with it, but the blasted thing refuses to step down from this ridiculous paradigm of functionality.

I took a good, hard look at the core classes of D&D the other day and realized that most of them were shit. After level 11 or so, there is simply no reason to play anything other than a spellcaster. So, I'm going to try and kind of "spice up" the D&D classes. Casey has agreed to help me. Some things that I want to do: make Bards useful again, make Paladins more than crappy Fighters, and make Fighters scale in power better.

By the time we're done, we might have a full rules variant. We'll probably post it on the wiki, assuming it gets done. And assuming we don't screw it up too badly.

Next week I start taking better care of myself. Cutting down on my crap food intake (largely at work, where I typically have a lunch that contains approximately 6,000,000 calories), more excercise (especially endurance training and flexibility), and other things of that nature. The goal: to go through a wushu class without wishing for the sweet release of death. I'm attempting to approach this whole thing optimistically, but optimism goes so violently against the grain of my personality that thinking in such a way makes my stomach bubble like a vat of acid.

Played a little more of the Vanguard trial, and if it has succeeded in doing anything, it is in making me want to play WoW again. When this trial is done, I'm going to run through the streets of Orgrimmar, casting my flashiest spells the entire way, with no lag or stutter in performance. And it is going to feel. So. Good.

This weekend, Turbine is having a "Please come back to DDO!" weekend, where those of us that had an account and then ditched it after realizing it was crap are offered a free weekend to see the error of our ways. I'm not sure I'm going to take them up on that offer. DDO was another game that I consider unfinished. Any game based on D&D that has a level cap of 10 is clearly not ready for market, and I don't think that there's anything you can say that will make me change my mind. So there!

WoW Saturday is tomorrow (shocking, I know), and I'm not sure what freaking instance we're going to wind up doing. There's quite a large level discrepancy now, with roughly half the players kicking it at level 70 and the rest of us floating somewhere in the middle. Someone is going to have to work on getting Thrallmar faction so that we can hit up Hellfire Citadel on Heroic difficutly once we're all level 70 (assuming that ever happens).

I can't really think of anything else to talk about, so I guess I'll go. Peace!