Well after due deliberation and input from a variety of people I’ve recanted part of my Magic Missile Change and made it instead 1d8 Brutal 1. If you’re not aware of what Brutal is, it just lets you re-roll the X. So Brutal 1 means you get re-roll 1′s, Brutal 2 means you get to re-reroll 1′s and 2′s. I am keeping the possible push though. It just fits to me.
I did get a lot of “But you’re making the wizard do more damage than the [fill in the blank].” To which my non-polite reply, which I didn’t give, is “So?”. Â On a personal note, I’m not willing to accept RAW as holy writ from on high. The Rules are more guidelines to me. Trust me, if you’d played under me for awhile you know just how… non-Monte Haul I am. This site is called Key Our Cars and that’s based on a direct quote from a player of mine (20+ years he’s been a player of mine). So if I actually give something to the players then you can believe that I feel it’s needed. And no it’s not just because the wizard is my wife. 
I’ve also done a little more work on the dice tool, image on one side or the other of this sentence. Gave it 10 slots for powers, rearranged a bit. I’ve also recorded dice sounds but haven’t included them as of yet other than a quick test to make sure they worked.
Hopefully should have another session this weekend barring unforseen events and perhaps try out having someone play remotely via the web cam / VoiP setup, using the KoC Dice tool of course.
I’ve also had a chance to listen to part 3 of the Penny Arcade pod cast and all I can say is I’d love to have Chris DM for me. I think he does a wonderful job considering what he has to work with. Honestly now, “dick tuna with mayo” and “vagina vagina vagina”? Hmmm of course there’s the attack of the floor anus from my last episode so perhaps we have something approaching the same level of silly. Although I think, like the last podcast, the players take at least an hour to get over their “OMG we’re playing this geek game and it’s going to be broadcast and everyone will hear us being geeks.”
Part 1 was very much a non-event, part 2 was getting better, approaching entertaining but part 3 where they’re once again starting to ‘get into it’ is significantly better.
