So here's a fun little toy I found via a link on my buddy's blog. It takes a text input (a name) and puts it through mathemagraphical transmogrifications to turn it into some sort of fantastic weapon. For example, I type 'Thrazar' and got this:
A katzbalger is obviously a blade of some sort but I had to look it up on the Wikipedia to find out more.
The ancient kingdom of Spidernesti
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"The House of Stars became the House of Spiders".
That's the line from Tanis's secret journal that the heroes managed to
decipher. And the druidess rea...
Damn...
ReplyDeleteyour name ranks an Attack of 18!
(Word verify of blathri - obviously the plural of blatherus)
It's totally phasic that katzbalger a) looks so much like the gladius sword of the EC weapon list, and b)is usually translated as "cat-gutter."
ReplyDeleteDarnit Jeff, my next post was going to be the T&T stats for a Katzbalger. Love the weapon and its figure of 8 hilt.
ReplyDeleteAnother one:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nerdcore.de/wp/2009/04/24/kirk-leia-big-love/
It's not real, but funny.
Given the leveling-up requirements for the Warrior Class in EC, that's really darned helpful :)
ReplyDeleteMan... I just ran my daughter's full first name through...
ReplyDeleteKatana... attack level 39!
I may have to be nicer to her... =P
- Dave
Kudos to you, Jeff!
ReplyDeleteWhen you said "mathemagraphical transmogrifications" I thought you were just being cute. Turns out, it´s the most precise description of what happens!
This is going to be my favorite net-toy for a while, I think --
ReplyDeleteI don't get to have a nice stabbity sword, though. Alas.