Caturday: Calico rolls a D20

"Dee rolls a d20, and gets a critical."

Photo:, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (2.0) image from darkestpaisleyphotos's photostream (aka Kate Eburg).

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phisrow

I’m too cool to care what kind of skill check I just passed; but I’m not too cool to pass it with extreme prejudice…
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

NACHRUL 20 WTH HOLI SORD

LICH KING DIEZ NOW
Marktech

+10 cute modifier.
Flashman

Interesting quirk I just learned, appropriately enough, from CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks: all calico cats are female.

http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/episode/2011/09/24/september-24-2011/
valdis

Calico cats are *almost* always female. It’s possible for a chimeric cat that contains DNA from multiple embryos to have calico fur on the part(s) derived from a female embryo and male on other parts. There’s also the occasional mosaic cat…

http://www.best-cat-art.com/calico-cats.html

An example:

http://cheezburger.com/metal-maiden/lolz/View/593696000
Paul Renault

Actually, she rolled a 13, but moved the die.
http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

Save vs. Cute
jtegnell

Fat little girl, and missing a fang.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness
  
  Fat little girl, and missing a fang.
  
  Quit that with your sexy talk!
  
  You’re describing my dream woman, especially if she lost that tooth to an undead so powerful that a high-level spell like Restoration could not bring it back.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607675355 Brent Kirkham
    
    Hold on. Are we talking about humans here? Just so’s we’re sure……
http://twitter.com/artofcstuckless CraigStucklessArt

Geeky cat pics, highly tweetable.
gwailo_joe

cat is DM obviously.

rolls critical for Tiamat and all PCs are froze, flambe’d, and shock ed: ‘Goodnight meow! Thank you for playing! Take some Slice and Mothers cookies home on your way out!’
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607675355 Brent Kirkham

So, this is strange, but normal. Step-mom rescued a couple of cats from the vet, twins! (we may have to put them down!!!) One cat is ginger, the other is tortoiseshell. Here’s where it gets strange, the ginger one was female, the tortoiseshell was male. And they both have ‘thumbs’. An extra digit. They are soooooooo close to opening their own food, there will be no use for our continued existence.

Cute though. Opening their own foil pouches. Plotting the downfall of humanity. Yet still so cuddly.
Peaklet

No one so far has noticed that it’s a spin-down.
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Schweitzer/100000462546876 David Schweitzer

Only One d-20? roll two. sweet n sour cat has new meaning for me.