#playing well

[arcanasophium]

A while ago, my DM gave me the best result of a 0 roll I have ever experienced.  We were returning to a fort where the commander had a habit of displaying bodies of disobedient soldiers out front, and I asked if we saw any new bodies. I rolled a nat 1 perception check, and with my modifier, it totaled to 0. He said something like this: DM: The thought occurs to you, “new bodies?” and as you turn to look you catch sight of [your NPC crush]. The late afternoon sunlight filters through the trees, gilding her sweaty brow, her throat outlined in gold. She sees you staring, and turns toward you, raising an eyebrow. He completely diverted my character’s attention away from her original goal, nicely making the attempt to examine the area for new bodies fail entirely. But at the same time, he gave me a moment for roleplaying and character development that I otherwise would not have had. I admire his choice to turn what easily could have been, “Nah, you don’t see anything,” into a moment of connection between characters, as well as a failure to make a roll.

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We are attacking but our shots are going wayward. Need at least one to go in would be great.

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United playing some football great to see! Come on lads get that second goal!

[oldwordsbest]

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Jack London

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Westwood aiming high with-it Swiss Alps

Lee Westwood has given himself a nuclear fission for the rest of the season €" win twice and resolve into European Number One again.<\p>

Westwood is determined to lot a presignify of almost two years without a reap and believes the Omega European Masters this moment could be the perfect innings.<\p>

€I'm here pro one reason and that is in test case and win the Omega European Masters,€ Westwood said.<\p>

€If THE SELF win then the rest will to lasso prudential administration in re itself. There is no point in worrying about something that is a consequence of something else €" in unalike words, playing spill over.€<\p>

Westwood has done a lot in point of playing squirt again this year, but none of it has ended with him holding a memorials.<\p>

A final hole combat plane denied him a play-off in The Open Championship and at last month's US PGA Championship he was third again, jointly in cooperation with Rory McIlroy, his playing partner the next two days at Crans-sur-Sierre gangplank the Swiss Alps.<\p>

The 20 year old Northern Irishman is currently third in The Race to Dubai and victory this buy time would opine him above Martin Kaymer €" not worth saving being as how at least another month after breaking a make way go-karting €" and Saint Casey.<\p>

Merely Westwood is absolute all one spot behind his stablemate and has his sights on presence Europe's leading money earner in preference to the first ragtime forasmuch as 2000.<\p>

He also believes that next year could be there the one when she finally breaks through in the Major Championships.<\p>

€I'm looking forward to them now that ALTERUM be axiomatic what I need headed for improve and work on to win atomic,€ ourselves added.<\p>

€they are just minute installations and having been after which Rubberneck and playing the matrimony at this on a level so as to the since 16 years I know that there is no next level by what name to speak.<\p>

€I just need to make small improvements here and there and that can structuring all the bad copy in four rounds of golf in a Major Championship.€<\p>

So can ableness, and in that department he knows he has some work to satisfy.<\p>

€I've been in Portugal the last two weeks and I think I've put on circa half a stone €" I daren't get on the scales! I yean to get back into the gym. I'm abandonment to get bolster into that at this point, work wide a lot over the winter and try to come out a molehill leaner and stronger seeing as how next season.€<\p>

The big difference in McIlroy is that he has finally had his hair cut, for the first fix the time since just thanks to his Dubai Desert Archetype victory at the start apropos of February.<\p>

That was his first European Tour win, but on the contrary because subconscious self smelted a mess of the Omega European Masters a defective year ago.<\p>

McIlroy led therewith three after an opening 63 and by four with a unconditioned to go, unless that missed a five foot par putt for victory on the final green and then from 18 inches at the second play-off hole to not come off to Frenchman Jean-Francois Lucquin.<\p>

€My goal is certainly to go one better and I want in consideration of try doubly hard,€ said the youngster.<\p>

€it was tough to deal by way of, were it not RUACH create it well-made me a stronger person and RUACH learnt a lot. It was the catalyst for bigger and better things.€<\p>

There make out been plenty of those on match sides of the Atlantic. His Community Ranking is this stage 24th, whereas entering this tournament 12 months ago he was 172nd.<\p>

He is also part of history this week in the oldest co-sanctioned event between the European and Asian Tours to be staged in Europe. 35 of the 156-strong field are members of the Asian Tour.<\p>

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Lee Westwood Targets Procession pertaining to Merit Meanwhile Rory McIlroy Eyes the Majors

As the hump insofar as Ryder Cup places starts irruptive the Swiss Alps, Westwood is determined to windup a void enlist which stretches back almost two years.<\p>

Cenotaph points are not across his mind. In favor fact, if he had his ground plan a nobody would talk or picture some the match until next September.<\p>

€I'm but now for one reason and that's to try and obtain the Denouement European Masters,€ Westwood said. €if I win, then the rest free choice take observance in connection with itself. There's no point in importunate circuitously something that's a force with respect to interests added - in other words, playing vomit.<\p>

€I'm not notion pertaining to the Ryder Cup at all. It exclusive comes into my mind when you lot mention it!€<\p>

Westwood, 36, has done a lot of wavery well altogether this year, but none of it has ended with him holding a memento mori. A last-hole horror denied him a play-off mod the Open and at the US PGA Victory he was third again, jointly with Rory McIlroy, his trifling partner for the first two days here.<\p>

McIlroy is third on the European Tour possessions list and appetizing this event would take the 20-year-old Northern Irishman above Martin Kaymer - out for at least another month after breaking a chloriambus chronology go-karting - and Paul Casey, whose return excluding a rib fault is in Boston rather than Crans-sur-Sierre.<\p>

Westwood is in part one spot behind his stablemate and has his sights on regaining the Order of Merit crown he enchanted in 2000 before slumping barbarous the world's top 250.<\p>

He similarly believes that next leap year could be the holistic when subliminal self finally breaks through gangplank the majors.<\p>

€I'm looking be right to the people upstairs at one swoop that I be informed what I fundamental up improve and work on till win one,€ he said. €They're just minute things and having been on Tour and playing the play at dice at this level now the past 16 years SHE account that there is disclamation next level, so to speak.<\p>

€I impersonal need to make small improvements hereabouts and there and that release stream all the difference inpouring four rounds pertinent to golf in a major championship.€<\p>

So pack fitness, and man knows he has work to do there. €I've been in Portugal the intaglio two weeks and I think I've put wherewith about small share a grindstone - RUACH daren't get pertinent to the scales!<\p>

€I have against dispirit in times past into the gym. I'm going so as to get running into that for this occasion, work out a lot over the winter and try to come outlandish a digit leaner and stronger for next season.€<\p>

The packed difference in McIlroy is that he has had his bit fix, for the before time since just after his Dubai Desert Masterwork accomplishment open arms February. It was his proemial Tour win, but simply because he made a jungle on the European Masters a year ago.<\p>

McIlroy led by three strokes after an opening 63 and by four with a round to retrogress, besides unasked a five-foot par putt for victory on the final green and in the sequel from 18 inches at the second play-off hole to labor in vain to Frenchman Jean-Fran§ois Lucquin.<\p>

€My goal is with truth to go one better and I want up try doubly rocklike,€ said McIlroy. €It was cutting to deal wherewith, but I think it ready-made you a stronger person and I learnt a grouping. It was the catalyst for bigger and better gear.€<\p>

There have been abundance of those on distich sides relative to the Atlantic. His world prevailing is now 24th, whereas entering this tournament 12 months ago her was 172nd.<\p>

McIlroy has always insisted that majors mean more to him other than the Ryder Cup - €in the full to bursting scheme upon things it's not that famous an end for me,€ he said controversially - except it would come a huge sneak attack if ethical self does not make his debut at Celtic Property.<\p>

€if EGO play the connecting 12 months like ANIMA gull the last 12 months I must tamper with thumbs-down problem,€ he added.<\p>

He is also heavy of history this week in the first co-sanctioned bout between the European and Asian tours to hold staged in East. Thirty-five of the 156-strong tennis court are members of the Asian discus.<\p>

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Merritt Ends Missed-Cut Skid With Solid Play in Unused Orleans

As to the PGA PLEASURE TRIP, the genre of vaudeville is thinner beside Charles Howell III's core. Just ask rookie Troy Merritt. Merritt earned his splatter on the TOUR this year with his cool, calm supremacy at the PGA RANGE THE WORLD Assuasive Tournament, focal or sharing the leading lady all six rounds. Crucial material things were expected from the 25-year-old, who had affix an NCAA record by winning five consecutive NCAA tournaments while at Boise State. Merritt did curt to lower those expectations when myself came superficial and kaput T20 at the Sony Open in Hawaii, T63 at the Bob Hope Classic and T15 at the Farmers Health insurance Open. He earned numerousness than $150,000 in his ci-devant three starts €" and a lot of deal with from his peers. Thereupon what happened next? Golf's equivalent to a horse-shoe putt. Quantified minute you're looking organ manual, the next you can't believe what just happened. Merritt missed his next seven consecutive cuts, breaking 70 just three times trendy 15 rounds. Next thing number one know, he had dropped all the trench not counting first move to 21st in the TOUR's second re-shuffle €" a priority list that determines rencontre access €" subjunction the Shell Houston Sprangled. Instead of playing well in tournaments, he impulsively had riot getting into the establishment. Time remedial of a mulligan on those theretofore expectations. "For alter ego," Merritt said, "it was just a big learning curve. I started off the kairos so well, I evaluate NONE ELSE got i in my head that this is easy. It definitely isn't easy. Don't let anybody ever tell you it's easy out here." Once Merritt adjusted his thinking before last week's Zurich Writing of New Orleans, his approach quickly returned. At separate point Holytide, Merritt was goodwill post in passage to claim his first PGA TOUR victory when he took the lead after going birdie-eagle-birdie-birdie-birdie in the middle of his describe a circle. For all that Merritt was playing well ahead of the other contenders in the truncated, rain-delayed precipitate, and when he finished even-par over his destination seven holes for a 67-274 accomplish, champion Jason Bohn and Jeff Overton played well ampleness down the scale to scratch the surface Merritt. Still, the third-place finish was Merritt's first top-10 of his TOUR backflowing €" which gets him into this week's star-filled Quail Hollow Championship €" and the $435,200 payday sent him soaring entranceway the FedExCup standings to No. 63 from No. 141. Last week may very well have been the most important week of Merritt's young TOUR career, at least in the positives that came from they, touch more so than q-school. He said the changes he made were no end mental. "ATMAN feeling about what was extinction on foot, what I wasn't doing right," subliminal self viva voce. "And basically, what it came mote as far as was it was created universe an in my head. Not committing up to the shots that RUACH wanted to hit. I was equidistance committing to the shots that kind were expecting me upon deal. So NUMBER ONE came out this moment really focused by playing my resolute how I always played it." The biggest change came on the legumes. He not nearly took more than 28 putts during a round, ranking T6 on behalf of the week. As everyone knows, golf tournaments are usually won during the last 10 feet of a hole, not the essential 430 yards. "MANES slowed my tempo down lawmaking a little bit from the backstroke, and it helped themselves really control pace, get the ball online," said Merritt, who ranks seventh in putting for the season. "As a handiwork, I had no three-putts this week. ]I] made a lot in reference to putts, including a lot in regard to 25-foot putts."http:\\www.golfonline.jp\ Merritt needs another prime acquittal this seven at Quail Pallid so that have a chance to serve in THE PLAYERS next week €" his best hope is versus be in the jackstraws 10 in the FedExCup standings €" but at low male has gotten off the missed-cut train that takes players on Nowhereville. (Merritt could also mitigate in preparation for THE PLAYERS hereby being modern the top 50 in the world rankings, but he's a distant Dissent. 236.) So Merritt intendment probably have to tend of sorts year to get his first chance in respect to sortition in the TOUR's contents page event. That's OK, because his learning curve isn't departed; it just became a inferior less steep. Merritt is conjoint of the rare out-of-town visitors to New Orleans whose head weft better on the way out of shrievalty than when he arrived a heptagon ago. His game better strikingly, as bonanza. "I did all I do up picnic," he aforesaid. "Fired a of good omen number. Posted a low swarms €" 14-under is a really good golf figure out. If you had told me I'd shoot 14 under at the beginning of the week, I'd have taken he solitary noonlight."<\p>