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There was a time when he was funny?...
2. Do you find Dane Cook to still be funny?
...That was the point I was eventually going to make. Thanks for ruining my joke.
Sorry :( I always have to comment when I see "Dane Cook" and "funny" in the same sentence...it's an atrocity so great that it should never be allowed to stand.
laterWell then you are braver man then I to continue reading them. What do you think of the idea of psionics working similar to the way they do now except with spell levels instead of PPs, using the same feats and spells that already exist?If something productive was ever said in one of the psionic threads would anyone notice?There's been PLENTY productive on those threads. I've noticed some of it.I think that's a good place to start, but I also think that it's not far enough. The flavor of psionics is kind of dry—it needs a good dose of real world myth and flavor. As in: the psionic classes need to have names that immediately evoke cool ideas for characters.
"Wilder" and "soulknife" do not do that, but words like "mesmerist" or "spiritualist" do.
Awesome, so when can I start playtesting it?
Is it later yet?
How abut now?
Have you read Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles? If so, what are your thoughts on it?Haven't read it.That surprises me actually. I highly recommend reading it. Originally printed as 10 separate books, you can find it now at book stores as one large book.
Is there a PF Module, or other product, that explores duergar, and explains how they came to be, similar to what Second Darkness did for drow?
My reading habits skew VERY heavily toward horror, and then to pulp-era writers, and then to modern fantasy/sci-fi. Amber never really fit into the zone for me.
We haven't done much at all about duergar except in "Into the Darklands" and I believe a little bit in "Dwarves of Golarion."
It's a super hard job, made even more difficult today by overly conservative and inflexible government regulations, but it's a rewarding job in a lot of ways.Is Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch a realistic portrayal of the profession?
It is. Although my experiences on the sea with my dad are a LOT less harrowing.
Hugo Solis
(Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber)
Whom would be including in your Paizo staff "dreamteam" to develop the APs, Pathfinder accessories, the corebook, etc.? Monte Cook? Nicholas Logue? And...?A clone of me, a clone of Wes Schneider, or a clone of Rob McCreary.
Huh. I know they've all done work on the various APs but what makes them stand out from a clone of Jason Buhlman or Greg A. Vaughan?
Huh. I know they've all done work on the various APs but what makes them stand out from a clone of Jason Buhlman or Greg A. Vaughan?Whom would be including in your Paizo staff "dreamteam" to develop the APs, Pathfinder accessories, the corebook, etc.? Monte Cook? Nicholas Logue? And...?A clone of me, a clone of Wes Schneider, or a clone of Rob McCreary.
The fact that the skills required to be a great developer are NOT the same as those required to be a great rules designer (like Jason) or a great adventure designer (like Greg).
The fact that the skills required to be a great developer are NOT the same as those required to be a great rules designer (like Jason) or a great adventure designer (like Greg).Huh. I know they've all done work on the various APs but what makes them stand out from a clone of Jason Buhlman or Greg A. Vaughan?Whom would be including in your Paizo staff "dreamteam" to develop the APs, Pathfinder accessories, the corebook, etc.? Monte Cook? Nicholas Logue? And...?A clone of me, a clone of Wes Schneider, or a clone of Rob McCreary.
+1.
Hugo Solis
(Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber)
My reading habits skew VERY heavily toward horror, and then to pulp-era writers, and then to modern fantasy/sci-fi. Amber never really fit into the zone for me.We haven't done much at all about duergar except in "Into the Darklands" and I believe a little bit in "Dwarves of Golarion."
1) If I had a copy of The Amber Chronicles to your Paizo office, would you read it?
2) Are there any plans, in the (hopefully) near future, to delve into the topic of Duergar, and other 'evil versions' of other races?
My reading habits skew VERY heavily toward horror, and then to pulp-era writers, and then to modern fantasy/sci-fi. Amber never really fit into the zone for me.We haven't done much at all about duergar except in "Into the Darklands" and I believe a little bit in "Dwarves of Golarion."
1) If I had a copy of The Amber Chronicles to your Paizo office, would you read it?
2) Are there any plans, in the (hopefully) near future, to delve into the topic of Duergar, and other 'evil versions' of other races?
The Amber Chronicles are very Pulpy. He may have been a "modern" author but Zelazney was one of the best. Well worth the time to read and it goes very fast. Also pick up the book "Manna From Heaven" which is a Posthumous release including the short stories that would have made a new set of Amber stories. Ignore at all cost the new Amber books though that were not made by him but rather are a sad attempt to milk money from a potential cash cow. I am very much interested in the new RPG from Rite publishing as well.
The Amber Chronicles are very Pulpy. He may have been a "modern" author but Zelazney was one of the best.
That he was!
Well worth the time to read and it goes very fast. Also pick up the book "Manna From Heaven" which is a Posthumous release including the short stories that would have made a new set of Amber stories.
I'll check that out!
Ignore at all cost the new Amber books though that were not made by him but rather are a sad attempt to milk money from a potential cash cow.
I was very angry when I first found out about this. Apparently, I wasn't the only one. Looked up some info, and it seems like those who knew Zelazny the best were extremely upset about it as well. Especially, one of his dying wishes was that nobody wrote anything for his 'world'.
I am very much interested in the new RPG from Rite publishing as well.
Well then.. I didn't realize they were doing anything with Amber. I'll have to give it a look-see..
here you go.
What about a few clones of Sarah Robinson? :)Whom would be including in your Paizo staff "dreamteam" to develop the APs, Pathfinder accessories, the corebook, etc.? Monte Cook? Nicholas Logue? And...?A clone of me, a clone of Wes Schneider, or a clone of Rob McCreary.
That would be VERY helpful. But not for the job of developing APs. Clones of Sarah let loose on developing jobs would not be good—it'd be like letting us developers lay out a book's design. No one would be happy. There would be tears.
Can Golarion elves hear a dog whistle (not an anti-elf comment, just curious about their range of hearing)?
If you tie bloody porkchops around a dwarf's neck, why won't starving worgs play with him?
Where did carrots originate on Golarion?
Golarion elves probably can hear higher and lower pitched sounds than humans. I like it!
Because the worgs don't want pictures of them playing with a dwarf to show up on the internet. And because the worgs don't wanna catch fleas or ticks.
Carrots originate from the ground. Usually from where one might have planted carrot seeds.
1) If I had a copy of The Amber Chronicles to your Paizo office, would you read it?
2) Are there any plans, in the (hopefully) near future, to delve into the topic of Duergar, and other 'evil versions' of other races?
1) Probably not, because I've got dozens and dozens of other books I bought for myself to read that I haven't read yet.
2) No plans in the immediate future to do much with duergar. And I'm trying REALLY hard to not let "evil versions" of races run amok out there. Drow and duergar and tieflings is probably enough.
What's the genesis of Baria? And is it the setting for your novels?
Baria more or less started back when I was in 6th grade and wrote a module called "The Curse of Sekamina Caves." That adventure was more or less a pastiche of "The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth," but with more levels and a large wilderness/civilization map of the lands surrounding the caves. That map is pretty much the genesis of Baria, which over the course of the decades to follow would expand and would be rebuilt many times, drawing mostly from Greyhawk for inspiration and then later from the Forgotten Realms, Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Dragonlance, and Kara-Tur.
Some of my stories are set in Baria, but not all. The closest thing to a novel-length bit of fiction I've actually completed was actually a science fiction story and wasn't set in Baria at all (and it was closer to novella than a full-on novel).
OK so we hit 1000+ posts, so tell use something we don't know?
Also I just watched Unforgiven and Out Law Josey Wales which on do you like more?
Best line for them?
Are there any good Wild West RPGs out there no a days?
Something you probably don't know: The revised Inner Sea World Guide will have actual stats for Numerian Spine Dragons in the new monster section.
Unforgiven is better.
My favorite line from "Unforgiven": "See that bird up there?" when Clint's testing the kid's eyesight. Might not be the BEST line, but it's the first one I remembered.
Not sure about any good Wild West RPGs, but I believe there's a few choices out there.
How badly was your prissy little knocked kneed singy-songy bow legged pointy ear elf beaten by that dwarf fighter that you still have such hatred for the stout folk?My guess is pretty badly. And nasty.
Or JJ just doesn't like the shorties.
I'm a huge fan of gnomes and halflings, actually. I have nothing against shorties. Dwarves, in any event, aren't short as much as they are barrel shaped.
How badly was your prissy little knocked kneed singy-songy bow legged pointy ear elf beaten by that dwarf fighter that you still have such hatred for the stout folk?This type of question would make more sense if your avatar was some sort of barrel-shaped beardo and not a fancy lad.
It's not that I got beaten up by a dwarf that makes me not like dwarves. It's merely that dwarves always seem to be the same old; they wallow so deep in their own cliches that when they step out to do something that's not dwarf-like it feels weird. No other race, for me, has this problem.
Also, the loud, stubborn, beer-drinking, overly conservative personality that cliched typical dwarf more or less mirrors one of my least favorite personality types. I'm MUCH more of the type of person who'd get along with elves or gnomes or halflings.
Also, in 1st edition, dwarves had extremely limited multiclassing options and really low level limits, which helped to color my distaste for them.
All that said, my very first character ever was a dwarf, so it's not like I've never played a dwarf. (He was not a loud, stubborn, beer-drinking, overly conservative dwarf, needless to say.)
Makes sense. You'd probably like our Desnan cleric Gini then, she's a free spirited flirtatious dwarf.