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Beastiary 2, page 49, Brownies. "when facing danger, brownies rarely engage in combat, preferring instead to confound and confuse their attackers in order to buy enough time for escape."

I appreciate you using that bit of text as an example of flavor mixed with combat tactics, not only because I wrote that entry and it came out mostly unscathed from development, but also because when I wrote the brownie, I consulted every instance of the creature in various D&D editions as well as the folkloric record. As a matter of fact, you’ll likely see that approach in all the monsters in the Bestiaries when they come from folklore and previous iterations of RPGs.

I’m tickled any time I’m able, in designing these monsters, to explore more and more flavor text for them, but I admit I greatly enjoy the single-page format. So, if I have to drop a few sentences of flavor to make the mechanics make more sense and work towards a more usable product, I’ll do it each and every day. Many times, you can infer tactics and behavior from the statistics, and with the exception of newer players, folks reading the entries can extrapolate their previous experiences into the description and behavior of the monsters presented.

Also, Stefan, I truly appreciate you putting the word ‘fluff’ in quotes.

Crap! In my post-con sickness, I failed to report the winner.

The victorious free-captain, Captain Kitsune, entered his allosaurus who fought all opponents to the death on our favorite black rock.

Another captain documented the event and will be posting up a detailed summary very soon!

Thanks for the goblin brains, Majuba! I abandoned my usual tradition of eating it on the plane ride home while reading the new Wayfinder, because I was reading Boomer's novel. That resulted in me being able to take it home and share it with my lady. So thanks from both of us. :)

...Plus new ones you can make from scratch.

That sounds very interesting. Nice touch.

[fortune cookie]There are A LOT of people on this thread that are going to be very happy.[/fortune cookie]

While it's not the real print version, Hugo made this extra-special-only-two-exist version for PaizoCon and I had to share it in this thread too.

Thanks to whoever helped fill in some of the blank spots. Keep 'em coming.

I've got a spreadsheet listing them by title, author, character level, a few words synopsis, and a totally arbitrary 1-3 star rating. It lacks a number of the things you're after, however (region, type, etc.).

Thanks for the quick reply, Kirth. Perhaps I could use some of your categories mixed with some of the ones I'm looking for. The more ways the list could be broken down the better, I'd think.

I was impatient and made one just now. It's mostly filled out, but I think if someone were to make it a Google spreadsheet or something else other folks could collaborate on, we could get some of the holes filled in.

Any takers?

Edit: Alright, I made a Google spreadsheet and left it open for anyone to edit. Pathfinder Modules Data

I was wondering if anyone knew of a resource that has the modules listed out by level, region the adventure takes place in, type of adventure, and whatnot. I was going to collect the data, but if someone else in this awesome community already did the work, I’d hate to duplicate it.

Just checking before I dive in.

Neil, I saw that there was a camera in the back of the room and mikes on the desk; do you happen to know if those recordings will be podcast or something?

Doug Daulton (of NeonCon) recorded all the seminars in that room during the weekend and is planning on putting them up on YouTube (or somewhere) as soon as he gets them processed. As far as I know.

You're quite welcome, Marc. You made it easy for me by delivering a mostly clean turnover.

Only browsed things so far, but one bit I did read all of was Daigle's fiction-piece. 5 stars. Loved the idea of a barbarian learning to write, and seeing the process of it in the prose.

Thank you, sir! It was a reflection of my editing experience in a weird convoluted way.

Bought!

Congrats, Shiny!

Thanks for posting some teasers, Hugo. And to think this is but a small fraction of all the awesome illustrations.

I want stats for the great pumpkin! :-)

I hear if you sit in the pumpkin patch at the right time, the stats will appear. Make sure to bring a bottle of water.

Naw, that's gotta be a misprint.

If you donated, advertised, edited, or contributed (an article or art) to Wayfinder #5 AND are attending PaizoCon 2011 this weekend, LET ME KNOW.

Present!

....I'm sure I'll try green blood on black rock if I can get it without edging anyone else out....

We're full up (minus any no-shows), but we runs a betting system for spectators to cheer on their favorite combatants and get a chance to win prizes, so swing by.

Okay, now I'm thinking about a swarm. Thanks.

Y'know, using the drake building rules, you could build a tiny one and then make it a swarm.

I'm only bringing up flagging as a way to get onto TOZ's smart ass list.

Me too!

how did that thread come back?

We did win, right?

Is the Flumph in danger again?

Flumph! Flumph! Flumph!

Yep! We won! Victory for the oppressed!

Only the weird can truly face the weird! Long live the flumph!

OMG! It's out in the wild (kinda). This has been sitting hidden in preorder on the KQ site for a week or so, but until there was any big announcement, I didn't want to jump the gun.

Mike and I put a bunch of work into this book, and we really hope people dig it. I covered my bases by getting Hugo to all of the interior art (of which there's a lot) just so folks get bewildered by all the pretty pictures. :)

GMs creating their own material can consider parts of the rules to be guidelines.

Thanks, Dark Mistress!

I was going to take credit for all the stuff you liked and blame the stuff you didn't like on Tim and Greg-O, but with five stars there's no bad to blame.

Glad you liked it!

Almost all folklore has anthropomorphized nature to tell stories. Some are simply more explicit.

Don't do it, Kyle. The baron will wholly corrupt you.

hogarth wrote:

Demoyn wrote:

I just played at a table with a Gunslinger and I didn't constantly puke.

Was it a pregen?

;-)

Well played.

Agreed.

And damn you, hogarth for getting to it first. ;)

Yeah, He kept his character all hush hush for a while and finally debuted his MAIN CLASS ABILITY just recently.

It's been really awesome flavor. In fact the whole party has been a fun 1st-2nd level jaunt.

Great minis and amazing work. I need to get something better for my guy. It's shameful.

Deep breaths.

Yep, the drinker is the target, so they'd get to save just as if the spell was cast on them.

Potions are like spells cast upon the imbiber. The character taking the potion doesn't get to make any decisions about the effect—the caster who brewed the potion has already done so. The drinker of a potion is both the effective target and the caster of the effect (though the potion indicates the caster level, the drinker still controls the effect).

Ah. Looking back the just a few years ago there were just threads that argued over the usage of the word penultimate and art on the magazine covers. Time has just flown by it seems.

Bowls and Balls, man. Bowls and Balls.

Oooh. That reminds me. Dirty Projectors cover Björk's "Hyperballad"

Adam Daigle wrote:

While still a young song, I quite enjoy Peter Bjorn and John's Young Folks, and this bluegrass cover by Dawn Landis is equally as good.

Fify

Thank you.

While not a wedding, I saw R.E.M. at a show in Houston in the early 90s and when they played "The One I Love" I saw a couple beam at each other, embrace, and kiss. Apparently they only listened to one line of the lyrics when they decided it was 'their' song. I wonder if one of them is still a "prop to occupy" the other's "time".

While still a young song, I quite enjoy Peter Bjorn and John's Young Folks, and this [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_8j8k39y0]bluegrass cover by Dawn Landis[/i] is equally as good.

Did I miss something at the previous banquet buffets? I'm not saying there weren't things to eat, but it pretty much equated to a bunch of sides. I'm hoping I didn't miss something tasty the last two years.

There are essentially sides to accommodate that. Green salad, pasta salad, bread, steamed veggies...stuff like that. It'd be nice to have a main that was veggie, but eh, what can ya do?

Thanks for choosing my group to make a wallpaper, Crystal!

I'm super happy for you guys! Well done!

Bumpity Bumpypants!

I know 2 of 8.

Who else got this event?

Blue!? Nah, man. Golem Purple.

Nice!

I've been seeing Sebastian's ride in my neighborhood.

Stop by and hang out since you're in town.

I guess I'm confused on contributing to a month-dead political thread.

Not canon either, but in Absalom, there's a group of anarchist performance artists called the Jocund Pranksters (Wayfinder #3) who stage all manner of art-related mayhem they can get away with.

Now who's gonna make and bump a counter thread?!

Kobolds don't consume liquids. I'll take his.

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

Adam Daigle wrote:

Hey folks! Brandon and I are at it again, running Green Blood on a Black Rock 4711!

The lottery hopefuls cast their lots, the numbers have been crunched, and now folks should be able to see what they got.....so I want to know....

Which of you canny captains will be putting up monsters to shed some blood on this black rock? Who got in?

RAAAAAGH!

Glad to have you, my supremely destructive friend!

It's a slightly different skill set, but let's see how you bring your IronGM semi-finalist skills to the Black Rock!