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I'm planning on celebrating Paizo Customer Service & Warehouse Appreciation Day this Wednesday (March 26th) by once again sending sweet treats to our favourite CS and warehouse staff (see here for coverage of the inaugural celebration).

While I'm happy to have this be a thing I do on my own on behalf of the community, I wouldn't be opposed to accepting donations to cover the costs. If anybody's interested, please PM me and we can iron out the details.

I was wandering the dollar store today and ran across this. It's not perfect, but if you're looking to throw a mothman at your group you could do worse. Canadians, check your local Dollarama.

One day I was contemplating all of the extra bits I had left over after assembling this Warhammer set and whipped up a klar from one of the heads from the set and a spear tip. I didn't have a plan for it, but then fate took over when I noticed an old Bane heroclix. My internal dialogue went something like this: "Huh, look at that, it's the perfect size and he's in the perfect pose for it. Wait a minute, there's that Shoanti fighting style where they use a klar and earthbreaker. The haft of that spear that I just clipped the tip of of would work, but what about the head? You know a couple pieces of the sprue from that set would be about the right shape if I glued them together right. Now to make the spikes out of green stuff. Well, they didn't turn out quite as well as I'd hoped, but it gets the idea across. Now I'll just use this left over green stuff to fill in some of Bane's low-cut getup. Now what am I going to do with that head?"

At that point, the inspiration ran out. He sat in a box for a few months while I waited for the perfect head to cross my path. Recently, I started running a game for my nephew, and in that game he plays a Shoanti thunder and fang style fighter. I decided it was finally time to dig out this old model and get it finished. In a bit of a rush, I decapitated a Hawkeye heroclix (which was already an amputee because somebody else needed his bow), shaved off his hair and glued it onto Bane's body. For some reason it didn't look entirely too small... good enough! Prime, paint, wash, base, dullcote, done. God he looks like Duke Nukem, and why is he wearing sunglasses (those aren't sunglasses, they're goggles he picked up while exploring the Cinderlands)? Also, he probably should have had some tattoos, but really, I think he turned out pretty good. I love it when thing fall into place like this:

Before
After (alternate angle)

So, not to be ungrateful or anything, but... The page numbers in this pdf (and the player's one for that matter) are kind of inconveniently placed. I was looking to print this PDF out double-sided and then get it bound. The problem is that the pages are numbered such that the first page should be the leftmost in a two page spread. So when I print it regular-wise, the page numbers (and page headers) are in the gutter. Folks printing single sided are also going to have this problem half of the time (even if the number were in what I consider the "right" positions). That said, I realize that creating a new master page layout (or whatever InDesign calls it) with centred page numbers - for something you're just giving away - isn't really a good allocation of resources. On the other hand, I'm hopeful that a request to swap the page number positions on the pages won't be sighed at too loudly.

I am, of course, ready to put on my big boy pants and deal with my admittedly first world problem at your slightest suggestion.

I have a couple of questions regarding the Community Use Policy:

The CUP states "You may use the cover images, as displayed on paizo.com, of all of the products on our Community Use Approved Product List at paizo.com/communityuse/products."

1.) Does this apply to the photographic images of miniatures on the APL?

2.) Does this apply only to the currently available cover? Are licensees responsible to keep up with changes to cover images?

3.) It seems that the APL is meant to cover all Pathfinder product lines. Currently there seem to be some products not listed that have been released (the Grandmaster Torch mini for example). Does Paizo plan to keep the list up to date as new products are announced/released?

I've just picked up a bunch of old copies of both Dungeon and Dragon magazines from the 3.x era and was wondering about the "subscriber section" that was included for a while. Does anybody know what issues had them, and how I can tell if the copies I have are subscription issues (a list of the bonus articles perhaps)?

I just tried posting a new thread to the off topic section, and hit a snag. I typed up my post, previewed, and then posted it. The thread title shows up here, but it says there are no posts in it. When you click the title, the page reloads. The url for the post in question is http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/community/offTopic/insuringGameBooks. Any thoughts or suggestions?

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So, I was looking through my gaming books this weekend and I started to realize just what I had. Not counting magazines, I have over 300 titles. Most of them are in good shape, a few are signed, and most of them are out of print. Then I got to thinking about what a bummer it would be to lose them to a fire, flood, or burglary. I can't imagine that my insurance company would give me replacement value, never mind that a few items are pretty much irreplaceable. And to top it off, the collection is growing continually, and the number of out-of-print titles is slowly increasing. I do have a complete (I think) inventory that I keep updated and off-site, but it's mostly just a list of titles (no condition info, or price paid).

Has anybody else considered insuring their game book collection? How do insurance companies deal with moving target collections like this (I assume the closest analogy would be comic books)? How would one establish a value for such a collection (it's not like our hobby has an Overstreet guide... does it)?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

I think its fair to say that yesterday's happenings have many of us concerned for the fate of our Dungeon, and Dragon magazine downloads. Lisa stated here that they would remain for sale since they are covered under a different agreement.

However, it would be nice to know (if Paizo can comment) under what circumstances the magazines could get pulled. Could that agreement get terminated just as fast as the one that allowed Paizo to sell other WotC pdfs? Should we all be more vigilant about keeping copies of our purchases instead of just downloading them when we need them (I imagine that we already know the answer to this one)? Should we start spending more of our non-pathfinder-allocated dollars on magazine downloads?

In short, just how panicked should we be?

Bump...

Bump. If they're going to disappear, then I'd like to grab a few of them before they do.

After a long magazine drought, Dragon 353 arrived today. I've not recieved Dungeon 144, or Dragon 352 yet. Would it be possible to have replacment issues sent?