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Well, I had the right actor, just wrong role..but have to repost from the games of thrones book thread:

Black Dougal (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber), Wed, Sep 19, 2007, 06:43 PM Flag | Reply

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In all seriousness, Sean Bean would have been/likely still is perfect for the Jaime Lannister role.

that is the only one that immediately comes to mind.

Hi guys,

I forgot to update my credit card info when it expired and as a result Pathfinder 19 and 20 are still pending to be shipped, whereas Pathfinder 21 has already been shipped to me.

Can you plaese charge me for 19 and 20 and send them on the way..I don't want to jump into the path halfway through.

DMFTodd wrote:

Steerpike7 wrote:

I think it's bush league to rush the next installment.

I'll take a rushed conclusion over the "we're never going to see this finished" that we have now.

I wouldn't. I'd rather wait and see it finished as it should be then leave something hanging.

I don't know if you play computer games at all, but Knights of the Old Republic 2 is a good example of what can go wrong when you are forced to finish something before you're ready. The game was rushed out by LucasArts (for a before-Christmas release) before the game developer had time to truly finish the ending, and it was noticed by all who played it. The game was pretty good, right up until the ending, and that ending turned off a lot of people and/or had them complaining on forums.

stupid ending grrr...

lots of data files in game showing what might have been gr...

stupid Lucas arts grrr..

Here is the order:

Gygax creates Chainmail, with a "fantasy supplement" page or three with rules for unicorns and stuff.

Arneson uses Chainmail in extremely innovative ways, basically using it to form the core "concept" of D&D as a game, including the creation of a "bottomless" dungeon, which he calls "Castle Blackmoor". Players in the Blackmoor campaign (in Minneapolis) actually play themselves as characters transported to a fantasy world.

Gygax (who knows Arneson already from the wargaming days) plays in Dave's campaing, and begins furiously codifying the basis of the published D&D game in excitement. (Arneson's own house rules--including the first-ever published adventure module in any form--later appeared in the BLACKMOOR supplement to D&D. A great deal of Dave's world notes were published in the form of Judge's Guild's "First Fantasy Campaign".

Gygax creates Castle Greyhawk to playtest the D&D rules.

Rob Kuntz joins Gary's Greyhawk campaign in Lake Geneva, playing the wily Lord Robilar. Much of the legendry of the WORLD OF GREYHAWK CAMPAIGN SETTING comes from this era of the game, as do most of Gary's stories about the "original campaign" from his Dragon columns, etc.

After a while, Gary is getting to busy (and the campaign too popular) to be the only DM, so he enlists Rob to take on the responsibilities of co-DM for the Greyhawk campaign. Gary's own D&D character, Mordenkainen, enters the fray with Rob as the DM.

Though Rob designed and ran several "classic" Castle Greyhawk adventures (the famed Bottle City and the Godtrap level, for instance), many of his levels were from his own castle, El Raja Key.

The original running of "Maure Castle" was as a level of El Raja Key, which was changed to Maure Castle in the official publication by TSR of the World of Greyhawk folio in 1980 and the Campaign Setting boxed set in 1983.

Fate is definitely weird..I was growing up in Minneapolis when they were creating the rules but only discovered the game in 1979 just after I left town. Of course, I was only 10 at the time so even if I had stayed I doubt at that point I would have been going to the conventions there.

No problem here, Duncan. And I welcome any corrections, anyway :)

Having checked a couple of things since my post, I find that Greyhawk was the first supplement ever for D&D, and Blackmoor was the second. I'm not sure that necessarily indicates which came first, though.

BTW I'm one of those old grognards, so I felt compelled to put in my two cents.

Gary was playing around with medevial minatures and one day at a convention Dave Arnenson mentioned why don't you make it about a single soldier sneaking into a castle instead of a squad...and that castle was ..Castle Blackmoor..

So when they first started playing they used the Blackmoor setting which Arnenson had already been developing, and so Dave the first DM

Then Gary wanted to devlop his own adventures and Castle Greywhawk took shape. Rob Kuntz was a young pup in Gary's group at the time, something like 16 or something, and made his own castle to run when Gary got tired of Dming, thus the Maure castle setting and other weird and wonderful Kuntz adventures.

So by the time Chainmail and Blackmoor suppments came out, they had already been played using Dave's Blackmoor setting and Gary's castle Greyhawk.

This is all from scetchy memory but for some reason Dave wasn't involved when they actually launched TSR and the first game products, and there may have been legal action between Gary and Dave at some point, don't remember exactly, but the rift only healed in the mid 1980's when Dave was invited to do some modules for TSR and thus the excellent DA 1- DA 4 basic/expert modules set in Blackmoor and the City of the gods were done.

So , I am fairly sure that the first D&D campaign was actually from Dave Arnenson but most people believe Gary's was the first due to the fact that Dave was out of the picture by the time TSR was formed.

Just checked Amazon.com and A Dance with Dragons comes out 9/30/2008.

:-)

He is about the only author who I would put up with this stuff...his writting is just that good.

Pinata Island takes the cake.

You heard me correctly - P I N A T A Island.

Seriously.

Also, "Frogs" from the 70's is pretty craptacular as well.

"hell comes to Frogtown" was enough of a horror movie for me..

Rowdy Rody Piper as the last fertile sperm layer in the world..what a scary prospect fir the human race..

Sorry to threadjack, but live-action Ghost in the Shell? Can you give me a source for this?

/threadjack

As for Robotech, this is one not to screw up. I'll have to look into this too.

How can Star Blazers not be one step behind?

Derek Wildstar Lives!

Michael Cobin wrote:

Easy. Abolish wealth by level guidelines. Industrious PCs shouldn't be punished. Then limit the ability of wealth to buy powerful magic items.

The problem, in this case, isn't the ability of wealth to buy magic items as it is the feats allowing you the ability to make them (at half market value).

And if you eliminate the ability to buy items, you make acquiring these feats even *more* advantageous to the party. I think perhaps a better solution would be to eliminate the ability of PCs to create any magical items at all, and just have their acquisition be controlled by the GM, or moderated entirely through the "purchase" system of gold. Alternatively, eliminate the feats and allow any spellcasters to create items, but at full market value cost.

1st feat +1/+2 items
2nd feat +3/+4 items
3rd feat +5/+6 items

so someone who wants to craft things is not going to have the feats available that a mage devoted to blowing things up would (i.e. empower spell etc..).

Losing xp for makingn items is one of the stupiest rules of 3.0 and 3.5.

Please get rid of it..

Seriously, you spend time,effort and money to make something..taht is an accomplishment..

In real life, you learn from this kind of achievement..i.e. xp gain..

it is the most blatant example of what was wrong with 3.0..trying to balance power levels with no sense of actual logic.

Bit of a disappointment to me: ranks above number 2 but nowhere close to 1 and 3. To much cluing up like the did in Return of the Jedi. What's the odds of the Russians knowing Indiana had a fling with Marion Ravenwood? Off to a very slow start, 2 real action sequences, cornball ending. Not even on the same par as Iron Man. 6.5/10

But will not see it again..wheras could go see Ironman 2 or 3 more times just to see Gwennie in high heels..

gargamel

The Jade wrote:

Charlton Heston screams: "Posters are people! They're PEOPLE!"

So was Soylent Green. ;)

All I can say is that people are debating the merits of a poster named "Trollman" being banned?

heh...I've been on boards where just having the word "troll" in your name will get you banned. After all, aren't internet trolls notorious for trying to stir s##% up in order to enteratin themselves?

I haven't seen any of posts but for my 2 cents sounds exactly what he was doing.

Read every Miles novel except Mirroer Dance (cause I can't find it).

Absolutely hilarious reads...

Imagine a cross of Napolean & Macguyver on constant doses of Red Bull and you have Miles..

I am not going to read the rest of it..what I just read makes me support it 100%.

Finally, half-elfs get a stat bonus. Finally, a reason to pick them..for the options they provide.

Good job Paizo.

"What do you mean, Gordon's alive!!?"

Open Fire!!! ALL Weapons!!!!

This was one of Diane Lane's first movies..

Definitely an eye catcher..

and the song her character is singing at the start of the movie (nowhere fast) by Fire Inc. is not bad at all.

Hey, can you guys check my account billing?

I have been been charged on my credit card over the last few months for pathfinder 4,5, 6 ..all according to plan..

Now today I get an email saying an order I placed Oct 2, 2007 (?!) will be soon be sent and I will be sent pathfinder 7 and charged for that and pathfinder 4, 5, 6.

I am not sure what went wrong along the way with the automated billing process but as much as I like the product I am not predisposed to enjoy being charged again for something I already paid for (i.e. pathfinder 4,5,6).

The art in the Pathfinder series so far has been great. The maps are as good as I would expect them to be. But what has really stood out for me so far is the city and monument portraits..they really capture the feel of the places and that is invaluable in stirring the imagination.

Kudos to a top notch effort so far.

Most of the best modern fantasy fiction (i.e. George RR Martin) includes definite allusions to sex, and quite graphically at times, includiing topics of incest, homosexuality, fetishes etc).

I think that this does not detract, in moderation it provides a "gritty" texture to the fanasty story that makes it seem more real. I know that might be a classic oxymoron, but aside from Tolkien, I prefer my fantasy fiction to show both the high and low side of life.

Of course, you can go way too far the other way (i.e. Norman-Gor novels), but puritanical fantasy is nauseous (aside from CS Lweis, which I have a soft spot for).

In any case, I prefer a fantasy setting in which sex is part of life, and I have run camapigns where the PC's have carrosed brothels, commited adultry, in one memorable case a ranger PC was quite irate when the druid he thought he was being seduced by turned out to be a Rakasha.

Sounds like a nice change of pace. Put the fear of Death back into the players!

Of course, it seems redundant because there are already a couple of things worse than death waiting for the players. I love this game!

those raise dead scrolls ain't going to be cheap in my campaign..make the players squirm.

Red Sonja immortalized the chainmail bikini..

its iconic...it will come back in fashion just like the legwarmer..but hopefully not bellbottoms..

As an aside, it would be a nightmare being the only male in an adventuring party. Running off to a seculded corner would be the only sane reaction after 30 minutes of campfire chat.

Something must be done soon, says Turko.

Thus, in a nutshell, Turko expounds how any adventuring exercise is dictated by the size of ones purse, and 5gp, 12sp and 40 cp is ample justification to go go apeshit on ones fellow adventurers.

Hommlet Rocks!

Long Live Ostler Gundigoot!

All these changes do annoy the old timer in me that grew up on pages from the mages and the old Grey Box, but the more I think of it a points of light idea isn't so bad provided it is set considerably later than 10 years from current chronos.

There have been enough "save the realms" novels and adventures. I can accept that just maybe, the "heroes" failed and catastrophe struck.

Hell, even a massive rage of dragons taht wan't stopped could create a points of light campaign.

Sounds better to me than gods murdering each other and prime material planes merging.

Star Wars "aka A New Hope"
Stripes
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shawshank Redemption
Caddyshack

Theme to the original Battlestar Galatica
Theme to Top Gun
Buck Rogers opening music..

Ator the invincible..

or maybe not, that was cheap knock off of Conan..

actually,

go look for

The Sword and the Sorcerer
Deathstalker 1,2 & 3
The Beastmaster
Excaliber

And somewhere, someone has to have the 1983 TV series Wizards and Warriors...

Buck Rogers 1981-82
Flash Gordon Cartoon 1979-80
Dungeons and Dragons Cartoon 1983-85
Wonder Woman 1977-78
V
Greatest American Hero
Riptide 1985
Magnum PI Season 1-4
Firefly
The Pretender season 1-4
Boston Legal season 1-3
Entourage Season 1-3

made Luke say "I have got a bad

Interesting thread, thanks for all the replies. I was one of the PC's in Milton's near TPK party (yeah, yeah, I am careful what threads I read..).

Anyway, for the record we were all 15th lvl and most of us had 13th lvl cohorts. We were doing a fairly brisk clearing of the perimeter and things seemed to be going swimingly, so caution wasn't as elevated as it could be.

We opened the door and saw the illusion and of course my mage said, that's gotta be an illusion, Scout, go check out the door for traps.

No sooner than that said then Eye of the deep flashed us and my ranger cohort rolled a 35 for fort and my buffed mage rolled a 26 so i am thinking whatever and laughed it off, when to my amazement I am told my nuker is stunned for 4 rounds. Now I recoginized the desciption of the eye of the deep from first ed monster manual but I had no recollection of it being so freaking nasty.

It still might have been okay since my Ranger cohort could dole out about 50-100 point of dam per round using holy arrows and the nimbus bow, but the will save on the hold monster gaze was insane, I need a 20 to make it, so ranger held on round 1.

Wizard on round 5 casts limited wish to make party temporarily immune to flash but didn't stop to think that being blind it wouldn't impact anyway.

Round 6 he casts maximised magic missle since doesn't think he needs to be able to see it..spell resistance nullifies.

Round 6 Baleen whale is summoned by favoured soul part memeber and buys us some distraction.

Round 7 archer is freed from hold and does 70 points dam from 3 arrows.

Round 7 wizard casts greater shout...

round 8 wizard casts primsmatic spray..stupid eye of the deep petrified..

but only after 3 party members dead and the rest of us damn lucky to be alive.

Would have been less touch and go if wizard had activated the moment of prescience spell but I figured with a 26 fort roll I was good to go. From now on, paranoia rules.

At what point does Heir of the Blood fit in?

Teh Riftwar Saga

Magician : Apprentice
Magician : Master
Silverthorn
A Darkness at Sethanon

Daughter of the Empire
Servent of the empire
Mistress of th empire

In all seriousness, Sean Bean would have been/likely still is perfect for the Jaime Lannister role.

that is the only one that immediately comes to mind.

Totally agree with the Saberhagen recommendation on the changeling earth series "aka Empire of the east". When I first picked it up in a used book store I was very dubious but very high quality story telling.

It put me on the trail of the book of swords trilogy and the lost swords series. I am happy to say that after 2 years of prowling through used book stores I found book 6 and 8 of the lost swords series last weekend and I now have them all. So satisfying to read and collect.

*bump*

(ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseoh pleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease...)

My servant Churtle survived the shipwreck only to be eaten by a Hungry T-rex on the beach. Alas, she probably saved the party by filling the creatures stomach and giving it indigestion.

Good Churtle, useful to the last!

If you're messing with Conan, "you're messing with the wrong guy."

Anyways, the last portion of the game sucks ass. Everything before it rocks.

Oh, we were.

That sounds just like KOTOR2.

Hey, weren't they done by the same company?

Things that make you go humm. Can't blame Lucasfilm for this one. Well, maybe you can just on basic principles.

I hate the fact that there is a 4th edition. That being said, since they are doing one, why not go for some of the sacred cows and if it works better, great. I do think Devils should have seductresses that entice foolish mortals to sign contacts. I think demons should have seductresses that are bad ass warrior ginsu freaks. Since that role is filled by the Type 5 demon, it does seem logical to make the succubus more of a devil. I would have kept the eyrines however. That being said, you just know that in a later supplement they will bring it back again. Am I cynical, I suppose you could say I am.

Anyway, I hope for the people that stick with 4.0 that these changes work. Neither myself(who has been playing D&D since 1980) or my friends have any intention of jumping on this train and being FASA'd to death with more new sourcebooks and online fees.

bought it on Sunday for $40 cdn.

All-in-all, not a bad piece of work, certainly better I thought than undermountain.

My major quiible is of course I would have liked a larger project. Its all very well to have a scetion dealing with Greyhawk city but that little taste makes me want a whole campaign in greyhawk city and another one in the castle itself. What, you want me to do that..humph..

In any case, just one question for the authors, early in adventure a certain notable character is descibed as being trapped in an alternate mirror universe, and then later that person is the descibed to be in oerth merged with their mirror double.

So I'm guessing that when the PC's are informed of this intially and told to look for this person in the hall of memories..the person telling them to do this isn't aware that in fact that missing person had been freed and merged with their alternate twin?

It seems that someone has already gotten their paws on a copy of this. I just saw this on a thread at Canonfire!.

I'm still going to buy this particular product, have no doubt, as a Greyhawk fan since 1979 I have no choice. But I will be ignoring anything stupid that I see that does not flow with what should be.

Just like I have ignored almost everything in the Forgotten Realms since that stupid Shadowvar/Cormyr war that obliterated Tilverton. Not on my watch WOTC. Take those hackneyed ideas back to Hasbro boardroom they spawned from.

I don't think you have anything to worry about. The jokey WGR7 Castle Greyhawk was not part of our research for this adventure.

Jason Bulmahn

Good. I was one of the free-lancers on that odd little project (I wrote the castle itself), and we were strongly discouraged from researching any of the extant GREYHAWK material. So far as I can tell, TSR had other agendas in mind with it, rather than offering a product that fans wanted to read.

And no, I don't think any of the "levels" of that "dungeon" are playable, with the exception of Level Six, "The Temple of the Really Bad Dead Things", where Greg Gordon actually pulls of being funny and playable at the same time.

heh..

Evil wizard: "You will die Bar bear ian.........."

I am about to start "A Feast for Crows", from George RR Martin. I couldn´t wait for the spanish translation after reading A Storm of Swords so I purchased it in english.

But first, I have to finish Los Hijos de Húrin (Children of Hurin), so I am planning a weekend of swimming pool and good reading :D

daedel, el azote.

Feast of crows was worth the wait but I know a lot of friends are generally about to throw in the towel if Dance with Dragons doesn't come out soon.

Now, when I say 'relatively non-violent' I mean that no humans are killed on-screen. **

1. age of renaseance
2. Titan
3. Axis and Allies

Yep that's him!

Watch LfoDH last night and damn was that the one of the better sequals or what!?!? I love the line about 1-800-HENCHMEN! He messed up a lot of bad guys... Chair down the stair, SUV going down, Dumpster jousting... the stunts were awesome!!! I'm also glad the trailers didn't give away the whole plot.

Better than pirates or shrek 3 in that regard.

Just finished Reapers Gale by Stephen Erickson..won't be out in the states for another year but it is a treat..wraps up a lot of loose ends from the previous 6 bookss..

"Only" 3 more books to be written in the series...

Is that good or bad? I remember that movie - it had it's moments, especially when the evil sorcerer sheds his skin, but it was still fairly duff.

But in all fairness, for its time it was good way to jump on the conan band wagon..and it certainly is better than Red Sonja which is so appalingly bad it doesn't even rank as so bad its funny, it is simply so bad it is vomit inducing.

About two hours ago, a member of the party met a terrible, terrible end.

--Erik