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This is great guys. Just got the second part of the adventure path and figured I'd check the paper minis to see if they are up, and there it is! Fantastic!

Had to perform a little thread necromancy in the Website Feedback section.

Oh man I didn't even think about that. I'm sure that's another good thing for these boards, I don't have to scroll through a ton of obnoxious animated or semi-animated sigs.

So, apparently they were randomly choosing people here at work to audit their travel vouchers - the paperwork we fill out to pay for our travel expenses. Guess who got picked for the audit. And who came through squeaky clean!

Liz is just AWESOME as awesome gets!

Gninja Awesome!

Thanks Liz!

the only problem with being taller, as I was meant to be, is then I would have a greater chance of accidently brushing against leaves.

::shudder::

::UNFRIEND::

A quick note: Today is anniversary number 7 for me having stopped smoking.

Happy Easter to one and all. I hope everyone has a spectacular day.

I guess I won't make a HAPPY EASTER, UNLESS YOU'RE A TROLL thread. But I REALLY want to. Anyway, Happy Easter to all you FaWTLy pals o' mine.

Also, FARSCAPE RULES!

Somebody call Sebastian the Pony, because with all this internet legal expertise on this thread, well......HE might actually learn him something!!!

I try to let players use one type of mini (maybe painted plastic or metal) and then use paper minis for villains. I've been using pawns for animal companions or summoned monsters. That's been working pretty well recently.

I picked this pack of paper miniatures up last week not really sure if I was actually going to be needing any Orcs for a homebrew that I was running on Friday evening. Turns out I ended up not including any dungeon-dwelling Orcs but after looking through the PC-oriented Orcs I immediately changed three NPC characters into Orcs!

They went from being three probably non-descript NPCs to suddenly being the "Green Guys" in the corner of the bar. The paper minis worked out perfectly.

Also loved the various tribes of Orcs - plains, mountain, etc. This led me to introduce plains and woodland Goblins into the brand new campaign setting.

Can't wait for my players to run into their first horde of Orcs!

That said, this post has been percolating in the back of my mind for days and I can't contain the response that's been boiling over. There are these things... some of which are called Blackberry. Some have other names starting with narcissistic vowels and ending in Phone. Some aren't as full-featured and are tethered to walls by wire. Then there are these other things called Internet Kiosks. There's this stuff called WIFI and I hear hotels now have more of that than cockroaches. Tablets and laptops and WebTV oh my.

It's just... unfathomable that some business folks are incommunicado for the better part of a week because they're traveling. Where? Deep behind enemy lines? Out-of-body astral projection? To fix one of the Voyager probes?

Actually, it was this crazy idea called a vacation that Erik took. Yeah, I know. Weird. He actually had his girlfriend fly down to Vegas and spend a long weekend with him having fun. Can't understand that. And to not check in constantly on his work email while on this thing called a vacation? Insanity.

I know when I do his review in a few weeks, we will have to talk about priorities. Priorities, priorities, priorities. Sigh.

I just hope that we have a chance to do his review before I go on...

-Lisa

Why would they waste money on another brand when their own is doing so well?

My partner got some mixed news from his eye doctor. They confirmed he had 80% vision loss in his right eye due to cornea deterioration. Basically, he had extensive eye surgery as an infant, and his corneas only had about 30 years of life at that point. His eyes are too damaged to be a candidate for full cornea transplants (I don't know whether to consider that a good thing or a bad thing), but they are going to try some steroid-based eye drops to see if that helps strengthen them. They could also do some type of cornea grafting surgery if that fails, where they take intact cells from a donor and use them to strengthen his cornea (which sounds less invasive than a full transplant).

Oddly enough, we are relieved just to have a prognosis, and to hear that it will never cause full blindness.

Sucks about the deterioration, but good news about the not full blindness. Postive waves!

Aberzombie wrote:

Celestial Healer wrote:

My partner got some mixed news from his eye doctor. They confirmed he had 80% vision loss in his right eye due to cornea deterioration. Basically, he had extensive eye surgery as an infant, and his corneas only had about 30 years of life at that point. His eyes are too damaged to be a candidate for full cornea transplants (I don't know whether to consider that a good thing or a bad thing), but they are going to try some steroid-based eye drops to see if that helps strengthen them. They could also do some type of cornea grafting surgery if that fails, where they take intact cells from a donor and use them to strengthen his cornea (which sounds less invasive than a full transplant).

Oddly enough, we are relieved just to have a prognosis, and to hear that it will never cause full blindness.

Sucks about the deterioration, but good news about the not full blindness. Postive waves!

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Explains why you're naked.

Well, for maps, I use flip mats for quick maps. $13 is a good investment for the mats they sell. Get a basic mat blank on both sides and that should handle most anything, except for really big battles.

Now, if that's too much for you, consider gaming paper. It's $4 a roll, and one roll will be all you need if you combine it with a piece of glass or plexi-glass to cover it. We used something similar for years and it worked quite well.

At a con this weekend one of the GM's I played under used bottle caps for minis. At first I was like WTH, but after a while, it wasn't too bad. As long as we knew who was what, it worked.

I'll admit I have hundreds of dollars worth of miniatures, but the key is I've only spend $10 here, $20 there, buying online and cheap when I bought pre-painted minis. If you'd like PPMs, toss your pocket change in a jar for a year or two, you'll be amazed at how much you can save that way. A dollar here, a five there, doesn't seem like much at the time, but after a few months, it can be quite a bit. That's how we afforded our con trip last weekend.

Dollar stores are also great places to find unexpected treasures. Dinosaurs, animals, insects. I've got a bunch that i've gotten from dime stores/dollar stores and no one cares that they aren't on bases. ;)

If you've got access to a printer, paper minis are quite inexpensive as well. the ones that Paizo has put out for the APs when printed on cardstock, come out quite well. One of my dms has started using them for all his games, and it didn't cost him very much to put them together. Heck, print out some pictures of monsters, cut them out, and paste them to a bottle cap. :)

My submission is away! May the judges be gentle with you, my companion of the past week...

Silence, Trans Am-owing deviant scofflaw!

You're going in the reedumication camp. First bus.

Deserve to annoyed? Is this another Australian word with a different meaning like "be complimented for being the greatest contributor to civilization?" ;-)

This from the people who left the empire, fought an unnecessary war with the english, changed the spelling of words, stopped playing cricket and turned up late to two world wars :-) and supplanted them as the most powerful nation in the world. We pale in comparison at your ability to annoy the English. :-)

You are the master and we are but the students.

;-)

The easiest way to get a list is probably to look at the Pathfinder Paper Minis products, which contain all of the minis you need to run a given adventure. The Product page shows a list of all the minis that are included in a set.

Did you consider the Pathfinder Paper Minis?

golem101 wrote:

The "$1 for everything" part reminded me of that weird spot in Robocop.

It has to be a helluva photocopier!

It is admittedly on its very last legs right now, and probably won't survive to our actual tenth anniversary, but considering it wasn't brand-new when we got it, it has held up very, very well.

Viking funeral!

Lo there do I see my toner.
Lo there do I see my sensor.
Lo there do I see my papers and my power cords.
Lo there do I see the line of my print runs back to the beginning.
Lo they do call to me
they bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla,
where the brave may live forever.

Do you perchance know about the Pathfinder Paper Minis, Jim in OK?

Sorry to hear about your fall, Callous Jack. I am glad that you're getting all those paper minis out, though.

Even Larry Elmore would put women in practical armor from time to time.

You know what? I went back and reviewed your emails to me. I don't have time for this nonsense. I think we are done here.

You're a f++%ing piece of s+%%, Gary. I f@~$ing hate a$%+%+%s like you, with ypour stupid corporate slave mentalities taking over every space available for people to talk, forcing us all to act like proper little robots. You can suck a dick, you free-speech hating f+&#stick.

This is very cool guys, thankyou for this.

By the way, for those who care, the next paper mini set with all it's Shoanti goodness is now up!

Cool. Congratulations!

Am I the only one not excited? I can't justify buying this because if I need 6 kobalds for combat (kingmaker) I'd have to buy 6 boxes... This is stupid.

Have you tried the Pathfinder Paper Minis Kingmaker sets?

There is something inherently wrong about this statement, I just can't put my finger on what it is.^^

That's a great pic Liz!

I created a tutorial on how to make your own do-it-yourself Beginner Box style pawns.

Here's an image of the finished product.

The two pawns in the middle are from the Beginner Box; the others are ones I made myself using Paizo images.

If you wanted to spend the time you could create a couple of hundred for all the monsters and NPCs you might encounter. I think this technique has a lot of promise. Only thing is you have to know a little about image editing (I use Gimp, but Photoshop will do) to pull this off.

First of all let me thank you for this set! I used them in our Carrion Crown game for a "random" encounter. Okay I really wanted to have some orcs appear in this campaign. Then was your set released and I was so grateful! I let a player role the two dice from the random encounter table from Trial of the Beast then we built the 13 minis together. I had a long list of my favorite minis from the set, so finding 13 was not that hard!

The orcs attacked in the blood red light of the dying sun from the west, they came from the Hold of Belkzen.

BTW The banners are great! Of course I had to use them!!

Has anyone used the pawns from the Beginner Box in conjunction with any of the Pathfinder Paper Minis? How do they look together? Anyone got pictures they can post of them side by side?

Other than the difference in what they are made out of, the biggest difference is that one set is official Paizo art, while the Paper minis are the artist's stylized version of the art. In size, they compare very well, and are relatively interchangable. Ive bought a few of the Paper Minis sets and have been completely satisfied by them. Even if you buy the ones that are for a specific AP, you get a wide variety of stuff. It's a really cheap (assuming you can print them cheaply; I personally take it to Staples) way to build up a minis collection.

For PFS, lately Ive been using a combination of my RotRL Paper Minis, the Beginner Box pawns, and my old DnD minis.

I'm pretty sure that C is for Changelings, which makes me sad for the Centaurs. I'm still holding out hope that W is for Wemics.

I'm pretty sure C is Cookie, which is good enough for me.

I don't have any pictures, but I use minis, pawns from the beginner's box and Pathfinder Paper minis, from different artists to represent everything. They all work well together, at least in my opinion.

James

Has anyone used the pawns from the Beginner Box in conjunction with any of the Pathfinder Paper Minis? How do they look together? Anyone got pictures they can post of them side by side?

Check out the part six paper minis, there are some very large minis that look great.

Felices Fiestas Paizonians!

alright, who's hand is on my .....

Those aren't pillows!

Ahhh.. the real reason for the season

No.

A friend and I were discussing minis the other day and agreed having a set of miniatures or even just a paper mini insert included with Pathfinder Adventure Paths or Modules would be a boffo idea; especially for any new or unique creatures or NPCs featured in the product.

They already have that with the Pathfinder Paper Minis line...all of ROTR, most of Kingmaker, and a good start at SS and LOF...

Mothman wrote:

Our group is currently playing CotCT in a somewhat sand-boxy style...

Say, did you hear about those paper minis for Crimson Throne...

;-)

Why yes I did.

Hurry up and put out the set for Book 6! I expect we'll have got back to somewhere in the vicinity of the actual AP plot by then and might have some use for them (we are in 'Book 5' at the moment, but no-where near the Cinderlands or Scarwall).

I'm really excited these are perfect for my needs and will complement my paper minis collection well :-)

If this set turns out to be as popular as I think it will, perhaps sets for each Adventure Path could be worked on, including the major NPCs and creatures in that path. An all-in-one box for the Adventure Path like the Items cards are.

Might I introduce you to Pathfinder Paper Minis?

I thought he was a boob and an ass, but I occasionally agreed with him and he was definitely intelligent and a good writer, even if boorish. Cancer is a bad deal for anyone, and I can definitely appreciate his alcoholism, so I'll join you in raising that glass! :)

I also thought he was a boob and an ass, I rarely agreed with him and even when I did he said it in such a way I hated myself for agreeing. Intelligent yes, not sure about good writer, defiantly boorish. I would not wish a slow painful death from cancer to anyone. I don't drink usually, so let me just wish him peace from his pain and that I hope he made it to a better place, even if he did not believe in one.

Journalist and writer. Not one of the greatest of our time. Just one man's opinion.