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Top Ten:

Abraham Lincoln
FDR
George Washington
Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Harry S Truman
Dwight D Eisenhower
Andrew Jackson
James K Polk

I'm not sure about Jackson, Jefferson or Wilson but I'm not sure who i'd replace them with. Maybe Reagan or even Clinton. I actually liked the first Bush.

Top Ten Pixar Movies

Toy Story
Wall-E
Finding Nemo
Up
Monsters, Inc.
The Incredibles
Toy Story 3
Ratatouille
Toy Story 2
A Bug's Life

The Incredibles and Ratatouille would be much higher on that list for me.

So the adventure continued today.

** spoiler omitted **

Here's the photos from today's game. The ship is a Worldworks Game paper ship. I've had it for forever, and this was definitely the best use of it I've ever had.

Photos

Great pics, it took me a sec to remember the little dragon you rescue. The middle one looks like you had a ton of minis fighting it out in that battle!

Always serious and don't call me Shirley.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Madclaw wrote:

Fun time. I'm currently in a game where we're playing City of Golden Death. I only wish that the friend who's running it had realized that it's the third part of a trilogy. Oh well, gaming is gaming.

That's like watching Jedi before Empire???? and Star Wars?????

That's how I watched them. My parents were too poor to take us to the movies so I saw them out of order years later on VHS. The special surprise at the end of ESB had long been ruined for me. Maybe that's why it's my least favorite of the trilogy.

One of the earliest decisions we made was naming our new company. Johnny, being a religious scholar, had the name “Paizo”—biblical Greek for “I play”—floating around in his head for a number of years. It fit our gaming company nicely, and we could get a trademark for it, so we settled on it quickly. Of course, if we would have realized how easily it was going to be mispronounced over the years (pay-zo, pi-at-zoe, paz-zo, even pee-zo) we might have changed our minds and settled on something easier to pronounce.

Were there any other names considered at the time? I love Paizo but I imagine everyone had a few ideas at the time.

(This was a great blog btw!)

BluePigeon wrote:

Forum members, I turned 41 today. 364+ days more then I turn 42.

That is all.

Well, Happy Belated Birthday!

+1

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

taig wrote:

Crimson Jester wrote:

I thought baddahs didn't care for colds; but hate, man.

I think it might have been the flu. Anyway, it put me out of commission for 3, going on 4, days.

UGH

No more air travel in the winter for this badger, let me tell you.

Try the monorail, you can get to to brockway, ogdenville and north haverbrook!

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

I heard that lawful marriage is now gay in CA.

*Facepalm*

What about chaos?

That's in Vegas.

Also, as i post this, I am on the bus. Young man sitting across from me is rocking the flat top. I can't believe it's back! I wonder if I should grow mine out again, or if I should keep the bald, buzz look.

Go for the Hi-top fade!

Woo-hoo! Thanks a lot!

Thank you, Midnight_Angel! I hope you like the set!

On a bright note, Skeletons of Scarwall paper minis are up!

Huzzah.

Id Vicious wrote:

The 8th Dwarf wrote:

Iron Sky trailer .

Space Nazis vs Sarah Palin - Yeeeha

This is COMPLETELY historically inaccurate! Sarah Palin doesn't have a southern accent!

:-)

Wowwwww... I'm speechless.

I fell last night running through the house because I thought my son was in trouble (turns out he couldn't find his train). Landed hard on my knees and hands and smashed my shoulder and head into a table. Sooooo sore today...

Thanks Liz!

I see why this is. You're a subscriber to our bedroom webcam feed.

This one?

And congratulations to another Mikey! Badgah man gets another round! Woo hoo!

That's awesome, congrats taig!

The aftermath of pony spam Hitler, on Pony Spam

Some text profanity, but what do ya expect?

Did you just Godwin us?

Another Sunday, another game. More Photos.

All the World's Meat

The characters are now all level 2. You can read more about them on our website: Link

Sadly, I forgot to bring Verik's Mini, and had to go with a different one, a mini that one of my players was using, but switched out for a new one.

** spoiler omitted **

Hey the pics look better this week!

Go reefclaws!

EDIT: By the way, I'm shocked you were able to gather the whole group together without losing someone to the Superbowl!

My son just fell and loosened a tooth at daycare... sigh...poor guy.

Callous Jack wrote:

Brian Torrens wrote:

I have been building some cardstock terrain from Worldworks and I have a large collection of metal miniatures as well (lots of metal Confrontation figures, Reaper stuff, pre-painted plastic stuff), so I plan on having lots of 3D encounters.

There's also paper minis for anything you don't have in Crimson Throne.

Just sayin'...
:-)

I forgot about those, thanks! My miniature collection is quite extensive, but I actually like using the paper minis to fill out encounters. Of course I only see parts 1-4 covered. I suppose that paper minis for part 5-6 were never created? That's a shame!

Hey, I'm glad to hear you like the paper minis! I'm currently working on the Crimson Throne set and hope to have set 5 (Skeletons of Scarwall) out soon! I will be getting to #6 after that!

I have been building some cardstock terrain from Worldworks and I have a large collection of metal miniatures as well (lots of metal Confrontation figures, Reaper stuff, pre-painted plastic stuff), so I plan on having lots of 3D encounters.

There's also paper minis for anything you don't have in Crimson Throne.

Just sayin'...
:-)

I received a PM from the original Jack, and it looks like he wanted me to post it here on his behalf. Below is the text of said message:

Loser[s].

All Jacks are now obligated to spam Sebastian.

I saw "127 Hours" last night, that was a good movie. It's amazing the willpower it takes to survive that.

I think it would be a cool idea but I think doing it during the time of the Silmarillion would be easier to cover epic stuff. Besides Morgoth and Sauron, there were vampires, werewolves and a ton of Balrogs and dragons, etc.

Plus there were many small kingdoms of Elves and Men spread around. I could see a Kingmaker-style AP happening. Actually, it would be cool to see a Kingmaker-style AP happen after Sauron's fall as Gondor takes back Ithilien, Minas Morgul, Umbar or even parts of Arnor.

The Dwarves taking back Moria would be a cool AP too.

Crimson Jester wrote:

No messages to me :(

There you go.

+1

Another Howard Pyle illustration! I love that you guys use his work.

Hmmm... so much power... what to do...?

Photos from tonight's session are up.

Link to photo

Sorry the photo quality is bad. My Ipad makes a better computer than it does a camera.

The players have been loving the minis by the way. The Otyugh made the night oh so special. The map is from the Streets of Malifaux. What a great resource.

Hey, thanks Mike, I'm just glad to have pics to look at so keep posting!

I'm glad they liked the Otyugh. :)

I'm pretty frugal. It's why I can't afford to ** spoiler omitted **

I thought you just smoked those plants you grow in your basement...

Thanks for the review, gigglestick!

With the arrival of Charlie, my exercise time dropped to nil.

Once warmer weather and longer daylight hours come, you should be taking him for a walk every day!

Callous Jack wrote:

Jess Door wrote:

(snicker. "...A Civil Religious Discussion!")

Do I even want to know...?

Oh, at the trivia contest at Paizocon last year they set up a question especially for us at the FAWTL table (they wanted to limit our silly antics for some reason), and the one question they let us answer went something like "What phrase, often shortened to a five letter acronym, is used to label a series of forum posts exceeding eleventy zillion posts over a span of six threads..."

We stood up and gave the answer "A Civil Religious Discussion!"

Hehhe...I missed that story.

time to raid the hoard.

Smaug's?

I really hate Caps Locks.

(snicker. "...A Civil Religious Discussion!")

Do I even want to know...?

Ch, mairk, I'm sorry. This seems to a bad time for us all workwise.

Sorry to hear that guys.

Well done, taig. :)

taig wrote:

Aberzombie wrote:

Also: WOOT!!! Booked my flights for PaizoCon.

Do you hear that PAIZO?!? I'M COMING TO YOU!!!!!

Yay! I'm looking forward to meeting you in person.

(Now to see if the zombeh realizes that is a threat)

I realize the threat, but I'm not to worried about my ankles being badger-gnawed. :)

Judging by his avatar, he can also do the crane kick from Karate Kid.

Callous Jack wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

While visiting sc, I was informed that the gamecocks were the greatest team ever, and encouraging this belief was directly related to my ongoing good health and ability to walk.

Don't forget the Fighting Blue Hens, Golden Gophers, Banana Slugs and the Chokers!

Banana Slugs!?

UC Santa Cruz!

Crimson Jester wrote:

** spoiler omitted **

Sorry to hear that, CrimJ. I hope things improve for you.

Yeah, I hope you have other options to work with.

I found your tuto­r­ial last night. Have you try printing to adhesive photo paper?

If you ever do it, I'd love to see pics of the results.

While visiting sc, I was informed that the gamecocks were the greatest team ever, and encouraging this belief was directly related to my ongoing good health and ability to walk.

Don't forget the Fighting Blue Hens, Golden Gophers, Banana Slugs and the Chokers!

This is the first time that I'm running a story and the minis should be all ready to be printed and used by the time I need them, which I'm super excited about. I'm a visually person, I really like to have something to look at and use. It both makes the game more like a board game, and more realistic sort of all at once for me. Besides, I love the looks of the minis.

Hey thanks! Although now I feel the pressure to crank the rest out! ;-)

The game went really well and the players are super excited to get together next week, so hopefully this campaign will last. I'm in grad school working on my MAT in English Ed, so when I'm not in class at the University, I'm in a high school teaching. It makes doing anything that doesn't directly lead to graduating that much harder to do. That said, this is what I do for fun, and I kind of need rpgs in my life.

Wow, I'm surprised you have time for anything else, let alone gaming.

Why is there no NFL team named The Dragons?

NFL Europe had the Barcelona Dragons at one point.

Callous Jack wrote:

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

Cool. Congratulations!

Thanks!

Firefly was very good, not perfect, so few things are; but rather a great all around show. Cancelled before something stupid really creeped into the show.

????

Hey guys.

Just got pulled into a "meeting" with my boss about the deficiencies that were brought up in the last "meeting" I had with my supervisor on Friday. I was pulled into this meeting while I was physically in the process of trying to handle one of the items brought up in the last meeting on Friday. Apparently I am supposed to work on Saturday and Sunday to address things even though we are closed. Either that or being yelled at about something is more important than actually fixing it.

I've had enough. I'm looking for work elsewhere. I'm truly disgusted that it has come to this and I will try to leave with grace as I have could use the referral /reference. But enough is enough. Every decision I make can't be the wrong one *every* time. When "prioritize" becomes code for "work faster/be in two places at once" something is wrong.

Sorry to hear that FHDM, good luck with whatever you decide to do...

Callous Jack wrote:

Emperor7 wrote:

Bitter Thorn wrote:

Patrick Curtin wrote:

Positive waves CH!

+1

+1 +1 +1

So I missed the story behind this... CH has a job and is getting a new one. Is that correct?

Yes. A combination of not making enough money to cover my bills and the fact that I'm really not tempermentally suited to spending this much time on the phone is leading me to seek a new job.

Aha, okay! Well, good luck, I hope you land a new job very soon! :)

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