Computer time severely limited here at present, and several other commitments on that time, but I have now got (very advanced) succubus reviews up of the Round 2 entries of the top 32+ who didn't make the top 16. Sorry if some of them are a bit brief (time is restricted) and best of luck to those of you who didn't make the cut into Round 3 with your future endeavours...
Round 2 Ask A RPGSupersuccubus reviews, if forthcoming, will not commence until voting has closed. At this point there's no way I can get through 32 reviews before Round 2 closes and (in case it impacted the voting at all) I'd rather not review any entries unless I could get around all of them under the same voting or lack thereof) conditions...
As a note, I'm unclear how far contestants have been following what they feel Paizo item descriptions to have established as a standard, but I found some of the items a bit thin on the ground in detail of what they actually looked/felt/tasted like. Obviously all items that made the top however many it was with withdrawals (arrrrgh!!! so frustrating seeing extra items to review being added!!!) have been considered superstar by Clark et al though.
Congratulations to everyone who made it into the top cut in Round 1.
Just caught up with this thread. Congratulations to you and your players on the mid-January game. Eleven PC casualties, plus one imprisonment... Wow. :)
Apologies for the delay in reviewing Round 1 entries. I'm feeling somewhat under the weather this year. I'll try to get around them all, but I don't know with the kaleidoscoped schedule there seems to be this year if I'll get through subsequent rounds... :-?
Profound apologies to those who got Ask A RPGSupersuccubus reviews so far and the slightly garbled initial disclaimer. The disclaimer should have read:
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This post constitutes the views of a (very advanced) CE aligned succubus. Being such, Ask A RPGSupersuccubus is at complete liberty to change her mind on anything without giving any notice whatsoever. For those of you who missed last year (or as a reminder for those whose memories have failed) Ask A RPGSupersuccubus subscribes absolutely to balance, fairness, and logic in these reviews – in the sense that balance is what a couple of mortals on opposite ends of a plank pivoted on a rocky spire above a drop of several hundred feet into a pool of molten basalt frantically try to do, fairness is a term applicable to assessing either hair colour or more general beauteousness and logic is something which proves anything a demon of adequate status and charm requires it to demonstrate.
The correct version has now been copied into the template for the subsequent reviews... Officially, this was a cut and paste error in final editting of the round 1 review format. Unofficially it was probably one of those Froy-Dian things from Tian Xia, intended to spread that bit more chaos and confusion around...
No women? Not knocking the winners, but that's sad...
Wow, I hadn't noticed that. Crazy. I have to admit, I kinda figured I'd see Marie Small this year :) I liked her stuff last year.
Thank you, Clark. :) That means a lot. I'll post my item in the critique thread as soon as it's open. I think I know where I went wrong; I'm curious to know what others think, though.
Again, to everyone who made the cut - Congratulations. It is one wild ride that is well worth it. I learned a TON last year, and I'm sure y'all will, too. :)
Nice to see you posting again this year, even if you didn't make the absolute top cut this time in the judge's opinion. I recall very much enjoying your submissions last year, and as the Ask A RPGSupersuccubus scribe, I'll try to remember to watch out for your item, and give it a (very advanced) succubus' version of a 'once over' if I see it... ;)
Why, thank you, sir. I greatly enjoyed the...unique perspective you and "she" gave to all the entries. :)
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No. Missed the first year, and after three years submitting items which - going by the judges' feedback - had the judges leaving scorch-marks on their mousemats as they raced to hit 'reject', I didn't even try to allocate any time to design an item to enter this year. I'm sticking to what I know I can make a halfway decent job at... <evil grin>... quirky reviews. :D
No women? Not knocking the winners, but that's sad...
Wow, I hadn't noticed that. Crazy. I have to admit, I kinda figured I'd see Marie Small this year :) I liked her stuff last year.
Thank you, Clark. :) That means a lot. I'll post my item in the critique thread as soon as it's open. I think I know where I went wrong; I'm curious to know what others think, though.
Again, to everyone who made the cut - Congratulations. It is one wild ride that is well worth it. I learned a TON last year, and I'm sure y'all will, too. :)
Nice to see you posting again this year, even if you didn't make the absolute top cut this time in the judge's opinion. I recall very much enjoying your submissions last year, and as the Ask A RPGSupersuccubus scribe, I'll try to remember to watch out for your item, and give it a (very advanced) succubus' version of a 'once over' if I see it... ;)
Reviews may be a bit slow this year, as I'm busy with other things, but I will at least try to get around all the entries which made the top cut in Round 1 with RPGSupersuccubus reviews...
Oh, and well done to everyone who the judges gave the top ratings to this time. :)
There's no female judges, either.... Just sayin'. ;)
(Just in case the winking smiley isn't sufficient -- because I know things can get heated when Superstar is on -- this is by no means any sort of claim of bias against the judges. I would, however, love to see Lisa or one of the other women associated with Paizo sitting in one year. Just because that would be awesome.)
+1
[humour] Waits for the outraged threads screaming about the use of that '+1' practise to indicate agreement with a sentiment wholeheartedly to fire up again... ;) [/humour]
I didn't enter this year, having concluded item creation is not my forte, but I have - ah - been practising reviews.
Good luck to those who are about to make the top 32... ;)
Disclaimer:
Charles Evans 25 is for the intents and purposes of the RPGSuperstar contest currently the scribe of a sorority of succubi, especially the (very advanced) succubus Ask A RPGSupersuccubus. Any views scribed on the behalf of such succubi represent the views of one hundred and fifteen per cent CE aligned (or any other random number bigger than one hundred) Abyssal temptresses, for whom unfair is an abbreviation for funfair, appearances are of course one of the most crucially important things possible, and the only acceptable baatezu is one which... *** The rest of this comment was suppressed by Ask A Succubus Censor - best not to give trade secrets away at quite this point in proceedings... ***
I stayed at the conference centre last time, and I'm going to do so again but as FRI-SAT-SUN rather than just FRI-SAT. The breakfast was pretty damn good, and so was the room.
It was nice to be a 2 min walk from the games.
I checked the conference Center and they appeared to be sold out.
There should still be some information on the PaizoCon UK website from 2011 about other hotel/bed & breakfast/hostel options in the area. It may be a bit before we can get updated price information for 2012 up though.
Okay, peace offering time.
Congratulations to Clark for making it back onto the judging panel, and I'll try to stay out of these threads for another 11 months.
On with the marketing!!!!! Is that enough exclamation marks? (that was rhetorical, sort of.) ;)
Youch. :-/ Sorry to hear. I confess I'm surprised; you've hid your bitterness well...
Actually, no. I'll beg to differ on that one. Charles generally doesn't hide his bitterness well. Every year around this time he comes up with a post along these lines as a cautionary tale to counter the messages of optimism offered by Clark. It's become a tradition as much as anything else related to the contest now. :-)
My primary concern is that people who listen to his advice defeat themselves long before the contest even gets underway. And then they miss out on a unique experience and a golden opportunity as a result. It's the difference between optimism and pessimism.
Every year I seem to see several posters guarantee a fantastic experience for absolutely every last person who enters an item, which I regard as verifiably untrue. If such posters qualified it a bit and said something like 'you'll probaby have a great time', I'd be happy to leave it alone.
...Please, if you are on the fence...GET OFF and ENTER! Why not try? I guarantee you that you will feel amazing when you hit that submission button with your item, even if you don't make top 32. Plus, you might surprise yourself. And even if you don't, you will certainly learn something that you can use to be better at this game we all love...
Time to get the bitter 'I beg to differ' post off my chest.
[I beg to differ]
Umm, no: I can report that entering items has only brought me disappointment and soul-corroding despair, remorselessly hammering away with a message that if I have any sense of decency I should go away and kill myself. That is what entering RPGSuperstar has done to me the three times I have made the stupid mistake of submitting my attempts at real items.
[/I beg to differ]
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All that admitted, I grant it probably makes sense for anyone with the time to try to enter at least once to find out just how much the experience sucks or exhilarates in their own context.
And I did discover last year that I could have a certain amount of fun standing on the sidelines cheering real contestants on and a certain alias is likely to show up again with the next contest... ;)
Not currently interested. [humour](I could look for a game of Diplomacy if I wanted player vs. player backstabbing mayhem... :D)[/humour]
Best wishes to the endeavour though.
:)
Having just been away on Jury service, I must say that they really aren't joking when they say: 'You have the right to remain silent, but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention now anything which you later rely on in court.'
It looks a little bit strange when it comes up in court that the police asked the (then) suspect in interview (under caution) 'was it an accident?' and the defendent said 'no comment' and the defence is trying to make out in court that it was an accident...
This will (hopefully) be my first and last serious post in this thread.
Prepare any essential posts in some other program such as MS Word and copy and paste them into messageboard posts.
Besides having the advantage of allowing access to a spellchecker (make sure it's set to the US version of English if necessary) this minimises the risks of floods of tears and temper tantrums that might otherwise result because the boards are so overloaded that the post you were writing gets eaten by the messageboards bug.
Oh yes, and backup copies of entries you're working on on separate media, so if your home PC gets scrambled by a virus or melts down, you still have a floppy disk copy you can work on or submit using a friend's computer, etc.
Okay. Good luck.
I just turned two word problems from "kids getting off of school buses" to "clone troopers landing on Camino" and subtracting fruit to "jedi killed on Camino" and all of a sudden my son could do them.
Laughed out loud at that one. :)
Okay, more seriously, you were actually right about something (accidentally or otherwise) several pages back... ;)
Yes, yes, I know you're often right about a lot of things, but isn't it nice when people actually say you are? :D
Brekkil/Axel:
Umm, sorry to bring this up here, but I sent an email a couple of days ago regarding the Campaign Setting but I don't seem to have had a reply yet. :-?
On another note, as Headless Hydra Games look here for the long haul, is it possible for the nice people at Paizo to add a (Headless Hydra Games) tag to your main messageboard alias? (It should help keep things clear with posting to answer questions about products.) :)
Charles Evans [25].
Back on topic, this [the clockworker] is partially related to the Iron Mill stuff?
So my dad was diagnosed with some heart problems a few months back, but they’ve had trouble actually figuring out what the cause is. Now he’s discovered he has thyroid cancer (not entirely certain what the connection with the heart is, but I’m sure there is one) and will be having his thyroid removed within the next few weeks. It’s not fun when your parents get old.
Well, the good news is they think they've figured it out and know how to fix it...
I Haven't seen the last 2 or three movies; so I don't want to spoiiller nothing.
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It's from an alternate universe which deviates substantially from the original, but if you figure it's best to play it safe anyway... :)
Only I can write Harry Potter fanfic worth reading.
It's a physical law.
Oh, right, I missed that... :D
I could point out this is more subversion than fanfic (see the opening premise) but I'm sure you have another law or two you can quote to cover that eventuality too, so I guess I'll just have to accept you won't read it. :)
Hah! The Forums are nowhere near way too long enough (yet)!
Wheretofore:
The Final Battle Oh, I suppose I'd better make an explanation. This extract comes from towards the end of the seventh book of The Dark Potter arc, based in an alternate universe where Severus Snape (motivated by love for Lily) tried to help James and Lily fight the Death Eaters, but James still got killed shortly after Harry was born. Anyway, long story short, Lily blaming Dumbledore for failing to protect James, she and Snape leave the world of wizards behind for a while and set up a school (James Potter Hall) for non-wizards, before the events of the arc kick off and gradually drag them (and their family) back into the wizarding world. Highlights of the series include:
Spoiler:
the basilisk rampaging through Hogwarts at the end of the second book with a high body count resulting (including Ginny Weasley) before being finally stopped by Harry, his half-sister Celia, and Draco Malfoy
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Igor Karkaroff being killed to resurrect Voldemort at the end of the fourth book
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Dumbledore going missing after the basilisk incident, and Remus Lupin taking over the running of Hogwarts for a time, before Dumbledore finally returned to the scene late in the seventh book
, and
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Jenny Riddle, Hogwarts' Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher ever since book three, at last taking down Voldemort a couple of chapters earlier than this in book seven although possibly going insane in the process.
Jenny Riddle -typical quote to Voldemort: 'The trouble is, Voldy, you don't look good in black, whereas I look damn sexy'
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Basically, following the defeat of Lord Voldemort in the ruins of Hogwarts and the arrival of large numbers of aurors on the scene to mop up any stray Death Eaters, Lily and Severus Snape (plus Harry, Celia, and Harry's girlfriend Luna) have received a couple of messages from Lily's ally, professor Horace Slughorn, that Remus Lupin is in trouble, and they need to bring James Potter's old invisibility cloak to the castle boathouse, to help mount a rescue mission. Professor Slughorn's messages have indicated by lack of codewords that he's being used to lure them into a trap...
So, now that you're all up to speed, an actual extract!
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Walking round the lakeside from Hogsmeade, where they had apparated to, the Snape family met a pair of patrolling Aurors, who nodded politely to Severus, and exchanged a few pleasantries, but gave the indication that nothing was amiss. They assured him that the area was secure, and there were no known Death Eaters active still. Some werewolves had been captured in the battle, and by order of a Wizengamot official were to be put to death at sunset, but they didn’t know which werewolves (apart from one called Fenrir Greyback), or where they were being kept.
The Snapes came into view of the boathouse, which was partially collapsed.
Lily erected a brief charm to keep her last instructions discreet from any magical eavesdroppers.
“I’d like to believe that Horace is simply so tired he’s forgotten to use the code-phrases on two occasions, and that this will be a simple in-under-the-invisibility-cloak, rescue-Remus, and-out errand, but if it isn’t we’re going into the presence of at least one very powerful and dangerous witch or wizard who is mentally unhinged.”, Lily looked around at the others. “I can’t ask any of you to walk with me into this. If any of you want to stay back here, I’ll understand.”
One by one, Harry, Celia, and Luna all shook their heads. Severus squeezed his wife’s hand.
“I’d have liked to have left you at home, girls, but this could have been a diversion to get me away from you.” Lily said. “Okay, let’s go.”
They closed in on the boathouse.
Inside the boathouse they found the roof was almost entirely fallen in, and the internal walls and partitions collapsed. At the far end, the lake was visible, and Jenny Riddle was there, unconscious, wandless, blindfolded, and lashed to several fallen beams atop a pile of rubble. Remus Lupin had been tied to a stake rooted several yards out into the lake, and was dangling unconscious in glowing magical bonds, with improvised weights tied around his feet.
The other staff of Hogwarts were all there, professor Slughorn with a look of horror on his face, and the others all glassy-eyed, either living victims of the imperius curse or dead animated as inferi by the master puppeteer. There was only one person missing.
“Albus Dumbledore!”, Lily shouted. “Show yourself.”
“I’ve adapted a dead man’s handle concept.”, Professor Dumbledore’s voice came from somewhere nearby. “I die or lose concentration, and the spells holding Remus to the stake go, and splash, he drops into the lake. And I’ve established a couple of basic shields to make sure he’s protected from any further spells, so no trying to revive him in the hope that in the event of a plunge he can save himself.”
Professor Dumbledore stepped into view from behind a pile of rubble.
“So glad you could make it, Lily my dear.”, he shunted his spectacles, which seemed to have momentarily slipped, back up his nose.
“You were injured. Throwing yourself in front of a spell to protect Jenny Riddle.” Harry said. “At least that’s what a report said.”
“Ah, Harry. So pleasant to meet James’ son, face to face, at last.”, Dumbledore said. “Yes, I threw myself in front of a spell aimed in the direction of Miss. Riddle. At that point in time, I was despairing of ever being able to shake free of her influence. Fortunately, Horace came around with some potions and fixed me. And even more fortunately, when she engaged in her epic struggle with Voldemort, Miss. Riddle’s attention was sufficiently elsewhere that I was able to finally overcome the compulsions she had placed upon me. A quite remarkable woman, though I’m not sure quite what? I’ve never come across a case of another witch or wizard able to do things with their gaze which she could. And some of the actions she took were quite unforgiveable, but still she has removed Voldemort from the scene, and her misdeeds can be redeemed now through noble sacrifice.”
“Harry’s got the cloak, Dumbledore. Show him, Harry.”, Lily said.
Harry put the carrier bag down and took out the cloak.
“Ah, no, don’t put it on.”, Dumbledore said. “Just hold it.”
He pointed his wand at the cloak and said: “Accio cloak.”, but the cloth in Harry’s hand did not so much as twitch.
“Ah yes, it is the cloak indeed.”, Dumbledore said, looking happy.
“So why do you need it?”, Severus asked. “Why this cloak?”
“The legend of the Deathly Hallows, Severus: The Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, the Invisible Cloak. I’m going to unite them in a great act of magic, and make everything right, by bringing everyone back who’s dead. A long time ago I made a mistake in not seeing Tom Riddle for what he was and killing him. Many kind and innocent people, or brave friends have died since then thanks to Tom and his madness. I should have learned from my experiences with Grindelwald, but I was weak and slow. But now I get to put it all right: Ariana, McGonagall, Flitwick, Trelawney, all those pupils who were killed by the basilisk. Even any muggles unfortunate enough to have been caught up in events; I can bring them all back. And James too, Lily. You’ve always blamed me for his death, and you were right to do so. But now he can live again!” He paused. “Of course, there was a slight concern I had about my plan, but since serendipitously you have brought Harry with you, that concern can fall by the wayside, since Peverell blood will be present.”
“Magic doesn’t work like that, Dumbledore.”, Lily said. “Not on that scale.”
“I understand your scepticism, Lily. You’ve lived for so long without hope, you don’t want to believe; you certainly can’t afford to let yourself have any faith in me, after all the ways I’ve hurt you. Here: Let me show you how wrong you are.”
He raised his wand.
The lake began to ripple, and suddenly a storm seemed to break.
Harry found himself at the centre of a chaotic swirl of magic. Time seemed to be ebbing backwards and swirling forwards. Dumbledore had done something unbelievably stupid.
He was wearing the invisibility cloak.
A gigantic red-headed monster reached out to devour the world.
He heard Dumbledore cry imperio and point his wand at Harry.
He heard himself refuse.
He heard Dumbledore ask him to do something.
He was by the lake, wrapped in the invisibility cloak, as Dumbledore chanted arvadek ardava over and over again.
The ring on Jenny Riddle’s hand split open and broke the world.
She was close to him, and he tore away her blindfold. Her eyes were dark, but unseeing.
The monster was coming, the abomination.
Harry shut his eyes, beneath the invisibility cloak, fighting with every fibre of his being against this.
Where was Celia?
His mother and father were duelling Dumbledore, but Dumbledore’s wand was unbeatable, unbreakable. Professor Slughorn joined them too, an added distraction. Dumbledore lifted his free hand and gave professor Slughorn a cheery little wave, by way of salute and to show off just how unconcerned he actually was and how easy this was.
Dumbledore showed Harry his father, Harry’s real father, James, there in the abomination and told Harry to wave to him.
“I… will… not… Severus… is… my… real… dad… too!” Harry said through gritted teeth.
Dumbledore suddenly smiled, and beneath those glasses on that once kindly face, that was horribly, horribly, frightening.
Dumbledore was getting frustrated with Harry’s lack of cooperation.
Dumbledore frowned.
Dumbledore appeared not to have noticed Celia had vanished, and flicked his wand, whilst still keeping Harry’s parents at bay.
The ring… Oh no, the ring.
Dumbledore split and shouted something back to himself, and in the moment where he was distracted, Celia twirled her wand and was gone.
The red haired abomination shimmered and was gone.
Dumbledore guided the ring through the air to where Luna stood.
Dumbledore twirled his wand, immobilising Luna where she stood right from the start of the fight.
When Dumbledore spoke the word for the second time, Celia created a false image of herself, trying to untie Jenny Riddle.
“Imperio!” said Dumbledore again, serenely. Then just for good measure, “Imperio!” again. He needn’t have bothered. Harry tried to resist this time, but he was betrayed by himself.
Dumbledore looked around, confident things were going his way, and saw Celia, her wand apparently abandoned, trying to untie the unconscious and ringless Jenny Riddle. He smiled indulgently and deflected more spells Lily and Severus were sending his way. He sent professor Slughorn staggering back with a tremendous blast of light.
Harry took Luna in his arms, the both of them wrapped in the folds of the invisibility cloak, and the ring on her finger gleamed. She was scared. She loved him dearly, and wanted to resist this, but couldn’t. Their natures were against them.
Somewhere Celia was chanting.
Dumbledore looked around.
Dumbledore saw Celia wandless and trying to undo the unconscious Jenny Riddle.
“Iä!” Celia sang.
For a moment Harry was with Luna on a page of parchment, a drawing of ink set by a diviner at the court of the great welsh wizard and leader, Owain Glyndŵr himself. And Owain winked at Harry, and wrote something in his great book. And Glyndŵr drew another picture, of a witch on the edge of a lake.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. Iä Cthulhu, Cthulhu fhtagn!”
And the great brazen doors clanged and everything seemed to stop.
It was raining, in the ruined boathouse by the lake. It was hard, driving, rain. Albus Dumbledore had raised his wand, and turned to look in horror to where Celia stood on the lakeside, her wand raised out towards the waters of the lake.
“What have you done?” Albus Dumbledore shouted above the rising gale. “What have you done to disrupt the ritual?”
The ripples were spreading rapidly across the surface of the lake, with increasing violence, becoming miniature waves.
Celia pirouetted and stabbed her wand in the direction of Professor Dumbledore.
“Sorry, professor,” she said, and she did indeed sound sincerely so. “If it’s any comfort to you, if this had to happen to anyone, I’d have much rather it had been to someone like Voldemort, instead of to someone just a bit misguided who actually thought that he was trying to fix the world.”
“Oh no, Harry…” Luna said. “That’s not the usual monster of the Black Lake. Celia didn’t just?...”
Harry pressed Luna’s face to his chest, as the rain lashed down, and the storm rumbled overhead like brazen drums and something vast rose from the lake. The surging waves of its rising lapped around Remus, and jolted him awake. They washed across the boathouse floor around the feet of the witches and wizards, and Harry desperately hugged Luna to himself. He didn’t want her to have to see this.
Professor Albus Dumbledore stabbed desperately with the Elder Wand and shouted spells at the eldritch horror reaching out towards him, but to no apparent effect. It reached the shore, and the Elder Wand fell to the ground, and there was a crunch, and no more was heard of Albus Dumbledore. Water sloshed and drove through the boathouse, knee-deep, and amidst the flotsam, the splintered off stake with Remus clinging to it, his magical restraints no more, bobbed. For a moment, the shadow loomed huge over all of them, and then with a final surge and slosh it turned and the waves started to diminish as it receded back into the lake. After a while, there was another brazen clang lost almost in the depths of the storm, and then some sort of tension gradually drained out of the air.
“Celia.”, Lily said.
“Yes, I know, mum, it could have eaten all of us, but I figured with possibly the world at stake and the whole natural order of things, that was worth the risk.”
“You are still grounded for the next three months.”, Severus said. “And under most circumstances, if the ministry didn’t have a lot of very strong things to say, in front of multiple Auror witnesses I would be very surprised. Fortunately, since you are still underage, I doubt they would actually send you to Azkaban for what you just did.”
“What was that?”, professor Slughorn asked. “What just happened?”
Remus was coughing and shaking himself on floor.
“Young lady.”, Lily said. “I haven’t finished with you yet. What were you thinking? We were duelling Professor Dumbledore and you pulled a trick like that?”
“I was thinking it was the only thing I could think of that might beat the Elder Wand in the hands of Albus Dumbledore in a hurry.”, Celia said defensively.
“What?...” Professor Slughorn began again.
“She just summoned Cthulhu, professor Slughorn. Cthulhu.”, Lily said.
“Who? What?”, Slughorn asked.
The rain continued to pour down, and the formerly imperiused teachers were starting to stir and shake off the effects of the magic which had enslaved them. The animated corpses of the dead teachers had flopped messily across the floor. The drenching was apparently reviving Jenny Riddle too, tied and blindfold at the top of the now somewhat disrupted pile of rubble.
“We’re getting wet out here, mum.”, Harry shouted. “Isn’t there anywhere warm and dry in the vicinity we could continue to discuss this?”
Given all the Avengers talk, a question for proper comic fans, what is the official line up of the Avengers? The current movie appears to have a different line up to the Saturday morning cartoon I am familiar with, and they’re probably both different from the comics.
My five year old son has tried to convince me that Spiderman, Wolverine and The Thing are all sometimes members of the Avengers, I’m not sure he’s right (but what do I know?)
I refer you to the following Wikipedia article, which whilst not perhaps absolutely authoritative should prove quite handy: *Link, list of Avengers members*
If Joss Whedon is directing the Avengers movie, then we have a right to be nervous.
[Or chicken, I wasn't impressed with serenity and firefly.]
oh, if Stan Lee makes another one of his irrelevant cameo appearances, I will demand my money back.
At least in the case of the Fantastic Four wedding of Reed Richards and Susan Storm appearance it's semi-justified by canon, in that back in Fantastic Four annual #3 (or at least in the reprint of the strip I have :D), Stan Lee and Jack Kirby actually put themselves in the original wedding strip trying to attend...
No magi in Thassilon doesn't mean that there weren't any magi in contemporary civilizations such as Azlant or the then elven empire... Indeed given the traditions of elves in fantasy mixing the martial and magical (note the Arcane Archer is restricted to elves and half-elves in the PFRPG core rules) I wouldn't be too surprised if elves were originally responsible (in setting) for developing the magus style...
Just to point out, Timitius is (as of the time of my posting this) on the prowl for artists to illustrate Wayfinder #6. See *this thread* for details...
(Obviously at some point he has to close the process of looking at artists and get the magazine out though...)
Then again, that's with my geologist's hard-hat on, from which perspective pretty much anything less then a few tens of millions of years can be sneezed at unless it involves an ice age and/or extensive volcanic activity. (Oh, alright, or a Killer Meteorite of Doom & Armegeddon, just to keep the 'But rocks from space!!!!!!' crowd happy. ;) )
Oh, Monte, Monte, Monte. Give your customers (whomever they are) what they want (so long as it's not deleterious to either their physical or mental well being) and don't give them lectures on how they're playing their games wrong (unless they've specifically asked for those lectures)...
A 'Magic Items Should be...' poll with choices of:
A reward given out by the DM.
A part of character advancement chosen by players.
...could look like it's just trying to bludgeon voters into supporting an option which suits you.
<looks at post... looks at pin...>
Ooops. Possibly I should have thrown that before....
BOOOOOM!!!!!!
Gah.
Well that went about as well as could be expected.
<dusts self off> <wanders off, whistling Colonel Bogey>
;)
You could always post down on the forums are way too long thread; at least one of those crazies is bound to be either an artist or at least to know one... :D
I thought this video would be the perfect thing to show a co-worker’s 11-year old son who has expressed interest in Pathfinder. What didn’t dawn on me until he started watching it is that this video is for the Beginner’s Box but directed at the established gamer. It never defines roleplaying or the fantasy elements of the game.
I showed this video to a co-worker’s 11-year old son. He is looking for the next step after board games and expressed an interest when I told him about Pathfinder. “Perfect,” I thought. “This new video will tell him everything he needs to know about the Beginner Box”. Except it doesn’t. It shows me, as someone who already plays the game, everything I need to know about the Beginner Box. I need to know that Beginner Box monsters won’t have CMB/CMD scores. He needs to know more about what these monsters are, what they can do, and what he can do about it.
Are there any plans to create a second video that address the basics of the game, like what a roleplaying game is and discuss the fantasy elements and creatures that populate the world?
It seems to me that this is more of a presentation geared towards current Paizo customers looking for Christmas presents for sons/daughter/nephews/nieces/others, aiming to reassure them that they're buying their nearest and dearest something quality than something aimed at the intended users...
Besides which (apologies Erik ;) ) don't you need a major celebrity and racy music for a multi-media advertising campaign these days?
I can confirm that the BBC spent several minutes of air time in their Planet Dinosaur (UK Broadcast) episode of the 5th October 2011 using the term 'Thagomizer' as a scientific term.
(I didn't think to check the programme credits though, to see if they'd paid anyone or otherwise obtained permission to use it. I may have to watch it again, umm, just for that purpose of course. ;) )
James Jacobs:
Latest 'Planet Dinosaur' to air here in the UK featured a theory that Stegasaurus and Camptosaurus may have existed symbiotically, with the camptosaurs acting look-out for the group against nasty ambush predators like Allosaurus sneaking around the Jurassic termite mounds. (And the stegasaurs providing the defence for the group, once the alarm was sounded, readying actions, so to speak, to whack anything which came into view with their thagomizers...)
Oh, there was also something about Kimmerosaurus and the currently unnamed 'Predator X'.
Tormas/Fox1212:
No reason why you should have to do all the work. You could feed you players sufficient information to give them an idea of what's going on in the fortress and leave it up to them to figure out a means to lure most of the inhabitants out.
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