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Sounds very Gamma Worldy which is exactly what I was hoping for.

Just make sure you give the giant mutant chickens only one eye. :)

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TPK Games wrote:

3) As much as some people complain about Facebook, it really is a necessary evil. If you want read, get on Facebook. If you want to help publishers spread the word of their products, get on Facebook. In short, get on Facebook.

I want to take a moment to be clear on my position here. What I object to is any content or value that is exclusively available via Facebook. I don't care if Paizo (for instance) has a Facebook page, but the moment they stop using their own forums and start using Facebook is the day I cease having any contact with their discussion groups.

Link to? Sure, whatever floats your boat. Rely upon? No.

Why? In short I elect not to join a community that functions purely to aggregate and sell my personal information - even information I don't realize I'm making available. Any company that forces or even rewards that I sacrifice my personal privacy isn't a company I need to do business with.

I agree completely, I refuse to join or take part in facebook myself. If people use it great, I would just find it annoying if I had to join facebook to find everything I wanted. There has been a few companies that did that and I never did care for it.

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I could do Youtube-reviews, yes - not sure, though, they'd be particularly popular. Gotta think about it.

Regarding ads - well, there's the thing with ad-blindness - recent research has shown that most people have managed to completely block any input from advertisement. Additionally, it could come off as dishonest: Say I have an advertisement of publisher x on my site and give a book of the publisher a good rating - might be problematic. I'd be suspicious. And then there's yet another thing: If a publisher pays me for advertisement and I rip a product to shreds, wouldn't that be weird? Also: Not sure whether there's an interest in advertising thusly in the first place....

So yeah, I contemplated advertisements and used banners for some time, but they just don't work.

Thanks for the suggestion, though!

Yes I would stay away from ads from products/companies you review. But maybe ads for board games, or web comics, or things of that nature.

Not that i am in favor of ads on web pages, only saying IF you wanted to go the way of ads I would look at those kinds of ads.

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As long as Paz lost I am ok with the results.

I will check it out for a dollar the next time I do my monthly cart buy.

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Just keep making quality new products and stay in business is all I ask. :)

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I suggest also doing Youtube reviews, you can tell us what you think. :)

Those laces on page 11 just don't stand a chance to contain those long.

Sounds very cool.

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Regarding the PDF, Art resolutions, Maps, etc. This will be fixed. We need to re-compress the images differently. Working on that now. Rest assure the print version does NOT look like this.

I have not had a chance to read the whole thing but i have looked over it and so far i really like the book. Especially the part early on about the NPC's and how they go if the PC's don't intervene when they have a chance. I loved that, all and all I am very happy it. My only real complaint was the art and map resolutions but since that is due to be fixed that great. Looking forward to the fixed PDF and more importantly the book. :)

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Should have been me but since that wasn't a option... I picked... something... certainly not that nerdy looser Paz.

Very cool cover.

Why why does this have to be so far away, this one sounds really cool.

Thanks! And I wouldn't have written a single review without you, D_M. I'm forever in your debt and if we should ever meet if I get to the US, I'll buy you all the soul-scorching cocktails you desire. :)

Remember the old saying. :)

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Thats cool, looking more and more like a professional reviewer. :)

Ok that was a funny commercial.

But to use the hugging examples earlier.

A friendly but firm hug is fine, even if overly tight.

A grey area is if you sniff their hair or hold the hug a few moments longer after they stop hugging you.

To far would be nuzzling their neck, grabbing their rear.

Well there is a BIG and I mean BIG difference between "bedroom play" with someone you know and trust and complete strangers. Your wife KNOWS you don't think of her as only a sexual object.

For shopping it depends on the women, but just like with men. Like minded people tend to hang out as they share common interest. So women who shop together will often have very similar fashion senses on what does and does not look good. If if they don't dress the same. If that makes sense.

But it is pretty much what Odrande said, best to error on the side of caution.

But objectification in it's most basic form is when you look at or treat someone as nothing more than a sex object, to be used and discarded at will. Least in my mind that is what it means anyways.

What is the difference though? (Not being snarky, honestly want to see). For you personally, or just in general, where does one stop and the other begin?

Honestly if you don't know the difference I am not sure i could explain it.

For one where the line is, is not clear as it depends a lot on the person and where their limits are. But really there is fairly safe ways to handle it, borderline ways and then obviously over the top ways. It is the middle group that is grey and varies.

But in the short term.

Looking sexy is about looking good and feeling good about yourself. If men or women check you out great, if they don't who cares. You are dressing for yourself.

Being objectified is when you are seen solo as a sex object or eye candy with no other aspect of me taken into account.

A example of how they can be in public. I am dressed up well and looking good. I walk by a guy who obviously checks me out and he says something along the lines of "Damn" and thats it.

While another guy starts making comments like wanting to wear my rear as a hat and other such comments etc.

These are not great examples just quick and easy ones to make a point, but to me there is a very big difference in them.

It goes a lot deeper than this of course.

OP - There is a big difference from wanting to look sexy and wanting to be objectified.

As for the heart of the topic, yes women do objectify each other. But from personally experience I have been objectified by far more men than women.

Interesting topic/s, while many of what I call hardcore gamers fit the stereotype mold to one degree or another, I find most gamers in general don't.

To be clear I consider hardcore gamers as ones that have several bookshelves of games often game 2 or more times a week.

As for casual gamers they tend to run the gambit. In my current group, there is a nerdy IT guy, a blue collar factor worker, a cop, a x-PJ(para-rescue) who seems to change jobs after the airforce about once every 6 months, a paralegal, and until recently we had a med student working on become a doctor, but he had to drop out cause he is to the point in his education where he has almost no time to sleep let alone do anything else. Then myself who is a punk/goth/emo or what ever you want to call the look, part time bartender and temp worker who is trying to get into the computer tech field.

Really by looks the only one in our group that remotely fits the stereotype is the IT nerd.

As for how I got started I got started young by my half brother when we was visiting when I was very young. I played in high school, I think mostly cause I was a tomboy and liked hanging out with guys more than girls. Mostly cause I kinda grew up in the boonies and there was no girls with in 3 years of my age above or below me with in a couple of miles walk. Lot of boys though so i learned early to play with the boys as much as they would let me or play along. When some of them got into gaming and stuff due to my half brother introducing them to it during one of his visits I got to be part of the group.

this is the turtle cast

For god's sake. I have no idea who these people are!

Noel Fisher isn't bad, I like him in Shameless.

Sucks to be a mere human then.

Boys just don't sit around the house and play pretend or play dress up. So forget about getting them to take it seriously or especially LARP.

Looks like August is going to be a month of demons! :)

Isn't all months?

I had a really great spell, would have been just perfect for this... but I lost it. :)

Sounds very cool, into the sidecart it goes.

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Gee and here I thought that was about how attractive a guy was as a action star and not what kind of person they was or what kind of role model they was.

Also Kirth, it's obvious we know different women the only person I know who finds diCaprio attractive is my ex. The vast majority of women I know would prefer stallone or Schwarzenegger in their youth to diCaprio today.

For me it is Johnny Depp any day of the week. :)

Samurai, please name some video games that have a female protagonist.

I can think of the following off the top of my head:
- Final Fantasy 13 (and Final Fantasy X-2)
- Mirror's Edge
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation

Now think of the numerous games that have a male protagonist only.

I'd like to exclude games that give you a choice on protagonist gender, because in 99% of cases these games do not differ whatsoever no matter your selection*... which is fine, and good, but there are still an ENORMOUS amount of games that have a male protagonist, but very few that have a female protagonist.

* Minus cosmetic aspects - which can still be problematic (compare male armor vs. female armor in fantasy games for example) - and things such as ability (or inability) to get into a relationship with an NPC based on sexual preference etc...

I would say if you are looking for more check out Alice: Madness Returns for one.

Well yes but I like to support 3pp when I can and buy their stuff.

I always thought it represented Lisa's dark arts. Where she takes the bodies of all the best game designers, sews them together ala Frankenstein and create fiendish game designer flesh golems. I mean isn't the whole paizo stuff one of them?

Jeffrey Zabel wrote:

Adobe Reader could not open'._PZO9524-PFSRules.PDF'

Should the filename really start with dot underscore? Are you trying to open the file before it has finished downloading?

Yeah as brock says it shouldn't be showing that. Is the zip file showing that name that way as well? If yes then it sounded like a bad DL. if the zip file is correct then maybe the unzip program you are using is not working correctly.

Sounds interesting, I will have to check it out when time and money allow.

Sounds cool

I just DLed it too and it opened with Adobe and PDF-xchange both with no problem.

It would help to know what PDF viewer you are using.

The City of Golden Death is not a free download.

What operating system are you using?

Have you tried Foxit or other PDF reader?

He is talking about the PF society organized play extra download for the module.

It depends a DMPC tends to be a PC who is equal or better than the PC's.

Adding in NPC's that travel with the party is different. My group always tries to get some NPC's to help out. Some of them do, some don't. Some of them eventually die, some retire and some move on to do their own thing.

They key is make interesting NPC's the PC's can run into and if they try and talk the NPC into coming along, have the NPC do so. Let them form a bound with the NPC if they want to ask them to keep traveling or let it be a one off.

Once the players trust you to make NPC's who are just like any other NPC but that might travel with them at times most players become more cool with the idea.

Kinda like sidekicks, guest stars etc. The PC's stay the star of the show and the NPC's only stay around till the story writes them out or the PC's kick them to the curb which ever comes first.

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Varisian Wanderer wrote:

Really excited about this book! :)

Will there be any mention of incubi in the succubus entry? For example, how the two races of demons view or relate to one another?

There's a tiny mention about incubi in the succubus entry, but there's not a lot overall. It's supposed to be about succubi, after all.

Incubi make great footstools.

Dark_Mistress wrote:

I don't find the title of this book amusing at all.

But we only hunt demons to give them hugs, flowers, and candy . (Well just succubuses I suppose).

Anyway yeah this book will be great.

Personaly Demons a > than devils

Sure fine and expect a big passionate kiss that brings you to your knee's... and maybe kills you ... in return.

Dark_Mistress wrote:

I don't find the title of this book amusing at all.

Hey, isn't that you on the mock-up cover?

No one is dumb enough to hunt me. Stalk me sure, hunt me no.

My questions are;

As a player, what are your thoughts on female GMs?

We are just like guys, some of us are good, some are bad, most fall inbetween. In my personal experience I have noticed trends that more female GM's do certain things more than males or males do things more than females.

Have you had one? Ho was it?

Yes, twice. Once she was very good and very RP focused with very tight well thought out plots. Once it was horrible one of the all time worse GM's ever. She played blatant favoritism and was a complete control freak and took everything you said as a personal attack, but to be fair she was nuts to begin with.

Why do you think there are so few?

In my experience and this is just from what other female players have said when I tried to get them to try.

1) Lack of confidence.
2) Lack of time.
3) Casual player (My experience has been percentage wise more female gamers are casual gamers than their male counterparts)

If you are a female GM, do you feel like you have been met with any additional challenges?

When I first started yes, the guys where less trusting and more quick to want to double check rules. Now that I have been doing it for awhile no.

Was it a leap for you to get your start?

For me personally no. I was nervous and a bit put off I keep getting second guessed but I was mentally ready for the what it took.

If you are a female player, have you considered GMing, and if not, why not?

Thanks, All!
Just curious! :)

Well I already GM and as for other female players I have tried to talk into giving it a try you can see my answer above on the reasons I get on why most of them are not interested in GMing.

Dark_Mistress wrote:

the scribd version work but the google version wouldn't for some reason. Nice work though.

Are you trying to download it from google docs or just trying to view it? what error message are you getting? I just tried to view on two different web browsers and removed my account from chrome, all sent me directly to the correct page.

I work in tech support, so forgive me if i got a little carried away. lol

It is just blank. where the PDF would be is just grey. I don't have a account or signed in so maybe that is the issue.

I just tried it again and same thing.

I do notice the link changes name though from

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2lxI7HEw-xdaUdTUXNmTzR1V2s/edit?usp=sharin g

to

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2lxI7HEw-xdaUdTUXNmTzR1V2s/edit?pli=1

Edit: Ok with firefox it won't work with seamonkey browser it works just fine so *shrug*

the scribd version work but the google version wouldn't for some reason. Nice work though.

Herbalism is the big one I have been personally waiting for. :)

So there sensitive? So if I kick sand in their face will they cry?

cool

Well if you make one let us know, I would personally love to see it. As our group is talking about doing a PF SW game next after our current PF game ends.

Look forward to the other stuff coming out. I have been waiting for awhile on some of it.

I don't know, I was just looking at the tomes and had a thought. The Book of Shadows has a connection to Witches and it has a gothic sound to it.

But mostly I just thought it would be neat to see a gothic tome for each of the main casting classes.