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A) This is DUNGEONS & Dragons. The 'base' style of play is the dungeon crawl. The rules should focus on combat mainly. Once this is done then you add in what you can to support other styles of play. (Note: Role-playing is fairly rules independant and is actually restricted by adding rules to govern it... so it is not the focus).

B) Lost of people play lots of different ways. We should try and support all of them equally.

What do you think?

Hmmm... The minis sell like hotcakes. 100% on Option A.

What I hate is the greedy corporate whores who hold the reins over in washington...

With all respect, Ha$borg is a public company, and there is only one goal for every public company. It's not like they're different than anyone else - it's just that we're impassioned with the game. Plus, WotC may run the show here in Washington, but they've been given a mandate ~from the real 'greedy corporate whores'~ and if they don't meet it they don't put food on the table. That's life.

this has got to be a poster!!!!!

I hope by the end of 2008 there's enough fabulous art for Paizo to put out a Pathfinder Calendar. I'm sure there's even enough 'B' art to put in a few surprises.

I'm running a WFRP2 game and am looking for some ideas for throwing in vampires against the PCs. What I specifically need is an adventure (if one exists) that pits the PCs (who could be considered a gang - one of the PCs is on the road to Crime Lord) against a rival group that is, or is lead by, vampires. I have never played anything Ravenloft, but after a cursory glance of the .pdfs available, I don't think that's the theme I'm looking for. Has anyone had experience with a game or adventure like this? Game system doesn't matter, as I'll most likely be scavenging ideas and creating NPCs myself.

There are lots of other signs in the future as well:

- Oil just hit $100 a barrel. Gas to get to my friend's houses to play isn't ever going to get cheaper than it is today.

- I might want to own a house one day soon. I'll have to curb lots of spending to do so.

- I wear the clothes I own until they're threadbare, should my gaming habits be any different?

Simply put, I'm not ecstatic about 4e. If I do indeed decide to play it, I'll be waiting for used copies to start popping up. I have a lot of games to play, so I'm in no hurry to fork over my hard earned money to keep up to date. Heck, I was running a Celeron computer until about a year ago!

Nice to see that some people are 100%. And I'm also glad that I'm not alone in collecting stacks ;) I have been slammed for the last four months, so I hope to get that read:unread ratio a LOT higher (including Pathfinder!). Of course getting rid of that stack of books I don't think I need will help out, too.

This isn't a New Year's Resolution or anything like that, but I'm going through a purge of RPG materials that have collected and have remained unused since I've owned them. I'm a sucker for sales, and pick up almost anything that I find on clearance at Half Price Books, and delved into the recent Green Ronin/Paizo sale that we had here last month. Not that I need to justify getting four books for the price of a magazine, it makes great sense, but once you have piles of books several feet high, enough is enough!

So I'm curious, am I alone in having a ton of books that I've never read? What do you estimate your percentage of read materials is? How do you decide what should go? I have a bunch of setting books and materials for games that I'll probably never play (Alternity, Last Unicorn's STAR TREK) - should I let go and send them off despite great settings? Or am I fooling myself? Should I also do a d20 purge like so many companies are doing? Thoughts?

I only recently started looking at the Midnight setting, but what I saw really blew me away. I'm not quite ready to commit to it given everything I have and that most of my campaigns are FR (and if they aren't FR, they would likely be Dragonlance or Pathfinder), but they are really, really tempting. Great setting.

Fantasy Flight recently had a sale on the books ($5 a pop, $10 for the main book) and they have firesales once or twice a year. Don't know if you keep up on their sales (I usually hear about them over at Boardgamegeek) but with the 3.X purge going on, you know they'll have another one in the next year.

This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it's still a really awesome tutorial for painting fire:

http://hot-lead.org/advance/fire_theory.htm

...anyone know of a good page with tips on how to paint miniatures and what products to use for painting?

http://www.coolminiornot.com/ is my favourite. Lots of people like http://theminiaturespage.com/ but I find the website extremely cumbersome to navigate, and they have larger-than-regular fonts and erratic colour schemes that make it irritating to try and read anything, but that's my personal opinion.

Yeah, perhaps even a trilogy of connected GameMastery modules to finish out the high teens and get the characters to 20. :) That would actually be pretty cool.

...because all good things in fantasy must be in trilogy form :P

I'm so looking forward to this next AP. The only shortcoming is that I'll have to covert it into WFRP2, but that should be the fun part! The hard part will be having to wait until March to get my hands on the first chapter.

I need a list of must have rules books.

There are only two (as I mentioned above): The Player's Handbook and Monsters and Treasure. Each are 19.99.

They keep talking about a Castle Keeper's Guide coming out, but alas, and again as mentioned above, TLG is a small company, and we've been waiting for that for a while now.

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Order the books through Paizo NOW!! ; )

It's my favourite dinosaur. Well, not technically a dinosaur, but a precursor to them.

I grew up on Salvatore, so am still fond of the Icewind Dale and Dark Elf trilogies. I moved to Robert Jordan and Stephen King in the latter stages of High School, and after grad school picked up the combined Cleric Quintet on a whim. I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did - but went in with less than stellar expectations. I still have all the original trilogies from back in the day, and don't think I could bear to part with any of them.

I like what other people are throwing about out there. It's rekindling my interest in pulp fantasy.

Ahh, the never-ending threads of the fate of FLGSs. It is a shame, but it's difficult to compete with online stores that offer 20-30% off MSRP on boardgames and Amazon and their 30% off major RPG titles. There are ways, but only the best will stay afloat and prosper.

I wish I could relate to your predicament, but the major game store that I go to appears to be doing well enough. There have been two closures here in the Seattle area over the last year, but they specialized in Games Workshop stuff, and I from what I gather on internet threads (and they can be *ALL* trusted, right?) they (GW) are not making the best business decisions. One other suburban store closed their storefront to concentrate on eBay and online sales.

All the best in finding a suitable replacement! (and no, I wouldn't even waste the thought process on opening a store in such a volatile and niche marketplace).

I had a great time with it. It had enough surprises that I didn't quite guess to keep me and my girlfriend interested and engaged. I even thought that O.Z. = Outer Zone was half clever, too.

I've paid to see worse... far worse.

...but it was no Mansquito.

I wanted some feedback first.

I've played one short campaign of it and am itching to get back to it (currently our group is running WFRP and Reign). I love the system, and it keeps everything simple and easy to manage. With 3.5, I find that I'm always a feat short (as in I never remember how many feats I should have, and have less than I should), don't really care about picking them, and forget to use them. C&C uses the K.I.S.S. method to a 'T'. I can't wait to get into it again!

Oh, and I haven't heard anyone point out one of the best features of the game - both 'essential' hardcovers (Player's Handbook and Monsters & Treasure) are $20.00 MSRP each. The only downfall is that they seem to put out new printings once a year or so that clean up the aforementioned type-os, etc.

See, this is what I like about 3.5. If you don't like something, you can change it on the spot without buying a metric assload of splatbooks.

What system required (requires) this?

Eryops wrote:

I realize my second order is but a day old, but I was wondering if you could ship everything on hand (possibly combining orders)... I'm getting antsy waiting for mail - especially the one placed Nov 14th!

(no worries if something is unavailable right now, I can handle another shipping charge... or if it can be combined with Pathfinder, that would be better!)

I have combined all the items that are ready to go right away on order 836571 and the book that we are still waiting for onto 856102. I have also sent you new confirmation emails for both orders. If you would like to make any further changes, please let me know.

Thanks,
cos

Got the confirmations this afternoon. Thanks a bunch!

I realize my second order is but a day old, but I was wondering if you could ship everything on hand (possibly combining orders)... I'm getting antsy waiting for mail - especially the one placed Nov 14th!

(no worries if something is unavailable right now, I can handle another shipping charge... or if it can be combined with Pathfinder, that would be better!)

Will it be back soon?

These will come and go as Chessex prints batches - there will always be misprints. I got an 'irregular' 5' x 8' mat that is slightly off square, and for the price, you can trim the edges yourself if you want. But at that size, not many tables are big enough to fit the entire thing anyways.

Totally agreeing with Phil above, these irregulars are the best value you can get for a battlemat, and you'll never understand why they were labeled as irregular in the first place.

Things to forget:

- LOTR. I read this in high school after loving The Hobbit a few years before, but after about a dozen tries, I got to where the ring is destroyed and saw there was another 150 or so pages and just dropped it.

- Wheel of Time. I got on this bandwagon when it started up and I was in high school. Now that I've doubled in age and the series will never be properly finished (RIP Mr. Jordan), I'm contemplating just getting rid of my hardcover series. I liked the first six books, but there was a great decline of quality after that - and most say after three they saw the decline.

I did like the Cleric Quintet, but took it for what it was - pulp fantasy. I didn't try to get anything else other than pure entertainment out of it, and it succeeded in that. It was just corny and fun.

Of course they'll put out expansions. It's the closest thing to a CCG that board games have (look at Runebound for example). Unless the game sells poorly...

I watched it, and have to say that the pilot wasn't the most intense show ever, but it wasn't terrible. It was no Mansquito but I have seen far worse Sci-Fi Original Presentations. I am going into this with an open mind, as I can't remember anything from the movie, and keep confusing memories from Buck Rogers (no, Twiki isn't in this one!)