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Oh if only the release dates were reversed, and this came out ... right after the Land of Linnorm Kings... or sooner. ; )

One of the heavy hitters at Paizo made an interesting proposal on Paizochat tonight, renaming 'Kingmaker' to 'Government of Your Choicemaker.' I think that is a nice alternative.

Who agrees?

I do! :P

Congratulations Rob, great news.... And welcome back to the States.

GreenGrunt wrote:

Sigh... Why are women like this only found on the West Coast? :(

+1

Or play for the other team

Or both...

Man, I feel your pain. Ahhh reminds me of that song by Weezer, from the Pinkerton album... 'Pink Triangle' was it??

Sigh, I may get some drinkie on tonight.

Sigh... Why are women like this only found on the West Coast? :(

Dragon Age looks great, but marketing the game with a death metal soundtrack, not so good.

MetalGreengrunt.

That I'm too deep in debt with my car and medical bills for all my seizures to start RE-saving for our wedding.

Frick on a stick with a brick.

:'(

Hang in there man. :(

I'm stealing that expression if you don't mind. :P

An actual conversion of the Magic the Gathering setting to a D&D setting could rock the house. It's a richly detailed setting and has a lot of really, really cool stuff.

I hate the game with a fiery passion, but the setting could make a fantastic D&D setting...

With a bit of sideways squinting, you could even look at the 'roles' popular with some classification schemes as being related to the colors of magic. Red is a very 'blastery' or nuker or artillery role. Blue is a 'denial' sort of role, focused on counter-spelling and nullifying and debuffing foes. White is more about buffing and healing. It's not a perfect correlation, but I think it could easily be worked up, particularly for 4E, with the White, Blue, Red, Black and Green 'summoners' each having summons and powers relevant to a specific role, more or less.

While I never cared for the card game, I enjoyed reading the magazine (no really, I read the articles, I didn't even look at the pictures, mom, I swear!) for it's world design articles.

It's easy to talk smack about Magic the Gathering (or World of Warcraft), but these venues are bursting with creativity, and have captured the imagination of an entire generation of fantasy gamers. By streamlining and unifying the principles of 'D&D,' WotC has positioned themselves to reach that potential market by making the game into something that would be far easier to 'computer-ize' or make into a MMORPG, and if they succeed, it could be a license to print money.

I'll admit, their initial stumbles in internet-content rollout to date hasn't left me holding my breath for that kind of breakthrough success, but they still have room to make it big. I may not be in love with the changes to D&D, but the changes they've made seem very well suited to online play, which does appear to be the future of the fantasy gaming market.

Set, you make some interesting points. I have played both WOW and DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online, the Turbine version), and I actually prefer DDO if I had a choice. This is for one reason and one reason only, and this is speaking from a personal experience; the respect and civility of players have towards one another was much greater on DDO than on WOW.

Despite the wonders of online play I'm continually disgusted with the behavior of people online with these MMORPGs. Now I know of a handful of people who happen to have a wonderful group of players they meet with to play online. I consider them to be extremely fortunate.

With pen and paper RPGs, you are forced to act as a team moreso than online RPGs. There is a level of social intimacy of a group of people sitting around a table, shooting the breeze and talking about stuff both gaming and nongaming related, that CANNOT be duplicated with an online RPG. Since a person is playing with people who are perhaps hundreds or thousands of miles away, what force is in play to make them be civil to everyone else. If you have players sitting right next to you, in person, in the flesh, I think that is more of a motivating factor for people to work as a team and hash things out than sitting on a computer and dealing with people on sucn a remote level.

Sigh... But this is just my opinion.

In short (too late!), I'm going to hit the drinky-drinks! :P

Seeing these wistful and insightful posts on music, childhood, the ever increasing appeal of WOW and the decrease of interest in pen and paper RPGs by the younger crowds... IT all makes me want to drink... Lots of sweet tea vodka and lemonades... Chased with some Labatt's. Horrible!!

And who can ever forget Iron Maiden's classic- "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son!?" Especially the chorus!!

Actually, I love their song 'Phantom of the Opera.'

Spoilers for Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta.

** spoiler omitted **

Ahhh yes, those inbreds on Point Lookout were a beeotch. I ended up using the Plasma Rifle you receive for solving the Replicated Man Quest at Ratchet City.

Those damn Mutant Overlords are not something to piss at either.

Mothership Zeta- Teeny spoilers!

I played Mothership Zeta (MZ). As for story content, its pretty weak. It turns into a combat fest as you blast your way through the ship. You have interesting allies at times, one being a precocious little girl, but the interaction with them is pretty minimal. I was pissed when I lost a few of them in a heated battle at the end of the game. Although I have to say, I enjoyed watching my samurai ally kick the crap out of some alien booty with his katana!

It wasn't great, but I still enjoyed it. I really wished Bethsaida had added some more story threads in MZ.

AND... I wish you could've recruited the samurai as a side kick, but, to quote Chris Farley from an old SNL episode- "I CAN'T SPEAK FREAKIN' JAPANESE!"

Hey Sean-

I hope everything goes better than expected and of course, that your surgeons and nurses are beautiful, female and available.

Put the schedule up for all three days on the Chronicler site. Hope this helps.

DOH!

Yes, this Meet and Eat at the Crab Pot is on Thursday, June 11th, 2009.

We will start meeting at 5:30-6:00 for the Happy Hour stuff, and move to our tables by 7PM. At least, I think that'll be the plan.

15 people now. Anyone else?

Me flight doesn't arrive until 5:30pm in Seattle on Thursday... Alas. :(

Otherwise, I would be game.

4 songs... Makes sense... But I may include one tune longer than 5 minutes... It's Isis man, they're epic!! You'll probably hate them. :P

Same difficulty as canticle (was it??), neither the 3 day pass nor the banquet ticket are showing up as being transeferable in the My Downloads section. I have to tried to log off and log back in and there is still a 'no show' for both.

LOL! Good question! I need my own editor. And maybe I should take up smoking. :P

I've heard that the PFRPG is off to the priners shortly!

CONGRATULATIONS PAIZO!

A great accomplishment and I wish you all the best of success.

Now just answer me this one question if you could please, how many cartons of cigs did Buhlman have to devour to get through this feat? :P

On the "I have no talent as an artist but can exploit those who do" side of things, I'm going to do a "how to do a good map turnover" seminar. Basically it's stuff you can do that'll make things easier for the developer and cartographer. Like, "if your handwriting looks like a drunken ape's scribbles, type out all names to appear on the maps, print them, cut them out, and tape them to your map so we don't have to decipher your ape-scribbles." I'm gonna have some examples of good and bad map sketch turnovers from designers, how I fixed the poorer ones, and the final result by pros such as Corey and Rob. You don't need to be an artist to do a good map turnover, just knowing a few tricks can really improve your drawn maps, whether for home use or professionally.

Croikey!! If things pan out I would love to be there... But with things the way they are, it's rather up in air, as I volunteered for some events for Josh. Either I will be blackballed! : P Or... He'll throw 3 events at me in addition to the D20 Mod/Future game I may or may not be running. Regardless, sounds like a blast.

Hmmm... I may drop in to investigate the festivities from time to time but gaming for 24 hours... Questionable. Dependent on how things work out.

GreenGrunt wrote:

Zuxius wrote:

I am still wondering, and drinking a beer.

Yo beer jockey! : P

I tried to register on your forums I need you to confirm the registration so we can keep in touch. Damn spammers. Thanks!
Cheers-
GG

I confirmed you last nite

Gracias senor! Tis much appreciated!

I am still wondering, and drinking a beer.

Yo beer jockey! : P

I tried to register on your forums I need you to confirm the registration so we can keep in touch. Damn spammers. Thanks!
Cheers-
GG

mearrin69 wrote:

Hi guys,

I'm not going to officially propose to run a game but, if any folks would like to get together for a few hours of unofficial Star Wars Saga or GURPS gaming, shoot me a PM and we can set something up. I'd like to participate in some of the official stuff as a player but I'd be up for playing or GMing something on the side at some point.
M

Edit: Oh. Maybe there aren't PMs here? lol. You'd have thought I would have noticed. Well how about an e-mail "michaela" which is "at" poorly encrypted "acaciarg" in this "dot" sentence "com".

I must admit, I am a novice to SAGA Star Wars. However, I have just about anything you want to support such a venture. Maps, Tiles, Miniatures. Absolutely buckets upon gobs of miniatures. Complete sets from Legacy of the Force all the way back to to their first set. Most of the new sets are complete as well. Also have all source books up to this day. Naturally I am up for a minis fight if you want to forget roleplay.

Zuxius

Zux- that er... is alot of stuff you'd have to be carrying on da plane... Just sayin.' :P

I wouldn't mind watching myself getting p-wned at a sketch jam in a coffee house. : ) Just as long as I don't have to resort to using napkins as a medium I may be able to last one round.

Thanks for the recommendations Sunshine, I'm totally down with the sushi.

As for the erotic dancers, I'll pass on that.... Twas a bad jest on my part. I've had enough of the bar scene in NY so I certainly won't be in bar hopping mode during the 'Con. But that is another story which I will not delve into here. Thanks for the huge input on recommended food establishments. Much appreciated!

Cheers-
GG

GreenGrunt wrote:

Thanks Tim.. But the real question is... Establishments where the ladies are; where and when do all the women with substance frequent in Seattle?? : P

Oh, you're definitely looking for the Wild Rose then :D

As for Seattle, Tim is dead-on about Pike's Place and the Underground Tour. If you have an extra day or two here in the Pacific Northwest, you can't leave until you've done both 9easy enough, as they're within walking distance, and all the buses around downtown are free during the day anyway). Definitely try Piroshky Piroshky if you're there for lunch, but be prepared to wait in line. If you're in more of a breakfast mood, stop by "The Crumpet Shop" for an awesome light breakfast. And don't leave without tracking down Rose's Chocolates in Post Alley or having a drink at the White Horse Pub (they're next door to each other).

If you're only going to be in the Bellevue area, then at least make time to go to Kidd Valley or Burgermaster to sample some of the area's finest hamburgers. You can also wander by the Microsoft campus to shake your fist in impotent rage. That's always fun. Or you can just get some picinic supplies together and enjoy an afternoon along one of the two breathtaking glacial lakes that sandwich Bellevue: Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish. There are some amazing hiking trails if you're willing and/or able to drive over to Cougar Mountain as well.

Thank ye lass... Alas I don't have the time to do many of the recommended activities as I'll be flying in Thurs night and then Leaving early Mon afternoon... Although, I would LOVE to go hiking.

Regardless, I'll keep the other info in mind. Thanks again.

Okay... Whew!

Thank you gentlemen. :)

You're misreading the description of my workshop--it refers to those who have submitted for the workshop. There's no pre-reqs for anything outside of Pathfinder Society and the only requirement for the Society is a character of appropriate level.

"A future Pathfinder Society Scenario for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game will be decided on at PAIZOCON 2009! Soon, Paizo's Events Manager Joshua J. Frost will put out an open call for one of the fall Pathfinder Society Scenarios—a call that can only be answered by attendees at PAIZOCON 2009! All who contributed may attend this workshop where Joshua will go over why each scenario was and wasn't accepted."

Ok, this is where more communication is necessary. Are we going into attorney reading over a contract mode here?? : P

That's it, word for word, verbatim... Where does it say submitting for the workshop in the blog description?

It says "all who contributed..." Contribute and submit may mean the same thing for you, but for those who may be interested but are just getting our feet, we have no idea what this means.

So what you're saying is that one must be a contributor or one who has contributed or 'submitted' to the Pathfinder Society Scenarios in order to qualify for the workshop correct?

Thanks Tim.. But the real question is... Establishments where the ladies are; where and when do all the women with substance frequent in Seattle?? : P

I just looked at that sentence and I do believe that is one of the most horrible pieces of grammar I've ever written! Could somebody translate that for me please?

And if you mention exotic dancers as part of the translation-
A) That's not what I meant

and

B) Be prepared to get a sack of potatoes in the face at PaizoCon! : P

I have posted a clarification, again! I hope you guys aren't joking, because it took a longtime to figure more of that crap up and explain it. Hope it helps...in your decision.

Zuxius

No worries man... I'm entirely flexible... I have posted responses to your responses to my responses. : P

GG, could you post a link to the thread you are refering to. I saw it earlier, but can't find it anymore.

Zuxius

Hey Zux... The description of the events is in the Paizo blog.. Here [url=http://paizo.com/paizo/blog]

No crap! Maybe since I don't qualify for any workshops, I shouldn't qualify for PaizoCon :)

Zuxius

Well sheeeeooot... I thought as long we bought tickets we qualify for the Con. : P

As for the meatier stuff though, it looks like it's going to be a tough call.

Heck, even if I don't qualify I would love to sit in on the Workshops and see what the critiques are and what the Paizo staff requires for their writing projects. However, I don't think it would be fair to those that do qualify to sit in on a Workshop where there is only a limited number of seats.

If there are prereqs to being present at the Workshop, I was hoping for an early heads up to determine whether or not I should sign up for them when the time comes... That way too, I could give Timitius a more flexible schedule as to when I could run my game during the Con.

No worries Sir Jacobs, I realize it's only March and things have yet to solidify for the events and workshops.

I er...thought that there was an off chance that you guys had all the workshops mapped out as it were. : )

Ok Zux, I posted on the Pathfinder Chronicler regarding the rooms... Sometimes that security code is damned hard to read. : )

I will have a room on the nights of 10-14. I will have a car that I rented. My wife dropped out, so I am in looking to split costs whenver possible.

Cheers,
Zuxius

Hey Zux, I won't be rolling into Seattle until the 11th unfortunately, but I would like to stay at the hotel for the nights of the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th. If you want to wait it out for somebody who's flying in on the 10th, no worries. I can understand that.

I'm a little worried about the room reservations, even though we have another month before the reservations are opened to the public, I wonder how many are available at this time. I figure the best time to get a room will be the remainder of this month and early April. So I figure if I don't get any bites for a roomie invite in the next few days I'll have to go solo.

Hey Josh-

From reading the events listed on the Paizo Blog for PaizoCon '09, it appears that many of the workshops have a prerequisite in order to qualify for participation in them, for example, for the Pathfinder Society Workshop it appears that you must have already submitted a scenario that was rejected in order to qualify for the workshop.

For the Paizo Fiction Workshop do you have to have already submitted a work of short fiction that was rejected by the Paizo Fiction editors in order to qualify for that workshop?

It would be much appreciated if you could specify who should go or who qualifies to enter the upcoming workshops at the Con. Or, you could also specify who shouldn't be enrolling in the workshops.

Thank you very much sir! Any assistance to these inquiries would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers-
GG

Hey Tim, I've sent out an email today at 11:30am, Eastern Time, please let me know ASAP what you think or whether or not you received it.
Cheers mate!

GreenGrunt wrote:

Game System: D20/D20 Future Shameless Post Apocalyptic Sci-Fi
Min/Max. Players: 2-6
Player Experience: some preferred
Maturity Rating: Just to be on the safe side I'll say R rating for now, if that's acceptable.
Character Exp and levels: 1st level pre-gens

Why is it shameless? Without giving too much away: "Life in the vault... Is about to change."

Shameless because the game will be entirely based on the aforementioned quotation. Hint, hint... Wink, wink... Nudge, nudge.

Greenie! Thanks, man!

I am adding this to the list....but I need a few more things.

Title (Right now I can only call it "Shameless")
Description Text: This is what I can gather, here....

A Post Apocalyptic Sci-Fi adventure based entirely on the following quote: "Life in the vault... is about to change."

I totally understand that this is a teaser, but keep in mind that folks are going to have LOTS of choices of games to play. You may want to tease us with a little more.

Feel free to email me the specifics if you want to keep it a secret until registration time....(a nod's as good as a wink....)

Sure thing man, what's your email address?

Arrrgh... My gaming group has disbanded... Haven't GMed in .... A year is it?? Close to it?

Thusly, my GMing skills are at suckus maximus. Whereas before, they were holding at suckus baricus... Besides, that'd be alot o books I'd have to take with me on the flight. : P

Crap, I've broken down, if you desperately need an extra game slot filled somewhere I could do a d20 game.

Game System: D20/D20 Future Shameless Post Apocalyptic Sci-Fi
Min/Max. Players: 2-6
Player Experience: some preferred
Maturity Rating: Just to be on the safe side I'll say R rating for now, if that's acceptable.
Character Exp and levels: 1st level pre-gens

Why is it shameless? Without giving too much away: "Life in the vault... Is about to change."

Shameless because the game will be entirely based on the aforementioned quotation. Hint, hint... Wink, wink... Nudge, nudge.

Arrrgh... My gaming group has disbanded... Haven't GMed in .... A year is it?? Close to it?

Thusly, my GMing skills are at suckus maximus. Whereas before, they were holding at suckus baricus... Besides, that'd be alot o books I'd have to take with me on the flight. : P

Thanks guys... I appreciate the help.

Thanks Neil for the Shuttle Express link... For those of you who are interested, the Shuttle Express makes regular runs and their telephone number is (425) 981-7000.

Tentative flight arrangement is that I'll be arriving in Seattle around 5:25pm on Thursday, June 11th.

I've got to receive the confirmation email yet but I'll throw in the update as soon as I get 'em.

Once again, thanks for the info guys!

Received the confirmation

Northwest Airlines- Flight 209
Arrives in Seattle at 5:25pm on Thursday, June 11th if all goes as planned. From ..cough, cough... Detroit! : P

(Sniffs..sniffs again... Starts doing a mournful banshee wail)..

Alas! Alas! Where art thou classic RPGs of yore!

Thanks guys... I appreciate the help.

Thanks Neil for the Shuttle Express link... For those of you who are interested, the Shuttle Express makes regular runs and their telephone number is (425) 981-7000.

Tentative flight arrangement is that I'll be arriving in Seattle around 5:25pm on Thursday, June 11th.

I've got to receive the confirmation email yet but I'll throw in the update as soon as I get 'em.

Once again, thanks for the info guys!

Thanks for the linkies and recommendations gentlemen... Very much appreciated!

Update-

I just bought the tickets this morning to the Con and am in the process of buying flight tickets... Anybody know if SeaTac Airport provides a shuttle service to the hotel??

Gahhh... Moot point really as I will have to call and check things out anyway.

This three hour time difference is crizzap... Or is it...4? I dwellest on the East Coast.

Yo dudes... I am seriously considering going to Seattle this year. I was hoping to fly in on Thursday the 11th as well and fly out (I'z hoping anyways) on Monday... The 15th is it?

I'm a 40 year old male and woe unto you all, I do snore on occasion FYI.
Looking for roomies who are reasonably responsible... I do need to catch a few Z's as I am hoping to attend as many of the workshops as humanly possible. But being in a new city surrounded by gamers has some potential of late night sessions of chewing the fat. At any rate, I hope to be there. If anybody is interested drop me a line... I too have a Live Journal account under greengrunt2.

Hey thanks for H2 lowdown... Personally, I love Mignola's art, but that's just me... I'z weird like that!

I wouldn't mind seeing Paizo throw out some Epic material and revisions... If anybody can fix the bugs in the Epic system, it's the staff at Paizo. Of course, as Mr. Jacobs stated previously, Paizo needs to see some more show of hands in favor of the Epics.

At any rate, Paizo has kept 3.5 up and running and made it more interesting and enjoyable to play, I have confidence that they could do it with the Epics.

Just another pimp.. For those who are timid about checking out another gaming company.. DON'T BE! Go to Sinister Adventures and check out the site! More gaming goodness for 3.5ers! Sci-fi goodies coming up, which is a long time coming I might add.

Not only that! He's recruited some nice writers to help him out!

So check Nick and co's stuff out... Especially the Indulgences! You won't be disappointed. June, July and August are going to have some nice releases from Sinister.. So stop on by and reconnoiter, glance, gaze, take a gander!