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Crispin Glover- not only a fine actor, but a gifted singer as well.

Clarence Williams III

The Skeleton has Bludgeoning resistance, and the Zombie has Slashing resistance. Did these two get mixed up, or what?

houstonderek wrote:

Shiny, I hate to break it to you, but punk died as an attitude and became a fashion accessory before you were born (I'm assuming you were born in the late '80s).

That's bull and you know it. Just because the mainstream has taken the "look" and made it sale-able doesn't mean that there aren't "real punks" out there, you just can't tell them by their clothes anymore.

IconoclasticScream wrote:

Ugh... Still no dice (I'm so easily entertained). Just wondering... if we need to do this order over again, can I throw in the difference between shipping USPS and UPS ground, and make sure these little devils actually make it here?

I'll do ya one better... I'll put replacements in with your next subscription shipment, so you'll get the UPS shipping and not have to pay anything for it.

Thanks,
cos

Ugh... Still no dice (I'm so easily entertained). Just wondering... if we need to do this order over again, can I throw in the difference between shipping USPS and UPS ground, and make sure these little devils actually make it here?

Business days! Okay... I was counting mailing days. I'm still a little troubled, because I might be served by the worst PO in the country (hence paying extra for the UPS delivery on my subscriptions), but we'll see what happens. Thanks, Sara. :)

Still no sight of this order. I think it's just a few days overdue now, but at what point do we worry that my worst fears are again realized and the feckless thugs at my local post office have once more caused a package heading my way to vanish?

Thanks, Cosmo and Vic :)

What do John the Baptist and Winnie the Pooh have in common?

IconoclasticScream wrote:

2) Just so I'm clear, if I have items ship individually, each single book will be sent through UPS in its own package, even if they arrive in the same shipment you guys receive? Or if books A & B arrive at the warehouse together, those two books would be sent to me together?

The latter. If everything arrives at once, you'll get them in one shipment despite your settings. This setting mostly means that you don't ever want books sitting in the warehouse waiting to go out to you. It doesn't mean that they screw you on shipping by sending everything individually.

I think I'll just do the once a month for October then, as long as it's anticipated for the middle of the month.

Normally I've got my subscription set up to ship things as the APs arrive, but it looks like that's going to hold up a ton of stuff until November. Normally I wouldn't care, but I'd like to get the Bestiary much sooner rather than later.

1) If I do a monthly shipment for October, is there a set date during the month the items will ship, or do all the items for the month ship when the last items anticipated for that month arrive?

2) Just so I'm clear, if I have items ship individually, each single book will be sent through UPS in its own package, even if they arrive in the same shipment you guys receive? Or if books A & B arrive at the warehouse together, those two books would be sent to me together?

3) As with the PFRPG Core Rulebook, I plan on getting two copies of the Bestiary. But as with the Core book, I was hoping to grab the second Bestiary if/when a second printing is made that would incorporate any errata. Would a second printing like that be far down the road? If so, would my best option be to not muck around with my shipments at all, and just place a separate order for a copy of the Bestiary that would ship as soon as it arrives in the warehouse?

Ignore my post about the problem being fixed. I must have been looking at the wrong type of heading. I still have As missing in section titles all over the place.

I would, but the Bronx is a hike from Park Slope (I am the Mayor of Babytown).

I doubt anyone wants to make the trip up here to join in, but we're up to four players now. I'd maybe like to fifth. You'd have to be a sorcerer or wizard though- we already have a barbarian, a ranger, a cleric, and a rogue.

I'll let this thread return to collecting dust now. :)

I just finished running a session that ended in a battle between the PCs and a shadow. The party's barbarian was tagged twice by it, for a total STR damage of -6. The barbarian was raging at the time, but I think that PC would still have the -6 applied to his normal STR score. The player grudgingly agreed that made sense. As it was right at the end of the session, however, I promised I'd look into it before we meet again.

Can anyone think of a reason to not take that total from his normal STR? I want to be fair to the player (he's running a first level character, he's the party's tank, and there's still much of this crypt to explore), so if there's a loophole I've missed I'd be more than happy to change how I'm going to rule this.

How have you managed that issue? Just covered up the unexplored portions of the map with a sheet of paper or somesuch

I could buy fantasy or comics with this money but it would be more appropriate to spend it on books about teaching comics or fantasy.

I teach English to kids at a high school in the South Bronx, the majority of whom are bilingual and who read English (and Spanish) below to far below grade level. I'm lucky enough to have administrators who trust my vision and who, as they can, throw money at me to bring comics into the classroom. The best use so far I can cite has been using Self Made Hero's line of Manga Shakespeare to help the kids as we read the Bard's various plays. The books use the original text, but the characters are the typical BESM critters you'd expect from the medium. And the kids eat these things up. TokyoPop also teamed up with Kaplan to produce three SAT prep mangas, reprinting older books and adding new dialogue featuring common SAT words. Again, when I brought these to school the kids devoured them.

Hope that might be of some help.

http://www.mangashakespeare.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Psy-Comm-Kaplan-SAT-Vocabulary-Building-Manga/dp/1427 754969/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253899478&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Van-Von-Hunter-Kaplan-Vocabulary-Building/dp/14277549 42/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
http://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-Dragon-Vocabulary-Building-Sunwell-Trilogy/d p/1427754950/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c

I think I remember it cropping up in earlier rules as well, but I haven't dug them out of storage to check.

Diabolical! Greatest bone devil ever.

There's an update available for Snow Leopard. Download it, and like magic all of your "a"s reappear.

Wow, they made another one. Here's to hoping it is as good as the first.

Just wondering if anyone who pre-ordered has gotten their book yet.

Dangit! ;)

Dibs. john_carlos74@yahoo.com

I've got about a hundred proof-of-purchases from Reaper miniatures and paint triads. I'm never going to trade them in for anything. If you'd want to use them for something, they're yours. Just leave an email address I can get in contact with you at, and the next time I hit the post office I'll send them.

Hey FDM, good to see you too. :)

I thought while I was reading the collection that I could justify a lot of the indulgences by granting that it was for kids, like the Super Powers comics that Kirby did for DC to promote that toy line. But unlike the SP books that were in no way tied to the DCU continuity, Secret Wars was tied into everything going on in the Marvel Universe at the time. So, yeah, kids were going to read it, but I'd have to imagine more teens and adults were than the little critters.

Ugh.

The whole book is just such a mess that at times I really thought I was going to be morally compelled to send Shooter a letter demanding an apology.

and once again I am devastated by revisiting a childhood joy only to find as an adult I understand what cowflop it really is. Even as a kid I knew the book was just advertising a toy line, and compared to Crisis on Infinite Earths, which I was also reading more-or-less concurrently, it couldn't hold a candle. But the ineptitude of Jim Shooter as a writer is so shockingly apparent I'm surprised the collection didn't grow a fist and punch me in the brain.

1) Every sentence in the story that isn't a question ends in an ellipsis or an exclamation point. Every single sentence. For twelve damn issues (and the last is double-sized). Who edited the book, Yosemite Sam and Sam Kinison?

2) How short did Shooter expect the reader's attention span to be that he needed to recap every issue the events that led to the heroes and villains being on Battleworld?

3) The only thing uglier than Shooter's misogynist attitude is the racism that oozes like poison from every line of dialogue given to Iron Man (this is when Stark had been boozing a little too much and Rhodey wore the armor).

4) The final battle between the heroes and the rejected Pokemon in the final issue might be the biggest waste of pages in comic book history before John Byrne wrote the Genesis miniseries for DC in 1997.

And yet I still love the book. I'll probably die of a nostalgia overdose one day.

If the Chronicles books and the arena flip-mat aren't shipping with PF #26, my poor UPS guy is going to need a forklift to deliver my shipment in October.

I'm not trying to belittle your situation, but this isn't anything new.

Is your PDF viewer up to date?

So I assume that means that it's [...] a Snow Leopard problem

So to recap, I'm just throwing an FYI out to whoever- there may be a compatibility issue with the PDFs and Snow Leopard or the version of Preview it comes with. :)

From the halcyon days of 1E through to PFRPG, the cleric has always been my favorite class. Without a doubt, I've never been happier with the cleric class as I have been with the PFRPG version. It doesn't need an additional ability at 20th level (or any other) to improve upon it.

I swear this is true. I updated my laptop to Snow Leopard yesterday. Everything so far has worked fine (thank God), but there's one tiny little problem when I try viewing Pathfinder PDFs. In every case that I've found (looking at random material from the AP, Chronicles, Companion, and Module lines) the "a"s in all of the section headings have vanished (for instance, in the chapter on tieflings in _Bastards of Erebus_, on page 61 there's now a heading that reads "H lf-Fiends nd Tieflings". Do I really care about a few missing vowels? No. But I thought I should point out a possible compatibility problem with something in OS X 6 before a bigger issue arises.

Sen Kennedy dead at 77

Thanks man. I'm so isolated up here and can't sell my house. :^(

I'm waiting for confirmation from the game store, but it looks like they're offering me Monday nights.

PFRPG Compatible :)

...but how does he acquire spells in the first place? When he gets access to 2nd level inventions, does he need to research spells, or can he immediately pump out an item with any 2nd level spell in existence?

Out of morbid curiosity, you thinking weekday evenings or weekends?

spoiler

Was it revealed? No. Omission is a form of hiding, it matters not if it is intentional or not.

Given that Pathfinder is advertised as "backwards compatible," this is all the reason that is needed.

If I'd have waited ten months to buy my new Macbook it would have come with Snow Leopard instead of the old operating system. Now I need to spend a little over $150 next month updating the software. That's life.

Aasimars will be (or at least they're listed to be) in the Bestiary. There's already been at least one major aasimar NPC in a Pathfinder Adventure Path (Burnt Offerings).

Frith be praised.

I am starting this thread for those who do not like Pathfinder and want to comment about what they dislike.

Aaron, if you're looking for a Pathfinder game to introduce your kids to, try Crypt of the Everflame. It's just a good, old-fashion dungeon crawl where the players get to beat the snot out of a lot of undead. It won't take you any time at all to read through it and get it ready for play.

I grabbed a copy earlier this afternoon from rpgnow and I like what I got (the more info I can put on a character sheet the happier I am, and the condition cards are damn nifty). I tell you what- I'd be willing to throw another buck in to get an upgrade that also has a page for animal companion & familiars.

I need one, maybe two players for what I hope will be an on-going, long term campaign, set on Golarion using the Pathfinder RPG rules. Characters are starting at first level and we'll be using the slow advancement XP table.

To save a lot of time, let me tell you what the non-negotiables are:

1) I'm hoping to find experienced gamers, namely those around my age (mid-thirties) and who have gamed long enough to have played D&D before third edition. The reason I'm looking for gamers who will serve as great examples of what happens at the gaming table is because...

2) The two players I already have are newbies. They're two eighteen-year-olds I've taught for their entire high school careers. They asked as their graduation presents for me to keep gaming with them, and to raise the bar above what we were able to do with the limitations of playing at school as students/teacher. So I'm trying to make the best game for them I can.

3) I need people who love to role play.

4) It would be nice if you know the rules and you're familiar with the Pathfinder setting, but if you're prone to arguing rules or spending endless amounts of time finding the perfect build to max out your numbers this isn't the game for you.

5) Also, if you're a nut or a freak, things won't work out. I plan on running the games out of my apartment, where I live with my girlfriend and my cats, and none of us need or want someone creepy lurking around.

6) Yes, cats. So if you have allergies, be ready to pop a Zyrtec (I do once a day).

7) Yes, the Bronx. All the way up near Riverdale. I'm convenient to the 1 and the 4. But I'm running the game up here. I hate lugging hundreds of pounds of books on the subway, and there's no way I'm taking minis I've worked on for hours out of the apartment.

8) All PCs must be a Good alignment and must be races/classes found in the PFRPG. So far the party will include a human ranger and a half-orc barbarian.

God, I've made a list of expectations for my game. Can you tell I'm getting ready to switch into teacher mode in two weeks?

Oh! That reminds me of the last thing...

9) In theory I'd like to play every third Saturday, from about noon into the evening. However, I easily begin to drown in work as the school year moves on (this year I have even less time to plan at school than normal, and now I have the added responsibility of developing experimental science classes for students who need a little extra help along the way (which means, on top of all the other things I'm doing I'm also going to be teaching myself physics and chemistry in the next ten months (as an English major who's gone out of his way to avoid any and all math classes I'm not looking forward to this)). This is all to say that things might derail here and there, but I'm really hoping they won't and we can stick to that schedule.