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Don't forget the Rise of the Runelords dice from Q-Workshop. They're supposed to be shipping in August, too. :)

However, I think he is above their price range.

We could start a collection.

Todd Lockwood? Maybe? Please?

Finally had a chance to paint Erylium- my first crack at the Pathfinder minis. Thought I'd share.

All the guys I listed are the originals, and in the current Rogues' Revenge mini-series the only members in the line-up. Piper is still a hero; the original Trickster died recently (one of those "we see the body" kind of deaths that will be really hard to undo). The Top was frozen to the core by Cold a short while back and shattered into a million pieces. Digger is dead as well, and his son, the new Boomerang, was (and still may be) a member of the Outsiders, currently working with Suicide Squad.

There's a free down load of the first "motion comic" issue of The Watchmen on iTunes, found under TV shows. It's essentially a panel-for-panel take on the first issue of the series, with the frames "animated". Something like South Park animation, but that really gives the wrong impression. Just go check it out.

Are we talking about the classic rogues gallery or the modern one?

Still the same basic group of guys- Captain Cold, Mirror Master, Heatwave, Weather Wizard...

The list of authors for this book is simply amazing.

Demon lords :)

Thanks! That was the first WotC mini that I altered and I didn't really know what to expect working with them, but I am happy with how it turned out.

I've spent the last three weeks since school let out catching up on painting a lot of minis, and I'm only just now starting my first Pathfinder figure (Erylium). As much as I want to repaint some of the thousands of D&D minis, I'm not holding my breath.

Finally took the pictures, but still haven't painted the lil' guy. Here they are, feel free to browse.

Love the repainted t-rex, by the way.

Speaking of which, anyone have a file of the old reincarnate list that let you come back as weird stuff from like 2E or so? I would love to get that, the new reincarnate list is just so damn boring.

Ask Aberzombie some time how much fun I had with his wizard and that list. Sometimes I think I used to kill him just to be able to make that roll to see what he'd come back as next.

WTF? Boo hoo, I was caught committing fraud and I could get disbarred or expelled. Take some bloody responsibility. They better have cried. And begged, too.

Sorry. I really have it in for plagiarists.

Notice I didn't say I felt bad about it. The kid was a foreign student on a study visa, his first semester in the country. He nearly got kicked out of the school, and that would have meant he was on his way back to Sri Lanka. I tried warning the kids I'd catch them if they tried cheating. So, no sympathy for him.

I still use that story to scare my students. It works.

I've never seen a player cry, but my little brother (as DM) killed a new girl's barbarian in the first game and she ended up crying.

I made a student cry in class when I caught him plagiarizing on an essay in a section of college freshman comp I taught a few years ago. Never had a player cry though (not from a lack of trying, I'm sure some would say), but the depths of depravity that Aberzombie, his little brother, and my little brother showed playing demons in an In Nomine game I ran used to leave me on the brink of tears as I'd try to sleep at night.

The forums on the Lone Wolf Development site didn't have much to say on this, but does anyone know if there's going to be a Mac version of Hero Lab at any point soon?

Sorry I didn't make myself clear. I was talking about halflings as a race of warriors. As for goblins, I love but I can understand why we don't have 'em but your reasons for not having goblins don't really explain why we have half-orcs as player characters?

I'm not sure a viable core PC race should be almost universally insane, given to eating human children, and with a penchant for lighting themselves on fire in combat situations.

It's a lot easier for me to see an angst-ridden, tormented half-orc joining and adventuring party than Stripe from _Gremlins_.

Does anyone know if Moore himself has given this the thumbs up?

Unless he's had a change of heart, and I doubt seriously his serpent god allows that, he's disavowed any effort to translate his fiction to other media. He's not credited as a writer of the Watchmen film, nor for LoEG and From Hell.

If I remember correctly, when Terry Gilliam was attempting to make The Watchmen as a film he said the only way to do the source material justice would be to make a movie out of each issue. A mere two and a half hours at most might create an abortion that would make League of Extraordinary Gentleman seem like celluloid high art.

The film adaptations of all of Alan Moore's comics so far looked pretty. But I don't have high hopes for this one. Hope I'm wrong, but I don't suspect I am.

For that kind of money, Brad Pitt and the kids had better be in those pictures playing poker with Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and DB Cooper, in a UFO floating over El Dorado.

"Something-d-o-o economics?" :)

Oh geez, first thing tomorrow morning I'm putting this thread in time out.

Not soon enough. :)

Paleolithic carcinogen

I have nine. Getting ink is completely unrelated from gaming in my life.

Any idea when these will be in stock?

WE'RE NOT GOING TO PROTEST!

WE'RE NOT GOING TO PROTEST!

WE'RE NOT GOING TO PROTEST!

Sebastian is a tool!

Find _Gotham By Gaslight_. Not necessarily the greatest story in the world, but it's solid early art by Mike Mignola. Superman: Red Son is a hoot- what would have happened if the rocket carrying the infant Kal-El had crashed into Soviet Russia rather than Kansas. You can never go wrong with any of the League of Extraordinary Gentleman books (unless you try dumbing them down into a mediocre movie so that the general public can "get it"). And to give James Robinson a chance here to redeem himself (he wrote the screenplay for the LoEG movie), try _The Golden Age_, a look at an alternate history version of the McCarthy era in the DC Universe.

from Hamlet:

"to thine own self be true"

possibly the greatest advice anyone has ever given.

Yeah, but it's said by a man who's loyal to a murderer, completely self-serving, and who sends a servant to spy on his own son. This might not be the guy to take advice from.

I think there should be a new core PC race in Pathfinder RPG based on that Caliban mutant Shakespeare wrote about in the X-Men comic books.

If you really want your Fighter to have Heal then multiclass a level of Ranger.

Or just buy a few ranks in Heal as a Fighter. No +3, but you'll survive.

It seems to make sense to me that any soldier would receive training in battlefield medicine. It would also make fighters more useful once the battle is over.

Being a fighter doesn't necessarily mean that a PC is a soldier. And if I were training to be a guy who's good at swinging a sword around, I'd want to spend far more time learning to hurt someone than learning to heal him. That's what my cleric or healing potion is for.

It's not that DC is perfect, but Marvel seems to be the king of the hill of trying to fix one bad idea with an even worse idea (my head nearly exploded when I read about this "One More Day" story in Spider-man). So with that in mind, could someone tell me if my guess is right, and that this "Secret Invasion" thing is just a way of explaining off some of the stupidity done to the Marvel Universe in the last few years by saying it's all the fault of Skrull agents disguised as humans (and whatnot)?

When are you going to start up a Bella Sara PBP?

You really like the revisions of the New Gods?!? You can't improve upon Kirby's visuals and concepts, IMO. His stuff will forever remain light-years ahead of comic creators.

I'm going to blaspheme, but as much as I respect Kirby for all he did for the medium (and those contributions are immense, I'm not trying to downplay them in any way), I've never been a "fan" of his art. Darksied is a great character, but Kirby drew him in biking shorts. Come to think of it, Galactus was wearing shorts, too. I don't care how much evil incarnate a villain is, if he's wearing short pants I'm not all that impressed. :)

All joking aside, though, I follow writers in comics, not artists. So Kirby's visuals mean as much to me as Jim Lee, Kieth Giffen, or Alex Toth- I like them all, but it's just pictures to go with the story.

I'm waiting for the Legion involvement. Any idea when those issues come out and what the issue numbers will be. I haven't read any of the others, how about a recap, anyone?

It's a three issue series, the first coming out in August (if I remember correctly). I'm really excited about seeing the post-Zero Hour Legion again (I loved Gates and ZS).

As far as Final Crisis/Grant Morrison goes, I've loved Morrison's DC superhero work since he took a stab at Batman in _Arkham Asylum_ (_Animal Man_ and _Doom Patrol_ were good reads, but I like my superhero books with a little less postmodernist deconstruction). His run on JLA blew me away on a monthly basis, and so far both his Batman work and Final Crisis are doing the same.

The bigger the payoff, the bigger the risk. When a critical hit can now do up to four times normal damage, or has a chance to score a critical hit better than one in twenty, I want a system in place to confirm that extra damage.

kostch-TEE-chee

Not sure if I need to post here to get it fixed, but I've got my PF#10 in the sidecart, too.

I also saw a set of Washes there. Can anyone give me a small run-down about the difference between normal paint and washes?

The washes are primarily for shading. You put your base coat down, brush a coat of the wash on and it will fall into all the grooves and crevasses, then dry brush on highlights.

Those new Citadel Washes are amazing.

I couldn't recommend Game Workshop's line of Citadel Foundation paints for base coats (the individual paints are on sale on the Paizo site, but there's also a set sold with all the colors that I don't see listed here) and Citadel Washes enough. For highlights I use the Citadel Colors, supplemented by Reaper's Pro Paints for shades GW doesn't have in their line.

I'd recommend always using a black base coat, unless your mini is predominately a very light color. Then go with the white. You'll get a much more realistic effect.

An exacto knife is essential for clearing off flash from the minis, which the PF minis have a good deal of.

I also wash the minis with Simple Green before I apply the base coat. You can find it at any good hardware store, Wal-Mart, or Target.

You might want to get some static grass for the bases. Gale Force Nine makes some awesome scenics.

Finally, let me recommend having at least a selection of brushes in sizes 1, 0, 2/0, 3/0, 5/0, and 10/0, plus a small drybrush (GW makes a good one, but I can't find it on the Paizo store).

And I bet you thought the miniatures were the expensive part of this. :)

Best of luck to you and your son, brother. Hope he's managing to feel better soon.

On one hand you don't want a character just suddenly taking a level of cleric or monk out of the blue without any roleplaying justification for it. It just doesn't make any sense.

This is essentially my one problem with multiclassing. It became an issue back in my Spelljammer game, when characters who were on a spelljamming vessel for months at a time, having virtually no contact with anyone but their shipmates unless there was a fight, wanted to take levels in a class that no one else on the ship had levels in. There was nothing wrong with that in game terms, but it took my campaign's storyline, along with reason and logic, and threw wild holes into them. In the end what I had to do was have players announce as they went up a level what class they planned to gain a level in the next time they advanced. I still do that today. It keeps my story free of those sorts of problems and creates new chances for roleplaying.

The Beast Within

Nods to Lovecraft + backwoods Mississippi monster rape + Ronny Cox = an apology twenty-six years overdue

(I of course bought the DVD the moment it came out.)

Three days of looking over the PDFs and I'm still shaking my head at the fact that there's recycled art in the 4E launch books.

I hope the game does great. But it's totally not for me.

"George"? Seriously? This sort of stuff is getting tedious. If you don't like WotC and their practices, just be an adult and stay away from their website, message board, and products. No one needs to fire up a bag of poo on their e-doorstep to get the point across.

I have to throw in my vote for the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing from the 1E MM2. For those of you who don't know it, the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing is a monster that has evolved (?) to visually mimic a tree stump with a horned rabbit sitting on it.

Think I'm kidding?

I always hated modrons.

Like, triangle guys with three legs, and then rectangle guys.

I was fascinated with the ludicrous simplicity of their pictures in the 1E MM2. The idea of a species based on the cold, simple perfection of mathematics was intriguing, but there was nothing attractive about telling players they were being attacked by a swarm of spear-wielding Rubik's Cubes.

And then Tony DiTerlizzi got his pen and ink on them. I just couldn't get enough of his illustrations for Planescape no matter what he was drawing, but he made the modrons look cool.

So I checked all over the message boards for info and, while I can't believe that in the eight months since PF #2 was released no one has asked about it, I can't find a hint about this critter.

p. 72 "Currently [the Starhand] is believed to be in the hoard of a Numerian spine dragon, traded by a Desnan priest for his freedom."

When do we get to find out more about the spine dragons?

The dice are unbearably cool. :)

I dearly loved the FR comic book. A lot of paladins could learn from Priam Agrivar, and I loved the lighthearted manner that Jeff managed to convey sun elf arrogance from Vartan without making Vartan come across as being some borderline villain. I especially loved how he assumed every human woman would lop off a body part to be with him just by virtue of his status as a sun elf.

Some of the AD&D stories were indeed good, and Jeff wrote a few of them as well, especially the ones that dealt with the Xanathar, which was a great story arc.

As a rabid fan of the church of Selune, I couldn't get enough of the Godswar storyline from the AD&D book.

To this day when I read or hear debates about how a paladin should be played I think of the tarrasque/dragon-slayer storyline from the FR book. The fact that Priam learns to see the shades of grey in recognizing what evil truly is is why I always recommend that paladins be played much like Jedi.

Which is all to say, read the comic books if you can find them. :)

EDIT: milehighcomics.com has the entire twenty-five issue run of the FR series in stock.

They're not novels (obviously), but if you can dig up copies (I'm sure Mile High Comics has them) read the tragically short-lived Forgotten Realms comic book. The series was written by Jeff Grubb, and almost twenty years later they're still a blast to read. Grubb also wrote two short stories with the same characters that were in (I think) pre-Paizo issues of Dragon Magazine.

The Advanced Dungeons and Dragons comic book was also set in the Realms (Waterdeep, specifically). I don't think the series was as well written as the FR book but it still had its moments. The two series, by the way, were connected- the paladin Priam Agrivar from the FR book is the half-brother of the half-elf wizard Kyriani Agrivar from the AD&D comic (and the 3.5 hardcover Waterdeep: City of Splendors).