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I'd love to see it happen! There are a lot of women at (or moving toward) the forefront of this industry, and it's a trend I'd like to see continue. So if this helps that happen for somebody then it should be on the schedule.

I'm in! Looks incredibly useful.

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Impacted molar. Ace job, Cosmo! Much obliged!

I don't think I'd play there, but I don't care about the array. Insisting on rolling your abilities for you, even with you sitting right there, doesn't bode well for fun times and spontaneity.

Live feed of news coverage from Boston of some craziness happening there now. One MIT officer killed, some explosions, apparently, and at least one eyewitness description of a guy on the ground in the street with a bunch of lasers on him, while they're moving people back out of the area. Many shots fired.Link

EDIT: Oh, and if you live in Watertown, stay the eff inside, say police.

FBI says it's looking for these two guys. The second guy does look like he's toting something heavy in that pack, but he's also skinny, so... who knows? I've had textbooks make me walk like that after a long day. We'll see.

I well remember the lion-half lamia's from 1st edition, but honestly Pathfinder's lamia matriarchs (serpentine) come to mind first.

That is probably because I never used the lion half lamias in a meaningful encounter, whereas I have used the matriarchs in a couple meaningful encounters and that really sticks with you.

Same here. Until a few weeks ago it was the old MM version... but then we fought Xanesha. Hooboy. Left an impression. A very firm impression on at least one party member:)

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Holy Cow. Someone did a bang-up job on those maps! Outstanding!

I really like the menus, too>;)

Here's a thread for Vegas by their VC. Should be of use to you. http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2nssi?The-Las-Vegas-Lodge-welcomes-4-Venture

I don't think Dinklage was saying he finds all halflings, dwarves, etc, offensive. He's saying that most depictions are shallow. I tend to agree. Last time I played a fantasy dwarf in Pathfinder another player asked me if he'd be Scottish or Russian. I didn't have either in mind, but there you are, and he wasn't really wrong. They're not typically given a lot of range.

Here's something I'd love to see, just as an experiment: Dinklage auditioning for The Hobbit, for the role of Bard. It'd be interesting to see the arguments against it. He's supposed to be taller? So make him taller. You can certainly do it, and it's not like a huge budget concern:-)

Well, bated breath and all that!

Yeah, if you've just started, a name change and maybe a little description change ought to do. Once I've played a character for a bit and they die the 'Bob II' thing just doesn't feel right to me, personally. Several people I play with do something like that all the time, though.

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Anyone laughing at someone playing a bard in PFS is being foolish. They're very useful. I've played one of my characters up to 10th mostly in the company of a bard, and they're nothing to sniff at.

Does anyone know if a review is forthcoming?

Yes, the work is much appreciated!

I use the heck out of HL for Pathfinder, and would love to be able to buy a Midgard package of .hl files for new Midgard content as it comes out!

"You want a +5 ring?"
*SLAP!!!*
Ring his bell with five across the eyes.

Kidding.

Seriously, though, just tell him , "no, you can't have that". It's good for everyone involved, and if he throws a fit and leaves then that's what needs to happen.

Defend your table.

Congratulations!! Looking forward to seeing your work!

Yep. Not the gaming industry's brightest moment.

Nor its brightest designer. Everything that guy has sloughed off in the past several years just seems like oily passive-aggression trying to pass itself off as something provocative.

Truck Turner.

The Prince of Nothing/Aspect Emperor series by R. Scott Baker - he's crowded everyone else out of the top slot for my favorite fantasy novels, singular or plural, bar none. I don't think I've ever talked out loud so much while reading at night ("holy s#%t" and "sonofab#%&h", mostly), or made my girlfriend listen to so many passages of anything while she was trying to get to sleep. Just amazing stuff. Get it and read it.

Are any of them Lawful Good?

Of course. You're out to lunch on the notion that devotion to a deity is required to be Lawful Good. It's not that complicated. All that's required is skepticism, especially in a world in which there are a vast number of things demonstrably more powerful than most people. Maybe the god is just one more extra-planar pain in the ass with an ego problem.

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I'd imagine Lawful Evil might think itself Lawful Good a fair amount, if not most, of the time.

Remember that some venues might not appreciate foul language, regardless of who's at the table. One of our local spots is in the back room of a comic shop that has quite a lot of kids with parents coming and going.

I love this inscription on the tomb of Cyrus the Great:

"Passer-by, I am Cyrus, who gave the Persians an empire, and was king of Asia. Grudge me not, therefore, this monument!"

I read that as ,"show a little respect and don't steal my stuff!"

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brreitz wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Gozreh is inspired in part by Werner Herzog's views

Gozreh.

Herzog.

Wait a second.

...

ARRRRG!

CAN'T UNKNOW!

Wow. Me too.

I absolutely love it. I wish he and Robert E Howard had been contemporaries, just for the possibilities of some kind of nightmare manifesto being produced that we could raid for material.

"I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder."

blackbloodtroll wrote:

You would need to either tolerate it, even if you don't agree with it, or simply bow out, because PFS is simply not for you.

That's an ironic statement considering you are telling someone with a different viewpoint than you to just "deal with it, or leave".

No, it isn't. It's stating that PFS isn't a platform for bigotry, so one shouldn't engage in it there, though you can think whatever you like.

OP, yes, the tide is rapidly turning against bigotry of your preferred flavor. You will be dragged by the hair into the future. Enjoy the ride!

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Roky Erickson - "Two Headed Dog (album version)"

Oh, the things I did to the time-space continuum while 'Red Temple Prayer (Two-Headed Dog)' played in the background...:)

Tonight it's Shoot Out the Lights, about four times so far. Hadn't heard it in years, can't stop listening to it now.

I think that's the proper name of a particular trog in the AP.

I bought it myself not too long ago, and it's my favorite of the Expanded series, though they've all been good enough that it's tough to pick one. The .hl file is great news!

Does the Expanded Shaman now have a .hl file as well?

Rubicon and Terriers. Too good to live.

I tried, but couldn't make it through the first episode:( I gave up at the end of the alleyway scene and started watching episodes of Justified.

The one thing I don't like about the Paizo forums: Gun owners are seen as dumb (I know some actual intelligent not crazy gun owners.)

I own a couple, and I don't feel that way at all. Perhaps you might want to reconsider owning one, though, with skin that thin.

I have a stepbrother who used to burglarize houses in South Texas specifically for the guns. He went after them because he could trade them to gangsters for quite a lot in cash or trade in dope. That went on for many years, and I don't think it's that rare of a practice, really.

Make of it what you will, but if you own firearms that you can't constantly keep on your person, consider getting rid of stickers on your vehicle that advertise their presence. That, or get a big dog... or both.

Same here! Looking forward to seeing where it goes!

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Horseshoes and hand grenades! Shoulda, woulda, coulda! No ding for him, and a less-interesting mass shooter he shall remain! Bring your A game next time, slacker!

Edit: and by the way, the Joker has GREEN hair. That guy just looks like a demented Raggedy Andy doll...

Someone quipped last year that Clinton's list of interns with bruised thighs made Herman Cain look like a proper gentlemen.

Well, except that in Cain's case, it's alleged that there may have been actual bruises...

I can attest to the content being worth every cent!

Exactly.

Here is a handy shortcut: get diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as soon as possible! You won't have to read things like this because you'll come up with all of these things on your own, and thugs will start looking at you like you're either a cop or you're coming to take their stuff. So will everyone else, but nothing is perfect!

Well, I doubt it will be Osirion getting cut. If we were, however, we'd make great villains!

I'd be saddened as a player, though letting me play a grippli in PFS would go some way toward cheering me up.

*sniff*

Quick correction: you can't chuck your minis on the ships. Wrong scale. Sorry. BUT if we fund, a stretch goal gives you rules to use the ship in Master and Commander style naval battles. So long as you have two of the same scale. We chose them to match the type of ship envisioned for specific NPCs and factions in Razor Coast, and they are getting custom flags from the book.

Does anyone recall a ship that did scale with minis that you could move around on the mat? I think they were wooden, and there were a couple of layers you could remove, for elevation and whatnot. I think they used to sell them here, but I can't remember what they were called. I was surprised that they didn't reemerge when Skull & Shackles came out, though, and different sizes and whatnot would be perfect for RC.

EDIT: of course, you could get the same thing by cutting the ships out of the flip mats and then gluing it to a cut-out wooden base, but it was a cool prop I never did lay my hands on.

Whether electrical weapons are or are not better depends on the situation. If there are multiple attackers or if you miss with your first shot, an electrical weapon is a poor choice unless you have the shotgun shell type (which requires ownership of a firearm) or a melee type.

The tazers that police in the U.S. carry are still usable after firing the leads. They are capable of 'touch-tazing', so that if you taze some drunk with the leads, and his buddy tries to tackle you, you can deliver a tazing to him by touching the thing to him and triggering it again.

Also, the first guy will now hate the buddy.

Oh, let em keep trying to file off serial numbers. Colossal waste of time and effort, but it doesn't always appear that way to the person trying. Most of the time you can quickly reveal the numbers again with what amounts to acid etching. Failing that, the things are stamped in there, not etched in, and that impression goes really, really deep. So the numbers will still show up clearly enough via imaging (I forget the exact kind now, but I've seen it done).

Besides, it's like with VIN numbers. Someone can spend hours trying to file one number off, not realizing that, even if it worked, there are several other serial numbers on quite a few guns.

Anyways...

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Would you say that this is more or less likely to happen in a school with armed teachers or principals?

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He looks kind of like Crispin Glover.

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It's a kitchen-sink world, and it's meant to be. For every person who doesn't like analogues for this or that real-world culture or location there are fifty other people looking at the world map, going, "where the &%$# are the Vikings? Where can I play Blackbeard?"

If Paizo is standing by, saying, " here's where you can play Blackbeard", and "rob the Pharaoh's tomb right over here" then they get that person's business, and hopefully the business of their gaming group. Then Paizo can use that familiar backdrop to layer in cool and innovative story, etc. It's an approach that obviously works.

There is certainly nothing wrong with a different approach, but it isn't going to draw as much business.

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I'm in for a PDF until I can afford to upgrade. I'm psyched! I just need to find a way to weld thisbeast onto my Midgard map, and then I'm going to interleave Razor Coast with Journeys to the West, gather some players, and sacrifice them to Dajobas!

It probably works fairly well, so long as the bear is not holding a gun.