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Malfeshnekor is a Advanced Greater Barghest, no class levels.

Also, I dont remember my PCs encountering harpys, a glabrezu, or a large red dragon in any of the first three books of RotR. Either you guys are seriously redoing the AP, or this set isnt just for the first three books.

Please tell me this set isnt just for the first three books. :P

Thanks for the info on Malfeshnekor.

Well it was confirmed that Huge White Dragon and Yeti are also in the set...so it definitly isnt just the first 3 books.

The Glabrezu is amazing. I always hated the red waving DDM one. I know the paintjob we will end up with wont look as good as the picture but the sculpt has me drooling.

So this new set will have more minis, and have Huges in it? I know I cannot help myself. I MUST own a case....but I dread and fear how much this case will cost. And if one case isnt enough to get the entire set I'll really cry. I just aint that rich.

Forgive my ignorance...but I havent read RotRL yet. Is Malfeshnekor a Barghest or is he a unique Pathfinder thing?

The Cleric and Succubus are both really pale with red hair.

GINGERS!!! Champions of Evil indeed.

I dont have my books in front of me...but are Rune Giants gargantuan or colossal? I was will to bet the promo for the set will be a Rune Giant.

Stone Giants are just large....so I have a very strong notion they will be in the RotRL set.

Not to jump to far ahead...but will the 3rd set be Crimson Throne? Or is RotRL the only AP that gets a themed set?

Just a suggestion. Do you agree that when a set list for a new Pathfinder Battles set is being determined that old sets of DDM should influence it?

The Huge Black Dragon is a good example. Out of the 5 chromatic dragons all have been released as huge except the black....well...it was made but it had a rider that most people didnt want on its back.
Is this a coincidence? I really hope its not.
When the time comes for a gargantuan dragon Paizo should chose green or red since there already is white, blue and black.

Now do not get me wrong. I am not saying they Paizo shouldnt eventually make every monster in the Biestary themselves.
Im not saying they shouldnt make a chimera because DDM already has 2 chimeras. That would be insane.
I realize not everyone owns DDM and that Pathfinder Battles needs to stand on its own. I am aware of that. Im just saying I feel a LOT of people who buy Pathfinder minis are people who own tons of DDM.

I just really think that Paizo should ask themselves "what never appeared in DDM" at least a few times in each set.

- Consider the Small or Huge Water Elemental before making a Small or Huge Fire Elemental.
- Take note that DDM inexplicably never produced a Large or small Snake yet made 3 medium snakes.
- Take note what Race/Gender/Class combos were never done in DDM. There was no Male Gnome Druid. There were practically no Bards or Female Half-Orcs, or younger looking male human spellcasters.
- You did a male dwarf with an axe. Thats good. Lets not make one in every set.

Do you guys agree?

As for mine.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Daredevil, Punisher: War Zone, and Starship Troopers were all really awesome movies that I was stunned to learn the general public at large didnt like.

The Narnia movies to actually. I loved LWatW and Prince Caspian. Most other people were meh about them. Disney isnt even backing the 3rd one due out Christmas time.

And I read Starship Troopers after seeing the movie. The tounge in cheek and all the battles with bugs werent in it. I was actually really disssapointed and ST became for me one of the infinitly small examples of when a movie is better than a book.

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"The Last Dragon"

It has some of the best movie quotes EVER in that movie. Some great action scenes, great music (80s), some cheesy/silly scenes that make me laugh, some romance, some family/devotion scenes, some scenes that make you angry.

I hear they are remaking it, but how can you do better than the original Sho'Nuff? You can't.

I hear Samuel Jackson is interested in the role. I'd say that's better than the original.

Sam Jackson is WAY to old to play Sho Nuff. Its all high school kids. Sho Nuff and his gang were young punks. Sam Jackson playing a teen would be weird to say the least, and making him older would ruin who the character is.

I challenge all of you to match my disappointment and hatred for the BSG finale.

It is basically impossible.

Lost, on the other hand?

LOVE IT.

Dear BSG. Im sorry I ever said your series finale was bad. Lost really showed how it was done.

I must need time to really mull this over since some of you are actually thinking it might have some kind of good in it. What a terrible ending.

I came on here to read all the comments about how terrible it was and people are liking it.

No Im REALLY confused.

I always used option 3.

If the creature makes it's save the spell "moves on" to the next target in its area of effect until 4 hit dice worth of creatures are sleeping or all the creatures made their saves.

Regarding the Smoke Monster and No-Name

I made them roll 4d6 and toss out the lowest of the 4 die rolls.

Then I make them do that 7 times and they toss out the lowest of those 7 totals.

With the 6 scores you have you sassign them to what ability score you want.

I also give them the option to throw out the whole thing and do it again. But if they take that option they MUST keep the second time around even if its worse.

This makes pretty high score PCs without being that over the top.

Also when a PC levels I let him or her roll the die twice and they take the higher of the 2. If its snake eyes you get a 3rd roll.

Maybe Im to nice?

Im wondering if in season 3 the clones will be wearing the newer armor. Or if the jedi will be flying the new interceptors. And if the clone fighter pilots will have those helmets where their faces arent covered.

All the armor and ships are still episode 2 style.

And yeah Ahsoka's fate has me very curious. Will Cartoon Network have the balls to kill the young plucky padawan that was created for young girls to look up to? Or will she just graduate to the rank of Jedi Knight and leave Anakin to take on her own adventures and then mysteriously never me mentioned in Episode 3?

Hello. I was able to procure a copy of Gary Gygax's Necropolis.

I just started reading it and so far so good but Im only like 25 pages in.

Anyway I have 3 questions if anyone could be so kind as to help me.

#1 - Did the book come with a poster map or a map booklet? Since I have a used copy i want to make sure Im not missing one.

#2 - In chapter 2 it says the PC should gain posession of the Account of the Blemmyish Nomnad (which is a free download) and the Overview map. What overview map? Thats the other reason Im worried I may be missing a poster map or a map booklet.

#3 - The extra downloadable material off the Necromancer Games website is the Blemmyish Nomad's account and an adventure called Set's Daughters. Theres no collection of maps to print? Why not?

And last....my PCs are currently in Greyhawk. How do you suggest I get them to Khemit? Some kind of teleport? Any suggestions?

Thanks

The Clone Wars cartoon also suffers greatly from the bad guys as protagonist thing. It tries to humanize the clone troopers and make them seem like good guys as well, but you can't escape from the fact that (a) they kill almost all the jedi (which itself is laughably stupid) and (b) they wear practically the same armor, use practically the same ships, and are otherwise the ancestors of the villains in the original trilogy.

This.

There's now two episodes of the Clone Wars that show that the clones have individual personality. Or at least can devlop one.

In one episode a clone turns traitor and works for Count Dooku in exchange for a lot of money and a promise to no longer have to fight in a war he cares nothing about.

In another, a clone deserted the military and became a farmer and took a wife and even fathered children. He just didnt want to fight.

So then Episode 3 rolls around and the Emperor orders all Jedi to be enemies of the republic and all the clones immediatly kill the jedi without one moment of hesitation.

After watching the cartoon you see the jedi and clones almost form a bond of freindship. Based on the show, after Order 66 is issued you would think they would at least sigh or look concerned then resign themselves to their duty.

And yes the clones being able to kill all the jedi is laughably stupid.

Not tired of zombie movies yet.

Im thrilled The Walking Dead will be a TV series and patiently await the day World War Z will be in the theatres.

I just put ZMD in my Netflix Q. Thanks :)

As a small child the ending of Raiders freaked me out as well. My parents loved it and said they wanted to see it again a week later and I was like no way.

The clown doll in Poltergeist was also terrifying when I saw it.

Also some horror movie about little tiny people who lived in a fireplace and dragged this woman down into it and she became one of them. I think it was called Afraid of the Dark or something.

Of all the silly movies...Large Marge from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure scared me terribly. As an adult it still creeps the hell out of me.

And yes I get embarrased for other people to and hate it. Ben Stiller alwasy seems to play a really nice guy who has horrible things happen to him. Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly. He plays the same guy and I cant watch them.

I dont have a Pathfinder conversion....Im just here to confirm yes the brain in a jar moster is in Libris Mortis.

Yeah the first 2 Players guides were very cheap like $2 in print and the downloads are free.

Then they made the Second Darkness Player guide part fo the pathfinder Companion line and its like a $10 book and the pdf isnt free.

Then Legacy of Fire was the same way but they ofered the pdf for free.

Now its just free downloads with no print versions.

So yeah there is a Second Darkness Players Guide but it is NOT free. Which is a shame.

I liked it. It was good. It wasnt Justice Leage: New Frontier or Wonder Woman by any stretch....But it was at least better than the awful Green Lantern: First Flight. Id say its about on par with Public Enemies.

The Alternate Earth evil Justice League (the Crime Syndacate) were cool. Owlman especially.

The quick appearance of alternate Jimmy Olsen and Harley both had me laughing outloud. :)

I'd like to see the rest of the monsters that got left out. Gricks for instance. I think anything that was in the Core monster book for 3.5 should have priority over "newbies."

Example: the rest of the sphinxes.

+1

I was worried about the new classic monsters and whether they would make it. When I fist found the Beastiary in my LGS the first thing I did after admiring the art was flip to G and see if Gricks and Grey Renders were there.

Im sorry. I tried to find the Tomb of Horrors pdf in the store but I just cant. I can not find anything by Necromancer games for that matter.

So Paizo no longer sells it or im just inept.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Well the movie came (and I think went)...So what did everyone think since we all are big crying softies it seems.

I thought it was really good. It was odd that it had no villian, and really not even much of a plot. It was just like watching 9 years old play for 2 hours.

It was weird but I liked it.

Yeah that looks amazing. Like others have said its not the most original plotline. But it still looks great.

Volume 4 is now available for pre-order and is called "Don't Split the Party"

I was just coming back to the thread to say that.

2 days to late though. :)

Ive mentioned this before. The tojanida is part of an elemental set in 3rd edition.
Xorns and Salamander have existed long before tojanidas....BUT if you check out those 3 plus the Arrowhawk you will notice the pattern.
All 4 races come in 3 different sizes and are the same challenge ratings.
Leaving Tojanida's out now just seems like hating on the elemental plane of water.

I still have yet to see the bestiary....but Im scared for the 3rd edition monsters that TO ME are now just as iconic as rust monsters and bulettes. Grey Renders, Gricks & Destrachans are just a few.

EDIT - Just read above that the 3 sizes and CR is a thing of the past.

This isnt much of a spoiler at all so it doent need to be hidden.

The only complaint people really have about the new Friday the 13th is how the writers decided to entice the teens to come to the abandoned Crystal Lake.

Marijuana grows wild in the woods. So when the teens come looking for it they get killed.

Well some viewers accused Jason of growing the stuff himself to use as bait for teens. Or that he grows it for personal use. And you get killed to daring to steal Jason's weed.

Nothing I saw in the movie supported this. I still think the stuff grows wild and Jason doesnt care about it.

Well theres the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003 and Michael Bay produced that. And I thought it was awesome.

Then there was the remake of Halloween in 2007 and that was awesome to.

Then the remake of Friday the 13th this year...and what do ya know.....Awesome.

So there have been reboots of three of the four big 80s slasher movies...so Im looking foward to the 4th one and will assume it will be awesome as well.

Now if you disliked the reboots...Well then forget all I said :)

Oh yes a 4th volume is a guarantee.
Its just a question of when. :)

Now the real question is if Berlew will ever make another special like volume 0 and -1.

Avatar looks very cool.

Its a bit to CG though. Almost like a cartoon. Remember in Revenge of the Sith when Obi Wan was on Utapao and EVERYTHING was GC except Ewan McGregor?
It looks like that.

A little to clean and shiny. It needs to be grittyer to look more realistic.

Having all said that I still am really lookign foward to it. Im sure it will end up in my top 5 movies of the year (but honestly what kind of competition does it have?)

Regarding one of the plot holes..

Dark City was awesome.

As for the Halo movie. The studio refused to let Blokamp direct it because he was an unknown new director. Im almost glad it fell though and didnt happen. We got District 9 instead which I cant image Halo being better.

From what I hear...Now that District 9 is so good the studio offered Blokamp Halo and he turned it down. To late that ship has sailed.

Internet rumor says he may direct World War Z. If that is true my joy shall have no bounds. I love that book.

This movie was fantastic!

Easily the best movie of the summer no contest at all.

Just when you think the summer movies ran their course one last movie sneaks in and it trounces and embarrases the competition. :)

Oh yeah its corny as heck. Its a mindless ropm that has some good effects and bad.

Snake Eyes never wears an excelerator suit...so him flipping over cars is all him.

I read on Wikipedia that Brendan Fraiser's cameo was Seargent Stone. Im not the GIJoe expert but I dont recall who that is.

I know Snake Eyes is a fan favorite...but from a non-fans point of view I find it odd that no characters outside the lead roles get origin flashbacks..yet the guy with no voice and no face does.

Pre-painted plastic miniatures of course.

With round black bases (Im sure shape and color isnt trademarked) so they blend seamlessly with D&D minis.

Metal that I need to paint or cardboard counters hold no interest for me at all.

Thats the #1 thing I wish Paizo to work toward that isnt possible for them to do as of now.

All harpies are female I believe. I think they reproduce using humans anyway.
A half-orc is half-human after all.

Id say she'd lay some regular harpy eggs.

You can also go the preying mantis route and have instincts kick in and she tries to kill him after mating.

Mongoose Publishing made The Slayers Guide to Harpies....I'd bet theres an ecology that deals with reproduction in that book.

Not a Lara Croft fan then?

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Oops! How could I forget? Not great but good as well. Have both on DVD. Add that to my list.

Has a good movie ever come from a video game?

Not many. But for entertaining popcorn flicks Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Mortal Kombat were all pretty good movies.

The Parasol is in the equipment chapter of Sandstorm.

Edit: Never mind :)

All internet rumor at this point. But from what I hear Renolds doing Green Lantern has pushed back Deadpool indefinitly.

Next movie in the X-Men franchise will either be Origins:Wolverine 2, Origins:Magneto, or a movie about Xavier's first class (young Cyclops, Young Jean, Young Storm, Young Beast and Emma Frost)

Green Lantern is one of my favorite DC characters...as opposed to Deadpool who I never even really heard of until the Wolverine movie came out this year.
To me he was the guy with the swords. No different than the guy with the guns, the teleporting guy, or the hobbit with the lightbulb.
When I later heard he was getting his own movie I was like "HUH?"...then did my research.

So this is all good news to me.

I'm not sure what you're referring to insofar as book stores are concerned. Borders is going out of business and barely ordering anything from anyone, but B&N stocks the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting and assorted Pathfinder Chronicles products like Classic Monsters Revisited and Gods & Magic.

The 2 bookstores near me are Borders (which has nothing Pathfinder) and Barnes & Noble which does carry the campaign settign only (I guess they just like hardcovers).

So yeah there is at least the campaign setting..but those 2 copies of the setting have been gathering dust since they came out so that was another reason I was concerned.

Glad to see I just live in a crappy area to be a Pathfinder fan and its not nationwide. :)

Its cool to see Alip, Annis Hag and Dragonne in this book since they wont be in the Beastiary....
But also a bit dissapointing that they arent going to be in the Bestiary.

Will definitly be ordering tonight once its available.

(Now to go off topic kinda)

Its also very reasuring to read your posts. My LGS clearanced the 3.5 material immediatly upon 4th edition release. They dont carry any 3rd edition books from any company and refuse to carry Pathfinder. its been labeled a waste to order stuff "no one will buy other than crazy Jay and his players". The store owner or the guy in charge of ordering the stuff thinks its silly that anyone would want to play 3rd edition now that 4th is here.

They wont even order it upon my request. Im labeled the crazy guy who still plays 3rd edition and am laughed at when I say I will play Pathfinder when its released. I get that amused "are you serious?" look when I mention Pathfinder. And according to them no one else but me asks or requests it ever.

And with book stores only carrying 4th edition I start to wonder if theres any Pathfinder love outside the people on the Paizo boards.

There are no LGSs anywhere near me that take part in Free RPG day. :(

Is there a date when this will be on sale on the website?

Dragonlance being the next 4th edition campaign setting is a strong possibility.

The next D&D miniatures set that comes out in August will have an Aurak Draconian.

Ah ha! Thanks for the info.

And Gods bless Necromancer Games then :)

Forgive my ignorance....But arent Demodands in the Monster Manual II or the Fiend Folio?

Im not sure which, but either way they arent in the SRD and monsters from the MM2 and FF can't appear in Pathfinder right?

I have no idea how anyone is dissapointed.

The whole "how do the machines know Kyle is John's fater?" thing is valid...but not enough to drag this movie down.

I seriously walked out of there debating if this or Star Trek was the beter movie. Im really torn.

I always though Tim Burton's Batman was freakin terrible. And old man Jack Nicholson as Joker I was never a fan of.

People love to say the series got bad with Shumacher as director. Well to me it just got worse.

Batman begins and Dark Knight however were fantastic. As was the Animated series.

That just my opinion.

I love the new illustration of the races. I really disliked the older one (Im sure many did hence the change).

The halfling is fantastic. It retained the "small human" look of 3rd edition and is not a "fat hobbit" from older editions. Yet fuzzy feet are back! Best of both worlds.

I love the colorful gnomes. For those who collect D&D pre-painted minis the Thorn makes a great Pathfinder Gnome now.

I also love the Half-elf.....for different reasons. :)

I don't think Wizards has ever made a Huge Aboleth, have they? In that respect, it is a bit disappointing.

Yeah in 4th edition they are large.

Does anyone own a 4th Monster Manual? Is there a huge version out there in the book?

Hydras come in Large and Huge in 4th edition so theres still hope for them but I'm unsure about Aboleth.

Does anyone know if Wizards has a gallery of these up anywhere?

Yeah here ya go. Its not official. All the minis are known but not all have photos yet.

Sorry Im not so internet savvy and am unsure how to make a nice link. :(

http://www.ddmspoilers.com/mm_01.php