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this needs to be a thing again!

Soon, my friend! :o)

I just want to point out that our main goal is just to have more cool people online that we can group up with and do whatever. We have no specific goal in mind nor is it ever going to be some strict schedule. Having a dungeon night once a week is about as strict as we get. And I like that idea because it means if you log on, you're guaranteed to be able to play with a group at least that one day. For a lot of people, just like to play solo and chat in the guild about crafting or whatever. I think that's fun too! So whether you're not experienced at playing AT ALL or you're super experienced, we welcome you all. Doesn't matter. ;o) The only thing we DON'T want are hateful people trying to cause problems. And I'm sure it'll happen but we can easily correct that. Heheh!

Was doing hardcore raiding but burnt out so badly I started playing Never Winter Nights (the first one) instead. After some s+!@es & giggles. Nice idea a Paizo-staff-fan guild,S.

Awesome about playing NWN, did you ever play Baldur's Gate I or II? During college that's like all I ever let myself play because I knew WoW would be too much of a distraction from school! HAH! I sometimes get burned out from doing dailies for rep and even doing dungeons over and over (I really don't like repeating dungeons to death). If I get burned out I just take a few days off from playing or I'll switch to one of my lowbies and quest on them. My favorite thing is questing and rare-hunting.

Ill make a decision by the weekend. I've been playing wow since release but took a hiatus a few times, the longest about 4 months. I just quit after we went 5/6 Mogushan Vaults 10m.

That said, I am casual but I do like to raid. I've played just about every class through the years to end game, so I'm not crazy about leveling a toon ATM, though Monk healing would be a possibility. I've GMed 2 end game guilds myself, one of which was the number 2 alliance guild on Fenris when Karazhan was new, I know how time consuming it can get and I don't have any desire to go "hardcore". One or two nights a week raiding would be optimal.
LFR on he other hand is out for me. I don't like large scale raids, I gave up that stuff when Naxx 40 man was new (after 5 months hardcore).
I'm not worried to much about transfers in general, I have over $1000 in transfers through the years :/ but if I do I'll go alliance since it is 2:1 as you stated, chances are I can get into a 10m raid every now and then. I miss my Priest but he's horde again ATM, so that transfer will cost more. :)

My Goblin Priest is Healiocity on Fenris for armory purposes. My Panda Resto Shaman is Takeout on Lothar.
My account is scheduled to expire tomorrow but who knows. The chance to play casually with Paizo and forum folks seems like fun. My itches to raid, not so much :P

We're not hardcore or planning to be. We thought it would be nice if people that WERE hardcore could join up with others that are hardcore and let the more casual gamers stay out of the serious gaming. Basically, it's a way to connect with like minded people. I personally think it would be great just to have someone help me do some rare hunting at times. I have tons of friends, who were once strangers, on my friends list from WoW that simply like to camp rares. It works great for me when I work because I just basically check my screen once in a while. So definitely we're not super hardcore or anything like that. We'll never pressure anyone to play, it's about fun...this isn't work and should not be treated as such!!!

What we'd LIKE to do, is have a specific "game night" for Alliance and the Horde side, inviting ALL levels to be online at the same time. From there everyone could pair up and do what they wanted to do. I sort of like the idea of winging it like that for a while because it gives us more options to see how the guild is going to form and play out. I personally think it'll be pretty fun just to have more people online!

Ok I will have to build my Gnome Monk for this Guild :)

Hahahah righteous! I thought about making a Goblin Monk! Or a Tauren Monk just to see how hilarious it looks!!!

Well, ERIK! You know I'm happy about it! ;o) RAWR!

Ed Healy wrote:

During the banquet at PaizoCon 2012, Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens made a special presentation to Paizo VP of Operations, Jeff Alvarez.

Jeff Alvarez (COO, Paizo Publishing)

Please forgive the lack of facial clarity. The lighting in the room was very very dark, particularly compared to the presentation slides in the background.

So, in that video, we don't actually get to see Jeff come back into the banquet hall. I wish it'd been on the video. He came back in, carrying a dinner plate with a bacon-cheeseburger and fries. He walked to my table, set it down, and after a brief handshake, left me sitting there amazed and stunned.

I was the customer that Jeff was off helping.
The dinner buffet for the banquet had run out of food, and I was basically the last person in line. I'm an insulin-dependant diabetic, and it's kind of a big deal for me to have to be able to eat when I take my insulin. While I'd obviously heard his name, I didn't realize that *he* was Jeff Alvarez, until he had his arm around my shoulder telling me that he was going to make it right for me. He was both conforting and insistent, telling me that if I didn't tell him what I would like to eat, he was going to go to the hotel bar, and order me a bacon-cheeseburger and fries.
It wasn't his mistake, it wasn't even Paizo's. It was the hotel kitchen staff's fault. But, Jeff went out of his way to help me. In the middle of the banquet, when he would've been accepting his promotion to COO, he was hand-carrying my dinner to my table.

*That*, to me, is just about the best example of why I love Paizo.
And why I won't ever forget Jeff.
... Thanks, man. You're the best.

I'll never say it enough--Jeff deserves that title so much. He's absolutely the best for the position. Always going out of his way to help people out...even me, a total trouble maker (just kidding). I've seen him help people so much since I've been in the Paizo family. I love it. I'm glad we got to hear what happened during that--I saw him carrying a plate of food, had no clue what actually happened. ;o) This post is awesome and another CHEER to Jeff! ;oD Paizo's products are outstanding and it'd be pretty hard to beat how great they treat their fans/friends AND employees!

Okay, I'm definitely going to be creating a stir...Apologies in advance! I just really love costumes and cosplay potential of the characters that I play. To me, it makes the game more awesome. I'm a huge Warcraft gamer and I enjoy seeing super-cool armor sets--my favorites are always the hotter ones.

I just want to put in a direct request for attractive and form-fitting female armor. The most awesome thing I find about being female is the fantastic cosplay outfits I get to make wear (That and being married to Sean lol). Don't be afraid of the people who hate cheesecake, you could make more conservative sets for them ;o). They don't necessarily have to be revealing to be sexy either, I could make suggestions? ;o)

I'm so excited! Now, hopefully this will spawn all sorts of new costume ideas for me for future conventions! Woo! ;o)

If thee Mrs. Sean K Reynolds can vote in this:

Okay, this was a very tough vote for me to cast. I'll be honest, I'm a little biased toward a couple of the competitors due to the fact we're personal friends. However, with that completely aside I decide to make the vote based on construction, durability, skill, as well as detail.

I know it needs zero explanation but I love to over-explain.
One very important factor in cosplaying is FUN (or the appearance of haha). I am going with the competitors that I can see had the most fun, chose costumes that suited them the best and allowed them to wear their costume longer than a trip to the booth and back to their room. Personally, I think if you're going to compete in a costume contest you should be judged on skill/detail as well as the act of wearing the costume (how you pose, length of wear, and if you look comfortable). Last year I wore Amiri for seriously 9 hours total for the Con...and I know Lora wore her Witch costume more or near that amount...not sure how we did that. LOL! Much respect to anyone who can wear a costume in hot/sticky Indiana for more than 1 hr haha!

I choose the *Pathfinder Adventure Party*. We're voting on them as a group/team right? I hope so!

I think they looked like they were having a blast together, they looked comfortable and they each chose a costume that looked good on them! I believe I recall seeing them all day in their outfits! And look at the group pose! They're in sync with one another...I'm guessing they're good friends?

Every single costume in this line up is fantastic and you all did great! I'm glad I'm not the only person who gets this hobby! ;o) I cannot wait to see who shows up in costume at PaizoCon and GenCon 2012!

XOXO
Jodi Lane