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I haven't played the minis game yet, though I have been collecting a-plenty for use in my 3.5/PF games. Anyway, I just signed up for a sealed Legenedary Evils tourney at my FLGS this weekend.

So what do I need to know to a) not look like a noob idiot, and b) bloodily destroy all opposition and score the sweet gift certificate prizes?

Andrew Turner wrote:

Also, how about a minis subscription? Is anyone else out there interested in such a thing?

Given that we don't have a lot of control over when we get inventory, we can't really offer those things—we'd be unable to guarantee fulfillment to our usual standards.

The marital strife that will possibly ensue could be well worth it...

Too Jade

After Jade

Mo' Better Jade

Heap Big Jade

I've been thinking about this for a while, running through all the various wiseass answers I could come up with. (Organic cheese, quilts, CDs of the Paizo staff singing acapella Xmas carols, etc.) Then I happened on what my pipedream would really in truth be... A Pathfinder game for the PC along the lines of Atari's TOEE from some years back. Fairly faithful to the rules and letting me assemble my own party to my specs from the beginning.

-Especially- if it featured a former or future Paizo Adventure Path.

-Especially-especially- if it was one of the old Dungeon paths that are a lot harder to actually assemble to a playable completeness these days. (Though I understand that would make it even more ridiculously farfetched.)

I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES! I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES! C'MON TINK!

Stoopid Eau Claire, Wisconsin...

The combination of "low level" and "disarmed prisoners" is a tough one, but you have some options:

Thanks hugely!

Thanks muchly, gents. In fairness, it didn't take that much hard work... My mind wanders a lot at my job. And I have post-it notes there.

I can't speak for the widespread commercial mass market appeal, but I know if such a thing were readily available, I for one would very much be all over it like a handsy football player on his vaguely intoxicated prom date.

Now I have to go look up Samasara.

LOVED ESCAPE FROM LIMBO LIMBO CITY LIMBO!

So here's the thing... I was on Facebook the other day, doing the "Five Songs I'd Come Out To If I Was An MMA Fighter" quiz, and I realized that the Atomic Array theme song isn't on there to select. So really... what gives? That's just wrong.

Anyway, it got me thinking... There is such good music in these podcasts of yours. When can we expect to see the Atomic Array OST? Not soon enough for my money.

I see it ultimately looking something like this...

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MOONSTEW MEMORIES
Songs Appearing On Or Inspired By The Greatest Gaming Podcasts Of All Time

1) "March of the Mutant Mambo Kings" (Atomic Array Opening Theme)

2) "The Goblin Getdown (Jason Buhlman Edition)"

3) "Contact" (RPG Countdown Intro)

4) Ed's Pick Theme (or "Is Free Strawberry Jam All I Really Am (To You)")

5) "The Fool On The Hill"

6) "Conan's Petulant Sandbox" (Ed's Pick Outro)

7) "Wolf's Watusi" (Kobold Quarterly Episode Music)

8) "Hallowed Be Thy Name"

9) "The Ryleh Rap", feat. Cthu-lou and Boyz II Shoggoth

10) "Dreamweaver" (Oh please... Oh please...)

11) "Wolf's Bounce" (Open Design Podcast theme)

12) "The Giveaway Groove" (Keep this under 30 secs please)

13) "Oops... I Punctured The Blackened Vein Again"

14) "Blammo's Beatdown" (Atomic Array Ending Theme)

Bonus Track - "Blammo's Beatdown" (Extended Lovely Acidic Butter Sauce Remix)

Bonus Track - "Dungeons of Doom (Demo)" feat. Yusef (and several representatives of the TSA who chose to accompany him to the Moonstew Studios at that time)

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So please? Can we?

So I ran the fam through all the rooms in the basic boxed game that came out a few years ago, and then they got stomped in the last room by the BBEG blue dragon.

While I could just have them roll up new characters, I am wondering if anyone knows any mods where low-level pcs start out as disarmed prisoners and go from there. I was remembering that an old DM of mine said something to that effect about the Slavelords series, but I pulled out an old copy of A1 I picked up along the way and it is very much not like that.

Any ideas?

160: Civilization collapses every 2049 years during the eclipse in Asimov's "Nightfall".

161: The Total Perspective Vortex, from Adam's "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe".

162: Psychohistory from Asimov's "Foundation".

163: Winston Smith learns to love Big Brother.

164: The tripods and the capping, "The White Mountains".

165: "The Long Walk" by Bachman/King.

166: Marvin and the mattress Zem

Too many from Dune and Dune Messiah to single out.

I'm curious about this topic. How long ago should something be published before it's acceptable to spoil something major without warning? Is it acceptable to give the main clue to something like Hound of the Baskervilles? How about who Emma marries in that Jane Austen novel? What about the answer to Who Killed Laura Palmer? How many years have to elapse until you can casually say what happened to the head of Hogwarts?

And is your spoiler etiquette different in person than it is on the net?

That said, I have had a friend slip not once but twice with that very alleged fact which I suspect you are alluding to, and which I deeply hope you will neither confirm nor deny in any future posts.

Sigh. I miss her.

I would pay many shiny sheckels if Rone were to belt out a version of "Dreamweaver" on the next ep of AA.

Why is it that every time Sean Patrick Fannon jumps into an episode to do a blurb about the deal of the week, I get an image in my head of Wayne and Garth interviewing Noah Vanderhoff?

Can I cancel my Pathfinder Module subscription, while retaining my Adventure Path subscription please?

Thanks

After months of anticipating and semi-planning, I finally sat down last night w/ my fiancee and her two kids (5 and 9) to try to play D&D, as from the Basic box set WotC released a few years ago.

Pregen characters helped keep attention spans at the start. The 9 year old took the elf wizard and the 5 year old took the fighter. My fiancee took the cleric and the rogue. We got through the first three encounters in the set. Results were mixed.

On the minus side, the 9 year old had a fixation for running into the rooms to search and open all the treasure chests while the other three characters were still in combat with the room's denizens. (I'm suddenly wondering now if that is a mindset from playing video games - ie: run in and get the stuff and run out before the bad guy touches you.) This lessened somewhat when we suggested items should be shared rather than first-come-first-served. That and my giving the last goblin in the second room a death speech to the effect of "Though we are defeated today, I know I can die happy having fired my last arrow at the foe of ours who showed the least amount of teamwork and cooperation in the assault. Have-at-thee!" Subtle? No. But kinda worked.

The 5 year old did ok, especially when being coached on where to go to swing his sword. Otherwise his movement patterns became somewhat erratic... Sometimes ending with the phrase "There. Now I am on the carpet." Attention spans were kind of an issue there too... At certain points, the game of "Which hand is the green die in?" seemed to take priority, and he had a habit of running around to see what other cool monsters I was hiding behind the screen.

It was tricky to explain sneak attack and why you don't get it with a ranged weapon. And why even if you did, you wouldn't get it against the skeleton. And why my fiancee should have gotten one when they jumped the goblins before, but I just plain forgot about it. We are planning some tutorial time on that though to make sure she is ready for GenCon.

They started to get the hang of it though I think, towards the end. In the last encounter, the 9 year old decided to cast Magic Missle and worked the whole thing out from idea to telling me the damage without help. But she does read at a "higher level". Than me at least when I was 9...

One unforeseen wrinkle... I have been insidiously prepping them with the D&D cartoon for the last few weeks too. I was pretty caught off guard when they asked where my Dungeon Master mini was. D'oh. "Yeah, he's not actually a real guy like that. And, no, the people on the screen aren't actually your PCs either..."

baWOOHga

Nick,

Are you going to have RC at Gencon for sale?

And what would the implications of such a theoretical Gencon purchase be on the otherwise discussed pdf-ey goodness?

Harley made this insane on-the-spot request for me to sing Maiden. After a few surprised throat clearings on my part I gave Hallowed Be Thy Name a shot. Thank you ‘reverb’ button.

I'm through talking about it, but I just wanna know one thing:

what's something really really really really f%*~ing stupid (that wouldn't ruin multiple peoples' lives around me)

that I could do so I could get up on the Today show and get like $100,000 or something?

Turin the Mad wrote:

Krome wrote:

All this talk about cats, dogs, hamsters, ponies, mantids, crocs...

And no one has even bothered to question why a sheep doesn't have a Charisma of at least 20?

I mean really let's focus on the IMPORTANT matters!

Hrm ... I dunno ... I haven't heard THAT many tales about the formidable seductive prowess of sheep ... altough there appears to be a rumors of weresheep ... see local video store IRL, you might find the documentary in question ...

Documentary? I thought that was Scottish porn.

- Sundance Film Festival baby!

- Also was the setting for the Great Brain series of books which I loved as a kid. I forget the name of the town, but whenever they went up to the "Big City" it was always Provo

While I don't have any personal experience, from the number of game stores I've seen in my area open and fold within the space of a few years, I'd say tricky at best.

Personally, I've toyed around with this idea before as well... :)

I doubt I would ever be able to bring it off though. It's a pretty big uphill climb to make it last, from all I have been led to believe.

Believe it or not we had two bridle items. :)

I was on the fence on this one. I thought it was "a bit boring, but it is simple and clean. And it uses the channeling mechanic. I like the application of the celestial creature. I'd like to put my money where my mouth is that a low level clean item actually can make the cut. This might be the one. Inclined to keep for further consideration. And subject to the review of my esteemed colleagues."

Sean and Wolf didnt feel the same. It got rejected. And I dont disagree with them. Wolf didnt like templating on the fly and had issues with some of the mechanics and wording such as "activating." Sean had issues with "standard mount" and what that means. Plus we thought the way you handled the negative level was wonky. There were better ways to do it.

The negative level thing was kind of an afterthought, and I now wish I had spent more time coming up with something better. I had a notion that I didn't want the item abused to be making Celestial Red Dragon mounts. In the end I just basically adapted the "bad stuff happens to bad people" language from the Holy weapon description. Perhaps it would have been cooler if it worked w/ evil creatures too though?

Thanks again for all the feedback! (It was actually a lot gentler than I expected...)

Is there anyone up here in this area?

BING!

Anyone? Anyone?

chopswil wrote:

ILLITHID

WoTC owns this, can't use it
big no-no

I thought WoTC owned "mindflayer" but not "illithid", as in one is a specific term, and the other is a general one?

I figured I'd be auto-disqualified because I didn't think those two things to be the same.... *defeated*

EDIT: Ok, lets put aside the fact that I'm a fool, overlooking something so basic... Clark, can you still give me some feedback about the general function and style of the item?

Is the term "illithid" still verboten because it is part of the fluff for the non-OGL "mind flayer"?

This order was received yesterday, thanks.

I think there is an issue with my "Goroloth" though. There seems to be a piece missing.

If I figure right, there should be a 2-part base, a torso piece, a head piece, and one tail. Also, one set of two dorsal fins, and two sets of two side fins to attach, one set to each left and right. It is these side fins... I only got one set, but from all the pics I can see (and the holes for mounting on the mini itself) it looks like there should be two.

Can I verify this somehow? It seems like it would have had to come from Reaper like this in the first place. How would I go about getting a replacement for the missing piece?

Thanks for your help

Thank you sir, may I have another? :)

BRIDLE OF THE RIGHTEOUS

Aura moderate transmutation [good]; CL 7th
Slot bridle; Price 14,000 gp; Weight 1lb.

Description
This item, made primarily of dark leather covered in silvery Celestial script, appears at first glance to be a normal bit and bridle and may be worn as such by any standard non-evil mount. When activated by a good-aligned rider, however, the item channels divine power into its wearer, granting the mount the Celestial template for a duration of 10 minutes. This ability is usable 1/day.

The bridle bestows one permanent negative level on any evil creature attempting to wear or activate it. The negative level remains as long as the item is touched and disappears when that touch is broken. This negative level cannot be overcome in any way (including restoration spells) while the bridle is still being touched.

Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, Holy Smite, Bless Weapon, creator must be good; Cost 7,000 gp

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Feels like the "Abyssal Spurs" that made it through were kinda coming from the same place as my item. Except for being totally different of course...

RACKUM FRACKUM!!!

Ok. Moving on with life now.

A sincere thanks to Messrs. Peterson, Baur and Reynolds for devoting the time and energy to read through the hundreds upon hundreds of entries...

Madgael wrote:

b@&&~*&s.

EDIT: I am not sure which I am more surprised by... that the filter knew that word well enough to tag, or that it apparently un-capitalized it on me.

You could always go with "B0llocks"

I knew losing Innuendo in the 3.5 conversion would someday come back to bite me on the b@&&~*&s.

thefishcometh wrote:

I put stock in symbols and momentous occasions.

So what price would you put on WingDings and the day you realized that defecating in your undergarments was not ok ????

snobi wrote:

David Fryer wrote:

Regardless of what I feel about his politics, it proves that we have begun to judge people on their ideas and character rather then their skin color.

There's only a fuss because of his skin color.

Yepp. Absolutely. And what a shame that the first non-caucasian person elected was voted in almost entirely because of their being non-caucasian.

EDIT: I am not sure which I am more surprised by... that the filter knew that word well enough to tag, or that it apparently un-capitalized it on me.

The worst grade imaginable...

an A MINUS MINUS!*

(* Not really)

Jotira of the Clan Ktiln'k wrote:

I think my crunch is done. I just need to write down the backstory when I can over the next few days I guess.

Hey Madgael:
I have Scum and Villainy now, so I can give you the actual Stats for a Jawa if you want

True, good thing that nothing prevents a man from marrying a woman or vice versa. Even a gay or lesbian can take advantage of this. Provided of course, that they meet the licensing requirments of the state.

Or are you saying that two sx year olds should be allowed to marry?

everyone has access to that 'priviledge'

Thank you, please try again,

"Minors are the only class of persons whose rights may be disabled without a need to justify the disablement as arising from the need to resolve a conflict with the rights of others, either through statute or due process. The disablement consists of the assignment of a power to supervise the exercise of the rights under the headings of "liberty" and "property" listed above to a guardian, by default the parents, who acts as agent of the State for the purpose of nurturing the minor. The disability is normally removed by statute providing for removal when a certain age, such as 18, or condition, such as marriage, is attained."

Back to Tommy Boy Hanks. I've no issue with whatever air comes out of his mouth. Tom Hanks, like Bobby 'Sheets' Byrd and Fred Phelps (all loyal Democrats) is allowed to say whatever he wants. My issue with him is he's taking the easy target. If he really felt religion and influence was an issue, why isn't he condemning the Hispanic and black voter who voted overwhelmingly for Prop 8? Or maybe the Muslims, who did likewise?

Wiki-link with more detail than I care to get into about it.

That said, there are a lot of culprits out there if one wants to lash out in that regard, so singling out one of the bunch to demonize seems a bit silly.

I'll have to disagree with you here. The Government recognition of marriage contracts is a privledge, not a right.

The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution states:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

For me, the word "UnAmerican" doesn't really have any meaning, and usually amounts to little more than demagoguery. The nation encapsulates so many ideas and actions, good or bad, that I find it pretty inconceivable that a thing or opinion could really exist that wouldn't be found somewhere in the country. (Probably in Indiana, I am betting.) I'm a little surprised at TH throwing it around like that.

That said, calling people "UnAmerican" who don't agree with your opinion of how the place should be run is about as American as it comes. As is trying to make sure people who aren't like you don't have it as good as you. (general you)

Thank god we have Double Quarters and the Superbowl, at least.

The Gamer's Haven podcast is also pretty good. Though no Atomic Array. They do cover a lot of genres in some pretty good depth though.

I had to just stop listening to 3.5 Private Sanctuary unfortunately. Every now and then one of the hosts would just state some absurd, idiotic factoid as truth and make me start shouting obscenities at the car radio. (Forgotten Realms was the original setting for D&D, I am way too creative to actually read LotR, etc, etc, etc) Shame really, because I was on board with the mission. My blood pressure just couldn't take it anymore...

Hear ye! Hear ye! Right here ye find Episode Fourteen of Atomic Array,

(* Not really my birthday.)

The personal digs against single mothers hurt her systemic reflections on single motherhood. But I like it when she talks D&D to me with her hair swept over her face like that.

Clark Peterson wrote:

.... I cant help myself.

I absolutely love D&D. Always have. I love the creation process. So when Erik called and sheepishly asked if I wanted to be involved--telling me all the long hours and no pay--I jumped at it. It is just my cup of tea (seer's tea, in fact).

I love this process.

Back when Paizo had Dungeon and Erik was running things I told him I wanted to do an artilce for Dungeon called "Page to Table," where I talk about practical tips for running the various adventures in that month's mag at your home game table. ......

Plus I like hearing myself talk. That's probably the bigger and more honest reason :)

If I may humbly make a suggestion why don't you get a hold of Atomic Array and do an annual podcast on this subject??

There are a lot of people who would find this interesting, I count myself one of them.

It seems unlikely that a child is going to tear a hole in a plushy, though.

I suppose it's probably not that big a deal really, all things considered. After all, I still think bike helmets are dumb myself. I am just now left with the questionable ethical dilemma of whether to take all the tags off it here at work, before bringing it home to the scrutiny of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.

I suppose some SAN drain was inevitable though when I ordered it, though.

Madgael wrote:

Needless to say, it would have been nice if someone had posted the "Choking Hazard - Not for children under 3 years" warning in the item description...

My daughter is under 3 and I got her one of these. What choking hazard is there? I suppose if she managed to tear the eyes off and eat them somehow, but other than that, I don't see the risk.

Hopefully stories to come. I ordered one for my 6 month old daughter for Xmas. I just hope he gets here in time...

Needless to say, it would have been nice if someone had posted the "Choking Hazard - Not for children under 3 years" warning in the item description...

Knowing how to use BBCode formatting for your entry is not a requirement for this contest. Nobody gets eliminated for bad messageboard format—though if you used it well, it couldn't do anything but help you, and if you used it badly (or tried to use HTML, which isn't supported), it probably made a worse impression on the judges than not using it at all.

I made... a formatting choice we shall call it for now... based on thinking the entry form wouldn't let me boldify something. I am now hoping that didn't bite me on the ass.

We found that most of the high advancers in the contest came from our golden ticket items--items we picked for spark and creativity, where we wanted to see what the person could do in the next rounds. I'm not sure what that says about how good we are as judges :) But it shure says that we should be inclusive and that contestants grow and learn and that we shouldnt overly nitpick editorial issues that are easily fixed. Christine is a perfect example. She barely made it into the contest and she won the darn thing!

You are a baseball coach. Two players run to first. They both have the same time, but one has perfect form, the other, lousy form. Which one do you pick?

The one with the lousy form. Because when you teach him good form, he will always beat the other player.

Ironically I learned that from watching The West Wing.

I am the Smurf King. I can smurf anything.

Smurf if you understand.