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Black Sabbath
by Black Sabbath :P

It never fails to surprise me that this thread is still around. This is the first time I've been on the boards in months and it was sitting there on the 'recent posts' section.

I must agree. I'm glad they decided to respond to this. These people take a knock at a simple hobby game and they expect that no one will take offense. Unfortunately, I'm sure Mr. Goldfarb will just receive the letter, stop making ignorant comments, but not apologize publicly for such ignorance. He really should take down those comments and apologize for that statement.

From what I've read, tons and tons of gamers are in the military. That was a very dumb comparison to make in general. I bet whoever wrote it thought he was being clever though.

Well the campaigns I've ran and played in have a tendency to start at higher levels than 1st (usually 5th-7th) since most of the guys in my group like having more powers and abilities.

However, in our latest campaign, my DM pretty much told us to suck it up and that we were starting at 1st level which wound up being a good thing since it's been the first campaign we've played in a long while that's actually gone somewhere. We're now around 7th-8th level as a group now and are not intending to give up on the game any time soon. It's been cool to see our characters actually progress from 1st level for once in a long time.

So yeah, I had a lot more fun starting at 1st and watching my character progress into higher levels. It's been really cool and has sparked my interest in this game more than any other we've played in a very long time.

Downfall
by Children of Bodom
you get all the riffs at the beginning?

Damn! This thread is still around!

Aqua Dementia
by Mastodon

Yo mama's so ugly, even a nightgaunt tried to claw it's eyes out.

Oh my god, guys. This has to be the greatest thread ever created in the history of the internet. Kudos, friends.

Yo mama's so ugly and eldritch that Abdul Alhazrad had to write a separate book on her called the Mamanomicon.

(I tried...)

Del Toro has yet to make a movie I don't love, which is why it's ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT for him to get going on "At the Mountains of Madness." I'm sure "The Hobbit" will be awesome, but having to wait for that one to be done before we get giant penguins and shoggoths is gonna be tough...

I saw the movie on Friday and I loved it. I thought it was even better then the first one. I agree that it was pretty cliche in some ways, looking back on it, but I don't care because I enjoyed it immensely. And of course, half the fun is seeing all of the great effects. Del Toro has really outdone himself. The visuals are even shinier than in Pan's Labyrinth, which is really saying something!

I slaughtered the ol' sacred cow for Fourth of July bar-bee-kyew last week. Made some damn good sacred hamburgers too.

Does that count? :P

Wow, what a ringing endorsement, guys!

I just hope no one will "cheat" by agreeing with the OP with all his aliases separately to make it seem like more people like this edition!

I'm also all for Pathfinder. I also see 4e as just being some fantasy roleplaying game with far different rules. I'm not saying I won't ever try it, but I'm just saying it doesn't feel like it's D&D.

Your monster is actually my first exposure to the 4e monster set-up. It looks very interesting. I need to check 4th edition out, just to see how it works.

I'm so sorry for you. My condolences go to you and I hope you will be able to get through such a terrible tragedy.

I can't even imagine how hard that must be.

It's never gotten very "adult" in any of the games I've run. The only time any sex or rape seems to come up is in the form of backstory or anything, never in campaigns.

However, if a tasteful opportunity came up for something "adult" to go on, I'm fairly certain all but one person in my group could handle it. And it's not that the one person is like touchy about the subject. He's just really immature. He's the guy who turns everything into a "your mom" or "that's what she said" joke.

9. People who think all skinheads are neo-Nazis. E.G. the YouTube comment boards.

8. Drivers who turn their radio up at the intersection in order to share their musical tastes with everyone else.

10. People who don't understand that having one half of the bed in a hotel room does not mean they can sprawl out and leave me with 1/10 of the bed to sleep on.

9. Friends of siblings who come over to your house, insist upon using your computer and then insist upon sleeping in your bed.

8. Online job application forms with trick questions with only one real answer.

7. Online job application forms that cut out in the middle of being filled out, thus rendering all previous work unnecessary.

6. Having to take three tries to correctly spell unnecessary.

5. Younger brothers who are more blessed than you in the field of muscle-to-fat ratio but who still claim to be too overweight.

4. Teachers deducting points on a project based on a detail of the project that wasn't mentioned anywhere in the project guidelines.

3. Fourteen-hour car rides in which the portable DVD player doesn't work, your iPod goes dead, and you don't arrive home until nearly 5 in the morning.

2. People who act like they're cool and who everyone treats like they're cool, but in reality is hated by all the people who treat them like they're cool when they're around. (For God's sakes people, let's tell him that we think he's an attention-grabbing loser instead of pretending we're his friends when he comes near!)

1. Driving with my mother.

MTV way back when was kinda hit and miss. For every awesomely awesome, or even half-decent, track, there was ten tons of crap.

I'd sit up half the night hoping to catch something great on Headbangers' Ball on Monday nights, but usually came away disappointed, as they only showed big hair nonsense.

Of course, MTV these days eats it raw. Boooh!

VH1 Classic is awesome for music videos, documentaries, and pretty much anything music-related though.

RIP Gary.

Your game has given me countless hours of enjoyment and introduced me to many new people and ideas. Well wishes to you in the great dungeon crawl in the sky.

Oh and Pickman's Model. That's a freaky one.

As for songs about Cthulhu, check out "Cthulhu Dawn" by Cradle of Filth.

Or not.

I just bought it cuz I had an extra buck on iTunes and it had the word Cthulhu in the title. :P

Decent enough song, but it's death metal...so...

ANYWAYS, Cthulhu is a giant beast from a place beyond time who was buried under the ocean in an island prison called R'lyeh. (O R'lyeh? Ya R'lyeh!)

And in the actual short story about him, this one dude finds all this research his uncle or something did on the beast, this police constable stumbles upon a cult of Cthulhu, and a seafaring ship actually sees the thing rise from the ocean!

It became one of his most popular stories, but Cthulhu is only the tip of the iceberg. Lovecraft created an entire pantheon of entities and creatures. My personal favorite and recommended read by him would be Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Long read, but a good one.

Saw it today and loved it. A number of spoilers.

I've just been taking a break from the boards save for a post here or there. This will blow over as soon as 4e comes out. Because what'll happen then is that we'll have it, we'll see it, and we'll either convert or we won't.

And of course, right after I post that and try the link again, it works.

That was great.

Server error for me. Can't see it for some reason.

They are very neat, but $40 neat? Even glowing in the dark, I can't see that.

-The Gneech

To anyone who owns Q-Workshop dice...is there anything special about them other than the really awesome designs etc. that makes them worth more than twice what a normal set of say, Chessex dice are? Cuz I used to think it was because the Q dice were from Germany, but then I noticed that so are Chessex.

Well I hope this is good. I asked for it for Christmas, so if it does suck, it's my family that wasted money and not me.

Last 3.5e Wizards product I'm buying, though.

To put it plainly, I probably will play 4e if three things come up:
-Paizo is able to switch. I love Paizo's world and Paizo's products, so I'm going where they go.
-If the rules are really as simple and fun as they're being made out to be.
-My group is willing to switch. Most of them would rather stay with 3.5 at this point, it seems.

What I don't like about 4e is the fact that they are changing flavor around waaaaay too much. I think someone used the phrase that they were "slaughtering the sacred cows of D&D" or something, and I'm inclined to believe this is true.

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Comin' at ya...
Yo, keep the style in, the kid's checkin' for it.
The number one question is how you could ignore it,
You drop right back in the cut,
Over basement tracks with rap stack,
Got you back in the sunlight-
Rewind that.
Just rollin' with the rhythm.
Rise from the ashes of stylistic division.
With these nonstop lyrics for life-livin',
Not to be forgotten but still unforgiven.
But in the meantime, there are those
Who want to talk this and that, so I suppose
That it gets to a point where feelings gotta get hurt,
And get dirty with the people spreadin' the dirt.
...

Clue:
** spoiler omitted **

Jeez. I thought you guys would guess the 2112 lyrics fast but not that fast.

Today was okay, but tomorrow I'm going to guess we're going to talk about your day in my civics class. We always talk about current events there, it seems.

MaxSlasher26 wrote:

Let's see...next how about this:

Hunt for ogres and dwarves!
Lionslicer!
Run. (Run.)
With. (With.)
DEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAATH!

:)

Mastodon's "Colony of Birchmen". Great band. Great album. Great song.

We've taken care of everything
The words you hear the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes.

It's one for all and all for one
We work together common sons
Never need to wonder how or why.

I actually have liked the art of like the warchanter and Ripnugget in Burnt Offerings. Don't have the others yet but I hope to soon. But at any rate, I think the art has been cool.

MaxSlasher26 wrote:

Let's see...for my next set of lyrics, how about this:

There are no fingerprints
Deep under water
Nothing to tie one to a crime
And if you seek vengeance
All you need are instruments of pain

Hey! I just got this one! Dethkloks "Mermurder"

Close enough. Murmaider, but you knew what you meant as do I.

Let's see...next how about this:

Hunt for ogres and dwarves!
Lionslicer!
Run. (Run.)
With. (With.)
DEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAATH!

:)

Any takers on this one? As much as I hate this band, this song is pretty awesome.

I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain and the end is always near

Too much keyboard. Keyboard sounds cool, but they use the old 60s sounding keyboards. The only song I really care for by them is Peace Frog.

Alrightee... I drew Ameiko.. I'm sure some of you aren't gonna like it (it's pretty different from the version of her in the book), but this is my interpretation of her, so... here ya go:
grantgould.com/art/pathfinder/gould_ameiko400.jpg

I'm definitely printing that one out and showing that to them.

The occasional rare Airship, ala Setzer's Airship from FFVI (FFIII in the US) was one thing. The small proliferation of a single nation having a little fleet of Airships, ala the Kingdom of Baron from FFIV (FFII in the US) still wasn't too bad. The Dwarven tanks was something else...The Tower of Babil and the Giant of Babil being controlled by a giant Computer...okay, there are some problems.

Anything beyond this sort of proliferation starts detracting from the 'fantasy' feel of a game, going a bit more Steampunk or MagiTech crazy. Each of those games, or FFVII and its motorcycles took things too far in at least some regards.

A suggestion for those who want lots of Steampunk and MagiTech stuff, check out Privateer Press' Iron Kingdom's setting. It also has great rules for firearms too. The Gunmage class is rather awesome. I really liked the setting, but when I was involved there were no books but the main Campaign Guide out. I think there are all kinds of things out for it now.

All that said, my games really go for more Fantasy than the other feel. I am going with the grittiness of Golarion for mine. I personally don't want to see Airships in Golarion...it'd be like seeing Firearms in Conan...I just don't want to see it. Some occasional ancient MagiTech or something left over from Azlant is one thing...Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is something else entirely.

Eberron's airships are fine, because if you're playing in Eberron, you are supposed to accept that you are going to be in a world where magic is simulating some modern technology.

Pathfinder on the other hand seems to be more of a traditional fantasy setting. I'd be fine with airships, but I'd rather see like dirigibles or whatever. And even then I would vote for few of them.

Medieval technology for the win!

Are you planning to have a bestiary in it, by the way?

Most campaign setting books (Eberron and FR at least) had a small bestiary in them with some setting unique monsters.
Then again, Pathfinder and the GameMastery modules have bestiaries and new creatures giving us hundreds of new creatures. But still, just wondering.

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Yeah, my Durango, number 95.
Take me to the home,
Kick boots, and ultra-violent.
See heaven, flash and horrorshow.
Knock it nice and smooth,
Step back and watch it flow, yeah.

Hah! I got one!

"Never Gonna Stop" - Rob Zombie

Weird.

I think it reminded me of Black Sunshine by White Zombie. Could be why.

Cthulhu Mythos References+Pathfinder=YES! YES! YES!

I really like the way things are looking for Pathfinder. I'm definitely getting the rest of the AP for Christmas (just finally got started with Burnt Offerings recently), and I'll have to get the campaign book next year.

You guys really know how to flesh out a setting.

Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind.

My Sharrona.

Damn. My internet was down all day and I missed some lyrics I actually knew. No One Knows and See You in Hell.

Oh well, at least I was here in time to answer for Broadsword.

Let's see...for my next set of lyrics, how about this:

There are no fingerprints
Deep under water
Nothing to tie one to a crime
And if you seek vengeance
All you need are instruments of pain

I see a dark sail on the horizon set under a black
cloud that hides the sun.

Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding.
Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman.
Get up to the roundhouse on the cliff-top standing.
Take women and children and bed them down.

Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding.
Bring me my cross of gold as a talisman.
Bless with a hard heart those who surround me.
Bless the women and children who firm our hands.
Put our backs to the north wind. Hold fast by the river.
Sweet memories to drive us on for the motherland.

Iron Maiden's "Run to the hills"!! Huzzah!

Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind.

I'm currently reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo for school.

I was surprised. The book is very good so far. Compared to other classic novels like the Great Gatsby and Great Expectations, this is proving to be a really great read.

Oh. And here's a new one since Drunken Nomad succeeded on my last set of lyrics. Probably the easiest set of lyrics I've posted yet. Mainstream, popular, and an iconic song for an equally iconic band.

Soldier blue on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

and MaxSlasher, its blablablablaGorillaz! "Rock It". Reject false icons. Love Jamie Hewlett's art...that was what initially drew me in, but the songs are too catchy!

I love the song. I'm glad they finally released it on D-Sides. I'm listening to it know.

They call it "Rockit" on the album, but whatever. Same awesome song!

*drowns in a puddle of his own drool*

MaxSlasher26 wrote:

goatface wrote:

Here's mine.

Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo War.
With their fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore.
Through days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees.
They killed to earn their living, and to help out the Congolese.

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner by Warren Zevon.

I love love LOVE that song.

That sunofab&&#! Van Owen...

Holy crap! This thread is still alive!

I agree. Use ettercaps and then resort to ghouls if you run out of those.

Here's mine.

Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo War.
With their fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore.
Through days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees.
They killed to earn their living, and to help out the Congolese.

I love love LOVE that song.