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So did you actually bring the books and they said to put them away, or are they so scared of D&D that in orientation they added, "and for the love of Christ, DON'T BRING D&D BOOKS!"?

Weird that a center for talented youth wouldn't let people play D&D. You have to be pretty talented to pick up on the rules.

I'm pretty sure it will just have small bits of info about many of the demon lords that haven't been covered yet.

Hey thanks for posting those new avatars Gary, there's some really cool ones in this lot.

I wonder how long till we have half a dozen Demogorgons on the boards? ;-)

What are you talking about? Who would ever use Demogorgon as their avatar.

>_> <_<

(PS: Only one other user is using this avatar last I checked. If more than three people (including myself) pick it, I'm changing back. I'm trying to use an avatar that very (read: VERY) few people use.)

I think a lot of people disappeared after Dragon and Dungeon were cancelled.

Many felt that the online-ification of Dragon and Dungeon was something like zombification. If you kill something and raise it as a zombie...it's just not gonna be the same. (That's probably a horrible analogy, but hopefully you get the picture.)

Anyways, someone from Paizo even said (I don't remember where I saw it) that less people would probably hang out here when Dragon and Dungeon are finally said and done.

All I know is that I'm here to stay. You all are way better than most of the people on the Wizards messageboards.

Thanks for posting this! I've been looking for it forever!

PS: I'll turn it into a linky.

PPS: Lol, "Anyone want to play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?"

Mike McArtor wrote:

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Gleemax? ;-)

The bastard must have traveled back in time and manipulated poor Denis Beauvois. (Jeez, I hope I spelled that right...)

Oh, I hope one of the stores near me carries some Paizo stuff.

Thanks for the info.

Here's the original thread.

And here's a linkified version of the photo's web address.

there's some new art to go with the new article; we got to see only the unfinished pieces, but they look pretty similar to the old covers.

I noticed it says there are six monsters.

Are those king, queen, knight, bishop, rook, and pawn?

Though the spoiler mentions the black king specifically...unless you made one monster and gave the white version of each different powers from the black version of each.

Wow, thanks for the fast reply Georg.

Monsters of Faerun? That seems strange ... I don't recall it particularly being a FR monster in previous editions. Could be wrong though.

I think they just stuck it there because they didn't have anywhere else to put it. That or they wanted only the most hardcore FR fans to get it.

Cuz you gotta admit, no one who doesn't like FR a lot is gonna buy that book. I only bought it becasue I was new to D&D, and more monsters at such a cheap price seemed like a steal. Now it's 2007 and I have no idea where the damn thing is.

Ooh ooh! Well screw going to Kohl's next time I need more t-shirts! I've got to get some of these!

I started this thread ages ago, my son dug it up to introduce himself when I finally let him get a profile, so technically, we're all saying hi to Alien Spawn.

Ah.

Well in that case: Hey there, Alien Spawn!

I think that now that Revenge of the Sith is out Star Wars campaigns can really bloom. Now you dont have to worry about messing with the basic story line and can build off of it a little better than you could before. Just the Clone Wars itself would be a great background for an epic campaign and never really have to touch anything in the movies or the main characters. One of the things I ve always struggled with was how to run a SW camapign in which the players would not feel as if their living in the shadows of Obi-Wan, Luke, Han and the rest of the main characters, and that their actions where just as if not more important than than the original SW cast of characters.

To that effect, you could always do a quest of some sort that takes place far before the movies...one in which the players must save some pregnant woman from Tattooine who (as you reveal after the campaign is over) is the mother of Shmi Skywalker.

Fun times when your heroic PCs realize they've just inadvertently stopped the prevention of Darth Vader ever coming into existence. (That is, unless they metagame and come back and kill Shmi Skywalker. Though that'd be interesting, because they would get locked away in a nuthouse if they said the reason they killed someone was because her "kid would be evil...trust us.")

C'mon though Max, you've been here for a while!

Oh.

I just thought we were all saying hello to Lady Lena. Though she's been here for a while now, I guess.

She's probably at least seen one of my posts in some other thread anyways.

My D&D group and I celebrated the 4th of July like we always do.

Well, not quite like we always do. We still played Magic the Gathering and D&D, but this time we also played Guitar Hero 2 and Cranium.

Oh, and we had to do our fireworks a few blocks away because some guy threatened to call the cops on us...because his dog was barking at the fireworks.

Cool. I like this domain.

What's the difference between charter and just a normal subscriber?

Linkified!

Does anybody else think it would be cool to have character sheets specifically designed for the GameMastery and Pathfinder modules?

They would pretty much be the same as D&D sheets, but would be stylistically different. Sort of like how Wizards makes Eberron character sheets that look like D&D sheets, but have Eberron-y designs.

Who else is with me?

To further simplify:

GameMastery is D&D except it's not called D&D and cannot use certain D&D monsters etc.

Otherwise, it plays pretty much the same. You could still use D&D character sheets for GameMastery. (Though it would be cool if you could download GameMastery character sheets from this site...)

Poo gnomes FTW!

kikai13 wrote:

However, somebody at Paizo must have known that it was going to rain that day, when my shipment was delivered, because they had put my items inside a mailer, and then wrapped plastic around said mailer, before placing the mailer inside the box!

I think you might have to credit the post office for the plastic on that one.

But if you say that, then he can no longer be in awe of Paizo's weather-divining powers! You should have waited for a month or so until he'd forgotten about the whole thing and then mentioned that it wasn't actually Paizo.

Heck, he might not even see the post if it's long enough away from when he actually got the order.

Oooh! The modules are designed for 25-point buy? I like, I like. I've always wanted an excuse to use 25-point buy.

EDIT: Sorry, I guess that was a little threadjack-y. I, personally, don't ever use action points. I'm just not a big fan of the mechanic. However, I've never seen an adventure in which you should specifically not use them.

GAMERS MUST NOT SEE:

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS (2000) or
D&D: WRATH OF THE DRAGON GOD (2005)

please, please don't see them.

I'm surprised only Celestial Healer mentioned Ladyhawk (or did I miss it in some of those lists).

I just wanted to mention that one again because some crappier fantasy movies are getting mentioned more often....

Hey, the second one isn't too bad. I wouldn't recommend purchasing it, but I wouldn't say to not watch it.

The first one, though. That is a nightmare of epic proportions. You are better off watching The Phantom Menace Special Jar-Jar Edit (50% more Jar-Jar!) eighty times in a row than to even touch the first D&D movie.

Oh, and to my knowledge, The Phantom Menace Special Jar-Jar Edit doesn't actually exist. At least I hope not...

Most of the Firefly/Serenity characters are good examples of the personalities of common D&D PCs.

Hayao Miyazaki has a lot of good fantastic inspiration, especially in Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle.

The three Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies are the obvious choices for must see gamer movies.

300 was a good representation (for me at least) of how cool mass combat can be. It also gave me lots of ideas for more illustrative attack descriptions.

The second D&D movie is a pretty good investment of time if you just rent it or something. Not the best representation of D&D ever, but it's certainly better than the first D&D movie...

Eragon wasn't a great representation of the book in my opinion, but when I saw it, I thought a lot about long journeys in fantasy...especially when they have a montage of sorts of Brom and Eragon traveling across the country.

Star Wars is another obvious choice, though it isn't so much for direct inspiration as it is for a general overview of a common campaign-type plotline. All of the common twists of a D&D campaign, and all of the basic story elements of fantasy can be found in Star Wars.

And I think that's about it for now...

Okay, I'll chime in as a fan.

...
Bumblebee was not a VW beetle...

That's what it was. A VW bug. I remember someone at my FLGS mentioned it. I think that Volkswagon just refused to give the rights to the car itself to the movie.

I don't see why, but oh well.

I loved the movie. I wasn't a hardcore fan of Transformers, though, so if they made some changes, I wouldn't have noticed.

I heard something about Bumblebee being a different car in the cartoons, but that's about it. This lips thing is new to me. I can't remember too much about the old cartoons.

I too thought this was a terrific adventure. I'm highly considering using it as part of my next campaign.

Sweet! They must have decided that since it was leaked on ENWorld, they might as well put it up on their site.

Definitely not STAP. I like it, but I don't think my players would be able to handle it. Some of the things in it (especially the whole pirate air) would lead them to completely veer off of the campaign and decide to become pirates and on and on until they've forgotten who Demogorgon or Vanthus are. On the other hand, STAP is the AP that I have the most adventures from. I only am lacking the very first adventure.

SCAP would be fun, but one of my players already owns the hardcover, so he would already know everything...

AOW would probably be the most fun for my group, but I would need a hardcover book for it, because I only have a smattering of the adventures in it.

So I guess I take it back. STAP would be the one I'd run, if only because I'd only need to buy one magazine issue to actually run it. (Well, three I suppose, since I still don't have the last two adventures...)

Hello! I'm MaxSlasher26! Or just MaxSlasher. Heck, most people call me Max if they happen to reply to any of my posts at all.

I've been around here for a while, but I only really started to frequent these boards after I realized that everyone here is kinder and less whiny than some of the jerks over on the Wizards boards.

Viva la messageboards!

There should be a town square with a big tessellation design on it. Like those interlocking lizards from MC Escher's work. Except not lizards, it would have to be something more interesting.

Happy 4th!

Heck, I never noticed it was Juiblex until the second D&D movie.

Where are they? I don't see anywhere that lists where the Kwik-E-Marts are located! For all I know, one could be within my area!

Why the hell are we paying $40 for 1 demon?!?!

MacFarlane's dragons go way beyond the detail/paint achieved in D&D minis and are far more affordable.

Why the hell are we paying 2-3 times more for 1 dragon?!?!

I agree that the gargantuan and colossal minis are far too expensive, though I might wind up buying this Orcus one.

I also agree that MacFarlane dragons are way better in detail and such. I have one sitting at my desk right now. It would be gargantuan in D&D, and could pass for a red dragon, black dragon, or half-red black dragon (or half-black red dragon, whatever you think).

I vote yes for this too!

Eight pages of straight politics...

I *still* want to see a party of all bards.

It will either wipe the floor with everything, or die. Miserably. A lot.

Oddly enough, if I offered up that idea to my group, I think they'd take it. My group is oddly fond of bards.

F2K, your video is hilarious!

In exorably toward the rift.

Haha!

(And in the Jones Soda one, was one of the soda flavors antacid, or were those the fizzy things put in afterwards? Cuz he says antacid as he's pouring the pink soda, but cherry pie is also mentioned.)

PulpCruciFiction wrote:

You could also normally not tip her come Christmas if you're unhappy with the service, though if you're moving this probably isn't an option.

Tip? ...

...

Maybe that's where this all came from; I've never tipped the letter carrier. I didn't know people did that since, like, 1947...

Tip?

I didn't think people tipped anyone since like 1947.

This could explain why waiters so tend to dislike me...

Don't worry guys. WotC is looking over whatever else you sent in and you can still hope they ask you if they can post it up in their DI Content ;)

It may be the end, but it can also be a new beginning. :D

Bleh.

If it's not free, I'm not bothering. I hate PDFs. They take forever to scroll through, and they're a b&$&+ to get to the gaming table. You have to print freaking full-color pages (which is bad if you're using a lot).

It could be worse actually.

I've discovered that I don't have a mailperson, but in fact a lady who lives down the street from me delivers my mail. And she can leave her house to deliver it any damn time she wants.

And what's worse is that I am on the end of her route, so sometimes I've gotten mail at 5 pm. Which is aggravating, especially if a new Dragon is supposed to be showing up soon.

Luckily, she usually gets the magazines together in good shape except for one (347, I think) which came torn and bent up like crazy. It was still readable though, so I decided I'd only complain if they continued to show up beat.

This certainly has made me more excited than ever to get this thing and run it.

Here's a really simple one that I love. I think it was intended by designers.

Use a yuan-ti abomination's aversion ability on a melee fighter to make him stay away from it. Then have it use baleful polymorph to turn one of the fighter's allies into a snake. Maybe throw in one more normal snake or another weaker yuan-ti.

Put it in a small area so the fighter is either cornered, or must stay in the aversion area and take the Dex penalty.

>:D

I love this thread.

Mmmm...

A half-dragon tibbit....

Aww...

I'd post a picture, but I don't have anything besides MySpace...and mine's private, so you'd be able to see the picture...but not the one I want to show.

Oh, and Tegan (I think), you have Knights of Cydonia on your MySpace! Awesome! I love that song!

Seeing this discussion of Cthulhu video games reminded me of a post I made in the 'Books' section a few days ago:

Speaking of Lovecraft, since there is no 'Video Games' section, have any of you played the game "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" for the Nintendo Gamecube? It's VERY heavily based on mythos elements and CoC in general. Your character even has a SANITY meter! You can learn to cast spells by invoking the names of some of the Great Old Ones (which drains some of your sanity when used), fight horrific creatures (which drain sanity when you even SEE them), and all sorts of other crazy stuff. When your sanity gets low, the walls will start to bleed, you can hear laughter coming from nowhere, and occassional shadows will flicker around the screen. When your sanity gets REALLY low, your character can fall through the solid floor of a room (only to snap back to his senses immediately afterwards), or, if you stand around idle long enough, your character will actually KILL HIMSELF!!!

It's so badass. Highly recommended for mythos fans.

I remember reading an article about this game years ago. It showed a painting in the area your character explores with full sanity, and then showed what it looks like after your sanity goes down.

Twas wicked cool-looking.