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Dead Letter Circus – The Space On the Wall
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
The Juan Maclean – Happy House (Cut Copy ‘Space Is the Place’ remix)
Bon Iver – Skinny Love
Butterfingers – I Love Work
The Middle East – The Darkest Side
Birds of Tokyo – Silhouettic
LCD Soundsystem – New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down

Architecture in Helsinki – Do The Whirlwind
Soko – I’ll Kill Her
The Cat Empire – So Many Nights
Flight of the Conchords – Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros
Spoon – The Way We Get By
Powderfinger – Passenger (live, acoustic)
Tool – The Patient
Sugar Army – No Need For Lovers
Calling All Cars – Hold, Hold, Fire
Dananananakroyd – Black Wax
Metric – Gold, Guns and Girls
Cassius – Youth, Speed, Trouble, Cigarettes
Peaches – Lose You
TISM – Greg! The Stop Sign!!
Art vs Science – Parlez-Vous Francais?

Are there non-odd occasions with Devo?

Glad to see DEVO's still gettin' some love.

No problem man, better to keep your job than a high post count.

Powderfinger – Good-Day Ray
Tori Amos – Barons of Suburbia
The Chemical Brothers – It Began in Afrika
Filter – (Can’t You) Trip Like I Do
Morcheeba – The Sea
Tori Amos – Parasol
Tool – Vicarious
Garbage – Milk
Alanis Morissette – Wake Up
Raven Maize – The Real Life
W.O.S.P. – Getting Into U
Safri Duo – Played-A-Live (Nick Sentience Mix)
Incubus – 11 am
Regurgitator – Everyday Formula
Powderfinger – Already Gone
Tool – Disposition
Jem – Just a Ride
Flight of the Conchords – Boom

Planet Funk – Chase the Sun (extended vocal mix)
Ben Folds Five – One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
Josh Pyke – The Lighthouse Song
The Offspring – Why Don’t You Get a Job?
Powderfinger – Give
Flight of the Conchords – Foux Du Fafa
Regurgitator – The Song Formerly Known As
Metric – Help, I’m Alive (acoustic)
Powderfinger – Belter
Linkin Park – In Between
Foo Fighters – Big Me
The Mavis’s – Naughty Boy
The Offspring – Feelings
Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People
The Mars Volta – Televators
Santagold – L.E.S. Artistes
Tori Amos – Bells For Her
Regurgitator – I Like Your Old Stuff Better Than Your New Stuff
Tumbleweed – Daddy Long Legs

The Mavis’s – Thunder
The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
Howling Bells – Cities Burn Down
Jay Z (featuring Alicia Keys) – Empire State of Mind
Muse – Undisclosed Desires
Sarah Blasko – Bird on a Wire
The Dead Weather – I Cut Like a Buffalo
The Pigs (featuring John Williamson) – All The Single Ladies (cover)
Underground Lovers – Losin It
Regurgitator – Black Bugs
Killing Heidi – Weir
Silverchair – Tomorrow
Paul Dempsey – Fast Friends
The Whitlams – Charlie #2 (Buy Now Pay Later)
Spiderbait – Buy Me a Pony
Jebediah – Leaving Home
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
Cake – The Distance
Tim Rogers – Heavy Heart (live)
The Breeders – Safari
Tame Impala – Half Full Glass of Wine
Spiderbait – Calypso

Mothman wrote:

I still have a question on when (and with which issue) my Bestiary will ship, it currently shows it shipping with CoT 4 not 3.

I have fixed this and we will get your books shipped out to you as soon as possible.

thanks,
cos

I still have a question on when (and with which issue) my Bestiary will ship, it currently shows it shipping with CoT 4 not 3.

Mothman wrote:

Hey, are you still job hunting? How's it going?

I had a good (I think) interview yesterday.

(According to various works of fiction I’ve seen or read), torture is actually not a very good way to get accurate information out of someone. Apply enough pain (or sleep deprivation or fear of dying or whatever) and most people will start talking – but they are just as likely (or more likely) to tell their torturer what they think they want to hear, or what they think will get the pain to stop – not necessarily the truth. Something to keep in mind if you apply a mechanic that forces the PC to ‘spill their guts’ as it were with a failed save or something.

If you want a minimum of work as a Gm, then go for the modules or AP's written after the Pathfinder rules were finalised. Crypt of the everflame is good as a starter stand alone module (It's set for 1st level characters, written for the new rules by the author of the rules).

Mothman wrote:

Sounds like a fun game Pat, but I've been finding lately that I'm struggling to keep up with the games I'm in. I'll pass, but good luck with recruiting.

Thanks man. Hope life gives you a bit of a break soon! :)

Hey, are you still job hunting? How's it going?

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

My girlfriend and I have been listening to Springman Records Presents: Return of the Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club Sampler 2: the Reckoning: Electric Boogaloo (Compilations Ain't Dead) pretty much nonstop all day.

What type of genre is that Shiny?

Me I just got a Amy Winehouse CD as a gift. Listened to it yesterday, really not my cuppa.

Sounds like a fun game Pat, but I've been finding lately that I'm struggling to keep up with the games I'm in. I'll pass, but good luck with recruiting.

So I guess CoT volume 3 is going to ship in December after all?

Customer Service peeps, I have a few question; I’ve just checked ‘My Subscriptions’ – most recent volume shipped is listed as CoT volume 2, next volume to be shipped is CoT volume 4 (in December) along with the Bestiary. So, question is, what happened to Volume 3? I assume what is listed is an error? Any eta on Volume 3 as yet? I would like my Bestiary to be shipped with the next volume of adventure path (presumably Volume 3).

Thanks!

Something For Kate – Jerry Stand Up
Tool – Eulogy
Tool – Hooker With A Penis
Massive Attack – What Your Soul Sings
The Beautiful Girls – I Thought About You
Powderfinger – Take Me In
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Paul Mac – Just the Thing (Sgt Click’s Vynal Voyage Club mix)
Massive Attack – Safe From Harm
Tori Amos – Talula (The Tornado mix)
Something For Kate – Feeding The Birds and Hoping For Something In Return
Linkin Park – By Myself
The Offspring – Way Down the Line
Korn – Seed
Seth Sentry – Train Catcher
Spiderbait – f~*!en Awesome
The Phenomenal Hand Clap Band – Fifteen to Twenty
Tame Impala – Desire Be Desire Go
Sia – Buttons
Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl
Lisa Mitchell – Clean White Love
Ladyhawke – Message To My Girl (cover)
The Basics – With This Ship
Devo – Freedom of Choice

White Rabbits – Percussion Gun
Mariachi El Bronx – I Will Die For You (live)
Karen O and the Kids – All Is Love
Matias Aguayo – Rollerskate
The Mess Hall – Bare
The Juan Maclean – Happy House (Cut Copy ‘Space is the Place’ remix)
Paul Dempsey – Fast Friends (live)
John Butler Trio – One Way Road
The Mars Volta – Cotopaxi
Royksopp – Tricky Tricky
Eskimo Joe – Who Sold Her Out
They Might Be Giants – Meet the Elements
Air – So Light is Her Footfall
The Mess Hall – New Ornithology
Gorillaz – Dirty Harry
Scenario Rock – Skitzo Dancer
The Offspring – All I Want
The Offspring – Mota
The Tea Party – A Certain Slant of Light
Tori Amos (with Damien Rice) – The Power of Orange Knickers
REM – New Orleans Instrumental Number 1
Powderfinger – Don’t Want To Be Left Out
Cold War Kids – Something Is Not Right With Me
Incubus – Blood on the Ground
A Perfect Circle – The Outsider
Art vs Science – Flippers
Incubus – Under My Umbrella
Powderfinger – Over My Head

Flight of the Conchords – Carol Brown
Devin Townsend Project – Hyperdrive
Robyn – Konichiwa b&~!#es
Foo Fighters – Everlong (live)
Linkin Park – Faint
Limp Bizkit – I Would For You (live)
REM – Everybody Hurts
Jane Siberry – It Can’t Rain All the Time
Way Out West – Intensify (Part 1)
Slusnik Luna – Sun (Ambassador remix)
Modest Mouse – Dashboard
The Offspring – She’s Got Issues
Bat For Lashes – Sleep Alone
Lily Allen – The Fear
Alanis Morisette – You Learn
Garbage – Vow
The Whitlams – No Aphrodisiac
Tori Amos – In the Springtime of his Voodoo
Incubus – Mexico
Nick Barker – Time Bomb
The Offspring – No Brakes
Alanis Morisette – Hand In My Pocket

Sorry for being a bit quiet myself - went on an all-night bender with my boss yesterday and recovering today.

Hi Josh. I personally like the Adventure Paths, but if you want to check out a few modules before you buy, two of them, Hollow’s Last Hope and Revenge of the Kobold King are available as free PDFs at the Paizo store.

No problem. Real sorry to hear about your friend and your grandfather.

Actually, I should have read your last post (or the game thread) before I posted my apology - looks like I havent missed much ;-)

Which issue of KQ is your latest work in?

Bondi Beach on a nice, sunny spring afternoon.

Our baby will be born around March 27th and it's a girl.

:)

Thanks guys. I suppose you have to be thankful that things are not worse than they are - and that I'm in a position to be at least some help and comfort to my family and friends.

Apologies for my lack of posting recently. A much busier than normal week or two at work, combined with real life dramas and computer problems at home have conspired to keep me away from Paizo for the most part for the last week or so. I’m not sure when things will calm down at work (and in life) but at least the computer at home is fixed, so hopefully my posting rate will get back to something approaching normal.

Apologies for my lack of posting recently. A much busier than normal week or two at work, combined with real life dramas and computer problems at home have conspired to keep me away from Paizo for the most part for the last week or so. I’m not sure when things will calm down at work (and in life) but at least the computer at home is fixed, so hopefully my posting rate will get back to something approaching normal.

Apologies for my lack of posting recently. A much busier than normal week or two at work, combined with real life dramas and computer problems at home have conspired to keep me away from Paizo for the most part for the last week or so. I’m not sure when things will calm down at work (and in life) but at least the computer at home is fixed, so hopefully my posting rate will get back to something approaching normal.

Apologies for my lack of posting recently. A much busier than normal week or two at work, combined with real life dramas and computer problems at home have conspired to keep me away from Paizo for the most part for the last week or so. I’m not sure when things will calm down at work (and in life) but at least the computer at home is fixed, so hopefully my posting rate will get back to something approaching normal.

Apologies for my lack of posting recently. A much busier than normal week or two at work, combined with real life dramas and computer problems at home have conspired to keep me away from Paizo for the most part for the last week or so. I’m not sure when things will calm down at work (and in life) but at least the computer at home is fixed, so hopefully my posting rate will get back to something approaching normal.

Yes, this game has been slow, and I have to put my hand up as being at least partly to blame for that (as evidenced by me being the last one to respond here to this). I think there’s been a perceived lack of enthusiasm / commitment, and while that might not actually be the case, (everyone no doubt has good reasons for not posting as often as they would like), everybody is sort of feeding off that.

For my part I have no good excuse except that real life has continued to be pretty much as busy for me as when we first started character creation (I had reason to expect that things would calm down and give me more time – for the most part they have not) and that a few breaks, stop-starts and such sort of broke the momentum for me.

Having said all of that, I was (and still am) really enthusiastic about the concept for this game and having French Wolf DM. I want to keep going if everybody else does and, things like what has been going on for me for the past week or so aside, I should be able to keep up a regular posting rate. Experience tells me, that when I’m in a game that tends to be healthy and going along at a clipping rate, those will be the first games I check and post to every day. If a game seems slow paced or there’s a perception that players are unenthused, I’ll tend to check those games last … and if I’m busy, and I don’t get a chance to post to everything, those are the games that miss out.

So I can’t promise that real life will allow me to post as much as I’d like right now, but to see that most everyone else seems to still be enthusiastic about this game has re-kindled my own enthusiasm. Posting at least thrice a week should not be a problem.

FW (and all), my apologies, I've been away from the site for most of the last week (crazy busy at work, real life dramas and suckage, and computer problems at home) and have only just seen this development. Catching up. Let me digest and try to respond.

My grandfather went into hospital for quite urgent heart surgery a few weeks ago. The operation was a success for the most part, but there were complications and he’s had to stay confined to the intensive care unit (and undergo several follow up surgeries and procedures) to deal with improperly reset ribs and internal infections. He’s a pretty active and social guy for someone his age, and being bed-ridden (and without many visitors, given the restrictions on visitors to the ICU) is taking its toll on him. He’s started to get really frustrated at the situation and has been ripping off / out drips and breathing masks and stuff and trying to get out (which is probably only increasing the time he needs to stay there). He’s also been getting confused about where he is and why he is there, and having hallucinations. The various follow up procedures keep getting delayed and postponed, sometimes for several days (a sign of our woefully under-funded, under-staffed and mis-managed hospital system) which just adds to his and my family’s frustration. It’s really hard for everyone.

On top of that, I found out recently that a friend of mine has cancer. He’s a young guy, only about 27. They operated, but couldn’t remove all of the cancerous tissue, so he’s about to start chemotherapy. Life does suck sometimes.

This is awesome beyond compare dude! Well done to you and the kids. Looks amazing.

Metric – Help, I’m Alive (acoustic)
Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart (Familjen remix)
Harlequin League – All Your Wars Are Won
Foo Fighters – The Pretender
Nirvana – About a Girl
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! – Libra Tango Cancer
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! – War Coward
Devoted Few – Trigger Fingers
Gyroscope – Snakeskin
Hilltop Hoods – Recapturing the Vibe Restrung
Klaxons – Golden Skans
Midnight Juggernauts – Into the Galaxy
Missy Higgins – Peachy
A Perfect Circle – Vanishing
Tool – Parabola
Tool – Reflection
Eskimo Joe – Foreign Land
Basement Jaxx – Romeo
Limp Bizkit – Rollin’ (Urban Assault Vehicle)
Grinspoon – Chemical Heart (acoustic)
Marcy Playground – A Cloak of Elvenkind
Filter – I’m Not the Only One
Lupe Fiasco – Shining Down
Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom

James Jacobs wrote:

GRRRR!

It would have probably been a magical beast or an aberration. But only for a few moments before it ended up on the cutting room floor, along with the duckbear, the quackapus, the dire mallard, and the duck of ill omen.

HA have at you JJ

Duckbear
N Large Magical Aberration

Try again now Yoda, seems to be working

EDIT: um, spoke too soon

Anyone else having problems getting into the alternate chat room?

Glad you had a good day Erik.

Here's my group's entry in the "suckiest PbP ending of all time" contest. Sometimes life really kicks you in the teeth.

Thanks for the insight Aubrey.

I hear you on the 3.5 game prep time thing, although its not really that much of an issue for me – or rather, its so much of an issue that I rarely contemplate writing original adventures anymore. Since I’ve started running 3.5 I’ve pretty much exclusively used canned games, adventure paths etc. If I want to create or add encounters I tend to use ‘standard’ monsters straight from the book or steal NPCs from other published sources (treasure and all). So prep time is usually no more than reading and understanding the adventure and taking a few notes for myself, maybe drawing out a couple of battlemaps.

The increased number of encounters per session seems good, although I’ve heard some contradictory feedback on that. I haven’t followed any recent conversations on the matter, maybe now that people are getting more familiar with the new rules it is generally proving faster.

Getting through only one or two combat encounters in a session (in 3.x) is certainly a frustration in a lot of the games I’ve run, but I tend to find a lot of that seems to be down to players spending a lot of time planning, discussing options and just generally dithering, rather than the combats taking excessively long to run (though of course all of that can happen in the midst of the combat encounter too).

What is it, do you think, that speeds up combat in 4e?

ChrisRevocateur wrote:

My girlfriend said she saw the guy from Twilight wearing a painted leather with The Subhumans on it, so umm.... yeah, it seems there's a trend there that I don't like.

I don't care for it much, either. Especially when a girl wearing a Specials shirt (I presume from Hot Topic) came into the deli I manage and asked who performed the song that was playing (we run my mp3 player through the system, radio sucks).

The band playing? Yeah, it was The Specials.

Does she play a vampire? Maybe she's supposed to have been made in the eighties and she's in character.

Or she's just trying to be cool.

Yeah man, doesn’t matter if some tween idol chick or whoever she is is wearing the shirt. Punk died when someone put it on a t shirt and sold it.

So Aubrey, you’re probably the only one of us playing much (if any) 4e at the moment. A year on (or however long its been out) what’s your experience been? Easier to run than previous editions? Quicker game play? Have you had a chance to be at the other side of the table, or have you only DM’d so far?

In an alternate reality (where the GSL was out and user friendly, and Wizards released a years worth of 4e material at the get-go) do you think the stories that Paizo has been telling with the APs would work as well in 4e as 3.x?

Sorry guys, I have had a busy couple of weeks and other priorities, and have let this game lag. I will try to catch up shortly.

Muse – Knights of Cydonia
Powderfinger – The Day You Come
Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
Tool – The Grudge
Sono – Keep Control
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
Penny Flannagan and the New Moon – Lap It Up
Foo Fighters – Marigold
Pantera – The Badge
The Mars Volta – Day of the Baphomets
A Perfect Circle – The Nurse Who Loved Me
New Order – Crystal (Digwood and Muir Bedrock remix)
Korn – Children of the Korn
A Perfect Circle – Pet
REM – Nightswimming
The Mars Volta – Meccamputecture
Tori Amos – Cloud On My Tongue
Something For Kate – Happy Endings

Dotted!

Ohhhh! You can see the thread while posting now! That is great! I love it!

Sorry to hear about your job Pat. Good luck.

Ah Paizo, what has it come to? But yeah, I think a lot of it is just the internet - it gives jerks, losers and whiners a place to voice their opinion and feel important (the second best thing about the internet, after all the porn).

At least we still have each other. [/cheesy]