Nicolas Logue's page

Hi Everyone!

Sorry the site is out of action! I am having some trouble getting it up and running and I'm also updating it for the endgame of Sinister as a sinking ship with just two products (and one wave of Indulgences left to come).

Those concerned about refunds - just email me at loguen@essex.ac.uk and I'll process those for you as quickly as possible - I'm slowly slogging my way through them all, but its a load of looking up order histories so its taking longer than I would have liked. Sorry for the delays on the repays! Shoot me an email and I will sort you all out! No refund left behind!

Nick

Hi All!

Terribly sorry! Not sure why I haven't received these requests for reimbursements. Please try the following email and I'll process any refunds IMMEDIATELY (or at least within 24 hours).
Email: loguen@essex.ac.uk

Sorry again!

Nick

bullonir wrote:

I'm just not excited about it anymore...

Sadly, the same goes for me and I shelled out the pre-order money. But after waiting this long...I'm kinda over it. That's why I asked for a refund and got no response. None. Not even, "Sorry, we've already spent your money so you're in whether you want to be or not!" At least some type of response would have been something.

Hi Hedgeknight!

Not sure why I didn't get your email. Shoot me one again on nflogue@hotmail.com - I'll refund you immediately.

Nick

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Thanks for hanging in there everyone, and thanks for the offer LPJ! I'll have more news to report soon!

Not a problem! Like I said, if you need anything and I can help, let me know.

Thanks again, Louis!

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Justin Sluder wrote:

Good to hear the end of the tunnel is nearing.

Will you be at PaizoCon this year? If so, I will be hunting you down to get you to sign a few things. ;)

I wish! EGADS I wish!

Sadly I'm still in term then - teaching eats my life, even if I love it. I'd love to throw down on some dice in Seattle!

I've got a little group of die-hards here who I play with, but I miss the madness of every night game-a-thons!

More Importantly... will I see you again at GenCon?...

Gods I hope! I'm supposed to go to Bali for three weeks right around the con (project for my day job). I'm trying to wrangle the dates so I can hit Gencon and then fly off to Bali right after. Rock!

Good to hear the end of the tunnel is nearing.

Will you be at PaizoCon this year? If so, I will be hunting you down to get you to sign a few things. ;)

I wish! EGADS I wish!

Sadly I'm still in term then - teaching eats my life, even if I love it. I'd love to throw down on some dice in Seattle!

I've got a little group of die-hards here who I play with, but I miss the madness of every night game-a-thons!

Hi Everyone!

Sorry for being swallowed up for a week! My day job exploded last week in a HUGE way, but I think I finally fixed everything, and am able to settle into some Sinister work again now.

First and foremost: Apologies to all you very patient and lovely Sinister fans. I know we've had enough trauma-drama with Sinister to flesh out ten full seasons of a bad t.v. show and my lack of publishing acumen along with enough life changes to confuse even me, has slowed the release of our big projects by AGES.

That said, RC is looking good for release very soon. My magic statblock checkers are hard at work making sure my math doesn't suck too much (it does believe me), and I am already working on the Pathfinder conversion of RC from the OGL it was originally written for.

We are waiting on a couple of maps that I needed to make changes too, but beyond that we are closing up on the finish line.

Hope that update helps.

LPJ: Thanks for the offer! I love your work and have no doubt you would do RC justice - however, for a bundle of reasons I can't hand it off. I appreciate the offer of help though, and I'll definitely email you if I think of a way you can help me get this puppy out the door faster. Mostly it comes down to me being tied up too often with my day job - which is ridiculously busy, if fun, and not realizing all the staggering challenges of putting out a book of the size and quality of RC. One reason its taking so long is that I want to make sure I do it RIGHT, and don't let my fans down. This is taking much longer than I expected, but I can't let expediency take one jot of awesomeness from RC.

Thanks for hanging in there everyone, and thanks for the offer LPJ! I'll have more news to report soon!

Nick

Hey guys!

Sorry for the silence! I'm putting updates on my site, but I haven't been skulking around my favorite old haunt here at Paizo for a bit!

Quick update: I am feeling much better, I kicked bronchitis and it kicked me, but we've finally put it all behind us! ;-)

Sadly, my wife sustained a head injury on Friday and I lost my weekend looking after her and going in and out of A&E (that's Brit for "Emergency Room"). She has a concussion, but she's feeling a little better now.

It shakes out to me losing a weekend of Sinister work though (that's my prime time for chipping away at projects). Just to keep you all updated.

I've gotten to follow up with my cartographer and we are closer to getting our last few maps for RC, and things are looking firmer on a January release.

I did lose some time I intended to bring to bear on the next wave of Indulgences though, so we're behind a bit now there. Also, I lost the time I was going to use to finalize some blog posts for Sinister Minds and Sneak Peeks - expect to see them next weekend though!

Sorry for the delays!

Nick

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Check it out here: Sinister Minds At Work

Ah, you wrote about mr. Pett in the paragraphs titled 'Monster Redefined' and 'Encounter with a Monster', didn't you? ;)

If I had, it would have been more like "Encounter with a Pervy Old Briton." ;-)

Hey Nick, just ordered Razor Coast and had a question about the rules version. Do you have an email that I can contact you at? Thanks!

edit: Never mind, just got a confirmation email that I can reply to.

Rock!

The confirmation emails will go out as soon as layout is done with RC and it goes to the printer. Soon now!

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Christine Brockley-Blatt wrote:

Thanks Nick. Just ordered mine.

Can I pass my curse onto my husband Brock for the game he runs for me?

Chris

Pass that curse along and have him email me! No problem!

Argh, given a second-hand curse by my own wife!

Email sent - hopefully my twisted prose isn't a curse on you :)

Ha! Your curse has begun! Can't wait to continue cursing you!

FOR ANYONE WHO RESPONDED TO THE CURSE AND HASN'T HEARD FROM ME YET, PING ME WITH ANOTHER EMAIL!

I got backlogged on the curses, and some emails may have slipped through the cracks. Hit me, baby, one more time, and I shall curse you!

Very cool sounding sneak peek. I plan to order this... as soon as RC shows up or at least the PDF does. :)

Rock!

Layout is a rocking and rolling on Razor Coast! Thank ye gods!

Pre-order price for AGC will be around for awhile!

Dear Mr. Logue,

Charles Evans 25 is unable to post to this thread right now, for reasons involving a smart alec answer about the air speed velocity of a coconut-laden swallow, but if he were able to come to this thread and post, he would like to know a number of things:
1) May entries for the Sinister Adventures monster or treasure hoard competition which were not selected by yourself be reworked and submitted for Wayfinder #2, which apparently is desperately short of crunch?
2) What evil article of infinite doom and peril have you and Mr. Pett contributed to Wayfinder #2? If not such a fiendish article, what advertisements? If neither article nor advertisements, how did yourself and Mr. Pett not come to know that the Demon Queen of Victuals and the slippery amphibian are taking submissions for Wayfinder #2 at this very moment?
3) What is your credit card number?

Actually, he didn't want to know that last one, but I, however, was interested in discovering if (by changing your credit card account the FBI approved 12 times) you had covered over the evidence of that 'minor misdemeanour' featuring three starspawn, a carniverous plant, and a two gallon drum of illegal mindflayer extracts that was the real reason that you missed that meeting with Yoda...

Your Evil Overlord,

Smagnavast the Black.

Smagnavast!

Tell Charles he can indeed resubmit his submissions to Wayfinder and I look forward to seeing them in the pages of that fine fine fanzine!

Sadly, my busy-ass schedule has kept me from contributing to Wayfinder - GAH! Soon though! Soon!

My credit card number would not avail anyone much good these days. :-)

How much for the anarchy d20? :-)

Ha! Many have asked the same question...must make it happen now! :-)

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Check it out here: Sinister Minds At Work

Umm, once again a direct link to somewhere actually inside the Sinister site does not seem to work for Internet Explorer. In such cases I would recommend going to the sinster index page *link* and clicking on the 'Sinister Minds' option at the top if you want to see it. (It is the piece currently dated the 1st October, 2009.)

Thanks Charles!

:)

I almost added a post from one of my aliases, The Countess Almathrada, commenting on the differences between a monster and a lady but I didn't want to threadjack this thread uninvited like quite that.
Isn't it about time you updated your profile? At the time of my posting this it says you're still in Honolulu, and mentions Dungeon and Dragon magazines, but not Sinister Adventures.
(You could even put a link to the index page of Sinister Adventures in your profile, maybe...)

Ha! Just re-read my bio on there. Forgot I wrote that!

What are we looking at for page count?

It will be at least 60 pages...but potentially much much more (hence the low pre-order price).

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Check it out here: Sinister Minds At Work

Umm, once again a direct link to somewhere actually inside the Sinister site does not seem to work for Internet Explorer. In such cases I would recommend going to the sinster index page *link* and clicking on the 'Sinister Minds' option at the top if you want to see it. (It is the piece currently dated the 1st October, 2009.)

Thanks Charles!

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Set wrote:

Wizard's Duels Done Right sounds intriguing...

Wizards Duels are potentially THE single most exciting thing about fantasy gaming - if you know how to make them really sing.

Unfortunately, the only real wizards duel that sticks in my mind is from the second Conan movie, where the little chinese dude working with Conan gets in a mental duel with the bracer-clanging pet wizard of the bad guys.

Well, that, and Egg Shen vs. Lo Pan, but that's just classic. :)

Egg Shen vs. Lo Pan is pure awesome.

Wizard's Duels Done Right sounds intriguing...

Wizards Duels are potentially THE single most exciting thing about fantasy gaming - if you know how to make them really sing.

Check out the first sneak peek of AGC, a little blog about terror and how it can be so much more interesting in any game:

You've Got the Fear!

Check it out here: Sinister Minds At Work

Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:

Now all I need is a dybbuk box to keep it in.

I'll get it some time.....right now I'm cursed wit' various and expensive repair bills.

Ok, that's creepy, and I'm not sure if it's counterable.

Ugh. Repair Bills. Ugh.

Car?

I am so happy I don't own a car anymore. They eat the money! Curse them!

Am not in a position to pre-order right now, Nick. Very tempting offer though.

No worries Rad! You shall be cursed at a later date perhaps! Plenty of time to take advantage of the pre-order price - It won't change until the PDFs go out to the pre-orderers (probably in February).

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Richard Pett wrote:

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Kind of salty...and just a touch on the bitter side.

You or the tadpoles?

Okay...that one was actually really GOOD. It stung. Well done Rich.

^_^ You have to love it when Pett and Logue exchange barbs...

With Pett, I usually like to push the barbs in...and then pull em out. It's like something you'd see in Thailand, but with a lot more blood.

I'm sorta 'meh' on the book. I preordered for the curse. ;-)

Heh! Its true! How many "books" are out there you can buy? But "curses" those are harder to come by these days. :-)

Now all I need is a dybbuk box to keep it in.

I'll get it some time.....right now I'm cursed wit' various and expensive repair bills.

Whoa...that's pretty cool. I need em one of dem dybbuk boxes!

~rolls a save versus cursing~ CRAP!!! I rolled a 3 plus my bonuses equals a 24. I missed the @*%&##&@ save by a @$%&@&# one? @*%#&$, I am going to be @#%^#* cursing for a @#*&^# long @(%*#&# time! @*#&%@ !!!

Curses come in many forms!

B&%#+

C$%$

F!&&aroo

etc.

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Yep...Planar Handbook was the first time I opened a new gaming book that I bought and couldn't find a single page that gave me a gamer hard-on.

That's because nobody every paid attention to the back of the book. No offense intended. It's not a player supplement, it's a GM supplement. I personally love it as it has lots of information for me as a GM on planes.

I guess so, I just felt like Manual of the Planes was soooooo much better in that regard.

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Yep...Planar Handbook was the first time I opened a new gaming book that I bought and couldn't find a single page that gave me a gamer hard-on.

They have viagra for that: It's called a Richard Pett adventure.

I'll kill you!

::Cries into his hands staring down at his flaccid dice::

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Kind of salty...and just a touch on the bitter side.

You or the tadpoles?

Okay...that one was actually really GOOD. It stung. Well done Rich.

Yep...Planar Handbook was the first time I opened a new gaming book that I bought and couldn't find a single page that gave me a gamer hard-on.

I wanna get cursed!

Even if it means I have to save 1000 people...

You rock, Nick!

Let the cursing happen!

Thanks for the update on the problems guys - I see it fine, but I passed your comments on to my web major domo who will get this sorted.

Baron! I miss you! Sorry I didn't get to see you again in NYC before I left! Did you get my last text before I flew?

A curse? Woooo!

How much is shipping to, say, Germany?

And will a free Anarchist d20 be included? If not, how much for the Anarchist d20?

Seriously, I need that die!

The anarchist D20 does not exist...yet. ;-)

Not sure exactly what shipping will be to Germany. $7-8 sounds about right.

Nick

Thanks Nick. Just ordered mine.

Can I pass my curse onto my husband Brock for the game he runs for me?

Chris

Pass that curse along and have him email me! No problem!

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Jam412 wrote:

Hey Nick, if I preorder from your sight, does it charge me now or when the book comes out?

It charges at the time of pre-order! Good to know! :-)

Thank you sir, you are a scholar and an other-worldly, squamous gentleman.

I try to be more squamous everyday, everyway. :-)

Hey Nick, if I preorder from your sight, does it charge me now or when the book comes out?

It charges at the time of pre-order! Good to know! :-)

Ordered!

Awesome. Check your cursed email. :-)

Is it a curse that gives you awesome demonic powers untill you save like 1000 lives? If so I had that already... it itched..alot.

I thought you had to kill 1000 people...f@&&, I'm gonna be cursed forever.

I got a notice via email about this, and I'm definitely planning on buying it, but would it be meta of me to ask what the save DC is?

DC 25

Not too bad for a high level badass like yourself Sothmektri!

Gosh, I was going to buy it, but now... Thanks, Nick, you saved me.

Damn.

That didn't work out like I thought it would. I guess I'm the only one who likes being cursed. ;-)

You only think I'm kidding.

Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook is CURSED!

Ask anyone who pre-ordered it - they are already afflicted.

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Pictures seem to be currently missing from the site. I'm seeing just a load of blank squares, with little red crosses in the top left corner.

That's Logue's eyes Charles.

Actually, nowadays Rich, they just look like shattered mirrors with your image fractured on them.

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Pictures seem to be currently missing from the site. I'm seeing just a load of blank squares, with little red crosses in the top left corner.

Concur. I'm getting no images, and no stylesheet - except for the right column with the shoutbox and polls, everything is just just straight vertical layout with black Times New Roman font on a white background, my browser defaults.

I'm using Firefox 3.0.14. I get the same results whether javascript is enabled or disabled in case that's useful for error tracking.

Hi Guys!

I made some adjustments, are you still having these problems?

That's pretty awesome.

Just to let you guys know, I'm sharing a bunch of my twisted musings on gamemastery in a new book.

Check it out here: Anarchist Gamemaster Cookbook

Wow - what an awesome offer on the receipt Nick!

(Is it a secret?)

Speaking of which, I just hit you back. Check yo email sucka! :-)

Nick

P.S. If you talk about it the curse will just spread. Just saying. ;-)

I don't have to buy Hawaiian Baby Wood Rose seeds to make this work, do I?

;)

Hey, I'm always on the lookout for ways to expand my FBI file. ;-)

Awesome. Preordered.

Rock! If you haven't checked your receipt email yet, you may want to! ;-)

Mr. Logue:

When I first saw the title of this thread, I thought that it was related to a particular project of one of your fellow noble werecabbages: *link*

Awesome! Also a fine product idea! :-)

Nicolas Logue wrote:

Richard Pett wrote:

You'll be pleased to know perhaps that Logue is back here with me now, in his dark cellar with his rusty collar and nose chain, his glove puppet raven and the punishment stick waiting.

Waiting.

Snick snick.

Snick snick.

Perhaps an extra morsel for Logue today.

Perhaps not.

Gods...I'm so f*%!ing hungry...

Here are some ... "tadpoles" ... oh famished one ...

Kind of salty...and just a touch on the bitter side.