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What a crock!

I didn't buy that many PDFs because I prefer print, but I did purchase some long out of print 1e modules (some of the classics I don't have in my collection). It had been nice to know that if I ever lost one of my older items I could find it as a relatively cheap PDF on Paizo, or if I wanted one that I never had purchased back in the day then I could still find it. Now that's gone.

Well done WotC. I've only purchased one 4e item, but this announcement is just one more reason to avoid purchasing their product in the future.

I am the DM for a group that includes my wife, her sister, sister's boyfriend and a friend of ours (recently joined).

Gaming with a spouse has never been a problem for us, and this campaign has been ongoing for 3+ years. She knows not to expect any special treatment as a player, nor does she get any. Her "facetime" is just the same as everyone else.

We also gamed together as players under another DM a few years before our current campaign started and we had a lot of fun interactions. I played a narcissistic paladin of a love goddess that tried to "beautify" everything and she was playing an ugly half-orc druidess that became the object of his reclamation project. Sadly the campaign ended before we could really get that going, but it was still a lot of fun.

1 white guy (me)
3 white gals (my wife and her sister, both have Italian ancestry, and a friend of ours with German ancestry)
1 Thai guy (my sister-in-law's boyfriend)

It hasn't started off as well as Firefly did, but my wife and I are certainly going to give it every chance. Joss has proven himself over and over, and Buffy didn't start off all that great either.

If the above is true I can't wait for episode 6 and beyond. :)

Great quote!

How about Ebayess Googlum, the halfling rogue from a new player a few years ago. The DM for that game was a raging analytical and hated the name so much that he picked on the character and was forever finding ways to keep him from using his skills like tumble.

The thing that makes me most unhappy about the Wheel of Time series is that it will never be finished. All the time I wasted reading about Nynaeve, Egwene, and Elayne endlessly squabbling and now I'll never know how the Last Battle turns out.

...I don't see any new llamas... *keeps looking*

Just started playing it and got through the first apprentice level. It's good so far, though I don't care for the fact that if you save and quit during a level you have to do the whole level over again. I don't always have huge chunks of time to play video games so basically I'll have to plan out to play when I have enough time to be able to get through a level.

I have the Wii version and all the lightsaber swinging tires out the arm too. :)

Dammit! Thought something new had been posted by Jacobs. Arg!

I had just awakened and was getting ready for work when my wife (then, girlfriend) called and told me to turn on the TV. I turned it on just as the second tower was hit. It was all hard to believe.

I went in to work, but everyone was glued to the boss's TV or their radios and no real work got done that entire day.

One of the things I clearly remember about that day was the Enya song Only Time which kept playing on the radio. I teared up a few times because of its haunting melody. I also clearly remember later that day, as news came in about the firefighters, etc. that went into the buildings to rescue people, and the plane that crashed short of the White House because the passengers attacked the terrorists, I wondered how I would react if faced with the same situation.

Feel better Josh. Someone has to keep those damn editors in line. :)

There goes his head size...

;)

SEAHAWKS!

What? I live in Seattle... it's required. 12th man and all.

And yes I realize I'm probably getting something bad in the mail from Cosmo soon. :P

Hey wait a sec...I didn't know it was peanut butter cookies. I thought it was sugar cookies. Well, I'll happily take the peanut butter cookies. :)

Munch, gobble, Snarf, Telerie.

My opinion...with a 2QB start, the QBs become soooo much more important than in a normal league since there are only so many good QBs. I'd go Brady first.

Will this Junta have openings for non-humans?

Hmm I can't remember anything with vegepygmies offhand, though it has been a while since I waded through my old Dungeons.

I'll give Istivin and Hall of Harsh Reflections a look again. HoHR is the one with

Thanks for the help. :)

I'm one of the ones that has it easy. My wife plays in my D&D game so she doesn't mind when I spend a bit of money on gaming related items...or spend time working on my campaign as long as it's not when our son is awake. :)

No, not a city. I'm looking for city adventures in the level range I specified that have been successful for other DMs. I have a whole bunch of back issues of Dungeon, etc. but I haven't waded through them in a long while. I was hoping some helpful people could point me in the direction of some of the better ones.

Hey all, I need some advice. My current campaign will be heading back to a smallish city soon after a wilderness/dungeon adventure, but I don't really have the time to create some new material. I was hoping some helpful people could point me in the direction of good city adventures for a mid-level (6-7) party.

I was originally planning on running Nick Logue's Chimes at Midnight (with some modifications), and had even set up some events for it: introducing the main villain etc. though the PCs don't know he is a villain as yet. But I'm just not sure it will fit my city easily since it was designed to run in Sharn, with lighting rails, etc., not a smallish city.

If anyone has any suggestions from various sources (old 2nd ed. Dungeons are fine too as I collected most of the way through #60) I'd appreciate it.

And thanks in advance. :)

Hmm, interesting. The comment about the epic scope of the Dragonlance modules sparked an idea. Xak Tsaroth, with a bit of tweaking, would make a great location for a future adventure for my party (only one of them have ever read the Dragonlance novels, but wasn't playing D&D when the modules first came out).

How funny that a thread talking about poor modules can still give idea sparks. :)

You're writing a book...use this somehow. :)

To quote Jurassic Park:

Ian Malcolm wrote:

I'll tell you the problem with the [roleplaying] that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!

Yasha0006 wrote:

My wife has recently stated to me that she wants a T-shirt that says

"Hey! Nice Rhac!" Across the chest.

I swear, one of the T-shirts I want the most is the shirt with two d20s right over the chest area, standing at 20. The quote of course being: "yes, they're natural."

Seriously though. It's great to know that my opinion is being heard. And even greater to know that it was well recieved. It unfortunately seems that a Female Gamer with my opinion is rare.

Nice to know I'm not the only one out there.

And one of the two women in my group wants that shirt as well. :)

So much for getting back to civilized discussion...

Gah, this is a scary thread. Are you sure you haven't been discovered by Sebastian's cadre of brainsuckers? From what I hear they remove all of your free will and replace it with someone who praises Sebastian.

;)

Rhothaerill wrote:

You missed two threads about it actually, one in this subforum and one in the off-topic subforum.

Mike apparently didn't want his leaving to be a big deal and asked for there to be no official send-off. He just wanted to ride off into the sunset...like a traitor. ;)

*gninja minion sword to the spine*

*gninja smoke*

Hey, what happened to me? I can't stand anymore.

Rhothaerill wrote:

Robert Brambley wrote:

What? Wait? Did I miss something? What happened to Mike?

I guess i missed something imporant.....I was too distracted fending off these dam goarlions!!!

Robert

Mike's a traitor. I mean...uh...Mike left for some other job in another field.

;)

Mike left and it's just a side note in a posting?
Or did I miss the thread about it?

- Günther

Mike apparently didn't want his leaving to be a big deal and asked for there to be no official send-off. He just wanted to ride off into the sunset...like a traitor. ;)

What? Wait? Did I miss something? What happened to Mike?

I guess i missed something imporant.....I was too distracted fending off these dam goarlions!!!

Robert

;)

Rhothaerill wrote:

KnightErrantJR wrote:

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Why do I get the feeling that one of these days we're going to see a goarlion in print? ;)

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Good movie. I wasn't expecting one certain part of the movie, but it did make a lot of sense in context for what happened.

Also, we're hosting a seminar at Gen Con on just this topic, so if you get a chance, do stop in! We'll even have some new news in this regard there. If you're not going to be at Gen Con, no worries, I'm sure someone on these boards will have a recording soon after.

Kelvar Silvermace wrote:

I also think Hollow's Last Hope (by Jason Bulmahn and F. Wesley Schneider) was one of the best ever.

Hey, thanks there! As that was our first true product set in Goarlion, I'm still proud that the first character ever illustrated for our world was not some white dude.

Aside from that, all your favorite parts, yeah, those were mine. :P

BTW, Wes I just need to give you some crap for misspelling Golarion.

Between this thread and the fey thread of Sebastian's I've become interested in checking out this book.

EN World refugee. I can positively say that this thread has immediately turned me off to these forums as well.

Because of my love for rpgs, I really enjoyed the DARK ALLIANCE series while it was out because it brought the Forgotten Realms to video-life.

Rhothaerill wrote:

BTW, personally I find it a shame that the mercantile and speechcraft skills are so annoying to work with (at least to get them up to a decent number). I would have liked to have been able to use my personality influence better, without resorting to creating a spell, but I think that's my inner D&D player talking. It's a computer game so it's not like true gaming. ;)

Yeah, in Morrowind I got used to that whole "buy low, sell high" thing and it made it easier to afford to get training. I hate seeing the buy/sell percentages in Oblivion. It's like 'wow, I can sell this stuff for 55% of it's value and you'll charge me 145% of the value if I buy it right back!?' Yeah, that sucks! Do you have a link to the add-on you recommended for $2? I think I will go that route.
Good info BTW, and thanks for the assist.

Until I saw that you are playing on a 360 I was also going to recommend another mod from the Oblivion Wiki page that I linked to in my second post above. The mod upgrades any level-based quest items you receive as your character level up. That way you're no longer penalized for doing a quest early, since in an unmodded game the level-based quest items stay at the level they were when you found them. I don't know if it's available for 360 though. You can probably poke around and see.

It's difficult to say what my favorite game of all time would be because I like so many. I'll pare this down a bit to three categories of favorite RPGs, favorite strategy games, and random as those are the primary games I play.

Favorite RPGs: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Oblivion, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Favorite strategy games: Civilization III, Civilization IV, Sim City 4, Gladius

Random: MarioKart (all of them)

BTW, personally I find it a shame that the mercantile and speechcraft skills are so annoying to work with (at least to get them up to a decent number). I would have liked to have been able to use my personality influence better, without resorting to creating a spell, but I think that's my inner D&D player talking. It's a computer game so it's not like true gaming. ;)

Now...money making. One tip is be a thief. ;)

The mercantile skill is incredibly tedious to level up in my opinion, especially because of the way the trading menu system is set up, and it takes so long that it's not really worth it.

Instead I use a bit of a work-around. You can't do it right off the bat, as it does take some time to set up, but once it is set up then you can sell all your goods for the best possible price.

First, you have to go all the way through the mages guild initiation quests so that you can have access to the spell creation area at the main guild (alternatively buy the Wizards Tower official mod from the Bethesda store and spend 6000 gold to buy the ability to create your own spells).

Second you need the three base spells...charm, fortify attribute and fortify skill. For charm you get a free base spell of this type while going through the mages guild quests. Fortify attribute you can buy from Orag Gra Bargol, the orc priest in the temple in Chorrol (it's actually fortify strength, but it allows you to make a new spell with any attribute boost). The last one is the hardest as you can't buy it in the base game. You need the Thieves Den official mod (it costs >$2 at Bethesda's store) and have cleared it out. Once it is cleared out you can buy the fletcher upgrade who sells the fortify marksman spell. This allows you to create any fortify skill spell at the spell altar.

Third, you need a base restoration skill of 25 to be able to cast the latter two spells.

Finally, go to the spell creation altar and create a spell (I called it Merchant Prince) with fortify mercantile 100 for one second on self, fortify personality 100 for one second on self, and charm 100 for one second with touch. The spell cost will be around 40 or so to start out with, which is why I only put it for one second.

When you go to a trader, cast it and then talk to them quickly before the one second runs out. Once you get into the trading menu the time doesn't matter anymore. This spell bumps everything related to sales, so you don't need to play with the speechcraft game at all anymore, nor do you need a high mercantile skill before you can get good deals. Just cast the spell on the merchant, set the haggle as high as you can (for most merchants you can set it within about 5-10 of the max) and sell everything for great profit, or buy stuff at the lowest possible price.

All right...leveling. It really depends on how you want to go about it. If you want to get the most out of leveling and get the three +5's (i.e. you can add 5 points to three of the seven attributes when you level) then it can take a bit of planning.

This isn't technically necessary, but I start by creating my own character class instead of using one of the pre-gens. For my seven major skills I take one for each of the seven attributes (strength, etc.). I don't tend to bother with whether a major attribute is one I use often, but some people only put skills they don't use much as a major.

From there, when I want to level I work on my minor skills first. In order to get the maximum +5 attribute bonus you need to have added 10 skill ranks for that attribute, in any of the three skills that are tied to the attribute. And you'll need to make sure that this is done for each of the three attributes you want to add to when you level. Make sure you do a lot of minor skills first so that you don't accidentally level before you finish up the 30 skill ranks. You level whenever you have added a total of 10 skill ranks to any of your major skills.

Here is an example...say you want to add +5 to your strength, intlleigence, and endurance. Your major skills are say, blade, conjuration, and armorsmithing. So add 5 ranks to alchemy (minor intelligence), 2 ranks to mysticism (minor intelligence) 8 ranks to block (minor endurance) 5 ranks to blunt (minor strength), and then do 3 ranks to conjuration (major intelligence), 2 ranks to armorsmith (major endurance) and 5 ranks to blade (major strength). That's 20 ranks in minor skills, and 10 ranks in major skills.

In practice it usually doesn't work that way for me as I don't bother to avoid the occasional skill addition in other skills. As long as you keep track of your majors, and which attributes you want to level for each time you level-up then you can get the most out of leveling.

Alternately there is a mod at The Oblivion Wiki that allows you to get +5's to whatever attributes you choose once you get the 10 major skills added. I haven't used it, but I've read that it does take the occasional tedium out of leveling.

Just about to leave, but I'd like to help. Unless someone answers before me I'll give you a more detailed answer later tonight. :)

I need a Fey Lord or two - basically the equivalent of a devil/demon prince, but with a fey bent to it.

Anyway, I'm looking for flavorful and interesting powerful Fey beings with interesting agendas and followers for inspiration.

*Rhoth waits for a new thread entitled "Holding Vic Wertz Accountable"

...otherwise known as 'passing the buck'. ;)

I think Erik got hit by a truck.

...kidding, that was likely just his hangover.

You poor, poor thing...you have to work with Cosmo. Don't ever let him send you anything having to do with horses. ;)