Robert Hawkshaw's page

He's posted some shipping estimates.

Yeah, I did catch that they said that it was 3-6 weeks (so counting next week 4-7 weeks) to get to our docks, not to get to the warehouse. So an additional x weeks on top of that for customs.

"Our dock" means their warehouse loading dock.

Can anyone who's backed Centre Stage's previous kickstarters provide any info as far as fulfillment / delay issues and quality of the miniatures? I've never purchased anything from Centre Stage, so, would be good to know.

VM mercenario wrote:

BigNorseWolf wrote:

They're definitely playing pathfinder, not 3.5

- The world is a prison for a giant world eating abomination
- There are nut cases trying to let that thing out (Blackflame adept/holey brotherhood)

- and no one can make concentration checks!

I don't think that what Roy did in that last fight was about concentration checks, maybe Roy just has been training to get Mage Slayer feat from Complete Arcane. AKA eff your defensive casting, eat my AoO.

I thought it was just a well-timed and well-rolled series of readied actions. Undead-bane sword that pierces the lich's DR (despite slashing not normally doing that) wielded by a two-handed fighter with a decent strength, probably loading on the Power Attack, and a series of "I ready an action to attack him when he casts", and it seems like a reasonable outcome to me.

** spoiler omitted **

He was training for taking a feat with his grandfather up in heaven:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0600.html

A second season of the show has been commissioned.

I wasn't sold on it in the first episode but it is getting better and better. Especially when compared to other shows that are on, such as Defiance.

It's a good idea tax policy-wise.

All other things being equal Consumer A and Consumer B should be taxed the same amount if they live in the same state, even if one shops online and the other shops locally.

Likewise, by not charging (or being unable to collect) sales tax on internet purchases, the tax system is effectively subsidizing (and encouraging people to use) the online shopping industry / out of state purchases.

It's fine if normal market forces make online shopping cheaper but there is no reason to hand internet retailers a subsidy unavailable to brick and mortar stores.

Now the practical side of things (collecting and forwarding sales tax all around the country) could be an issue.

http://www.drexollgames.com/

http://www.strategiesgames.ca/strategies/

http://www.imperialhobbies.ca/

http://theconnectiongames.com/

http://goo.gl/maps/8KnWP

May want to email / call ahead with an order. Also check out the markup etc.. Vancouver stores don't stock pathfinder very deeply. Drexoll had a few minis last I was in. Imperial hobbies is a much larger store and could have more. It's been a while since I've been out there though.

This is a pvc type plastic, very similar to the white pvc plumbing fittings you may have seen at a hardware store: http://www.globalindustrial.ca/p/plumbing/fittings/PVC/schedule-40-pvc-tee- fitting-12dia-white-121-u?gclid=CMa5p_St4bYCFeU5Qgod8GEAsw

Superglue will work the best. GW plastic cement will not work at all, it's meant for polystyrene.

The learn to paint kits are a fantastic value - the description lists them as having tiny little samples. They don't have samples, they have full bottles of paint.

Apparently the company that sells the strips of sample paint pots charges more than a regular pot of paint, so they switched over to full bottles.

If you don't have paints already, the LTPKs are probably the best way to grab some common colours for below msrp.

Edit - the LTPKs from reaper directly that is. Old ones in LFGSs may still have the paint strips.

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Larger nethyrmaul photo :)

Joe Wells wrote:

BuzzardB wrote:

Robert Hawkshaw wrote:

ReaperBryan said that us Canadians may get shipped out via UPS, they are seeing if they can pay the import fees / brokerage themselves.

They are having their Canadian affiliate RAFM ship the Canadian orders so there shouldn't be brokerage fees or anything, but we should expect them later.

They've begun exploring the UPS option only in the last few days. If things change from their previous plans to use RAFM, they'll let us know.

Oh god I hope not. It is my policy to refuse all UPS orders as I do not pay their extortion costs. I better contact Reaper to let them know not to ship my minis this way.

Reaper is registering with the CBSA so they can cover all the gst/brokerage/duties themselves and have UPS deliver without those extra fees they are so fond of.

I won't be backing this one for space / money reasons, but I backed their last kickstarter - they did a really good job of getting everything shipped out on time, and the model houses look really spiffy.

I've painted bones with no primer and no issues (after warshing them).

I'll likely be priming most of them black because I'll be speed painting and it reduces the chances of me missing a spot and leaving a bit of white in a nook or cranny.

ReaperBryan said that us Canadians may get shipped out via UPS, they are seeing if they can pay the import fees / brokerage themselves.

When it reaches 100k:

$100,000 = 3 FREE 2x2 Floors with every set you back. So, if you backed us for 5 sets -- at $100,000 in funding you will get 15 2x2 Floors for FREE (as well as the 20 free Straight Walls from the $75,000 Stretch Goal).

So the 120 pledge is shaping up to be 8 extra walls, 6 extra floor tiles. Presumably 150k will be more corners.

I own 4 sets of the dental plaster / resiny stuff. The normal DF really is a high quality product that looks fantastic placed when placed on a table.

The shipping cost is a bit brutal, but it is hard to ship bulky stuff like this via post. Wish they had a Canadian distributor.

The kickstarter is up, and has hit the 50k funding goal.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dwarvenforge/dwarven-forges-game-tiles- revolutionary-miniature

Huh, the farscape guy is doing this. Darla, and HG Wells as well. I'll be giving it a shot.

https://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/aquatic/sku-down/03140

Not prepainted, but you can use the tags down at the bottom (aquatic, swimmer, etc..) to search around for other minis.

Congrats! Mine came at christmas.

Yesterday. So shipping should start next week.

Not shipping news, but reaper has posted the MSRP for Kaladrax and Nethyrmaul ($75) and Cthulhu ($40).

Oh, they're Kings of War. I've seen some miniatures for that game, the sculpts are really nice. And very cheaper than Warhammer.

Quality can be hit or miss depending on the range. The early dwarf crossbowmen / riflemen aren't very good. The plastic goblins are terrible (some kind of problem with the manufacturer). The skeletons are fantastic, zombies and ghouls great.

The line will be expanding quite a bit this year as well due to the kickstarter they ran.

Just started watching this new series, its pretty good. It's no Game of Thrones or Rome, but its worth an hour a week.

Anyone else like it?

Don't have any photos yet, but I have been putting together some of the Renaissance Miniatures kickstarted laser cut buildings. They look pretty spiffy.

I believe the flames of war paints are just rebranded vallejo paints - which do need some thinning with water.

http://www.dungeoncrawler.com/dcm/ - Plastic minis.

It's outside of the editing window unfortunately.

There are a bunch posted in this thread:

http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2mc0m?Miniature-Madness#4

The Close Weapon Group:

Bayonet, brass knuckles, cestus, dan bong, emei piercer, fighting fan, gauntlet, heavy shield, iron brush, light shield, madu, mere club, punching dagger, sap, scizore, spiked armor, spiked gauntlet, spiked shield, tekko-kagi, tonfa, unarmed strike, wooden stake, and wushu dart.

Which source - it still shows up offsite in the d20pfsrd and in the Ultimate Combat pdf but it was removed from the close group by the more recent Ultimate Equipment (and then removed from the group in the paizo prd).

Depending on what rulebook you are using, the cestus won't work with the brawler. The paizo prd doesn't list the cestus as being in the close weapon group, but ultimate combat does:

PRD:

Close

Armor spikes, bayonet, brass knuckles, dan bong, emei piercer, fighting fan, gauntlet, heavy shield, iron brush, light shield, madu, mere club, punching dagger, sap, scizore, shield spikes, spiked gauntlet, tekko-kagi, tonfa, unarmed strike, wooden stake, and wushu dart

I like: http://www.gamingpaper.com/ I think you can get it from paizo as well.

Do yourself a favour - find out if the paint at your FLGS has a high turn over rate. If it does, great.

If it doesn't, see if they'll order you in some fresh stuff from reaper for you (or some of the learn to paint kits which come with a lot of paint). Or buy stuff that doesn't set up / spoil like brushes or more minis.

I'd also suggest watching this ebay vendor's auctions: http://www.ebay.com/sch/kruppdora/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=& _ipg=25 (kruppdora). They regularly sell sets of reaper paints at a significant discount. It's how I got my paints.

Not entirely sure what is up with this, but it looks like the Internet Archive has been scanning and posting up Dragon magazines, for months now.

Has anyone heard anything official from WoTC about this? Or is this just someone uploading without permission?

My husband and I received the Goblin Boon at GenCon this year, which meant I needed to paint us some miniatures.

However, nothing existed that we really wanted, so I cannibalized and modded us some minis.

http://i.imgur.com/RuYcO24.jpg

I recently started a miniature and general geeking blog. The process of making the miniatures can be found at these three posts:

http://nerddrasil.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/goblin-modding-part-1/

http://nerddrasil.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/derpy-orc-and-the-goblin-stylist /

http://nerddrasil.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/we-be-pathfinders-goblin-modding -part-2-complete/

I hope you will take a peek. Thank you!

Linkified for you. I like that flask the alchemist has. Looks dangerous!

I believe their plan is to ship all the easy single vampire orders first, and then have more space to pack and ship the complicated orders.

That's the Dominion of Canada to you gobbo! Or the Dominion for short.

Since we are becoming an oil-ocracy we've got to dust off the older more sinister sounding name.

http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/47643-another-video-bones- kickstarter/#entry677431

Another bones video. All the vampire pledges have arrived, now waiting on the optional extras.

There is a pretty large volume of work on tax competition (states using tax rates to attract residents / business) out there.

There are problems with his model, but Tiebout is a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiebout_model

There is also a heavily cited survey type article available here: (let me know if the pdf works - I'm at a university so I can download it no problems, but it might not work off campus).
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/cuffk/wilson.pdf

The first set of WIPs on the wolf rider sculpts are up:

Wolf Rider WIPS

http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/at/at2/2013/2/15/b78624a212edfce0a2e5db2ec862 636e_61721.jpg

And the number of wolves you get per pledge has been upped from 4 to 6.

Hey Y'all,

Ok in the interest of moving thigns along mor epositively I have here the WIP shots of to of the Wolf Rider mounts. i have not yet begun on the legs of the riders but the way these will be made is that the riders legs and the wolves will be one part and then the rider's upper bodies ( with weapon and shield ) will be a second part. In the interest of bringing these a little closer into reach I am going to make one set of 3 modular figures instead of 4 modular figures. I will also increase the number of figures in the Wolf Rider Ranks to 6 instead of four. This way you will get 2 repeats of 3 unique riders kits. Each part will be universally interchangeable so this should offer quite a bit of potential for customization. IF the riders fund then I will also try to work up a goal for a second set of rider's torsos that will offer archer options for the wolf rider ranks.

Cheers Y'all!

Tre'

What is up with the spam bomb that went off in OTD? Is that a new thing?

Become a citizen, start a small business, our corporate tax rate for canadian small businesses is like 11% (that's total, provincial and federal tax). Our normal corporate tax rate is lower. No estate tax. Strong banks. No looming debt crisis. Working health care.

Just you know, naturalize, and don't vote like a crazy person. :)

There was however, a pretty dramatic increase in US companies expatriating (or inverting or re-incorporating) in tax havens between 1990 and 2002 or so that the Yahoo article doesn't mention. There was an act passed in 2004 to put a stop to that, I think it was the American Jobs Creation Act.

I'm a canuck, you'd have to ask an american lawyer :)

I can give it a shot though- Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 of the constitution gives the power to determine citizenship to Congress:

"To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;"

The 14th Amendment lists state citizenship after national citizenship, presumably state citizenship is subordinate or reliant on being a US citizen first.

I imagine the combination of those two things means that renouncing your citizenship under the Immigration and Nationality Act will have the effect of wiping out your state citizenship.

On top of that, in order to renounce you have to be in a foreign country. Renouncing in the US has no effect, and renouncing with the intent of living in the US has no effect unless you become a citizen of another country and apply to live in the US on a VISA of some sort:

"The U.S. Department of State has concluded that the intention to relinquish U.S. nationality required for purposes of finding loss of nationality under Section 349(a) of the INA does not exist where a renunciant plans or claims a right to continue to reside in the United States, unless the renunciant demonstrates that residence will be as an alien documented properly under U.S. law."

The increase in folks renouncing their citizenship after 2007-2008 isn't 'Obama!' or 'socialism!'. Instead it is due to a policy change at the IRS with regards to dual citizens who live abroad.

The US is a bit of an odd duck in that it taxes based on citizenship, not based on country of residence. If you live in a country that the US has a tax treaty with, you likely won't have to pay taxes. However, dual citizens who live abroad are still required to file with the IRS - even if they don't earn any money in the US or own property there, or ever visit. You still have to file even if you don't earn any income, or owe any taxes. A lot of people didn't know this or didn't bother.

In the wake of the financial crisis in 2007-2008 the IRS became much more aggressive with dual citizens who live abroad and don't file tax returns. Prior to that they didn't really go after people unless they had quite high networths. There are pretty hefty penalties associated with not filing (financial penalties, border crossing difficulties etc...). Not doing your FBAR filing for instance can get you a penalty of 10k a year.

A lot of the people the IRS started going after were dual citizens who left the US at a very young age, or who's parents had been US citizens, or who had been living abroad for ages and ages and figured they didn't need to file because they didn't owe taxes or didn't know they needed to.

The extra people aren't millionaires fleeing the country, it is ordinary people who don't owe taxes but got frightened off by an IRS nastygram. It's just that the millionaires make the news because their names are recognizable. There are for example, about a million Americans living in Canada. If even a small portion of them get spooked, you'll see a big jump in the number of renunciations.

The whole thing is part of a larger crack down on tax avoidance / tax evasion that has been going on since around 1998 (or even earlier if you count the Caribbean stuff in the 1980s).

Article posted by Yahoo! today suggests more and more people with incomes over 1 million are renouncing their citizenships to avoid the larger percentage of their income that is being taken in taxes.

Link

Like sebastian pointed out, this s~%@ is complicated. I'm not at my desk but off the top of my head here are somethings not mentioned in the article:

The reed amendment (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182):

(a) Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, aliens who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:
.....

(E) Former citizens who renounced citizenship to avoid taxation
Any alien who is a former citizen of the United States who officially renounces United States citizenship and who is determined by the Attorney General to have renounced United States citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxation by the United States is inadmissible.

Like nazis, draft dodgers and terrorists, they can bar you from returning. I don't think it has ever been enforced (might not be constitutional either).

There is also the ex-patriot act floating around (hasn't been enacted)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-PATRIOT_Act.

Well, you sure came to the right place for an intelligent, well-informed answer to the question.

Oh wait...no you didn't. You came to a website about gaming to ask an extremely data-dependent question, which is well outside the expertise of anyone here. Here, let me provide you with a link to the sum total of the knowledge of the community residents on the topic:

Link

If you need further information, I recommend checking this website:

Link

I'm actually finishing up an LL.M. with a focus on international tax law and tax havens specifically so.... :)

https://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/fox/latest/P60048B

You could also try talking to reaper's customer service folks - if it was a new in box feiya I think it is supposed to come with a fox. They might send you a free one.

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who claims that this happened to her but hasn't publicized any of the alleged emails

Emails about legal matters are usually packed with disclaimers and legal terminology forbidding them from being reprinted. It's also considered bad form to republish private emails without the other party's permission.

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It's also possible that her specific depiction of space marines cut a little close to the 40k depiction

The space marine character in the book is female, and since WH40K Space Marines can't be female, that's clearly not the case.

Re emails - just fyi all of that legal stuff at the end of an email is complete bunk. It is the equivalent of saying "I just told you this secret, stranger who I have never met before, please don't tell anyone else."

Lawyers slap it on everything in the mistaken belief it will cover their ass if a client confidence is inadvertently sent out.