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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?

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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?

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According to ultimate equipment the cestus is a monk weapon and in the 'monk weapon group' (page 47). As far as I can tell it is the only weapon in there other than the sai that doesn't belong in two weapon groups (monk, and then say close for the tonfa for ex).

The D20 pfsrd has the cestus listed as a close and a monk weapon.

Which is correct?

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I'm working on my thesis, and I work best with music going. I have been listening to Folk Radio UK and enjoying it, but it's starting to loop a bit (and been having bandwidth problems).

I'm looking for a good classical music or folk radio station I can put on and tune out distractions with. I'm also looking for one without commercials and minimal or no talk (which drives me nuts and breaks my concentration).

Anyone have any recommendations?

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Please cancel Order #1762449.
Thanks!

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I'm working on a goblin mounted on a bear sculpted by Tre Manor. I'm trying out greybrushing, so I've primed him black and drybrushed a brown and then an off white.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66469304/IMG_0550.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66469304/IMG_0551.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66469304/IMG_0552.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66469304/IMG_0553.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66469304/IMG_0554.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66469304/IMG_0555.JPG

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66469304/IMG_0556.JPG

The next step will be putting some glazes of the appropriate colours down.

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Very exciting news to wake up to!

And if you want to add more goblins to your pledge, it's 9 for each additional set you want (1 dollar each).

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Reaper is running a kickstarter to convert some of their more popular metal minis into their more affordable 'bones' plastic line. The latest stretch goal is a set of pathfinder's goblins and the pathfinder red dragon.

Check it out!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-an-e volution-of-gaming-min

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Tre Manor is doing a kickstarter to switch his moulds over from metal to a spin castable resin hybrid. Right now it's for his evil viking type minis. 5 minis for 5 bucks each isn't a bad price.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1103158358/red-box-games-helsvakt-horde

I think they would work pretty well as a hell knight stand in.

Tre does work for Reaper and has his own line you can look at here: http://www.red-box-games.com/

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Well, it's almost over, but I stumbled on this mantic fantasy mini kickstarter, its blown through a ton of stretch goals, so for 200 dollars or so you can get about 750 dollars worth of minis.

There's also some kind of buy one get one free deal for purchasing individual units instead of full armies.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/kings-of-war

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My wife and I are heading out on our delayed honeymoon, we will be spending 10 days or so in Instanbul. Has anyone been and have any advice?

I have the Rick Steve's Istanbul guide book, so the basics are covered (Hagia Sophia etc..).

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It looks like the folks over at reaper are testing out a new line of minis. Very nice price point! I think I'll grab some!

http://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/bones.

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http://baldursgate.com/

Looks like a new baldur's gate game is coming?

From the page source code:

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I assume this will be announced sometime soon:

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/21740.html

Quote:


Paizo Publishing will be releasing a box with over 300 monster stand-ups for its popular Pathfinder RPG in May 2012. These stand-ups use the same design as the pieces from the Pathfinder Beginner Box, released earlier this year. The package will feature cover artwork by Wayne Reynolds.

Suitable for use with any fantasy role-playing game, the stand-ups are printed on heavy cardstock with sturdy plastic bases. Each figure has a full-color image of a monster from the core monster sourcebook, the Pathfinder Bestiary.

More than 250 different monsters are included in the set, with multiple copies of some of the more common types of creatures.

The suggested retail price will be $34.99.

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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inkwellideas/monster-stand-ins-plastic- card-miniatures

Interesting kickstarter idea. 30 bucks for 150 standees. I know there was lots of clamouring for more monster tokens, this might scratch that itch.

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http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2004179&trk=jobs_share_ fb

Full Text:

Spoiler:

Job Description
Suits Optional...
...Brains Required!!

Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., and the world's largest publisher of adventure games, including Magic: The Gathering&reg; Trading Card Game and Dungeons & Dragons&reg; Roleplaying Games has an exciting opportunity for a Director, Brand Marketing: Dungeons and Dragons &reg; to join our team.

POSITION: Director of Brand Marketing, Dungeons and Dragons&reg;
TEAM: Marketing
REPORTS TO: Vice President of Marketing

POSITION PURPOSE
Global brand management for Dungeons and Dragons&reg;

KEY RELATIONSHIPS
Within the company, the Director of Brand Marketing - will determine the strategic direction and manage the P/L globally for the D&D brand in conjunction with research and development, sales, organized play, finance, project management and international Hasbro offices. The Director of Brand Marketing will lead the entire product lifecycle and development in collaboration with Hasbro Studios, Hasbro Labs, Hasbro Digital Hasbro Corporate.

Supervises:
- Lead and develop a team of Brand Managers and Assistant Brand Managers

Other Key Relationships:
- CAPS, R/D, Hasbro Corporate, Hasbro Labs, Hasbro Studios, Hub, Hubworld

JOB DUTIES
Essential Functions / Major Responsibilities:

* Set strategic objectives for the brand to ensure customer needs are met. Reconcile brand objectives with corporate goals.
* Create and drive overall brand strategy and positioning across product design, marketing and marketing communication.
* Foster the development of innovative digital and analog products targeting meaningful age groups and psychographics
* Grow profitably the brand by leading its regional expansion and category growth across a wide range of expressions (movies, TV series, books, games, licensed apparel, etc.)
* Leverage the most up-to-date digital marketing practices including online media, social media, interactive and direct marketing to grow the player community
* Manage brand P&L and makes key decisions on quality, cost, and timing for marketing programs and product under parameters set by the group Vice President.
* Manage overall brand A&P budgets and operating cost.
* Develop high-impact global marketing strategy, positioning and plans for major regions, in support of defined business & overall brand objectives.
* Write comprehensive strategic marketing, business, and sales plans
* Define and communicate all elements of the marketing program for the brand, including advertising, promotions, PR, retail programs, packaging, merchandising, and media initiatives.
* Ensure consistency of brand expression and essence throughout various marketing programs.
* Lead cross functional team members to excel in planning and execution of marketing and product plans Provide guidance to internal Wizards teams to tactically execute marketing plans.
* Provide internal International Marketing teams strategic direction for the brand.
* Evaluate current market trends and competitive activity; report on key findings.
* Coordinate with Hasbro product and media partners to deliver seamless marketing and brand messaging to the consumer.
* Act as key brand contact for business partners, international groups, Hasbro corporate, and press.
* Manage licensor/licensee relationships.
* Occasional travel required.
* Develop and mentor a team of intermediate and junior level marketer(s)

Performance Measures:
- Brand objectives, goals, strategies and measures as defined at the beginning of each year.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Training:
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college required; specialization in Digital Marketing strongly preferred.
- MBA in International Business preferred.

Prior Related Experience:
- Minimum 5 years experience in digital marketing required including digital games marketing and/or social media marketing, online marketing and community marketing.
- Other consumer marketing and/or publishing experience preferred
- Knowledge of analog or digital role-playing games preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Proven communication skills, particularly written and verbal required.
- Strong planning and organizational skills; ability to juggle and manage multiple priorities under tight project deadlines required.
- Experience with MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and/or equivalent software required.
- Familiarity with Wizards products a plus &ndash; particularly Duel Masters
- Ability to work effectively with diverse groups of people.

Time Expected to Reach Full Performance Level in Position:
Three months

Physical Requirements: Standard office environment.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.

See Job Description

Question for those in the know, what is duel masters and what is its relationship to d&d?

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Please cancel my rpg and adventure path subscriptions.

Thanks.

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Would it be possible to add thumbnails of the item cards to the community use packages of images? A chunk of the cards have been posted to the blog already, and there are a whole pile of high resolution preview pictures in the product pages (for ex: http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/gameMastery/itemPacks /v5748btpy7z7i.

I'm asking because I noticed that a campaign over on obsidian portal was scanning the cards, turning them into thumbnails and using the images for their campaign, in a way similar to SKR's Tracking Sheet. They've since been taken down. Both their sheets and SKR's look really cool, and very useful.

I like using online wiki stuff for tracking and reporting game events, I own most of the decks of item cards and it would be handy to have a set of thumbnails that were CUP compliant that I could add to character sheets or encounter descriptions.

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I'm looking for a pathfinder compatible dungeon crawl - similar to Castle of the Mad Archmage or Undermountain.

Has anyone published one?

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I was messing around on the intertubes and found this, a tour of Reaper's casting works. It's neat if you have 15 free minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3HqXSEUFac

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Hi Cosmo or Sara Marie,

If it hasn't shipped out yet, could you cancel order #1700925. It's supposed to be a birthday present and with the postal strike, won't arrive in time. I'd like to turn it into a gift certificate instead, and will do so once I get the correct username to associate it with.

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I just received a set of kings of war minis - Mhorgoth's Revenge, a shield breakers troop and a mantic paint set (armypainter paints and brush). I hadn't figured out that Paizo stocked Mantic when I ordered so I bought directly from Mantic (The deluxe starter set).

So far everything is looking pretty spiffy. Going to paint them up as a company of mercenaries from Alkenstar and a horde of undead troops from Geb.

I'll post up some pics once I get more than a handful assembled. I really like the fact that you can get these minis for less than a buck a model - especially in the wake of the GW price hike and shipping restrictions.

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Read a book as a very small child, have a niece getting to the right age, but I can't remember the name and google isn't helping.

The plot, as I remember it, is a young boy who wakes up one night, having been shrunk. He's in the kitchen and its inhabited by fairies, different kinds in the sink, dishwasher, refrigerator etc. I believe the vacuum cleaner or the cat make an appearance as monsters.

Anyone else remember this story? Maybe it's one of those weird obscure Canadian children's books.

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I'm trying out painting for the first time on some minis for a campaign - picked up a few reaper minis (thurion blackguard and some bugbear warriors). I've noticed that they have a tendency to topple over.

Is it standard procedure to rebase these minis? Should I just glue them down on to a slotta base? Am I just clumsy?

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I'm giving baking a try and I'm starting with bread.

Today I'm doing jamie oliver's basic bread. In the past I've done beer bread, soda bread and a basic cool rise bread.

Anyone have a to die for bread recipe?

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I'm looking for a sci fi series to read again. I read the series in elementary school like 15-17 years ago. Can't remember the titles or author.

I'm a bit hazy on the details but the basic plot points were:

Earth is recruited into a galactic war because of our warlike nature. Most aliens are pacifists by nature or unable psychologically to fight.

A confederation of different species were fighting against a race of psychic overlords and their slave races.

First contact happens on a yacht. Aliens are shocked that humans can swim.

Humans are immune to the psychic powers of the enemy. In later novels humans are experimented on and given psychic abilities.

Anyone read it?

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Hi Cosmo or Sara Marie,

My dice arrived today, and I've been having fun inking them. However, one of the sets has a bad d6 - it goes 2,3,3,4,4,5 instead of 1,2,3,4,5,6.

I can solve this problem on my own with a sharpie. I just thought I would give you guys a heads up in case there is a bad batch of dice floating around.

I wish I had paid attention when I was taking them out they seem to be from different batches (one of the back panel inserts has rounded corners, and the other does not).


Anyone played around with this? I got HP Lovecraft for a letter I was writing and cory doctorow for some rough analysis I did of a shareholders agreement.

The site:
http://iwl.me/

Article about the site

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I'm planning on running a low magic hardboiled detective campaign in the future, and don't want a lot of gear - at the same time I don't want to tinker with the CR.

Is there a handy chart out there with roughly what level of magic boosts to stats, damage etc.. a character is expected to have? I thought there was going to be one in the GMG but if there was I must have missed it.

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I'm going to be attending pax this year down in Seattle and was wondering if there will be any pathfinder events being run?

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Please cancel my subscriptions. I'll try to sign back up this fall.

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Hi!

I recently subscribed to the map pack line and I am looking at my november shipment and I don't see extra-dimensional spaces. Did I accidentally skip it when I subscribed in October? Or is it coming later?

Just want to check before I add it manually.

Thanks.

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If it is not too much trouble could you please split order #1251665 for me. I'd like to get the bestiary as quickly as possible :)

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I really liked the books and the authors and I will be resubscribing when I can.

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Some Canadian postal workers are in a strike position and could walk off the job on Monday. Hopefully it doesn't come to that but if it does, it could delay the arrival of next weeks shipment.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_29170.aspx

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Scientists to probe antarctic mountain range that "should not exist"...

I wish I could do fieldwork somewhere mythos-y.