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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..).

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.

http://baldursgate.com/

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

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I assume this will be announced sometime soon:

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

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.

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.

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

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

Please cancel my rpg and adventure path subscriptions.

Thanks.

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.

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

Has anyone published one?

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 :)

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

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

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

I wish I could do fieldwork somewhere mythos-y.