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I'm getting married soon, and I need to get some gifts for my groomsmen, all of which are RPG gamers. Best idea i've had so far is a set of Dwarven Stones for each. Anyone have any ideas for me?

I just got married last week, and for the gaming members of my bridal party, we chose: gemstone dice (for MC and Officiant; jade and hematite, respectively), gift certificate (from local gaming store) and a decorative sword (both for my Best Man).

Congratulations man!

Gift certificate is not a bad idea. Were the gemstone dice dwarven stones or some other brand?

Botox -you get an awful lot of frown lines while reading D&D rules.

most of my gaming group doesnt read they rules. They are content to just get it all wrong.

Well, here we go; another session of voting for mystery peeps that we really dont know anything about. We all hear a lot of badmouthing about major candidates for senate and all that jaz; but i am more concerned about the guys that really make a difference; our city councelors, judges, county commissioners and stuff; these are the guys that make a big impact on your world in an immediant fashion, but finding anything about about these guys is like squeezing blood from a ghost; it is not easy and you will hurt yourself in the process; sheesh. Everybodies web sites say; hey, I am great, vote for me and I will work hard. What tripe, anybody else get bent about voting for mystery candidates like I do?

In my county, pretty much every person was running unopposed. So it didn't really matter what their views were, only 1 choice...

I'm getting married soon, and I need to get some gifts for my groomsmen, all of which are RPG gamers. Best idea i've had so far is a set of Dwarven Stones for each. Anyone have any ideas for me?

I had a situation where a monster got a crit and then

got a 20 to confirm.
20 was not enough to hit the PCs armor class.
There is no ruling in the core books.
Everyone was arguing something else.
If you can crit. on the confirm roll can you also fumble?
Does this prevent first level characters from killing gods?
All that stuff.
I finally got them to accept a ruling that cancelled unhittable crits.
Once I was rested the next day I decided that 20s auto hit
but might be unable to crit.
It would not have changed the outcome of the battle.
I just don't want to waste an hour or two again on a rule
that the books describe both ways.
Is there an eratta sheet I can download somewhere?

I would rule that it would be a crit. A nat 20 is always a hit. So even if you rolling to comfirm a crit, is should count as a hit. There is a variant rule in one of the books that if you roll a nat 20, another nat 20 and then confirm the crit its an auto-kill.

I also wouldnt worry about them using that to kill gods, most gods probably would have inherent fortifaction or other ways to be immune to critical hits.

That's why I found it odd that they waited a few days on this one.

Man you need to relax a bit. Your complaining that your free stuff isn't getting here fast enough. I'm sure paizo's products taht bring in revenue (like magazines) take precedence over free web enhancements.

Let me tell you, i work for a magazine publishing company that's no where near as big as Paizo, would tackle a project like this. We put an interactive map on our website last week and it took the collaberation of 3 departments, all who have their own schedules and projects.

Instead of complaining about it, just wait patiently like everyone else or do your own conversion if you need it that bad.

putting out a web article woudln't be any faster than making a pdf. Creating a pdf takes about 10 seconds. I would agree with Krypter's assesment.

I ended up using money as a motivator. All the pc's came up with good backgrounds and reasons for being in DL. As an added bonus, i allowed any pc who had a background in which they grew up in diamond lake, I gave them knowledge:Local as a class skill no matter what class they took. (which turned out to be pretty helpful to a few).

At the start of the adventure, I only let them start with 1d10 silver and 1d10 copper pieces of their starting money. (after they had bought all the wanted too). then i went through and trimmed their character sheets of a few things. Namely consumables, like rations and torches and such.

This way, they started out in a rough town, down on thier luck with only a few pennies to rub together. I had the bard type character win a map of the wispering cairn in a game of chance. and after hearing about the other adventures in town exploring the the other cairn, he thought he might be able to find some riches in the wispering cairn, so the put together a group of people who likewise needed money and the rest is history.

It all worked out really well. The PCs are really motived to secure some funds, not enjoying having to go to town to buy poor meals instead of teh standard fare. Its actually interesting to watch them budget, selling a silver ring they found so they can get a weeks worth of meals and some other misc supplies. Its a bit of a nice change from dealing with high level PCs who have enough gold to live in the lap of luxury and can wreck the economy of any small town when they stop by.

Plus they have really taken to fixing up the old mining office from dragon #333. They are spending their downtime (while pc's heal up and rest) to fix up the place.

Overall it has started out really well. Thanks for the suggestions all!

I'm about to start running the AOW adventure path, but I'm not sure how to get the party started. I take it they are supposed to go explore that cairn, but what's their motivation for doing so. I read trough the mag, but I haven't figured out why they would go check out that area?

Anyone help?