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goose!

Sebastian wrote:

Hey!

Where's my money?

Don't you walk away like that.

Where's my money??!?!?!

We told you no refunds pony boy....it was your risk to take! ;)

Then why you trying to f&!% him like one?

Hey!

Where's my money?

Don't you walk away like that.

Where's my money??!?!?!

Ok, after a hundred pages, have we figured out anything yet?

What about gish?

True or false: gish=Jedi?

gish-wish?

Sebastian wrote:

I should stop before I get a flamewar started with my blasphemy, shouldn't I?

Yes, please.

Except for the pedarest aspect...

Sebastian wrote:

Celestial Healer wrote:

Sebastian wrote:

Celestial Healer wrote:

You came back on a great day. This is the Day of the G&#%.

You might want to get your ouija board out, because this is important news:

** spoiler omitted **

That's what cyanide capsules are for.

P.S. It's kind of creepy, you talking to me from beyond the grave.

If Jesus can do it, I can do it. This is a general rule, btw.

So when's the hanging by nails on a stick and waiting three days start?

Sebastian wrote:

Celestial Healer wrote:

Sebastian wrote:

Celestial Healer wrote:

You came back on a great day. This is the Day of the G&#%.

You might want to get your ouija board out, because this is important news:

** spoiler omitted **

That's what cyanide capsules are for.

P.S. It's kind of creepy, you talking to me from beyond the grave.

If Jesus can do it, I can do it. This is a general rule, btw.

I don't even know where to begin...

I should stop before I get a flamewar started with my blasphemy, shouldn't I?

Ah HA!!! So you are the SOB that paid them to make that assassination attempt on me. ~whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~ They chose poorly and tried to get their cat, Paizo to kill me. It almost worked too. ~grins~ Luckly, I know how to deal with such attempts. ~finishes eating a Paizo stew~ Clone spells are so useful!

Sebastian wrote:

Celestial Healer wrote:

You came back on a great day. This is the Day of the G&#%.

You might want to get your ouija board out, because this is important news:

** spoiler omitted **

That's what cyanide capsules are for.

P.S. It's kind of creepy, you talking to me from beyond the grave.

You came back on a great day. This is the Day of the G&#%.

I am finally home! Moorluck and Solnes (barely) survived me being there. ~whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~ Both of them seemed to have a good time and I was able to disrupt their assassination attempts on me. Luckly, the hoard robbers that they sent were caught by all my traps and minions, so all of my stuff is intact. I just hope that they will forgive me for putting that Iocane powder in the spagetti sauce. ~grins~

Damnit, I gave them advances based on assurances that you would at least be crippled for life.

I WANT MY MONEY BACK!

I am in favor of removing all of Sebastian's posts, wherever they may be found.

Sebastian wrote:

Thus, the third flag. Only I get to post funny things.

We're still waiting for that...

Yeah...that's it...

Sebastian wrote:

I've given that response to players in the past and the response I got was "then what does gather info do?"

There is no Gather Information skill in Pathfinder.

I have no interest in sub-dividing the Knowledge (local) skill and thus radically changing it from it's listing on page 100 in the Core Rulebook. Knowledge (local) covers just what it says it covers. For some, this might seem "unrealistic," but I'm okay with the flavor interpretation that Knowledge (local) is a skill that governs your PCs' ability to find out certain things about local affairs.

Sebastian wrote:

Xabulba wrote:

seekerofshadowlight wrote:

Xabulba wrote:

Gish isn't an offical word so can't be removed but I vote we make iit a word meaning;

Any overly powerful class that upsets game balance and ruins the game for everyone else and is generally played by pussies because they are afraid to lose at anything.

Lol so funny

You ninja'd my delete. No insult intended.

Triple secret flagged!!!!!!!!

But still funny.

seekerofshadowlight wrote:

Xabulba wrote:

Gish isn't an offical word so can't be removed but I vote we make iit a word meaning;

Any overly powerful class that upsets game balance and ruins the game for everyone else and is generally played by pussies because they are afraid to lose at anything.

Lol so funny

You ninja'd my delete. No insult intended.

If this committee has the power to remove words from the english language, I would propose that we set our sights higher. "Impactful" has long been a scourge upon the language, and should be purged!

Also, if there's some sort of button we can push to ban these words, I'd like everyone to know that I'm available to guard said button and prevent other, less honorable posters from deleting words willy-nilly from the English language...

Sebastian wrote:

How's it gishing everyone?

Gishingly great and yourself?

How's it gishing everyone?

Gishactly!

I think you mean:

"Sebastian is gish to me."

Gish is the new smvrf! It's a noun, it's an adjective, it's a verb, it's a gish!

This weekend, I gished to the gish to gish a new gish for my gish! It's her gishday next week.

Gish wishes,
Gishbastian

"And it's not even broken to have a class with, say, a full nine levels of spellcasting, plus good BAB, HP, and proficiencies, with extra abilities on top of that." So you've never played a cleric or a druid, then, huh.

The point is that an arcane cleric wouldn't be inherently broken, so when you're making a martial class with real arcane spellcasting it doesn't necessarily need to have the martial and spellcasting sliders turned down as far as they are on a bard.

1. Play a multi-class ftr/caster till you can make it to a good prestige class.
2. Play a bard and try and sub out the music shtick for that's a little less...let's say "high fantasy".
3. Play a gestalt character.

It's a continuum, and it's entirely possible to give out 9 casting levels and provide some type of dilution to the spell abilities. The problem with the multi-class and prestige classes is that the way they limit spell progression is by capping caster level. That's a good way of doing it, but it's by no means the only way.

The hardest way of doing it is probably to create a custom spell list that is very similar to the bard's. It'd be nice if spellcasting used the prepared rules instead of the spontaneous rules and Int instead of Cha to cast. I'd replace the bard's song ability with something that encourages them to engage in melee - maybe a sneak attack variant that kicks in at 2nd/3rd level, progresses slowly over time, only kicks in when flanking, and gives allies fighting that creature a bonus to hit and damage.

For spells, I'd weight it heavily towards utility spells (find traps, hold portal, detect magic, spider climb, jump). I'd put in healing and combat, but make them at a higher level than for other casters. So, the class could cast fireball, but it'd be a 4th level spell instead of a 3rd level spell. That would allow the character to dabble in using combat magic and be fairly effective at it, but with a lower number of times per day than a full caster.

Last, I'd let the class have the ability to swap out spells relatively quickly on the fly.

I like this design because putting the emphasis on intelligence and utility spells evokes to me the crafty adventurer, who knows a dash of magic through study and memorization of certain spells, but who can also hold his own in a fight. He's not as good in combat as the fighter or as deadly as a rogue can be and, though he can peel off a major combat spell or two, he'll still be outshone and outperformed by the dedicated casters.

And what I'm saying is that a character who does everything a fighter does as good as a fighter does AND does everything a wizard/sorcerer does as good as a wizard/sorcerer does is not good game design.

You should sell the naming rights to a new class.

Sparkly Hero of Rainbow Justice has a nice ring to it...

It really depends how deep you want to go. The easiest thing to do is to buy the pdf of the core rulebook - it's priced very low at $10. If you want to make the plunge and buy the hardcover, that's around $50. The only other real core book is the Bestiary, the price of which I don't know off the top of my head.

The most recent adventure path, Council of Thieves, is the first one to use the Pathfinder rules. The others use 3.5, but should be relatively easy to convert (and, there is a free conversion guide pdf floating around here somewhere).

Hope that helps! Happy gaming.

Not Summon Monster I? I thought the celestial pony would have made that a lock. :)

It's much better to play a paladin and have a unicorn mount. Or, if you have a good DM like in my last campaign, a seafoam-green winged unicorn!!!

I shouldn't admit this, but my favorite spell is

3.0 HASTE!!!

Okay, yes, it was totally and absolutely broken, but damn, was it a blast playing a sorcerer with that spell. It was a no-brainer round 1 spell - effectively free to cast because you immediately get an extra action. Then you get to do what a sorcerer does best: unload the artillery.

Good times (at least for me).

PLEEEAAAAASSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!?!?!?!?

~grins~ Would it help knowing that I will be there too?

Seriously though, will you be there? It would influence my travel plans in a positive way...

Sebastian, old buddy, old pal! Can I play a White Necromancer in YOUR game? Can I? Can I? I so want to control the vile, evil undead for the forces of Good! Can I? Can I? PLEEEAAAAASSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!?!?!?!?

P.S. - Will you be going to PaizoCon 2010? Come on! You know that you want to!

Dragonborn3 wrote:

[/massive threadjack]

Did someone call for me?

Cosmo wrote:

Yeah, if you check the tiny print at the bottom of the page, you'll see that we are an "LLC".

Thanks,
cos

K, I saw the LLC notation, just wasnt sure of the different definitions (and my brief google-fu didnt help my understanding). Too bad, Paizo stock would have been nice to have :P Thanks for the feedback.

Also, you could theoretically have a publicly traded LLC. Being an LLC doesn't have any affect on whether you are public or not. I want to say that a handful of the publicly traded funds are LLC's, but most are limited partnerships.

BlkTemplar wrote:

I wasn't able to find it elsewhere on the site or messageboards, and admittedly, my knowledge of such things are limited. Is Paizo a publicly traded company, ie, something in which I can invest money into stocks or similar options? I know I would be willing to buy a few shares, I am sure many others would too, but cant seem to find out if it is even a possibility. Would hate to miss out on a high-growth company :)

Nope, you aren't required to be publicly owned until you have a large number of employees as I understand it (something like 2,000 employees). As such Paizo is privately owned

Wow. That was close. I thought for a terrible second that someone was badmouthing Alien. If that were the case, I'm afraid I would have had to lock down this thread and ban a lot of people. And then I'd burn down all of the copies of Pathfinder #28 in punishment and protest and move to Alaska to live life as a misanthropic hermit.

Close call, is all I'm saying. Whew.

Now Aliens, that's another story. I think we can all agree that movie is terrible and completely ruined the Alien mythos.

Edit: Why are the words "BANNED FOR LIFE" suddenly on my screen with a timer counting down?

Yes Alien uses the technique far better. It is after all a true classic. However, when you describe yourself as having fast forwarded through vast tracks of the film and described it as boring, you paint your self as someone who doesn't understand that the concept. I was giving an example, from a film which is nearly universally accepted as good. Until now i didn't really have any reason to know with certainty you understood the idea at all.

Sometimes a cigar is a cigar. And a bad movie is a bad movie.

At the end of the day, like a behaviourist, i can't go inside the black box. I can only respond to that which you present. Your slatting the film, but never really backed your view up with any reasoned argument or explination. So any responce i can actually make is going to be broad, and based on what i can infer from what little you have said on the matter.

Does it knock the socks of most films that are in its sub-Genre? Sure it does.

Think what you like about my opinions on Twilight, but if your fishing for insults, you'd be closer to the mark saying that 'intense snobbery is the root of my dislike and that i never really gave it a fair chance' would be far closer to the truth than your comments. You know, given that i haven't read any twilight and new moon was nearly in the cinema before i watched twilight.

As for the necromancer comment, what on earth makes you think that i am bitter that people play good necromancers?

Did i run over your cat or something?

Because the levels of hostility seem disproportionately high for a discussion of film. Especially when all i did was say 'I prefer Monsterous jagged mawed vampires who tear peoples heads of with bear hands' to 'happy shinie sparkly vampires, who seem a little emo and dangerous but are really very safe and cuddly.'

Is that such a crime?

If you think that a slow pace, used to build tension is boring, god help you watching alien.

30 Days of Night does not.

If we want to make overly broad statements about each other's opinions, I would suggest that your inability to differentiate a competently directed film (like Alien) or the use of slow pace and tension to create a sense of isolation (like Eraserhead) from generic b-movie shlock (like 30 Days of Night) invalidates all opinions you may have on movies, now or in the future. 30 Days of Night is no Alien, it's not even a halfway decent b-movie, and to compare the two is to demonstrate a woefully underdeveloped sense of what makes a movie good.

But, I think it's a lot easier to say that, admirable as those techniques are, 30 Days of Night is not in any way, shape, or form a good example of them. It's a very poor attempt to copy similar shots by better directors/cinematographers in better movies.

As for Twighlight, I think you're just bitter because you liked it before it was cool and are bummed out that everyone's jumping on the bandwagon. Just like white necromancers.

Callous Jack wrote:

Sebastian wrote:

30 days of night is okay as a sleep aid, I suppose. I couldn't watch it without frequent resort to the fast forward button, and even then I suffered 4d10 points of intelligence drain and got a bad case of the runs.

Well, it could have been worse, it could have been The 5th Element.

Hey there were elements of the Fifth Element that were good.

Perhapes if you'd actually watched the film. You know, rather than skipping it. You might have actually gotten it.

It isn't even really about vampires, so much as isolation and the cold.

Patience, it helps when watching a film :P

I can't imagine Twighlight is any worse. It's probably a lot better given that there are some attractive young women to alleviate the boredom.

30 days of night rocks. Even the film is okay. A film based on a comic AND including vampires and it isn't complete and epic fail...come on, it has to be a first.

uh...

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30 days of night is okay as a sleep aid, I suppose. I couldn't watch it without frequent resort to the fast forward button, and even then I suffered 4d10 points of intelligence drain and got a bad case of the runs.

Glitterdust. For extra fun a sculpted glitterdust is awesome to behold (and frustrating as a DM if the player has been working on his DCs for it), of course sculpted is 3.5 but if allowed in PRPG it's brutal.

;-)

All posts in this thread that are on topic will be deemed an act of war against me, my affiliates, and all good Americans.

You have been warned...

Memory of Darkness. If I ever get to run it I will just ditch the module (except for a few ideas) and start from the scratch. Too much heavy-handed rail-roading for my tastes.

I really liked that adventure, but yeah, it would require the players to play ball with the premise in order for it to work.

Yeah, Second Darkness is where Paizo dropped the ball. It's not like it's "bad", it's more "requires heavy DM re-writing including a redo of one adventure".

Legacy of Fire on the other hand, looks like all kinds of awesome.

Sebastian wrote:

Well, in the spirit of the last thread like this, let's bring up another controversial overdone cliche: Tucker's Kobolds.

Waits for Russ to take the bait...

I would rather forget that several of my game masters in the past read that article, sebastian. Proved to me that low hp, low ac and NPC classes can be made for with tactics, numbers and a total disregard for the final body count on the NPC side....several times.

-Weylin

Well, in the spirit of the last thread like this, let's bring up another controversial overdone cliche: Tucker's Kobolds.

Waits for Russ to take the bait...

Heathansson wrote:

1) Necromancers that aren't evil
2) misunderstood monsters/witches/mystical punk rockers/whathaveyou that aren't really evil after all, just misunderstood.
3) Pagans who eviscerate the evil Christians.

Wow, I don't think I've *ever* seen 1 or 3 in any show, novel or movie, ever. 2 seems pretty common, these days, 'though.

Heh, I'm reading This Modern World, and their big running gag is conservatives accusing liberals of hating America and wanting the terrorists to win. Tom Tomorrow makes fun of all those extremists.
I'm pretty sure all the republicans here are sensible people (except Heathy)just like us, and do not approve of what you heard any more than you do.