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Thanks Tarlane. I'd not checked the link from the Dragonage website yet. Also think it's cool that they've put the toolset up for download ala NWN. Been wondering about that grayed out "Campaigns" tab on the game menu too.

Chris Pramas is putting out a p&p RPG of Dragonage. Anyone know which system it will be in?

Picard went on to become Professor Xavier. What did Kirk do? Some teacher what got murdered is all I can think of. :P

Wonder how many people will get the title of this thread...

LOL.

Indeed, its very nice whenever you come up with something like that which works well together. Being able to pick out a critical target and either remove them from the fight or at least extremely limit them saves so much.

The shade thing was kinda what I was banking on. Anyone know if he's been in anything, post Spell Plague? It would suck if they ended his story where they did at the end of patriarch. Although I guess they didn't have any problems doing that to any other human characters..

Edit: Per his wiki entry, he's mentioned in the newest Drizzt novel but doesn't make an appearance.

The incident with a Shadovar wizard happened in a short story that Salvatore wrote for a FR anthology. At the end of the Damara novels, Artemis quit Jarlaxle's company cause of Jar's meddling with Artemis' mind/soul.

Robert Little wrote:

Xabulba wrote:

I want a bigger inventory!

Two things - buy all the backpacks. Most vendors in each of the cities have a single backpack that will add 10 slots to your inventory.

Second, is get the Warden's Keep DLC ($7 or free with Collector's Edition). Once you complete it, you have a lock box that you can store crap in.

No vendors I have met have had a backpack for sale. I also have the Wardens Keep but that dosn't do any good when I'm pilliging during a quest. I would have to go back all the way I came just to unload stuff and then go all the back to were I was, it too much of a pain in the A@@.

It was implied in First Contact that they don't promote him because his contact with the Borg may make him a security risk.

Mikhaila Burnett wrote:

Question 1: The dot after subjects on messageboards. What is it? How does it behave the way it does?

Hypothesis: The dot is added when you comment/create a thread, and vanishes after so many posts pass without you commenting it.

Question 2: How does one get labeled a 'superscriber'?

Hypothesis: Subscribe to EVERYTHING that has a subscription associated with it.

Am I even close?

I wonder if the dot disappearing from some threads you've posted in has anything to do with multiple aliases? I just noticed it started doing this today after I made a new one.

Question 1: The dot after subjects on messageboards. What is it? How does it behave the way it does?

Hypothesis: The dot is added when you comment/create a thread, and vanishes after so many posts pass without you commenting it.

Question 2: How does one get labeled a 'superscriber'?

Hypothesis: Subscribe to EVERYTHING that has a subscription associated with it.

Am I even close?

2. The superscriber tag is applied when you subscribe to all the subscriptions in a product line.

ok now I need to find what I'm missing in the PFRPG line to not have it...

Nah, I grew up in southern California. The house next door was a drug rehab center that also dealt crack out the back door. It was a great way to ensure a steady stream of customers.

It's a great movie. I've seen it twice so far, in fact, and I agree. It's one of the best horror movies I've seen in a Long Long time.

It's also inspired one of the new monsters in Pathfinder #29, just so ya know. :-P

pres man wrote:

So the current format is:
$20 (cost of an issue of PF for a single deity) for 8 pages, 20 deities = $400 to get the information

Yeah. And a German Three-Pointed Throwing Star costs over 20000 Euros (can cost more than ten times that much). But they're throwing in a car for every star you buy.

Tessius wrote:

...They stuck Alison in some kind of editor crysalis-cocoon?

No they sent her to goblin graduate school to give her a fancy new degree in horse murdering and arson.

Thanks! Cosmo is showing me around the systems so I can fix things for you guys. (If your curious as to what it looks like, think of a Rube Goldberg machine).

As for the person I am replacing... if I understand the office rumors correctly, goblins have kidnapped her. I'm sure we'll be forming a rescue party sometime in the near future, but no doubt, her time spent away will have molded her into something far too great for mere customer service.

It's like the Star Trek even-numbered movie rule!
(But Second Darkness is more like the Star Trek V of the APs. That's right, I said it.) :D

I just wanted to pipe in and say that I'm completely thrilled about the idea of running this adventure and I've already made a comment to my players that I think the play is probably the best thing you guys have ever done.

Of course I'm also nice and eager since we have a guy who is talking about playing a paladin or Araden, I am not sure whether I hope more that he ends up cast as the buffonery paladin of Araden or if he gets to be one of the other roles and has to mock a character who worships his god.

uhm; dont you think you should have kept those comments as spoilers for those who have it perhaps recorded and had not seen it yet? would be polite.

Whatever it was that detached from the ship wasn't the shuttle. It was too far to the stern and also the shuttle was on a raised part of the ship. It's also the wrong shape. I watched whatever it was a few times and it didnt seem to be part of the ship. There was no docking port or any other hardware for it to connect to the Destiny, it lifted off from a smooth piece of hull. You can actually pick out 2 shuttles at least during the opening flyby at the start of the premier. One on the ships centerline and another back a bit and to port (probably the one the senator's in).

Still wondering how long before I get cut off, but anyone know why Eli didn't just have those on the ship try and reach them?

I mean they did have the people to try after all?

Is it worth spoilering this bit?

Other than that; seems a bit cattlecar galactica to me; the soldiers are bunk, very poor; what can you expect from the Air Force I guess; guess having been a real soldier and watching them is to much for my suspension of disbelief to work. The ranks and experience of these guys is pathedic; poorly written; no real military force would work that way; sci fi channel should have hired some professional advisors.
Aren't these guy by their very involvement in the stargate project and being on another world supposed to be the best there is at what they do? that was my impression; that medic sucks; real military medics rock; I trust them to the core, more than most doctors; no questions asked; this chick is a nightmare.

Off topic: I still hate Night Elves because they're Alliance scum.

Fair enough. :) I was trying to think of a homicidal, chaotic figure and he came to mind.

The nominal alignment means less than the presentation.

But I was wistful that something else might be done with them to make them more interesting to me. I'm sick of a nation of dark skinned, matriarchal Joker clones. Evil is much more interesting, when its much more believable and subtle.

Yes, but the original intent was to point out a different take on light-skinned and dark-skinned elves, not discuss WoW-Lore.

Tom Baumbach wrote:

Kaelas Rilyntlar wrote:

The Blood Elves are light-skinned, evil, demon-worshipping elves.

Driven, power hungry? Yeah. Evil? Nah, not by D&D standards.

Communing with evil outsiders isn't evil? So I guess a paladin then that consorted with a pit fiend, would be ok?

The blood elves started out as high elves. A magically advanced race who unfortunately became addicted to magic over time. When the Scourge invaded their homeland and destroyed the font of their power and wiped out most of them, the survivors went into withdrawal. They started exploring other avenues one of which was binding demons. This was exacerbated by a corrupt leader. Since then, they've cast out this prince and have sided with the angelic Naaru in an effort to get back on track. If you look at it, there's plenty of gray on both sides of the Alliance/Horde thing.

And in my (admittedly ignorant) opinion, if saying "Avistan=Europe, Garund=Africa, Arcadia=North America" helps you get into the setting, you shouldn't let the experts talk you out of it. Later, when you become more Golarion-savvy, you can change your way of thinking. But listen Golarion-philes, this kind of assumption can help attract more people to the setting. Is that a bad thing?

I just noticed that Mr. Mona has not posted since Sept. 8th. Everything OK? Is he away?

I'm not stalking, honest! :)

I usually like to click on the various Paizo staffers profiles and then view all their recent posts so I don't miss anything cool or interesting. Usually, James, Jason, Lisa, Erik, Sean etc are the main ones I check and I just happened to notice that Erik hasn't posted in a while ...

Just curious, I guess ... :)

Ixancoatl wrote:

Jabsco wrote:

I know more about these rules then any of you

I was going to comment on the debate goin on on this thread, but I'm still reeling from this comment. Really? Seriously?

Based on grammar, I'm guessing he's ESL, and doesn't realize how condencending he sounds.

Well however they got there, House Thrune are the current leaders of Cheliax and have the support of the government, the armed forces, the Hellknights and more or less the nobility. I'd have to read it when I get home but the impression I got from the companion on Cheliax and Part 1 of CoT is that it's very rare for devils to just walk about town, even Egorian. Also, Cheliax has not forbid other religions as I recall, not even Iomedae. As for high level do-gooders, there aren't many. Golarion is just now stabilizing after the onset of the Age of Lost Omens and the early impression was that Player Characters are the new movers and shakers. And if there are High Level do-gooders like in the Forgotten Realms, just look to Elminster's sidebar on basically this topic from the 3rd ed FRCS.
Edit: Here's an interesting idea. What if as part of his helping jail Rovagug, Asmodeus made an agreement with the other Deities. If he ever could get an entire culture/nation to openly worship him, the other deities would not interfere...y'know just so I help you lockup this angry nihilstic god? I mean c'mon *grin* who would ever be stupid enough to openly pledge their and their country's fealty to me? :)

Jabsco wrote:

They are unnamed so they do stack

It's a little tougher to adjudicate than that.

The sword sage ability reads that the Wis to AC is only applicable while wearing light armor, while the monk can only use it while unarmored.

However, the unarmed sword sage variant isn't actually a real thing but is instead lightly suggested in the "adaptation" section of the class. The adaptation specifically only says to give the ss the unarmed progression of the monk and remove the light armor proficiency, it doesn't say that the ability changes from while wearing light armor to not wearing armor (though such a call would make sense since the ss no longer has proficiency with light armor... it just isn't what it says).

Finally the way stacking works also would argue a bit against these stacking. In the Rules Compendium under stacking it indicates that unnamed bonuses stack unless they come from the same source. It could certainly be argued that these are indeed the same source (a class ability that gives Wis to AC when unarmored) and so overlap instead of stack.

It really comes down to a DM call because of all that... there isn't a crystal clear RAW ruling on this one. Well, I guess by RAW the ability doesn't change over and so you either have Wis to AC in light armor or unarmored but not both.

Sean Mahoney

Saint_Meerkat wrote:

Wait, here's an eye...

And here's a hand...

And a head.

Wanted: Trustworthy surgeon good with a saw.

Evil Spawn orphanage and day care center, guarded with neutral security only ;P

Even though GenCon ended four days ago, between Con exhaustion and the Stranged in Indy incident, most folks were not back in the office until yesterday.

In short, we're working on it and want to get it out to the world ASAP. In fact, I'm reviewing the revised PDFs right now.

Improved Natural Armor, Improved Natural Attack are both listed as possible feats for animal companions.

There is no rules text for either of these feats.

Should we assume the same text as 3.5?

Can you discuss the possiblity of boxed sets for monsters? Like a box of 10 gobbies and etc..?

Shotgun and crowbar still pending, but I work on a hardware store (not the computer kind of hardware), so that shouldn't be a problem.

Yes, that was the same article I'd linked to.

Kirth Gersen, about halfway up the page wrote:

First U.S. death from swine flu was right here in Houston: Derek and Silverhair and I need to break out the masks pretty soon, I guess.

pres man wrote:

First U.S. death has happened because of this virus. A young child in Texas.

Um, yeah, that's what I've been saying. And provided a link.

edit: found it

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu

P.H. Dungeon wrote:

I just noticed in the PHB II that with the vicious mockery at will power you can literally tease your enemy to death... Sorry, but that just seems kind of stupid. No more "sticks and stone can break my bones, but words will never hurt me".

Quick snide comment about the whistling of the Addams Family theme song, and ... we move on.
Our bard used this in our last game. We all had a great deal of fun with it. Great power, fun use, what more does there need to be?
But, to justify it ... this is a power that does magical, Psychic damage. Consider not that the words are doing the damage, but rather they are acting as the carrier for the powers that do.

Please Don't Feed the Trolls! ((If you reach this later than 04/08/09, go back to that date for the proper comic <G>))

I agree with Cosmo. If they try not to make the movie too serious, it will be very good.

Just to throw a little more juice onto the fire, our warehouse manager, Jeff Strand, tells me that SOME of the autograph plates have little doodles and sketches from Monte in addition to the signature. Now, I can tell you that #2 didn't have any such artistic works on it, but I bet someone out there has an original Monte inside their book cover. Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler?

-Lisa

'shipped yesterday'

Come to me my pretties, come break my postal worker's back with Experimental Might and Arthurian Lore!

Question: If this guy's such a loony, why don't people just turn off the radio?

With all this talk of meme's in the information flow then a system to control their exposure, I'm thinking back to Metal Gear Solid 2 & 4....

Wow!

So, what do we know?

** spoiler omitted **