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I hate to be asking this, but can we get an ignore feature? I’d like to have a constructive discussion in the 4e forums but lately they’ve all gotten derailed and sidetracked by an extreme minority of posters who are so vocal and argumentative that it’s been tough to filter them out. I want to continue coming to Paizo.com where I get good ideas for games (and then buy products from the Paizo store), but these past few weeks have been exceedingly unpleasant to do so.

What's the process by which you cancel your subscription. I have 2 subscriptions but most of the items never reach me (this was what I was worried about, I live in Hell's Kitchen and things get stolen all the time).

My gaming group made of people who are not big convention goers, so they've got little exposure to how Living campaigns work. One guy goes to a convention once a year and he mostly DMs his own games and occasionally gets asked to DM a Living Greyhawk game (he doesn't know anything about how it works from a player's perspective, though).

Given that, how could we roll out a Living Pathfinder event to our gaming group? Is this even an option? I see things about downloading scenarios but I'm relatively unfamiliar with how these Living campaigns work and I also understand that Living Pathfinder is expected to be a little different.

It sounds cool.

I know Paizo listens to their fans, so I thought I'd mention some things that I'd throw down some scratch for regardless of gaming system.

Book of Encounters. Paizo's encounters are typically very high quality and sometimes I raid Dungeon magazine just for stat blocks. Their encounters tend to have good descriptions, interesting settings, and fun opponents.

Book of Bad Dudes. The Exemplars of Evil book from WotC was good, and I'd pay to see Paizo's version. They also come up with BBEGs that are bigger, badder, and more evil than most other people's. If they came up with world-shaking opponents (a la Elder Evils but not so crappy), all the better.

Gazetteers of Golarion countries. Something in the same vein as the OD&D gazetteer series for Mystara. IMO, these are some of the best gaming products ever (up there with Paizo's adventure paths) and I'd be interested to see the same level of quality that we get in the Adventure Path modules (overview of Sandpoint, Magnimar, Stone Giants of the Storval Plateau) applied to a whole product.

A 'guide to fluff'. Paizo's fluff is awesome. I think they, and Expeditious Retreat Press, have some of the best methodologies for taking cool ideas and adding them in a very fantastic way to a gaming setting. Maybe something short, published as a PDF, that details different lifestyles of various ethic and racial groups of Golarion, what they eat, how they live. WotC made a stab at this with the Races of * products, but it doesn't compare to XRP's work.

When I look through this list, I think what I want to see as much of as possible are things that make a DM's job easier. Not all of us have that much time and I'd rather spend my few hours of prep time writing interesting stories and coming up with creative ideas instead of statting up a minotaur fighter/cleric 3/7. One of the promises of 4th edition is that it takes less time to stat up monsters and NPCs, and if there were a library of things to draw from I think that would help alleviate the amount of time that DMs spend on this kind of thing.

Genius.

I love the way things evolve here! People kept talking about the imps & psuedodragons and they become iconic parts of Korvosa. I really appreciate these kinds of things from you guys.

Have we gotten an official Harrow Deck reading from Paizo? They did one for 4th edition, IIRC, and I'd like to see one for PRPG!

I live in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan and I'm right next door to a public high school. Packages in my neighborhood have a half-life. If the package is large, it would get sent to the post office where I'd have to take a day off of work in order to wait in line to pick it up.

Do you have any sense of where in NYC retails Paizo publications? As much as I'd love to send some money straight to Paizo, it's not likely to happen right now. I know "The Neutral Ground" has Paizo products, but it's difficult to put together the whole RotR adventure path with products from only one place.

Thanks in advance for any information!

Okay, I've been leaning towards 4th edition for a while but after a lot of thought I realized that what I really loved about D&D was the material being produced by Paizo. If they're throwing their talent behind their own system, I'm willing to take that under serious consideration.

How easy would it be to run Rise of the Runelords with the Pathfinder RPG? How many monsters/NPCs would need to be converted?

I figured that we could all use a bit of perspective, so I thought I'd start a thread about some other things throughout history that people hated as much as people seem to hate 4th edition:

computers (programmers in India used to have to have armed security guards)
beer
rock and roll
hip-hop
the idea that the earth goes around the sun
coca cola
free trade
Elvis
George Carlin
democracy
the automobile
VCRs (there is almost no footage from the first two super bowls because they thought that no one would EVER want to watch a show that's already been on)
skirts that *only* came down to women's knees
France

this is just what I could come up with in 5 minutes. Anyone else?