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Now there's a savvy tip.

A DVD will easily accomodate an audio file, but will it play in a CD player? Hmmm.

It's something I thought may be worth an option for future episodes, for the benefit of Luddites who want to listen to a disc in the car, or such, when the programme goes over @70minutes.

If I knew anything about editing, I'd cut it up myself, but I don't want the sound to leak out the edges, yannow?

OK... just let me know if you're friend can get it via the atomicarray.com or Itunes. If not, I'll halve and send it.

Flash said he burned CDs onto disk, so when we go over CD capacity I always cringe and picture him there in Australia saying, "Great. Just great." ;)

The sound editing program I use takes as much time to "bounce" (export to disk) as it does to play. So It takes me 50 minutes a piece to bounce two seperate 50 minute tracks. Now because I tend to mix each episode RIGHT BEFORE it's due (we usually keep to a no-wiggle room schedule)I have no time to create second versions... just the full episode. But that said, with a few extra days I'm happy to halve any show and send it out upon request.

In answer to your thought, DVDs don't play in CD players.

The Jade wrote:

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

The Jade wrote:

Will do! :) Thanks for asking.

RPG author Ben McFarland (Terraleon on Paizo) did the voice of the show's host and I did all the other voices.

The last thing I did for Terra/Sol is a free product on RPGnow and stars me, Ed, Tim Hitchcock, Lou Agresta, MM Devoe and Susana Mensah. It was fun... though when I received the note that said (I also need a 30 second clip of the sound of a rising stone pedestal within an ancient temple" for the publisher's spacefaring game, I was worried. No problem... just lined up some cinder blocks on the ground and recorded myself dragging another cinder block over them. Then I slowed the speed and lowered the pitch and voila... rising pedestal.

If you ever need foley/sound editing, just send me an e-mail. I've got folders of strange sound effects I've recorded over the course of the last year.

Color me curious and grateful for the offer. I'd like to see what you have.

Want me to send a couple free scratch-and-sniff samples?

Oh yes please.

Just listened to the show today; I was going to put it on CD for a friend who's looking for writing tips, but it's too long to fit on an audio CD. Is there a chance of seeing a 2-parter version?

Send me your email addy on FB and when I get home from Iron GM in LA I'll rebounce the episode in two pieces for you. I'm in Arizona now (Thousands of miles from home).

I can probably hit that on Wednesday.

The Jade wrote:

Will do! :) Thanks for asking.

RPG author Ben McFarland (Terraleon on Paizo) did the voice of the show's host and I did all the other voices.

The last thing I did for Terra/Sol is a free product on RPGnow and stars me, Ed, Tim Hitchcock, Lou Agresta, MM Devoe and Susana Mensah. It was fun... though when I received the note that said (I also need a 30 second clip of the sound of a rising stone pedestal within an ancient temple" for the publisher's spacefaring game, I was worried. No problem... just lined up some cinder blocks on the ground and recorded myself dragging another cinder block over them. Then I slowed the speed and lowered the pitch and voila... rising pedestal.

If you ever need foley/sound editing, just send me an e-mail. I've got folders of strange sound effects I've recorded over the course of the last year.

Color me curious and grateful for the offer. I'd like to see what you have.

Will do! :) Thanks for asking.

RPG author Ben McFarland (Terraleon on Paizo) did the voice of the show's host and I did all the other voices.

The last thing I did for Terra/Sol is a free product on RPGnow and stars me, Ed, Tim Hitchcock, Lou Agresta, MM Devoe and Susana Mensah. It was fun... though when I received the note that said (I also need a 30 second clip of the sound of a rising stone pedestal within an ancient temple" for the publisher's spacefaring game, I was worried. No problem... just lined up some cinder blocks on the ground and recorded myself dragging another cinder block over them. Then I slowed the speed and lowered the pitch and voila... rising pedestal.

Jade did anything ever become of that Pulp radio stuff, I had mentioned a long time ago?

I still haven't produced the radio play. Waiting on some celebs.

Last year or the year before I did a series of short radio plays to accompany certain Twilight Sector adventures for Terra/Sol games.

I recently did a 12 minute audio scene for them - kind of a Johnny Carson in the future sorta thang - that I thought came out quite nicely. Still waiting for its release.

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

Best intro ever.

+1

Thanks, guys. I wanted to wait for the Paizo blog to talk about this episode but this show released on Saturday morning and I've got to say something before I hop a plane to the next Iron GM Regional Semi-Final or this episode will be the tree that falls in the forest that no one hears (which is clearly a ninja treant with an unusually low Dex).

Anyhoo...

What’s that? You want a Special Edition of Atomic Array solely devoted to the Pathfinder Tales novels and the craft of novel writing?! IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?! TO SEE JAMES SUTTER, DAVE GROSS, HOWARD A JONES AND ROBIN D LAWS VOLTRON TOGETHER TO FORM SOME SORT OF... FICTRON?

Alllllrighty.

Draw your sword and charge forth into a world of adventure with Pathfinder Tales, official novels and serial web fiction that further explore the fascinating world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Within these pages, the fantastical world of Golarion comes to life as never before, exploding with wild tales of sword and sorcery from the genre’s master storytellers.

Pathfinder Tales novels are standalone adventures written by some of fantasy’s bestselling authors, all set in the lovingly detailed world of Golarion. Here are the same nations, characters, and monsters that have inspired gamers around the world to new heights of imagination. Now journey through Golarion as you never have before, through the eyes of canny warriors and flippant scoundrels, and see firsthand why the Pathfinder world has twice earned the prestigious ENnie Award for Best Campaign Setting.

Each Pathfinder Tales novel comes in mass-market paperback format, with new volumes released roughly every three months. You can subscribe to the line to have each volume delivered directly to you, ensuring that you always remain on top of the latest developments in the world of Pathfinder. Subscribers receive a free downloadable version of each book they purchase, in both PDF and ePub formats.

Death’s Heretic (James Sutter)
Nobody cheats death. A warrior haunted by his past, Salim Ghadafar serves as a problem solver for a church he hates, bound by the goddess of death to hunt down those who would rob her of her due. Such is the case in the desert nation of Thuvia, where a powerful merchant on the verge of achieving eternal youth via a magical elixir is mysteriously murdered, his soul kidnapped somewhere along its path to the afterlife. The only clue is a magical ransom note, offering to trade the merchant’s successful resurrection for his dose of the fabled potion. But who would have the power to steal a soul from the boneyard of Death herself? Enter Salim, whose keen mind and contacts throughout the multiverse should make solving this mystery a cinch. There’s only one problem: The investigation is being financed by Neila Anvanory, the dead merchant’s stubborn and aristocratic daughter. And she wants to go with him.

Along with his uninvited passenger, Salim must unravel a web of intrigue that will lead them far from the blistering sands of Thuvia on a grand tour of the Outer Planes, where devils and angels rub shoulders with fey lords and mechanical men, and nothing is as it seems…

Prince of Wolves (Dave Gross)
For half-elven Pathfinder Varian Jeggare and his devil-blooded bodyguard Radovan, things are rarely as they seem. Yet not even the notorious crime-solving duo is prepared for what they find when a search for a missing Pathfinder takes them into the gothic and mist-shrouded mountains of Ustalav. Beset on all sides by noble intrigue, mysterious locals, and the deadly creatures of the night, Varian and Radovan must use both sword and spell to track the strange rumors to their source and uncover a secret of unimaginable proportions, aided in their quest by a pack of sinister werewolves and a mysterious mute priestess. But it’ll take more than merely solving the mystery to finish this job. For shadowy figures have taken note of the pair’s investigations, and the forces of darkness are set on making sure neither man gets out of Ustalav alive…

Plague of Shadows (Howard Andrew Jones)
The race is on to free Lord Stelan from the grip of a wasting curse, and only Elyana, his old elven adventuring companion and former lover, has the wisdom and reflexes to save him. When the villain turns out to be another of their former companions, Elyana and a band of ragtag adventurers must set out on a perilous race across the revolution-wracked nation of Galt and the treacherous Five Kings Mountains, bound for the mysterious Vale of Shadows. But even if they can succeed in locating the key to Stelan’s salvation in a lost valley of weird magic and nightmare beasts, the danger isn’t over. For Elyana’s companions may not all be what they seem.

The Worldwound Gambit (Robin D Laws)
In the foreboding north, the demonic hordes of the magic-twisted hellscape known as the Worldwound encroach upon the southern kingdoms of Golarion. Their latest escalation embroils a preternaturally handsome and coolly charismatic swindler named Gad, who decides to assemble a team of thieves, cutthroats, and con-men to take the fight into the demon lands and strike directly at the fiendish leader responsible for the latest raids—the demon Yath, the Shimmering Putrescence. Can Gad hold his team together long enough to pull off the ultimate con, or will trouble from within his own organization lead to an untimely end for them all?

Good point.

(Scratches behind his ear with his foot)

Maybe I don't hear so good, but I'm pretty sure Spanky the Leprechaun is banned for salacious language... talkin' bout all the li'l G's running around with big Ds.

Just noticed that Atomic Array special episode 003 started downloading for me in itunes. Subject lines says something about Pathfinder Tales.

** spoiler omitted **

"What the world needs now

I've been waiting to post anything about this latest mega-show (longest episode ever, and for good reason) because I didn't want to scoop tomorrow's Paizo blog. As you can imagine, I'm ITCHING TO TALK ABOUT IT.

So the big post I usually introduce each episode with is coming tomorrow. Watch the skies! (While we slip it past you at street-level)

Celestial Healer wrote:

The Jade wrote:

Celestial Healer wrote:

Hi all. Just got back from my film debut - recording a track for the opening credits of a short indie film. I'm a STAR.

How is everyone doing?

Pardon? Please elaborate? Thinks to self, how can I coopt a piece of this rising star?

I sang for the title credits of a short film. It was an old WWI era patriotic song for a period piece. They needed someone who could do that old radio sound (which was still pretty operatic if you go back that far), and I could.

*LIKE*

That's incredible. Keep us posted. I want to hear it.

Hi all. Just got back from my film debut - recording a track for the opening credits of a short indie film. I'm a STAR.

How is everyone doing?

Pardon? Please elaborate? Thinks to self, how can I coopt a piece of this rising star?

Aye, and mine.

I'd rather date a woman who looks like she could survive a famine than one who looks like she did survive a famine.

Good one.

The Jade wrote:

Plus sized models make women fat, but only if women eat them.

Once again, The Jade FTW.

I swear you stay up at night thinking of this stuff...

Very kind, CH. Thanks! :)

I'll twitter that line (A good place to store your one-liners if you're a one liner sort of person).

Plus sized models make women fat, but only if women eat them.

This oh so valid and time worthy study (somehow hinging "scientifically" on the word "may") has a devious agenda to fraudently prove its thesis only after first changing the effect by observing it. Follow...

They said more people would want to gain weight if they witnessed the oh so glamorous plus sized model, but that was never actually true. Who gives a fig about plus sized models?

But by telling us that these gals are secretly killing us they just made them dangerous! I'm hearing Bad to the Bone playing! I'm seeing leather jackets. Oooo, I WANNA BE A COOL PLUS SIZED BADASS TOO!

This so-called study was clearly a clinic in mind control.

Heathansson wrote:

Sebastian wrote:

I don't know why anyone thought there'd be any controversy in this thread. It's unanimous that I am full of Wind...

And skittles...

"TASTE THE RAINBOW... PUNK!"

Neat. :)

The Jade wrote:

Sebastian's radiance blinds the sun. That's not a tan on your arms... that's baked-in proximity awesomeness.

Damnit, why does The Jade get all the best lines? I'm gonna talk to the writers and demand better lines! {storms off, gets "accidentally" smushed by piano falling down an elevator shaft}

Are you kidding? I had to camp in a lawn chair on the street for three full days to be first through those doors. Not worth it!

I knew he was a carcinogen.

Quote:

{sings (badly):} "Sebastian's so bright

Gotta wear shades."

We puny mortals must lotion-slather ourselves in SPF Supernovae to survive his presence.

Sebastian's radiance blinds the sun. That's not a tan on your arms... that's baked-in proximity awesomeness.

Darth Knight wrote:

to sew a sow?

ow!

oink?

Zoinks? (Said mere moments before my sandwich was pilfered by a great dane)

Freehold DM wrote:

Mac Boyce wrote:

taig wrote:

My wife just called me to let me know her grandmother passed away this morning. My wife seems to be holding up pretty well and has the attitude that her grandmother lived a good, long life (she was 89).

Sorry badgah...... :(

i can't believe I missed this -you and your wife have my condolences.

+1. Sorry I wasn't reading very closely before. :(

I'm sorry, taig.

The Jade wrote:

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Crimson Jester wrote:

What no post for over an hour, dropped to 8th in the OTF. Can not be tolerated. Justice must be maintained.

I hate how envy can just kill things.

Then I shall envy thee to death! The realm's most subtle assassin!

Thee or thou?

how now brown cow?

to sew a sow?

ow!

As an assassin I've had to kill thee, thou, brown cows, and sows. It hasn't been the most ambitious targest list and thus I don't seem to be able to get to second level after ten years at this.

::looks up and shakes his fist at his player in the sky::

Why hast thou misplayed me!

Crimson Jester wrote:

What no post for over an hour, dropped to 8th in the OTF. Can not be tolerated. Justice must be maintained.

I hate how envy can just kill things.

Then I shall envy thee to death! The realm's most subtle assassin!

Thanks for the latest 3 episodes! They were great listening while I was driving back and forth from GA to NC. :)

Thanks, taig! :)

Nighty night, you @#$%!

Naked Baked Raked Caked Faked Waked Lakes for TotP!

Morning folks. A nice quiet morning here in the Moore house, of course that may have something to do with me losing my voice. :/

On the upside I see we had some good news here! A big FaWTL hug for Ally!! :D

Anyone here played Dragon Age: Origins and figured out how to get both Alistair and Leliana as lovers at the same time? My character Eldra is just to bad ass to have only one love! :P

Was Origins the first one? I don't recall options to hump on Allistair... but then I guess there's this point early on in the game where you choose your available paths.

The first time I played through as an elf mage, I didn't even get the chance to impress Lel, or anyone but the witch...

But then my PS3 died and I played through again as a human noble. The entire world was suddenly so nice to me and da wominz be throwin' deyselves. Altogether different social experience. As a game completionist, my secret bane, I had to discover if you could have Leliana and then move over to bed the witch. Alas, Lel knows and is hurt, and you have to make a choice between them. No matter what you say or who you choose you lose a lot of favor points. The witch doesn't care that you'd playing the field, but then that's what you'd expect from that character. So my guess is that if you opened up a path to get wiff both Lel and Allistair, based on their personalities, you'd be looking to severely dissappoint two sensitive personalities and reap a speech about lowered expectations that might actually hurt your feelings if you have any kind of history of romantic shenanigans.

As Lel read me off it was like reliving my 22nd year. The game let me try on an old behavior and then remind me why it didn't work. Ouch!

great.

that sucks.

HEY! K is back!!!

woo hoo!!!!!

The oeyboard giveth, and the oeyboard taoeth away.

kick ass!

My k button on my computer only does "o" so I copy paste k's now.

That is so lame. When my last laptop started to have keyboard issues I was doing all kind of extra things to get the words out.

The Jade wrote:

Now I can't stop thinking of Treat Williams' character Critical Bill in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.

Mr. Shhh was kick ass.

{toasts:} "Boat drinks!"

Mr. Shhh was indeed kick ass.

{toasts back:} "Boat drinks!"

I'm probably not reading this correctly, but it looks like they are raising money for a series of novellas, not adventures.

Steve's Kickstarter project Secrets, Like Dragons is a fiction anthology (with Steven, of course, Ed Greenwood, Jaleigh Johnson, Rosemary Jones, and J.M. Martin)... but the Gaming Paper Kickstarter project is an adventure map combo project.

My bowsprit ...hurts!

Then stop ramming things!

Edit: Now I can't stop thinking of Treat Williams' character Critical Bill in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.

"Mammy rammer!"

It was a blast being on your show with all the legends Rone. I cannot wait to get your adventure out. Art is wrapping up. Just layout and printing to go.

For the anthology, Steven and Monte's adventures are going through editing now. Brian and Ed's will head that way in about a week. So pushing for an August Gencon release (and super signing as mentioned in Atomic Array 55).

Thanks for bringing those release details.

But can the world truly withstand the shockwaves of mighty pens hitting paper during the coming... super signing? Some scientists suggest there's really no way to predict the outcome, be it a Indy swallowing black hole or the spontaneous birth of a new galaxy.

Like Erik said, it was loads of fun being on the Array with you and Ed.

I'm really starting to look forward to Gen Con now, if only to see a lot of you guys again and the usual shenanigans that result from the same.

(Yes, I'm enough of a gaming dinosaur to use that word. Now get off my lawn, you pesky kids!)

Steven
stevenshend.com
kickstarter.com

I feel the exact same way, Steven, and I absolutely promise you shenanigan laced high hinks. I even have something in mind.

Linked those for you, I hope you don't mind. :)

No one ever minds a talented linkifier, Dark Sasha. Bless the good work that you do. :)

And that mangy wolf is too darn slow to let us know there's a new episode available, again! ;p

Why Kajehase, I've never been mangy, or tangy, and certainly not Ms. Thangy... so you must have meant to type rangy. I am most assuredly a rangy wolf. How sublime the eye-rhyme.

I'm driving up to Charlotte tomorrow morning to see my daughter's orchestra competition, and then we're going to Carowinds for the rest of the day.

I hope everyone here is doing well.

Nice! I wish her luck.

When does it all come out?

I was one of the Kickstarter sponsors, and I've got my maps - just anxiously awaiting the adventures!

I'll ask. I believe the Citadel of Pain adventure is four to six weeks away and the adventure anthology penned by those RPG All-Stars will release some time before Gen Con, but that's all I know at the moment. As soon as I hear of any release dates, I'll check back and post it.

I botched that "Gamerati on Facebook" link. It should be https://www.facebook.com/gamerati

I still haven't read the Pyrdain novels.

I can't believe that there are only the first 2 parts of Brotherhood up on Netflix. UGH!

BTW, fresh Blogberry Pie.

"Sing it to THIS TUNE, will ya, mistah?"

Woodraven wrote:

how's it going Shiny?

It's going like I have no money and my health's in the s+~&ter.

Celebrated my two-year anniversary with the lovely lady a month ago, though, so it's not all bad.

Congrats on the latter half about the better half!

I've seen some crazy stuff happen on kickstarter.com listings.

And that is an impressive lineup. If you had any more heavy-hitters involved, I wouldn't be able to pick up my computer!

Encumbrance Rules... pfft. The eternal limiter of how much fun you're allowed to carry at one time.

You're banned for turning around words and letters! Take this: ANNA!

Zyren is banned for palindroming in shouting capital letters!

Then that means... dog is Seldoop? Heretical translations! Brain hurts! Be banished fluffy thing!

What?! Atomic Array 55 is a double length episode?! Why would we do that?!

Because we needed to hear what Monte Cook, Ed Greenwood, Steven E. Schend, Brian Cortijo and mapmaker Christopher West had to say about their coming PF compatible adventure anthology, and what I had to say about my huge PF compatible adventure (coauthored with by Lou Agresta), Citadel of Pain.

Gaming Paper’s Erik Bauer, along with West, Cook, Greenwood, Schend and Cortijo join Ed Healy and I on Episode 55 of the Atomic Array podcast to preview this new line of Gaming Paper Adventures, a first foray into publishing from the company that won two silver ENnies in 2010 for “Best Miniatures Product” and “Best Aid or Accessory.”

At show’s end, listen in as I punk each of these legends of gaming. Methinks I’ll never work in this town again… which is actually great timing because I couldn’t afford the taxes anyway.

Enter our contest to win one of two copies of the Citadel of Pain adventure. I coauthored it and it is simply magnificent. I really can't say enough good things about it.

Ed’s Pick: Cube
Rone’s Rant: “Facebook Games”

Also Mentioned:
* Iron GM: http://www.irongm.com/
* Phoenix Comicon: http://www.phoenixcomicon.com/
* Gamex: http://www.strategicon.net/

* Loot!: http://gamerati.com/loot/
* Loot on Twitter: @gameloot
* Gamerati on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gamerati
* Ed’s Home Page: http://ephealy.com/

* Venture: 0one Games
* Venture: Of Heroes and Monsters: 0one Games

By the way, why isn't your Citadel of Pain on Paizo?

I'm working with the artists now as they run it to the end zone. Citadel should release in 4-6 weeks. I'm sure Paizo will carry it.

Erik Bauer wanted Christopher West to create a Megadungeon Map Pack set and then use different configurations of tiles from that set to fuel adventures in the anthology and the standalone adventure. He went to kickstarter.com to try and raise three grand. You won't believe what he was able to raise there. All publishers and aspiring publishers take note!

And another huge standalone PF compatible adventure called Citadel of Pain, from Louis Agresta and YOURS TRULY?!(Coronets blare a stately fanfare)

Gaming Paper’s Erik Bauer, along with West, Cook, Greenwood, Schend and Cortijo join Ed Healy and I on Episode 55 of the Atomic Array podcast to preview this new line of Gaming Paper Adventures, a first foray into publishing from the company that won two silver ENnies in 2010 for “Best Miniatures Product” and “Best Aid or Accessory.”

At show’s end, listen in as I punk each of these legends of gaming. Methinks I’ll never work in this town again… which is actually great timing because I couldn’t afford the taxes anyway.

Enter our contest to win one of two copies of the Citadel of Pain adventure. I coauthored it and it is simply magnificent. I really can't say enough good things about it. ;)

The Jade wrote:

Gorbacz wrote:

Enter Buhlman

Helluva film. See, guys? No one just winds up at the top of the heap. Some must climb from so so low.

But damn its a tall mountain. And that is just the laundry.

I read this right after seeing a small mountain of laundry in my bedroom. Is this a sign that I should do my laundry? I don't know... I'm going to assume it isn't. ;)

Enter Buhlman

Helluva film. See, guys? No one just winds up at the top of the heap. Some must climb from so so low.

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Major Annoyance of the Moment: Why do people posting roundherebouts not know the difference between polytheism and pantheism? GRRR.

I can understand when they get pantheism and panentheism a bit confused, but yeah. I imagine it puts a knot in your knickers reading those comments. It shouldn't take Double Honors to figure out that distinction, but I digress. ;-)

EDIT: ninja'ed by the blink monkey.

Someone mention pancakes?! YAY!

(Claps big dumb hands together with the rhythmic brutality of a wind-up chimp without his cymbals.)

The dream...

So you wouldn't be kidding if you say that you could do math problems in your sleep, eh? That's really quite astounding. Funny how you're smarter with half your brain shut off than most people are in a waking state. ;)