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Paizo can no longer make pdfs of the magazines. They lost that ability with the license.

When they had the license, they were required to wait a year before making pdfs of the magazines, which is why their last year of magazines have no pdfs.

Hey, new avatar. :)

Yeah, I've been waiting for the Golarion dragons.

I wake up in the morning and I raise my weary head
Got an old coat for a pillow, and the earth was last nights bed
I don't know where I'm going', only god knows where I been
I'm a devil on the run, a six-gun lover, a candle in the wind...

Some things will never change
They stand there looking backwards
Half unconscious from the pain

They may seem rearranged
In the backwater swirling, there is
Something that will never change

Mr Shiny, I was going with "Counting Bodies Like Sheep" by A Perfect Circle. I dont guess I have Pet, though maybe I do if they're the same lyrics?

how about:
Isn't that the way they say it goes
But let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell them I'm fine and to shoooow
I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels

Jim Croce, I believe the song title is Operator.

I thought you actually had won the lottery; I had my begging letter ready and everything...

Actually winning the lottery would be a nice alternative to spending less money, which is the current plan.

Tell you what, if I do win the big money, I'll have Paizo send you a nice GameMastery gift basket.

Vomit Guy wrote:

Congratulations! As for names, I'll just go ahead and suggest......

Vomit Guy wrote:

....Ralph

Or Huey!

Hey, then I'd have the next two kids' names all set: Dewey and Louie.

You may also want to consider Sploooooooooooooorrrrrtttccchhh

I do like the way that rolls off the tongue.

Congratulations!

Thank you!

Congratulations!!

Thank you!!

Congratulations!!!

Thank you!!!

Make sure that "new geek" feels welcome in this world.

I plan on running TC1 in the maternity ward.

Congrats to you both.

Thank you.

Ain't geek love grand?!

The grandest.

Heh... you said "morass"...

Indeed, it's what landed me here.

** spoiler omitted **

Congratulations, my friend.

Thank you.

Get your sleep in now and save it up in a camel hump

What a lucky coincidence, I happen to have a camel hump that I can use. I was using it to store my plans for next year...

because you'll need it in T minus...

34 weeks, and counting.

Grats, Ungoded!

Thank you.

A new gamer is imminent! (Nine months is imminent in the grand scheme of things, ne?)

I guess it depends on your perspective. To me, nine months suddenly seems very imminent.

Dirk Gently wrote:

Huzzah! More teeny gamers running about the world! (Even if s/he does become a jock, there will be a geek time in his/her life.)

Well, I don't think that you're quite sick of the congradulations yet, so CONGRADULATIONS!

And on the story bit, I, for one, got it the first time around. And thought it was hilarious. Good job.

Good thing you weren't giving them CONGRATULATIONS with a T. That would just be cliche.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

I've recieved lots of congratulations with a "t". That "d" makes it special.

Well done to yourself and the wife man.

And nicely told story.

Thank you.

Huzzah! More teeny gamers running about the world! (Even if s/he does become a jock, there will be a geek time in his/her life.)

At least as a child.

Well, I don't think that you're quite sick of the congradulations yet, so CONGRADULATIONS!

Thank you.

And on the story bit, I, for one, got it the first time around. And thought it was hilarious. Good job.

Good to hear, maybe all that time wasn't a waste after all.

wow that first post is a doozy;

Yeah, it kind of got away from me there.

grats i think if that is appropriate.

It is, and thank you.

mwbeeler wrote:

Here, let me help:

In the next few months, you will hear this over, and over, and over, by well meaning but infuriating well-wishers:

1. Your entire life will change.
2. SLEEP NOW.

Smile...nod...

Yes, because no matter how much sleep you get now, it will never bank enough to make up for the mind-shattering eldritch hideousness that will become your sleeping pattern later, about ... oh, Memorial Day weekend if she's six weeks along (leaving a mere 34 weeks to go... oh joy, oh rapture!).

ETA 8/7/2008, actually. I eagerly anticipate the sleepless nights.

Seriously though, congratulations on the kiddo, may your bundle of joy BE a bundle of joy through and through.

Thank you.

And here I thought most of us were smart enough not to mate and produce offspring that will hate us and become jocks when they become teenagers...

If the kid has even an ounce of athletic talent, I'll know it's not mine.

Congratulations!

Thank you.

As for names, I'll just go ahead and suggest......

....Ralph

Huh, and I was going to go with Bllllooooorrrrppphhhhh!

Sense Motive +10 (+4 Cha, 4 ranks, +2 synergy bonus)*

*Do you see what's wrong here by the way? :D

In addition to listing the wrong ability (Wis, not Cha), synergy bonuses only apply if you have 5 ranks or more.

Here, let me help:

In the next few months, you will hear this over, and over, and over, by well meaning but infuriating well-wishers:

1. Your entire life will change.
2. SLEEP NOW.

Smile...nod...

Yeah, I'm always amused by the people who think they are the first to give you a piece of cliched advice or make a "funny" comment that was old when they heard it.

Well, not always amused. I'm amused the first few times. After that, the smiling and nodding...

Eat the rich
there's only one thing they're very good for
eat the rich
take one bite now, come back for more

Congratulations!

Thank you.

I guess that puts Gen Con out of the picture, but Origins is still in, right? Hitchcock can give you parenting advice while we enjoy a bucket of Corona or two!

That, sir, is an excellent idea. Of course, I don't recall much of the marital advice I got over the last couple of buckets, but I'm pretty sure the band was good.

I've always been partial to, "Spackle."

Awww... Is that because it fills the whole in your life, or because no matter how hard you try, you can never get it to turn out just right?

Congrats!

Thank you.

Congrats man!

Thank you.

I was reading through it and it took me a little while to catch on, but I got the point. Congradulations!

Yeah, maybe I should have product linked First Response. That might've made things clearer.

Beautifully written story.

Thank you. I started out with the intent of a simple announcement, but I like this better.

Print it and save it for you kid, he/she will get a kick out of it.

Excellent idea. Makes me glad I decided not to carry the metaphor to the point of referring to my unborn child as a "cash prize."

Congrats bro! I would like to be the first to suggest "Meepo" as a name for the lil' monster.

Thank you. I think the naming issue might end up being a point of contention in my house. I've offered up Tasselhoff and Aragorn as possibilities for a boy. Both were shot down.

Hm...what about Cash Prize?

You know, I had to re-read this three times to figure out the point. The entire time, I was thinking "Man, the Powerbowl (or whatever) has gotten really weird since I've left".

Yeah, I might have gone a little overboard with the lottery thing there. I tend to do that.

Congrats.

Thank you.

Congrats

Thank you.

and good luck!

I think I am going to need it.

So...

This past Saturday, nearly two weeks after The Warning Sign That Wasn't, my wife and I decided that we should try our luck in the First Response lottery.

So we bought our ticket and returned home, full of nervous anticipation. I dutifully read the contest rules, then carefully explained to my wife how to perform the drawing. A few seconds later I found myself hunched forward on the couch, desperately trying to find something on T.V. that would keep the next three minutes from feeling like hours.

(7:44 PM)

For me, channel surfing is a treasured pastime. I have been known to spend an entire half hour lazily scrolling through basic cable's meager offerings waiting for the next batch of shows to start, hoping for something palatable enough to melt my brain to.

I spent what must have been an entire afternoon worth of daytime junk scrolling channels, trying to kill time.

(7:45 PM)

New tactic needed. Fine.

I settle on a channel and decide to see if I can recite the commerials (I watch alot of T.V.).

"Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea..." Ah, the Macarena-based Pepto Bismol song and dance. I spend a few moments pondering what bothers me more: the song, or the fact that I can sing it?

(7:46 PM)

Sweet Celestial Patriarch! Why has the flow of time broken?! What have I done to trap myself in this temporal morass? Am I cursed to forever exist in anticipation of this moment of truth, eternally waiting for that fifth daily number? Why!? Why am I tormented so?!

(7:47 PM)

Oh, time to go check the ticket. Right. Let me go do that. Just a second, though, I like this commercial.

Look, honey, the baby polar bear is drinking a coke with the penguins. Isn't that cute? Of course, everybody knows that polar bears and penguins live on opposite sides of the world. Well, except for those tropical penguins. You remember, the ones we saw in Hawai'i. I gotta admit, before that I didn't know there were tropical penguins...

What's that? The ticket? Oh, right. Yes. Let me go check that.

Guess what, honey. We won the lottery. Says so right here, two pink lines means you won.

Of course, we need to go the the Verification Office and make sure we aren't one of the 1.6% of consumers who did not get the expected results.

What's that? Verification Office isn't open on weekends? Have to wait 'til Monday?

Hm, well. How hard could that be? Um, how many minutes does Sunday have?

**********

Well, Monday came and it was off to work. I kept myself as busy as possible during the day. You know what they say: "Time flies when you're thinking of anything except the Lottery Verification Office."

They lie.

A nice, traffic-filled drive home, followed by a plop on the couch to play video games (the channel surfing, commercial singing route was not going to cut it).

I didn't notice it too much the first time I played through, but Final Fantasy X is more like a movie with a few video game moments than an actual video game. And let me tell you, I did not give a rat's ass about whether or not Yuna was going to die at the end of her pilgrimage.

Eventually my wife came home. She was on the phone when she walked in. I patiently (sort of) waited for her to finish her conversation. Which she eventually did.

Wife: Hey, sweetie, how was work?

Ungoded: Uh, good. You?

Wife: It was okay.

Ungoded: So, how did things go at the Lottery Verification Office?

author's note: I wasn't sure if I should stick to the metaphor or let this conversation play out closer to how it actually happened. Ultimately I decided to go with the metaphor, 'cause I like it.

Wife: I don't have an ear infection.

And here the metaphor breaks down anyway. Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted. I should note that this is not the non-sequitur that it appears to be. Her ears have been bothering her for weeks, she decided to get them checked out while she was there.

Ungoded: Good. Good. That's good. And, uh, that other thing?

Wife: Six weeks along.

Ungoded: Woohoo! We won the lottery! Welcome back metaphor, welcome back.

Is anyone from customer service reading this message board?

Seems like alot of people have the same questions and are looking for answers...

Does anyone have a phone number for Customer service because it appears message board and e-mail don't work :-(

To be fair to Cosmo and Corey, they don't work on the weekends (which is when the first two posts in this thread were made), and they start at 9:00 AM PST on weekdays, which was only 2 hours ago.

Far,
We've been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star

Free,
Only want to be free
We huddle close
Hang on to a dream

On the boats and on the planes
They're coming to America
Never looking back again,
They're coming to America

Home
Don't it seem so far away
Oh, we're traveling light today
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm

Home
To a new and a shiny place
Make our bed and we'll say our grace
Freedom's light burning warm
Freedom's light burning warm

Everywhere around the world
They're coming to America
Ev'ry time that flag's unfurled
They're coming to America

Got a dream to take them there
They're coming to America
Got a dream they've come to share
They're coming to America

They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
They're coming to America
Today, Today,
Today, Today, Today

My country 'tis of thee (today)
Sweet land of liberty (today)
Of thee I sing (today)
Of thee I sing
Today, Today, Today
Today, today, today......

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go
I'm standing here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say good-bye

But dawn is breakin', it's already morn
the taxi's waitin', he's blowin' the horn
already I'm so lonesome I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
tell me that you'll wait for me
hold me like you'll never let me go...

'Cause I'm leavin', on a jet-plane
don't know when I'll be back again...

Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Gravedigger

"What the buzz, tell me what's a happenin'"

"Why should you want to know?"

Well if you guys really want to envision that Ug sandwich (two slices of whitebread and a slab of liver), go right ahead. >:)

I don't know about absurd, but observing that would certainly be disgusting.

The festival was over, the boys were all plannin' for a fall,
The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall.
The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut down,
Anyone with any sense had already left town.
He was standin' in the doorway lookin' like the Jack of Hearts.

He moved across the mirrored room, "Set it up for everyone," he said,
Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin' before he turned their heads.
Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin,
"Could you kindly tell me, friend, what time the show begins?"
Then he moved into the corner, face down like the Jack of Hearts.

Backstage the girls were playin' five-card stud by the stairs,
Lily had two queens, she was hopin' for a third to match her pair.
Outside the streets were fillin' up, the window was open wide,
A gentle breeze was blowin', you could feel it from inside.
Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts.

Big Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's only diamond mine,
He made his usual entrance lookin' so dandy and so fine.
With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place,
He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste.
But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts.

Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town,
She slipped in through the side door lookin' like a queen without a crown.
She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear,
"Sorry, darlin', that I'm late," but he didn't seem to hear.
He was starin' into space over at the Jack of Hearts.

"I know I've seen that face before," Big Jim was thinkin' to himself,
"Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf."
But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the house lights did dim
And in the darkness of the room there was only Jim and him,
Starin' at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts.

Lily was a princess, she was fair-skinned and precious as a child,
She did whatever she had to do, she had that certain flash every time she smiled.
She'd come away from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs
With men in every walk of life which took her everywhere.
But she'd never met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts.

The hangin' judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined,
The drillin' in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind.
It was known all around that Lily had Jim's ring
And nothing would ever come between Lily and the king.
No, nothin' ever would except maybe the Jack of Hearts.

Rosemary started drinkin' hard and seein' her reflection in the knife,
She was tired of the attention, tired of playin' the role of Big Jim's wife.
She had done a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide,
Was lookin' to do just one good deed before she died.
She was gazin' to the future, riding on the Jack of Hearts.

Lily washed her face, took her dress off and buried it away.
"Has your luck run out?" she laughed at him, "Well, I guess you must
have known it would someday.
Be careful not to touch the wall, there's a brand-new coat of paint,
I'm glad to see you're still alive, you're lookin' like a saint."
Down the hallway footsteps were comin' for the Jack of Hearts.

The backstage manager was pacing all around by his chair.
"There's something funny going on," he said, "I can just feel it in the air."
He went to get the hangin' judge, but the hangin' judge was drunk,
As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk.
There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts.

Lily's arms were locked around the man that she dearly loved to touch,
She forgot all about the man she couldn't stand who hounded her so much.
"I've missed you so," she said to him, and he felt she was sincere,
But just beyond the door he felt jealousy and fear.
Just another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts.

No one knew the circumstance but they say that it happened pretty quick,
The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver clicked.
And Big Jim was standin' there, ya couldn't say surprised,
Rosemary right beside him, steady in her eyes.
She was with Big Jim but she was leanin' to the Jack of Hearts.

Two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall
And cleaned out the bank safe, it's said that they got off with quite a haul.
In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground
For one more member who had business back in town.
But they couldn't go no further without the Jack of Hearts.

The next day was hangin' day, the sky was overcast and black,
Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the back.
And Rosemary on the gallows, she didn't even blink,
The hangin' judge was sober, he hadn't had a drink.
The only person on the scene missin' was the Jack of Hearts.

The cabaret was empty now, a sign said, "Closed for repair,"
Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair.
She was thinkin' 'bout her father, who she very rarely saw,
Thinkin' 'bout Rosemary and thinkin' about the law.
But, most of all she was thinkin' 'bout the Jack of Hearts.

I hope (pray?) it's more than anime moves. While I don't plan to get 4th, I want the franchise to succeed.

Really I'm hoping that the names work more like the swordfighting styles in the Princess Bride.

*fireball goes off, toasting the necromancer's goblins but leaving the fighter intact.*

"Necromancer arcs an eyebrow and sends to the wizard* "ah, you are a Master of the Golden Wyvern school."

"No, just a humble student."

"I suppose you expect me to counter with Basilisk's Gaze, considering the rocky terrain." *Necromancer casts a spell, causing a number of medium earth elementals to rise from the ground.*

"Naturally, but I find Purifying Rain style cancels out Basilisk's Gaze, don't you?" *Wizard casts transmute rock to mud, the elementals start to disolve*

"Unless one has studied Alchemist's Centerfuge." *Necromancer claps his hands and the muddy elementals split into a mix of small water and earth elementsls.* "Which I have."

Awesome.

Check out this thread.

Workin' on them night moves as Mr. Seger once sang.

And still does.

I saw Uncle Bob at the Palace last year when he toured to support Face the Promise, his new album.

Well, I was charged for it yesterday, id love to know why that was if it hasn't arrived yet. the e-mail said id see the charge as soon as it shipped. Can anyone in charge shed some light please?

•I've been charged twice for my order!
•Why is there a hold on my credit card when the order hasn't shipped yet?
•I saw a charge on my account, but now it's gone. What happened?

We don't charge your card until your order ships. However, when you place an order, we immediately authorize your card to ensure that it can be charged when we ship your order. An authorization is a non-monetary transaction that merely checks with your bank to ensure that the card is valid and has sufficient funds. Again, no money is charged to the card until we ship your order.

However, at the discretion of your bank, an authorization can (and almost always will) put a hold on that amount of your credit. The duration of this hold is entirely up to your bank. If you are checking your balance via online banking, this authorization may show up as a "pending transaction" (or it may not show up at all). We do not have any control over the duration of these holds.

An authorization will only remain open for a set period of time that depends on your bank's policies. For debit cards, an authorization will usually expire in 1–5 days, while a credit card's hold can remain open for up to 30 days (again, the duration of these holds depends upon the card issuer's policy).

If an authorization expires before we ship your order, we must re-authorize the card before we can settle the charge. Since the average order on paizo.com takes anywhere from 3 to 11 business days to fulfill, some orders will be necessarily be authorized twice. This is especially true for preorders and backorders.

If, when you place your order, your card is declined because of insufficient funds, and you think this is in error, you should check your balance with your bank and/or contact Paizo's customer service before you attempt to place the order again. There are cases where we will receive a decline notice, yet your bank will accept the authorization and place a hold on your funds. In this instance, if you try to place the order again with the same card, it will probably fail again and put another hold on your account. If you keep resubmitting the order, you can quickly tie up your available credit on multiple authorizations for an order that cannot be completed; instead, you should consider using an alternative payment method.

As a side note, orders for items that are fulfilled immediately (such as PDF purchases) will be authorized and settled immediately.

For more information about authorizations and authorization holds, check out the Wikipedia entry on authorization holds.

Because they haven't shipped yet, what you are seeing is likely the authorization hold.

Why would the mermaids/sahaugin/other mysterious fishy creatures want anything to do with the land? After all, that is a big mistake. They just need to take a look at the world around them right there on the ocean floor. There's such wonderful things surrounding them, what more are they looking for?

Yeah, up on the land they work all day, out in the sun they slave away...

I do what I can.

Daigle abides.

"Daigle abides."

I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that.

Hmmm... Let's pretend I only vaguely understand the OGL. If Paizo published it, why couldn't they use it? Can Paizo change the non-OGL of the Compendium since it's their product? Are my dreams of seeing Varisian battle dancers dashed forever? I've noticed that other books (Tome of Horrors, the Advanced Beastiary) are utilized in the Pathfinder AP, does something special make them OGL, or is it simply "Yeah, we want this to be open material"?

Paizo published the Dragon Compendium under license from Wizards of the Coast. The content was Wizard's IP, they licensed Paizo to collect and publish it. The content is not OGL because it was not declared to be so (this desicion would have been up to WotC, not Paizo). Paizo cannot retroactively declare it to be OGL because the material is WotC IP.

The other books you listed are declared OGL by the publisher and are therefore open for use by others.

Dragon Compendium = not OGL.

Pick up a case of beer to "share with the other guys, while you ladies do your thing." When you get there and there are no other guys there, drink the beer yourself.

All of it.

That'll be the last baby shower you get invited to.

(I should also mention that Josh isn't quite accurate with the "came out today" portion of his message—they have arrived in our warehouse, but, due to the holiday, we won't actually be shipping the Module until next week.)

Any new word on this, Vic? I'm sure you're pretty busy with the sale and backordered Green Ronin stuff.

The number of missiles isn't dependant on spell level, it is dependant on caster level, with a max of 5 missiles at 9th caster level.

How would increasing the spell level change that?

It uses the spell slot of whatever level you move it to? Ok, that sounds fair. There have to be some limitations though, a 9th level Magic Missile would be sick....especially if one were to take the Force Missile Mage PrC!

Deathedge, here is the text from the SRD:

Heighten Spell [Metamagic]

Benefit
A heightened spell has a higher spell level than normal (up to a maximum of 9th level). Unlike other metamagic feats, Heighten Spell actually increases the effective level of the spell that it modifies. All effects dependent on spell level (such as saving throw DCs and ability to penetrate a lesser globe of invulnerability) are calculated according to the heightened level. The heightened spell is as difficult to prepare and cast as a spell of its effective level.

Since magic missile doesn't allow a save, the only real gain from heightening it is to bypass globes of invulnerability.

You can already combine shipping on Pathfinder and GameMastery Modules subscriptions.

You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round