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or else she needs to sacrifice a newborn creature (and small animals and bugs don't count).

Would a sinspawn fresh out of the well count as a "newborn" creature?

Perhaps a unique code in the book could entitle one to the PDF, or a PDF for less?

Problem being, either the code in the book is accessible to anyone who wants to copy it out of the book at the store, or you have to shrink wrap the book. Then people can't flip through it, and less people will likely buy it.

There's about a bazillion different threads floating around right now talking about a situation involving a tent, an arrow, a shadow, and a casting of true strike.

And so the obvious course of action, naturally, was to start another...

I've have both Pathfinder and Pathfinder Chronicles subscriptions with the "Hold subscription items for monthly shipment" option.

I haven't received any notice about Pathfinder #5 "Sins of the Saviors" and it looks like the next Pathfinder Chronicles will ship in Feb.
So when will people like me get their Pathfinder #5 and should I be able to get my donwnload of Pathfinder #5 now too?

Thanks

They are expecting PF6 to arrive late this month, so they are waiting to ship out the "Monthly Shipments" until PF6 (and U2, but you don't have a GMM sub) arrives.

Thanks, Cos.

You guys really are the best. I figured there might be a hiccup or two with the new subscription options, I'm actually surprised at how smoothly it has gone so far, all things considered.

Good luck with any other little "d'oh"s that pop up.

so two swarms would fill a 20x20 (x20 for flight) or can they meld together to fill he same 10x10?

That would be 20 x 10 (x 10 for flight). For them to occupy 20 x 20 x 20, there would have to be 8 swarms.

Nevermind. I see that I have the pdf available for download, so this must have already shipped.

I suppose at this point there is no reason to hold my Pathfinder #5 for monthly shipment. There is no shipping to save on.

Instead of switching my shipping to "Hold for Pathfinder" and then back to monthly after it ships, could you just go ahead and ship the Pathfinder out? Or do I need to change the shipping selection?

Cosmo, Corey,

I got an e-mail last night stating that this order was getting ready to ship. I thought it would be holding to ship with my monthly shipment.

Normally I wouldn't mind getting my module a little early, but my Pathfinder shipping is still covered by transition issues, and shipping a module by itself means a few extra bucks in shipping costs. This soon after Christmans, a few extra bucks means more than it usually does.

I don't know if you guys will get this before the shipment goes out, but if you do, please hold J2 to ship with my monthly shipment.

Thanks, guys.

Ungoded wrote:

How many cards are used to make the combat arena?

I was thinking a gladiator arena would be a good idea for a flip-mat, with the arena on one side and gladiator/monster pens on the other.

The combat arena in this case is an above ground, fenced off region. It takes up four tiles.

As for your other thought.. you might be very pleased with our upcoming schedule.

Jason Bulmahn
GameMastery Brand Manager

Excellent! And when might we hear more about the upcoming schedule?

How many cards are used to make the combat arena?

I was thinking a gladiator arena would be a good idea for a flip-mat, with the arena on one side and gladiator/monster pens on the other.

Any word on when we'll get to see the picture (actual, not mock-up) for this one?

Looks cool. I like the towers.

Any word on when this is arriving?

Thraxus wrote:

Heathansson wrote:

Is it work safe?

My Drill Sargent said pain is just weakness leaving your body.

Damn you for reminding me of basic training. I had all but forgotten my time at Fort Lost in the Woods.

Fort Jackson's nicer in the winter.

Fort Leonard Wood is nicer in the rearview.

Vic's encouraging the staff to get private avatars to avoid confusion.

Odd, considering he doesn't.

Query: the term "ebar" does not appear in my memory banks (Urban Dictionary).

I believe that is supposed to be "bear."

Click here, click "add to cart", and complete the check out procedure.

After that, you're all set.

How soon before Issue 354 hits PDF purchasing option?

Paizo no longer has the rights to make pdfs of Dragon issues.

They had to wait one year after publication to make the pdfs, so the last 12 issues won't get made into pdfs by paizo.

James Jacobs wrote:

darkbard wrote:

I hope it's not asking too much, but I wonder if it's possible to get an image of this latest iconic against a white background, similar to what was done with the previous iconics. It's not that I'm not absolutley drooling over the current image--I most assuredly am--but rather that I cut & paste the images into a neutral background "group image" to use as images of the characters in my game....

If this is possible, a most hearty "thank you!"

This is certainly possible. It'll probably happen later next week. I still haven't written up his backstory and all that, but it's on the schedule for quite soon.

James, I think you already have..or someone there has. Isn't Ezren, our RotR #5 cover boy, the subject of the October 26th blog entry?

Which was 3 days after he made that post.

Ungoded wrote:

CEBrown wrote:

crosswiredmind wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Hmm.

Not to stoke the fires or anything... but I DID just put in a bit in "Edge of Anarchy" where a key clue can be discovered by making a successful Profession (butcher) check...

I hope its not that critical a clue or you may find the email box stuffed by frustrated players asking why. There was an LG mod that required Profession: Barrister for the party to succeed. The mod writer was a lawyer and felt the need to include his own profession.

According to the triad no party ever successfully completed that mod.

Unless the campaign is set up to include the use of certain professions it will will dumb luck to have chosen the right one to uncover the right bit of info.

Boy did the Triad drop the ball on THAT one!!!

NEVER require an obscure skill, power or item in an adventure unless you make bloody well sure the party can acquire it in the adventure or that there's some way around needing it.
Heck, something very much like that was in the Living City Writer's Guidelines...

I don't think "can be" means what you think it means.

This is the problem with replying to a reply...

You're right RE the Butcher check - however, I was commenting on the apparently botched Living Greyhawk module.

I love throwing "bones" like giving PCs a bonus for having an obscure skill (which it sounds like is the case with the Profession[Butcher] thing). Making a key point of the adventure hinge upon it (like the Living Greyhawk mod), however, is BAD design.

Ah. So it turns out that I'm the one who doesn't know what he's talking about.

That happens with alarming frequency.

crosswiredmind wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Hmm.

Not to stoke the fires or anything... but I DID just put in a bit in "Edge of Anarchy" where a key clue can be discovered by making a successful Profession (butcher) check...

I hope its not that critical a clue or you may find the email box stuffed by frustrated players asking why. There was an LG mod that required Profession: Barrister for the party to succeed. The mod writer was a lawyer and felt the need to include his own profession.

According to the triad no party ever successfully completed that mod.

Unless the campaign is set up to include the use of certain professions it will will dumb luck to have chosen the right one to uncover the right bit of info.

Boy did the Triad drop the ball on THAT one!!!

NEVER require an obscure skill, power or item in an adventure unless you make bloody well sure the party can acquire it in the adventure or that there's some way around needing it.
Heck, something very much like that was in the Living City Writer's Guidelines...

I don't think "can be" means what you think it means.

Another thing that bugs me about Tolkien is his bizarre sentence structure. Take, for example:

"The elves sent out a party to meet the forces of Morgoth in the Vale, and were met by the forces of Morgoth. They were betrayed, and there were Balrogs."

Note the overuse of pronouns...

There is only one pronoun in those two sentences.

The Dragondex says it is in issue 191.

And shephards we shall be
For thee, my lord, for thee
Power hath descended forth from thy hand
That our feet may swiftly carry out thy command
So we shall flow a river forth to thee
And teeming with souls shall it ever be
In nomine Patris et fillii et Spiritus Sancti

For those who are interested in it:

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/pathfinder/pathfinderChroniclesProduct s/characterGenerationUsingHarrowDeck&page=1&source=rss

A first attempt at doing Ability scores with (what we know about) the Harrow Deck.

LINKED!

Hopefully all these negative reactions to 2008 will cause people to finally try something other than Gregorian.

It's still 1428 in the Hijri calendar.

Stuff.

I don't know if it makes it more or less funny that Hasbro is misspelled.

I used to say that having kids didn’t matter to me. Some people just don’t have kids and I would have no problem being one of those people. But I was never against having kids.

Then I found out my wife was pregnant. It took me a few moments to digest that fact, and then I was downright giddy. In all of twenty seconds I went from anxious to ridiculously over-the-top excited.

Apparently, being one of those people who don’t have kids would be a problem for me. Finding out that I was going to be a dad was the best news ever.

For days, it was all I could think about. I told everybody. I called friends out of state. I inserted the news into conversations that had absolutely nothing to do with children, or pregnancy, or me even. I was an expectant father, I was ecstatic, and everyone else should be too.

I was kind of surprised by the change in myself. Suddenly, the fact that I was going to be a dad (in, like, eight months) was the defining element of my life; and I was happy about that.

It is amazing that someone I’d never met could take that all away from me with a few words I could barely understand.

Last Sunday (12/16), we celebrated Christmas with my wife’s parents and brother; we will be in Florida with my parents on the 25th. My wife hadn’t been feeling well (nothing major, just a not-good feeling in her stomach) the day before, but she loves presents (what woman doesn’t) and was duly excited that morning.

Throughout the day her stomach pains developed into cramps. The kind of cramps not-pregnant women get monthly. A quick internet search of medical websites assured us that “growing pains” sometimes feel just like those cramps. But then there was bleeding - just a little, at first. A call to our friend (a doctor) reassured us that it wasn’t necessarily a problem, and as long as things didn’t get worse we shouldn’t worry too much - just make sure to tell the OB at the next (first) appointment.

So we opened presents, all the while my wife was in increasing amounts of pain. I kept asking if she was okay, she said it was just the cramps, no big deal.

She eventually got to the point that standing up straight hurt so bad it made her cry. Presents and Christmas and “No big deal” be damned, I put my wife in the car and headed for the emergency room.

I can’t (won’t) describe our time (four hours) at the hospital, save for this:

It is amazing to me how the human brain is capable of picking certain words out of otherwise incomprehensible speech. The doctor that finally (third doctor, we had four nurses as well) came in to tell us what was going on spoke with a very thick accent (Persian, I think). He said a lot of things I couldn’t understand, due to a combination of accent and jargon. However, one word rang out clearly to my ears, and my wife’s: miscarriage.

After four hours of excruciating pain and numerous hospital staff performing very personal inspections, that word was just too much. The look on my wife’s face nearly broke me. Only the knowledge that I needed to be strong for her kept me from a complete and total breakdown.

I would happily do anything to make sure that I never see that look on my wife’s face again.

So...miscarriage sucks.

See this thread for your answer. (first post)

I feel that it is necessary to do a tally of Nic Logue adventures in the GMM line, scince part of the OP's complaint is that Nic makes up a major portion of the line.

Already Shipped

D1: Nic Logue

W1: Jason Bulmahn

D2: Paizo Staff (James Sutter)

U1: Steve Greer

J1: Michael Kortes

E1: Nic Logue & Tim Hitchcock

Tally - 1.5 out of 7 adventures have the Touch of Logue

Not yet Shipped:

J2: Anson Caralya

U2: Nic Logue

J3: Wolfgang Baur

W2: Greg A. Vaughan

D3: Tim Hitchcock and Stephen S. Greer

W3: David Schwartz

LB1: Author Unannounced

LB2: Author Unannounced

D4: Author Unannounced

Tally - 1 out of 6 adventures (not counting the Author Unannounced Modules) have the Touch of Logue.

These tallies do not count D0 or TC1 as they are not part of the subscription.

As for Pathfinder, with one module adventure in each of the first two APs, 2 out of 12 Pathfinders have the Touch of Logue.

Thats a total of 4.5 out of 25.

But if the situation remains the same, I'm going to have to ask for a Logue-free subscription model or cancel my subscription instead.

I dunno, instead of being dissatisfied with things in a Logue adventure a LOGUE ADVENTURE, just don't buy LOUGE ADVENTURES?

That's pretty much what he's saying here.

Not a major rant. I'm just turned off at the level of cold criticism aimed at the Superstar finalists. Much of this is coming from people with ten posts or less and so I find myself weaving conspiracy theories. Then again, I still believe in Santa and disco, so what do I know?

Constructive criticism is a wonderful thing and I've benefited greatly from it since I started writing. It can take on many tones, and I wish this contest had yielded a little more warmth in the responses. Most Paizo posters tend to exercise thoughtfulness, respect and consideration for each other's feelings and that's been palpably absent during much of RPG Superstar's run. These finalists have each worked hard to get where they are. Those in the top sixteen each beat out 49 other writers to get where they are.

Whether it's people trying to give extensive writing lessons to those who already beat them out in the contest (Why? Superstardom through association with a finalist via flexing your creative writing chops after the fact?), or those who lay hard into the contestants sans any measure of merciful tact. Some of the criticism, almost all of it helpful in a way, has also proven to be a long distance whiz in your face from a few vain, built-up bitterpusses. Thank you internet. I will say, however, that even said bitterpusses do actually seem to possess some savage skills with language...

I'm not talking about 95% of the people who offered their 2 cents. I'm talking about you, reading this right now. Yeah, you, with the Guy Fawkes beard. Down and give me twenty. I will accept small bills if that's all you have.

Look, putting yourself out there in a competition like this always has a chance of attracting a few chucked rocks to the noodle box, but it doesn't mean it has to happen. Group hug, bltches. Bring it in. If my mention of feelings seems a bit treacly to some of you, you're clearly not a regular around these parts. We try to show respect.

::Surreptitiously nudges Sebastian back behind the pillar::...

I'm getting real sick of reading "Here's how I would have done it." and "You should have written it like this."

I've never used either of these, nor can I vouch for their safety, but they seem to roughly fill the niche:

LINK 1
LINK 2

(sorry, just woke up, far too lazy to build real links)

Just lending a hand.

Ungoded wrote:

The Jade wrote:

Ungoded wrote:

I don't want a pickle

I just wanna gnaw on my martyr-cicle

You are now the offical jingle writer for all cannibal villains.

You can get any martyr you want

at Durgal's restaraunt

Ahhhh, oldie but a goodie.

You know, many moons ago my mother and I actually met Alice (the one Arlo was singing about) out on Cape Cod? I believe that she was selling stones that she had painted.

I saw Arlo in concert with my folks.

Apparently, he dislikes doing the motor-cicle song. Mostly because he thinks it's a dumb song.

Which it really is.

These days he does moose poems.

Ungoded wrote:

I don't want a pickle

I just wanna gnaw on my martyr-cicle

You are now the offical jingle writer for all cannibal villains.

You can get any martyr you want

I don't want a pickle
I just wanna gnaw on my martyr-cicle

I think you would have avoid the "it's too current" comments by changing the damage to anything but fire. Explosive runes ice (cold) substitution, cloud kill, or even glyph of warding with lightning bolt attached(in bath house maybe?).

See following replacement:

A young man pushes himself through the crowded marketplace. Ignoring the cheerful appeals of merchants, brushing past children clutching their mother’s skirts, he finally reaches the most congested part of the bazaar. There, his fingers trembling ever so slightly, he pulls a leather book out of his tattered clothing. With one final scornful look at his surroundings he kisses the holy sigil on the cover and opens it.
The blast expands through the crowd. A blast of cold air chills those fortunate enough to have stood just a few extra paces further away. As frost rises from the frozen bodies, stunned survivors shriek the names of their friends and loved ones and stare into the glazed eyes of the ice statues that stand in the middle of the market.
Elsewhere, the malign intelligence that sparked this atrocity smiles and waits for the feast...

I feel that doesn't envoke the same response. But I could be crazy. Though that has never been proven.

Mmmmmmmm....martyrcicles.

AWE. SOME.

A little more than half of each Pathfinder volume contains an Adventure Path adventure; the rest of the book supports Game Masters of any campaign with never-before faced monsters; easily customized NPCs, equipment, magic, and plots; "Director's Commentary"-styled notes and suggestions by fan-favorite designers; peerless online and electronic support; and much, much more.

1 adventure per issue. 6 issues makes a full AP.

See this thread for a discussion of this "cursed" item.

Vattnisse wrote:

Kendrik, Lion of Ratik wrote:

Burning, looting, raping, shooting,
Burning, looting, raping, shooting,
A burning,...

This has got to be Bad News' "Warriors of Genghis Khan"! I haven't heard that one in years and years.

it is indeed... it was a hard decision between warriors and drink til i die... my other one was days of our lives by Queen

what about this one...

Now holidays come and then they go
It's nothin' new today
Collect another memory
When I come home late at night
Don't ask me where I've been
Just count your stars
I'm home again

You Could Be Mine - G n' f'n R

Can I talk about delve format? It's sucky, and not 4e strictly per se...

Delve format discussions are permissable.

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

One step left to go before the news. Looks like that news will be next week, though. Sorry, folks. :-/

Joshua, when you do make that announcement, could you also let us know the status of Item Deck: 1 (not Adventuring Gear 1), it's currently unavailable.

Watcher, in the product discussion thread for Item Pack 1, 4 posts above yours is an answer from Eric about whether or not Item Pack 1 will be reprinted.

Some stuff.

Please click here.

She's a brick....house
Mighty mighty, just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick....house
The lady's stacked and that's a fact,
ain't holding nothing back

** spoiler omitted **

Wow, you look all grown up now, Ungoded!

I had to grow up, I won the lottery*!!!!!!!!!

Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm...

I write the songs that make the whole world sing
I write the songs of love and special things
I write the songs that make the young girls cry
I write the songs, I write the songs

If you bought D1 through here you have the pdf also right?

This is only true for subscribers.

Click here.