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Someone mentioned Legend of Galactic Heroes at some point? Either in this thread or another. I just found out about this and if you guys already know that's cool but...oh my god. My little weeabo heart never dreamed of this day. OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! /sqqqqqqqueeeeeee

@ Alzrius oh god you are so right on the LH characterizations. Even the author in the final volume is apologizing about never doing anything with Mitsune. >_< I refused to get into Negima! because of my hate for Love Hina.

You know a show has pacing issues when they roll the credits 6 minutes early on a 24 minute episode that isn't even a season finale. Get it together Grimgar.

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My point is no one in the show (I mainly am refereeing to the main MC here) so much as blushes (aside from Darkness) at any other character's attire. Compared to Haruhiro in Grimgar looking at either Shihoru's or Barbara's breasts. Shiroe blushing upon seeing female Akatsuki for the first time. So on and so on. The "standard" is almost every male MC under the sun at one point "checks out" the the female lead for better or worse. Kazuma comes off very much as "zero @#$%s to give" when it comes to the women around him. Which is a reversal of what I would expect from a guy that sleeps besides a goddess ever night. Now I haven't read the LN so it might be different there. So that is what I am comparing. NOTE: I forget if he was all like "WOW!" with Aqua at first meeting but once he got to know her, all in the space of 5 minutes, it is clear that "switch" was turned off.

Just so you know I just googled the LN illustrations to compare with the anime art, that's all.

As for Aqua again. It's everything about her that is parody. Not just her outfit but how it relates to everything else about her. She is the female protagonist to the male protagonist in a "trapped in a fantasy world" story. The person that usually gets loved by fanboys to no end, has some sort of immediately noticeable endearing qualities, and normally is the instant love interest of the male protagonist. She is the part of Asuna, Akatsuki, Albedo, etc. but the worst of all worlds. Competent? No. Compassionate? No. Selfless? No. Loyal? No. So on and so on. Funny? Highly so. She has ZERO redeeming qualities as a person. She IS a rotten apple. Good looking to be sure but rotten to her core. I mean Albedo was...well, you know what she was probably but she did have good parts to her that make her enjoyable. That pretty exterior isn't there as fan service in my eyes so much as it's directly opposite to who she really is as a person least to who she is in the beginning. She just isn't titillating imho and it doesn't feel like she is meant to be. If you disagree that's cool, this is a great conversation btw, but that is my take away as someone that likes shows like Shokugeki no Soma.

Or Greylurker right there nailed it on the head.

BTW, isn't "oriental" now more of a racist term, at least in the USA?

To some Laowai, (老外, old outsider, slang: foreigner) yes, it is. However to quote my co-worker here in Zhangjiajie just now on the general attitude of the word in China.

"Would you care if I called you Oriental? Some people think that's racist or rude."

"That's stupid, just don't call me Japanese." *Rest of office laughs.*

As far as my personal views as someone that lives primarily in China and Japan, it's just an antiquated term. It's much more common to use and hear Eastern/Western when talking about regional and cultural differences as a whole.

As far as an AP I really like Minkai and all things Japanese, but seems a more Chinese themed AP would be the way to go considering we have already "been there, done that". HOWEVER, SE Asia and Korea have been woefully underrepresented in almost everything in fictional media, being eclipsed by Japan or China. So if there was another Tian Xia AP I would like to see some of the regions inspired by those cultures included if only for a book or two.

I had an idea like a decade ago for a campaign that I dubbed "The Cell". The group would all be newly arrested prisoners in an evil empire like country sent to a work prison located in the middle of a swamp. The prisoners were all equipped with collars that were linked in groups of four to six people with one person in the group designated as the "Key" (The character with the lowest HP). Everyone else were called "Bars" and they all formed the "Cell". If anyone in the Cell ever wandered more than say...45-60 ft for more than 2-3 rounds from the Key they went boom. If the Key died they all went boom. If everyone but the Key died then the Key goes boom. As they went through the story the Cell would experience changes in its rules from tempering to remove the collars making some parts more forgiving or harsher.

It's been years so I don't remember the in game world reasoning at the time for all this but the meta game idea was to make a more tactical teamwork focused group as they had to be way more aware of positioning and protecting vulnerable party members (aka the Key).

I just don't understand how someone initiating the conflict gets upset when it goes against him.

Oh that's quite easy to understand. You ruined HIS fun while he couldn't give a damn about YOUR fun.

Magic isn't real.

/gasp

You did NOT just go there.

You missed the prime question of disbelief. "Hey are you a real guy?" If I was smart I would of said "No" and been done with it.

I found the magic system alright and performed well enough with it. Though I had a single Air mage and only used the basic one rune spell, but I can understand other people's frustrations. I just wish exp divided evenly among the party and not just people that hit. Created some aberrant behavior on my part. Beat the game on Old School and Hard.

So, once the PCs get to Irrisen, they have to make saves against the cold every ten minutes, yes? And they travel for more than a day. So that's at least 144 fort saves, less 60 for about 10 hours in camp. How is it possible to survive that without endure elements or cold resistance? You're almost guaranteed to roll a few 1s, even if you have a good fort save and cold-weather gear. Plus, the DC goes up for every previous save. So, long story short, how does this not just kill everyone except the Boreal Sorcerer in one day?

^ The NEW Rum Ration

when is the last time you saw a DnD parliment?

/cough

A DnD Age of Reason with people inventing microbiology and penicillin?

Lowbrow when you have mecha robo-scorpions of death, androids, and spaceships. Thank you Numeria.

You know what I like the idea of? "Ask Dr. Feel Good." thread. He has sooo much wisdom to share I bet.

As the newest member of the TEO council I would like to first say I'm honored to have the Veil as allies. If we weren't friends I would be very bored on Monday nights instead of guest spotting in Camlo's game. We are also all for running drills with you and any other guild that wishes to do so.

TEO can also be counted on to do the right by the community. We are a Good organization. If you ask us for help we WILL be there for you. To do what is right, especially when it is inconvenient, is what being good is to me.

That said, Darsch, if Andius starts to play on our TE minecraft server I totally welcome you to join to grief him with lava, TNT, and monster spawn eggs. Whatever it takes to satisfy your honor.

That may be, but I can't understand a thing they said.

Always add "Proficiency: Internet" to your character sheet folks.

"The surest way to defeat your enemy is to become them, and thus be defeated."

- Kacan Moraphis, Chief Abbot, Monastery of the 36th Order

知彼知己，百戰不殆；不知彼而知己，一勝一負；不知彼，不知己，每戰必殆

- Said by someone older, wiser, and who sold more books

Keovar wrote:

I like the concept and you picked a good lore-appropriate name. I suppose a treaty like this is mostly for counteracting griefer threats on the scale of the G--- S----? I suppose one could consider griefers to be cultists of Rovagug, from an in-character perspective... Rovagoons? :P

Seems to me that we might get more support if this were limited to responding to big groups specifically dedicated to griefing, without trying to broaden it to the point that it could apply to individual players or those playing bandits. If it's just affecting a few players it's just the game playing out as it will, but if a group comes in with the purpose of ruining the game for everyone, everyone could do their own thing, hiding out or trying to cut individual deals to be left alone, or we could all work together to deal with them.

^ This. Someone wanted to have a anti-"goon" treaty and asked for a RP reason. Hence I brought up Rovagug and thus it was named. This is meant to be a treaty against a BIG threat. A troll KINGDOM not some petty ass group of bandits. I feel this could of been stated clearer. Also any real discussion about this should be done over Skype, Teamspeak or something similar.

Don't worry TEO has a ruling council which distributes power equally except in times of war. Such as when reasonable doubt of magics of massive destruction has been reported in a neighboring kingdom. In that case emergency powers are granted to Andius. As you can see a safe and reasonable system.

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No problem. Its what I'm here for. That and b+$%$ n' complain a lot.

There are katana threads? Link so I might lurker in whiny goodness!

$10,176 an hour.

Still not moving in the right direction.

See: Not Helping.

We can do the math. We know the stakes and how the chips are falling. Having someone crying out every play of a football game on how far your team is behind does NOT inspire morale.

They see him troll'n, he bait'n. All because their white n' nerdy.

Lisa yours is the post that convinces me that this will go through, so thanks and happy new year.

Agreed, thank you Lisa. Because every time I hear the 90% quote I always think, "And 10% fail..." You can't win a pessimist with statements short of a "full glass". Most of us are gamers, we know what happens when we say, "Don't worry guys, I can only fail this on a 2 or lower."

Time zone might be impossible for some guilds, TEO for example is spread all over the map including a few European members. No one holds a clear majority. As Onishi pointed out in his CC thread it would be best for those that plan on holding land to recruit from as many timezones as possible.

@Tetrix, GW said "I think" the hex you claim would include a guild house but not a settlement. That they will leave to the players. And while early guilds get to "seed" the garden as it may don't doubt for a second that the moment territorial conflict is open more than half of those guilds will be attacked and possibly wiped off the map.

Temples of Shelyn. They love ANYBODY. Tested and proven in a JR game, I was stuck with four of them.

I think this backer competition should be done by total pledge amount, not backer numbers, since one person pledging 100$ is helping the game more than 19 people pledging 5$.

Also, existing backers should be counted toward their guild total, or else you're penalizing the early-adopters.

In other words, pay to win...

:O

Y'know, still could have been worse. Someone could have thrown up afterwards. In the centrifuge.

And anyone that's ever been on a dodgy fair ride knows how that chain reaction goes.

To the best confession ever? Frankly, I am shocked the DM didn't call for a Fort save vs nauseated.

@Mechalibur this happened to our tiefling samurai. Must be a racial thing.

How to take down a evil kingdom.
1. Add a anthropomorphic animal
2 ???
3. Watch the "angst". (Also see Profit)

In seriousness what's the big deal especially with creatures like kitsune that actually exist in popular mythology? Does the adding of more body hair turn you off that badly?

avari3 wrote:

I'm making a bard, his first song will be "the adventures of Nihimon"

But, not being as clever as Monty Python, I couldn't think of anything funny to say...

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Nihimon and the Bandit

Oh the first thing he did, was cast Gravity on his Bow,
Oh the second thing he did, was cast a magic Strike so True,
Oh no!
Oh no!
The bandit moved next to him.
And Nihimon attacked it with a melee weapon with his low Strength rating but is was alright cus he hit him but just did poor damage at which point the bandit kicked his butt AND THEN!!!!!!!
Nihimon raaaaaaaaaan aaaawwwwwwaaaaaaay ah!!!!

The bard shrugged and cast Sleep. The End.

(True story from a Kingmarker session. Cept for the bard casting sleep thing I just had to add a part were a bard was awesome and saved the day. Though there was a awesome bard in that campaign. Maybe still is, not sure.)

I find it hard to believe that you wouldn't notice the air going bad, and find it silly to let dice determine if they notice before the crucial point. I also find it hard to believe that room is so tightly isolated that no oxygen can come in from outside. I assume the door was closed again after the mantis ran.

Also, unless this is specifically called out as not possible, you can rouse people from sleep by taking a standard action.

Actually I'll reverse my other comment in favor of this. If the roll given is for the players to notice the effects of hypoxia its quite possible they would of died for failing.

Bah to MST3K and animated Anastasia cartoons... how about something grittier?

Pass. Liked this more.

As long as it has some wibbly-wobbly too I'm down.

Maybe genre clash isn't the right term. It's more Pathfinder high fantasy versus the black realism of WWI trench warfare.

That does come off as a bit Suckerpunch-ish and I can see why you wouldn't want the themes of All Quiet on the Western Front in your AP. But let's see what they throw us.

Also I don't know who you mean by the PC's over throwing. Nicholas II was a nice guy that was a super crappy ruler that had advisers telling him only stuff they wanted him to hear on top of having no concept of industrialization, or the troubles of the common man. Its one thing to kill a evil king for being evil. Its another to tell a nice guy he's doing a s!@+ty job and he is being removed because of it. Which would be unLawful. Any players knowing the history meta would be preferred because they would know their is nothing short of a Wish/Miracle spell worded very carefully that would head off that cluster f*++ so they wouldn't try to fix problems they can't stop on a world not their own.

Hmmm, Anastasia Romanoff/Romanova's true fate was/is to be adopted by Baba Yaga and made the new queen of Irrisen? :)

Anastasia and the majority of her family's remains were found in 1991. The missing son and Maria were found in 2008. DNA testing was done to conform the remains. HOWEVER...a clone spell cast by a kindly divination wizard that fell for Anastasia might be a different story indeed.

More of a genre clash vs Lovecraft horror, kung-fu tournaments, Numeria mecha scorpions, androids, or the SPACESHIP captains of Verces...please. If you don't want to visit Earth fine and dandy but Pathfinder is ALREADY the weird bastard child of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, adventure pulp whatever-you-can-think-of genre.

But what if instead of it being Earth its a Demiplane of Earth's 1916 Russia. (If for any other reason than to prevent the PC's from derailing history something fierce.) If anything we are only a few days away from a product description hitting the site. I'm sure we will know for sure where it will take place then.

Even if you have ZERO interest in the MMO all you need to do is pledge the five dollar level and get the 100 print add on. The book will be $75 minimum they said. Also the flip mats alone would cost over $80 so you are getting a deal at $105 for both the book + flip mats.

"But I don't want flip mats." See below;

1. Get flip mats
2. eBay
3. ???
4. Profit

However if the KSer fails we all get nothing.

oooh! There appears to be a flurry of activity on the KS this evening. We may crack 10K as a daily total :) :) :) :)

16k as the time of my posting. THESE are the daily numbers I was looking for and I hope it keeps up.

As far as rewards where are our Player Guides? Detailed maps? Cosmetic item rewards? I hate T-shirts but I don't see those as a reward either.

Some of us are willing to raise more money but we have no personal reason to like Anduis said. GL raised a extra +1000 for Star Citzen for our own personal Corvette spacecraft. I went to +100 in the last KSer for autographed bookplate and flip maps. We want more cool s%*@. Where is the cool s~$@?

EDIT: Seems some emails went out to backers of things like the Bones KSer, that explains the sudden hike. Well played.

Can we stop using the word "panic"? Even if we see negative dollars per day we don't panic. Never give up, never surrender.

I've been thinking "Kickstarter" seemed like a suspect concept from the moment I first heard about it. If a project can't get funded though conventional means there must be something wrong with it.

Or there is something wrong with conventional funding. Please see Star Citizen, Shadowrun Returns, Project Eternity, Planetary Annihilation, Double Fine Adventure, and/or Wasteland 2. Publishers didn't want to back these games. They weren't WoW, Angry Birds, or Call of Duty. However gamers wanted these games and we put up the money for them because that's how bad we wanted them. We call this a "win/win".

Sunrods, never leave home without them.

Why is it the fault of the designers if a sorcerer is a one trick pony?

And why didn't the sorcerer buy scrolls or wands of spells he didn't take to make himself rounded out? He has Prestige Points. Its not about power gaming its about being prepared. When my friends fought a red dragon and all cried about how they couldn't fly I asked them,

"Lesser races." Yeah...Andius will love you guys.

Would you throw a monster immune to melee damage, or weapon damage at a party?

They are called Hellwasp swarms and yes, I would.

As other posters have pointed out their is more than one way to skin a cat with magic.

Corwynn Maelstrom wrote:

I also agree that there's a handful of people fanboying it up pretty hard across the threads and in the Kickstarter comments and making it sound like this is the greatest idea ever, and there's been nothing done wrong here at all.

Your concerns are legit Corwynn. I think everybody here understands that these pledges are investments with risk. All of us, the nays and the yeahs are voting based on what we have seen so far. The yeahs are mostly people who have seen GW hold our hands with a lot of information in blogs and on the forums and we like what we see. I am investing based on the resumes of the team involved , my general faith in pathfinder, and the fact that I believe EVE, not WoW was the correct direction for MMO's to go in. I also believe I will have no problem selling off my early access if I choose to for X or Y reason.

I might be wrong. No investment will have zero red flags and this one is no different.

But I can say that I am giving GW my money and I expect a great GAME in return, not a great PROFIT. I believe this is a fundamental difference in the way to do business and the world in general would be a better place if more value systems were built like this. I am a fan of Co-ops, barter systems and alternate monetary systems so I fully appreciate the mere whole hearted attempt by GW to attempt a true community made MMO with community driven finance.

Again, I might be wrong and I may have just blown $100 bucks...

As far as failed marketing to reach the goal, I agree it looks clumsy, but I am assuming that they are just giving the original pledgers proper chance to get in as the first couple waves and then they will pick it up to get 1m. We'll see.

And as a "yea" (correct spelling) I want every single "nay" to scream and shout as loud as they can to express VERY legitimate concerns. Just don't be jerks and consider every "yea" to be a mindless GW fanboy.

Reminder to those that just walked into a wall. DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS.

EDIT 2: Actually this pretty much says it all I think. :3

I could almost agree with Sean if I didn't see all those damn AP obituary threads and think, "I like living."

Hopefully both like WoW. I like options.

OK fair enough, you believe in your friend. I'm going to believe my experience. And if in the PFO EULA its a banning offense to share account info I will make sure to find and report every single settlement that uses such practices as I would in any other MMO.

Waruko, your words are so much like a person in a panic. What, how, what, where. Why are you all of a sudden concerned? Why does my idea of gold having weight suddenly move you to inquire so deeply? Do you feel I am deep in falsehoods, scampering to steal your weightless gold?

Projecting is a terrible thing. But no, seriously, I'm asking you to be clear, cause you are not. See in a debate if one side is not making sense because they are not elaborating its considered fair to ask for clarification. Its not a sign of panic, its a sign of curiosity and interest because someone isn't being understood and the opposite party WANTS TO UNDERSTAND THEM.

Darkfall isn't Pathfinder. And limited builds do happen on MMO all the time. I'm not going to go seeking into memory and webpages and cite references for your sake. I actually do not care about a total stranger today; maybe not tomorrow nor for years to come.

But you care enough to reply...I'm touched. Also that seems a bit lazy, "I'm going to make a argument but I'm not going to trouble myself to prove its validity past, "Because I said so.""

What, how, what, where. Jeez.

"Instead of explaining how people cheated in some way that I will not mention, in game I will not mention, I will instead act silly."

Oh and if you've never played Pathfinder, I'll let you know something: a lone high level fighter can defend himself fairly well. Even against numerous bandits. Sorry, it's true.

So can a lone high level Wizard, Barbarian, Magus, Monk, Sorcerer, Cleric, Druid, Samurai, Ninja, Rogue, Ranger, Witch, Alchemist, Cavalier, Gunslinger, Inquisitor, Orcale, Summoner, and dare I say it, a BARD can too. Sorry, it's true. Your point? Because last time I checked NPC bandits in a pen and paper RPG and bandits played by PC's in a computer game who will have just as much skill training and equipment as you don't function in the same way.

Now I'm sorry if you took my inquires and objections personally to be so curt in reply. I can be abrasive, I know, but if you want to get snippy I can play that game too.

So to get back on topic: Cookie cutter builds HAVE ALWAYS existed and will exist in MMO's but they have NEVER been so because of weightless gold in ANY GAME. What makes Pathfinder so special based on the limited knowledge WE HAVE ABOUT it make your point true?

Your talking about multi-boxing with bots. If they are using bots I'm sure Ryan will have measures in place to ban them and other botters. But I have never seen multi-boxers as a major issue in any game. They became popular for a time in WoW but soon became niche again.

As for gold farmers, again NON-ISSUE. The game will be using a EVE PLEX like system which has proved extremely effective to stopping gold sellers. Aka game time is a in game item you can buy and sell. In other words Goblinworks is the solo "gold seller". By being safe, and most of all legal they choke out any competition.