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Thammuz wrote:

1) There is a movie based on Midnight, which was supposed to be a series pilot; my son and I watch it semi-frequently, it's pretty good for the budget it was shot on. I'd sign up for a sequel, for sure.

was that ever released??

I think I saw them selling it on their website, Fantasy Flight games. I didn't pay too much attention since I just visit their site for stuff on Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader.

Kirth Gersen wrote:

I quite enjoy the Latin mass, and even the English one (although to a much lesser extent). Both my parents were raised Catholic; hopefully I can still remember when to stand and kneel from when I was a kid, and not embarrass myself or you.

I don't embarrass easily. For Ash Wednesday Mass, after receiving the ashes, I noticed all the altar servers and a few parishioners were standing while others were sitting or kneeling. I kept standing. My son leaned over and asked, "Why are we standing?" I said, "Because the altar servers are, and they're nervous enough without me helping make them look wrong."

I think that mini-lesson in etiquette sunk in. My son Christopher is pretty bright.

:D

Nice, I was an altar server when I was a kid. It still brings back memory watching the servers ring the bells when the priest held up the communion, only messed up once doing that. hah.

Ah Jovian Chronicles, I love that setting, own all the books and almost all of the early Heavy Gear books. The system is okay for low to mid level settings. The game we played was a cloak and dagger operations set in the Jovian Chronicles world, none of us used mechs and went undercover to other stations. It was a fun setting. Go Venusians! ;-)

Cersei / Isabella “the She Wolf of France”

** spoiler omitted **

Cool stuff, it was informative at the very least and had inspired me to read up on some of these monarchs. Was reading the part where Edward II

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Zuxius wrote:

What a flippin' awesome film. Sam Rockwell (not to be confused with Chester Rockwell) was over the top incredible. The special effects were also amazing. This is definitely a thinkers Sci-Fi film. This was also an amazing emotional drama too. Do not miss.

The music was also well placed. Can't say enough good things.

I was thinking about picking this up for the wife. Glad to hear it's a good film. Did you see Sunshine? What did you think about it?

Moon is an excellent film, I just saw it last night. Great piece for scifi fans with a great premise. The plot is great and Sam Rockwell is at the top of his game, it was interesting seeing him act like this considering he was the security officer, Guy, in Galaxy Quest.

Sunshine... *shudder* I was enjoying it until about the midway point. At that point I just had to get up and leave the theater for a bit and vent with a coworker. One had to already put up some suspension of disbelief for the intial setup and then what they did... it's on my would not recommend list.

Instead I'd recommend District 9, this and Moon are my top scifi films of 2009.

Here's an interesting use...
I was playing a warmage in an old game (major rumble in a forest) and the opposition had a phoenix that flew around us setting the forest around ablaze, also allowing for their forces to escape. My warmage was casting sleet storm left and right so that the fires didn't spread enought to block our path. While the DM ruled it didn't extinguish the major blazes, but it helped a lot. It was open to interpretation, but that was an interesting use of sleet storm.

This is a totally cool idea. If the location were acceptable - comfortable, clean, and with the sort of equipment on hand that I might want for my game (large table, snacks available for purchase, easy access to dice/minis to buy on short notice, etc.) I think I'd find it really useful. If you figure you can fit four tables set up like that, at $40 per five hours, fit in two slots per day, that's a couple hundred dollars of potential income just from the "rent". You'd need a lot of space to fit this stuff, and you'd need to be pretty reliable about maintaining it, but it strikes me as a cool source of supplementary income that also gives groups of people a real reason to shop at your store.

I have no idea if this would even be feasible, from a business standpoint, but from the perspective of a customer I find it appealing.

EDIT: Ooh, maybe have a couple cheap desktop computers on hand off to the side with a printer hooked up and a bunch of character generation tools installed (the DDI Character Builder, one or two 3.5 or PFRPG-compatible generators, etc.) specifically for "rent"-paying members to use.

And work out a deal with the local pizza place to offer discounts to your customers while...

Reading all this makes me think of fantasy flight game's event center

Just noticed their website since i go to their page for info on dark heresy. Yeah, more of their own products and such, kinda more like a gw shop in some ways.

Fire Wraith wrote:

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a face to face gaming group, playing 3.5 or Pathfinder rules, in the Northern VA/DC/Maryland metro area. Ideally, I'd like to do something on the lines of Savage Tide, Rise of the Runelords, or Crimson Throne, but I'd be open to other things. Evenings and weekends preferred, as is a relatively mature group (i.e., ages 18+).

I live in Alexandria, Virginia.

I might be interested in a weekend game.

Hah, I'm pretty familiar with Alexandria, been working in the area since '02. I'm kinda interested in a game, though time may be an issue. It depends on where the game is and when.

As for nerds talking; i havent seen or heard anything like that; more of "hey, where is the _____" or "anyone know how "X" works" and of course the incessant spammers trying to sell you in game resources for real money; I really hate that.

speaking of which... two star trek online related comics from pvponline I just read.

First contact
A Breach in protocol

Since the preorder is supposed to be out to customers no later than tomorrow, I thought I would share a couple of wargames I made for my friends and me, one of which uses Warpath to resolve battles.

The first is a Star Wars: Clone Wars mini game. It has everything you need to play, except MapTools:

Star Wars: Clone Wars Minis Strategy Game.

The second is A Game of Thrones Strategy wargame, which has everything you need to play except Warpath and MapTools:

A Game of Thrones Strategy.

MapTools is a free download at rptools.net.

Hey Hank,

Interesting, thanks for the screenshots by the way.
I could only download the starwars file, the site said the game of thrones strategy was not there.

Thanks for the info, but last night my wife jumped the gun and bought me a PS3 as an early birthday present. My only regret is that I was going to try getting a backwards compatible model on ebay. Don't get me wrong though, the one she bought is pretty awesome.

Well, at least the ps2 players are still available for sale and are reasonable in price, so you can still play ps2 games if you really really want to though yeah, that's a bummer about the noncompatible one you got.

Also, a new game coming out is MAG, if you're into massive first person shooter games. that one supposedly can go up to 256 players... O_o

dm4hire wrote:

Regardless of all that I have to agree that it's great to hear that Pathfinder is doing well, but as mentioned we really need to make a point of promoting the game.

I'd love to promote it. But to do that, I'd have to find people who are into RPGs who aren't beyond the bend crazy.

There are two kinds of people who play these kinds of games. One group is best represented by the 40 year old man whom I watched get up and leave the room crying crazy tears because his character had to pay taxes on gold (I was a player, not the GM, I was totally stunned and didn't say a word during the whole thing). Another representation is the 27 year old man whom I was stuck listening to for about an hour gloating over how he'd found the perfect arrangement of feats/skills/class/prestige class/etc. to get some crazy totally munchkinized bonus on his character sheet.
The other group is the rest of us.
Unfortunately, where I've recently moved (northern Virginia) seems to be swarming with the first kind of people and the second kind of people are in hiding.

wow... that said, I live in the northern virginia area, and yes, we stay hidden, lest we meet the first kind. we're more like closet gamers. heh.

That said, everyone in the group have bought their own copy of Pathfinder paper copy, doing our part to increase the sales. :-)

Question, regarding the feat Muffle. It says that it stops significant sound, would this stop a caster from using verval components? I can see how it would make sense mechanically and flavorwise but I wanted to make sure.

BTW: i´m so please with this thing is not even funny. If you have a rogue, bard, monk or even fighter you will find at least one thing that fits perfectly with something you wanna do.

I agree to that sentiment, was going over the file last night and I really enjoyed this document. I'm definitely introducing this to my rpg group.

Huh... I thought you were kidding at first, but after reading the feat description and the penalties and requirements, it started to grow on me. I like this as a sneaky (and different) feat.

I'm enjoying the comic.

You know folks, this is not like it's the very first tablet...

Many others exist already, and probably for a cheaper price...

But did those earlier tablets come with as much support as Apple will probably give it, especially in terms of applications? The user interface they got from experience with iphones and all probably will be interesting. I don't own an itouch or iphone, but the few times i've messed with them, I've been impressed.

To address the price, looks like the lowest model is starting at 499 and that's just the initial price offer, it'll probably drop in price within a year or so. I can see myself picking one of those up at that point instead of a netbook.

Misery wrote:

Also, for those who fear about his height, as stated there were people taller than him but not stronger. Plus just cast shorter people to make him look even bigger. Tah-dah, done.

Exactly. A lot of people seem to forget that what the camera sees and reality honestly have almost no bearing to each other. Get shorter actors, and if really neccessary, make the sets a little smaller, and BOOM, suddenly we have a giant Conan if that's what you really want.

Yeah, they do that all the time with Tom Cruise. *rimshot*

Have you looked at the expeditious retreat 1 on 1 products? I bought one of them and it seems pretty cool. I'm planning on scooping up their 12 adventure book shortly also.

They are targeted at a single class and character level, my one gripe about them is there is no real way to make them into a campaign which would be fun. The pregen character in the adventure I have has a massive cache of healing potions.

There is one series of three adventures in that book for rogues and they do have something in common running through it and you can get a PC to run it through one after another. The first one is rather interesting and enjoyable. I'm not a big fan of the second one really, though I should read it again to get the feel of it before running it. The last one looks like it'll be fun to run.

So... the floating mountains is a product of the unobtainium deposits interacting with the magnetic field or something like that.

So, wait, they wanted to mine the stuff under the big tree, what about the easier to get stuff in the floating mountains? There's gotta be some deposit in 'dem floating hills! Just blow them up and collect them on the ground or something like that... or is it because they're not surrounded by rocks anymore, they're gonna shoot up into the atmosphere? Sheesh.

I never seem to be able to make a purchase via RPGNow without something going wrong and messing up the transaction. The DriveThruRPG mirror works just fine.

yeah, I always use drivethrurpg, some reason it always works on my computer, I never have a problem sending in my order and downloading the files as opposed to rpgnow.

Garydee wrote:

Callous Jack wrote:

...and I don't understand the appeal. Why do southerners love it so much?

You probably had them plain jane. If you eat them like that they are too bland. My mother adds garlic, cheese, and jalapenos to them and they are delicious.

I had them plain once as a kid and was unimpressed. Flash forward decades...

I tried again a couple weeks ago. I made grits with sauteed bell peppers, a little hot sauce, garlic fake sausage. It was quite good and the grits made for a great base.

Oh man, I'll have to try that.

I've had grits with butter, grits with lots of pepper, grits with bacon and scrambled eggs, grits with tabasco, grits with cheese, and any combination of that. Good stuff.

Yes, I don't mind oatmeal, but grits are better. Reminds me more of rice in some ways. :-)

Whited Sepulcher wrote:

Ambrosia Slaad wrote:

Never been to Panama City, but the weather in April should be lovely.

yeah, Florida should be thawed out by then. ;-)

That said, I've been to Panama City area ages ago and the beaches at the time were awesome, I really recommend checking it out and enjoying the sand.

Anyplace comes to mind to you if you can remember specifics?

I think we went to Destin beach area nearby the city. That's about it really, it was when I was a wee lad. hah.

So I just got off the phone with my good friend that I haven't heard from in a while. He's got a problem with his plumbning and therefore no access to water at the moment. H wanted to make some instant rice so he used milk instead of water. Eaugh!

What are weird combos/substitutions that you've heard of?

To an asian like me... nope, that combo ain't odd at all.

Down here in NC, the closest thing we have is Krystal ... and Krystal Sliders are not nearly as good as White Castle burgers.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that if you're craving White Castle, the burgers here just don't cut it. In fact, just thinking about those tender little White Castle burgers with those little, itty-bitty grilled onions that just explode in your mouth like flavor crystals every time you bite into one... just makes me want to burn this motherf***** down. Come on, Pookie, let's burn this motherf***** down! Come on, Pookie! Let's burn it, Pookie! Let's burn this motherf***** down! Let's burn it down! Let's burn it!

So you guys maybe should just suck it up and go to White Castle.

We do have Waffle House instead for 24 hour eats in the South. Too bad DC doesn't have any in the metropolitan area. *grumble*

After reading Azmahel's gag device....
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Deus ex machina
Aura Overpowering Conjuration CL 16th
Slot --
Price Beer Money to the GM or offer of a date to the GM with sister
Weight --

This small token, which can be of any shape and color, and decorated with intricate designs laced with materials such as Gold, Silver, and Unobtainium. It is activated when the situation is hopeless and dire for the characters (and the plot). Upon activation, it conjures the necessary NPC, creature, deity's avatar, griffins, etc. that will aid the characters in overcoming their predicament.

One sample Conjuration might be: A flight of Eagles swoop from the air and rescue you from the volcano.

Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item ,random table, read dm's notes
cost half Price of Beer Money to the GM or half an offer of a date to the GM with sister.

Side Note: Decimation actually left 90% alive (kill 1 in 10).

Warpath is mostly about mass combat, but includes some quick n' easy campaign rules.

Yeah, to further elaborate Hank's explanation, decimation was originally a specific punishment meted out in the Roman army, basically punishment to the whole unit. Everyone's divided into groups of 10, y'all draw straws, etc. and odd man out gets to be beaten to death by his nine comrades, hence the 10% dying. Something like that. Fun times.

Dog Soldiers?

I enjoyed that film. I think they recently made a sequel film.

Just got back from watching it on IMAX 3D. Not bad visually. Do have to say, man, those arrows were basically ballistas. I would not have wanted to go in on the ground without being in power armor, that takes guts.

anyway, this movie in my mind shall forever be... Ferngully 2: Dances with Smurfs. Yes, I've heard these already through the internet, but it really does fit.

Never been to Panama City, but the weather in April should be lovely.

yeah, Florida should be thawed out by then. ;-)

That said, I've been to Panama City area ages ago and the beaches at the time were awesome, I really recommend checking it out and enjoying the sand.

Oh, and we still have a functioning economy, no state income tax, low cost of living, decent public schools (and better than decent in the 'burbs), and all the perks of big city living without the big city attitude.

I visited the city last summer with my girlfriend (she grew up in Houston), wow, talk about hot and humid... how do y'all function in that weather. Still, I do have to say, the food was excellent, especially if one is into asian food. So much better choices than say... DC. *sigh*

Does Houston have a part time law program? That's also another route, work during the day and then evening classes. It can be exhausting to and it takes four years to graduate, but it's an option if the school has it. One thing DC area law schools do have in spades are evening programs.

The Orange Bowl?

Georgia Tech V. Iowa?

Dude, I've gotten more excited by watching curlers watch paint dry...

%I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and a Helluva Engineer!

Dude, I'll be excited for you then. Go enjoy those curlers. ;-)

PulpCruciFiction wrote:

Are you restricted by geography, or are you willing to apply all over the country?

EDIT: Also, congratulations on getting through the LSAT's! The thing I remember most about the day I took them is a girl sobbing in the courtyard on the way out.

I could move if I have to. However, since my wife already has a job here, I'd like something reasonably close. Of course close means any where between Ammarillo Texas and L.A. since that is one day's drive for me.

Congrats on the first step!

Wish I could help on advice, but I'm only familiar with DC area legal programs.

Mosaic wrote:

KnightErrantJR wrote:

I'd rule that they can move their movement rate in a straight line or down, and they have the effect of a Feather Fall on themselves so long as they have their wings unimpeded.

I never saw the cartoon. How do they get back up again?

They climbed mostly. A racial bonus to Climb checks would be appropriate.

No kidding, you get to watch them dig their claws into the concrete sides of building as they climbed up. Though, -4 cha and only a +2 for str or wis for the medium sized one?

It goes without saying, low-light vision? Plus, what I can remember of the tv show, they got all glowy eyed when in battle or something. They all seemed to at times go berserky when really enraged.

AND: As far as rings, I've always used the house rule that rings resize to fit whatever creature wears them. This helps to explain why they're harder to make than wondrous items, and indeed, helps to explain why they're NOT in the wondrous item category.

That's what we've always done in my group. It would be a pain to argue about ring sizes (and shoe sizes for that matter) for characters that it was better to handwave it and say magic and resizing for these items.

A dragon could not even use a ring of sustenance, it would have to be a hula-hoop of sustenance instead. ;)

Hah, time for magic hula hoops. I wonder how the players would react...

Looks like a new DLC was released Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot (at least for xbox 360, other platforms are later), arena related stuff it looks like. I haven't touched the game in a month, so it was a surprise reading about this one on wiki, I'll have to check the borderlands website later about this.

If the dragon can cast the spells that provides food/sustenance, then they can have whatever size territory if they so choose. Probably, a ring of sustenance might be valuable for a dragon trying to stay off the radar screen.

Lilith wrote:

*leaves fresh snickerdoodles in the thread anyway*

YAY!!

more importantly... what is the meaning behind goldendoodles, and why are they popping up everywhere? sister's in laws are getting one, parent's neighbors are getting one too. they're everywhere!!! aaaah!

Now available at Paizo!!!

Interesting stuff.

typing from work so the pdf is not in front of me, just thoughts of what I've read.

I do like the expansion on the magic stuff and how the 2nd and third level spells are limited to a few.

The ability to appraise for magical items... hmmm... I dunno if the prerequisites might be too low for my taste.

The back to back fighting feat, that may cause issues, what happens when someone grapples one of them? Does this additional person who would be in their square cause the odd man out to be ejected? Would he somehow stay in there and instead lose not only his ac bonus but also his dex bonus? I kinda thought that when one fought in a five foot square that ensures the dex bonus, when you squeeze into a smaller than fight foot square you lose the dex bonus, so when you're in the same square as another, I have to wonder how they'll still retain that bonus.

I enjoyed the toxin adaptation.

Now available!!!

cool, looking over it right now.

Head executioner and Head interrogator
One to put them to the question, one to end their suffering

Devil's advocate - someone to always play the opposing arguments for major decisions.

Head of a major military faction/mercenary unit. It may be the king wants to keep them happy and keep them tight with the running of the kingdom.

A close friend of the king, previous adventuring buddies (and drinking buddies) who the king keeps as a close advisor, who can kick butt for him (kinda like Hand of the King, but with less title)

Aerial commander? In a world with fly spells and magic carpets, let alone flying wyverns...

Also maybe specific leaders of various racial/ethnic groups in the kingdom, like a representative of the dwarves who make a significant contribution to the kingdom, maybe they have a nearby dwarven hold and mainly want to stay in there, but has a representative that has a large sway.

Royal stooge... I mean someone the king keeps around so if something happens, they'll take the blame for him, but he's given a generous salary.

Royal Sage and/or Head Cleric
Someone the king may consult for divinations or prayers to the gods.
Plus, in the case of the cleric/priest, he's kinda beneficial if he can heal, gotta make sure the royal line stays healthy, and to ward the place from evil (or good...) influences.

Steven Tindall wrote:

I personally think this is the main reason why no big bad evil guy is ever any of the small races because they wouldn't be taken seriously.

QFT. All the game mechanics in the world still can't make the player's first impression of a little villain intimidating, unless it's something extreme and out of the ordinary.

Totally agree, they'll stop laughing once they get cut off at the ankles. The gnome serial killer illusionist is funny, I may have to try something like that on my players.

The funny part is the latest group of characters made (for the playtest), 2 of the 3 are halflings and both are evil, one halfling has 2 skeletons minions for his bone oracle and the other has a huge pet (looking like an evil knight) for his summoner... On second thought nevermind about making evil small races as antagonists, my players are the antagonists! All that's missing is the halfling anti-paladin.

Hank Woon wrote:

I was told that the preorders would be shipping out no later than December 18th.

Correctamundo!

WARPATH goes out to pre-orders by the end of this week -- PDFs instantaneously, and books shipping out.

After that, it'll be released in PDF for everyone in mid-January, and the books will hit stores in February.

Mid-january?! Ok, I'll wait.

*sets up camp with credit card at the ready*

I would like to see various books to help DMs and players when working on the finer details of the game:

-A book on non-magical treasures; what they cost, where they might be found, why they are expensive, etc. (Spices, finely woven tapestries/rugs, exotic pets, silks, certain foods...)

One of the pdfs that I bought recently was one on the Silk Road (someone mentioned it on an earlier thread in the forums) and it had a listing of the spices and silks and such as trade goods, it was interesting though I didn't get into the details. You might want to check that out.

Stebehil wrote:

DigMarx wrote:

Barbecued chicken anus (ani?) on a stick, anyone?

Zo

I´d say you won this thread with that...

*bleh**shudder*

Lucky me, I had lunch already...

Stefan

How on earth do you get an anus to stay on a stick anyhow?

From what I've seen of street foods and such, I think what's meant is the chicken tail portion, the flap at the back part of the chicken between the legs. I've seen that on a stick and grilled. Now if you meant other parts like intestine or ovaries, etc... I've seen that on Bizaare foods.

Also being from PA apparently our Polish and PA Dutch foods aren't common around the rest of the states, like pierogies, haluski, saurkraut and apple dumplings.

Errr? I bought pierogies in VA the other day from the local supermarket, the pierogies were made in NJ, the proximity to PA helps a lot.

Yes, I've been really scrimping on the magic rewards for the party...so I figured I needed to provide some goodies to them. I did choose a normal sized weapon on purpose.

Also, should he be doing more damage per hit due to the strength of 28? I'm calculating more of +10 damage with the morningstar, and +9 with his hands... unless I'm calculating the strength bonus wrongly from memory.

edit: nice of ya to give them a weapon their size... though c'mon make it large sized, all the more incentive for the fighter to try and use something offsized, that or make them drag it to town as loot, it only weighs... then again, I'm meaner as a gm that way. ;-)

I created Stone Giant Summoner for the Rise of the Runelords campaign.

** spoiler omitted **
** spoiler omitted **...

check the morningstar for your giant, it should be adjusted for large sized, therefore it should be doing 2d6 base damage instead of d8... unless you really do want an undersized morningstar for the giant summoner, and if that's case, I think you may have to adjust then for using a too small of a weapon depending upon the rules for weapon sizes.