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Mothman, my grandma got disoriented like that when she was in hospice. The nurses there recommended some drugs for her (some anti-anxiety medication, too) that really helped her. I don't know what they're called, or what your grandpa's situation is, but you can ask - it could help.
Best wishes, for your family and your friend.

Where is Aero Hobbies located?

I was there. I just wasn't playing in any Pathfinder games. I was in a Savage Worlds game that got canceled, a GURPS and an OD&D game that ate up a lot of my time, and a 4eD&D demo. I wanted to play some Pathfinder, but either the slots were filled before I signed up, they were meeting when I couldn't be there, or it was for a higher level than my character.

Edit: Oh yeah, and I'm in Westchester.

Cool! That's really close to where I live.

Hi, my "Final Wish" book came last week, so you do not need to ship me a replacement copy with my regular order. When you sent me an e-mail confirming what was in my subscription (it said Council of Theives#26 and Legacy of Fire#24), I remembered I should tell you that the Legacy of Fire book already came. It was really late, but it arrived.

Thank you so much! I've just received the e-mail telling me about the replacement. You rock.

Hi again. What I feared would happen has happened. Pathfinder #25, "The Bastards of Erebus," arrived in the mail yesterday, but there is still no sign of Order 1213379, which should have arrived earlier than this new package because it shipped earlier by the same methods. My Pathfinder #24 has disappeared en route! Call out the bloodhounds!

Should I try to contact the local post office? I don't know where to begin looking for it.

Art directors who read these posts should demand a raise. :)

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I think he picks them based on how "cool" the cover looks.

My mom did the same thing for me when I played Magic: the Gathering.

Oo. Very nice Krome. It makes me realize how much of Golarion isn't there...waiting to be explored!

He's a great dad.

My dad, god bless him, knows I'm into D&D, and so he buys me books for my birthday and holidays, but I've never asked him for any books, so what I get is pretty random. I think he picks them based on how "cool" the cover looks. I have Complete Scoundrel, Forgotten Realms Champions of Ruin (I don't even play FR, let alone DM it), Into the Demonweb Pits, and the Magic Item Compendium. Now, I threaten to teach him how to play, so that the books will see some use. He's gonna retire soon, so maybe he'll take me up on my offer.

Thanks! I'll post back here if it hasn't arrived by the weekend.

how much of the katapesh article is in the Chronicles book on Katapesh?

OMG! I LOVE THAT HAT!!!! She reminds me of Katisha from a production of the "Mikado" I went to in San Diego. Awesome, funny villain! Makes me glad I haven't canceled my subscriptin, despite my impecunious circumstances.

There is always this.

Hi. I was wondering about this order. It's my regular Pathfinder AP subscription, "The Final Wish" #24. My Account said it shipped on July 30, and today is August 8th and it still hasn't arrived. I have Regular shipping, which should mean the package gets to me in fewer than 10 days, right? Usually, with the other packages, it took less than a week. It is not that far from Seattle to Los Angeles. Now my copy of "Bastards of Erebus" is shipping today, and it would be weird to get issue #25 before #24. Should I complain to the U.S. Postal Service?

Edit: Ooops. I just saw where it says "4 to 8 business days" so that means weekends don't count. So that means I'm just being impatient and if it doesn't arrive by Monday, then I can complain. :P

A Bonney/Reed movie would be cool. It could be the "Thelma and Louise" of the 17th century...Hmm...In a way, the real story kinda is like that movie, complete with tragic ending.

For the zine - I'm assuming whatever I write should be RPG-based/aligned, but what kind of word counts are you looking for? How short is short?

okay okay, what is the focus of the e-zine? RPGs? Table Top? Politics? Evoluton vs Creationism?

Although it is not quite the same thing, Errol Flynn's "Captain Blood" isn't bad to sit through (you just have to overlook the racism and sexism and focus on the swashbuckling). Oh, and the ridiculous plot...But most pirate films have ridiculous plots. It's not as good as Flynn in "The Adventures of Robin Hood," but FEW films of any kind are that good! Heck, even George Lucas stole from that movie!

Cuthroat Island was pretty much the precursor... Dont know of any others except Master and Commander for the Naval stuff (Russel Crowe is doing more apparently).

You might try the new Hornblower series on DVD.

Oh, and yeah, "Cutthroat Island" is a lot like Pirates of the Carribean, but with Geena Davis instead of Orlando Bloom. Lots of action, explosions, cheesy romance, etc.

Get well soon! Enjoy your recovery!

Hmm...So I haven't started The Killer Inside Me yet, because my branch library hasn't received it yet. So instead, I am reading The Maltese Falcon until it gets here. I figure they are both noir, with similar levels of moral ambiguity.

Congratulations!

Mee too! I bought Vol. 1, and since I don't have all the issues of Dungeon with Downer in them, I can't read the whole story any other way. So I'm rooting for a PDF, at least.

Roll 1:

-523: The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson.

Right now I am reading Alexandre Dumas' The Black Tulip, but this will be next on my list. It will certainly create an interesting dichotomy in style and substance.

Is this your personal list, Tensor? Have you read all of these books and are recommending them to others, or is it a list of books you intend to read? I notice the list focuses more on novels than nonfiction, and English authors more than others, so I am curious about the genesis of the list and purpose of the post.

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Quite cool, but I need a detailed map of Katapesh! I don't mind the crude rendition in the LoF Player's Guide, but it would be helpful to know exactly where in the Lower City Aromas and Aphrodisiacs is, for example.

Dark Markets: A Guide to Katapesh has a more detailed, full-page map of that city.

edit: LoF#21: the Jacakal's Price

I LOVED Without a Clue! I even looked for it in the video section of the library today, but couldn't find it. (It is perpetually checked out).
I'm gonna take the advice and try to find the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes at the library, too. But as I've posted elsewhere, my local branch does seem to lack selection, and mess up orders from other branches.

I think this is true. Partly, though, on a personal level, my lack of free time was by choice - I wanted to graduate Magna Cum Laude, so I put in those hours studying while the boys spent time playing Mario Cart. I got the degree I wanted, with honors, and I don't regret not knowing how to play Mario Cart.

I saw the trailer. Downey Jr. is not Holmes. He's Downey Jr. Playing Holmes. It's as if he dressed up for a costume party and forgot to take off the outfit when he got to the set. There was only one actor who really got the part: Basil Rathbone, and then, during the war, they made a ton of films with no relationship to the books. "See! The Great Detective Fight Nazis!"
*Sigh* (I'll watch them...but sometimes I wish they hadn't turned him into a superhero).

I need to rent "Solaris." I've been reading Frederik Pohl and this movie seems like the sci-fi direction he sort of goes in, with its psychological aspects. It doesn't seem like a typical Clooney movie though, and probably not the first thing that leaps to mind when I hear the word "sci-fi."

Hugh Jackman is Wolverine! I was at the doctor's office the other day, and saw him on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. I didn't even open the magazine - I just stared at the cover until the doctor came in. Ooh, those biceps!

I'm signing! I've never seen a flumph in any campaign I've been in, so I know they must be really endangered!

I just finished Agatha Christie's A Pocket Full of Rye and Murder in Retrospect. Now I'm starting Lance Armstrong's Comeback from Cancer, by Samuel Abt. It is 10 years out of date, but my local library branch is very poorly stocked. :(

If Paizo is going to do an NPC for each nation in the core setting (which is what the ad blurb says), I know quite a few people interested in the Zephyr Guard, who don't have too much to go on in the LoF AP so far (and there isn't too much in "Dark Markets" either). Paizo, I know you can do it! They could be so cool!

I voted for Gulga Cench! When does he get his stats?
...this is just me putting in my two copper pieces for some less "normal," more "memorable" NPCs.

This is a minor music resource, suitable for perhaps the dinner entertainment at the Cliffside Tavern in Katapesh (place of illicit trysts, IIRC): Naxos's "Sephardic Romances: Traditional Jewish Music From Spain."

I took my cue from the chupacabras (LoF 19) and the nephilim (LoF 23) to look towards southern Spain for my inspiration, and although this isn't street music, it is atmospheric and medieval-sounding without sounding too "European." Plus, some very beautiful melodies.

And I bow to you sir... Now I decided to make and Aspect of Ymiri. Which will be a huge about a CR 12-15 This project should be finished in Sepember and make sure throw up some pictuers here and I'll be switching out one of the BBEG lieutenants for an Aspect of Ymiri.

The one discrepancy that bothered me in the Guide to Katapesh is the different location of White Canyon on the inside-cover map from the map on page 52 in Legacy of Fire: House of the Beast. Are there two White Canyons? Does White Canyon run from the mountains north of Solku all the way to the east of Pale Mountain? Is it just a simliar terrain feature, like the layers in the Grand Canyon?

Actually, one solution might be to make TWO White Canyons (sort of how the Grand Canyon has many branches). This would be GREAT if you wanted to mess with a wizard casting teleport!

The Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting on page 87: "The most influential temple in Katapesh is the Immaculate Repository, where the clergy of Abadar - under the leadership of Master of the Vault Jalal Abdul-Abadar- offer banking..."
That must be where the name comes from, even though the Guide to Katapesh (page 21) lists Aakif Ashad oversseing "The Temple of Measured Weights."
I don't mind the conflicting info., though; I can use both names for NPCs with different duties within the temple of Abadar.

I wanna punch a Razmir priest in the face. This can't come soon enough.

Wow, ericthecleric! That's what I love about this community! So many people devoting their time and effort to enriching the game world and the role-playing experience!
I've been reading through "Impossible Eye" and I must say, although it isn't epic level (20+) it feels EPIC!
Kudos to Greg Vaughan and his scheeming, efreeti slaves, whom he undoubtedly bound and ensorcelled into revealing Javhul's lair to him.

That is very cool. I just finished listening to the ones posted on your blog, and I look forward to hearing some more, once you've made them.

He was too busy writing to play.

Finally making a post relevant to the thread title:
Flexible? Rogue. Oh Willy Shakes'd definitely be a rogue! With Max DEX!
I mean, come on, look at him! He even has a pointy beard! He could hide his lock-picks in it!
And he'd max out Disguise, so that over 4 centuries later, commoners and experts still wouldn't be sure it was him, and would ask "who was that Willy Shakes guy, anyway?"

I agree, there is a broad range of interpretation in the plays. The plays are very "flexible" (is that a good word to describe it?).

I've never been in the school that sees Shakespeare as a complete progressive on women's rights. "His" views change from play to play. I read "Taming of the Shrew" and "Merry Wives of Windsor" as forward thinking in that they address the silencing of women in the context of a comedy, where "misrule" is ended and everything's mended. But Aristophanes' "Trojan Women" can be read like that, too. His crossdressing can be looked at the same way (both Shakespeare and Aristophanes). Does it anticipate our own attitudes? Yes and no. I think we read more into it, because we want to see ourselves, like Oscar Wilde wrote.

If Will was the author who wrote the character of Portia though, but left his daughter illiterate, I just don't know what I would do. The very thought tortures my love of the works into drooling submission. That alone is enough to keep me steadfast in my denial.