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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.
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.
how much of the katapesh article is in the Chronicles book on Katapesh? I have both "The Jackal's Price" and "Dark Markets," and I can say with certainty that there is no reproduced content from the AP in the Chronicle book. This is good in that there is new and more content to use from each product, but...This actually makes it a bit more difficult to fit the article from the AP onto the Chronicle map of Kataphesh without a bit of guesswork. Where is the "Great Plaza"? Who knows! On the plus side, it does capture the chaos of the place, and makes it easier if you want to tailor locations. :)
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
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!
Get out! Crowe's doing more? I love that movie! It'd be great to see more. The first one blew my mind. 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.
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.
Dark Markets: A Guide to Katapesh has a more detailed, full-page map of that city. As to that, I was still wondering how some features in the LoF#21 matched up to the text in Dark Markets. In particular, where is the Great Plaza (as in "fat as a Plaza rat")? I didn't see it marked on the map in Dark Markets. 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 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!"
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!
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.
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..."
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 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.
That is very troubling. But there is a lot of precedent for successful men denying education to their daughters. I'm a "fan" of Yeats' poetry, but he wrote "A Prayer for my Daughter," which, if not outright mysoginist, still has an incredibly narrow-minded view of his daughter's future, in 1921! If this was still a common attitude in the first part of the 20th century, imagine the outcry (against a playwright who could be censored for any reason whatever, and was perhaps an actor himself) for educating his middle-class daughter in the early 1600s.
I'd say there are exceptions to this principle of caricature, and they're used to great effect. Eg: Emilia, the Fool, Falstaff. They are more than caricatures because they often do more than just serve the plot. The low characters don't always stop at service; they get some terriffic lines and thoughts, not all of which are funny, and some of which are profound. Sometimes (rarely) they even get to speak in verse.
I agree with you, up to a point. I've never found Lady quite human or convincing. She's fairly one dimensional. But she is an exception. And she is still tons of fun to read.
I'm not saying that "Shakespeare" was William Shakespeare, or even one person (I've read several essays arguing for multiple authors). All I'm saying is that whoever "wrote" those plays had a good ear and obviously liked actors. The (oft-conflicting) folios support that much. Just because lots of Elizabethans/Jacobians had a low opinion of actors doesn't mean they had to have a low opinion of themselves, or were incapable of their own playmaking.
I'm not arguing for or against either side, I'm just pointing out that whoever "Shakespeare" was (or were), part of that talent came from listening very attentively. Yes, literature of the day is linked to the Shakespeare plays, implying someone who read extensively, but I feel that people tend to undervalue oral culture. It's not as though the actors actually were the syphilitic morons the reformers portrayed them as.
Playwrights had patrons, and patrons had books. But playwrights/actors also had hearsay and first person accounts. They had ears to listen to people talking to each other on the streets. The place where Shakespeare (the Shakespeare who was an actor, manager and business owner) lived in London meant he had access to people from all over Europe, not just native Londoners. You wouldn't have to leave London to hear Italian or French; some people are naturally gifted at picking up new language. Whoever wrote the Shakespeare plays did not NEED to "absorb the sum total of world literature." Shake-anonymous just had to have a great ear. Which he did, whoever he was.
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