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If you can't see a target, you don't have line of *sight* to a target.

Where a lot of the confusion comes from is wargaming (miniatures on battlemaps as Lilith pointed out). Many good wargames have rules on Line of Sight because everyone want to be able to shoot the guys they don't like but not be shot by them. Wargames are also NOT roleplaying games and arbitrary decisions are discouraged, whereas in roleplaying if they advance the story and everyone's enjoyment can be actively encouraged.

Now, I have been houseruling and making decisions on rules since I started GMing. The best way to handle this, as Lilith ponted out, is on a case by case basis, but it would have been nice to have had a sentence or two mentioning the use of the ubiquitous 5' squares, such as whether you have to go from the center (as I would have almost always thought due to my wargaming background) or any corner, or can I lean over half way into the next square? Can I do that diagonally?

New Planet Stories in March 2010. I just want my fix now. I have not had a new one since Robots Have No Tails in like June, my September Paizo shipment has arrived and still no new Planet Stories. The Ship of Ishtar is listed for October, but that is a month away.

I would not complain if you sneaked a little 1960s 60cent paperback into my subscription box when you are going to go this long. You could even put one of the "abridged" versions so I could appreciate your unabridged versions more when I read them later.

Signed,

A victim of Erik Mona, I will be "forced" to read "The End of the Story" a collected set of fantasies by Clark Ashton Smith tomorrow while riding the bus to and from work and probably for the week after.

Shoanti Jim wrote:

Goblins? Meh. Release the colossal Iron Golems and Fire Elementals!

- Shoanti Jim, Battlepriest of Gorum

Meh? Whats you gots against goblins?!

Well, you're wasting a third of your time sleeping. Put that time to better use.

was seeing so... same happens with Planet Stories?
because I can wait for "the Ship of Ishtar" and "Lords of Hell"

I like the new stuff, but the older stuff is great. I might just have to grab one of the 1960s issues off my shelf and read that next.

All of the tubes of 5 and the Pink Ribbon set are unavailable. Are they making more, or did they sell out?

So, I have two questions.

1) What would anyone need with SIX 24-sided dice?

2) Is Black, the new Blue, Red, White AND Yellow?

Seriously though, I would be more tempted to buy a set of six different colors, than a tube of one color. Assuming, someone answered question 1 to my satisfaction.

I will acquire the new rule book and then I will do what I have been doing every time since shortly after some friends acquired the original white box. I adapt. I use rules I like, ignore rules that are too difficult to implement. And do something in between with all the other rules.

When I play 3.5, I still use some 1e, 2e, JG and Arduin stuff. There will be items from PFRPG I will use. I might even push Pathfinder to the base system that the other rules are edited from. That is the beauty of the game. You only have to use what you want.

I actually rather like Etymology...very fun stuff.

I liked Skeleton-Men of Jupiter and wanted to reprint it in a sword and planet anthology. That's the query we haven't been able to get a response from the estate on.

Oh, well.

I would, however, prefer to have my Planet Stories subscription stay out of the "common" stuff and continue to add to great books I have never read (or even perhaps heard of).

Turin the Mad wrote:

Majuba wrote:

Cuchulainn wrote:

Kata. the ..... wrote:

Oh and I would so definitely buy one of the 999 remaining d21 shirts.

If it had a tag line under the logo saying, "Because it's one higher!", that shirt would be PURE PLATINUM!

Mark me down for one.

Heheheh - yeah, this'd rawk - especially if they're not ridiculously priced, I'd nab a fistful of 'em and give 'em out at XMas or something. ^_^

Any updates on when we can buy our d21 shirts?

Have you checked the dimensional cube at the top of the golden stair?

BTW, after 2 months I found it hidden in a stack of stuff between two seasons of Futurama (I suspect Reptilians hid it there because they are jealous that they can not write fiction of that quality). I should finish The Outlaws of Mars tomorrow on my return bus trip and it is enjoyably written. Potential spoiler. I am about page 180 and our hero Jerry has not convinced Junia that he is the heartthrob he should be or even to give him the time of day.

First off, blackjack is the only popular casino game, through smart play, you can lower the odds to almost even (and, if you can count a six deck shoe, or have a partner, you can make them better than even). The odds for roulette are abysmal, unless you only play black/red or odd/even, and, frankly, that gets boring quick. Craps, well, is crap, come/don't come - pass/don't pass gets boring, which is why people wind up playing the prop bets.

Gambling has never been about the odds, it's about the human desire to "win big". Casinos don't make multi-billion dollar profits because they care about being "fair", they make those profits because the house always wins in the long run. They play on people's greed, which would be why, just about every time I go to Vegas, I'll see several people WAY ahead lose it back to the house (and then some).

The games at the Gold Goblin aren't any different, frankly, and Riddleport is full of people always looking for the big score.

Most weeks, he walked away having lost a small amount of money. However 1-2/year he won $700 or so money and had a really cool weekend.

I acquired one of these either directly from here or in the pound o' dice set. It is not a standard d20. Most of the high numbers are on one side and therefore the low numbers are on the other side. For most, this is not a serious issue, but I have gamed with people who can arrange a die to land on one side more often than the other.

So I see people asking for spell cards for the new Pathfinder game, which I whole heartedly support. However, please make them much better than the Crit and Fumble decks.

At the last Pathfinder Society game I was looking at a friend's Critical Hit deck, and realized VERY quickly the deck was useless to me. There was so much blank space, and the type was so small I couldn't read any of it! The type could have so easily been larger. For some reason it was decided blank space was more important than reading what the card said!

I know you guys at Paizo are still young pups, but give us old folks a break. IF you make other decks, please use a font size that can actually be read.

Just for the record: if Paizo ever does have a product that they feel would benefit from a map feature similar to the "Maps of Mystery" from Dungeon, I'd be delighted to provide them. :)

You guys know where to find me. :)

There really isn't a rhyme or reason as to why certain shipments get charged GST by customs although technically we should be paying GST on all goods that we order into the country. In any case I have found that as long as I keep shipments below $40.00 customs doesn't seem inteterested in them. Once they pass that total they tend to get flagged and then, as you have mentioned you get to pay their handling fee on top of the GST.

USPS is a lot better than UPS entering the country though. UPS charges you absurd amounts in handling charges for the joy of collecting the money from us for customs.

I was leaving for Vancouver Island in a week or so (once we figured out why no plates had arrived) and they would not be able to get them to me in time. We had them sent to the observatory. The paperwork clearly stated "Arizona License plate for Arizona Registered Vehicle". Apparently, that is a hot import into Canada because there was a GST that the observatory initially paid. Fortunately, they also knew what paperwork I had to file so they could be reimbursed for an obviously wrong tax.

Looking at what people like the egyptians and romans did, I have no doubts that intelligence hasn't risen over time (at least not in the last two thousand years...100,000 years? Yes, it probably has).

I'm also confident that a game with very bad house odds would get a bad reputation and at the very least suffer from people not wanting to play it.

However, get-rich-quick schemes still grab many people whether they are some "system" in Vegas, investing with Bernie Madoff, or purchasing lottery tickets. I don't think there will be any lack of people to play games. However, should you force your players to make intelligence or wisdom checks to avoid losing all their money before they can spend it on the new magic item they really wanted.

cthulhudarren wrote:

Well... from the response (or lack thereof) it appears that this idea went over like the proverbial lead balloon.

Not so... the gamemastery forums are less visited than the main ones are. I look at them all 3-4 times a day and didn't notice this post... I would love it if it were possible for a decent price... as long as it wasn't in a subscription

Then sell it, saying a Peruvian centimo is a cp (made from brass), a Guatemalan quetzal is a sp (made from aluminum?), etc.

This is not a complaint aimed at Paizo. The book arrived safely here in Tempe in mid February. I travelled to the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in western AZ the next weekend. I packed it with my stuff along with "The Reavers of Skaith" of which I had 30 or so pages to finish.

I arrived back in Tempe and removed both book and then took Reavers on the bus ride to and from work Monday finishing off a tremendously great series reprinted by Planet Stories.

Well, I wanted to grab "The Outlaw of Mars" on Tuesday and it was GONE!
GONE! I tellya.

I grabbed my general backup book "The Dark Tower Book VII" by King and went to work. I arrived home and looked for A BOOK THAT SHOULD BE ON TOP of ALL the other crap. It has been TWO MONTHS. WHERE IS IT?

I have read several other books in the meantime and "The Sword of Rhiannon (of which I own an abridged version) will be shortly arriving. I don't know if I want to get out of order on Planet Stories.

If anyone has any hints, please give them to me.

Ross Byers wrote:

The troll looks great, and is honestly more trollish than the ones in the MM. I am vaguely worried over the fact that it doesn't really look like a Monsters Revisited troll, though (Which were like the MM trolls with leaves.)

(Hint Mode: There's more than one type of troll in the Bestiary...)

Also... I'm not particularly fond of the leafy troll from Classic Monsters. I much prefer the troll from Pathfinder #3 for the "classic" troll look.

And I, but probably not my players are SO waiting for this product.

Great, now I need a blank d20...

or a Set of 6.

These can also be used by DMs in those old d20 Games.

DM: Aaaah, a 27 that's a hit.
Outraged Player: WTF? That die is blank.
DM: What? Roll a d20.
(Outraged Player rolls an old school d20)
Outraged Player: There, a 20, so!
DM: Oh, sorry you failed your spot check.

Oh and I would so definitely buy one of the 999 remaining d21 shirts.

I recently placed an order for a few items which included the new Pathfinder Dice Set. It is listed on my Account page under preorders as:

Pathfinder Dice Set: Curse of the Crimson Throne , expected January 2009

When I put it in my cart and even now, it no longer lists as preorder.

Two things.
1) Is this what is keeping the rest of my order at pending (and if so, what type of time frame is the wait)?
2) If this is what is slowing it down (and it will be more than a week or so), is there a way that I can "keep my place in line" for the next group that arrives and have it ship with my next regular order?

Turin the Mad wrote:

Vic Wertz wrote:

Clinton Boomer wrote:

Strip bar? Last time I was in Seattle, the guy at the one bar I hit told me that I would have to kick down to Portland to find a good club.

He said something about a place called "The Lusty Lady", though ...

The best part is that the Lusty Lady is directly across the street from the art museum. I so want them to build a skybridge...

There's also the Déjà Vu, which advertises "50 beautiful women and three ugly ones."

Heh heh ... typical strip bar fare ... 3 ugly girls before you're wasted, 50 beautiful women when you're wasted...

I think you're looking for the bar a few blocks away that used to advertise their "beers on tap" selection as "50 imported beers and 3 American ones."

If I recall correctly the shirt offers a reroll once per game if worn (I'd rule carried counts were it a larger player, I hear the shirts go to XL).

I believe the shirts are still available on the Paizo store on this very site.

You should have a record of that with your chronicles. If you've lost them check your Pathfinder Society page, the link is fourth down on the left hand side, can't miss it.

I would comfortably come from Tempe, but as I am basically not allowed to take vacation from basically April through July (it's our regs cycle), I can't sneak up to Washington for 4 days in June unless you can get an MD to sign off that I was to sick to travel to work. But I might be able to get to GenCon this year if we can finish by August.

Heh. In the past two days I've knocked almost two dozen items off my to-do list. Grinding ahead slowly.... Combining store orders with subscription shipments is getting closer to the top of the list every day.

List Price $150.00. Wow, maybe I should order more than 1. I rarely get 99%+ discounts.

Although, it is great to see the poke to Rick drew some goodness.

Will this set be ONLY Pathfinder/SRD weapons, or will this also include weapons from the Campaign Setting? I really like the earthbreaker

During playtesting (which has gone really well, players and I love new rules) I kept coming across the same problem:

No Index.

It made play really slow. I have other problems with this as well (it also made dungeon designing difficult) so yeah...

I told my players that, clearly, Paizo wouldn't be so stupid as to not add an Index in the actually published game, but my players pointed out several good examples as to why this just simply couldn't go unmentioned, and so, I now mention to you:

PLEASE have an Index in the actual core rule set; both the Handbook and Bestiary. Oh PLEASE!!!

Thank You.

I implore you to take Goblins' suggestion.

I played in a game 25 years ago with a fellow character named Ralph Ivan Snatcher Titzov. I remember almost nothing else from that game.

U of A got the nod for being in a major. San Diego State and Saint Mary's should have got nods over Arizona and Wisconsin. And whatever you think should have happened is WRONG!!!! ETSU WILL beat Alabama State in final with Chattanooga and Radford wondering what happened.

Is anyone else watching this? I am actually really enjoying it a lot despite USA's embarrassment with the 51st state.

The Cubans are a very fundamentally solid team despite their inexperience.

At least as I type this, USA seems to be handling the Dutch.

Kata. the ..... wrote:

jkpsmp1 wrote:

Kata. the ..... wrote:

contraserrene wrote:

I got three of these recently and love them so much that I got another today. I'm going to give some to friends who DM.

I am thinking of cutting one into a 24"x20" piece, an 8"x10" piece and a 16"x10" piece. Since you can pre-draw a layout with Sharpie and it won't rub off while the mat is folded up, this would add utility.

My concern is the lamination. Will doing this cause it to peel? Is there something I can do to prevent such a thing from happening- a hot implement to seal up the edge, maybe? Or should I abandon this plan as insanity?

Did you ever try this? Anyone else? I only have one right now so I fear experimenting on my only copy?

Has anyone tried cutting one up and seeing if it stands up? I would be worried about the "lamination" being unconnected at those points. I was close to ordering one for surgical purposes, but they have cut off OT at work.

I took one of the original mats and cut it without problems. The sides are not sealed when the mat is whole. I have only every seen one mat that the laminate failed - the customer left it in a hot car and it stuck to a binder.

As a side note, the mat I tested on had Sharpie on it from Gen Con 2006 or 2005, and it came off with a dry erase marker as was advertised.

Jeff

Well, due to a slight mistake I have ordered a third one of these. This weekend, my group should finish D0 or die trying and I should be able to answer this question from a second opinion.

Yeah, this works surprisngly well, I now have 2 full mats and a 24x20 a 16x10 and and 8x10 piece

There is no initial delamination.

roguerouge wrote:

I'm not sure what you mean by this post... what's making them take so long? Combat? Stealth? Scouting? Arguing? Timidity (a.k.a. spending all their spells on the first encounter of the day and then resting)? Depending on what's causing the problem, advancing to the next plot could make the problem worse rather than better.

Timidity is part of it. Some of it is also choosing a group that lacked a healer AND a front line fighter. So, pretty much every combat winds up being whoever the main creature targets taking nearly lethal damage. It also might not be taking quite as long as it seems, we game once every 2 weeks for 4-6 hours. They have cleared out areas 1-10 in the Monastery and it is mid-day on Day 7, but Gurtlkeep escaped through the bolthole so I am also worried about the "final epic level one battle".

This is complicated by the fact that one player (who only showed up for 1 of 3 games) will probably have to die an heroic death and be replaced by someone who wanted into the game since he heard about it, but after we thought we had our full compliment.

Any advice on how I should handle this? BTW, they have missed Glintaxe and I plan to use him at the beginning of next session as the kids should be very familiar with him.

azhrei_fje wrote:

But there's this very convenient Search box in the corner, you see, and silly me I thought it would work... ;)

Sigh. One day, it shall work again!

These are really nice. I order a couple individuals and got the bag of 10 shortly after. I have always had a problem with d4s because they don't "roll". These do roll.

No previews yet?

Blinding buy is tough dudes...

yellowdingo wrote:

XXXX: Beer (pronounced four-ex)
Thongs: Footwear
Stubbies: Clothing or a Sleeve to keep the XXXX cool.

See this is where you confuse all the Yankies cobber!

Up here in Queen's country a "stubbie" is what we call a 375mL bottle of beer and a "tinnie" is a 375mL can of beer... it actually confuses us because we call a small metal boat "up to 9 or so feet" a "tinnie" as well.

How many sets are arriving? Will only preorders be serviced? When can I hope for my set?

BTW, will the SD set be late as well?

jkpsmp1 wrote:

Kata. the ..... wrote:

contraserrene wrote:

I got three of these recently and love them so much that I got another today. I'm going to give some to friends who DM.

I am thinking of cutting one into a 24"x20" piece, an 8"x10" piece and a 16"x10" piece. Since you can pre-draw a layout with Sharpie and it won't rub off while the mat is folded up, this would add utility.

My concern is the lamination. Will doing this cause it to peel? Is there something I can do to prevent such a thing from happening- a hot implement to seal up the edge, maybe? Or should I abandon this plan as insanity?

Did you ever try this? Anyone else? I only have one right now so I fear experimenting on my only copy?

Has anyone tried cutting one up and seeing if it stands up? I would be worried about the "lamination" being unconnected at those points. I was close to ordering one for surgical purposes, but they have cut off OT at work.

I took one of the original mats and cut it without problems. The sides are not sealed when the mat is whole. I have only every seen one mat that the laminate failed - the customer left it in a hot car and it stuck to a binder.

As a side note, the mat I tested on had Sharpie on it from Gen Con 2006 or 2005, and it came off with a dry erase marker as was advertised.

Jeff

Well, due to a slight mistake I have ordered a third one of these. This weekend, my group should finish D0 or die trying and I should be able to answer this question from a second opinion.

There is no initial delamination.

I am fairly excited about this book. I had not heard of Manly Wade Wellman and Clark Ashton Smith and a number of other great horror, fantasy, scifi, etc authors until I started buying the 100 (two alliterative words) Stories that were available in the bargain racks at Barnes & Noble about a decade ago.

This was an astounding book, but I have one complaint. I mostly read on the bus in Tempe on the way to work and the way back (about an hour a day). I started this book on Tuesday and I will need to bring something else to read for the return trip Monday which could be a problem because Death in Delhi is not even listed as pending yet.

Other than that, this book is great. The Reavers of Skaith is anxiously awaited here, although I get the impression that might be the last of Skaith we see.

fight (sp fixed) club ,the story does not make any sense to me

AI has been mentioned as well in this thread. I am a big Kubrick fan and I saw Spielberg recently on TCM defending that he did not change Kubrick's ending. My only question is "Steve: If you did not change the ending why does EVERY Kubrick fan know where he would have ended the film?"

Dragnmoon wrote:

For me it is Titanic.

How did this movie do so well?... I can barely watch it... but that most likely has to do with DiCaprio... He makes me cringe in any movie he is in...

Dear. God. Loathe this movie. Maybe because I was working retail and had to sell endless copies of the movie book.

Rose colored glasses - any character who puts them on sees an idealized happy world where nothing ever goes wrong or anything wants to hurt them.

What about a +3 backscratcher? It might also be useful in the casting of some of the various Bigby spells.

Garydee wrote:

Well, a 2 loss Ohio State team gets the nod to play in the Fiesta Bowl over an undefeated Boise State team. What a fair system we have in place!

Well, that sounds good to me. When Ohio State is here, I tend to get a lot more alcohol bought for me when the Buckeye fans take over my local bar. I didn't pay for a week when Ohio State won the National Championship a few years ago. Every time I was out, I either got comp'ed as a regular or one of the 150 people in a bar that normally has 20 or so had it charged to their tab.

The few Boise State fans I saw here two years ago seemed shell shocked at going to the big city.

And simply put, this is the reason that the mid-majors don't get invited to big bowls and there will not soon be a 16-team or so playoff.