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May the 4th Be With You!

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I think I caught Mike's yuck. Hopefully my email made sense. Looking forward to Gen Con again. Mike's doing a fantastic job!

Edit: arrrrrrrrgggg. Hotmail failed again. Second attempt sent.

With the Reign of Winter AP beginning and many of the Paizo faithful eagerly awaiting how Mother Russia will be portrayed in the pages of the AP - an ancient threat may have callously revealed itself.

Seeing that the umbral veil between worlds has been penetrated and obfuscation and utmost secrecy are no longer the by words of the day, it appears the Aboleths have seen it fit to test fire* their weapon that will ultimately bring an Age of Darkness into our own world.

* (To give some perspective on this 'test fire' - the Meteorite that burned through the skies above Siberia late last week is estimated to be some 17.5 meters across, had an estimated mass of 8,000 to 10,000 Tons, and released the energy equivalent to nearly 500 Kilotons of TNT which is the rough equivalent of 25 of the atomic bombs detonated above Hiroshima that turned that ancient city into cinders.)

Thus, armed with this knowledge, I once again implore Vic Wertz to continue diverting funds into the Death Star project, our only hope against the threat of the Aboleths.

Help us Vic Wertz, you are our only hope.

Premiering at South by Southwest, Zero Charisma is a story about a passionate gamemaster struggle to regain his honor from a neo nerd hipster duchebag*

I guess 'Three Charisma' does not have the same ring to it, and Zero Dark Thirty was taken.

*Thanks for that line Trisha Hershberger

Hi gang.

I have to figure out some tie ins and backstory for a new group so that has led me to this question -

As far as PFS scenarios go - who is the most memorable villains in the scenarios thus far. I am looking for unique individuals and not organizations.

Bonus points it they are alive at scenarios end and appear in more than two scenarios.

Pleas briefly state your reasons for picking the villain in question.

I have to take out a certain BBEG from is in 'Eyes of the Ten' out of the running. Grandmaster Torch, the ParaCountess, and certain four and five star GMs do not count either.

I am playing in a Shattered Star campaign currently and we're about to wrap up the second adventure, and I am trying visualize the Runelord of Lust.

I guess she's rather on the young side for the part of Sorshen but looking at her wield the twin kayak paddles Nina Agdal could be somewhat of a contender for that image.

Hey parts of Denmark are like Varisia right?

Air do Shlàinte William!

Fun video, opening with Radagast, the trolls look like the Grauls and some staches that would do Cosmo proud.

As I said on a thread about a month ago, 2013, Year of the Grognard.

As we bid a fond loving farewell to the mighty Kobold (Quarterly), all hail the coming of Gygax Magazine.

2013, The Year of the Grognad.

I was looking to complete my Pathfinder miniatures line and chanced upon this.

If this has been brought up before, hey they are still great figures of inspiration.

Hellknight Signifier I ordered this one.

Possible Hellknight

Female Hellknight

Dishounored Hellknight

And this reminds me of a certain fallen Aasimar from Burnt Offerings. She's on a gravestone to boot!

Amiko is that you?

Before the Core Rulebook came out, through your kindness we got a group of then new friends to try the Pathfinder Beta rules, with the Mythic play test coming in a day, shall we once more unto the breach, dear friend?

Our friend who run and completed Age of Worms and Council of Thieves and I were chatting and I used several Intimidate, Bluff, Diplomacy, and Profession: Cattle Trader, rolls to get him to run a Mythic level play test.

He wants to run a much altered Savage Tide campaign set after the events of the failed/partial return of Kyuss from AoW.

Character level will be around 11, we start just outside Scuttlecove and in a few adventure will enter the Abyssal ocean. He will incorporate the Pirates miniature ship combat rules because he has some 200 ships he wants to place on the Sultan gaming table, counting you and I we have six other players including some regular PFS GMs (to be honest I think we have some 30 players who want in, but you sir, as they say, have 'dibs').

Your friends and numerous cliched gaming humor await, what say you?

New Star Wars film in 2015. (as reported by my friend Michael)

Waiting to see the Jar Jar/Donald Duck Speak n' Spell Children's line of products.

In other news, Asmodeous and Demogorgon still negotiating on their planned partnership with Microsoft.

Worth quick the watch, fun ending.

Ok, despite my best efforts it was hard not to smile and like this trailer.

Gotta love the cast, even if I'm not really a Tarantino fan.

Although I started with the Red Box, and I cut my teeth (and a few giants, slave lords and a certain Vampire in Castle Ravenloft) with 1st Ed, there was always a warm spot in my heart for 2nd Edition. I still love how they made specialty priests unique. And the plethora of game worlds were distinctly from that edition of the game - fun times!

The Planescape petitioners have been heard: The 2nd Ed Premium Reprints are slated for early summer next year! That's a grognard's dream for summer reading!

Even better news! The release is to include, premium editions of the Players Handbook, the Dungeonmaster's Guide, The Monstrous Compendium, and hardcover editions of Against the Slave Lords and S1-S4!

Here is the link for The Players Handbook on Amazon. They have all been listed.

As Johnny "Drama" Chase would put it: VICTORY!

I loved Cosmic Encounters when I was younger, and then The Succession Wars (Battletech mass combat) when that game came out.

I wanted to get this game for a friend, has anyone played this one?

Hellfire Hot!

Even for Cheliax standards!

Undisbutable proof that God loves my friend, Freehold DM.

It begins ...

Are there any Gencon GMs who are familiar with this mod or will soon be who are NOT already running Slot 3 Thursday at Gencon.

If so kindly post here and I will contact you directly.

Much thanks and safe travels all.

So my partnerships are offering a rewards program to our most 'avid' constituents, clients who spend upwards of $50K or more with us a year, some of these people spend that in a WEEK!

We had a meeting today of what to call the cream of that group, and some of the names bandied about were filled with hubris like "One Percent" (alluding to the top percentile income/tax bracket, which I flat out shot down for obvious reasons, said hubris not the least of them), to others more in the realm of whimsy like "Hellfire Club" (yep one of my partners is a comic book fan) and "Skull and Bones" (taken).

I put forth some names like "Primogeniture" and jokingly "Killer Whales" (referring to Whales, which is Las Vegas slang for big spenders) but I was only half hearted in these and was working on finishing another project at the time. And yes someone said "The GOP" and "Fuk the Recession" already.

Would any here in the community have any ideas for a name of an exclusive private high rollers membership that is already a part of a larger high rollers club?

Our main competition in New York and Miami is Carbon and we murder them in all possible aspects of comparison.

If we select your suggestion, we'll make you an honorary member and send you a platinum membership card for use in New York, Miami, Las Vegas and London.

I'll name my next Great Druid "Patton."

Sweet. Blitzkrieg. For real.

Gob smack number of games. The links under 'show more' are previews of all the new upcoming games, from Watch Dogs to The Last of Us, I can't wait for Star Wars 1313!

Does this mean there's actually a small chance we'll get to see you play online Yoda ...er, Mark?

It's about time we had another film like 'The Untouchables'.

I've got two platinum on Sean Peen for the Oscar.

Cartoon, of what has transpired before.

One of the many trailers.

Ooh shiny video.

The new trailer is up.

Also Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the most obscure Batman supporting character ever.

Liz is just AWESOME as awesome gets!

Gninja Awesome!

Thanks Liz!

Thanks for all the details Erik! To say that a few of my fellow fans were getting 'restless' would be an understatement.

The Goblin song, just like Paizo, has come a long way!

Of the previews this week I think the coolest thing to catch my eye is that giant gecko's tongue. Looks like a fun mini.

Just sayin' and sharin'.

Does anyone know up to how many players can play this game and any views you would like to would be great.

Partial, and slightly dated review of the upcoming 'version' of D&D, still some observations worth noting.

Ok my fellow Paizonians, I posted a link to some old school products available at the Paizo store to a site a frequent. One of the posters, taking a completely different direction and who was already very unruly prevoisly decided to say some rather disparaging and completely mistaken coments about Paizo. This is NOT, I repeat NOT an edition war!!!

I was going to leave this all well alone ... But no, this guy has done this before. And he says it with enough false authority that I want him to get a little whiff of the fire power of a fully armed and operational Paizo message board.

So here is the link under the spoiler tag.

I ask that those who post a response to PLEASE NOT start a flame war on that site, nor start one here. No talk of editions should be made. That site is very near and dear to my Grognard heart.

But put that whelp in his place, and defend the honor of the Purple Golem.

Dear Wes, a little bit ago, you and James Sutter had a short but memorably dark little adventure in Dungeon 128 called 'Shut In'.

Do you have any suggestions on where to place this mini adventure in the backdrop of Ustalav?

Bonus points if you have suggestions on how to incorporate this adventure in Carrion Crown or even as a pre Carrion Crown adventure where Prof. Petros Lorrimor actually takes part in it with the players.

As always, thanks for your help and coming up with such a fine adventure to begin with.

I don't play 4th Ed but Cryonax, Prince of Elemental Cold, possible son of Elder Thrazidun, is looking good since his days in 1st Ed's original Fiend Folio.

He's definitely been working out.

I've always liked the friends Peter Pan kept

Sigh.

I think that Apple, Paizo, Bioware and New York models just conspire to take all my money...

Trailer 1

Trailer 2

I'm glad one of us knew what we were doing!

Thanks for the help as always!

I called regarding a past order and a current order and I just realized you may be off. But normally there would be a notice up, so I was not sure. If so hope you guys had a good one.

Woot!

While I visited home over the holidays I went into my large walk in closet filled with two decades of gaming material. I drew forth a special case that had two used but very near perfectly mint Tarokka decks. I took one back with me for use, so after years of laying in wait, I plan on setting these cards on the gaming table once again.

Now here's the question(s):

How would the Tarokka deck fit in with Golarion, a world that already has the fabled Harrow deck?

What history would you give the Tarokka for Golarion?

Are the two decks distinct sides of the same fortune seeing 'coin'? Do adherents of the Harrow disdain those who use the Tarokka?

Bonus question: How would you use the Tarokka deck in Carrion Crown, even as a Easter egg or a 'cameo'?

I just saw this, I fly in late to New York tomorrow, this may be worth checking out.

Thursday sounds even better.

Map of location.

It's like Cosmo really does have an evil twin.

Happy Year of the Ruby Phoenix!

Happy 10th Paizo!

Thank you for sharing that great write up of gaming past!

My money is on the guy in the mask.

Full trailer

Aliens! Er ... Halo! Er ... Prometheus!

It's getting close and I don't want to interrupt anyone under the fiendish mistletoe, but like the last few years, before it gets too hectic...

Joyeux Noel, Nodlaig Mhaith Chugnat, Wesolych Swiat i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku, Prettig Kerstfeest, Nadolig Llawen, Milad Majid, Zorionak eta Urte Berri On, Feliz Natal, Buone Feste Natalizie, Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun, Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan, Hyvaa Joulua, Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok, Zalig Kerstfeast, Fröhliche Weihnachten, Plabuda Forbordio, Kurisumasu Omedeto, Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom, Feliz Navidad, Ná Merye i Turuhalmeri, at Maligayang Pasko !!

Happy Hanukkah or more properly, Chag Urim Sameach!

Or in Paizo Board common::

HAPPIEST of HOLIDAYS, MERRY CHRISTMAS to YOU ALL !!