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F2K! I was wondering where you went! Its amazing how attached you can get to some posters without ever having met them. I remember sharing some stories of your boy with my wife a couple of years ago. She was very touched by them and then stopped in her tracks saying, "wait. how again do you know this person?"

I guess it just goes to show that not all cyber communication in the 21st century is dead and void of heart. People make can make heartfelt connections, sometimes without even knowing each other.

Hopefully once I digest PF and start running it, I'll become more active again on these boards. I would have liked to have participated in the mega play-test of the rules, but I just didn't have time.

Best regards to everyone, especially my old connections :)

Hi, I'm Farewell2kings and I used to be a Paizo addict, regular messageboard poster and occasional contributor to Dragon and Dungeon. I co-authored some stuff (Seeds of Sehan trilogy) with GGG, Steve Greer, Koldoon and Dryder. I also wonder what happened to GGG. He dropped off the face of the earth after authoring a True20 sourcebook, released just before GenCon 2008, called "Interface Zero." (Superb!).

Theory is that real life caught up with him. Last time he posted on another messageboard I subscribe to was about 10 months ago.

As far as the others....RL issues too, I suppose (no, well, I know, not I suppose).

No offense to any of the later arrivals to Paizo, when the paper magazines went back to Wizards and the extremists of the edition wars took over every thread, I got turned down to "1" in contribution.

I still love Paizo the company. Best folks ever. Some of the old regulars on these boards now have facebook accounts and we keep up with each other that way--Gavgoyle, et al.

I run a PBP game on Paizo that brings me here almost every day posting as DM F2K.

I just bought the PF RPG and plan to study up on it. My entire gaming group is dead set against any edition change whatsoever and they're still slogging through Ptolus with 3.5 rules (10th level) and a FR campaign at about 15th level. I'm still running my first Eberron campaign ever (PCs at 10th level as well) with 3.5, so our pace of play is not fast enough to keep up with edition changes or revisions.

My PBP game is in Greyhawk, so we are involved with GH, FR, Eberron and Ptolus, all still with 3.5 rules. We're not grognards, just not fast enough. By "we" I mean my gaming group. Our intense gaming sessions and campaigns back in late 2005 all the way through 2008 brought me to Paizo and inspired me to contribute and post here. I'm just explaining why I no longer post regularly.

So...I don't yet play the edition most discussed here. I don't care to be attacked/insulted by advocates of any RPG game edition, version, revision etc and it's just not what it used to be.

But I'm not totally gone....I'll never be totally gone.....as far as GGG and the other regulars...maybe they'll chip in a comment or two after a gentle nudge somewhere in a leafy, restricted portion of the Internet.

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26

3d8 + 4 ⇒ (7, 3, 3) + 4 = 17

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

3d4 + 3 ⇒ (1, 3, 4) + 3 = 11

Test

Test dice expression

1d20 + 8 ⇒ (20) + 8 = 28

3d6 + 4 ⇒ (4, 3, 3) + 4 = 14

Okay, guys, Paizo now has a dice roller funtion built into the BBCode for this site. Awesome. There's no need to go to invisible castle any more, but in some cases you may need to post twice in case your post depends on how well you do on a die roll.

If you click on the button below each post window and click on "show" next to BBCode tags you can use, you'll see what you need to type in to use the die roller function (and all the other Bulletin Board --BB-- code used here)

Summarizing several gaming sessions here. This log has been neglected, unfortunately

The party discovered the huge bloated creature wallowing in its own secretions, the apparent source of the green poison that had been transforming Argat's townsfolk. Battling their way to the bottom of the worm-weakened caves, they defeat the tentacled bloated creature and the wysts guarding the extra-planar source of the madness. The party emerges from the caves only to be ambushed by several tough ogres, apparently hired to destroy them. Finding clues among their effects to the location of the strange pagoda in the Icehorn Mountains that was the apparent destination of some vials of the green welcome, the party decides that they must back off and hire some more backup from the Blademark Mercenaries, since their last archer also met his death in the caves below.

Go cabbages go!!!!!

Barrakas 5 998 YK

After pouring over maps at the Eldeen Reaches embassy, the Falcon's Falchions determine the likely target of the strange plant like monsters fleeing Argat--a cairn of burial mounds 35 miles away.

Summoning magical steeds the party moves to the area, battling a trio of strange chaos beasts along the way. They enter the burial mound, defeating a pair of plant monsters, walling up a locust swarm with a stone shape spell and bashing a demonic woman's head in the catacombs below a rotating statue stairway.

I sent you an e-mail, Josh. Tier 3 for me. I had a blast last year!

Back from trying out the campaign log on a home site, but Paizo is better!

Lharvion 14, 998 YK

Mirrim and Panzadeya awaken in a strange forest, surrounded by kobold zombies nearby. Helix just cast "greater resurrection" on them, courtesy of Alastair d'Lyrandar. Turns out the group had been assimiliated into Halas Martain's undead army. When the group did not return to the Golden Dragon with the skiff, Alastair investgated and determined their fate. Within weeks he hired old friends of the party, Barrtok the lupin werewolf hunter, Sgt. Viduk of the Sharn City Watch and Pendant Argossen, Silver Flame cleric of Falcon's Hollow, to rescue the "Falcon's Falchions" from their horrible fate. Unfortunately, by the time the trio of Barrtok, Viduk and Pendant arrived on Xen'drik, Mirrim and Panzadeya's zombies had been kidnapped by the now zombified former nemesis, the Kobold King of Falcon's Hollow, who tracked down his old beloved crown woven into Mirrim's rotting skull. The trio was able to recover the parts formerly known as Helix and had him reassembled in Stormreach. From there, he met with Alastair and obtained the tools (scrolls) he needed to bring his old friends back from the dead.

That, now accomplished, meant that Mirrim wanted her crown back. It was nearby. The logging camp nearby was crawlign with zombies and the now reunited Falcon's Falchions hacked through a platoon of kobold zombies, looking for clues to the Kobold King's location. They found them......

Lharvion 15, 998 YK
Spent the night in the logging camp.Fended off a skeleton megaraptor. Located its tracks and marked the tree through which the tracks came. Started back on journey back to Falcon's Hollow and ambushed by worgs led by a crysteel wielding troll.

Lharvion 17, 998 YK
Arrive in Falcon's Hollow. The party is celebrated by the town and hired by Lord Kreed to get rid of the undead zombie king once and for all. Party sells some stuff to obtain much needed cash and Mirrim sends message to her house about her being alive again, but without papers. Helix crafts a holy symbol for Panzadeya and Kimi Eavewalker presented Mirrim with a beautiful dress during the large town wide party.

Lhavrion 18, 998 YK
Hire Boudreaux, the warforged scout/waiter from the Sitting Duck Tavern, to lead them to Cold Marrow, the zombie stronghold. Halfway through the day, the party meets Morgsa, the hill giant woman looking for her husband, Lavok. They don't fight and leave on positive terms. Later that night, the party fights three tough chariot beetles and Panzadeya callsout to Morgsa for help. She shows up at the end of the battle and makes a deal with theparty to take her to Sharn to look for her husband, who apparenty wandered away to join a mercenary company (and get drunk according to Morgsa). Morgsa is a very intelligent hill giant and says she has some natural powers.

Lharvion 19, 998 YK
The Falcon's Falchions arrive at Cold Marrow and make quick work of the undead there, aided by Panzadeya's prowess as a Silver Flame undead turning paladin. The kobold king's undead form is defeated again.

Lharvion 20, 998 YK
Arrival back at Falcon's Hollow. Payment received from the Logging concern.

Adventures of Panzadeya

Companions: Helix

Mirriam

Morgsa leads us to the bottom of Cold Marrow Mound. There is a coumn with broken down stairs. There is a graveyard of bones and no noise. We approach the columns. The stairs are covered with runes of unknown origins. Two shadowy figures surprise us. I turned the shadowy figures. My faith must be growing. Going up to the column, a magical trap, possibly a curse is detected by Helix and successfully disarm. Down a corridor we see a black cloud that turned into a bat like thing. We destroyed the Belkir. Helix looks in a room with the ceiling tumbled in and a sarcophagus within and a lady chiseled on it. I look in another room with five coffins. A wraith comes at Helix and from the other room are five wights. I turn four of the five wights with the goodness’ of the Silver Flame. We find a longsword that is great against the undead. It is an undead bane sword (+1 / +3 undead 1d8 +3 +strength and +2d6 against undead).

In the next room, we find the Zombie Kobold King and his army of 13 zombies. Murlow Krap throws a javelin that bursts and sends electrical damage at us. But Mirriam was a bit ticked about losing her crown and threw a fireball and took out most of his army. He was pretty easily defeated. We go to Kreed Manor and collect our 5000 gp reward for wiping out the Zombie King.

Lharvion 21, 998 YK
Gardiss, the Korranberg Chronicles reporter, pays the Falchion's 850 gp for exclusive rights to the story of the kobold zombie king. He also offers to take Morgsa and the Falchions to Sharn on his skyboat, revealing that Morgsa's husband is being kept drunk at Morgrave University.

Lharvion 24, 998YK
While Helix remained in Falcon's Hollow to do some crafting work commissioned by the Lumber Consortium, Panzadeya and Mirrim took Morgsa to Sharn, where they find that a blowhard professor at Morgrave Univeristy has been charging admission at a theater to lecture on Xendrik and display Avarrath, Morgsa's husband, as a "Xen'drik" giant. Tardren, the professor the Falchions helped previously , discredits Celentor, to much scandal and delight of the crowd and Korranberg reporters present. He offers the giants teaching assistant postions at the University to restore the university's honor.

Lharvion 25, 998YK
Panzadeya and Mirrim meet with Alastair D'Lyrandar, who proposes to forgive their debt if they investigate and clear the city of Argat in the Icehorn Mountains and prepare it for for future Lyrandar enclave, with offices for House Deneith and the Silver Flame, of course.

Go to Fallen district in Sharn to investigate the disappearance of Faela, the priestess of the Silver Flame that tends to the slum denizens at the Blackstone Church (Sharn p. 63). Meet Berrick the beggar who says the Ravers have overrrun the church and he leads them to an entrance to the tower. A beggar woman asks them to help Faela and the party enters the tower, meeting up with some Raver guards.

After defeating the Ravers and freeing the cleric, the party retreats back out of the Fallen district, deciding that they need to get to Argat and finish their mission and end their debt to Alastair d'Lyrandar.

Barrakas 2, 998 YK
A Lyrandar skyship drops the Falcon's Falchions off a few miles from Argat, out of sight of the superstitious locals. The party approaches the town and make contact with Bertram Hugelrote, the ambassador of the Eldeen Reaches, who was on an apparent punishment detail at the embassy just south of the City. He recommends Ahmed's Assans boarding house in town and warns the party of the superstitious locals. At dinner, he pumps information about civilization from the party. The guards point out a "Child of Sehan" skulking around the manor house at night.

Barrakas 3, 998 YK
Whie sleeping at Hugelrote's manor house, the party encounters a guard in the hallway outside their bedroom, a transformed Child of Sehan.

Barrakas 4, 998 YK
Make contact with Mother Innara through Hassam, but Mirrim makes her angry even though she showed them entrance to sewers. Defeat lifeleech otyugh, but hostile natives are gathering above.

Continue the exploration of the spriggan caverns, defeating the spriggans and the apotheiosis apparatus. Recruit gnome alchemy techs for future enclave. Engineer an old sewer entrance to take them back to Ahmed's inn, where they rest and recuperate. Dimension door out of City to go to Eldeen Reaches enclave and prepare for journey to the strange place in the hills that the Children of Sehan have been heading to.

Awesome, Boomer!!!!

(Will you share a room with me?)

A porn industry bailout would be the ultimate "money shot."

Everything I know about Gary is from the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons books, namely, the Dungeon Master's Guide. Go find a 1979 copy, snuggle down some where quiet and cozy up to the masterful feel of the game as it was designed to be played.

The population of the U.S. would dwindle to 1/3 if the Brits ruled America again because of all the car accidents from having to drive on the wrong side of the road.

I loved Kevin Kline in "A Fish Called Wanda"....

;)

Tim Hitchcock is so evil he can dance solo in a goth club wearing plaid shorts and no one even dares glance at him. Plaid shorts and white socks, no less.

My suggestion would be to ignore the player next time he goes off on a rant and just go on with the game. When it's his character's turn to act, ask him what his character wants to do. If he wants his character to stand around and have a hissy fit, then move the rest of the party on with the adventure. If he refuses to calm down or disrupts the game for everyone, get up from the table and tell the rest of the players to call you back when they're ready to continue the gaming session while you go outside to have a brew, smoke, Mountain Dew or coffee.

Continue with this tactic. It's your world, you're the DM. Just because D&D is a game run by a person that players can argue with when things don't go their way doesn't mean you have to allow them to do so. Become a programmer, they can't argue with them. Just ignore him and forcefully move the game on. He'll either calm down or the other players will calm him down or kick him out of the game for you.

I've adopted this tactic in the last few months because I play with close friends whom I couldn't kick out of the game if I wanted to and my wife. They all love to argue. I've just started ignoring them and moved on with the game. I give one response to a rules question or a debate item. If they choose not to accept it, I move on without them.

Pretend you're Spock and that you are completely deaf to any speech by the players that don't directly relate to character dialogue or action. It'll be tough to pull off (believe me), but you'll run a smoother game in the long run. You don't owe them any explanations. If you agree with a point they've made about a rule or action in the game, incorporate it into the game without comment and move on. They'll very quickly get the point or decide that they'd rather play a computer game where their rants won't be heard at all.

Ubermench wrote:

Mexican American war and WWII also. The teacher was a dumba##.

While US territory was invaded in WWII, I'm going to give the teacher a pass on the Mexican-American war. Fighting over disputed territory between the Rio Grande and Nueces rivers shouldn't be considered an invasion of US territory. It's awfully hair-splitty whichever direction you take on it and not worth calling out a teacher on.

Unless, of course, there was a Mexican offensive north of the Nueces or into Kansas...

I'm glad this thing will be over with soon. Presidential elections have become such media frenzies that it's almost impossible to get a straight answer out of anyone. It's like a day long Super Bowl with the longest, most annoying pre-game show ever.

Except that when this game is finally over, when all the lawyers have sued and talking heads have whined, cajoled, berated and generally pissed all over us, we're all still going to be f!~%ed either way.

The only thing that will change politics in the U.S. forever is a constitutional amendment that forces balanced budgets and a government without debts.

Imagine that. Something neither Dems nor Reps could f**k with. We'd have a lean government and our economy would roar like a finely tuned race car.

Sigh....

I picked the blue troll before I realized what "trolls" on the internet were. I've had it for almost 4 years though, so I'm not going to switch.

Good God! After clawing their way back to .500 after an 0-3 start by beating UCF, Southern Miss and Tulane, the Miners got their asses handed to them on a huge platter. 77-35 by Tulsa? That's a basketball score. I hope they can still salvage a somewhat respectable season.

Okay I knew it was going to be bad going in, because Tulsa had the nation's #1 offense and the Miners had the nation's #98 defense....but 77 points? Yeck! Even Texas only scored 42 points on them ;)

A hugely muscled halforc wearing the ceremonial robes of a cleric of Kord (God of Strength, Athletic Contests, Courage and Brawling--this is common knowledge to the PCs and no rolls need to be made) emerges from the tent after a few seconds. He stretches and surveys the shantytown with an appraising stare.

Jacques notices that many of the shantytown residents appear to be making preparations to leave, probably in the morning. Saddlebags are being packed and the sound of packing and satchels being pulled together are evident from multiple places around the camp.

The halfling and fat human woman emerge from the tent. The halfling is sipping a small flagon of something and the human woman is munching on a leg of mutton.

The halforc says to them: (Listen check total roll of 9 for Jacques)

"....hills....cave to hole.....raiding.....tear the orcs a new one...."

I rolled a sense motive roll for Jacques to see if he could figure out the intent of their statement at least, but the total roll was only a 4, sorry

Thaddeus--as you move to another position you notice the two barbarian bar raiders from earlier tonight leaving the town on shaggy but hardy looking mountain ponies. They appear to be in a hurry, as the gate is about to close. You don't see Jacques, but you see the halforc and his companions standing outside the tent talking as described above.

Agathon--you don't spot the archer woman.

Thaddeus casts his message spell without interruption or interference. His total Diplomacy roll was 15

Jacques 2nd listen roll is a total of 23 Jacques overhears conversation inside the tent, somewhat muffled. He can't pick up everything being said, but he does hear:

"....can't pick sides just yet...the Skullcrushers don't have enough coin...."

"Dunstan can survive. This town's like a breakwater if the Aerdi ever figure that out."

The snack vendor tells Agathon:

"The big tent? That's Gorgathor. He's a big halforc mercenary who got exiled from the town itself last year for brawling. That's why he lives in that tent."

I will be out of town until Monday, with uncertain internet access.

That syntax did look weird. I'll test it again.

Thaddeus and Agathon stumble out of the door, following Jacques, whom they both immediately notice is moving very quietly and stealthily. Agathon having military training and Thaddeus being smart, they drop back a bit and let Jacques take the lead.

Jacques, you notice this, but you also notice that the halfling and the fat woman are walking towards the town gates, engrossed in conversation. The beautiful woman with the bow has disappeared.

Jacques, will you let the two others follow you at a distance? How far? Will your trio leave town, if necesary, to follow your targets?

You have to remember the intent of this piece. It's a 4 hour tournament adventure. Dissecting it to find unrealistic crew complements and ship design is unfair to the author. The adventure works for what it's intended for. If you're going to use it as part of an ongoing home campaign, of course it's going to need some tweaking.

While I was a U.S. Army Reserve combat medic, I had to do a two week tour at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, working at a troop medical clinic that serviced the Marines attending artillery training at this Army base. I've never given so many penicillin shots in my life, back when that still worked to cure the clap. I don't know if the Army guys visited the same hooker over the weekend or if the Marines were just outrageously unlucky, but it seems like every 3rd Marine that came in complained of "pissing needles or a foul discharge or both."

This was 'ca 1987, in case you're wondering.

My players, staunch advocates of not ever switching from 3.5, are heading off to the FLGS for a 4th edition demo on Saturday. Without me. I have to work.

If they come back and start raving about 4th edition.....sigh....but I doubt it, they're pretty cheap bastards (except my beautiful wife, of course, who might read this post...she just hates change and she's endured the 2nd edition switchover to 3.5 4 years ago)

I'm glad they played with a totally different DM, so as to gauge their true assessment without it being colored by any of my prejudices or preconceptions about 4th.

My players, staunch advocates of not ever switching from 3.5, are heading off to the FLGS for a 4th edition demo on Saturday. Without me. I have to work.

If they come back and start raving about 4th edition.....sigh....but I doubt it, they're pretty cheap bastards (except my beautiful wife, of course, who might read this post...she just hates change and she's endured the 2nd edition switchover to 3.5 4 years ago)

God Bless all of you and best of luck to everyone!

If you see a guy named Chris Wissel around Galveston or in an evacuation center, tell him I said hello and the cabbages wish him and his the best.

Yeah...so.....

UTEP outgained Texas and had more than 400 yards against the #10 ranked team in the country. UTEP had a 5.4 yard rushing average and more takeaways. Utep moved the ball well. Utep had more first downs. Utep had 12 minutes more in time of possession.

UTEP lost by 29 points. Who said football made sense? I wish the Longhorns the best for the rest of the season and hope that UTEP can at least beat SMU and Rice. Go Miners! (Sigh)

I paid no attention to the additional stuff that was put into the book after it was sent to the editors, so I was as delightfully surprised by the Bedlam Havok stuff as many of the readers. I didn't realize Lou was instrumental in that stuff, I thought it was all Boomer and Rone. Shows you what I know -- the only thing I was told before it went to Goodman was that I wrote 1/6th of the book in 22 articles, LOL!

True 20 rocks! It's agile, light and customizable. Any rule from 3.5 that you like you can easily add back in for additional detail, assuming you want it. But who wants all that detail? Game prep for narrators is a snap, characters are ready to play in 20 minutes and there's no agonizing over minutae and powerbuilds and massive stat blocks.

I use True20 for all games not D&D. The only reason I don't use it for fantasy RP is because my gaming group all just spent a lot of money on buying some additional 3.5 books and it would be an insult to them to switch systems now....same reason we're not going 4th edition (not the only reason ;)

I respect the feelings of the O.P. and understand why he's upset. If keeping the FR campaign as close to official is important to him and his players and drastic changes are hard to swallow, I can certainly understand the position.

I just think that keeping yourself to that high level of commitment to a setting is a recipe for burnout and disappointment. I certainly don't think that my long-standing casual attitude towards all things published is in any way superior to anyone else. I apologize if I ever came across that way. Game on!

Here's some timeless wisdom I stumbled across while perusing and old Dragon magazine (#109, over 20 years ago).

This is a letter to the editor, answered by then Dragon magazine editor Kim Mohan.

Dear DRAGON,
I have noticed a sudden change in the AD&D
game. Rules have been added to and molded,
book covers and artists have changed dramatically,
novels are appearing, modules are coming
out with greater force and frequency, and your
articles are hard to keep up with. With all this
rush of new material, and the added confusion of
many good new games coming out, I am finding
it very difficult to keep up on the rules and additions.
I think that this is affecting my play, and I
feel swamped. Why the changes, and am I alone
in these feelings?
Jim Robinson
Sam Jose, Calif.

I'm sure you're not alone, Jim, but I don't
think the changes you perceive are anything to
get really worked up about. One of the strong
points of a good role-playing game such as the
AD&D® game is that it can be as simple or as
complex as you choose to make it. We put out
support material because there's a demand for it,
but you aren't required to own every accessory
product in order to play the game.
Don't be dismayed by the abundance of game
and game-related material; instead, consider it an
opportunity for you to pick and choose, so you
can tailor your game the way you want it. — KM

The campaign log has moved to a different site:

Shackles of Eberron Campaign Log

PC Pearls is amazing!

I got my pre-orderd copy from Paizo yesterday. It's full of unusual and serious advice, with sprinklings of levity that caught me off guard and had me laughing out loud. The cover art is gorgeous and the inner art adds spice to the text. The Lord Bedlam Havok section and insets are hysterical - worth the price of the book by themselves.

You gotta' get your hands on a copy.

If you ever hear Lord Bedlam Havok mention "Sherlop" anywhere around you, run like hell!!!

farewell2kings wrote:

Garydee wrote:

Go 'horns! Wow, it's great to have football on again. No more having to watch crappy movies on the Scifi channel!

Go Miners!!! I get to watch the 'Horns take apart my favorite college football team this Saturday (season ticket holder). I'd like to think we have a decent chance to beat UT, but I'm a realist. I'll just be happy if we beat Rice and SMU, LOL.

I really thought the Miners were beginning to become contenders. What happened to them?

Our offenses are always pretty good, but the lack of decent recruits always hurts our defense.

But the bottom line is that few good recruits want to move to El Paso for four years. It's really hard to convince them that this is a great place to live--they want to party on Sixth Street or go hang out at the beach.

So we make do with what we have. I enjoy going to college football games too much to let a bad season or two get me down.

After four years we turn out some great players--Thomas Howard, Tony Tolbert, Chris Jacke, etc....but it's convincing them to come here that's the hard part.

Go 'horns! Wow, it's great to have football on again. No more having to watch crappy movies on the Scifi channel!

I'm sorry. I don't get it. Wizards did something to a world that you have total control over? Who cares? If you don't want Mystra dead in your home game, then just ignore the changes they made and play whatever reality YOUR Realms exist in and move on.

As soon as you crack open a game world and start running a game, it's your world, no one elses. If your gaming group defeats King Obould Many Arrows in an epic battle four campaigns ago and then Wizards publishes a book talking about King Obould's many accomplishments 10 years after he was destroyed in your world, are you going to tell your players "sorry guys, your epic campaign that we all loved didn't really happen?"

I really don't get it. I ran the Realms from '87 to '02 and ignored every novel except Icewind Dale trilogy and every supplement. I ran GH from '81 to '87 and then again from '04 to '07 and ignored the Greyhawk Wars and pretty much everything else. My players had fun and I had fun and both game worlds are ready for me to pick up again whenever I want, with what I want.

Wizards is not going to do an IRS audit on your campaign. Yes, you might not be in on all the latest Realmsspeak, but do you really care that much that you're going to get all worried about this and ruin your gaming fun because of what some corporation decides to do?

I watched my hometown college football team get its ass kicked 2500 miles from home. On TV. Then I started working on a new character sheet.

While the main reason I have not participated in the playtest is lack of time and a stubborn unwillingness of my gaming group to try anything other than 3.5 lest they be tempted into switching systems, the other reason is that I have full faith and confidence in Paizo's ability to sift through the playtest to find what they need to make Pathfinder an awesome RPG.

Of course, if they in any way shape or form infringe upon my house rules, then the system is totally broken and useless.

Sorry, couldn't resist. The evil spirit that has infested Paizo's messageboards is starting to affect my subconscious.

Never mind me; I'm a real snide sarcastic dick today. My son started kindygartin, and he hates it, and I'm suffering.

Sounds like fun though.

I want to be able to write superimposed x's and o's across the screen. ;)

Oh and Farewell2kings, glad to have you as a GM out there.

I loved the way you played Slarin. Excellent drow role-playing.

Greyhawk will never die, though. I taught a 17 year old high school kid to play D&D two years ago, running him, his GF, my sister-in-law and my wife through a very short Perrenland based campaign.

He's now deployed on a U.S. Navy frigate and running a GH campaign with over a dozen active players, based on the original boxed set he picked up somewhere.

What's more, it's got real Willie Walsh in every exciting bite!

This makes a great gift for those players in your group who always come up with lame backgrounds, always come up with lame names and whose characters are always cookie cutter version of each other. Buy them this book as a gift and they'll add life to your campaign and some fun into their own gaming experience.