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Oh yeah! Thank you SO much for donating O neg F2K. I have met some wonderful people who would not be alive if not for your sacrifice. They appreciate it too! :)

Thanks for saying that, but it's no big deal any more. My son has had 18 surgeries and has had blood transfusions all the time (his surgeries are out of town and I can't afford to fly out of town to donate for him, since we also have to pay for our trips to the surgeries out of pocket), so even if I hadn't been a regular donor already, I would have started out of guilt.

Plus...a couple of my coworkers are battling cancer and the hour and a half every two weeks it takes to give platelets is the least I can do.
Our local blood bank is wonderful, great people and the platelet donors can watch TV/DVDs, surf the internet or whatever while they donate. I personally like to read, as that hour and a half is the only uninterruptable reading time that I get on a regular basis.

2644 with this post.

farewell2kings wrote:

We're hiring too...

Heh... It's hard to imagine me as a cop.

It can be done, however.

Cosmo makes a perfect cop nick name. Some of my old partners had nicknames like "Sluggo", "Fish" and "Red." The fact that it's your real name only makes it more fun.

We're hiring too.....and you can buy a nice house in a good neighborhood here for about $145,000....(of course, our version of customer service is "slightly" different, but....we have Starbucks.....and even though it doesn't rain as much as in Washington State, when it does rain...well, it RAINS!

farewell2kings wrote:

I think a tattoo would be cheaper than a Harley for my mid-life crisis....what do you guys think?

A tattoo would be cheaper. But Harleys have the cool factor. However, if you wife is anything like me, if you got a Harley, she'd probably say "Where's mine?" :D

Oh, you are SO right!! The only thing that has kept me from getting a tattoo so far (I want the Rush Star from 2112...people will think I'm a commie) is the fact that it'll disqualify me from donating platelets for a year and since I'm O NEGATIVE, the universal donor blood type and I've been donating blood for 22 years, I'd feel horribly guilty.

Stefan, my dad got his first tattoo when he turned 40

Surprisingly, my name is Stefan (spelled exactly the same way) and I turn 40 this year.

I think a tattoo would be cheaper than a Harley for my mid-life crisis....what do you guys think?

farewell2kings wrote:

I pick clothing for its capability to conceal handguns. That's creepy right?

Not too creepy, my mom picks out upper undergarments that have the side panel capacity for her firearm. When we're out and about, and she sees something amiss, she flops her right arm like a chicken (she thinks she's being subtle) to check for her handgun.

Go MOM!!!!

I wear plain black t-shirts most of the time. They make me look cool and tough.

Actually, I change into my uniform at work and plain black t-shirts is the only thing I can wear underneath my summer shirts and be within regulation. In winter, I can wear a mock turtleneck.

When running around doing errands, I invariably end up wearing a Rush concert t-shirt or something like that. Combined with my urban camouflage pants, which I like to wear because they're comfortable and have lots of pockets, people give me lots of room in supermarkets, as I look kind of like an 80's throwback heavy metal listenin' unabomber.

I wore suits and coats and ties at work for 14 years, so I tend to go a little too casual when not at work.

I pick clothing for its capability to conceal handguns. That's creepy right? Aubrey? Can't wait to hear from you ;)

I find myself going through Rush listening phases like that as well. Sometimes I listen to nothing but old stuff from the 70's for weeks on end and then I really get into one or two albums for a while.

All I know is that I can't wait for July 27th and my 6 hour drive to Phoenix to see them live!!!

The Inquisitors continued their exploration of the dungeon underneath the City of the Dead. After sleeping in a dingy dungeon room (Geldren's first time!) and receiving healing from the Mask cleric, the group continued its exploration. Geldren walked into an ambush by a large group of rogues bearing the colors of the Bonegnasher group, some scouts for a dragon apparently. After being stuck by a half dozen rapiers, one of Geldren's companions cast a blade barrier and killed most of the rogues. The rest were finished off by Geldren's hammer, but one may have escaped. The group looted the bodies and since most of the party was broke, Geldren convinced them to leave and sell the items for cash before returning. Liandrin lost her precious magical cloak to a spellgaunt. The vampire boss the party sought ambushed them on their way out, protected by other undead. The vampire is turned to smoke and disappears, but the Mask cleric lay dead.

Man, Cosmo...you rolled a 20 on your diplomacy check.

City of Towers by Keith Baker....

DC15

It's still doing it.

PING!!!! Daigle, Lilith, Tensor and I are all PINGING!

Happened to me too. I would come back to the site and find my shopping cart filled with an order for 1 copy of "The Gamers" movie. I would change the quantity to 0, but next time I came to Paizo, it would reappear.

Well, Steve could survive at least a few months in Vegas by scavenging the casinos. He could fend off the old ladies sitting at the nickel slot machines (who, of course, wouldn't leave for ANYTHING) with his Remington, while heroically leading a few confused showgirls back to his love enclave in the mountains.

"We have to repopulate the planet."

"But Steve, we just lost power for a few weeks."

"It's the only way to be sure."

It's nice and warm in here. Better than American Idol, trust me...

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I wouldn't even spend $900 to see my favorite band in concert, much less go to a football game...and I LIKE football. No way. Now if I worked as a cop in Dallas area, I'd find a way to get an off-duty gig working the game, but that's about it.

Never did quite understand the just in case rationale and still don't, but to each his own i suppose. (and please don't try to explain it here)

As ever,
ACE

And here's a prayer that you never have to understand.....when your own personal "just in case" moment hits, you'll know it.

Steve Greer wrote:

My wife hates that I own it, but it'll always be in the house "just in case" no matter how much grief she gives me over it.

What does "just in case" even mean?

As ever,
ACE

Here's what it means

While that's obvious meant to be funny, it's so true. "The police will be there in a few minutes" doesn't mean much if you don't have a few minutes.

I don't want to restart the whole gun control debate, but my wife found a definition of gun control she likes:

"Gun Control is society's feeling that a woman found raped and strangled in an alley is somehow morally superior than a woman explaining to the police how her attacker got those fatal bullet wounds."

We'll take the low road. Hope we never have to make use of the weapons, but I will not leave my family dependent on spotty police response time as their only means of protection.

Yep. Got that exact model. My wife hates that I own it, but it'll always be in the house "just in case" no matter how much grief she gives me over it. It's police issue for Metro here in Vegas. Is that the model you guys use in El Paso?

My other firearm is a Russian SKS assault rifle. It's fun to shoot, but a bit hard to be very accurate with.

Yes, we use the 870. We issue the 14" barrel version, but we can buy our own. I have an 870 Police Magnum with ghost ring sights and an 18" barrel. I love slugs.

I had an SKS for a while, but sold it off to help buy a Smith & Wesson .357 magnum 340 PD, which is my off-duty gun. It's a titanium alloy snubnose revolver that is ever so easy to carry and conceal.

My personal favorite shotgun is the Mossberg 590. I have the Mariner version in "marinecoat" which means it is resistant to rust. It's an 8 shot with ghost ring sights and I wish I could carry that one at work instead of the Remington, but it's just a personal matter of choice--both are excellent timeproven designs.

Perhaps we should post the 1238 e-mails that I received and sent during the creation of Seeds of Sehan in this thread so that everyone could see how brilliant we really are? ;)

No?

Okay.....

Seriously, it's been a great experience. Paizo is a wonderful company and I was so lucky and blessed to hook up with Koldoon, Steve Greer, Great Green God and Dryder. I've only met Steve so far, but I consider him and the rest my friends anyway.

Thanks again, Paizo--and the 5 person writing (wrecking) crew. I'll never look at passive language passively again.

Even if I never publish anything else again, I'll remember this for the rest of my life and those three magazines will be passed down to my grandkids as the geeky legacy that grandpa left them.

Sir K's list is very good. If you don't own a firearm and you want to buy one for this eventuality, I'd recommend you buy two of them: a 12 gauge pump shotgun for defending against humans and a .22 caliber rifle to pop rats and pidgeons for supplemental protein... (.22's work well on humans too, just not fast enough usually to stop them from doing evil things unless you hit them in the head) I'd recommend a Remington 870 Express 12 gauge shotgun (about $350 at Big 5 sporting goods) with about 50 rounds of buckshot and a Ruger 10/22 .22 caliber semi-auto carbine with a couple of thousand rounds (bricks of .22 cost like $10-$15 IIRC) The Ruger is a bit pricey at about $200, but it's clip fed and fast to reload if you have a spare magazine or two. In a pinch, you can get a decent Marlin or Rossi tube fed .22 for about $135, but after 14 rounds you gotta remove the tube-rod to pour more rounds down the tube, effectively turning it into a 14 shot musket.

We honeymooned in Vegas. My wife couldn't get herself to spend her gambling allowance on gambling, so she bought shoes.

Favorite vacation was a 2 week trip to Germany in 2000, showing my American family around my hometown and surroundings. Visited Bastogne to see the war memorials and real life Sherman tank in the city square, went to Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne and explored castles and such. It was also a Christmas vacation so it was doubly nice to be able to see my German side of the family for Christmas for the first time in many years.

Read, instead of throwing around uninformed thoughts.

Oh sure, taunt us with your logic and reason :p

I'm not sure I like the author's lack of effort to understand the game...but maybe that's just me. Or it might be the fact that she feels it's just for the guys. I dunno, but the author's style rubbed me the wrong way.

Oh yeah, me too, but it's a reporter. They have inherent genetic and moral limitations that prevent them from becoming politicians.

Great stuff!

I think it's all a matter of personal preference. You can't be wrong or right in these matters.

Leave it to our resident master wordsmith to sum up this entire discussion/thread in two sentences.

He he! N'Ra is my diety of steam and smoke. He holds the secret of blackpowder and his followers believe everyone should have the right to bear arms.

They also drive carriages with flat beds in the rear with runes on the back that state things like "I'll give up my thunderstick when they pry it from my cold dead fingers" and "If thundersticks are outlawed, only outlaws and goblins will have thundersticks". Another favorite is "Thundersticks don't kill people, dragons do." Their clerics tend to wear a lot of flannel or camouflage during inappropriate social occasions and refer to their followers as "sportsmen" even though most have not seen a jogging track...well....ever! They prefer to drink their ale in strange half dozen mini-casks assemblages manufactured by fine gnomish metalsmiths.

F2K (a real world NRA member)

It takes about 10-15 listens for a Rush album to settle in. I say it is better than Vapor Trails...not as good as Roll the Bones....almost as good as Counterparts, better than Test For Echo, but not by much.

Of course, I only mention Rush albums from the last 17 years, since the first 17 years were incomparable. I don't think it'll ever get better than "Moving Pictures" "2112" and "Signals." If it does, I would be overwhelmed with delight.

Can the DM really say, "Sorry, you may have spent $100+ on books but I don't like them?!"

You betcha...the DM has to have fun too and if the DM ain't havin' fun, no one's havin' fun. If a player thinks she can browbeat me into allowing a bunch of crap just because they spent money on something, my answer will be "You should have asked me FIRST."

Orcs with chainguns riding wyverns....the ultimate equalizer. 'Puff the Magic Dragon' indeed!

farewell2kings wrote:

Having a backup copy is not a problem. Offering to share it with others is........

Section 117 of the Copyright Act is what permits people to make archival (or "backup") copies of copyrighted software, but the US Copyright Office notes that "this privilege extends only to computer programs and not to other types of works."

Thanks for clarifying that, Vic.

I see most published adventures as set pieces that can be hacked apart by a competent DM to fit whatever he/she needs.

My current campaign is nothing but a bunch of unrelated Dungeon adventures that I strung together with a unifying theme. That unifying theme ran throughout all these adventures and provided continuity. I freely changed things along the way as needed, with minimal work.

If you don't like the way the adventures are set up, change the set up, or just steal the maps and encounters or ideas from the adventure.

I took the crappy hackmaster Steve's adventure in #121 and levelled it up and moved it underground about 1200 miles from its original location, I gave the NPC party a secondary role in my campaign and tied their motivation into the "unifying theme". I totally ditched the overswamp trip to get there and used my own intro. Took me like 20 minutes and a 3/4 page of notes to integrate it perfectly into my campaign.

I appreciate you acknowledging that, and I apologize for lashing out.

NP, I'm sorry as well. I don't think you mean any harm--this kind of stuff comes up periodically and I think it's just a matter of educating folks. I investigated music and video piracy (among many other things) for 7 years, so I'm rather draconian in my views on this type of stuff.

Having a backup copy is not a problem. Offering to share it with others is........

Thanks, Koldoon. I was being a 'little' sarcastic myself with the ..hmmmmm....comment, so I'm not offended. I just wanted to warn them that what they were talking about was illegal. Thanks for the back up, though!

And Perhaps certain people should mind ones own business.

Most certainly! Think no more of it.

Perhaps you two shouldn't plot to illegally distribute intellectual property....just a ever so gentle suggestion and thought, hmmmm.....??

Plus...Dragon #97 was published in like 1984....?

While it might be cool, I'll never know because if my wife doesn't watch it, I'll never go to the effort to watch it myself.

Yeah, finish college! I went to college from '86 to '88 and then from '98 to '01.....should not have dropped out, should have finished it and then moved on.

I haven't read very much yet, Steve...should I stop and wait until after June 15th?

Do they hang you for stealing chickens?

Do the chickens have large talons?

Tower shield... ;)

Yep, he also eventually replaced my broomstick with a stout oak cudgel, but by then we had to stop "sword-fighting" because someone got a hair-line fracture and a parent got a case of the ass. To be expected, of course....

Nah - accordion-playing, verse-spouting, hula-dancing undead corpse-eaters are staples of folk tales everywhere. Aren't they?

Of course...the dreaded tales my grandfather used to weave!!!

....can I get a Bag of Holding Type XX please?

It'll all turn out all right once the first issues come out and people can fill the vacuum with actual information. It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but such is life.

I really don't know if toning down mature content to a more acceptable level is easier than making PG content more edgy, but any halfway decent DM should be able to do both, depending on what he/she wants in the game.

regurgitated bulging iron ration cans of rusty

I understand, but I can't be angry at any magazine I've never read. Never.......it seems like reading about rock 'n roll to be about as interesting as hearing people talk about books.