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396 posts (397 including aliases). 5 reviews. Alias: Mr Merdon.

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Dragon Age RPG (Green Ronin)
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Denim N Leather wrote:
feytharn wrote:
I think they might aim at a "new crowd" , at players who know roleplaying games only from their computers. I don't think that system neutral books would do much good to get them to play.

I agree with this line of thought; I think that they will make Dragon Age a 'one stop shopping' boxed set that will have everything the player needs in it. Depending on the success of the 'basic edition' there will be expansions. I don't see GR creating many source books for Dragon Age outside of an atlas.

But, what do I know?! =P


I've read, that the initial box set will provide rules for beginning characters, and that an expert set will provide rules for higher level play, though I don't know if they still plan to do it this way.

Dragon Age RPG (Green Ronin)
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Enevhar Aldarion wrote:
I would be more interested if they would do Dragon Age the same way they redid Freeport, putting out system-neutral source books with companion books for several different gaming systems. Then maybe we could have a Pathfinder Companion for the Dragon Age world. I also wonder how well a Pathfinder Companion for Freeport would sell, even though there already is a d20/3rd Era guide and there are not huge changes from 3.5 to PFRPG.

I think they might aim at a "new crowd" , at players who know roleplaying games only from their computers. I don't think that system neutral books would do much good to get them to play. I just hope they do it right, by presenting a system that shows the possibilities of a p&p roleplaying game that no computer can offer, rather then emulating the computer rpg experience with the p&p rules.

Looking for another city-based module to run
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Gallery of Evil might work, though it would require some heavy modifications (level 8). The old Conan Shadizar Box has some wicked adventure ideas and a good full lenghth adventure.Signs and Portents 35 has some ideas for shadizar adventures, some of them are quite evocative and easy to expand on the fly, you might want to look through the S&P magazines, some include adventures and i think, there are city adventures for conan somwhere in there.

How would you design this society?
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If they are known for seers, make them have an impact on "cultural" decisions, like marriages (will they be happy, will their children be desireable for the society or even be able to stand among the seers), jobs (where is the adolecent be most likely to leave a positive imprint) etc. Perhaps they even decide on important issues as a kind of benevolent (more or less) tyrants who, perhaps not constantly but now and then regulate life decisions of every family.

I wanna run an Indiana Jones-style game
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You can find a number of useful recources, including adventures here.

I wanna run an Indiana Jones-style game
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I'd also recommend Hollow World Expedition, another Game that could work is All Fleh must be eaten: Pulp Zombies.
Hollow World Expeditions also has a few sample Adventures available here

Why Does the Rogue Have a Jewel in her forehead?
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You can find the 3.5 Version of the Akata (tentacled hound thing) in Children of the Void - they shouldn't be to difficult to convert.
edit: O.K. took me to long to find the source, bad feytharn :(

Real-world occupations
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RotRL Party
- elecrician, playing a gnome scout
- part time factory worker and housewife playing a Varisian sorcerer
- housewife an mother playing a Varisian bard
- taxi driver playing a dwarven fighter
- technical engineer playing a dwarven priest
- student of educational science part time worker at a gas station GMs

DSA (german Roleplaying game) Party:
- student of educational science part time worker at a gas station: human knight
- math / biology teacher: human wizard/healer
- truck driver: human hunter
- taxi driver: half elven sorceress
- city clerk: human thief
- technical engineer GMs

Clash of the Titans
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Well, now at least I CAN hope that this remake will be worth watching...

What's your Drop-Everything Movie?
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Blade Runner
Strange Days
Children of Men

WotC have got to be kidding me...
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Erik Mona wrote:
I should clarify that I actually agree with pretty much everything else Scott was posting about regarding balanced rules being a requirement of good RPG products and a huge boon to gamers.

But still, the "anyone can do fluff" thing?

Ha!


He didn't say anyone can do good fluff, did he ;)

WotC have got to be kidding me...
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Fake Healer wrote:
Ummm....
I am such a Paizo fanboy, but I am seeing some hypocritical talk here.
Paizo is tossing out race books too. Yes Paizo seems to focus more on adventure paths, stand-alone adventures, society stuff and all that but arguably the adventure paths have feats, classes, equipment, etc. that all add tons of stuff to the game. And they are hitting with race books and guide to XXX area books. If anything Paizo has a more ambitious publishing schedule than WOTC. It's just that they aren't bloating the rules as much, they are smothering the adventure arena.

I mean come on, some people like things, some don't. If you don't like it then ignore it instead of pointing a finger and attacking.


After the original poster realized the race books are more or less booklets of the same size the paizo race books are, he seemed to be o.k. with, and it seems, most others who reacted with "oh no, more books in shorter time" accepted that as well. All a missunderstanding fueled by the fear to see the "races of..." Books of 3.5 revamped for 4th editionn

Future Bestiary wishlist...
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Daemons would be awesome, perhaps a few of the other Open Contend Planar Critters (weren't Demodands in the ToH?)
Definetly more fey!
Sometime in the future a book of PRPG monster templates would be cool.

Best Open Content
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I really like Atlas Games Crimes and punishment as well as Alderacs Magic (though i think the interesting chapter on freeform magic is not OC)

Best Open Content
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Just wanted to add that you might find some of the interesting (O.K. and some of the less intresting...) open content stuff on this great site (many thanks to those great few who do this work...)

Cyberpunk music
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I've used
Die Krupps
Project Pitchfork
and the OST of the Matrix Movies as well as the Spawn Soundtrack
Machie Head,
Nine Inch Nails,
Incubus and for a change of pace Filter could work as well.

Favorite monster?
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Ogres
Yuan Ti (and hopefully Serpentfolk)
Sahuagin
Kaorti
Shadar-kai
Gibbering Mouther (add some Lovecraft here)

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary (OGL) Hardcover
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Vic Wertz wrote:

Oh, and also—you heard it here first—like the Core Rulebook, the Bestiary PDF will be $9.99.

Clears Throat
Whooohooo!!!
Clears throat
I mean: Yeah, that is great. Thank you so much.

Dice rolling thread
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3d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 5) = 13
3d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 1) = 7
3d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 4) = 8
3d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 2) = 11
3d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 4) = 12
3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 2) = 11
Well I guess it's a rather unimpressive fighter

The 'perfect' game..?
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Jason Beardsley wrote:

How easy is it to play a standard fantasy game (complete with demons, devils, and most importantly, dragons lol) using these rules?

It works surprisingly well, although the overall power level differs greatly form D&D. And there IS a dragon in the book (a dead one AND aa living one that is) ;)

Research: Gays in fantasy novels
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Weis/Hickman: Will of the wanderer/Paladin of the night/Prophet of akhran

The 'perfect' game..?
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Since you know and liked Witchcraft, I'd second AFmbE Dungeons and Zombies, it has the same, easy rules and it is easy to add rules from other supplements (spells, powers and creatures from various witchcraft supplements, oriental adventures stuff from AfmbE Enter the Zombie etc.) and it IS fairly easy to ignore the whole Zombie outbreak background and create other critters and backgrounds.

Avoiding sneak attacks by ignoring opponents?
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Kaisoku wrote:
Have you seen a woman's purse? Aren't they all like that?
My wife's handbag certainly holds far more than it seems it should...

See? ;)

Avoiding sneak attacks by ignoring opponents?
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Paul Watson wrote:
The black raven wrote:
A chihuaha has a reach of zero (similar to normal familiars, for example) and thus does not threaten any opponent. Thus it cannot provide flanking.

Or were you talking about the Dire chihuahua ?


What size handbag would a vapid celebrity need for one of those?

A handbag of holding?

One more SERIOUS concern about Pathfinder...
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Devlin 'Dusk' Valerian wrote:
Devlin 'Dusk' Valerian wrote:
ChrisRevocateur wrote:
Devlin 'Dusk' Valerian wrote:
And then there are those "FLGS" who are not contend with the regular cover price, who find or invent means or reasons to add a little bit more to the final price (shipping as example). If asked why, the explain that their ordering of your specifically wished for product involved additional shipping costs due to the reason that their regular Retailer does not stock your product. Thus he had to order it separately with someone else.......

Funny. My FLGS gives a discount if he has to order it for you and you pay up front. If you order it then pay once it gets there, it's still normal price though.

Sorry if there is a misunderstanding. I ain't saying that all FLGS (or a majority) that charge more than the cover price. I am saying though that out of my personal experience, there are a few who do. (Especially Stores outside of the USA (in my case Germany), I have stumbled across 3 Stores who charge between 3.5 $ up to 50 $ above the over price. YES, there is one store that really is charging 112 US $ (one hundred and twelve )for the PFRPG. (I assume they held their copies back, ever since it was known that the first print run has been sold out way before the official release date).

See here:

http://www.fanen.com/allgemeines/s-317_1138_-1_-1/katalog/1747375116/pathfi nder-rpg.html

(OK, seems like that 112 US dollar (or 80 Euro) is not their regular price. In the Text they inform us that the November print run will "only cost 50 Euro (or 70 US Dollar). THAT is still 20 US Dollar above the regular price. Most stores offer the book at the regular price of 40 Euro (or 56 US Dollar).


And, as I was the one who bought that book, the owner eplained to me that he bought the copy at cover price on GenCon and brought it back to germany in his han luggage - and since I'm a regular custome he will refund me once the second print is available - he is sometimes a bit strange but generally friendly ;)

One more time - Favorite Campaign Setting, Any RPG
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Modern: Dark Matter / Delta Green Crossover
Mecha Future: Cthulhutech
Space Opera: Star*Drive / Babylon 5 on par
Fantasy: Al Qadim, I'm quite sure Golarion will move up to a close second
Other: Dark Sun, Kult/Buffy Crossover

I Love(craft) Today's Blog !!
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Want...Now...MUST...HAVE!!!

What are you listening to as you browse the message boards?
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The new Leaves' Eyes Album

Have MMORPGs killed the solo stand-alone RPG...?
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I would like to add Vampire:The Masquerade - Bloodlines to the list of great RPGs, as well as Freedom Fore II.
Now I will return to wait for Dragon Age, Mass Effect II and Elder Scrolls V...

Wolfhound - Russian Conan?
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B_Wiklund wrote:
Anyone seen this? Thoughts/reviews? A slavic fantasy epic could be good.

Wolfhound/Volkodaz iz roda Serykh Psov


Hmmm - I got the DVD for about 2 Weeks now and still didn't find the time watching it. I hope to squeeze it in sometime next week, then I'll return to this thread and share my opinion...

Looking for military techno-thrillers
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The Prometheus Deception by Robert Ludlum
Count Zero / Mona Lisa Overdrive / Idoru by William Gibson
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Net Force Novels by Tom Clancy

Good Sci-Fi Books for Gamers
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They may be a bit hard to find, but I remember that some of the earlyer Perry Rhodan Books were translated into english and published in the US (3 or 4 runs) they make great gamer SF.

Happy Birthday Lilith!
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Happy Birthday Lilith!
May Life grant you some of your wishes, yet may you retain enough wishes to keep things interesting!
Anyhow: have a blast of a Birthday!
Georg.

Pathfinder accomplishing what 4E couldn't - Burying 3.5?
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I think, based on campaign use/importance, there can't be a very useful definition of core. Someone plays dark sun and uses web rules for mul, ds elves etc, these webrules become core and about 1/2 of the core rulebook becomes ex-core.

Pathfinder accomplishing what 4E couldn't - Burying 3.5?
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Wu Chi wrote:
I believe we're entering the realm of semantics now. However, I fail to see how the base classes included in the Core Rulebook are more "core" than the base classes that will appear in this upcoming publication. My sense is that this will be part of the PFRPG subscription and that they will be just as "core" as the base classes that appear in the Core Rulebook. I've already been assured by Mr. Jacobs that the hardcover books in this subscription line will be campaign neutral:

"All of the rulebooks in the line, from the Core Rulebook to the Bestiaries to all the other upcoming hardcovers will be campaign neutral. In cases where campaigns are necessary to illustrate a point or provide flavor (such as the case for deities for clerics), we'll draw from Golarion, but that should be relatively rare."

Quote from James Jacobs

I consider "all the rulebooks" in this line to be "core." Apparently, you don't.


Quote from todays blog:
In addition to the expansion of the core classes, this book will also contain six new base classes. They are called base classes because they go from level 1 to level 20, but they are not core classes. Confused? Allow me to explain. We are making an assumption that these new classes will take a role in our world (and possibly yours) that is less common. You will not find them in every adventure, nor will they appear in every product. That means that you can introduce them to your game in a more limited fashion, without having to retcon them into every facet of your campaign.

Apparently Paizo at least doesn't consider the new classes core...

What are you listening to as you browse the message boards?
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Edward Grieg: Concerto for Piano, Opus 16
Edward Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 Opus 46
Edward Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No. 2 Opus 55

What are you listening to as you browse the message boards?
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Miles Davis: The Way you look tonight
Miles Davis: Milestones
Miles Davis: Little Willie Leaps

Congrats to WotC
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Fair is fair: Concratulations WotC!

Reaper to Produce Pathfinder Miniatures
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Awesome news - I always suspected, reaper minis took a keen intrest in the dungeon magazine APs (especially the savage tide AP, some of their pirate minis were just released / re-released in time for it as well as their terror bird mini) and I saw their new Stone Giant just when I was wondering how to get enough minis for the Fortress of the Stone Giants...so perhaps this isnīt all new ;)
Since I was buying almost exclusively Reaper Minis these are great news for me. Again: Thank you, Paizo!

Pathfinder + Reaper Miniatures =
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Awesome news - I always suspected, reaper minis took a keen intrest in the dungeon magazine APs (especially the savage tide AP, some of their pirate minis were just released / re-released in time for it as well as their terror bird mini) and I saw their new Stone Giant just when I was wondering how to get enough minis for the Fortress of the Stone Giants...so perhaps this isnīt all new ;)

Any movies like Pirates of the Caribbean out there?
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I'm surprised, nobody mentioned The Crimson Pirate yet. Aside from the Monkey Island Games, this movie was the first thing Pirates of the Caribbean reminded me, when I watched it in cinema.

Who are you?
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eric warren wrote:
I enjoy the posts here and am curious about the other posters. I'm guessing most people are older..

Age?
Occupation?
Type of Person?
Interesting Points?
Gaming Style?
Favorite Module ever?
Most unbalanced character you ran?

I'm 33

Currently unemployed, earning some money working nightshifts at a local gasstation.

Thoughtful, maybe a bit geeky, sometimes moody.

Yes, there are.

I'm more DM than player. I tend towards empathising story and roleplaying, but I use minis because I suck at narrative combat (or even keeping track of opponents and npc...).

HArd to say, there are several. Among them are Dragon Mountain, Temple of Elemental Evil, Mad God's Key, Vault of Larrin Karn, Flight of the Red Raven, The Skinsaw Murders, Red Hand of Doom and Night of the Walking Dead.

I don't recall...probably one of my old Rolemaster Characters. I remeber ALL of the characters in that Group to be able to waste scores of most opponents.

Sean K Reynolds - Recovery Best Wishes
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Get better soon!
Take Care!

Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook Sold Out!
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Congratulations!
I just posted a link to this thread on the ulysses-spiele forum to spread the news. I sure hope the store where I pre-ordered pre-ordered the book (same goes for amazon germany...where I ordered a second copy...)
Anyway - GREAT NEWS!

The Mighty Mite Illustration
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jakoov wrote:

It looks a bit... a bit... DULL to be a PFGoblin. And BLUE. ;-)

Perhaps Goblins experience the bleaching, too... (There was always a disturbing similarity between them and those pesky gnomes...)

What are you listening to as you browse the message boards?
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Gamma Ray - Heart of the Unicorn
annihilator - Allison Hell
Body Count - There goes the Neighbourhood
Cradle of Filth - The Forest Whispers My Name

Pictures from adventure paths
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probably not exactly what you are looking for but at leat two of those ogres could do with a little cut-work

The ENnies Voting Booth Is Now Open!
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Voted - and agreed - a lot of good stuff this year - and some I've to check out later if I get the chance...

Elf Art?
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more elven ears

Elf Art?
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elven ears



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