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Heh. I know exactly what you mean David. I was just sharing those exact same sentiments the other day with a buddy of mine about the elections in Canada. It's voting day today and I only know two things:
1) I don't want the Conservatives to have a majority Government. (I don't even really have a reason for this. just gut intuition.)
2) Bloc Quebecois is the only party that's told me their motives and what they plan to do.
All the other parties are so busy telling me why not to vote for the other guys that I can't figure out why they'd want me to vote for them. All I want is a statement, in list form, or what they plan to do if elected and how they plan to do it. that's all. I don't think it's too much to ask for. I got tired of the sniping weeks ago, and the only reason I even know it's election day is it was on the radio this morning right before the weather.

...I really wish I could remember its actual name though. really bugs me.

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Ok, after sitting down and thinking a lot, and talking to the player in question, it turns out the Top hat is named Gary. Gary the Dancing Top hat. Just so you know.

kessukoofah wrote:

Well, to answer your question, yes. it's for real.

Oks, I'll work on these. The tophat is a sort of an English tophat? fancy black ridiculous?. If so, I'll do it with a fantasy twist.

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Yup. in fact, until it starts dancing it doesn't even look wierd. anachronistic, yes, but not wierd. unless someone noitices that somehow it never seems to get damaged or dirty. otherwise, just a normal black english tophat with a small white band around the base. but if you want to fantasy-ize it I'm not gonna stop you. you get some crazy idea, I want you to run with it! you hear me?!?!

kessukoofah wrote:

Or a dancing intelligent Top-Hat

Is this for real?

I'll do the sword and staff anyway, its on the agenda. I'll do all the main items of the past commissions in a single drawing for "cut and paste" for gaming purposes. So I'll do another item for you. Send me the details! :D

PS: No one else has take it, so its fair for me that you take it. No prob!

Well, to answer your question, yes. it's for real. As my edit says, my player always gets this item first, even over more useful items. but he also plays genuinely neurotic characters too. great character development. I really wish I could remember its actual name though. really bugs me.

Anyhow, I'd describe a Tophat for you, but it seems pretty straightforward. and it dances. that's pretty much it.

If you want a more "serious" item, I had a halfling bard a while back who used a weapon he called starburst. it was a shortspear (only about as tall as he was, point to pommel) with a haft made of a silvery material (prolly mithral), with the blade made from a carved Gold Dragon's tooth, freely given while the dragon was dying, not taken. all along the haft are symbols and runes depicting a bit of lore from the dragon's life. the weapon is actually mildly intelligent and advises the bard as he travels to collect stories of dragons. He called it Starburst because it had the flaming burst property, only it burst into a cold, blue fire instead of red, hot fire.

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PS: So, no takers on the item commissions? :(

I was gonna let someone else take this, but since no-one's posted yet, How about a more in-depth drawing of my staff, sword or sandals from the first commission? All three will eventually feature in my homebrew, so individual drawings of them would be helpful.

(Or a dancing intelligent Top-Hat, One of my players signature items. Forgot its name, but it was something like Morris.)

Up to you of course. If you want. I mean, you've already done a bunch of stuff for me, but you keep offering...

Here you go Mactaka

Hazhi Awass, cleric of Pharasma

I hope you like it!

I had a heck of a time trying to make the face of the pic you send... and I didn't liked the result...so I drawed a whole new face...I hope you don't mind.

You gave very little detail so I added several Pharasma-related stuff.

Now that this is off the path, I can continue with the femmale commissions, which are already started...

PS: So, no takers on the item commissions? :(

My god! you just keep getting better and better! very impressive.

And just so everyone knows, I am saving all these pictures so they become NPCs...don't really care if you object or not, but I have a feeling everyone's cool with it.

I just ordered the first two issues of Fight On! They describe themselves as "The premier fanzine for the old-school renaissance." And I found it via Grognardia, so I guess it will have an old-school vibe. If the print quality is ok I switch my KQ subscription from PDF only to Print.

Hey. this thread is back. well now that I've read both issues of this I can give my review: They rock! As for old school, they are ADnD, not 3.x, so the rules can throw you for a loop and if you use any other system you'll need to convert, but that's the only flaw I can think of. They publish a couple of adventures, articles on races and classes, and even throw in some fun lists and maps each issue. And the maps are hand-drawn! which I love. Professional Quality is all well and good, but there is a definate confidence boost in your DMing skills when you see a map published in a magazine that looks exactly like what you would've drawn, and an adventure written exaclt as if you'd have done it yourself. The adventures are creative as well, and there was even an article on Penguins as player characters which alone justified the purchase of them to me. I would highly reccommend these to everyone!

Oh, I wish I could afford those Wayne Reynolds Pieces...Soooo Pretty...Oh well. Good luck.

kessukoofah wrote:

I know mine is. even the tilt of the head gives off the correct amount of arrogance, defference and curiosity.

Really? It always looked to me like you were leaning to the side just a bit to let the gas out.

see? yet another perfectly appropriate nuance!

kessukoofah wrote:

nerge96 wrote:

TIME WARP...................and if you don't know where that's from you're hurting ;)..................my measly 2 coppers to the conversation :)

I love that song! In that entire movie, I rank it tied with "Sword of Damocles" and "Hot Patootie" (Meatloaf fan...) at the top of the soundtrack! But Time Warp gets way more Air time on the radios. I heard it just the other day in fact. still awesome!

Gotta give some love to "Rose tint my World" and "Sweet Transvestite," too.

ya.... I'm just going to leave it as my favorite musical ever, since otherwise we're just going to end up listing all the songs to give them props.

in fact, list:

TIME WARP...................and if you don't know where that's from you're hurting ;)..................my measly 2 coppers to the conversation :)

I love that song! In that entire movie, I rank it tied with "Sword of Damocles" and "Hot Patootie" (Meatloaf fan...) at the top of the soundtrack! But Time Warp gets way more Air time on the radios. I heard it just the other day in fact. still awesome!

You get offended that someone has taken your avatar again even though you have yet to see anyone post with it.

If you see a post from someone using your avatar you ask them to change avatars

You think your avatar is the perfect reflection of your personality

I know mine is. even the tilt of the head gives off the correct amount of arrogance, defference and curiosity. And despite the number under the avatar in the choices pages, I've only ever seen one other person post with it. once. and then switch i think.

Are you 100% positive about psinonics being open material. I thought I read somerwhere it was off limits. WotC did not include it in the SRD. I dont know for sure, I dont use them at all. But I remember this coming up somewhere on the boards.

Ok. Go Here. in the middle of the page is a section called "Psionic Rules". That's how I know it's Open Material. It is in the SRD. As are many of the Unearthed Arcana rules and some of the divine rules from the deities and demigods book (I think it's from there).

I would be very interested to see Sean's version of the modern "Gods", Allah etc...

Anyone else interested.

Nope! No good can come of this. there are already enough fights in the world over "my god is better then your god!", we don't need it happenening here too. Not only that, but by putting stats to them, you are considering that they have limitations, which as far as I know all religions say their gods do not have. therefore, an excercise in futility.

We can attribute them to the gods in games because in games we are supposed to be able to create, become, or kill gods. Even then, It's argued that any stats for gods that have been written are too weak. the last god writeup I saw, the Dicefreaks' asmodeus was more powerful. which makes no sense.

IBT

All i can say is: There is nothing xkcd can not solve.

So true. they even managed to solve my problems with Growing Up!

Also, I just lost...again...

And is it just me or is this page wider then all the others?

William Pall wrote:

Azzy wrote:

Pathfinder's Asmodeus isn't the D&D Asmodeus.

So what you're saying is that he's the Diet Coke of Asmodeus?

He's Asmodeus freed from the constraints of so-called canon to be as great as he really is. Asmodeus in Tyrants of the Nine Hells was Diet Coke Asmodeus. I'm not looking for a Dicefreaks monstrosity, either. I just want an Asmodeus that invokes the dread he should and who makes pit fiends tremble with the merest twitch of an evil eyebrow.

You saying the Dicefreaks version didn't "invoke the dread he should and who makes pit fiends tremble with the merest twitch of an evil eyebrow."? It did in me...good gods that book was scary.

stuff just now

Right, which is what I kinda said. the racial traits alone should be enough to encourage these archetypes. (Yes, I realize it's become aalmost a buzzword here, but i don't really have an alternative.) Personally I can see the why for both sides of this, and both sides have some points, but i'm gonna have to change my side and side with you guys on this now. After some careful consideration, even the old XP penalties for multiclassing make more sense then this in my head, and they were some of the clunkiest rules I've ever seen. at least this is a step in the right direction in that regard. theoretically, any child can grow up to become anything, regardless of race, so why should some be rewarded because they happen to be a differant race (and ya, I do see a distinction between a reward and a punishment).

I'm actually changing my tune now and hoping that they drop the mechanic. maybe just listing it under the class and it being "enforced" byt the already existing racial traits might be enough.

Though I have a feeling they're goign to have one anyway.

And for the person above who questioned my "as good as said" comment, I got told off on another thread for questioning the forest-elf connection and asking why they play to archetypes. as far as I'm concerned, that means that they have certain things flavour-wise that they want to keep and enforce.

Curses. you just broke my 3 month streak!

kessukoofah wrote:

New Skill: Faithcraft

Chapter: Skills
Effect: As Spellcraft, only now Spellcraft only applies to Arcane spells, while Faithcraft applies only to Divine. This is a class skills for any class with divine magic.
Reasoning: There is no reason that I can think of why a cleric would be able to identify arcane spells, or vice versa. this splits it up.

"That spell keeps a person from moving, just like my hold person spell, but a cleric cast it, so I have no idea what it is."

Personally, I'd say that if you want to do such a distinction, get rid of spellcraft altogether: Concentration remains its own skill, and the relevant knowledge skills take care of identifying spells: arcana for wizards, sorcerers, bards, religion for paladins and clerics, nature for druids and rangers.

That way you don't add more skills to the mix.

eh. they asked for our house rules, I contributed. you don't have to like it, but my group is actually pretty happy with it.

I would rule that the verbal and somatic components are different for invoking arcane energies than petitioning to the gods. That's what spell ID is about, interpreting the spell before it is cast.

That's actually the exact logic behind what we did. well, that and we're gradually converting all our magic to a skill-based system, and we needed a way to distinguish between the two when multiclassing. but I feel it's a good enough rule to stand on its own.

Also, we feel that there's a differance between know(arcane) and spellcraft, but we're finding it hard to put into words.

Just 1 per month is what I'd like to see. I understand that companies can get behind, epically using overseas manfc & such, but I wasn't expecting 2, epically with the Pathfinder Companions coming out every other month.

The gaming budget can handle just so much!!

Actually, going back to one per month instead of one every two months would totally rock.

A comedy.

Actually, a comedy would be pretty refreshing. I concur. hmm, maybe something like the players have to put on a play for children and it keeps getting interrupted by actors from nearby studios, or the playwrite rewriting things as it's being performed so that random people keep barging in, leading to improv "fights", with the impresiionable kids watching and cheering for the "coolest" people. "Ooh! that pirate has a parrot! I hope he beats that monk!" you just have to let the players know that they're all actors. or that they're not sure, but killing in front of children is bad. replace their weapons with padded ones, and it gives prestidigitation a chance to shine.

darn. Another adventure Seed I'll prolly use myself anyway.

"the horse families of North of North"

I am sad to admit that I am curious to know where "North of North" is, and what's there... Also, that sounds like an adult film title I once saw...Actually, that line is one giant adult movie-based joke waiting to happen.

Sebastian wrote:

Hells yeah. I will pwn all of you with my Jeweled Brush, Strawberry Scented Saddle, and Balls of Pure f@!@ing Steel.

Quote of the year nominee.

I second that nomination!

Ok, A lot of people are saying that it's a bad mechanic. fine. I disagree, but that's just me. next step: Paizo has as good as said that they want certain archetypes in their setting and their game. how do people propose that they do this without a reward for playing certain combinations? because the moment that everyone can play whatever they want with impunity/reward, there are no more archetypes. certain combinations would be obvious, yes, like a race with a bonus to int would do better as a wizard then a fighter, but still. Personally, I think they should emphasize these distinctions, but then I'd get hit with cries of "balance issues" if I suggest that they double all the ability score bonuses and penalties.

So to summerize, love it or hate it (especially the hate it crowd) how would you enforce archetypes (which are unfortunately wanted in this case)?

A traditional "rescue-the-princess-from-the-tower" adventure for low-mid levels (i'm thinking 4-7), but with some twists thrown in there, like that the princess is a hag or it's all a trap set up by a young dragon disguised as a princess. that sort of thing.

A series of adventures taking place in an underwater city for the mid-level range.

An arc of 2-3 modules about a wizard accidently blasting the players to a demiplane (obviously for high levels, but not high enough they cna just phaze back).

Maybe a story featuring a sort of love story where the players help a bumbling knight win a maiden, but she ends up falling in love with one of the players when she finds out. and then a duel in town square including an assassin who wants to hedge his bets. (actually, I'm turning this into an adventure regarless)

As I'm not that familiar with the geogrphy of Golarion, I'm not entirely sure where i'd put any of these. Just throwing out some seeds.

I'm still holding out hope i'll find it at a used book store. along with god knows how many other books. Pretty much all the sci-fi/fantasy books that are more then 15 years old and popular. I had a list somewhere but it got unwieldly.

(side note: 3 used book stores and not one ever has Terry Pratchett books. which I find odd, even as good as they are. Oh well. Buying those new.)

"11" was 1 race horse

"22" was 1 2
"11" 1 1 race
"22" 1 1 2

That sounds like a great numerical riddle for players to try and guess a combination for a door or something.

I stitch in time saves nine, or ten, even elven and twelve. But never thirteen, bacause that's just bad luck.

See, I never really understood that. If time has stitches, then doesn't that mean that something broke it? and that's a bad thing? also, would time naturally heal itself if we just stitch it togeter, or is it just as temporary as ducttape? which would mean that the next major super-villain giant crab person (since the first time time broke, we evolved to form giant crab people, of course) can just rupture it again easily...

Also, how would time having stitches save anything? especially something specific like "9"? 9 whats? is it actually a prophesy that stitching up time will lead to the salvation of a small group of humans who can then repopulate the newly fixed timestream?

I smell adventure seed! A prophesy so ridiculous sounding it has become common household advice!

B_Wiklund wrote:

I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it. Had the misfortune of getting around to see it last night... The Da Vinci Code. I knew what I was getting into but still that was really horrible.

Aw, Christ...

That movie sucked so bad I... I can't even think of a witty analogy right now...

oh! oh! lemme try:

It was so bad it made "I know who killed me" look like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"'s twin in quality!
Maybe: It made the first Hulk not look so bad next to the second one!
Or possibly: It sucked so bad, black holes started to move towards it!

Burn!

although, to be fair, I've never watched it, nor do I plan to.

Thread spoiler link

missed a bracket there. incidently, curse you for spoiling every great movie i've ever already watched!

kessukoofah wrote:

houstonderek wrote:

CourtFool wrote:

a long list of thread

you know, with the inclusion of bob dobbins, you have possibly convinced me to try to play hero system...

and yes, i am slack incarnate ;)

I am in the process of trying to be, but I am still behind on my reading of the Book.

Brother, you (perhaps) have no idea how slack-tastic this statement is :)

Oh man! That didn't even occur to me until you pointed it out. wow. awesome. great, now I can't stop laughing at it.

heh. Sounds about right. bare in mind that you are saved only by the shear amount of work that would have to be done to properly link and rename all of them, and my desire to screw with you is surpassed only by my laziness.

I will however mention that I just read through the Casey and Andy Archives (It's done and not ongoing), and am currently enjoying Gunnerkrigg Court. Has a very "Sharn" feel to it I find.

And for the coolest quote ever: The Book of Job in the shape of the Satan character from the comic

kessukoofah wrote:

The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:

"No, no, don't cry! Baby seals are jerks, they deserve to be eaten. They're all horribly racist! And they think Hitler was a pretty okay dude! And if there's one thing killer whales hate, it's Nazis."

- Dora Bianchi, 'Questionable Content'

Heh. Good to see there's another QC fan out there.

I'm a webcomic addict. I'm a big fan of QC, Weregeek, xkcd, Kevin's Journal Comic, and, of course, Order of the Stick.

Oh, don't get me started on Addict. i just culled through my webcomic folder on monday, and it turns out that I read approximately 85 differant webcomics. and out of those, I think there are only 3 or 4 that I havn't read the entire archive for.

...you know, after reading that, i realized it's not something I should be proud of...oh well. some people do sports statistics, I do webcomics and 90s sitcoms.

I'll post a list if you're curious.

kessukoofah wrote:

I'm rather surprised that this thread-which-does-not-exist hasn't been moved to the off topic or word games forums.

But there is no such thing as a thread-which-does-not-exist. And why should such a nonexistant and purely hypothetical thread be moved, even if it was possible to move something that doesn't exist?

how about thread-which-is-to-be-ignored? and I think we can move such an entity through the same basics as magnetic repulsion. by not-ignoring it in descrete amounts at properly placed areas eventually the entity will have been moved to a pen. of course, at the point it becomes the pen-which-is-to-be-ignored.

kessukoofah wrote:

Is there a particular reason why this one is 4$ and all the rest are 2$?

I'd guess because it's 16 pages, while the others are around 6 pages.

See, that's what I thought too, but number 20 is also 16 pages and is 2$.

kessukoofah wrote:

David Fryer wrote:

The fastest way to a man's heart is between the third and fourth rib.

Actually, this is a populer misunderstanding. you see, if you go by way of the ribs, then you have the ribs in the way, doing exactly what they're supposed to do: protect the heart (yes, I realise they also hold up all the flesh and create a chest cavity for the lungs and diaphagm, but i'm being simple here). however, if you go by way of just under the ribs in an upward motion, it's all fleshy tissue, which is much easier to get through then ribs without special tools. therefore, the fastest way to a man's heart is actually through his stomach, in an upwards direction. longer distance, easier path.

...I just realized I spend way too long thinking about all the wrong things.

No thats why you turn the blade Horizontal so that the ribs don't black a thing. Just make sure you have a blood grove or they are darn hard to take out.

OH! see, I thought you wanted to remove the heart. and was using your hand. your extremely...sharp...hand...ya. that made no sense. I know. if you just want to get at it and leave it there then ya. ignore my previous post.

I'm rather surprised that this thread-which-does-not-exist hasn't been moved to the off topic or word games forums. also, here is where I formally declare Snorks > S/\/\urfs! viva le Snork Revolution!

although much like this thread, that should also be ignored...

New Skill: Faithcraft
Chapter: Skills
Effect: As Spellcraft, only now Spellcraft only applies to Arcane spells, while Faithcraft applies only to Divine. This is a class skills for any class with divine magic.
Reasoning: There is no reason that I can think of why a cleric would be able to identify arcane spells, or vice versa. this splits it up.

New Skill: Persuade
Chapter: Skills
Effect: Roll Bluff, Intimidate and Diplomacy into one skill (persuade), then just give it as a class skill to any class with one of those three. Allow the skill to be used in any situation where any of the three are usable.
Reasoning: This increases the role-playing done by players since now they have to describe exactly how they plan to use the skill, instead of just "I bluff, got a 23. what's his sense motive?". And if not, then at least it reduces bookkeeping and allows more options at the same time. characters that could only intimidate can now diplomacize or bluff.

note that all of this is based on personal experiance, and is used as a houserule at our table, but the title calls for houserules, so here you go.

The fastest way to a man's heart is between the third and fourth rib.

Actually, this is a populer misunderstanding. you see, if you go by way of the ribs, then you have the ribs in the way, doing exactly what they're supposed to do: protect the heart (yes, I realise they also hold up all the flesh and create a chest cavity for the lungs and diaphagm, but i'm being simple here). however, if you go by way of just under the ribs in an upward motion, it's all fleshy tissue, which is much easier to get through then ribs without special tools. therefore, the fastest way to a man's heart is actually through his stomach, in an upwards direction. longer distance, easier path.

...I just realized I spend way too long thinking about all the wrong things.

"No, no, don't cry! Baby seals are jerks, they deserve to be eaten. They're all horribly racist! And they think Hitler was a pretty okay dude! And if there's one thing killer whales hate, it's Nazis."

- Dora Bianchi, 'Questionable Content'

Heh. Good to see there's another QC fan out there.

Incidently, if anyone is interested, The Agony Booth is pretty much a repository for hilarious recaps of extremely dumb movies like Red Zone Cuba and "Manos" The hands of Fate.

Please note that they also recap some not-so-dumb movies, and some popular gems as well, so don't blame me if you see one you like and they make fun of it. Like Road House. I love Road House, but their recap is brilliantly funny.

Is there a particular reason why this one is 4$ and all the rest are 2$?

HA! oh man. I needed a laugh today. Thank you! And as an interesting note, "we're not gonna take it" was one of the songs that inspired me to remake my life for the better a few years ago.

kessukoofah wrote:

Holy crap! you click the sort by date or name button twice and it puts it in the reverse order. that is awesome! wow...It's almost like you don't sleep or something. first fixing the problem of not seeing new posts, then this (or whatever order you did them in)?

Wonder what else we can ask for...ooh! a pony! can I have a pony? A blue one! with wings! and a racing stripe down its sides! and a little patch of yellow signs on the left rear! and I will call him moonshine! and I will love him like my own!

...ok, so I got a bit carried away.

watch it, you might get a copy of sebastian's avatar.

hmm...you're right. maybe if my request were more reasonable. like asking for my name to be Capitalized. I just realized, after 3 years of posting, that it isn't...

or possibly having more avatars per page in the avatar selection page, since it's rather tedius having to scroll through 23 pages, and then back if you missed what you're looking for.

Holy crap! you click the sort by date or name button twice and it puts it in the reverse order. that is awesome! wow...It's almost like you don't sleep or something. first fixing the problem of not seeing new posts, then this (or whatever order you did them in)?

Wonder what else we can ask for...ooh! a pony! can I have a pony? A blue one! with wings! and a racing stripe down its sides! and a little patch of yellow signs on the left rear! and I will call him moonshine! and I will love him like my own!

...ok, so I got a bit carried away.

hmm...atlanta, you say...wonder how far that is from Montreal. lemme just go check here and...20 hours? crud. pretty much twice as far as i'd be willing to go for a con in the middle of the school year (or the start really). oh well.

Great pics by the way.

See EN World's review.

Ok, I may just have something wrong with me this morning, but I can't seem to be able to find the reviews for these products. could someone help me out by linking directly to the reviews maybe? specifically, this one and the players guide. it would also help if they did one for Exalted. and it would really help if they had a feature to search the reviews.

Crazy Stuff...

I...I must watch this. and force my players to watch it. my god! And I agree with Lipto. my brain is in the process of consuming itself. or at least that's how it feels (which may or may not be related to your description. just stating a fact here...). where's my advil?

I see myself more as a sliabh. (no, I don't speak Irish. I only know a few words. It's on my list of things to get around to.)