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passing this along for Justin, the guy who taped it:

"Some of you may have heard about the author D&D game that took place at Epic ConFusion last month. Basically, Myke Cole and Peter Brett got in their heads to organize a game with a who's who of big name authors that were attending the con. It ended up with Joe Abercrombie, Elizabeth Bear, Peter Brett, Jim Hines, Jay Lake, Scott Lynch, Patrick Rothfuss, and Brent Weeks playing with the debut authors Myke Cole and Saladin Ahmed DMing.

I was lucky enough to be invited in to film it. Most of the film (3 hours worth) is still being edited, but I had enough left over to put together a fun little trailer of the event. Some good laughs - enjoy.

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Also, Brent Weeks did a full write up of the game over at Aidan Moher's blog A Dribble of Ink:

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Planewalker Quarterly Zine

We're creating a new, free quarterly fanzine for planar aficionados and we want you to help us! Our goal is to bring together fans of planar adventuring and promote the aspects of Planescape we fell in love with as well as provide support for those playing in Pathfinder's Great Beyond, 4e's cosmos, or other cosmologies including their own homebrewed Mulitverses.

The magic is happening here:

http://www.planewalker.com/forums/planewalker-projects/quarterly-fanzine

We're looking for creative types to help us with art and articles. Article ideas include locations, NPCs, classes and prestige classes, monsters, new planes / prime worlds / cosmologies, reviews, interviews, and GM and player advice. If you have other ideas for fluff and crunch (open to multiple systems including PF), definitely come over and suggest them!

Looking forward to seeing you,

Sciborg2

I don't know if this already exists (or will exist), but it would be nice if the Beta had examples of converting from 3.5 to Pathfinder. Monsters, PCS and NPCS, etc...

Maybe online, as I know you guys are really busy.

Thanks,

Najas

curious if we'll see more runelords and more of their history in the future. i liked how the sins - mortal evil that can be rationalized - are empowered by runes based on aboleth magic - irrational cosmic evil.

It makes me wonder if anytime we try to rationalize extreme evil we are trying to paint a veneer over that cosmic darkness...excellent work!

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/the-miscast-spe.html

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/the-miscast-spe.html

something James Jacobs said on the "Why would you worship Asmo" thread tied into something I've been thinking about, namely:

how does magic change or even redefine progress? Golarion has many real world parallels which makes it even more interesting to consider how history can be revised due to magic.

one thing i've wondered about is if magic is real would the internet be invented a lot earlier? after all, we needed a lot of technology to move information around but magic sidesteps electricity, information theory, and varied engineering problems i don't know enough about...

Maybe I'm doing this wrong, but my understanding is that everytime there is an update to the alpha we have to "add to cart" and then "personalize" it.

I feel like it would garner more public participation if one could just download the document directly. Or am I missing something and that is possible?

thanks,

Najas

i was wondering what information about Pathfinder's planar cosmos has been released. also, how much will be covered in the CS coming in August?

thanks,

najas