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Sutter's spirit animal, Patrick Renie... there's a story here, I can smell it.
That's probably just the llama you're smelling.
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That's probably just the llama you're smelling.Sutter's spirit animal, Patrick Renie... there's a story here, I can smell it.
LLAMA-FACE!!
Confirmed: Patrick is indeed my spirit animal.
And that may be the most appropriate avatar ever.
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Tardar Sauce the cat is my spirit animal.
Confirmed: Patrick is indeed my spirit animal.
And that may be the most appropriate avatar ever.
Your spirit-animal is llama?
Tardar Sauce the cat is my spirit animal.So it's like this ?
This reminds me very much of Ryan Macklin.
This reminds me very much of Ryan Macklin.Tardar Sauce the cat is my spirit animal.So it's like this ?
ALL THE YES
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The cat's full name is Tardar Sauce?! What.
(Imgur and Reddit just refer to her as Tard, and everything else as Grumpy Cat.)
The cat's full name is Tardar Sauce?! What.
(Imgur and Reddit just refer to her as Tard, and everything else as Grumpy Cat.)
As the story goes, Tardar Sauce's humans let their kid name her, and the kid couldn't spell "Tarter Sauce" :3
How's Devils Revisited coming along?
Ooofda. That was among my biggest concerns with Demons Revisited, was that it opens back up a door that I was delighted we were able to shut with the Book of the Damned series. There was no promise that we'd do a daemons book--no one else really had--so that we pulled off the big three fiends was kind of a coup in my mind (and then layered Chronicle of the Righteous on top of it!).
With Devils Revisited--which is NO WHERE NEAR being on our schedule--I'm in that hazy place between having a ton of other more pressing projects on my plate and not being willing to give that idea up yet.
So in short: it's not--but never say never. ;)
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(It'll probably be a Flumph shaped sugar cookie that you put in the oven that poof up)
WHY ARE FLUMPH-SHAPED COOKIES NOT A THING!?!?!
(Best idea of the week!)
How's Devils Revisited coming along?Ooofda. That was among my biggest concerns with Demons Revisited, was that it opens back up a door that I was delighted we were able to shut with the Book of the Damned series. There was no promise that we'd do a daemons book--no one else really had--so that we pulled off the big three fiends was kind of a coup in my mind (and then layered Chronicle of the Righteous on top of it!).
With Devils Revisited--which is NO WHERE NEAR being on our schedule--I'm in that hazy place between having a ton of other more pressing projects on my plate and not being willing to give that idea up yet.
So in short: it's not--but never say never. ;)
I don't plan on it. I I intend to continue saying "as soon as possible, please". :p
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How much money, in the form of charitable donation, would it take to get a Bastardhall module or adventure path?
Inquiring minds with large paychecks want to know :)
Ha! It's one of those things that I've been told that if I write it, we'll put it on the schedule. And I have been writing it... at a rate of about two to four pages a year for the past 4 or 5 years. Even though even those are mostly just notes... and maps... and stat blocks... okay, I guess it's quite a bit.
It's just that it's a HUGE undertaking, and even though I have the majority of the plot and big secrets worked out--and have dropped them in several projects throughout the years--there's a few other things on my plate that take priority over a mega-adventure.
The other trick is that we don't really have a great format for this. A 32- or even 64-page module isn't near enough, and while a whole AP might do it, I have serious doubts about the viability of and interest in an AP that takes place in just one location--mostly because we've never done it before... but I guess it's not that different from an AP that takes place in just one city. Hum, hum, hum...
In any case, for the foreseeable future, this is just going to be my signature Paizocon game. I am--of course--planning to run the next session at the con this year, so if you're interested, as soon as the event calendar goes up, throw your name in the hat and hopefully you'll get in! Even if not I've got a run down of details on Bastardhall over here and I'll strive to keep it up to date.
Beyond that...
How about this, I'll make a deal with you all. I'm working on (slowly) putting together a personal website. Once that gets up and running and I have a good place to squirrel away my notes and images and what not I'll post some pictures from my past workbooks, as well as some maps of what's come before. Cool?
Thanks again for all the interest in this everyone. There were really three places in Ustalav I targeted as potential Castle Ravenloft stand-ins and even though it wasn't the one I guessed, I'm glad this one took off (as it easily has my favorite name). :)
(It'll probably be a Flumph shaped sugar cookie that you put in the oven that poof up)WHY ARE FLUMPH-SHAPED COOKIES NOT A THING!?!?!
(Best idea of the week!)
Wes, you really need to watch the Cobra Musical.
Bastardhall stuff
Seriously, I will buy anything Bastardhall related.
I'm also +1'ing your website idea :DD
I'd like your opinion on Devils, since you are the Devil Master Supreme! With demons and demon lords, they can take power with force and strength. Some examples include Noctula and Lamashtu. For devils and their Infernal Dukes and Archdevils, how does a devil usurp their power?
Mr Schneider
Of the characters you have played in d&d/Pf what was your favorite one and why?
For Pathfinder, my longest running character has been Styrian Kindler in James's bi-weekly(ish) game. He's a bard storyteller who traveled from Caliphas to Sandpoint to document stories about the Sandpoint Devil. Things got a bit out of hand, though, and now he has the Sandpoint Devil's head and has been traveling around with an unlikely crew recording strange events and details of inexplicable beings. Erik's character, Ostog the Unslain, believes Styrian's chronicling his adventures like a Ulfen scald, and that's partially true, but there's a bit more to it--but what's he know, he can't read anyway (or, at least, I don't think he can...). Styrian might not deal much damage personally, but after a couple of rounds of high-level inspire courage, haste, good hope, etc, the difference between having him around and not is obvious. So he's a lot of fun.
Way, way, way, back in college I was in a long running Planescape 2E game where I played a water genasi cleric of Persana named Sesspesh. He had traveled from the City of Glass to Sigil and ultimately to the Forogotten Realms where I believe he got embroiled in a plot involving the Doomguard, Iyachtu Xvim, and a reoccurring villain named Dashkel Floodwaltzer who turned out to be a sentient suit of armor. Sesspesh was a total aristocratic fop and pansexual, but was a clever sort and much preferred talking and lying to fighting--he used a jar of honey at one point to convince a group of enemies that he had Skinsluff or some such so they wouldn't touch him. I forget from where originally, but I found the 2E spell shark bolt somewhere, and it was AWESOME (which is why that spell got a 3.5 update in Dragon #334, back when I was running the Spellcraft series). He eventually became a villain somehow.... Weird but good times, and I still love planar games.
Also of note was Abelard from Erik's Age of Worms game. This is Abelard, a young and enthusiastic, but naive paladin of Heironeous. He did not survive the Whispering Cairn, being eaten by a swarm of beetles. His death had two amusing results. First, our adventuring group took the name Abelard's Band--a nice memorial. Second, as a running gag, almost every time we illustrated Abelard, Dungeon's Iconic Paladin, in the magazine from there on out we showed him meeting some brutal end.
I later ended up playing a cleric of Heironeous who came to investigate Abelard's end for the church. He was not cut out for a life of adventuring and became a bit unhinged.
Just a few, but those were the guys I probably had the most fun with. :)
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You've been pretty vocal about your love for Castlevanaia; was that what got you into the horror genre?
Do you approve of the cursed sword that my GM gave to my kitsune samurai?
The other trick is that we don't really have a great format for this. A 32- or even 64-page module isn't near enough, and while a whole AP might do it, I have serious doubts about the viability of and interest in an AP that takes place in just one location--mostly because we've never done it before... but I guess it's not that different from an AP that takes place in just one city. Hum, hum, hum...
I can only speak for myself, but I know I'd be very interested in such a thing, provided the singular location was large, varied, and open enough for the entirety of the AP's length.
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How much money, in the form of charitable donation, would it take to get a Bastardhall module or adventure path?
Inquiring minds with large paychecks want to know :)
Ha! It's one of those things that I've been told that if I write it, we'll put it on the schedule. And I have been writing it... at a rate of about two to four pages a year for the past 4 or 5 years. Even though even those are mostly just notes... and maps... and stat blocks... okay, I guess it's quite a bit.
It's just that it's a HUGE undertaking, and even though I have the majority of the plot and big secrets worked out--and have dropped them in several projects throughout the years--there's a few other things on my plate that take priority over a mega-adventure.
The other trick is that we don't really have a great format for this. A 32- or even 64-page module isn't near enough, and while a whole AP might do it, I have serious doubts about the viability of and interest in an AP that takes place in just one location--mostly because we've never done it before... but I guess it's not that different from an AP that takes place in just one city. Hum, hum, hum...
In any case, for the foreseeable future, this is just going to be my signature Paizocon game. I am--of course--planning to run the next session at the con this year, so if you're interested, as soon as the event calendar goes up, throw your name in the hat and hopefully you'll get in! Even if not I've got a run down of details on Bastardhall over here and I'll strive to keep it up to date.
Beyond that...
How about this, I'll make a deal with you all. I'm working on (slowly) putting together a personal website. Once that gets up and running and I have a good place to squirrel away my notes and images and what not I'll post some pictures from my past workbooks, as well as some maps of what's come before. Cool?
Thanks again for all the interest in this...
Firstly I'd love to see the "behind the scenes" notes on development, that's excellent!
As for the appetite of the community for a single-location based Adventure Path, why not put together a survey on Paizo.com for adventure path ideas and see how the community reacts to them? It's not going to be 100% accurate but statistically it should be a good litmus.
I, for one, would love the novel idea of an entire "megadungeon" adventure path. Back in 3.5 I ran a Castlevania-like campaign based around a single monumental castle and its surrounding environs, inspired by the remake of Castle Ravenloft. I think a product like that would have a huge following here.
It really might be a good idea to put together an official Paizo survey for "out there" themes for APs just to see how the community would receive it. Things like, oh, I dunno... a giant crashed alien spaceship could make for another good topic for the survey ;)
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Yay! This is picking up! :D
What are your favorite books?
Wow, thanks for THAT rabbit hole. I'm going to go with favorite as in I enjoy them, as opposed to favorite meaning "useful"--of which there's a whole other awesome variety.
If I just put Dracula and a bunch of Barker, King, Le Fanu, Lovecraft, and M. R. James stuff here it's going to be really cliche, huh. Hum...
Okay, let me throw you some stuff that might not be so obvious, because while I love those other authors I listed: DUH.
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard: A fantasy writer listing the father of Conan as an inspiration--SHOCK! Honestly, I only started reading Howard two or three years ago and, yeah, I was blown away by how legitimately cool the Conan stories were and how fantastically that man wrote action scenes. But when Del Rey did a compilation of his horror stuff, I was all in. "The Black Stone" and the "Haunter of the Ring" are both fantastic--the former having a lot of influence on everything I've written about Sarkoris.
And "Pigeons from Hell" is one of the best things ever written. By anyone. Ever. EVER.
Ultimately, if you never got into Howard or thought Conan was cliche, put all the sword and sandals stuff aside and check out this collection. It's not only a great intro the the larger body of Howard's work, but it's its own special demented thing altogether.
(Not long after I read this collection I mentioned to Adam and Brandon Hodge, who both lived in Texas at the time, that I'd love to have a rubbing of Howard's grave. Like super heroes, they went out and got me one. I have a few rubbings like that now...)
Beserk by Kentaro Miura: This is the only manga that I keep up with and have been for years now. If you take your fantasy black, this is for you. Violence, gore, horror, all sorts of themes it would be NSFW to even mention here, along with awesome art and a bizarre mythology, it's got everything. This got turned into a great anime series and is being redone as three animated films right now (the first is already out in the U.S.) but they can't do the full story justice--the parts they cover are little more than the intro, because they really can't show what comes after. This series has more than a little influence on Golarion's Hell.
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edogawa Rampo: Booooring name, but filled with great stories and serves as a fantastic introduction to a masterful storyteller. The first Japanese mystery writer, Rampo was obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe (just check out his pen name). So he's reading tons of Poe as it's trickling into Japan in the earlier part of the twentieth century and starts to try his hand at doing the same. And then World War Two happens. If you've ever wondered why Japanese horror (especially their body horror) is this alien thing so divergent from tales of terror from anywhere else in the world, imagine what it would have been like if Poe was writing in a nation suffering the aftereffects of a nuclear bombing. That's the source material and inspiration behind tons of what we're seeing today. "The Human Chair" is a bizarre (but somewhat neutered) story about an disfigured man who decides to live inside a hotel lounge chair so he can finally be close to other people. "The Caterpillar" is about a mute, blind, paraplegic leaving his wife. They're indescribable. Check 'em out.
And if you want the crossover between Rampo and Miura, check out Junji Ito's manga Uzamaki, Gyo, and others. Ito is likely a strong inspiration for Miura and is totally worth your time. I'm sure I've got some links to his work around here if anyone's interested.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: I could have put Jackson on my list of "duh" authors, but I'm calling this book out just for how misrepresented its been in films. This is a fantastic story that has such depth to it that my interpretation has changed entirely over the years. Everyone I talk to about this book seems to have their own take away from it as well. Is it a story about ghosts, insanity, gas lighting, or something else entirely, and who's doing what to whom? Fascinating. Pretend no movies of this exist and go straight to the source on this one--it's short and a fast read.
I'd also say nice things about the writing of James Tiptree Jr., who's a fascinating author in her own right and whom I totally recommend, but I've purchased an anthology of her short stories Her Smoke Rose Up Forever three times and each time I've lent it out and each time its vanished. So check that one out too... and tell me if you see my copies out there.
Of course anyone could go on and on, but I'll leave it at that for now. Thanks for asking!
Beserk by Kentaro Miura:
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This series has more than a little influence on Golarion's Hell.
W-what?!
Man, now I have to start reading it again!
If you're a fan of Japanese mystery stories, Wes, I highly recommend Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland. It's a detective story set during the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, centered around a pair of murders disguised as a lover's suicide. It's quite engaging!
My go-to question:
What areas in Golarion would you like to expand more upon?
What's the F. stand for? (Provided it's not too embarrassing to share =) )
What's the F. stand for? (Provided it's not too embarrassing to share =) )
Fearsome.
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What's the F. stand for? (Provided it's not too embarrassing to share =) )
Jumping out of order (if you haven't noticed, I've been answering these questions in order) to address this immediately:
-Ahem-
(And if you know, keep it to yourself if you know what's good for ya.) -_-
Though my favorite guesses involve true names or my full name actually being a PG-rated insulting sentence. ;)
You ever bought food that sounded good, but turned out to not be good? For example, right now I am eating a black bean burrito from Taco Bell. Sounds good. I love black beans (though I am not a vegetarian, I could be since black beans are awesome)... however it's mostly lettuce, very little black beans, and borderlines on nasty.
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okay
In my head it's Funkadelic Wesley Schneider
I hope its Ferdinand :D
Assuming you can answer, can you give us hints on what monsters you worked on for Bestiary 4? or at least what categories?
Contributor
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That's probably just the llama you're smelling.Sutter's spirit animal, Patrick Renie... there's a story here, I can smell it.
I heart llamas
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Wes, why do you keep ignoring my questions!?
Let me remind you how the process works:
Step 1: Ask a question.
Step 2: Be patient.
Phew! So close to coming back up for air.
Sorry I've gone dark here. Our Gen Con deadline is tomorrow and we're SO CLOSE to pulling this thing off.
Fun times, free time, and things that's aren't just whipping words until they line up like @#$%in' respectable books will resume soon!