Great job Mike! Looking forward to the future.
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Mike ... great blog. It avoids the thing that is most common among reports like this. It isn't impersonal. It's very close to the game and to the players in it. But, it still has a very professional aire that lets us feel like you know what you're doing. The language is concise and objective-oriented. <teehee> You even used the marketing-jargon "to grow ... the Pathfinder campaign". </teasing>
I'm just gonna say, I can't find a spellcaster for message, ending, or contact other plane, I don't have a Ponly Express depot near me, I likely won't be seeing you for an in-person visit (not too many Cons for me), I don't know your address for snail mail ... and so, you're just gonna have to give me your Skype name. That's all there is to it. ;-)
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Great post, and great work, Mike. You should definitely try and talk Lisa and Vic into sending you on a tour of Europe like the one Josh Frost did a while a while back. We'll give you a warm welcome in Denmark, and some tips on how to conquer the rest of Scandinavia (we have some practice, even though the Swedes beat us as much as we beat them.)
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Let me fix that for you by appending to the above:
- unavoidably ruffled some feathers (while smoothing some others) in connection with doing all of the above; and
- in general, acquitted myself quite admirably in performing the mostly thankless tasks involved in being the Campaign Coordinator for the Pathfinder Society.
That should about do it.
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I'm just gonna say, I can't find a spellcaster for message, ending, or contact other plane, I don't have a Ponly Express depot near me, I likely won't be seeing you for an in-person visit (not too many Cons for me), I don't know your address for snail mail ... and so, you're just gonna have to give me your Skype name. That's all there is to it. ;-)
You must not have enough PPs yet if you can't find someone to cast a spell for you. Need to work on that ;-) You can also set your Own Pony Express up. Just watch the Postman with Kevin Costner for a step-by-step guide.
Skype is mikebrockpfs
Mailing address is: Paizo Publishing, Attn: Mike Brock or Decemvirate, 7120 185th Ave NE, Suite 120, Redmond, WA 98052
Owner - Enchanted Grounds, President/Owner - Enchanted Grounds
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As I have said before, it is refreshing that there is someone in charge who actually accomplishes the things they want to accomplish. More than anything else, that is your most impressive trait. You and Mark have, together, made quite a team.
Keep it up!
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But what if we don't want to be a Pathfinder anymore...
(With apologies to Monty Python)
Venture-Captain: One day, lad, all this will be yours!
Pathfinder: What, the curtains?
Venture-Captain: No. Not the curtains, lad. All that you can see, stretched out over the hills and valleys of this land! This'll be your lodge, lad.
Pathfinder: But Miss Feathers --
Venture-Captain: Venture-Captain, lad. Venture-Captain.
Pathfinder: B-- b-- but Venture-Captain, I don't want any of that.
Venture-Captain: Listen, lad. I built this lodge up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other venture-captains said I was daft to build a lodge on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest lodge in these lands.
Pathfinder: But I don't want any of that. I'd rather--
Venture-Captain: Rather what?!
Pathfinder: I'd rather...
...just... sing!
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But what if we don't want to be a Pathfinder anymore...
Retire and create the Golarion Pony Express.
Or we could turn your character into a Gladiator type of character where he is imprisoned as a slave and used at the Grand Convocation for target practice.
Like the Eagles said, you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.....muwahahahaha
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Dragonmoon, us players in their early thirties barely know who they are. Maybe he would have been better with a Skrillex reference.
In all serious, I find the following two items especially exciting:
- We are looking at ways to make faction missions have a meaningful impact on the campaign and make more sense as presented in scenarios.
- I would like to see the creation of the three campaign documents that were discussed on the April 4, 2011 blog.
I look forward to seeing the implementation of the former without making convention organizers heads explode :D
Venture-Captain, California—San Francisco Bay Area South & West
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Skrillex....is that a singing group or a cleaning product?It's the new Dark Tapestry Faction!
I initially read this as "... the new dark tapestry falcon".
Perhaps Mr. Groves' avatar picture was responsible.
Keep up the great work Mike.
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Thanks for the compliments but you haven't seen anything yet. This is just the beginning. I can't wait until some of the website improvements that are in the works (that I can't talk about) come to fruition.
I'm also excited to tell all of you about faction missions changes and goals and the like but we just aren't quite there yet........ As a hint, anyone who has played in my home campaigns know I am fanatical when it comes to tying side stories into main plot lines and my flow charts that go with it to keep everything straight.
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Thanks for the compliments but you haven't seen anything yet. This is just the beginning. I can't wait until some of the website improvements that are in the works (that I can't talk about) come to fruition.
Hey Mike if you ever feel the need to talk to anyone about what is coming up, you can always email me about them. I promise not to tell anyone... ;)
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I love this post, Mike.
Most of all, I'm hopeful for the future changes to factions and the additions of story elements (plot lines!? yay!) into the campaign.
I look forward to having an NPCs and conflicts that lead my character to make choices and decisions based on who they are. Too much of this board is overrun by rules discussion, I'd love to have some meaningful and interesting NPC/story discussion as well.
Keep rockin' Seattle, Mike.
-Pain
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Let me fix that for you by appending to the above:
- unavoidably ruffled some feathers (while smoothing some others) in connection with doing all of the above; and
- in general, acquitted myself quite admirably in performing the mostly thankless tasks involved in being the Campaign Coordinator for the Pathfinder Society.
That should about do it.
+1.
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Venture-Captain, Missouri—Cape Girardeau
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As I have said before, it is refreshing that there is someone in charge who actually accomplishes the things they want to accomplish. More than anything else, that is your most impressive trait. You and Mark have, together, made quite a team.
Keep it up!
Any idea of the source book for this Trait? I know some people who could use this one! :)
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You must not have enough PPs yet if you can't find someone to cast a spell for you. Need to work on that ;-) You can also set your Own Pony Express up. Just watch the Postman with Kevin Costner for a step-by-step guide.
Skype is mikebrockpfs
Mailing address is: Paizo Publishing, Attn: Mike Brock or Decemvirate, 7120 185th Ave NE, Suite 120, Redmond, WA 98052
O.O Holy crud!
Okay, the snail mail addie doesn't surprise me too much, but, I can't believe that you actually have a work-Skype! AND, you gave it to me/us!! You kind of rawk, dude.(And I am prone to saying neither "rawk", nor "dude" without the most careful of evaluation in the matter.)
Oh, and I'd just as soon set up a Wayfarer's Union post than a Pony Express. ;-)
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Thanks for the compliments but you haven't seen anything yet. This is just the beginning. I can't wait until some of the website improvements that are in the works (that I can't talk about) come to fruition.Hey Mike if you ever feel the need to talk to anyone about what is coming up, you can always email me about them. I promise not to tell anyone... ;)
He's got plenty of lackeys that are legally bound not to talk. You're not. Sounds like a loose end he'd need to "tie up" if he did email you...
*Sinister Music*
