GameMastery Guide Preview: Do it Yourself!

Mm, fried cow-heal, just like mom use to make! However the clear soup tastes a little watered down to me.

rolls

Make way for the Foolhardy Violet Fools of Swords and Talkers!

We're here to restore the claimant of the Burggraaf's...uh...seat.

And after that we're all going to get some good, hearty clear soup and then it's off to Peppermint Palace Pastries for further revelry!

YEAHHHHHHH!

srsly, <3 random tables

Well, my Undaunted Wolverines For the Victims...

*moment of silence*

...

*ahem*

...have come to this fine tobacconist in search of a privy! Don't worry. We'll make a purchase, but the haggis they serve at Jebs & Sons has given us a case of the boiled trotters, and we can't be expected to recover the Kouropalates' lost culture in such a state!

What's that? Oh, I think he used to do something with paper plates, glue and macaroni... but high-concept and ironic. I don't know. The Wolverines avoid the whole downtown scene. In any case, about the privy?

Please?

(<3 random tables, too!)

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YOU FORGOT TO ROLL

Ugh, with every blog post I become more excited for this. Any chance I can get mine shipped early? *holds out $20*

Oh how I wish this would magically appear at the bookstore over the weekend. Tables as far as the die can roll...

<sarcasm>Wow, a McGuffin chart...all you need are three thug encounters and a final bad guy and you can generate your own PFS module</sarcasm>.

Seriously though, probably the single most useful chart ever. The old Chaosium Cities book had a similar "quest" generator.

CJ

Couldn't just call it the "Sailors and Sea Men" table could you?

I like the menu list. That is usually one of the biggest times I need to come up with something on the fly. The party unexpected stops at a inn and wants to know what they have.

*sigh* .... I may finally retire my old AD&D DMG.

.... maybe.

(pats the DMG gently ... "there, there, it'll be okay.")

I have Ultimate Toolbox, but I guess this is good for those that don't. :)

There's something wrong with table 7-5!
"Mundane room characteristics"

"27-28 Lots of dried blood."

Beg pardon? What sort of "mundane room" has lots of dried blood? I content that lots of dried blood make a mundane room anything but.

Or maybe I just live in a more sheltered area.

There's something wrong with table 7-5!

"Mundane room characteristics"

"27-28 Lots of dried blood."

Beg pardon? What sort of "mundane room" has lots of dried blood? I content that lots of dried blood make a mundane room anything but.

Or maybe I just live in a more sheltered area.

Butchers..

Flensers..thats the guys who strip the flesh from skins before they go for curing.

Room that has been used as a makeshift aid station.

I'm sure theres more but that's all i can come up with in less than a minute

KaeYoss wrote:

There's something wrong with table 7-5!

"Mundane room characteristics"

"27-28 Lots of dried blood."

Beg pardon? What sort of "mundane room" has lots of dried blood? I content that lots of dried blood make a mundane room anything but.

Or maybe I just live in a more sheltered area.

Butchers..

Flensers..thats the guys who strip the flesh from skins before they go for curing.

Room that has been used as a makeshift aid station.

I'm sure theres more but that's all i can come up with in less than a minute

:) Nosebleed

There's something wrong with table 7-5!

"Mundane room characteristics"

"27-28 Lots of dried blood."

Beg pardon? What sort of "mundane room" has lots of dried blood? I content that lots of dried blood make a mundane room anything but.

Or maybe I just live in a more sheltered area.

What at least one room of your house doesn't?

There's something wrong with table 7-5!

"Mundane room characteristics"

"27-28 Lots of dried blood."

Beg pardon? What sort of "mundane room" has lots of dried blood? I content that lots of dried blood make a mundane room anything but.

Compared to table 7-6 Exotic Room Characteristics, featuring such details as "Filled with giant spider husks" and "Weeps to itself," a few blood smears don't seem to bad.

In other news, I got into the office today to find two copies of the GameMastery Guide on every desk in the place, meaning they've reached our warehouse. Shouldn't be too long now! Just a few more weeks!

In other news, I got into the office today to find two copies of the GameMastery Guide on every desk in the place, meaning they've reached our warehouse. Shouldn't be too long now! Just a few more weeks!

So you're saying there will be a raft of them at PaizoCon? ;)

In other news, I got into the office today to find two copies of the GameMastery Guide on every desk in the place, meaning they've reached our warehouse. Shouldn't be too long now! Just a few more weeks!

Woot! Shiny...

In other news, I got into the office today to find two copies of the GameMastery Guide on every desk in the place, meaning they've reached our warehouse. Shouldn't be too long now! Just a few more weeks!

Does this mean that people who have a subscription will be getting them in the next week or so? (Or are these just preview copies to arrive?)

I LOVE RANDOM CHARTS

This book is hitting my sweet spot, and hard.

I'd love to be reading my Gamemastery guide on the long lonly flight home.

If we're going to PaizoCon, can we just hold our subscriptions and pick them up there?

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

In other news, I got into the office today to find two copies of the GameMastery Guide on every desk in the place, meaning they've reached our warehouse. Shouldn't be too long now! Just a few more weeks!

Does this mean that people who have a subscription will be getting them in the next week or so? (Or are these just preview copies to arrive?)

The subscriber copies should be going out in mid-June, right around PaizoCon. We do hope to allow PaizoCon attendees to opt to pick up their June subscription products at the show... stay tuned.

I have Ultimate Toolbox, but I guess this is good for those that don't. :)

Don't worry—there's a lot of stuff other than tables for you...

I believe Table 7-5 (Mundane Room Descriptions) has a typo. It probably should read "choked with webs" rather than "chocked with webs."

I believe Table 7-5 (Mundane Room Descriptions) has a typo. It probably should read "choked with webs" rather than "chocked with webs."

doubtful as chocked is a word meaning

adv
as closely or tightly as possible

according to

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/chocked

DaveMage wrote:

I have Ultimate Toolbox, but I guess this is good for those that don't. :)

Don't worry—there's a lot of stuff other than tables for you...

Oh, I was just referring to the tables - I'm very much looking forward to everything else!

Compared to table 7-6 Exotic Room Characteristics, featuring such details as "Filled with giant spider husks" and "Weeps to itself," a few blood smears don't seem to bad.

Nah, that explanation doesn't work at all. "Not as weird as really weird but still weird" might not have such a great ring to it, but this "this is nothing, I've seen worse" Just doesn't cut it.

Maybe I'm just bitter because my "I killed only one! That can't count. Genghis Khan killed thousands!" defense didn't work.

Butchers..

Change your butcher. Right now. Seriously. They guys are supposed to clean up regularly. Like, often enough so there is no dried-up blood.

Room that has been used as a makeshift aid station.

Yeah, perfectly mundane. Happens every day. They fix someone up, and they totally not clean up the place afterwards.

I'm sure theres more but that's all i can come up with in less than a minute

Is there any that doesn't involve the people in charge being epic-level messies?

Maybe I just lead a way-too-sheltered life.

Nah, that explanation doesn't work at all...

Mundane, in this sense, merely means "not magical." As this title distinguishes between two side by side charts, one full of effects that could occur in the real word and one full of effects that cannot, the word "mundane" works fine. And if at anytime a GM rolls on this chart and finds that the result is "not mundane enough" for his tastes (I can't believe I just typed that), the solution is but a casual tap of a percentile die away.

Mundane, in this sense, merely means "not magical." As this title distinguishes between two side by side charts, one full of effects that could occur in the real word and one full of effects that cannot, the word "mundane" works fine. And if at anytime a GM rolls on this chart and finds that the result is "not mundane enough" for his tastes (I can't believe I just typed that), the solution is but a casual tap of a percentile die away.

But now I'm excited for a more literal use of the word mundane!

01) a cobweb
02) dust above the door jamb
03) a stray hair
04) stale crumbs
05) a piece of straw

:)

Ha!

06) water stain
07) scuffs on the floor
08) a stray leaf
09) a dead fly
10) lint

11) A pie. And no orc.

11) A pie. And no orc.

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!! Mundane Vic! Lets ramp this back. None of this miraculous mystery pie appearing magically in the middle of a labyrinth, suggesting all manner of unspeakable ingredients, otherworldy bakers, and fiendish confectioners.

Crumbs: maybe. We'll talk.

Begin Tirade!

Just FYI, man. I'm not trying to mock you here, I'm totally on board with your comment. But, as you can see, we are tangent prone. Especially on weekends.

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!! Mundane Vic! Lets ramp this back. None of this miraculous mystery pie appearing magically in the middle of a labyrinth, suggesting all manner of unspeakable ingredients, otherworldly bakers, and fiendish confectioners.

You rang? *holds out a delicious +3 Peanut Butter Pie of Awesome*

And most importaintly...There is no cake....

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!! Mundane Vic! Lets ramp this back. None of this miraculous mystery pie appearing magically in the middle of a labyrinth, suggesting all manner of unspeakable ingredients, otherworldly bakers, and fiendish confectioners.

You rang? *holds out a delicious +3 Peanut Butter Pie of Awesome*

Look out....Orc!

I have Ultimate Toolbox, but I guess this is good for those that don't. :)

Yeah, this tickled my Toolbox sweet spot, too. Dragon and Dungeon had a surprising number of really cool random charts during the Paizo Age. Pett's were the best: "100 Useless Things" and the like. I've collected them and a lot of the best stuff from Toobox and other d20 books into a Handy GM Guide in a 3-ring binder.

KaeYoss wrote:

Nah, that explanation doesn't work at all...

Mundane, in this sense, merely means "not magical."

Who says the blood isn't magical? ;-)

And if at anytime a GM rolls on this chart and finds that the result is "not mundane enough" for his tastes (I can't believe I just typed that), the solution is but a casual tap of a percentile die away.

Now that you explained it, I have a much better feeling. I felt having a list of mundane mundane rooms was overdoing it a little.

You still need to have a stern word with whoever didn't clean up his room after his human sacrifice. It's one thing to be evil, but that's no excuse to be sloppy.

12) Stamp collection
13) A couple of pins
14) A half-eaten sandwich
15) A quarter-eaten sandwich
16) A three-quarter-eaten sandwich
17) A harmonica

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18) a scarf
19) a woolly glove
20) a moth

Pett's were the best: "100 Useless Things" and the like.

Oh, did I mention that Rich Pett and Hal Maclean are the authors of all of the tables in this book? Rich and Hal did some fantastic and often hilarious work back in the Campaign Workbook/Class Acts days and such has not been forgotten! If you liked getting a chart here and there from those mad geniuses every few months, the charts in the GMG are like getting several years worth of that condensed into one giant shot.

Sir Pett did the tables ?

No ...

Noooo ....

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I'M ON A HORSE !!!

I'M ON A HORSE !!!

HA! Awesome.

Gorbacz wrote:

I'M ON A HORSE !!!

HA! Awesome.

The moment I saw that ad I thought "Hey, it looks like somebody rolled on random DM stuff tables".

Golbez57 wrote:

Pett's were the best: "100 Useless Things" and the like.

Oh, did I mention that Rich Pett and Hal Maclean are the authors of all of the tables in this book?

Now *THAT* explains everything... dried blood is a completely mundane and normal characteristic in Pett's attic *shudder*.

I can't wait for my copy. I can already tell this book will make life considerably easier (at least as far as gaming goes).

I have Ultimate Toolbox, but I guess this is good for those that don't. :)

I'm thinking this will be of more use than the "Uses for a Gnome" table, maybe not as funny, but definitely more useful.