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Flying Pincushion Games is pleased to announce, after three years away from publishing, our joyous return. Not too long from now, our new book, Into the Breach: the Druid will be going up for sale at friendly e-pub shops near you. As was, and is again, tradition, here is a bit of a sneak look at what is inside our new offering (but not everything of course!)

Elemental Druid archetypes- Sure Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, but how about Lightning, Mud, and Magma to name a few more.

Iron Bloom Sage Druid Archetype- Smelting and Forging steel are a far more elemental and natural process that some may think.

Origamist- Paper is made from tree and plant fibers, but the spirit of the plant remains, some druids rekindle it with expert folding and their faith.

Extremophile Guardian- Not every environment in nature is easy to live and thrive in, some more so than others, but for every wild place there is a druid devoted and adapted to it, even if it is frozen, acidic, or scorched.

Those are just a few of the many archetypes waiting in Into the Breach: The Druid, along with new druid focused PrC's, Nature Traits, Druid Groves, new Animal Companion options, and much more.

Cheers,

Flying Pincushion Games


Hey folks, sitting here after first day of Pax East 2020, just wondering if anyone else is attending and what you are up to? Doing my best to plug Flying Pincushion and have crap ton of fun. Anyone attending who is bored or looking for some Pathfinder time, don't be shy and shout out, I will be attending the full weekend, so, you know how to find me.


Ok, so clearly, this is going to be an ongoing campaign journal for our group's Reign of Winter game. So, to start, I shall introduce our main characters (the party)

Name of PC: Leminster Torbins aka Lemi the Weasel
Player: GM Beernorg (me!)
Race/Gender: Half-Elf Male
Class: Rogue (rake)
Background (if any): edit Lemi's tale has some rough language, so be aware.

Name of PC: Ser Jerry
Player: Big B (real names withheld)
Race/Gender: Human Male
Class: Paladin of Sarenrae
Background (if any): A large, I mean BRICK OUTHOUSE! large gent from the south, possibly Qadira, amazingly nice and fun loving for a paladin. Ser Jerry's player is new to PF, and I for one applaud him so far, his paladin has been a BLAST to adventure with.

Name of PC: Zalicose aka Horns
Player:B2 (real names withheld, yes we have multiple B names :) )
Race/Gender: Tiefling Male
Class: Wizard (transmuter)
Background (if any): Unsure at this time, Horns has not been very forthcoming with details of his past.

Name of PC: Amber (GMPC)
Player: The Original FG (real names withheld)
Race/Gender: Aasimar Female
Class: Cleric (Erastil)
Background (if any): Amber is a local of Heldren, lovely, and deadly with a longbow.


Huzzah!

Same deal as always, free copy of our work for the price of an honest review.


Huzzah!

Same deal as always, free copy of our work for the price of an honest review.


As with all of our books, The Flying Pincushion is offering free copies to those willing to write an honest review of our work. Going to offer up four copies for the moment, so get 'em while they are hot off the E-presses!

Just PM me your email or post to the thread if you would like a chance to be like Thilo (AKA Endzietgiest) and get your voice out there in the world of PRG review.

And just because this IS the bard...be sure to turn it up to 11, cause if it is too loud, you're too old!


As with all of our books, The Flying Pincushion is offering free copies to those willing to write an honest review of our work. Going to offer up four copies for the moment, so get 'em while they are hot off the E-presses!

Just PM me your email or post to the thread if you would like a chance to be like Thilo (AKA Endzietgiest) and get your voice out there in the world of PRG review.

And just because this IS the bard...be sure to turn it up to 11, cause if it is too loud, you're too old!


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Just going to leave this here...I feel compelled to do so.

“I don’t have to tell you things are bad.:
Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’

Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, g&$-d@!mit! My life has value!’

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’

I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’


There is no polite way to put this, but as one of the owners of Flying Pincushion Games, and the guy who actually puts our books together as our layout artist, I have come across a rather nasty problem.

To put it simply, Flying Pincushion Games books are being posted to the web for download without permission. Every volume we have thus far produced is now magically available for unsanctioned download.

My question to the rest of the 3pp publishing world is, what can I do about this? Can I report the poster for putting a water marked PDF up for download without publisher consent? Can I force people to take our work down. Is there civil legal recourse available to me?

I do not wish to sound petty, and I love sharing our work with our readers. But to be honest, we are a very small outfit, and our profit margins are paper thin, so every sale really does count. It really takes the wind out of your writer/publisher sails to see something you worked on for months now available for free, posted by someone who has no right to do so.

So, there it is, any advice from my peers out there in 3pp land would be greatly appreciated.

Jeff Harris
Flying Pincushion Games


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Ok, I have noticed I am not the only one who is a huge from of the classic game Planescape: Torment. So in honor of what is IMO the greatest electronic RPG of its time, and maybe all time, let us discuss and reminisce about the likes of Morte the floating skull, and Fall-from-Grace, the Lawful Good succubus cleric.

Let us start with just one of the many nuggets of PC and NPC interaction gold that is Morte.

Hive Dweller: (Referring to Morte) Oh, look! A floating skull!
Morte: Oh, look! A talking turd!


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To go along with the ever growing, and awesome, "official crazy, awesome, annoying and amazing" stuff my cat does thread, I introduce the "Odd Pet" thread.

As one might guess, I like animals, and, as it happens, I have a number of strange and or exotic pets. So, the call is going out, tell us all about you weird, rare, and exotic pets (bonus points if your pet inspired a PF monster)

My pet list:
5.5 gallon planted fish tank containing a pair of orange australe killifish, male and female, a panda gara, two otocinclus catfish, and zebra nerite snails.

5.5 gallon planted fish tank containing a pair of chocolate australe killifish, male and female, a HUGE (for the species) red mystery snail, and two otocinclus catfish.

10 gallon cold water planted tank containing 6 celestial pearl danios, 6 white cloud minnows, 4 blue bar rasboras, a mated pair of orange throated darters (super neat fish, sort of lizard like), and a pair of otocinclus catfish.

10 gallon cold water planted tank containing my axolotl, his name is Fleck.

three 1.25 gallon planted tanks, each with a unique and hard to find beta types, their names being Danilo, Elaith, and Sun Zu.

5 gallon planted tank (at my desk at work none the less) containing four Okefenokee pygmy sunfish, two tiger nerite snails, and a pair of otocinclus cats.

5.5 Gallon non-planted tank containing a pair of desert gobies (fish that live in the desert, look em up!)

A tarantula, her name is Doubloon, because of her golden color.

A central American wood turtle, his name is Panzer (yep, like the tank)

And am currently taking care of a friends pair of poison dart frogs.

So, those are my current odd pets, I have had others in the past, but, let the thread commence!


Lets face it, some of us are just cat people, so may as well share some of our favorite most outrageous cat stories. Starting this off with a personal favorite.

About 7 years ago, we only had two cats, Bastion (a giant Russian Blue, and Quinn, a DSH tabby).

But for that xmass, my wife decided she wanted a white kitten she saw at the pet store. Long story short, bought her the kitten, found out she was deaf, we named her Zoe.

First day Zoe comes home, Bastion and Quinn decide to check her out. About 45 seconds after Zoe comes out of the cat carrier, she starts playing with the other two, gets them riled up, they chase her, and in a classic moment, Zoe dodges between them and they collide, bonking heads and looking confused and a bit ashamed of themselves, it was priceless, wish I had a camera. Best cat play fail ever (that I have seen in person anyway)


Because I happen to love honest and productive intellectual discussion, I am going to go ahead and open up one of "those" threads to foster such.

So, I will start this bad boy off with something that has been bothering me lately.

That is the term CIS, and, as it so happens, I am CIS. I am a straight white man, and therefore have no choice but to be identified as CIS, or CIS SCUM.

I would like to point out here, that the entire idea that one can boil down a very diverse group of people (straight white individuals) to a short and derogatory acronym is exactly the behaviour that members of other groups decry (and rightly so).

Thus, is it not feasible to think that calling all straight white people CIS or CIS SCUM is in fact projecting that same type of abominable behaviour that members of other groups endure onto another group?

I dare say, yes, it very much is. To reduce my thoughts, perspectives, and yes, feelings (as a man, we do have these) to the baseline of, he is white, he is straight, thus he is CIS SCUM and must identify readily as such is hypocritical in the extreme.

I judge people based on one thing, their own personal merits. Colour, gender, sexual orientation, and any other trait that an individual does not control should not, and for me, does not, factor into my opinion of the person.

Thus, if I, a person identified as CIS SCUM, works from such a non-biased thought space, is it perhaps possible that I am due the same from others?

Thus, the crux of today's little coffee talk here. I can think of nothing that is as self-defeating or absurd than people who feel (and often are) oppressed, degraded, and generally poorly treated, supporting a form of double think that informs them that dong the exact same thing to another group is not only permissible, but justified.

(please note, in no way shape or form am I implying this is the official view of all LGBT folk, or feminists, or anyone else, but there is a subset of those groups, and others, that do hold this view, and should you not believe that, search the internet, the proof is in the videos, as they say)

I welcome any and all thoughts, feelings, comments, and feedback you, the population of the internet have to offer, as above, discussion breeds knowledge, and knowledge is the true power.

Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Dedicated Voter Season 9

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This year, our much beloved GM_solspiral got into the top 32, and thus will not have the time to offer his annual GBU critique thread. So, in his stead, this year I will be offering the same sort of feedback. I will not officially begin item critiques until the official critique thread is open, but once it does, feel free to request a critique.

For those who do not know me, I am better known on the boards as GM_Beernorg, and I am the co-owner of Flying Pincushion Games.

I will start with the first request posted and work my way down. Be warned, all reviews are honest and coming from me as if you were a freelancer with TFPG, so no coddling or punches pulled, just forthright critiques and feedback. Please be sure to post of copy of your item with your request. So without further ado, let the madness begin.


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Male Half-Orc Barbarian 2 (urban barbarian)/Druid 3/Writer (expert) 3/Layout Artist 2 (PrC)

As requested, a thread for all needed discussions for the pending "Tea Leaves and Sword Blades" PbP


Male Half-Orc Barbarian 2 (urban barbarian)/Druid 3/Writer (expert) 3/Layout Artist 2 (PrC)

Welcome to my first attempt to run a PbP game. This is going to be a learning experience for me, and I apologize in advance for any errors or mistakes. I am going to put a few days of practice and research in to familiarize myself with the PbP process, then we get this bad boy off the ground. Also need a bit of time to prepare a good story line and starting point for the game.


If you happen to like classic literature and fine films from all era's you should check out http://www.flyingpincushion.blogspot.com/

I happen to be one of the several authors featured on this totally free, PF compatible gaming content blog, so I am clearly biased when I say I bet you will find something you like. If you find that you think we are horrible and want to tell us so, you can do so to my personal email featherwitharrows@gmail.com. If you don't think the wizards at the Flying Pincushion will listen to what you have to say, try it and see.

Jeffery B. Harris
Flying Pincushion co-creator


The wizards at The Flying Pincushion invite you to bring classic literature to your game. Ever want to thrown Grendel at your PC's or drop in a lovely and deadly Arabian Nights style veiled dancer to liven up the bar scene? Well now you can, check out all the crunch at http://www.flyingpincushion.blogspot.com/

If you can't find something you like, email us and we can fix that, as we welcome the challenge and feedback. And when your done reading we promise the old book shelf will look much more terrifying.

Enjoy,

The Flying Pincushion Staff