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Hey---just had a brainstorm....

poodle. headed. gnolls.

Discuss.

Could be an Urban version of gnolls. They have an obsession with sparkly gear.

My husband had a friend with the last name Slaughter. Named his first kid Maximillion.
Still not as bad as God. That's just mean.

I just want it to be practical. If it's a picture of a Paladin, let's see her in plate mail. Frankly, I think Seoni's clothes make sense for a sorceror...no sleeves or bulky clothes to get in the way of those complicated motions. But if it's freezing outside, she better have the magic to back up it up. I don't mind cheescake...all I ask is that a little common sense be applied.

What if we all put on those Japanese school girl outfits and did that wierd dance? Would he come back? It's worth a try.....

Your presense on the board will be greatly missed, Mike :)

Ultradan
p.s.: What exactly do you feed a turtle anyway?

Well, gopher tortoises like dog poop.

Best wishes for you both!

Hi Cosmo, I didn't get my Gazetteer either. Order #944264. Just got Escape from Old Korvosa today, sans the Gazetteer.

Takasi wrote:

I'm a player and a DM. And I've never met a DM who didn't also wish to be a player at some point.

Well, I can help you cross that one off your list! Ever since I picked up my D&D Basic Set back in 1980, I have wanted to be the DM and the DM only. Sure, I played in early RPGA games at GenCon and such, but I never really want to be a player. Ever. We just ended our SCAP campaign and Skaff Elias volunteered to DM a campaign if I wanted to play. I shot him down so fast, his head spun. I just don't like being a player nearly as much as I like DMing and if I am never a player in a D&D game again, that would be fine with me.

-Lisa

Which probably explains why you are the CEO ;-)

Have you ever read 'Usagi Yojimbo', by Stan Sakai?

It's an anthropomorphic samurai comic, following the adventures of Usagi, the 'Rabbit Ronin'.

He has the Shogun Assassin as a supporting character, complete with baby and cart. Only he has a goat's head; hence the title 'Lone Goat and Kid' (kid... get it? oh well...).

Yeah, great comic. I have the books around here somewhere....

Just out of curiosity for anyone who throws down "anime" as a derogatory art description, exactly how much anime have you seen?

My guess is: Not nearly enough to form an educated opinion about the medium or its wide variety of art styles.

Cookies for Mike.

I find it amusing how everyone blames manga stylisms when they dont like an artistic direction. I find it even more amusing when the particular stylism was copied from previously existing non-japanese sources.

Check out the elves of the origional animated Hobbit movie. Check out almost every pre-1980 illustration of elves/fairies/fey.

Yes, Cloud rolls with a big sword. Ever seen a Zweinhander?
Yes, anime and WoW elves have long ears. Ever seen a lynx compared to a tabby?

I guess I'm getting a bit snarky, and I apologize for it. I just get tired of seeing people lambaste anime and manga stylisms for what they see as "wrong" with things. I wouldn't want Akira Toriyama or Ken Akumatsu doing my Pathfinder Illustrations any more that I want Todd McFarlane or Joe Madurera doing them. But that doesn't mean that the style I want won't contain elements of the styles of those artists.

Personally, I feel that:

Elves should be obviously genetically removed from humans; same goes for orcs. A greyhound and a german shepard and a rottweiler are capable of siring viable young with each other, but they won't ever be mistaken for another in good light.

Half orcs and half elves should be hybrids, containing either blanced "pure" components, or "fused" components. One might have full blooded elves ears but a round human eyes. A half orc might have full orc tusks but a perfectly normal nose. These might be the low charisma examples, visually unsettling due to a "peice-meal" appearance. The "fusion" examples might be the more high charisma, looking more like their own independant race rather than a hodge-podge of their parents.

Dwarves should be boxy and beardy. I can even deal with fuzzy dwarf females. They don't need beards, but you know, real world girls have facial hair; its just fine and often lightly colored, so you don't notice it.

Gnomes should be bobble-headed midgets, and I say that in a good way. I like gnomes as obviously different from human children. I like halflings being harder...

I second all that.

DMcCoy1693 wrote:

DM Jeff wrote:

Mammy Graul

What's she from?

Hook Mountain Massacre

She's ogre-kin.

I like the artwork except for many of the Seoni images. Yeah, she's eye-candy, but stop overemphasizing her "assets" some of the images look more fit for 'playboy' or 'girls gone wild' than a professionally published RPG module. I'm perfectly fine with some of the chainmail-bikini trend but my puritanical roots cry out n disgust against such images as that found on page 36. Such images are fine and appropriate in a prostitution context (rakshasa and haram for example) but when applied to an "iconic" they're just gratuitous and innapropriate.

They're fake---just look at them. They scream "plastic surgery."

Oh my....

That's funny.....

hahahahahahahahaha!

I am FULL of trickery and evil! :-)

DEMON VOICE:

YOU'RE EMAIL IS MIIIINE!!!!

/DEMON VOICE

*Hides in the closet and whimpers in fright*

Shiney!

Sea based adventures are sexy!

Everyone wants to prance around in the desert. Never understood that, really.

I don't suppose there will be halfling pirates?

I'm starting to think you don't sleep........

Gnome, gnome, the musical lout
The more he sings, the more we pout.

Got word the other day that I passed my NBIC test, so I am now a certified boiler inspector!

Congratulations!

I had not heard this, I am not happy about this. I find it greatly disturbing when these Hollywood executive types make these changes without consulting me first.

Nervy Gits.

Ever see the movie Shogun Assassin? I think it was called Lone Wolf and Cub in Japan (also the name of the comic).

His baby kicked ninja a$$!!!

Despite much pulling of rolls on my part, I finally had some party deaths last weekend:

Name of PC: Relegath & Merisiel
Class/Level: Wizard 4 & Rogue 4
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Yeth Hounds in the temple
Story: Everyone ran away, leaving the wizard and the rogue for lunch.
Tasty.

Um... didn't Zuko go to the 'dark side' and the end of season 2? I doubt he'll be Ang's firebender teacher.

He'll be back. He has to be the next fire lord, after all..... :) Beside, I think Iro would be a better teacher anyways.

I like how each element is represented by a different style of kung fu, and it really seems to be well thought out, following Campbell's Hero Cycle.

Ya'll know that M. Night Shamwhatsit is directing a live action version, right?

GET OUT!!!

The casting better be reeeaall good or it could end up with much suckage.

Wow, Dungeon grrrl. The crud you have put up with is so wrong, on so many levels, that it breaks my heart.

I'm glad to see that you are made of tougher stuff than they ever gave you credit for.

Toth rocks? Well, Ang rocks more. Of course, he is also hot! ~grins~ Get it! He is a fire bender! Hot! ~runs from the thrown rotten veggies~

I dunno...seems kinda full of hot air to me...:P

*prepares a particularly large and fetid rutabega for a retailiatory strike*

I love the series. Last i saw, they had let hot air baloon technology fall into the hands of the fire nation, Then fled to the earth kingdom in search of a Master of earthbending (aparently a blind girl).

Toth rocks!!

(get it...she's an earthbender...ok it really wasn't funny...nm)

1979

My friend's brother played and so she HARRASSED him to DM for us. Wouldn't do it. So she WHINED to her parents until they made him DM for us.

Needless to say, both of our characters died first time out.

So I bought the red box that came with B1: Search into the Unknown and we stopped making him DM for us.

Anyone remember the crappy dice with the fun wax crayons for filling in the numbers? I still have some of those around somewhere....

I'm stunned.

I know the game will go on, but a big piece has been broken off that can never be replaced.

Thank you for the wings that gave my imagination flight.

We usually wait for the collection to come out, but last year it about killed us to wait for all of Book 2. *sigh*

*must...be....patient!*

My boys like to bite their eggo waffles into the shape of fire nation boats.

Yeah...we're big fans. :)

Melanie Leever wrote:

My five year old told me that I'm the only one who doesn't laugh at him when he says he wants to be a Knight when he grows up :(

I think that is so sad. Let them have their dreams now; life will do a reality smack soon enough.

I'm glad you're there to guide him properly into this weird world. Burn that imagination bright!

** spoiler omitted **

He's still deciding between a Knight or an Astronaut-Wizard. Or the guy on the side of the road with the bag and the pointy stick that picks up trash.

My five year old told me that I'm the only one who doesn't laugh at him when he says he wants to be a Knight when he grows up :(
I think that is so sad. Let them have their dreams now; life will do a reality smack soon enough.

In many cultures, it would be considered rude to approach the woman directly and you should go through her family to initiate a courtship. Since she has been booted from her tribe for praticing arcane magic, maybe he could approach the highest ranking (level) male PC in the party to ask permission to woo her.

THEN bring on the fresh kill.

What are they asking about?

Oh, its just stupid jargon in reference to marketing materials or promotions and what our ROI expectations are. My new boss is a good guy, but he looooves the jargon speak. At least he has a good sense of humor about it.....mostly.

Did it look sort of like a brown lima bean? Cuz that's what our other cat leaves.

Yes! That's it exactly. Any idea what it is?

But he wouldn't eat moles.

"Wow. That's really powerful. What kind of lift do you think it will give us?"

I'm not a crane operator. I work in marketing.

"There once was a gnome from Nantucket
Who carried 'round a bait bucket
She made the dwarf mad
He declared her quite bad
And when the pail flew he'd not duck it."

Where did you think it was going? Dirty minds...

The gnoble gnome gnows gno bounds
as she dances neekid 'cross the grounds.

The dwarven fighter oft doth think
"I wonder if in yon river she would sink.

I could toss her in, all undressed,
and finally be rid of the little pest!"

I think I shall take gnaughty gnomish poetry as my pointless gnowledge specialty.

So, basically, the rogue mocked him and behaved like a punk? Hmm. I wonder if that might technically count as a Sin...

Sloth, maybe, since they were too lazy to kill him :P

*sigh* "Gosh, that seems like a lot of work. Let's just taunt him for a while"

Haven't gotten that far yet. Sorry.

11. "Is it Friday yet?"

8. "Are you busy?" (This is almost always an attempt at finding out if the boss can assign you more work without feeling guilty.)

Oh! One of my pet peeves! You either look like a b!tch or a slacker.

"My computer doesn't work."

Usually followed by "I didn't do anything."

When they usually did.

Arrgh!! I'm not even a computer person (in any way shape or form) and this ticks me off!! I hear it ALL THE TIME where I work.

One of our cats does that. She kills mice and then eats all of them except for the heads which she leaves staring up at you on the floor in placs that you're likley to step in the early morning.

We had a cat that did that, except that he would leave one of the internal organs. Ate everything. Tail, head, everything but that one spleen or whatever it was.

EASY vegetarian chili

1 can black beans
1 can red kidney beans
1 can corn
1 can tomatoes
1 package chili mix of choice

Dump everything in a pot and stir it all together. Bring to a boil. Reduce temp and simmer for 20 minutes. Since I'm not vegan (or even vegetarian) I like mine with a dollop of sour cream and tortilla chips.

Mimi Moonbeam--druid
Elrond Hubbard--elven ranger

Half-orcs come from when an orc gives a girl a flower. Everyone knows that. ;)

Happy Valentine's Day!

We ended the night at the base of the cliff with the tide coming in and a small army of goblins up on the cliffs hooting and laughing at them. =)

Don't forget the Bunyip *smiles evilly*

I propose government sponsored prostitution. Use the income generated to save the rain forests or some such.

How much do you plan to charge for your "services?"