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I'd like to cancel my Battles subscription please

Damn, that's really sad. I haven't touched CoH in a while (mostly because I prefer playing with RL friends and they all buggered off back to WOW), but it was the first MMO I really fell for. It's got a ton of style and really memorable bad guys, and I especially enjoyed playing a Mastermind in CoV. Might have to see if I can clear out some hard-drive space and take it for one last spin.

There's a fantasy RPG currently looking for funding on Kickstarter called Conclave which is heavily inspired by tabletop (it feels very like 4e to me, though others disagree). It's an asynchronous multiplayer game played entirely in the browser, so it's great for just setting up a party with friends and firing off your turns and some chat banter during coffee breaks.

There's an open beta currently running at http://www.playconclave.com and I've been having a lot of fun with it, so thought it might be of interest :). It's very early days so the quests are short and there's no character customisation other than class & race, but the HTML5 interface is pretty slick, the writing is decent, there are various decisions over the course of a quest that the party can vote on that affect how the battles are set up, and the fights can get nicely tactical.

Indeed, my Tier 10-11 lot took the Grand Melee by a single point from the plucky Tier 8-9 table nipping at their heels - all despite my best efforts to murder them all and take their stuff. Only finished half an hour over time, which I thought quite respectable for that level of play. I was expecting to run over by an hour or more.

Yeah, props to the 10-11s, what little I saw of the final round looked hideous, to the point I'm kind of glad I played my level 7 Magus on the 8-9 table instead of my 10 cleric with them :)

Awesome weekend, better than even the previous years, wonderful roleplay and wonderful company as always :).

To be fair, we'd have just used winning as a platform to berate the Decemvirate, which may not have gone over well. We probably win the 'most unlikely success award' for being a mismatched team looking for roleplay over fighting, who were considering tapping out in the first round and then ended up blasting through everything like a well oiled machine...

Could I cancel this order of a print copy of We Be Goblins please? My FLGS got hold of a second kit for Free RPG Day +1 since the first was so successful and I snagged a copy second time around :).

Yea I gotta say that I'm kinda shaken up about this announcement. I'm hoping that some one hacked his account.

Seems not

Thread necromancy!

Apparently this shipment has been floating in the aether for four months or something, as it's just turned up! Should I post it back to you?

Ah yes Paizocon(no suffix)..well as I said at the weekend the long campaign of attrition to convince the wife starts now though I have a horrible feeling getting there is about 5 years in the future.

If a bunch off us do go at least we can use here and the Paizocon UK boards to discuss things like best flight deals etc.

I've been talking about getting over to the US since some of the staff were at GenCon UK.

Before you do that ... I don't think you get a hardcopy as a patron, just a PDF. I could be wrong, but that's how it looks to me - I've got my PDF of Shore to Sea, but there's no indication I'm getting a hardcopy.

As far as I can recall we're getting just the pdf of Sunken Empires and just a hard copy of the final version of Shore to Sea (and the playtest/final turnover pdf of StS that we already have obviously). I specifically opted out of getting the hardcopy of StS from Open Design as I'm in the UK and didn't want to pay $30 shipping for a second copy.

Illessa wrote:

Yesterday I received my April subs shipment (#1383048). Unfortunately my March shipment (#1361672) still hasn't arrived, despite shipping on the 18th of March. The April shipment was a little faster than usual, but 2 1/2 weeks is a pretty typical time for me. I think the longest I've ever waited is a little over 3 weeks, so I'm worried my March shipment is lost.

Is there any chance of a replacement?

I will put replacements in with your next subscription shipment.

Thanks,
cos

Awesome, thanks Cosmo.

Yesterday I received my April subs shipment (#1383048). Unfortunately my March shipment (#1361672) still hasn't arrived, despite shipping on the 18th of March. The April shipment was a little faster than usual, but 2 1/2 weeks is a pretty typical time for me. I think the longest I've ever waited is a little over 3 weeks, so I'm worried my March shipment is lost.

Is there any chance of a replacement?

(Disclaimer - I'm horribly biased since I know the author but thought this was worth posting)

This weeks Monday Monster over at Kobold Quarterly, the Pallid Herald, is well worth a look if you're running Seven Days to the Grave. It exists to spread disease and makes for a perfect servitor of Urgathoa, so I was thinking of using it as a handy PFRPG replacement for the Leukodaemon or a late-on sidequest if the party is short on XP.

Quote:

You can hound them to buy a free RPG day box and participate...

Will never happen. They've gone 4e and aren't coming back. I'm hoping that if I bring a large box of cookies and some Pathfinder books that I might attract enough rebels to create a group...

Would homemade sandwich cookies [read: oreos] be enough to convert the masses?

But prehaps Sentry Box will ship one to their favorite mail order customer.

So would they be interested in the other contents of the box, like say the Dark Sun module? There'll be cool dice and so forth in there too, so it might still be worth drawing their attention to it. Then you can use a free Paizo module along with the power of cookies to try and attract some converts :).

I've had a chunk of pages fall out of two books - Gods and Magic, quite spontaneously something like the second time I opened it, and one volume of Second Darkness (the second one I think? Whichever has the god article on Cayden Cailean) which had been looking dubious for months and finally came out last week.

Gods and Magic Paizo kindly replaced for me, the other one I guess I'll just have to live with, I'm not intending to run SD again in the near future anyway :). Since we own hard copies of every Pathfinder book released except for Hollow's Last Hope (and two copies of the core rulebook, bestiary and campaign setting), it's not that bad odds really. I'm not precious with the books either, I don't throw them around or anything, but I carry them to work in an unpadded bag to read on the bus, every AP has been used in play except for CoT (a friend caught the superscriber bug and she's running it instead) and I run a weekly game away from home so my core rulebook and bestiary get transported, used, and generally battered about a lot and are showing no signs of falling apart yet!

That would be the gnome sorceror I played in a Legacy of Fire campaign, who also did the name collection thing:

Jerboa Weaselfriend Tamperlight Shadecaller Geniekin Fiendflight Copperpot Withertoe Rustkey Spidersnack Searflesh Thumbscrew Gnollbait Goatmaster Greatprotector Newtbane Cactusnibbler Bookfinder Rockzapper... and his companion Niloufar the aqueous ferret

Seth White wrote:

Out of all the contestants, I was looking forward to reading your adventure proposal the most.

Ditto. So I think you should write it up and publish it anyway! :D

Seconded!

+1101

1) Sign up for a reader, I use Google Reader since google apps basically runs my life at this point, but there are tons out there dependent on your needs (there's probably one integrated into your browser if you're using reasonably up-to-date Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer; you could poke around in the settings/program defaults to set that up).

2) Click on the RSS feed button on the things you want to subscribe to, hopefully you'll get icons representing various readers to subscribe with which will include the one you're using, click that (if it doesn't come up with all the icons you'll probably need to tweak your browser default program settings).

3) Keep your RSS reader webpage/program open, the reader will poll your subscriptions regularly and whenever there's new content it should appear as a new post in your reader.

RSS feeds are a really powerful tool if you read a lot of websites. Used well you can keep up with dozens of news sites, blogs, webcomics, podcasts, videos and messageboard threads without any obsessive refreshing, wasting time checking sites that haven't updated recently or losing track of what you have and haven't read. Hell, I'm using it to help with house-hunting at the moment, running a search on price-range/size/area on various property finder sites and subscribing to a feed of the results so I know whenever something new is available :).

There's a dead simple 3 minute video explaining them here if that was too garbled :).

Oops! I wasn't counting bigmancheatle's vote for Matthew McGee (I managed to type an apostrophe into the cell instead of a 1 without noticing), hohum.

Vote breakdown here (.xls file compatible with open office)

Last Vote: Ernest Mueller
Total: 122 from 33 voters

1 Matthew McGee — False Tomb of the Crawling Pharaoh — 29
2 Alexander MacLeod — Cloister of Saint Bethaene — 27

3 Jim Groves — Seven Towers Observatory — 19
4 Benjamin Bruck — The Peerless Menagerie of Ashpanjara Isle — 16

5 Matt Goodall — The Lost Ziggurat of Amar Zedas — 12
6 Richard Hunt — The Green Barrow — 10
7 Matthew Morris — The Lost Winery — 5
8 Jesse Benner — Hassaldor's Span — 4

For reference, it looks like a few votes have been lost in the shuffle at some point (2 cloister, 1 false tomb, 2 seven towers, 2 lost ziggurat, 1 peerless menagerie), so that's why this count doesn't tally with the previous one :)

Vote breakdown here (xls format)

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Last vote: Tikael
Total: 84 from 24 voters

The Top
1 Alexander MacLeod — Cloister of Saint Bethaene — 20
2 Matthew McGee — False Tomb of the Crawling Pharaoh — 19

Hanging In There
3 Jim Groves — Seven Towers Observatory — 13
4 Benjamin Bruck — The Peerless Menagerie of Ashpanjara Isle — 11

Need Some Love
6 Matt Goodall — The Lost Ziggurat of Amar Zedas — 7
6 Richard Hunt — The Green Barrow — 7
7 Jesse Benner — Hassaldor's Span — 4
8 Matthew Morris — The Lost Winery — 3

Personally, I think the Golarion requirement was a mistake.

I didn't mind the Golarion requirement, I think it's smart to find out who's comfortable playing in the Golarion sandbox (and whether anyone has issues with the "Don't break our world" rule) before the final round. I absolutely agree that there was far too much to this round. though

Especially since the time the contenders had to work on it didn't include a weekend - and I'm sure all of them have actual jobs.

This, I think a round with this kind of scope would be fine with a longer round-time and/or if the round weren't kept secret, but asking contestants to create such a specific, unusual thing in three weekdays is bound to result in everyone tripping up somewhere in the execution

Complete vote breakdown here (xls format)

Last Vote: Illessa
Total: 22 from 7 voters
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1 Alexander MacLeod — Cloister of Saint Bethaene — 5
3 Jim Groves — Seven Towers Observatory — 4
3 Matthew McGee — False Tomb of the Crawling Pharaoh — 4
4 Benjamin Bruck — The Peerless Menagerie of Ashpanjara Isle — 3
6 Jesse Benner — Hassaldor's Span — 2
6 Richard Hunt — The Green Barrow — 2
8 Matt Goodall — The Lost Ziggurat of Amar Zedas — 1
8 Matthew Morris — The Lost Winery — 1

None of the entries said to me "Wow, I want to see more stuff from this person." I'm not sure if it was the huge number of requirements in the rules (I suspect that limited creativity a LOT, given the small size of the sumission), or what, but it's unfortunate.

I had it narrowed down to 5 pretty easily, and ended up just dropping the lowest two - I'm only casting three votes:

Wow, you took the words out of my mouth, I had the same thoughts and cast exactly the same votes :)

Alexander MacLeod: Cloister of Saint Bethaene
Jim Groves: Seven Towers Observatory
Matthew McGee: False Tomb of the Crawling Pharaoh

DM Wellard wrote:

Frankly I'd prefer the 4 hour slots again...Paizocon and Dragonmeet are the only times I get to play PFS and I don't want to fall behind the curve any more than I have already.

I long ago resigned myself to the fact that I'll only get a few games in each year, having neither the time, or local interest to run PFS.

I'm going to be so far behind any supposed 'curve', that it's not even worth my while trying to keep up. I'm going for a weekend of pleasant company; whether that be PFS slots, boardgames, or just chillin' with the Lords of the Boards, it's all good to me.

We haven't got any PFS done since the last PaizoCon, and assuming we stay disorganised until July, of the 5 people I know who are seriously considering coming, two have level 2 characters, and the other 3 will be playing for the first time :).

Again, the exit polls were one off, predicted Dennis Baker instead of Jesse Benner. Congratulations to the top 8!

Eep, been neglecting the count :P
Complete vote breakdown here (xls format)

Last Vote: Epervier
Total: 232 from 44 voters

Top of the Heap
1 Benjamin Bruck — Churjiir — 34
3 Matthew McGee — Astrumal — 31
3 Matthew Morris — Caltrop Golem — 31
4 Jim Groves — Ardorwesp — 30
5 Alexander MacLeod — Chymick Swarm, A Thousand Alchemists — 26

Fingers Crossed
6 Matt Goodall — Chaitrakhan, icy pack-hunter — 14
7 Richard Hunt — Slithering Horror — 13
8 Dennis Baker — Churjiir — 12

In The Hunt
10 David Posener — Astrumal — 7
10 Jesse Benner — The Lahamu (“The Soul Drinker) — 7
12 Chris Mortika — Haga — 6
12 Jason Schimmel — Chaitrakhan, icy pack-hunter — 6
13 Tom Phillips — Ossuary — 5
14 James Martin — Churjiir, Two-Headed Rat King — 2
15 Joshua Kitchens — Churjiir, Two-headed Rat Emperor — 1

DQ
— Lief Clennon — Lantern Thrall — 7

Pugwampis still haunt me from our LoF game back in May; I can't believe I fizzled on such a low SR on every single spell negative reroll or no. We took our frustrations out on zombies that evening. On the other hand, my gnome sorceror added a new name to his extensive collection ("Goatmaster") and honestly we got a lot of amusement out of the frustration.

Last Vote: gbonehead
Total: 109 votes from 21 voters
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1 Benjamin Bruck — Churjiir — 17
2 Matthew McGee — Astrumal — 16
3 Jim Groves — Ardorwesp — 15
4 Matthew Morris — Caltrop Golem — 14

5 Alexander MacLeod — Chymick Swarm, A Thousand Alchemists — 12
7 Matt Goodall — Chaitrakhan, icy pack-hunter — 7
7 Richard Hunt — Slithering Horror — 7

The Boundary
8 Jesse Benner — The Lahamu (“The Soul Drinker) — 4

10 Chris Mortika — Haga — 3
10 Tom Phillips — Ossuary — 3
11 Dennis Baker — Churjiir — 2
15 David Posener — Astrumal — 1
15 James Martin — Churjiir, Two-Headed Rat King — 1
15 Jason Schimmel — Chaitrakhan, icy pack-hunter — 1
15 Joshua Kitchens — Churjiir, Two-headed Rat Emperor — 1

— Lief Clennon — Lantern Thrall — 5

Partial votes:
Bigmancheatle — 4 (Benjamin Bruck, Jim Groves', Matthew McGee's, Matthew Morris')
Zeugma — 2 (Matt Goodall, Matthew McGee)
FiddlerJones — 2 (Benjamin Bruck, Matthew McGee)

Benjamin Bruck wrote:

Thank you for running the tally! (Plus, you know, voting for me, that was pretty cool of you as well)

Ditto! +1 Thank you Illessa!

Hee, it's no problem; like I said in the last round, I have a terribly sad tendency to want to run all these things through spreadsheets and matlab and do all kinds of statistical analysis on them (not that the sample size is large enough for it to really mean all that much, but hey). So doing these tallies 'aint much effort :).

In fact, if anyone else wants an easy way to update (or a matrix of the votes to mess around with), the nasty generic spreadsheet I've used to quickly update the tally away from home is here. Just update the matrix, then sort the tally by column B, and secondary sort by column D :).

Sheesh. tracking votes by competitor rather than monster makes it way easier to make mistakes! Especially with 5 names beginning with J and 3 Matt/Matthews :).

Last Vote: Illessa
Total: 91 votes from 18 voters
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1 Benjamin Bruck — Churjiir — 14
3 Jim Groves — Ardorwesp — 13
3 Matthew McGee — Astrumal — 13

4 Matthew Morris — Caltrop Golem — 11
5 Alexander MacLeod — Chymick Swarm, A Thousand Alchemists — 10
6 Matt Goodall — Chaitrakhan — 7
7 Richard Hunt — Slithering Horror — 5

The Boundary
9 Jesse Benner — The Lahamu (“The Soul Drinker) — 4
9 Lief Clennon — Lantern Thrall — 4

10 Chris Mortika — Haga — 3
11 Dennis Baker — Churjiir — 2
16 David Posener — Astrumal — 1
16 James Martin — Churjiir, Two-Headed Rat King — 1
16 Jason Schimmel — Chaitrakhan, icy pack-hunter — 1
16 Joshua Kitchens — Churjiir, Two-headed Rat Emperor — 1
16 Tom Phillips — Ossuary — 1

Partial Votes:
Bigmancheatle — 4 (Benjamin Bruck, Jim Groves', Matthew McGee's, Matthew Morris')
Zeugma — 2 (Matt Goodall, Matthew McGee)
FiddlerJones — 2 (Benjamin Bruck, Matthew McGee)

Assuming Dance of Ruin and Darkjoy won't be using their last two votes

I gave my final votes to:
Benjamin Bruck's Churjiir
Matthew McGee's Astrumal
Matt Goodall's Chaitrakhan

Huh, which means my 6 votes coincide exactly with the current top 6

Quick Count:

Last Vote: N'wah (partial)
Total Votes: 23 from 7 voters

Benjamin Bruck — Churjiir — 4
Jim Groves — Ardorwesp — 4
Matthew McGee — Astrumal — 4
Matthew Morris — Caltrop Golem — 3
Richard A. Hunt — Slithering Horror — 2

Alexander MacLeod — Chymick Swarm, A Thousand Alchemists — 1
Chris Mortika — Haga — 1
Dennis Baker — Churjiir — 1
Jesse Benner — The Lahamu (“The Soul Drinker) — 1
Lief Clennon — Lantern Thrall — 1
Matt Goodall — Chaitrakhan, icy pack-hunter — 1

David Posener — Astrumal — 0
James Martin — Churjiir, Two-Headed Rat King — 0
Jason Schimmel — Chaitrakhan, icy pack-hunter — 0
Joshua Kitchens — Churjiir, Two-headed Rat Emperor — 0
Tom Phillips — Ossuary — 0

Partial Votes:
Marcus Ewert — 1 (Benjamin Bruck)
Bigmancheatle — 4 (Benjamin Bruck, Jim Groves', Matthew McGee's, Matthew Morris')
Zeugma — 2 (Matt Goodall, Matthew McGee)
Illessa — 3 (Alexander MacLeod, Jim Groves, Matthew Morris)
N'wah — 1 (Richard A. Hunt)

From my first look through only three have really grabbed me. Might have another reread and add in some more, maybe take into account previous rounds. Or I might just use 3 votes :).

Alexander MacLeod's Chymick Swarm
Jim Groves' Ardorwesp
Matthew Morris's Caltrop Golem

I'll break out the spreadsheet and start the tally in a couple of hours if I have time!

I dropped out of my Saturday evening slot last year and snuck off to the pub with Ninjaiguana, Rich and Ericthecleric because I was kind of burnt out (yeah I know, I'm a wuss), so longer slots and saving the Saturday night for socialising, possibly with card/board games and alcohol-fueled one-offs would be ideal for me!

And for price I'd say similar to Uzzy :).

Correction on the size statement above...

75mm = approx 3 inches not 30 as stated.

Note I have no idea the actual size of the miniature - just correcting the conversion.

Boh, there I was getting all excited about the 2 1/2 foot tall miniature :P

Ah! It's here, thanks Fray.

I'd like to have some Pathfinder themed Firefox personae. Is something like that worth the time and energy it would take to produce?

Seconded! I've been meaning to put one together myself, but I never get around to it, so I've been sticking with an animated Foxkeh.

I just want to say, having read where you got your ideas from and how you thought them through, I'm really glad I voted for you.

And I'm kind of regretting that I didn't (it was a close thing, if I'd had a 5th vote it would have been yours). Here's hoping you didn't need it!

Those of you who guessed the chymick/chemic/alchemic connection, you're absolutely right. The name comes from a 17th century woodcut I found in one of my books (about food, of all things) that compared the work of scholars to that of honey bees. The caption read "All plants yield honey as you see to the Industrious Chymick Bee" and then some other stuff in latin, 'chymick' being an olde-timey way of saying chemic or alchemic.

OK, I may have been wrong about the chyme portmanteau (though I might just choose to believe you totally intended it :P), but that's an awesome quote to base a monster on. I like it even more now!

45 mins to go! Personally of the ones on the border, I'm really hoping the Churjiir and Tremagguan sneak through, I thought they were really strong entries:

Last Vote: dhamma (updated)
Total Votes: 293 from 75 Voters

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The Top
1 Matthew McGee — Ossuary Golem — 31
2 Jim Groves — Skintaker — 30
3 Benjamin Bruck — Chymick — 27

Good Odds
4 David Posener — Haga — 18
6 Jesse Benner — Chaitrakhan — 16
6 Richard Hunt — Splorudra — 16
7 Tom Phillips — Slithering Horror — 15
10 Alexander MacLeod — Ardorwesp — 13
10 Lief Clennon — Rotling — 13
10 Nicolas Quimby — Liesinger — 13

At Risk
11 Joshua Kitchens — Astrumal — 11
12 Chris Mortika — Lantern Thrall — 10
15 Jason Schimmel — Caltrop Golem — 9
15 Matt Goodall — Churjiir — 9
15 Matthew Morris — Lahamu — 9

The Boundary
18 Dennis Baker — Brown Urus — 7
18 James Martin — Wyrnhiri — 7
18 Sean McGowan — Rictus — 7

Still a Chance
20 Jared Goodwin — Tremagguan — 5
20 Stephen Sheahan — Corpse Sticher — 5
22 Alex Shideler — Prismwing, Larvae — 4
22 Jeff Spencer — Marrow Worm — 4
24 Andrew Sun — Carapace Devil — 3
24 Brian Hoffman — Spitfire Revenant — 3

Outside Chance
27 Erik Randall — Sin-Fallen Angel of Gluttony — 2
27 Joe Wells — Necrotic Tempest — 2
27 Tobias Mullen — Deathleech Puppeteer — 2
29 Eric Hindley — Sensory Stalker — 1
29 Kevin Akemann — Echo Drinkers — 1
32 Nick Waln — Mind Reaper — 0
32 RC Higgins — Fearmonger — 0
32 Seth White — Crysalis — 0

Partial votes:
Scott Williams (Ardorwesp, Skintaker, Slithering Horror)
Hexcaliber (Carapace Devil, Marrow Worm, Skintaker)
Lithorean (Carapace Devil, Liesinger)

FYI, Charles Evans gave his final vote to the Rotling.

Oops, yeah I added his last vote in and then forgot to take him off the partials list :S. Teach me to go off to bed without proof-reading, thanks Taig! Corrected list:

Last Vote: Joel Flank
Total Votes: 245 from 64 voters

The Top
1 Jim Groves — Skintaker — 26
2 Matthew McGee — Ossuary Golem — 25
3 Benjamin Bruck — Chymick — 23

Good Odds
5 David Posener — Haga — 15
5 Richard Hunt — Splorudra — 15
8 Alexander MacLeod — Ardorwesp — 13
8 Jesse Benner — Chaitrakhan — 13
8 Tom Phillips — Slithering Horror — 13
9 Lief Clennon — Rotling — 10
10 Matthew Morris — Lahamu — 9

At Risk
13 Jason Schimmel — Caltrop Golem — 8
13 Joshua Kitchens — Astrumal — 8
13 Nicolas Quimby — Liesinger — 8
16 Chris Mortika — Lantern Thrall — 7
16 Matt Goodall — Churjiir — 7
16 Sean McGowan — Rictus — 7

The Boundary

Decent Chance
17 James Martin — Wyrnhiri — 6
19 Dennis Baker — Brown Urus — 5
19 Stephen Sheahan — Corpse Sticher — 5
20 Alex Shideler — Prismwing, Larvae — 4
22 Jared Goodwin — Tremagguan — 3
22 Jeff Spencer — Marrow Worm — 3

Outside Chance
27 Andrew Sun — Carapace Devil — 2
27 Brian Hoffman — Spitfire Revenant — 2
27 Erik Randall — Sin-Fallen Angel of Gluttony — 2
27 Joe Wells — Necrotic Tempest — 2
27 Tobias Mullen — Deathleech Puppeteer — 2
29 Eric Hindley — Sensory Stalker — 1
29 Kevin Akemann — Echo Drinkers — 1
32 Nick Waln — Mind Reaper — 0
32 RC Higgins — Fearmonger — 0
32 Seth White — Crysalis — 0

Partial Votes:
Scott Williams (Ardorwesp, Skintaker, Slithering Horror)
dhamma (Liesinger, Skintaker)
Nicolas Quimby (Liesinger, Spitfire Revenant)
Hexcaliber (Carapace Devil, Marrow Worm, Skintaker)
Lithorean (Carapace Devil, Liesinger)

One more day before the poll closes!

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Last Vote: Ragwaine
Total Votes: 241 from 63 voters

The Top
1 Jim Groves — Skintaker — 26
2 Matthew McGee — Ossuary Golem — 25
3 Benjamin Bruck — Chymick — 23

Good Odds
5 David Posener — Haga — 15
5 Richard Hunt — Splorudra — 15
7 Alexander MacLeod — Ardorwesp — 13
7 Jesse Benner — Chaitrakhan — 13

Who Knows
8 Tom Phillips — Slithering Horror — 12
9 Lief Clennon — Rotling — 10
12 Jason Schimmel — Caltrop Golem — 8
12 Joshua Kitchens — Astrumal — 8
12 Matthew Morris — Lahamu — 8

The Boundary
16 Chris Mortika — Lantern Thrall — 7
16 Matt Goodall — Churjiir — 7
16 Nicolas Quimby — Liesinger — 7
16 Sean McGowan — Rictus — 7

Who Knows
17 James Martin — Wyrnhiri — 6
19 Dennis Baker — Brown Urus — 5
19 Stephen Sheahan — Corpse Sticher — 5
20 Alex Shideler — Prismwing, Larvae — 4
22 Jared Goodwin — Tremagguan — 3
22 Jeff Spencer — Marrow Worm — 3
26 Andrew Sun — Carapace Devil — 2
26 Brian Hoffman — Spitfire Revenant — 2
26 Joe Wells — Necrotic Tempest — 2
26 Tobias Mullen — Deathleech Puppeteer — 2
29 Eric Hindley — Sensory Stalker — 1
29 Erik Randall — Sin-Fallen Angel of Gluttony — 1
29 Kevin Akemann — Echo Drinkers — 1
32 Nick Waln — Mind Reaper — 0
32 RC Higgins — Fearmonger — 0
32 Seth White — Crysalis — 0

Partial Votes:
Scott Williams (Ardorwesp, Skintaker, Slithering Horror)
dhamma (Liesinger, Skintaker)
Nicolas Quimby (Liesinger, Spitfire Revenant)
Hexcaliber (Carapace Devil, Marrow Worm, Skintaker)
Charles Evans (Chymick, Tremagguan, Wyrnhiri)
Lithorean (Carapace Devil, Liesinger)

Quick update before sleep:

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Last Vote - Starglim

The Top
1 Jim Groves — Skintaker — 25
3 Benjamin Bruck — Chymick — 22
3 Matthew McGee — Ossuary Golem — 22

Good Odds
4 Richard Hunt — Splorudra — 15
5 David Posener — Haga — 14
6 Alexander MacLeod — Ardorwesp — 13
7 Jesse Benner — Chaitrakhan — 12

Who Knows
8 Tom Phillips — Slithering Horror — 9
11 Jason Schimmel — Caltrop Golem — 8
11 Joshua Kitchens — Astrumal — 8
11 Lief Clennon — Rotling — 8
14 Chris Mortika — Lantern Thrall — 7
14 Matt Goodall — Churjiir — 7
14 Sean McGowan — Rictus — 7

The Boundary
17 James Martin — Wyrnhiri — 6
17 Matthew Morris — Lahamu — 6
17 Nicolas Quimby — Liesinger — 6

The Rest
19 Dennis Baker — Brown Urus — 5
19 Stephen Sheahan — Corpse Sticher — 5
21 Alex Shideler — Prismwing, Larvae — 3
21 Jeff Spencer — Marrow Worm — 3
23 Andrew Sun — Carapace Devil — 2
23 Brian Hoffman — Spitfire Revenant — 2
28 Erik Randall — Sin-Fallen Angel of Gluttony — 1
28 Jared Goodwin — Tremagguan — 1
28 Joe Wells — Necrotic Tempest — 1
28 Kevin Akemann — Echo Drinkers — 1
28 Tobias Mullen — Deathleech Puppeteer — 1
32 Eric Hindley — Sensory Stalker — 0
32 Nick Waln — Mind Reaper — 0
32 RC Higgins — Fearmonger — 0
32 Seth White — Crysalis — 0

Partial Votes:
Scott Williams (Ardorwesp, Skintaker, Slithering Horror)
dhamma (Liesinger, Skintaker)
Nicolas Quimby (Liesinger, Spitfire Revenant)
Hexcaliber (Carapace Devil, Marrow Worm, Skintaker)
Charles Evans (Chymick, Wyrnhiri)
Lithorean (Carapace Devil, Liesinger)

Hey Clark, or Sean, I think I may have been overlooked for feedback on Folio of Origami Assailants (p3)

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Either that or I missed it on the thread, (search functions don't seem to work so well on the message boards for some reason.)

My thanks to Azmahel for his review, I`d be much obliged to anyone with further comments.

You haven't been overlooked, Clarke's only just reached p2 :).

Actually scratch that, there's a dead simple way of correcting it to show ties at the bottom of the range, wheeeeeeeeee:

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Last Vote - Ceylon Tom

1 Jim Groves — Skintaker — 25
3 Benjamin Bruck — Chymick — 21
3 Matthew McGee — Ossuary Golem — 21
4 Richard Hunt — Splorudra — 15
6 Alexander MacLeod — Ardorwesp — 13
6 David Posener — Haga — 13
7 Jesse Benner — Chaitrakhan — 12
8 Tom Phillips — Slithering Horror — 9
9 Jason Schimmel — Caltrop Golem — 8
13 Chris Mortika — Lantern Thrall — 7
13 Joshua Kitchens — Astrumal — 7
13 Lief Clennon — Rotling — 7
13 Matt Goodall — Churjiir — 7
15 Matthew Morris — Lahamu — 6
15 Sean McGowan — Rictus — 6
18 Dennis Baker — Brown Urus — 5
18 James Martin — Wyrnhiri — 5
18 Stephen Sheahan — Corpse Sticher — 5
19 Nicolas Quimby — Liesinger — 4
21 Alex Shideler — Prismwing, Larvae — 3
21 Jeff Spencer — Marrow Worm — 3
28 Andrew Sun — Carapace Devil — 1
28 Brian Hoffman — Spitfire Revenant — 1
28 Erik Randall — Sin-Fallen Angel of Gluttony — 1
28 Jared Goodwin — Tremagguan — 1
28 Joe Wells — Necrotic Tempest — 1
28 Kevin Akemann — Echo Drinkers — 1
28 Tobias Mullen — Deathleech Puppeteer — 1
32 Eric Hindley — Sensory Stalker — 0
32 Nick Waln — Mind Reaper — 0
32 RC Higgins — Fearmonger — 0
32 Seth White — Crysalis — 0

Partial votes:
Scott Williams (Ardorwesp, Skintaker, Slithering Horror)
dhamma (Liesinger, Skintaker)
Nicolas Quimby (Liesinger, Spitfire Revenant)
Hexcaliber (Skintaker, Marrow Worm, Carapace Devil)
Charles Evans (Chymick)

Looks like it can go either way, and yours might be the more common method.

Ranking ties at the bottom seems far more useful in this case, though. I want to see how close I am to the in/out break point, not how close I am to the top!

It also means you don't need the T in there, because reading down the list the skipped number comes before the tie, letting you know it's coming.

Huh, Wikipedia was the first place I checked, how the hell did I miss the article *confusion*

Ahh well, good point that its more useful in this case, I'll change it up manually when I post then :). Hmm, would people be interested in me copying this vote matrix into google docs and sharing it? It's very quick and dirty, but you can just sort, then C&P the table summary for speedy tally generation :).

Huh, replaced my manual tally with a matrix of the votes to automate the tally, track partial choices and to make life easier if people change their votes (and not at all to generate votes by time graphs, that would be sad ;), and apparently Skintaker has been one short for a while, anyway:
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The Top
1 Jim Groves — Skintaker — 24
T2 Benjamin Bruck — Chymick — 21
T2 Matthew McGee — Ossuary Golem — 21

Good Odds
4 Richard Hunt — Splorudra — 15
T5 Alexander MacLeod — Ardorwesp — 13
T5 David Posener — Haga — 13
7 Jesse Benner — Chaitrakhan — 10

Who Knows
8 Tom Phillips — Slithering Horror — 9
9 Jason Schimmel — Caltrop Golem — 8
T10 Joshua Kitchens — Astrumal — 7
T10 Lief Clennon — Rotling — 7
T10 Matt Goodall — Churjiir — 7
T13 Chris Mortika — Lantern Thrall — 6
T13 Matthew Morris — Lahamu — 6
T13 Sean McGowan — Rictus — 6

The Boundary
16 Dennis Baker — Brown Urus — 5

The Rest
T17 James Martin — Wyrmhiri — 4
T17 Nicolas Quimby — Liesinger — 4
T17 Stephen Sheahan — Corpse Sticher — 4
T20 Alex Shideler — Prismwing, Larvae — 3
T20 Jeff Spencer — Marrow worm — 3
T22 Andrew Sun — Carapace Devil — 1
T22 Brian Hoffman — Spitfire Revenant — 1
T22 Erik Randall — Sin-Fallen Angel of Gluttony — 1
T22 Jared Goodwin — Tremagguan — 1
T22 Joe Wells — Necrotic Tempest — 1
T22 Tobias Mullen — Deathleech Puppeteer — 1
T28 Eric Hindley — Sensory Stalker — 0
T28 Kevin Akemann — Echo Drinkers — 0
T28 Nick Waln — Mind Reaper — 0
T28 RC Higgins — Fearmonger — 0
T28 Seth White — Crysalis — 0

Last Vote - Pierce Coady

Partial votes:
Scott Williams (Ardorwesp, Skintaker, Slithering Horror)
dhamma (Liesinger, Skintaker)
Nicolas Quimby (Liesinger, Spitfire Revenant)
Hexcaliber (Skintaker, Marrow Worm, Carapace Devil)
Charles Evans (Chymick)
Ceylon Tom (Splorudra)

Incidently sorry that when I post ties are at the top of the range rather than the bottom, but that's how the spreadsheet does it and I'm lazy too lazy to do anything other than C&P the list :P.

And Skintaker has broken 20!
I've also figured in the partial votes for kicks (I'll take that as a vote Ceylon Tom :P):
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The Top
1 Jim Groves -- Skintaker -- 20
2 Matthew McGee -- Ossuary Golem -- 19

Good Odds
3 Benjamin Bruck -- Chymick -- 16
4 Richard Hunt -- Splorudra -- 13
5 David Posener -- Haga -- 12
6 Alexander MacLeod -- Ardorwesp -- 11
7 Jesse Benner -- Chaitrakhan -- 10

Who Knows
8 Tom Phillips -- Slithering Horror -- 8
9 Jason Schimmel -- Caltrop Golem -- 7
T10 Joshua Kitchens -- Astrumal -- 6
T10 Matthew Morris -- Lahamu -- 6
T10 Matt Goodall -- Churjiir -- 6

The Boundary
T13 Chris Mortika -- Lantern Thrall -- 5
T13 Dennis Baker -- Brown Urus -- 5
T13 Lief Clennon -- Rotling -- 5
T13 Sean McGowan -- Rictus -- 5
T17 James Martin -- Wyrmhiri -- 4
T17 Nicolas Quimby -- Liesinger -- 4
T17 Stephen Sheahan -- Corpse Sticher -- 4

Need Some Lovin'
T20 Alex Shideler -- Prismwing, Larvae -- 3
T20 Jeff Spencer -- Marrow worm -- 3
T22 Andrew Sun -- Carapace Devil -- 1
T22 Brian Hoffman -- Spitfire Revenant -- 1
T22 Erik Randall -- Sin-Fallen Angel of Gluttony -- 1
T22 Jared Goodwin -- Tremagguan -- 1
T22 Joe Wells -- Necrotic Tempest -- 1
T27 Eric Hindley -- Sensory Stalker -- 0
T27 Kevin Akemann -- Echo Drinkers -- 0
T27 Nick Waln -- Mind Reaper -- 0
T27 RC Higgins -- Fearmonger -- 0
T27 Seth White -- Crysalis -- 0
T27 Tobias Mullen -- Deathleech Puppeteer -- 0

Last vote counted: Ceylon Tom

Partial votes:
Hexcaliber (currently Skintaker, Marrow Worm, Carapace Devil)
Hydro (currently Liesinger, Spitfire Revenant)
Charles Evans (currently Chymick)
Ceylon Tom (currently Splorudra)

Minor nitpick: ties are properly ranked at the bottom of the grouping, not the top. The format should be like so:

Wow, really? I feel like a petty little arse saying this, but could I get a reference on that? I can only think of instances of ties ranked at the top of the range, and googling around has kind of backed me up, but hasn't given me anything definitive.

As for using this thread to decide your votes; yeah I can't imagine people even looking at this thread before they've read the entries thoroughly and formed some opinions, it's just a bunch of numbers if you don't know what the monsters are!

I'm pretty sure the only way this thread introduces bias is due to the handful of people who "Game" their votes by eg. switching one of their votes from a runaway leader to bolster an entry that's outside their top 4 but they really want to see in the top 16 as discussed in the "Full Rankings?" thread. That's their prerogative and I doubt anyone thinks that's the purpose of this thread. I guess it's possible that people do the "Oh well my favorite doesn't stand a chance so I'll vote for the one I hate the least" thing so often seen in politics (and it drives me up the wall), but that's why Roguerouge always puts the message on the end pointing out the tiny margins towards the bottom of the rankings. We've had entries get through with zero votes in the round exit polls before (eg. Boemundo last year, twice IIRC) and it'll happen again, no one's out of the running yet!

The main purpose of this thread for me at least is exactly the same reason I look at political exit polls. I tend to vote early and the wait between casting my vote and the result being announced can be interminably long, so in the meantime I obsess over every scrap of data I can get to see how my choices are doing.

Also I find a perverse kind of entertainment in doing tallies :P.