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Haven't watched episode 3 of Loki yet, but enjoyed the first 2. Have to wait for my wife and I to have time off that we are both awake, which means tomorrow evening. Which we may or may not do, it being our anniversary.
In the binge watching vs weekly episodes debate, I'm torn. On the one hand, I like being able to just watch it all at whatever pace I feel like. On the other, since Disney+ started the weekly thing, my wife and I are actually watching shows together again, which hasn't really been something we do since I started my current job nearly 6 years ago.

Ivan Rûski wrote:

Hola, Fawtlfolk! Apparently I've not been here in over 3 years. Where does the time go?

Edit: Is the top post of the page = naked still a thing?

My god.

It's been a while, man.

That it has. Was without a PC for awhile, then just kinda didn't have a lot of reason to visit the site being between games and having zero interest in 2e. Starting to prep for a new game, bought some clearance stuff and thought what the hell, why not pop on the boards to say hi?

Hola, Fawtlfolk! Apparently I've not been here in over 3 years. Where does the time go?

Edit: Is the top post of the page = naked still a thing?

Please cancel order # 8081163 and my AP subscription.

Please postpone or cancel order #7864510 and my subscription if necessary. Had an emergency come up and can't afford it until next Friday.

Chalk up another vote for a landscape GM screen. Even though I'm not currently planning on making the switch to 2e, I'd buy a landscape screen in a heartbeat. I'm still using my old 3.5 screen because the paizo produced screens are too tall.

Damiel is full elf, by the way, not half.

Since this has not processed yet, would it be possible to delay this order until Friday the 23rd? If it processes before then it will be rejected due to non-sufficient funds.

I started playing around with this Spell Codex idea. Based on the database at www.d20pfsrd.com, there are around 2900 spells, of which around 600 appear in the Core Rulebook. I wrote up some stylesheets in InDesign to format the database, and including all 2900 spells it's going to come to around 550 pages -- just of spells. If we scrap out the 600 spells in the Core Rulebook, it trims down to around 440 pages. I haven't started messing around with class spell lists (level/name/short description) yet, but those would probably run another 50 pages or so.

I'm not sure what other elements you all would want included in this product, but now's the time to discuss.

A 500 page print-on-demand 8.5x11" book would run about $36 in full color or $7 in black and white -- I would sell them at cost through Amazon CreateSpace. I'm not sure the legality of publishing this stuff, but if everything here sounds good and someone can help me work out the legal issues, I can have something ready on amazon in a few weeks.

If you do decide to go ahead with this, please keep us informed. I do think spell lists would be a must for this.

As far as the legal stuff goes, the best thing I can do is point you to the compatibility license and tell you to talk to some of the 3PPs.

I'm lobbying for a Pathfinder Spell Compendium or something similar in this thread.

The latest update was that Planar Adventures is the final PF1 hardcover.

Doesn't mean we can't lobby to change that.

not a compendium book but it has almost all the Pathfinder spells in it

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/tools/spells-db

and this site uses this DB for spells card which can be used to search and sort if you don't want the do that via excel

https://www.dungeonetics.com/spellcards/

I do use d20pfsrd and various other apps/websites a lot, but what I really want is a physical copy. It would be very useful.

Not a book, but donjon has a decent random generator.

Also agreed on not having core in it. Would free up a lot of pages for the other stuff.

Stephen Hawking has died.

Saw that at work last night. Very sad. The world has lost one of the greatest minds of all time.

Another sign of spring!

The geese are flying back north.

I have seen geese flying north, then back south, then north again for a month. I think they've been confused. Hopefully the warm weather sticks this time.

Aldi is great over here. I love shopping there, when they actually have the stuff I want. I've stumbled across all sorts of interesting or useful things there that I would never have expected from a grocery store, and their prices are usually low enough to even give Walmart a run for their money sometimes.

I wish we had an Aldi here. The closest one is a 3 hour drive. When we were living in Texas, we had started getting most of our groceries there.

I worked at Walmart for the better part of the past decade, so I know the store inside and out, and it is the cheapest place to shop in town unless there's a sale going on.

Yeah, for those kinds of problems NH, I don't blame you. I shop almost exclusively at Walmart though, so if things are that bad, I just take it back for a refund/exchange.

Edit: For our toilet paper, we get Cottonelle Ultra. It's not quite as expensive as wiping ourselves with dollar bills, but its worth it.

Well, its not so much that we don't have them as we can't find them. Probably about 30% of the time they wind up in my wife's purse of the month and left in the trunk of the car. About 60% of the time they turn up weeks after we needed them and only 10% are we truly out.

I usually don't have problems with store brands. There are a few things I insist on name brands for. Soda, for one. I only get Sam's Choice if we are broke now. Clothing is another, after having 3 brand new pairs of jeans rip in the same week a decade ago. And toilet paper, because I have to wipe my ass with that single-ply sandpaper enough at work. But stuff like band-aids? Meh. Half the time we don't even have them in the house and I wind up using tissues and duct tape.

38 here.

I would sell you all for two days above 60 degrees.

Hell, I'll take above 40.

Anyone else out there who wants to see this? Let your voices be heard!
Eric Mona said in his interview with Know Direction last week that the 2019-2020 schedule isn't completely filled in yet. If enough people speak up, maybe we can make it happen!

I've never been to a Disney park, but I've been to Six Flags Over Texas more times than I can count, Six Flags Astroworld once, and Busch Gardens Williamsburg once. I prefer waterparks to amusement parks though.

With Pathfinder 2e on the horizon, is there any chance that we could get a book collecting most/all the spells in 1e in one place? The 3.5 Spell Compendium is still one of the books on my most wanted list, and would much prefer a Pathfinder version. Similar products for other parts of the game (such as feats) would be useful as well, and I'm sure that I'm not the only person longing for these to become a reality. A second Ultimate Equipment collecting what has been published in other books since the first came out would also be very welcome.

So, it took a week of waiting for enough snow to melt, the ground to get to the right consistency of frozen enough not to sink but not so much that the wheels are frozen in the ground, 3 hours of chipping at half frozen mud, and a big truck, but my (good) car is finally not in the ditch anymore.
Also got to game on Saturday, so that was fun.

Hell, I still have my first printing. Was thinking of just getting a new printing in the pocket edition, but might have to get a new hardcover too, just so I have a nice copy. Mine too is held together by tape and dreams

After reading/listening to the available info so far, unless they bring it back closer to PF1e I will not be switching. I have spent the past 12 years and thousands of dollars on Pathfinder and 3.x products, and cannot bring myself to just throw away that investment. My money will be simply going to buying up what I do not yet own of the current Pathfinder line. The reason I got into Pathfinder in the first place was that I only started gaming in the end days of 3.5, and it was a lot easier to switch to the new system which was compatible with the few books I had already picked up than track down the 70+ 3.x books (not that I don't still want them).
Also, I have to be realistic about what I have the time and money for. I work 6-7 days a week, overnight. I have played 4 sessions in the past 2 and a half years. I don't want to spend money on books I don't plan on using, and I don't have time to learn a new system.

Yes, those were a bunch of 3.x books. And that Dummies book was likely Dungeons & Dragons for Dummies.

As Paizo has built up significant good will, and also as I've learned to never-say-never, I'm not saying never.

Similarly, despite not liking the separation between NPC/monster mechanics and PC mechanics, I actually really like Starfinder - more than 5E (which is a system that I also appreciate).

The mechanics are solid for playing games, though notsomuch for world-building (though they aren't terrible).

For me, its not so much that I don't have an interest in any of these systems. In fact, I do. PF2 as well. I just have to be realistic about what I have the time and money for. I work 6-7 days a week, overnight. I have played 4 sessions in the past 2 and a half years. I don't want to spend money on books I don't plan on using, and I don't have time to learn a new system.

What's "Alfie"?

(I'm guessing something about Halflings?)

A wonderfully smutty webcomic about halflings that beyond the porn has a decent plot. Definitely not safe for work. Or home. Or anywhere you suspect eyes other than your own might catch a glimpse of your screen.

So, my thoughts on the edition change, as succinctly as I can put it. After reading/listening to the available info so far, unless they bring it back closer to PF1e I will not be switching. I have spent the past 12 years and thousands of dollars on Pathfinder and 3.x products, and cannot bring myself to just throw away that investment. My money will be simply going to buying up what I do not yet own of the current Pathfinder line.

Ivan Rûski wrote:

For most of this hobby's lifespan, there was always the option to sell your old stuff to fund the upgrade to the new edition.

Having lived through the switch from AD&D to 3E, and then 3.5, and Pathfinder, and dipping my toes into 4E...

The old stuff you might sell was.... not terribly likely to finance any upgrade... not least because, apart from pure rules material, you'd hang on to setting material or splatbooks you liked 'cause you weren't sure you were ever going to see them again... I've still got a shelf full of 2E Ravenloft stuff...

Well, just counting the "pure rules material" books I have in hardcover, I have 10 hardcover books that retailed from $40-$50. So you are telling me you couldn't take those to a used bookstore and get enough to buy the core book? And that isn't all the books, just what I personally own. Pretty sure physical copies of all the core line could fund an upgrade.

I've been through seven editions of D&D (conservatively), at least seven editions of Traveller, half a dozen editions of Champions, three editions of Mutants and Masterminds, four editions of Twilight Imperium and more editions of Diplomacy than I can count. I bought so many 2e boxed sets I could ballast a cargo ship with them. Please, tell me more about how your vast trove of Pathfinder stuff is now just sitting on your shelves, useless and forgotten...

Not all of us have been through as many edition changes as you, Tarondor. I've been through one, 3.5 to Pathfinder. I know many who started with Pathfinder. And for many of those previous edition changes, there wasn't the digital component. For most of this hobby's lifespan, there was always the option to sell your old stuff to fund the upgrade to the new edition. In this era of PDFs and other digital content such as Hero Lab, that option is not there for many. It is true that many gamers hold on to their books just to have them, but plenty sell.

Ivan Rûski wrote:

Can I just say that I can't stand that new font for the logo? I realize that is probably just more unnecessary negativity, but it really pales in comparison to the old Pathfinder font.

This logo is specifically for the Pathfinder Playtest.

We have not even started designing the Pathfinder Second Edition logo, yet.

Thank you for the reply, Erik. It just looks too modern to me, if that makes sense.

Well, although I've already voiced my opinion of not wanting to switch editions, here is one thing that would be a pro for switching for me. Get rid of alignment. That is one thing that has always bugged me about this game. Morality is a subjective thing, and having objective rules for it bugs me to no end.

EDIT: It appears Tectorman beat me to it. When I opened this tab there were no replies.

So, I carried my laptop into my wife with the PF2 announcement pulled up, somewhat heartbroken....and she goes"ooooooooo" and smiles, then asks if it's going to cost anything.

Can I just say that I can't stand that new font for the logo? I realize that is probably just more unnecessary negativity, but it really pales in comparison to the old Pathfinder font.

NOOO!!! How dare you replace Damiel as the iconic alchemist!

More seriously, I am very apprehensive about this. I understand the game needs to evolve to keep bringing new blood into the game, and to keep driving sales. I went with Pathfinder over 4th edition because it was compatible with 3.5. Now, 10 years later, most of my 3.5 books never get used. So the same thing will likely happen to my PF 1 stuff if I switch to 2nd edition. The difference is the investment I have in Pathfinder vs 3.5. I have maybe a dozen 3.5 books, and about the same in Pathfinder hardcovers. On top of those hardcovers, I have a half dozen APs, just re-upped my subscription for the next couple, and about $500 invested in Hero Lab. That last one is the real killer. Because of that, it is unlikely I will make the change to PF2E without significant pressure from my group.

Dallas itself is miserable. The surrounding area isn't so bad.

I am well aware of how stupidly expensive houses can get in other parts of the country. I grew up in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, and while they have nothing on California, it isn't uncommon for homes to run upwards of $750k.
And as far as the "ruralness" of South Dakota, well, it was definitely an adjustment. I do miss the convenience of living near a big city, but owning my home is worth it.

Ivan Rûski wrote:

We just paid off the house! No more rent! Not too many who can say they own their house, free and clear before they turn 35. :) Landlord just has a form to sign when he gets back from Florida, and the deed will be ours.

Wow... SOOOOOO jealous!

We'll be lucky to have our house paid off free and clear by the time I'm 70.

Of course, there's the whole, "Living in the S.F. Bay Area" thing, plus a bunch of refinancing, but congratulations!

Thank you! Admittedly, the house is old and a bit on the small side, and it needs a lot of work, but it is mine. One of the perks of living in a rural area of South Dakota (not that there is much in the state that isn't rural). We paid $20k plus interest over the past 6 years. Came out to around $22k with interest. The house is over 100 years old, just under 1,000 square feet, and we have 2 lots of land (somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 an acre).

Ivan Rûski wrote:

Tacticslion wrote:

Ivan Rûski wrote:

Hey all. Just came to say, thanks Freehold.

This is the view out my front door. Yes, that is my car. Yes, it is stuck.

Ivaaaaaaaaaaaan~!

Hola! How's things?

Busy! Exhausting! Trying not o blue my wind/stamina enough in TKD! You?

...I am unsure what that means, but okay. Going pretty good other than the whole car stuck in a ditch thing. We just paid off the house! No more rent! Not too many who can say they own their house, free and clear before they turn 35. :) Landlord just has a form to sign when he gets back from Florida, and the deed will be ours.

Ivan Rûski wrote:

Hey all. Just came to say, thanks Freehold.

This is the view out my front door. Yes, that is my car. Yes, it is stuck.

Ivaaaaaaaaaaaan~!

Hola! How's things?

I haven't even tried driving my car yet, still snowing.

Mine's been stuck for 2 days now. Happened Sunday when i was trying to leave for work. Turns out that the melting snow turned the slight ditch in the yard to pudding, and I got stuck. Borrowed my in-laws' van to go to work with plans on getting it out with my father in-law's truck later. Then the blizzard hit, and we literally cannot drive the block from my in-laws' house to even attempt to get it out.

Hey all. Just came to say, thanks Freehold.
This is the view out my front door. Yes, that is my car. Yes, it is stuck.

Why are you trying to mash up two of Paizo's weakest APs? :) Granted, the first book of GS is good and the second one is a-OK, but for SD, it's pretty much exactly the reverse, with first books being fine and the AP taking a dive later on.

A few reasons. If it was up to me alone, I'd have been running Iron Gods or Carrion Crown, but those I had a player for each who would rather not play than play them. I have Rise of the Runelords and Bell's Rebels, but wasn't wanting something as urban as HR, and one of the players played in my Runelords campaign. All that considered, I was going to run Giantslayer as written, but then Second Darkness went on sale and one of my players is a huge drow fan. The characters were already rolled for Giantslayer, but none were built especially with fighting giants in mind. Since I'm a little sick of giants after Runelords, I decided to combine the APs.

So, after about a 2 year hiatus from gaming, I finally got back into it with some guys from work. I'm running them through a mashup of Giantslayer and Second Darkness. It is going to be book 1 of Giantslayer, with a couple of details from Second Darkness brought in, a fair mix of both second books, and then pretty much Second Darkness. Been trying to think up a name for this mashup, and I'm coming up blank. Any ideas?

I grew up in rural Texas so well water doesn't bug me at all.

How did I not know you grew up in Texas? What area? I grew up in Venus, just south of Arlington.