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This order was supposed to have been automatically cancelled when I shifted to the subscription, but I just got charged twice and got two separate shipping notices. Given that this dropped my checking account into the negatives, I'm a little upset that the order didn't cancel like it should have. Can someone lend me a hand, here? The order that shipped as I understand it was supposed to is 4354655. The order that was supposed to be voided due to the subscription is 4236682. I'll be perfectly happy to send the second book back, but can y'all refund the one, since it was your system not working as intended, and I did ask about it here when the subs became available to try to keep this from happening?
The whole "jump through hoops to create a PERFECT option" reads more as "you must be exactly the right type of nonbinary person to be valid". Yes. Which is to say, from the perspective of most of the people arguing with us enbies about it, nonexistent - because we muck up the attempt to perfectly categorize things and assign properties via label without concern for whether or not those properties fit.They works fine if you're not sure or if the person has no clearly expressed preference. If they have an expressed preference, use what's requested. Given that the android operative iconic is written using they, they're a they. The shirren use ze/zir for their third sex as a baseline, apparently, and that's cool. Maybe I'll get to use xe/xer/xyr outside my home group without catching flak for it someday. :P
They as singular? Huh. Interesting They was a singular pronoun before it was ever used as a plural, at least as far back as the works of Shakespeare. We also use it in conversation and reading all the time without thinking about it, whenever there's a question of the identity of whoever we're talking about. There are also several non-binary pronoun sets floating around, some inclined one way or the other on the gender spectrum, others neutral, although those are much less linguistically codified than singular they and you'll find plenty of disagreement between the modifiers (like xe/xer/xyr vs xe/xem/xyr). If you're curious, one site trying to gather them is here. Back to the topic, I appreciate seeing an agender character, and suspect that Cayden Cailean would appreciate Iseph. It's nice to read more non-stereotypical takes on characters, and I'd like to know more about their precursor's story. I suspect androids in general are going to be popular with people who have a significant life-changing experience to the point that they feel they're a distinct person from who they were before, too. So far the iconics of Starfinder are shaping up interestingly, and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of them and what the rest of the setting brings. It'd be nice to have a science fantasy game that isn't either After The End or a hacked-apart popular property that covers a fraction of what it needed to cover to be Fun.
Alain is a walking study in what not to do....but no one has ever asked to know why Merisiel is still an elf.Alain has. He has to have asked...at least once. Alain is the kind of jackass who thinks that if you're permitted close, your existence is meant to benefit him, including the details of your genitalia (personality only matters to him if it causes him trouble). Whereas I kind of see Valeros as being like Denmark here.
This is one of the reasons that Paizo and Posthuman Studios are my two favorite gaming companies. So wait elves can turn themselves into humans? that doesn't seem possible(?) Polymorph spells.
This is exactly why I've volunteered to run events in 1-3 slots each year. Next year I might up the ante a bit, with the additional day.
I'd also like to thank all the Paizo staff, especially Liz Courts, whose game I was lucky enough to lottery into. Thanks also to my GMs and fellow gamers! Hey there. I was Saif, the sorcerer with the Traditional Greeting of Empowered Fireball. Which of my compatriots were you?
I'm hoping I can get a conference room like the Olympia Room at the Marriot for the games I'll be running. It was fantastic, particularly since it also had a whiteboard for sketching a highly visible map onto.
To those who played in either of my games - including everyone who joined in when offered the chance, bringing my final table tally up to ten for Continuity - I'd like to express appreciation that you came to game, and I hope you all had a good time. Given what I've heard - one fellow was so thrilled with Continuity that he came to join Ego Hunter the following morning - I'd say the games were a success! My attendance next year is going to depend largely on being able to defray costs, but if I can make it, I certainly will. (Maybe I should put up an indiegogo or something, see if anyone wants in my games badly enough to help me get there in the first place. ;p ) I'll note that any future games I run, if you've been in them before you're certainly welcome to come see if I have an opening for you at any given table. I know that the couple who were at my 2013 Doom of the Cobra King game were disappointed not to get in on either of my games, and if they'd shown up to Continuity they may well have found themselves in on the dark comedy that took place. As a person who enjoys GMing, I thank you all for playing.
The Red Bishop continues to torment Sutter, only now it's spread. Caeliat made him some special THE RED BISHOP KNOWS WHAT YOU DID and THE RED BISHOP WATCHES YOU SLEEP motivational images.
NOTE: I'm more than capable of adjusting the dangers and encounters in the adventure to match whatever mix of characters you all come up with. So feel free to make the types of characters you want, rather than trying to make sure the group represents a classically balanced party of adventurers. This thing right here is where you divide the people who GM from the people who are GMs.
I'm not clear what else we are given to expect based on past performance. :( Miracles, that's what you should expect. They basically do with a fairly minimal staff what corporations ten to twenty times their size with ample time and money can't manage to get sorted out. That they pull it off and still manage to be friendly, helpful, and customer-oriented makes me suspect that they have some kind of elixir that they give new hires to ascend them to the level of demigods.
Presuming that we're not Firewall, it would make sense that technically _someone_ is sponsoring us as a gatecrashing team. A hypercorp interested in exciting offworld adventures or even just a strong reputation economy impact would suffice for it. It also allows for varying levels of friendliness - at worst, we'd have the cordial work relationship where you grit your teeth and deal with someone because your life AND your job depend on it, full of jabs and snipes about things. If we're all somehow tied to the 'reality XP' show, it'd make sense we all got recruited or hired to the purpose. :D We could even make stints of it on the other stations and worlds of the system! I'm fine with individual character secrets and conspiracies entangling us in the world at large.
Skewers provided by the manticore that fought the polar bear shortly beforehand.
My wife and I are driving roundabout from southern Nevada, and I've driven every year I've gone. Tips for the trip:
Tips for Paizocon:
Most importantly? Have fun!
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