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THANK YOU JACOB! I AM WAITING FOR FRIDAY TO SEE WHAT LIES AND SLANDER ARE HEAPED ON MY LATEST MASTERPIECE SO I CAN RETALIATE WITH ANOTHER SUITABLY SCATHING AND TIMELY VIDEO! WITH A MEME THAT IS FRESH AND NOT AT ALL OVERPLAYED! IT WILL BE GLORIOUS!

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Dale McCoy Jr wrote:
Every gamer at my table knows that movie by heart.

That's what they think. There is so much added content here, as well as different ways to handle situations. What if the Hierophant doesn't manage to steal the Mask? What if they successfully interrogate Mort Agrippa and then just totally skip Westhaven? Do the townsfolk know or care about all the awful stuff the PCs have done?

All this and more can be answered!

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Don't disparage the proud hunting traditions of my people, Ambrus!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BViZsQRGivI

PHARASMIAN TOMB STONE, BABY! They'll sell like hotcakes!

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So my group has hit Racing to Ruin just recently, and they are having a hell of a time. They also made friends with all 5 of the NPCs, and managed to broker a deal that has everyone working together on a joint Pathfinder Society/Sargavan Government venture.

The 5 NPCs are going to be following behind the main party, helping to defend the main expedition. However, odds are good that the PCs will want to travel with the NPCs as well from time to time, so I decided to brush up on their builds a little bit.

Ishirou is gonna take the Thug archetype, and I've been kicking around the idea of him also mixing in some Fighter (Cad).

Gelik is going to take the Street Performer archetype.

Jask is going to be a Cloistered Cleric now.

Sasha is going to end up with the Beast Master (she got 4 dimorphodon "babies" on Smuggler's Shiv) and Skirmisher archetypes.

Aerys is going to take the Brawler archetype, possibly mixing in 3 levels of Martial Artist monk (I've been seriously considering allowing her to take the Monastic Legacy feat so her unarmed can keep improving after those three levels, even though Martial Artist doesn't allow Still Mind so it should be impossible RAW. Am I missing some huge unbalancing factor that would make that a bad idea?).

I also think I'll be improving their stats a little bit - the dice seem to have slapped them across the face pretty hard.

What have you guys done with the other Castaways? Got builds you'd like to share? Chime in!

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Whats all this then?

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Lord President Moorluck wrote:

Well Kevin, you may not have made the Top 32, but you are getting an official invitation to join in the merry chaos over in FAWTL. You rock dude, that had me busting at the seams!

Come on, you know you want to! ;)

Don't mind if I do! Brace for newbishness, as I'm clueless as to what FAWTL is all about.

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Tom Phillips wrote:

Holy ---, that YouTube was awesome. Especially since I boxed up all of my 4e books ... and they're in the garage.

They just seem to wander out there after awhile, don't they?

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Alex Head wrote:

I feel like we have all witnessed the birth of a Meme. It is something beautiful, and rare - that most special of things, glimpsed but once in a generation.

I bet that children born under the sign of the hitler-superstar-reaction will have good luck and be successful in all things, so long as those things involve dice and maps and various rules minutiae.

It's like that moment when a protostar shrugs off it's gravitational shackles and blooms into a churning mass of light and energy - this video is just like that. It has brought warmth and joy to an otherwise dark and lonely place: the rejected-submission table.

And it is a large table.

All that aside: Why in the name of RPGsuperstar hasn't this video been permalinked on the front page?!

If you choose to classify this as a "Hitler-superstar-reaction" meme, then you are quite correct in saying that this is brand new!

However, in the much broader (and practical) sense, Hitler raving about any old thing has been around for quite awhile. It's a clip from the movie Downfall, and people have used it to comment on just about anything you can think of...with varying degrees of success.

If this thing gets linked on the front page, I'll squee for an hour.

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Mark Moreland wrote:

Best. Godwin. Evar.

No, really. There were about eight of us watching this here in the office this morning, and I've never heard so much laughter in the development pit before. Great job.

*Also, I've edited the OP to make the link clickable.

Thanks so much for that!

You guys are the best in the biz, and the fact that you're laughing at something I made makes me feel really proud. Almost glad I lost now! =)

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Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
Let's face it, the only thing that could have made this more perfect is if it had been in response to Sean K Reynolds instead of Neil. ;-)

I am a shameless Sean Reynolds fan, but I also really did want to thank Neil for going to all the trouble he did. It was an extra step he didn't have to take, and I plan to buy him a beer at Paizocon.

(Then corner him and explain why he was mistaken)

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Alex Head wrote:
This video has now been sent to all of my game groups. I am determined to make Kevin Michelson a household name!

You and me both, brother! *finger guns*

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Wiki Monster wrote:
Just as a note, Golariopedia is the renamed old, outdated, no-longer-updated version of PathfinderWiki, which is still quite active and up-to-date. Perhaps that was Hitler's problem?

Nein! Nein! Das ist nicht stimmt!

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Clark Peterson wrote:
Kevin Mickelson wrote:

I suspect that there might be a few other misunderstood geniuses out there that expected to find that the judges had a lengthy debatersation in regards to the (obvious) merits of their submissions, only to discover that they hardly blipped on the radar.

Not that I actually feel this way!
(maybe a teensy-weensie bit...)

Kevin, big kudos to you for actually saying what many people are thinking and feeling when they learn they don't make the cut.

I appreciate how hard it is to see YOUR ITEM didn't make the cut.

Oh, hey, what was that? All caps? Oh...there is a reason for that. Because we aren't judging YOU, as a person or a designer, we are only judging the SINGLE ITEM you chose to submit. That may or may not be a good snapshot of you as a designer. Kobe Bryant is a great free throw shooter, but he still misses on occasion. If you saw him shoot only one, and he missed that one, you would no more be able to say he is a bad free throw shooter than we can say you are a bad designer or person because we didn't advance your one item we saw.

Hey there Clark! Don't take this video the wrong way; I hold within me only the barest fraction of resentment displayed here. Just enough to engage in some self-deprecating humor in between bouts of sulky grumbling. ;)

The Pharasmian(sic) Tomb Stone will live forever!

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Neil Spicer wrote:
Kevin Mickelson wrote:
Pharasmian Tomb Stone

*So, it's a ghost touch SIAC. With a crappy name. Meh.

*Should be "tombstone"...

*Vote to Reject.

*Isn't it "Pharasmin" anyway?

*Reject.

*Agreed. Reject.

*Rejected.

Oh well, you can't win 'em all...even if your contribution was entirely brilliant and "tomb stone" is two separate words for a reason and-

*ahem*

Can't win 'em all! A big congratulations to the winners out there, and thanks to Neil for taking the time to fish out the judge's feedback. I'm looking at this as an opportunity to learn how to accept defeat with dignity and poise.

Hitler, however, is going to need a minute...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y_3NqrYrP0