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I don't want to sound like an old curmudgeon, but you kids have it so easy today, with your multiple spells and abilities to actually do stuff!!! Seriously, first level has improved so much, I hated the days where you might have one spell per day as a wizard. It was bad in, IIRC, 1st and BECMI.

I am fine starting at level one generally, but I have no problem being higher, and some of the responses here are good reasons to start higher, like feeling limited with background stories. You can't do a grizzled veteran at 1st level, unless you do something like you've been level drained down, had all your items stripped, and lost all your gold. Once, that might work, but even that is a stretch. I didn't mind back in 2nd edition where Dark Sun started at 3rd, but I would have been fine at 1st too.

The problem I have with Sad Puppies is that they have ruined Hugo voting for the next few years, potentially, at least. By pushing bloc voting, even if they were correct, or had proof for it, which I doubt, it will result in a backlash that all voting will be bloc voting for the next nomination. I've read several Hugo winners that I didn't like, but I won't read any that were pushed to win.
I can understand if one writer says "vote for me" or if the voting represents the actual reading population. From what I have read, more than 50% of sci-fi\fantasy readers are women, so the trend would be that way, and I'd understand that. I'm also dismayed that actual authors were either not included\included in the SP list (or not) are now affected by this, as their own merits, one way or another, are not important here. An author who won a nomination in one of the categories that SP dominated is always going to be doubted, right or wrong, which I don't like at all. By fighting a perceived injustice, they have potentially created more. I am a liberal white male, but I see this as more of a detriment to anyone in the long term. Next year, valid conservatives may lose out to similar actions. Or we'll just have a nuclear escalation that will only ruin Hugo awards forever. None of this is any good. I hope this, one way or another, will not continue next year. But, for now, this is not a positive for the nomination process. No votes, which some are advocating as a reaction, are not fair to valid nominees. But valid nominees are in question, which is sad.

Liz, I couldn't buy anything from THAT set. Callous Jack is a complete reprobate, and I could never support his racy lifestyle by buying his art. Actually, I mean he is the best DM in the world, and I would never question his great wisdom.

Velcro, uh, thanks, now I feel silly. You are right about the prices, though, and while I could do that, spending that much for a single mini is difficult.

Thanks everyone else too.

So I'm looking for a large dragon mini, large as in the size in PF\3.5 from the D+D line. Looking online, you can't always tell how big the minis are, and I'd prefer to have a large mini and not a huge one. Can anyone advise me what to look for? Thanks.

And I've double checked by downloading it (again) myself and it is indeed the current (new) version. Ross says that it is just the date not updating for whatever reason.

Okay, thanks for the update.

Dark_Mistress wrote:

Not yet, still showing last update in 2010.

Give it until Monday (when Paizo offices are open again). If it's still not by then, we'll see what's going on.

It is still showing last update in 2010.

Andrew Turner wrote:

Kthulhu wrote:

I've been saying that for years, ever since I heard he wanted to do it. A faithful interpretation would be a bomb of ridiculous proportions.

Can you elaborate?

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness/full

I have to agree with the naysayers. HPL in general does not transfer to film-much of his stories are description, which a film will gloss over in a few shots. I love HPL, but his movies don't work as films. Or they end up being horribly altered to fit the screen, which is worse. Del Toro is better than many other directors to attempt this, but I think it is a bridge too far for film. I think to make this work, they'll have to change the story greatly.

Certainly, adaptations in the past 10 years are generally much more faithful than they were in the 80's and early 90's. I'm still not sure really how LOTR came out as amazingly as it did, but there have been more movies like Lurking Fear, Reanimator, The Unnamable, Conan the Destroyer, and Red Sonja to give me much faith.

I don't think this will help, but I had a friend and Gencon, and asked her to pick up the Advanced Player's Guide. She had friends go get it, but they ended up getting the main Pathfinder book, which I have. I don't have a reciept or anything, but is there something we can work out if I send it back? I will admit I'm not even sure they picked it up from the Pazio booth, but I'm kind of stuck. I still don't have the APG, sadly, either. If you can't do anything, I would totally understand.

There was an indie d20 game called Knights of the Chalice, http://www.heroicfantasygames.com/, that was very cool, despite its limitations-only 3 classes, not that many spells, basically only combat, no skills. I do not think they had to pay for the license, and there is no mention of D+D in their game. It is their own fairly generic fantasy world. It is one of the best tactical combat games I've played. Beware, it looks like Ultima 6, for you next gen people.