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Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Forever Never - self titled
Lamb of God -Sacrament
Black Stone Cherry - self titled

Just want to agree that The Hours soundtrack is a fantastic piece of music

It's the same old problem when you deal with big companies. If D&D started losing money of course they would shut it down but they may even shut it down if it doesn't make enough money.

Classic example of this is Black Industries. They announced that they were closing 2 days after the release of the eagerly awaited Dark Heresy that completly sold out and was definitely profitable. So why close? They, Black Library, will make more money selling novels so that's where they put their money and licenced the RPG lines to Fantasy Flight Games.

Ultimately the decison could come from Hasbro accounting. Smaller RPG companies are happy as long as they make a profit because they are often gamers themselves and are passionate about the hobby, Hasbro accountants probably aren't.

I mainly lurk on the forums, talk more about music than d&d. Reading this thread is inspring. The community here is fantastic. Ye are a fantastic bunch of people in times that are hard. God bless ye

Duh, silly me, it's available right in Paizo's store. The CGL site does have it somewhere, but it's very difficult to navigate.

I've seen it in all my local game stores too. Make sure to get the Catalyst version, the older one printing from Mongoose had binding/warping problems.

Sorry would have recommended here if I'd known.

Site has a place holder saying hackers attacked it...

so... there you go.

Cheers for the info

Bolt Thrower - World Eater

Megadeth - Washington is Next

Liam Kelly wrote:

Iced Earth - Something Wicked Part 1

Great album.

Gave it the first good listen today. I like Ripper's vocals a lot but I hear the original vocalist is back again. Still I guess that means Ripper can concentrate on Beyond Fear.

Death Angel - Killing Season
Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empire

Website looks like it is down. I am hoping tech glitches as opposed to company problems, Anyone know anything?

Thanks for the link Krypter, but there isn't an online store on the site. Anyone know where I can get these books??

try here

http://www.nobleknight.com/ViewProducts.asp_Q_ProductLineID_E_2137422384_A_ ManufacturerID_E_617212936_A_CategoryID_E_12_A_GenreID_E_

cut and paste into your address bar and it should take you to the right section

Iced Earth - Something Wicked Part 1

The new Metallica song sucks ass, btw.

A ballad? That is NOT the direction I was expecting or hoping for with this new album.

I am member of the Anthrax fanclub and we have been keeping an eye on what is coming from Metallica. Have to agree I don't like the single, Cyanide and My Apocalypse are better (the latter has a hint of early Slayer to it) but I haven't heard anything that makes me confident of a real Thrash return to form. I was hoping for an epic faceoff between Anthrax and Metallica but I can't see the new Anthrax album coming out this year.

Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned (from Live After Death)

Seriously... I know they actually toured together for a while as well. I thought the first Lost Prophets disc was pretty awesome (Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja blew my little highschool mind the first time I heard it), and the second one actually had some good stuff on it as well, but then they just face-planted, for no apparent reason.

That is what is pissing me off with the Lost Prophets, the first album was ace - Shinobi... was one of the best songs I heard that year.

Getting back to bands who massacre other bands classic tunes. Anybody know who Sign are? They have DESTROYED Maiden's Run To The Hills. They deserve a kicking

Moby - Animal Right

Quite raucous for him but if I remember rightly he started off in a punk band before hitting the big time doing what he does

Two pints of warm beer.

As long as it's good old Ale that wouldn't be the end of the world

Black Flag - Damaged

You gotta have some Rollins in your life. I feel like a more active Sunday this week so some louder music.

The thing about Funeral For a Friend is that they started out awesome and have been on a steady downhill trend ever since. Those first two discs knocked my socks off when they came out, but "Hours" felt like they were mailing it in, and the most recent one doesn't even have screaming, let alone furious riffs. I'm not sure if there were some lineup changes or if they just got bored, but the new sound isn't for me. Depending on when they did the 'Tallica tribute, I'm not surprised it was lame. That said, if you want to see some truly hilarious Metallica covers, you should look up the TV tribute special they did a few years back. When Sum41 does the best cover of the night, you know you're in trouble. :) Seriously - I can't imagine what Metallica must have thought while sitting there watching Avril Lavigne play "Fuel."

Misery Signals is still badass - I just got their brand new disc, and it's quality. Not quite as catchy as "Mirrors" right out of the box (which was also great), but also harder to get tired of for the same reason.

I think Funeral either took inspiration from Lost Prophets or the other way round. Decent debuts and then decend into bland s!++e. As for Metallica covers, I will check them out. One Metallica covers story is at work a colleague was listening to a woman called something Silvas, can't remember the full name. On comes her rendition of 'Nothing Else Matters' which made me chuckle. Later in the day I was on the phone with our support guys and it was playing in the background. From nowhere the guy on the other end of the line just said that's the worst Metallica cover he had ever heard which made me chuckle a lot more

Funeral's effort was worse mind.

http://www.avianband.com/

also here is his myspace link, mostly f5 stuff

http://www.myspace.com/davidellefson1

Cheers for the link and thanks to Mr Mona for raising up the question. I was aware of F5, have never heard of avian before, will check them out

Listening to Iron Maiden - Brave New World

It all started with an old Lucozade ad with Daley Thompson running with Maiden's Phantom of the Opera playing. So got into them and Saxon, then discovered Thrash, barely dabbled with Punk and Goth at college. Stuck with Metal but have been liking more and more Punk and Hardcore gigs. Sick Of It All played my home towna few months back! Happy days!

Hasbro has apparently also forced the game scrabulous off of Facebook (over copyright issues) but promised that they would make their own on-line version of scrabble available... apparently their website crashed and was then hacked before anyone was able to download it...

Perhaps they pulled people off Gleemax to try to make their on-line Scrabble work... based on their success with the DDI my brother-in-law, who is a Scrabulous fanatic, is going to have to find another hobby.

Scrabulous is still working (at least in the UK) though there has been rumblings in the press that Hasbro were going to have a go at them. Scrabble is also now available. It may be different in the US since I am sure the copyright for Scrabble is different in the Satest as opposed to the UK.

Tim Hitchcock wrote:

What?!! no Bullet for my Valentine?

they sound like a hardcore version of IRON MAIDEN.

or how about As I Lay Dying? I like them too.

I've got "The Poison" by Bullet for my Valentine, and while I listened to it relentlessly for a bit, it eventually started to feel a little generic, particularly the lyrics and the recording style. That said, I haven't listened to the new album yet, so I'll have to check it out.... For British screamo, I still think you can't beat Funeral For A Friend's "7 Ways to Scream Your Name" and "Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation."

I honestly think we are still waiting for the finished article from Bullet. They use three vocalists (main and two supporting, sharing the screamy bits). Saw them at Reading a couple of years ago and for the first 3-4 tracks I thought they were excellent but it then got samey. But hey, they are touring this autumn and bringing Lacuna Coil, Bleeding Through and Black Tide as support to my city so they're allright in my book

I am not prepared to give Funeral the time of day after they massacred Damage Inc for a Metallica tribute cd by Kerrang magazine.

Also, if you're into stuff like that, allow me to suggest Oh Sleeper, Protest the Hero, Misery Signals, Saosin's "Translating the Name" EP, and Thrice's "The Illusion of Saftey" and "The Artist in the Ambulance"... that's a pretty good cross section of all my favorite bands that scream. :)

Only familiar with Misery Signals - Of Malice and The Magnum Heart. Good stuff.
/end info dump

House of Flying Daggers sountrack by Shigeru Umbayashi. Also queued up is the Requiem For A Dream soundtrack by Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet.

Hey it's Sunday and I am in a mellow mood. If it wasn't Sunday it could easily be a playlist like the one that houstonderek mentioned, some cracking hardcore punk going on there

Anacrusis - Manic Impressions

sadly now defunct

Liam Kelly wrote:

James Sutter wrote:

Here's a question: I love folks like Protest the Hero, Oh Sleeper, Misery Signals, My Bitter End, and other folks who manage to do the prog/hardcore/metal thing. Does anybody have recommendations of bands I might not have heard of who do similar things? I'm looking for someone who's harder than Dream Theater (though they're awesome), newer than Metallica (though they're awesome as well) and slightly more accessible than Dillinger or Between the Buried and Me (though they, too, are awesome). My ideal band is aggressive, alternates between brutality and really melodic stuff, and changes up the riffs constantly so you never get bored.

What have you got?

I would check out Johnny Truant. I have their "repurcussions of a badly planned suicide" mini album. Not as full on as Dillinger (to be honest they only work for me live, a fantastic experience especially when, as support for System Of A Down in the UK, they stunned the audience into stunned silence. Glorious)

I'll have to look them up!

Plenty of stuff on YouTube

Sacred Reich - Surf Niguragua

after reading the Erik Mona/Metal thread, I dug it out. Class stuff!

Here's a question: I love folks like Protest the Hero, Oh Sleeper, Misery Signals, My Bitter End, and other folks who manage to do the prog/hardcore/metal thing. Does anybody have recommendations of bands I might not have heard of who do similar things? I'm looking for someone who's harder than Dream Theater (though they're awesome), newer than Metallica (though they're awesome as well) and slightly more accessible than Dillinger or Between the Buried and Me (though they, too, are awesome). My ideal band is aggressive, alternates between brutality and really melodic stuff, and changes up the riffs constantly so you never get bored.

What have you got?

I would check out Johnny Truant. I have their "repurcussions of a badly planned suicide" mini album. Not as full on as Dillinger (to be honest they only work for me live, a fantastic experience especially when, as support for System Of A Down in the UK, they stunned the audience into stunned silence. Glorious)

In other band news did anybody else like Sacred Reich?

I have just jumped backed 20 years

"I know a place where I'm gonna go ..."

SURF NICURAGUA - what an ep. Ignorance was a great album as well

I have only quickly scanned through this thread, I could go bananas with this thread. Metal has been a huge part of my life

Mr Mona, you asked where someone heard Master of Puppets live, how about "Orion" (and the rest of the album) played at Castle Donington, spiritual home of metal in the UK (Download '06)

Iron Maiden are the legends for me, huge respect for Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.

Go Gama Bomb the Irish thrashers!

Unfortunately, no, though it's been so long since I read Shannara, I'd have to read them again and get the essence of the stones in order to recreate the Elfstones. I think I'm going to do that.

Please do, they would be a great magic item. Powerful in a very specific way but not super powerful in general use.

Best of luck with that.

Currently about 170 pages into "Lines of Most Resistance : The Lords, The Tories and Ireland 1886-1914"

BELIEVE ME, I will be reading fantasy after this. The level of racism just over 100 years ago in the British Parliament is astounding. I will have to read fiction next

Thought I'd jump into this old thread rather than create a new one:

My wife just bought The Elves of Cintra for me, which is the middle book in the Genesis of Shannara trilogy. Has anyone read GoS? What did you think?

I have read the first book in the trilogy "Armageddon's Children". What do I think? Ace. I really thing that Brooks has matured as an author. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed his early stuff but he has definitely improved his writing skills, he's much better now. With this trilogy he has continued the grit of his Word and Void trilogy. Most enjoyable.

So far, the material crafted by Nicolas Logue have been my favorites. As a DM, they have been a pleasure to read compared to typical fare which can be dull, cliche, and ordinary. As a player in his contribution to CotCT, I was equally delighted and entertained by the exotica of his royal naughtiness. My wife and I weren't originally module subscribers, but we decided to test the line with Crown of the Kobold King first. I wasn't going to test it with any other author, and now I have been impressed enough after reading it for us to go ahead and subscribe now to the modules as well.

I can't think of other times when I've giggled with as much sadistic glee, and I look forward to more.

After reading this thread, I think I am gonna go with Crown of the Kobold King as an early adventure in the campaign I am gonna run. My game world is gonna be Mystara, I am tempted to transplant Darkmoon Vale to Karameikos, I want a dark vein to the game.

If any one would care to throw together some ideas for the setting using 4E Please post them here.

Here are some sites that are Mystaran based if you're not already aware of them

www.pandius.com (loads of stuff)

http://mystara.home.comcast.net/~mystara/mirros.htm

http://www.geocities.com/thresholdparty/kara.html (nice map)

http://www.mystara.fr/

Karameikos is the tradotional starting place and is a great place to start, plenty of wilderness areas.

The old Gazetters from the Basic/Expert days are available as pdf from Paizo's download section 4$ a go

Prepping a Mystara game using 3.5, thinking of incorporating the Classic Monster's Revisted, the goblins are well cool

Best of luck

Liam

Ever since I finally got core rulebook for WFRP 2nd Edition, I've been toying with various ideas for adventures and a mini-campaign I could run. I'm going through the rules now and I would like to know are there any glitches or peculiarities of the system I should be aware of.

For example: I know that the combat in WFRP is more lethal compared to D&D, but how lethal is it? On average, how many fights in a day could party of beginners possibly take? On the other hand, I'm also interested in how useful are the rules for social interaction, knowledge or research skills.

Then there are careers for which I'm not really sure how balanced are they: it seems to me that mechanically the player of Noble or Soldier has a definite advantage over Rat Catcher - which is all the more reason to be interested into practical in-game value of various skills and talents.

So far, I like what I've seeing from WFRP: the rules seem refreshingly simple compared to the D&D 3.5: far less magic and magical items to take into account, for example. On the other hand, basics of the combat seem quite intuitive and similar to D&D, which is great 'cause it means less times for new players to adjust.

You don't want to fight too often. Combat is far more lethal and healing beyond a couple of wounds is not readily available. Social interaction I think is a large part of the game, the scheming of Nobles etc, Charm and Bluff come into that a lot, knowledge skills also handy

The things with careers is to think a few careers down the line. The three example you mention can all lead to good careers. Regards the advantages the Noble and Soldier have over the Rat Catcher, yes from a combat point of view but he has great skills for evasion. You will not always want to fight. For combat the Strike to skills are great (I have been on the receiving end), parrying and Dodge blow are well worthwhile. If you want to hide, my money is on the Rat Catcher. Also when, dealing with Chaos, as nearly every WFRP game does, Resistence to disease is a great thing to have

The rules are quite streamlined, it should be an easy switch from 3.5 to WFRP as long as the will is there. Have fun with it

I recently acquired the first part of "The Enemy Within" campaign, Shadows over Bögenhafen (dirt cheap on ebay, 1,50€, and near mint). It says Volume one on the cover, and it is a later compilation volume (I do not have the book right at hand, but it was from around the mid-90ies, IIRC, and 120 pages strong.) It is a sourcebook and the first adventure, I think. I always heard that this is a very good campaign, and now being able to get it right cheap, I just had to buy it.

As Warhammer has a tradition of re-editions, I´m a bit confused which volume would be the next. Is there any source on the net, where you can get more details about the following volumes?

Thanks

Stefan

The next books are as Jit says but there is also a companion book for Power beyond the Throne called Warhammer City or Warhammer City of Chaos which describes Middenheim. They have been lumped together as Warhammer City of Chaos (180 pages approx). A lot of people were disapointed with Empire In Flames. Do an online search for "Empire At War" (I think it's in the forums at www.Warhammer.net), a fan based alternative that has been well received. It's a free download.

A mate has just started running the Enemy Within campaign, we are having a great time. Have fun.

RE GVDammerung's post about nothing being done with Mystara and Al-Qadim settings, Wizards aren't doing anything themselves but have licensed official fan based websites (of Mystara anyway, there's a good fansite for Al-Qadim)

Mystara - www.pandius.com
Al-Qadim - http://www.al-qadim.com
Birthright - www.birthright.net (doesn't say licensed but does say it's official.)

Don't want to go off topic, it would be great if Wizards aren't going to prioritise Greyhawk, that other's could do so, but it is the grandaddy of D&D settings. If they've pulled the licenses for Dragonlance and Ravenloft, I can't see them letting anyone have Greyhawk

Gutting that this RPG line has already announced it's end. In the UK it has been released under the Black Industries label (it and Sabretooth are both part of Black Library which is part of Games Workshop). Black Industries is releasing it's final book in September. The decision was announced two or three days after Dark Heresy was released.

So for WFRP there is one more book
Ten Thousand Thrones - an adventure campaign

For Dark Heresy (release dates are UK, dunno if different in the States)
Purge The Unclean - (Adventures) March
The Inquisitor's Handbook - (Player's Guide) June
Desciples of the Dark Gods - (Guide to enemies of the Imperium) Sept

** Some good stuff appearing on the www.blackindustries.com website. Vehicle rules are up. There is something like 70 adventures for WFRP on there as well.