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Issue has been taken care of. Thank you.
hi. just ordered three PDFs, as you'll see. i could open saltshacks and the great city just fine, but the blood throne bundle wouldn't open, even after i upgraded my adobe reader to v9. the message i repeatedly got was 'error opening' the file and 'problem reading (14)'. any ideas what i'm doing wrong, or is the file corupt? or something else beyond my ken? i'd appreciate any feedback you have on the issue. thanks. wayne cayea
plus, oerth journal #23 just came out, with a decent version of warlock's walk. hey, it's not dungeon magazine, but it is pretty good stuff just the same (plus i think some paizo staff have ties to OJ ;)).
i seem to be having bad luck with my dice orders.... let me revise my order again. please cancel the quantity of 5 ivory death dice (black spots) in my order. instead replace the dice with quantity of 10 koplow bone dice found here: http://paizo.com/store/gameAids/dice/byManufacturer/koplow/d6/v5748btpy77wf thanks. wayne cayea
vic, i have done as you recommended: the email has been sent. thanks.
i see now that the dice are backordered... if this is the only thing holding up the order, can i change the dice for a different set of dice so that the order can proceed? thanks.
hi. i placed an order on 12/2/07. it is pending and says it is expected in 33-51 days (or thereabouts) - don't remember the exact numbers. it doesn't say anything is backordered, so i am wondering what the long wait is related to. thanks for your help, and happy holidays to all paizo staff.
somewhere online there is a really fun 2e adventure that is made for two groups, one good aligned and one evil aligned, which is a race to the center of the maze. sounds a little like the idea behind the reverse dungeon too. always wanted to try that one....
That sounds awesome! I don't think I'd be able to keep one group unaware of the others - my gaming group is more than half made up of married couples. :) But that sounds like a blast! my wife was the only member of both groups. she did struggle with not saying the wrong thing to the wrong group - but we pulled it off.
i've been doing this for the past 8 months. it has worked surprisingly well. actually, i had an additional twist - group B knew of group A, but A thought it was the only group. early on we did challenge of champions and group B won by 5 points over A in second place - both did amazingly well. group A just thought the other group was an NPC team. i also do a newspaper, and there are always articles about what happens in adventures, and group B kept popping up, but A again just thought it was an NPC group. since they got more of the glory, though, A took a strong dislike to B. finally, just a few weeks ago, i set up a joint game. group B arrived early, and sat upstairs. group A got set up, then i had group B come down to join us and everyone's mouth on group A was agape. everyone loved it and we had a great session (although with too many people). i intend to have full group sessions one or two times a year, but otherwise keep them separate. i may steal your idea of switching teams at times though; that sounds fun.
sadly, dragon issue 355 has not shown up. i'm starting to have a strong dislike for my regional postal system. ouch. a critical oversight on my part. i guess just leave things the way they are, and i'll have to pick up 355. thanks for the info vic.
sadly, dragon issue 355 has not shown up. i'm starting to have a strong dislike for my regional postal system.
"So my posting FREE content, including very detailed summaries of each level, which is my intent, which would perforce include sketch maps of each or fully rendered roughs, is a way to continue building the setting and at the same time organizing it in detailed outline form for future (possible) publication. In either case it stays expanding rather than shunted aside, and that's the main idea, heh?" this sounds great, uncle. as many others have said as well, maure castle is my favorite adventure, and the reason i finally subscribed to dungeon before issue 112. i didn't want to miss anything maure related. as it turned out, i got many other great adventures as well, as the paizo people produce some awesome stuff. MC will always be my fav, though. i eagerly await anything and everything you create for the setting.
Right off the top of my head, no. Fiendish Codex I mentions it I believe, but I don't have it with me here at the public library. page 155 of FC:I lists a "-" for layer, meaning he does not rule a layer, is in contention for one, serves another lord, wanders, or is trapped. considering he is tied to the tome of the black heart and maure castle, i'd opt for the last one (trapped).
yeah, savage tide was what got me thinking of this in the first place, but it'll be a while 'til i get to that. i wanted to do some foreshadowing and stage setting with some other baddies first in prep for that. anyway, thanks for all of the ideas. i will do some reading in the fiendish codices and re-read por. house to see what i can come up with.
Aside from the Blood War I don't really think demons and devils meet often enough to form great rivalries. They are all too worried about being stabbed in the back/eaten by their own kind! thank for the response phil. sorry if i wasn't clear. your point is my point as well, actually. i'm not looking for a devil vs. demon fight, but some demon:demon OR devil:devil action.
i'm curious if anyone is aware of an adventure wherein the PCs become involved in a plot of a demon or devil (either would work in this case) who schemes to overthrow their rival or liege. i would like this coup d'etat to be a major part of the adventure itself, not just backstory. i am drawing a blank trying to come up with a published module or a dungeon magazine adventure similar to this. any help would be appreciated. thanks.
just want to say publicly that your customer service, like the magazines themselves, are top notch. thanks again.
i was really looking forward to this issue, and i've tried to be patient, but i have not yet received dargon issue #353 so i guess it is time to mention it. could some kind and wise paizo customer service rep check into this for me? thanks much, i appreciate it.
monte cook did an article on 'table rules' in dungeon a while back that should be a good starting point. don't remember which issue though....
my 2cp: (many of these are 1980s conan comic inspired) your gods won't help you, but a yard of honed steel might 'tis a time for reckoning: here are your consequences you hurt me boy, I like that I've suffered worse wounds than this making love I'll die someday scum, and when I do I'll have a blade in my hand and a curse on my lips you'll remember Grimslade and know fear a blade and time to use it are all I ask you craven bucket of troll-bait you arrogant whelp of a she-dog you swing that sword like an ape keep your tongue silent, cur, or I'll tie it in a knot I'll slit your belly and leave you for the worms, scum one more word and I'll tear your tongue from your mouth you weren't born, you were vomited I should rip your spine out, if I could find it
cos~ thanks a bunch. i appreciate it.
i've tried to be patient as well, but i guess since you said the 12th, i'll throw my towel in a well. i have not received my copy of dungeon issue #139 yet either. thanks for your support.
uncle has said on his own message boards that it is pronounced "MOW" (to rhyme with now) "er" (as in the typical 'agent' ending like teacher or lawyer).
Somehow, the Narnia books and movie are considered "good Christian literature" lewis was a christian scholar and his whole purpose of writing naria was to prep children for growing up to be good christians. narnia tells the same story as the bible, using different characters. the lion is jesus, making the sacrifice, etc. children were supposed to later be able to look back at narnia when they later encountered christianity and say, 'oh, that's just like narnia....' and the way would have been pathed for their acceptance and faith. the connection seems lost on most people i've talked to, however. i, myself, never made this connection until we studied it in a college lit class....
Is it part of teacher training to view D&D participants with suspicion? i'm a teacher, and each state does decide its own educational approaches independent of other states (well, before 'W' and No Child Left Untested), so i can only speak for NY....we have one class on drugs and other problem behaviors (my class was taught by a cop); in this class D&D *IS* specifically pointed out as a potential 'gateway' activity that will lead one down the path of ruin to drugs, suicide, murder.... lumped with it were black clothes, rock music, wicca, etc, etc. you get the picture. so, people who have less than open minds hear this and think it must be true - even future teachers. i debated all of this with the instructor/cop and brought him ton of literature the next week, but he just blew it all off.... so, all of this is just a long way of saying, yes, even at a college level, at least in NY in the '90s, even future educators were being indoctrinated by those who wanted to ultimately control what american children could play, listen to, dress like, etc.
all of that sounds great, and i eagerly look forward to it all. james, i hope you are taking notes, good sir.
as you will uncle. i must say, maure castle is my all-time favorite d&d adventure, so i'm eager to gobble them up as quickly as you can get them published, but i'll try to restrain myself. ;)
Spoilers anyone?? sure! i'd love as many spoilers as you'd like to share, 'uncle'.
"If you could drop me an e-mail at james.jacobs@paizo.com with the information and perhaps a link to this company's website, I'll check into it. Thanks for letting us know about it!" check your email, james. i think all the info you need is there.
since a subtle approach didn't work, let me be more direct here. what is the policy for dungeon magazine adventures to be republished for sale in other publications under different rules systems, but while retaining all of the flavor text and some artwork? is there a time period after which this is allowed, or once it's in dungeon, it lives there forever? in other words, there is another "company" i know of that appears to be plagiarizing and reselling adventures and artwork from old dungeon magazines, and then selling it for profit. although it is possbible they have permission, my instincts tell me that they are doing so illegally and feel obligated to notifiy dungeon staff.
does anyone know if the author and artist for 'the djinni's ring' from issue #9 are still working in the field? their names are vince garcia and daniel horne, respectively. if anyone knows anything about these two men, especially how i can get in touch with one or both, please let me know. dungeon staff - any thoughts? many thanks.
thanks for the responses. i appreciate it.
does anyone know of any adventures in which the PCs are accused of murder, or another crime, and most work through the court proceedings? if anyone could point me in the right direction, i'd appreciate it. thanks.
yeah, as ultrdan said, i think most people who do use it do so as a reminder to those who are anal rules lawyers that it's "just a game", and if you take it all too seriously you need to get a life.
ditto. i had the EXACT same problem!
carl~ shoot me an email at branderwydd@hotmail.com and we can discuss the possibilities. don't want to have the conversation here. wayne
hellacious huni~ well, it was t&t rather than d&d, but i've got one black ops story. in basic training for the army we weren't allowed to have dice. i had my soft-covered t&t rulebook (passed off as my one allowed 'magazine') and in my wallet was a change pocket that i'd smuggled in like 10 tiny dice the size of the pips on normal dice. all 10 were little bigger than a finger nail. we would move our lockers to block view and play for hours on sundays, our only day off. the dice were easily hid, and while the lockers raised a few eyebrows, we never got in any trouble for it. on the larger topic, i've never had many religious problems with roleplaying. two teachers were concerned with me playing in middle school, but after i explained the game, and compared it to the creative writing and poetry i was doing in their classes, they were cool with it. one of the teachers was coming at it from a religious angle. one of my best friends, whom i played with, moved away in 8th grade. we continued playing through the mail until he was converted to christianity and didn't want to play anymore because it was evil. he tried to make up his own military rpg to play instead, but of course it flopped and i never heard from him again.
Murkmoldiev~ finally! i've been reading everyone's post and wondering 'didn't anyone start out play tunnels & trolls?' at least you did. i've been role-playing since about 1982. i'm now a 35 year old teacher of the deaf. i've played t&t, d&d, tmnt, elfquest, powers & perils, warhammer, gurps, call of chtulhu, and ... i think that's it. i'm most familair with the first two. while i'm really fond of the history and cosmology of d&d, i'm still drawn to the flexibility, playability and humor that t&t offers. it's all a matter a taste, of course, but some of us don't like the fact that in d&d there's a rule for everything that has to be looked up before play can proceed - that just wastes time. once the mechanics of t&t are learned, any situation can be resolved in mere seconds without consulting the rulebook. on the other hand, you can use variant rules to make t&t as convoluted as you like. i'm not trying to start a system-snobbery flame here - i am a fan of d&d (or else i wouldn't be here); i just wanted to give a wink to murkmoldiev for his t&t relate. fiery dragon has a new edition of t&t coming out, with two sets of rules. one is st. andre's 7th edition of t&t, and the other is fiery dragon's attempt at making t&t more like d&d/d20, from what i can gather. i'm most curious to see how they manage this, as it will resolve quite a few of my own gaming issues if it is done well. my own games often involve elements of both d&d and t&t.
i always find this attitude interesting. i don't even play d&d, so none of the mechanics of any dungeon or dragon article are useful to me. nonetheless, the backstory and whatnot always inspires me with a million ideas for use in my campaign. people who complain that an article is completely useless to them have no imagination whatsoever. in addition to what our good editor said about spending time and money elsewhere (than buying dragon), these people should consider finding a new hobby all together that doesn't require any thought on their part. just watch TV or something. ;)
I'd love to have a bash at another adventure in The Styes if there was enough interest... richard~ the styes is one of the best all-around adventures i've seen in years, especially in atmospheric content. consider this a vote of interest in favor of another styes adventure, or a backdrop article. make it happen!
i was just flipping through the issue, and i see that on page 91 that you have the captions for 'awen' and 'triskele' under the wrong graphics. they should be switched! |
