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I've been running a few AP's (currently doing Abomination Vaults) so I do use Golorion. But as a long-in-the-tooth gamer, Spelljammer, Lolth, Menzoberanzan, Ravenloft and the city of Sigil are all lurking in the background in my head canon, weather they get used or not.
The vague Kingdom is running Pitax, has forged alliances from the Numerian border into the old cyclops kingdoms to the east. It's presence would probably stop Brevoy from splitting and it's control over a fair chuck of the Sellen would affect trade to the south. It's a big impact for a vague kingdom. But maybe the default approach is that Kingmaker failed? A blank slate of a wilderness left after the settlements of the region now exist in a bubble? Maybe there is a crazy NPC running convinced he's the rightful King of the Kellids, and an even madder spellcaster with an evil cyclops orb for an eye?
Cue the wierdness of being resurrected but still having a corpse (maybe a resurrected necromancer can animate his original skeleton)? and maybe I'm missing something - but wouldn't telport be much easier?
A filter by sourcebook too, so a GM can limit stuff to the books he owns.
"But the faithful will be healed with my Cata-tonic!"
Disappointing of course but the update gives a lot to look forward to. And not like I'm going to be running it soon anyway. Better it's done right than rushed through. Stay safe everyone.
Purely anecdotal of course, but as a retailer I get the impression that most gamers buy the rules for a D&D/Pathfinder/CoC/Shadowrun etc, take it home and have fun with their friends, with no concept of this, or other forums or the perceived inadequacies of their game of choice. They play it as is and have a good time. Like savages. I would hypothesis that the 'many gamers' label belongs to this group. Those poor, poor fools.
I'm in!
Problem solved! Tried a different 'un-zipper'.
The 'desperadoes make off with a super starship' is giving me a 'Blake's Seven' vibe.
It feels so close!
Hmm. I seem to be having problems - the download gives me a zip file but extracting it doesn't actually result in anything my pc recognizes (and just one file once extracted - not many). I did a test download on some others in 'my downloads' and that was fine. Any ideas?
I'm in with the BP movie an'all but that leap off the crashing car... He leaps up off the car....then in a nice slo-mo shot he's tumbling above the car (travelling at the same speed)... then he descends....and lands on a car 20 feet in front! Great shot...but physics, man! I know, superhero movie, but it bugs me.
I am a 50 year old - and I like it a lot.
Nah. She was a cliché. A trope. The free-wheeling loner kid who says "Hey. It's me. Deal". Same old same old. YMMV of course...
Leia in the centre...
Yep. I'm afraid I'm not a fan of fresh faced yoofs driving billion dollar war machines. In PR1 the pilots were grizzled veterans - which seems more appropriate. I must be getting old(they all looked pretty young to me)and cynical (the marketing men have got involved in the script writing stage). I am a fan of giant robots punching giant monsters in the face - that was the target market for Pacific Rim - so I'm not adverse to childish things....so I'll still go and see it. Hey - it's just my opinion - and with the trend now for trailers to mislead slightly, the movie may focus on different things...
On the hex map some of the hexes are not aligned perfectly with the rest of the grid.
Hmm. It seems more power ranger-y, kids doing the fighting, which I'm not a fan of... Maybe they're trainees and the jaeger dueling is simulation.
I had to turn that off after 10 seconds.
some good stuff... ..but the Master didn't regenerate into the likeness of Tremas (corny anagram alert) but stole his body. Antony Ainley was always Nyssa's father, it's just that for 99.9% of his tenure he was possessed by the Master. And legends of the Old Time... if you're going to treat the tv series, the novels (especially the Virgin books) and the comic strips all as canon you're going to get in a right old mess. I mean, forget UNIT dating.... The Virgin book writer's guide specifically stated that the Doctor was not 'The Other'. Next you'll be telling me he's 'more than just a Time Lord'....
Preferred this to D2 and I haven't seen Minions (and strangely have no desire to). I thought Bratt was good villain (though Vector was better - would like to see him return). I laughed out loud at some of the gags and enjoyed some eighties nostalgia with the music. Didn't think much of Dru though, and the minions could've not been in the movie at all for all they did. Lucy and the girls plot also seemed kind of tacked on.
RIP Roger Moore. My top Bond. My favourite Bond movie is Live and Let Die. Written for Connery but played oh so much better by Moore in the role.
We started Kingmaker not long after book 1 was released. Just now getting to the end of book six. So if you can get 'book 7' out by September that would be great :-) For other information - modules with a level 1 or 2 increase. A good read but easy to run. Interesting background but easy to plug into an existing campaign. Available in print form through normal bricks and mortar shops. I'm sure that doesn't sound too hard to do.... Cheers
+1 for high level stuff. And more than four characters. And assuming those are not 15 point buy noobs. I would ask for sub-system support but the Kingdom rules get too clunky at later levels and I plan to just switch to good old Birthright if my group wants to continue. Themes - planar travel, space travel, flying ships, artifacts, city destruction, dragons (and another request for kaiju)... Cheers
Saw it yesterday and really enjoyed it. It does what it says on the tin. Spoiler:
Loved the after credits scene, from the "are you just going sit there in the dark bit to the cave painting. Think I saw Rodan, Mothra, Godzilla and Gidorah. Kong's fight scenes were well done. Nicely animated although I wasn't that fond of the Skullcrawlers as a monster. Actually surprised that John Goodman's character didn't make it. Peeves: why oh why do pilots of whatever aircraft seem to fly straight towards giant monsters instead of doing the obvious thing and fly away or, you know, up? And the heroic sacrifice that wasn't. Much like the native american soldier in Predator the build up to a brave sacrifice, a "no greater love hath man" moment was ruined by it's complete non-consequence.
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Understood - just getting the message out. Cheers
Still having problems with your website I'm afraid. Have purchased Ultimate Factions (and have receipts from the site and Paypal) but it's not shown up in 'My Downloads'!!!! More details on a PM. Any help? Cheers
That's Friday. As in 0001 GMT yes? Actually, make 0001 New Zealand time.... Cheers
The house-rules I am using work as normal up to 80ft and then go -4 for each doubling of the distance, with a -2 for halfway between each doubling. So that would be -8 at 80, -10 at 120, -12 at 160, -14 at 240, -16 at 320, -20 at 640 (or 1/8 miles), -24 at 1/4 miles, -28 at 1/2 miles, -32 at 1 mile, and so on. Sniping at 1/4 of a miles is the equivalent of sneaking normally 40ft away. Also, if I just calculated it right, you would get a -138 penalty to see the sun, and a -160 penalty for seeing the nearest star from earth. That seems reasonably sane AFAICT. Andromeda - unless you have the right telescope you can't tell it's a galaxy - can you? Some sort of Perception chart is required* - taking in to account object size, distance, effects that give bonuses and penalties, details you can actually make out. Shouldn't be too hard. *Or the GM can just call it there and then. Cheers
Not seeing anything to indicate Chewie doing nothing but just walking into the background - the way I rationalised it was that he was feeling pretty pissed at Leia and was blanking her.... ..Han had written off Ben/Kylo and Chewie would have known that and understood his reasons why. Leia piles on the emotional pressure to 'save' their son, indirectly putting Han in a position to be killed by Kylo. Chewie probably didn't feel like hugging it out... Cheers
It does sound more like 'Golarion Faction Member's Guide' rather than a generic 'Adventurer's Guide'...
The Man from UNCLE, The Protectors, The Magnificent Seven, Hussle. RIP :-(
Classifying the Arcane spells in to the Warhammer colours (plus High,Death etc) would need to be done, I think. Most people in Warhammer are low level while a few individuals reach high level. These sorts of characters probably represent specialised prestiege classes. A bit of work but most certainly doable. Cheers
Yes. I'd thought he was part of some super-soldier program. Cheers
Yep. One-sided flip-mats are a no-no.
Thanks - copied. A useful item that will certainly help. But it doesn't look at themes or concepts of high level play. I going to give it a good read though, even if it touches on some stuff I covered anyway... Cheers
So we pulled Legendary Levels about 2 years ago because it no longer meet our quality standards. We do have a revised version that we are working on for post 20th level play. Might be just in time for when my group get to the end of Kingmaker!. Off on a tangent, I did like the concept of Legendary Classes in Dragon, back in the 3.0 days. The class was a super-prestige class where there was only one person of that class (The Barbarian King, The Snow Queen - that kind of thing). They only did a few though. I guess the whole thing boils down to what sort of high-level stuff you want - each group is different. Maybe we do need multiple rule sets for epic-level to cater to all tastes. Multi-planar, godhood, plain old DPR, narrative or whatever. Cheers
There was a 3rd party option for epic/mythic. It came out before mythic, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was called. I think it had a red cover.Are you thinking of Legendary Levels, by ... Little Red Goblin Games, maybe? ...which seems to have been expunged from existence! Cheers
As a GM getting to the end of Kingmaker I was pretty keen on monitoring it at early levels. At higher levels these things (most things even) can be ignored. Every now and then I call for an 'encumberance audit' just so things aren't getting out of hand but when the extra-dimensional containers start turning up you can pretty much forget about it. ...although (anecdote alert) there was one situation on another game years ago where the party wanted to take a dragon's hoard home and the ded wyrm's head as a trophy. I thought it was worth running the numbers and the result was the party piling all the loot (and head) on to a carpet and taking a corner each to make their way back out the dungeon. Cheers
But don't read the spoiler-free review at "ComicBookMovie.com". The review may be spoier free - but comments by the f****wits underneath aren't. :-( Cheers
That I agree with. Eleven was hardly casual about the end of his time (sticking to the Moffat era). Melancholy, nostalgic, discarding his bow tie knowing he wouldn't find them cool any more. The off-hand way he disposed of the male incarnation of the Time Lord General was quite at odds with the way we've seen regeneration. Cheers
Face the Raven definitely the low point of the series.Wat .... it was dull wasn't it. Plus Clara's death was 'flat' without all the normal 'companion is leaving' emotional content, so we knew it wasn't for keeps. People were being irritatingly cryptic 'just because'. Me's plan hinged on Rigsy calling Clara and on other alien refugees not figuring it out and the Doctor not figuring it out and.... ...well, I just didn't like it. Cheers
That series ended pretty well with two good episodes. Face the Raven definitely the low point of the series. And while I liked one or two episodes from the last series more than some in this one, it was an improvement overall. Cheers
Will the fanfare play now that Disney owns the franchise?We also see the female pilot Jessika Pava. Doesn't 20th Century Fox still own the distribution rights? Regardless of of what I think of not-so-true-blue Rupe, not having those strient chords at the start seems wrong somehow. Cheers
Oh I understand. Sales talk and I'll probably use some of the Mythic stuff myself. It's hard not to be impatient about something your keen on though. Very glad to here things are moving along. Cheers
Can't wait for these products. I get disheartened with Legendary annoucing more Mythic stuff... maybe it gets in the way of the 'Ultimates' or maybe it doesn't, and I know some people must like it but.... aaarrrggghh. Sorry. Got that out my system. Cheers
I go for stuff that will enhance the current campaign (specifically Kingmaker ATM) and it does irk me when promised product does get pushed back for more spells and monsters (how long 'til Mythic Muppets ;-) ?). Spells and Monsters? No, no, no! There are so many of these, just by Paizo and I don't have all their books for those. One caveat (if I may single one out) is the Codex Draconis line. It's a shame they didn't get round to the metallics. Then again I think I have all I need. If a player want's to take a character in a particular direction and a product covers that then I will take the plunge on that too. Exalted Domains and SGG's witches supplements have proven useful. A different way of doing a core mechanic, if it appeals draws me in too. More specifically Making Craft Work and Ars Metamagica are staple rules in my campaign. I'm looking forward to someone working on a new approach to flight. To single out publishers I guess Rogue/Super Genius and Legendary tend to do the sort of thing that appeals (when they get round to doing them ;-)). Cheers
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