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I understand the decision the decision to go online.

I will probably participate and enjoy whatever is offered.

I do mourn the loss of the in-person con though. I introduced my wife and both of my sons to ttrpgs by driving down from Vancouver for Paizocon weekend.

In-person Paizocon became a family tradition that we all looked forward to...

My oldest son learned how to paint minis from Sean K. Reynolds at Paizocon. He learned how to play a goofy game in Cosmos' Railroad, and we played our first goblins together in We B4 Goblins! He won his first and only Green Blood on a Black Rock after a d20 roll-off after 3 hours of combats when he and his finals opponent realized it would take longer than 24 hours to finish their 1v1 combat.

My younger son played his first delve at a table with Eric Mona GM'ing, and he created his first draconic ancestry character to participate in future Pathfinder Society games at Paizocon.

For me this post is part elegy for what we've lost. But I'd also like to thank all of the Paizo staff, all of the volunteers, and all of the GMs who donated so much time and effort into giving us that tradition and those memories in the first place.

We will miss you.

My son and I showed up to the Bestiary Bash (our first one) and found it was ready to be canceled as Curaigh was not able to be there. (I hope everything is okay with him?...)

But in a show of Paizonian spirit everyone decided to forge ahead with a modified four monster per arena combat that was a total blast!

Thanks again to everyone who stayed and Thunderdome’d it out!

(I got my head handed to me, but my son ended up competing in the 1 on 1 final match where he triumphed on dueling d20 rolls when he and his honorable competitor realized their combat would take at least the rest of the day to complete...)

Lots of fun, and my son is already talking about coming back to compete again next year....

My 6 year-old son Graeme is starring in a 20 second video clip showing off his own Jedi lightsaber move, the “Saddle Slash”. He has made it through the semi-finals (top 32) to be displayed on the Canadian “Join the Jedi” website, and he has been chosen by their judges' panel as one of eight finalists.

The contest winner will now be chosen by the public’s votes, and we’re hoping you can help him win!

Click on the link below and you can vote for Graeme’s video from November 21 to December 11 inclusive. You can place 1 vote per person per day. The contest prize?

1. His move will be featured on the Star Wars the Clone Wars animated TV series WITH his name in the credits!
2. A trip to Disneyworld for four

(Mom and Dad would be really excited to win the trip; my son is pretty geeked to see his name in the credits of Star Wars The Clone Wars.)

For some weird reason, it seems you have to create an ID to vote. If you can take a few minutes, please vote for Graeme's video by following these steps:
Go to:
Join the Jedi

To create an ID and vote:
go to the top right corner “login”
click NEW USER
create a username and password
wait for an email confirmation
click on the link in your email, find Graeme’s video (as above) and there will be a VOTE button under the video VOTE!

Every vote makes a difference, so please support Graeme with your votes! And May the Force be with you!

While there were great movies made in the 80s, like Aliens, Terminator, Die Hard, etc. that have all been mentioned (and I can still watch The Karate Kid over and over and over), those are, in my opinion, slightly different from 80s movies. I define those as not-quite-great movies, often full on cheese (a la Ice Pirates....God, I shiver in horror at the hours I spent on that flick)that have reached that cult status whereby they elicit the style, level of effects, and other film making techniques in use at the time...
Having said that, I loved so many of the movies already mentioned, I'll throw in:
Beastmaster
Excalibur (John Boorman version)
Near Dark
Lost Boys
Young Guns

The cheese shall never die!!! Only grow stronger! Viva the 80s!