I am Sheyd, The Elder Geek that resides in a house made of old gaming boxes... I am a member of Pax Aeternum, woe be he who disturbs my slumber... unless you bring bacon then we're cool.
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I am a member of Pax Gaming and Pax Aeternum. I took Lurking as a Major in College. I am very interested in PFO.
Definitely count me interested. I've used pact magic before in campaigns and would love to add it to my pathfinder campaigns. I also review game material for Renaissance Magazine and will email my editor to see if he'll let me review the product when you're ready for it to be reviewed.
Lou: What else is there to say? You're a prince among men and a grade A friend. Nick: Glad to see you in the online world again. While I never pre-ordered RC I DID reviews on the Indulgences for Renaissance Magazine (Which I THINK my Editor there published them, He also ventures into Luddite territory, still to this day sends blank emails then asks if I understood what he said in them... *Shudder*) and was planning to review RC when it came out. Crap happens, I'm glad to hear you're getting your feet under you again on things. I've always enjoyed your writing and you gave me advice on monsters more than once. I doubt you remember but you liked one I did so much you planned on using it in RC I think. The Ghouid (Ghoul-squid combination still gives my players nightmares.) The fact you liked it that much was a highlight for me. You're a great game designer, writer and a Gentleman to stand up and publicly say what you have in this thread. Were I wearing a hat I would tip it to you sir. -Michael-
Thanks fellas, I've decided to do as you suggest, use the given factions both in the Faction Guide and in the path books (Thanks for the suggestion Tark) and work out my own groups. I appreciate the responses.
Hello, I've a question to ask here, if it's already been discussed I apologize for bringing it up again. While I do love Pathfinder RPG I prefer to homebrew my settings. I'm wanting to create some custom factions for my latest setting but I can't seem to find any rules/guidelines/etc.. for building them. I've looked in the Factions Guide but do admit to only glancing through it. Did I miss it or is it somewhere else? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. P.S. Oh if this is in the wrong forum I again apologize.
Well, I've taken my time, it looks pretty but now that I've submitted it I'm already beginning the 'second-guessing doubts'. At least I'm not on painkillers this year. It made editing it MUCH easier :) last year... "Oh man does 'to' have one silent q in it or three? Woah look at all the purdy colors..." Yeah not good.
Monkeys make the world a better place. Monkeys are evil, EVILE I say!!!! Now Ferrets on the other hand are nature's noblemen. :) What's left to say? Clark you'll be missed, definitely show up and chime away. It wouldn't be RPGsuperstar without your posts. The Judges this year as with every year are amazing iron men to stand against the deluge of submissions the good folks here get every year in this contest. My hat is off to them, past and present. I add my own voice, definitely submit. My experiences in the contest has always been positive and it just goes to show the community that has grown here is one of the best out there, always a great source of inspiration.
Woot ana half! And my health is cooperating *knocks on wood* Definitely entering! *makes a note* 'Never try to edit an entry whilst on sinus medication' :)
A hearty congratulations to the top 32 and the alternates! I look forward to reading through all your submissions and yoinking things for my own campaigns! :)
ring of feather fall that no one else wantedOkay, I was believing the whole story until this. Just too far-fetched! By chance a notary public was there and the stenographer gave him the minutes of the game and he stamped them! :) I even have Pictures!!! And well paid witnesses who will attest.... Ned Beaty was there! Honest!!!! Dood, far-fetched in a D&D game? You could accept me leaping on the back of a dragon, crawling up to its head but the ring of feather falling? Okay :) I have a track record with both ends of the spectrum when it comes to fighting dragons, I have had characters smeared ALL over the countryside by them or did some truly bizarre things to beat them. Had a warlock that stuck his hands up the nostrils of a blue dragon and kept firing EBs till it died.. Had a paladin get smacked half a mile by forgetting to actually saying I let go of the rope which said dragon used to make me a human paddle ball. But that's the fun part of D&D Strange things happen. :)
Anytime! And for the sake of tidbits of information (Useless or otherwise) A 250 gallon barrel is called a tun, really big nasty kill you size barrels. They were normally used to hold wine. I spent a rather long time once searching down information on various sized barrels in a vain attempt to create a trade goods table rather than a straight treasure (Gold gems and jeweled items) table.... after they let me out of the insane asylum I am MUCH better now. :)
...Barrels of Pickles, Marbles and Lye Soap... On the first the DM made the most fatal of statements to me at character creation "Oh go ahead and buy what you want as long as it isn't magical." My thief (was 2nd edition mind you) decked himself out like a traveling merchant complete with wagon and a 250 gallon barrel of pickles. Anyway he wasn't that good of a thief and got caught stealing the payroll from the city guards. Well in an attempt to escape he's driving the wagon hard down a steep street that turned abruptly at the edge of a 300 foot cliff. With Charioteering he was able to make the turn but I had a brilliant idea. I stopped and dumped the pickles over the area of the turn. The guards (plus the captain of the guards himself) were on horseback and with the slick brine on the cobblestones ended up taking a header off the cliff... The last time I was allowed to buy that many pickles. The Marbles... I bought 3000 of them and kept them in a back pack... A powerful Half-Ogre chieftain died because I tossed them to the ground and he couldn't get back up after they spread over the area. I stood back with a heavy crossbow and shot him till he stopped twitching. Lastly the lye soap. The Dm made a point of saying "This is a frontier environment you can't buy things like plate armor and stuff" yet there were dragons in the area so I thought for a while and then bought five pounds of lye soap and methodically ground it into a powder which I kept in sacks. I knew that soap especially lye soap is beyond painful when you get it in the eye. That purchase of 5 pounds of soap let the party take out, an arctic owlbear, two cave bears a Frost giant AND oh yes the Dragon. That was the last use of my soap, nearly killed my character but he managed to get on the back of the dragon and slam handfuls of the powder into its eyes. The dragon flew headlong into a cliff. I dove off and the ring of feather fall that no one else wanted saved my character's butt. That was the last time my character was allowed to buy lye soap in any amount :)
Hey, the Rule of Cool is a perfectly reasonable way to game. Heck, that is probably why and how "Avinash and the Catspaw Marauders" got plopped into Michael's campaign right after I had posted him up as a villain, in spite of some... shortcomings of that particular entry. He liked the idea of it, and let it rock and roll. And was it cool? I think it was. I never did give you a follow up on this did I? Avinash went through three different riders while fighting the party in the north of Brython. He ended up joining forces with the Worg Queen, a half-fiend worg who may or may not have been a sibling of Avinash. They sent a horde of Goblins and Dire Wolves against the battered town a Digger's Delve which the party alone fought off. They faced Avinash with his new rider a Hogboblin who worshiped Dispater and the Worg-Queen in their lair. Major fight, two player characters died, so did the worg queen. Avinash was killed by the Paladin who speared him and the Hobgoblin with her holy lance. I'd planned maybe to make Avinash a death knight but the party broke up (this was an online game) and never got back to it.
All wonderful Advice Neil. Not making the cut is always disheartening but learning what you can from it and moving on not just as a designer but as a fan to support a truly wonderful contest which I know I look forward to these past years.
I supply the addendum that this was attempted and achieved in 1983 or 1984 when I was a mere teenager as was the DM and the rule of Cool was the first rule we lived by as gamers. :) Now? He'd never let me but then it was fun. Though I did notice I never ever got a Decanter of Endless Water again. I moved on to far greater torments, and bannings from ever gaining again... Barrels of Pickles, Marbles and Lye Soap just to name a few. But in 30 years of playing D&D you're bound to get mad genius ideas that confound the DM.
I have committed so many DM-weeping acts with Decanters of Endless Water... Water blades come to mind... Get a mithral nozzle made to fit the decanter and SO many things become easy.. "Door's trapped and I can't get it open..." No worries with Mordane's Water Blade!!! *slices the entire wall holding the door away* Muhahahahaha!!!! *ahem* Yes my favorite Wondrous item.... After the Decanter? Hat of Disguise... a must for quick clean getaways after slicing the back wall out of the local bank... or kings treasury.... And a bag of holding, several...
The very fact that you (Clark and Sean) are willing to give feedback at all is a very precious commodity. For anyone who's ever submitted anything (novels, gaming material etc...)being able to get an Idea where their submission fell short is as valuable as the initial idea itself. We can learn more from our failures than our successes. So I'd like to add my own 'thank you' to the pile that you deserve. Paizo (it's people and the community) is itself a rarity and while I'm not overly prolific in posting I do read often and enjoy what I see. The RPG Superstar contest itself is a perfect example of Paizo in action. Gamers are cool like that. :)
Reading over three pages (114 posts at the the time of typing this) I saw many things (too many to quote or recall) that I agreed with and many that I did not. As a gamer with nearly 31 years experience as DM and Player I can't recall ever using the 'Because I said so' rule. I have made situational rulings on things where I couldn't remember the particular rule and neither could the players. Rather than look it up and slow play I said 'Okay here's how this works for now but it might change later' and we went on. I hate slowing play especially combat to find the proper rule. Trust is the ultimate key to this game. Players have to trust their DM to do what he feels is necessary for everyone to have fun, DMs have to trust their players to build and play their characters in the manner that suits the campaign. As a DM I believe in: Fun
I do admit to some Player chicanery. Under one DM who is known to be stingy with magic items I was forced to make do with some strange things that I have since been banned from using. I as a Player cannot: Buy or obtain in any manner marbles in numbers greater than 10
Now these seem like arbitrary DM rulings but I understand why. I've killed werewolves, the Captain of the Guard and his knights and a red dragon with those things. He used his Fiat wisely. :)
I love this contest, submitted in 2008 and made it to the 32, died by Apostrophe in round two. Last year was sick as a dog and didn't find out about the contest until the day AFTER submissions closed. Am definitely going to submit but this time I'm taking my time to think my item out. Neil's (And others) advice to research past contests, and the rules being used cannot be stressed enough. Truth be told in 2008 I got lucky. I found the contest on the day submissions started and came up with an item on the spot simply because I was also building a new setting at the time. A house rule I had on the nature of my item was not what the given rules were but luckily it all still worked out fine mechanically. I'm not relying on luck this year. Which means I'll over think it and bomb out but still, I love this contest! Paizo is the tops of the Cool List of gaming companies for doing this three years running.
I've not received Pathfinder #20 yet and I've already received notice that #21 is/has shipped.
After breaking the Code that Lisa Stevens was posting in it's clear to me they're moving to the greatest place in the universe, Ohio!! You all will deny it but I know you're just suffering on the inside because Ohio cast you out! Some of you, it's not your fault that fate snubbed you cruelly by letting you be born elsewhere... *nods* ;) Watch out people, I know things...
He would be able to take on the likeness of anyone that is humanoid, so while he could look like the Lizard he couldn't have his tail. Simply put I suspect it works much like how Mystique's powers work. He can take on the appearance but not the powers or skills of the person he's impersonating. That's how it's written up anyway I see it at least in the looks of it being very fluid, almost like how morphing programs can change one person in a photograph into another person. I hope that helps. The Imitation power in the Advanced player's book has the actual game mechanics of it.
-A work in progress- 'Red' Evan Rivers A.K.A.: Blackjack
F: Ex -Increased to Am (46) as optional power
Health: 96
Weakness:
Talents: (3/6)
Contacts: (3/6)
Background story:
Spoiler:
Evan was just one of many abandoned children left on the doorstep of the local orphanage. He was small, scrawny was more to the point but he was always quicker both in speed and in thinking to outwit most bullies. He received a state-paid education meaning he learned most of everything on the streets. He ran with gangs from the time he was old enough to understand the way the world worked but he always managed to keep out of serious trouble. He would have probably ended up much like his best friend Twitchie but puberty brought him a new path. Never knowing his father Evan (nicknamed 'Red' for the shock of red hair he has)had no idea his father was a mutant, as was his father and so on and so forth. While he was named Evan Rivers (Because he was found on the River Street entrance stoop of the Orphanage) his father was Kurtis MacSidhe a powerful mutant Criminal. Evan's powers started to show with a dramatic increase in his reflexes and speed, but the most dramatic change was his discovery he could alter his appearance. After a few daring robberies Evan received a visit from a man who claimed to be his Uncle. Calling himself Uncle Angus, the man revealed to Evan the truth of his lineage and the origins of his powers. Uncle Angus expected Evan to return to him to the 'Old country' and join the family business of Crime. Evan however had other ideas. Growing up in the orphanage he was weened on stories of Robin Hood, the Three Musketeers and Zorro and while he admitted to being a thief he did not see himself as a criminal. He stole yes but never from anyone that couldn't afford it. Using his great speed and agility he fled his Uncle and vanished into the underworld to become a Vigilante, a modern day Robin Hood... Again, this is just a rough idea and work in progress.
Firstly I want to say I love the Marvel RPG. While I have NO experience whatsoever with PbP I have had the yen to play marvel once more. So keeping in mind you're dealing with a PbP newbie here is there still room?
Yay!! Old School Drow! My drow NPCs and PCs a like have always been the blue-black skin drow I first read about in Against the Giants and Descent into the Earth, Glad to see Pathfinder is hearkening back to the origins of the Drow in D&D
This looks great! Though I do say if this had turned out to be an April Fools joke I'd have removed you from the 'To be kidnapped' list Mister Logue! :) I'm expecting Great things from Sinister Adventures, and I'm looking forward to reading more.
One thing that has surprised me is now that I'm aware of Nick Logue I've noticed that several of the adventures or source books that I like were either written entirely or in part by him. What can I say? Until I started reading this board I didn't pay all that much attention to author names. The reason being I never truly expected to be able to interact with them on even the internet so it was a moot point. Again Paizo's community has changed that. Dragons of Eberron for instance, while I'm not an Eberron fan by any means I've found this book to be well written and even useful beyond Eberron. It's going to be one of the books I review. I simply MUST find a way to get into a game being DMed by Nick, that's all there is to it.
*Checks list* Ah yes Mister Pett... You've been on the list for some time... We have a lovely accommodation right next to Mister Logue here... You will have to excuse the condition of the basement but on the good side the river rats are far too large to use the drains to enter! :) Yes I am quite insane, but in a good way! :)
I had to add my own kudos for this one. While I enjoyed the first AP I did have difficulties with the text font (even mentioned it in my review) from the PDF I read through that looks to no longer be a difficulty. For that alone I would have been happy but Mister Logue outdid himself on this one. Every character is memorable in their own way, and the major characters are just full of that Loguey crunchy goodness I've come to expect from him. He's rapidly moving up on my 'Kidnap and force to DM' list :)
This is the kind of thread I come to expect and love from the Paizo community... Victor is one of my all-time favorite villains from Eberron and now a death knight version of him that ISN'T all spiked black plate mail... Well that's just too good of an idea not to yoink! Consider it annexed into the greater horrors of my players. Thank you! :)
Elluvia's Pit is also on the top of my list. Although ANY new information on Maure Castle is preferred. On a side note, I have a new party of players starting on Greyhawk and thus I am going to use the Maure castle material with them when they reach high enough level. The above-ground levels have always been something that's plagued me so I'm going to use an old castle layout that appeared in an OLD issue of the Dragon called 'old Stony'. While I realize that the surface structures of Maure Castle probably looks NOTHING like it I feel it's a good basis for me to work with and I have it in digital format thanks to the purchase of the Dragon Archives. I'm curious though what anyone else may have gone regarding the surface structure of Maure Castle. Please Share! :)
I'm with Mister MacKenzie, I'd certainly like to polish up my entries before they were 'Pdf'ed'.
1) Do you plan to convert to the new edition of D&D?
2) If Paizo converts its RPG products to 4.0, how will that affect your purchasing patterns for our products? If you convert I am hoping you or someone will have 3.5-to-4.0 conversion guide I can back-convert any 4.0 products I like sufficiently enough to use. If such a guide exists then I'll most probably continue to buy Paizo products. If I do buy ANY 4.0 products It'll be through Paizo. 3) If Paizo does not convert its RPG products to 4.0, how will that affect your purchasing patterns for our products? Personally I'm hoping for this route and I won't have to convert anything. If there's any group out there that has it in them to buck the 800 lb gorilla that is WotC/Hasbro it's Paizo. I have faith in Paizo and I will put my money where my faith is.
Let's hear it for some Apostrophe-love in V2.0! Joking aside Create a religion would be an interesting fluff piece.
Definite congratulations are in order Christine. You earned this with consistent quality submissions and there is no doubt we are as much winners as you are in that we get to enjoy your adventure. Great Work!
I've enjoyed this contest from its inception. I submitted to it in a moment of clarity in the otherwise scattering of my attention over a half-dozen projects and subjects. I was shocked, surprised and pleased I made it into the top 32. I faltered and succumbed to an old flaw; focusing too much on history and not enough on the 'now' in my country and thus fell on the wrong side of the cut. Those contestants that went on in the other rounds produced some truly great things and each round brought more ideas and spawn further ideas in my mind. Some I yoinked for immediate use, others went into my vast collection of 'Net stuff' to be used later. ALL the entries were good. As Clark said in another thread I too doubt I could have reached the final 4 let alone win it all. I'm certainly hoping Paizo will do this again next year so I can get a chance to try. Though it has been said many times on this board by many different people but Paizo and this community that has grown around it is one of the best on the net. Here I feel as though my comments aren't just text swirling in the eddies of a digital flood to be washed away unheeded the moment I type them out. I like coming here just to read the threads. Paizo you are THAT good.
Thanks, Clark. Thanks everybody, voters and contestants from the 850+ that started it all out to the one who'll eventually win it all. Thanks to the Paizo people for coming up with this contest and thanks to the three judges who took time to get involved with us all. Come what may in the game we all love it's a community like this born from a company that is as much players as we are that'll sustain that very game regardless of ruleset.
Oh Marvel Superheroes RPG... Gads That was the most enjoyable of games. I have EVERYTHING for it If Nick is running the game, Damn count me in! I got the chips in the bag, the pizza place on speed-dial, the soda on ice and a folder of characters aching to be brought out of the dusty corner of my stacks to be played. However the latter can be said for nearly any TSR game produced in the 80s... Top Secret, Star Frontiers, Gamma world... I have Metamorphsis Alpha around here someplace.. and Traveller! Loved Traveller! yes I know it's not a TSR game but it has to be mentioned!
While I do admit trepidation about 4e I have refrained from posting overly much about it though I have read as much as I can. I enjoy Nick Logue's game material, from his offerings in the Dungeon to his Pathfinder adventures and beyond. I've read his many posts on the boards here and have agreed with much he's said. Thusly I feel at least a modicum of relief from his candid (Well as candid as he can be) comments about his time as a playtester for 4e. I have always planned to reserve judgement until I've seen the rules and how things work and though I will continue to play 3.5 (Primarily due to the amount of material I have for it that I have yet to use as both a player and a Dm) for a time I do at least feel somewhat reassured. Thank you Nick for your disclosure.
Definate congratulations are due to all four of you, Being able to only vote for 2 of you was a difficult thing and I'm glad to see that my entire 'short 4' list made it in. I can offer no greater accolade to you all then saying I would welcome everything you've produced in this contest into my own campaigns.
When I read the rules would require a map inwardly I sighed in relief that I was not in this round because in my estimatation I suck at drawing maps. Seeing some of the maps that were in the top six however I don't feel as bad about my map drawing skills. (That is NOT a shot at ANY of the maps entered). I had a tough time this round voting. Every entry was solid and it took a bit of hair splitting to come down to a final two.
It's hard for me to respond to this entry, You've got great elements in there but moving a temple into the underworld? A bit much for 4th level characters and the fact some of the party might not go in is a sticking point for me.
This Is SO COOL!
While I don't see anything particularly wrong in this entry I'm not really sure why the party would be here. The idea of a tipping boat is cool though and so I put this in my short list.
Ah Boomer you did not disappoint. You reined in your bombastic-ness just enough to make a solid and useful encounter. Yeah I could see myself using this.
Ah a Dragon (A white one to boot!) AND a hag! Toss in a Bharghest and you sold me right there. Three of my favorite monsters. Consider it stolen though... Jason, Guy... I'm with Wolfgang on that read aloud section. Not gonna use THAT part.
I went right to this one, 'Monkey Goblins Attack' The only way you could have snagged me quicker was making it Ninja Monkey Goblins or Pirate Ninja Monkey Goblins but that'd have caused my brain to overload from the monkey-goblin goodness!
First off I read the title and attained flabbergastness! Logue? THE Nick Logue quitting the biz... I was immediately torn between asking 'who I had to kill to stop this' and sending out the black riders to drag you back to my dark and vile lair (known as south eastern Ohio to the public) to slap some sense into you! *Smacks hand* Bad Nick! never upset the Old One like that even though it was funny. :) Secondly Blood of the Gorgon just sounds great, hopefully we'll get to some skinning and it'll be perfect! :) I'm currently scrounging up the digital version of the money to at least get a basic membership. I've been wanted to get an 'inside view' of the Open Design process by Wolfgang for a while now, it's something I'd definately want do some kind of article or review of for Renaissance Magazine... In closing you are a heartless, vile individual to ever joke about quitting the business... even though it was funny. :)
Congratulations folks! Now that that's out of the way... Gimme Encounters!!!! :)
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