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Holy Krikees! This sounds like too much fun. Now I'll have to add Paizocon to my Con rotation if there is going to be this kind of crazy gaming goodness going on... TtO
It does! Thanks for taking the time! I will go check out some of these right away. Dude When we game on Monday (hopefully) is there any chance you could bring your Star Wars: Legacy comic? I'd love to read it through and I always treat borrowed items very gently =:)TtO
This is my Core Rulebook. There are many like it but this one is mine. My Core Rulebook is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my Core Rulebook is useless. Without my Core Rulebook I am useless. I must play my Core Rulebook true. I must play better than my enemy, who is trying to outplay me. I must outplay him before he outplays me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my Core Rulebook and myself are defenders of my game, we are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen. TtO
I can't wait for this. Cheliax, Hellknights, and crumbling Westcrown are all elements of Golarion that intrigue me. To have another Pett adventure centered around real role playing, like the Prince of Redhand was, in this kind of setting is exciting. Zeech's feast was one of the highlights of my recently completed AOW campaign. I used some recipes found here on the Paizo messageboards and put on a real dinner party feast. It was great gaming fun, primarily because it was such a different kind of adventure. I hope the Sixfold Trial can replicate that kind of memorable role playing experience. I think I've just found the next Paizo AP I want to run... TtO
My friend just received this in the mail so I had a chance to look it over yesterday. I own every published version of Hommlet and have run each version of this adventure at least once. The 4E version of The Village of Hommlet is, in a word, awful. T1 was my very first D&D module and I ran nearly every playing group I was involved with over the next 20 years through it. The immortal Moathouse claimed many an aspiring adventurer long before their youthful dreams were ever realized. (Watch out for that tick!)
Why then, given my enthusiasm for every previous incarnation, is the latest version of Hommlet so contemptible? Let me count the ways. 1) The cover. The original T1 cover depicted Lareth (the BBEG), the aforementioned crayfish, the Moathouse and guards wearing the flaming eye. The reprint of T1 depicted the ghouls (or are they the zombies?) from beneath the Moathouse. T1-4 had the facade of the TOEE itself on the front cover. (Was there ever a better front cover for a mod?) Even "Return" shows a guard or priest peering from a lit door into a shadowy hallway which could conceivably be an Elemental cultist guarding one of the Temple's many hallways. The cover of the 4E version of Hommlet, on the other hand, shows a shadowy skyline of a "village" that bears absolutely no resemblance to the original Hommlet. There are harpies, dragons, and what? gargoyles? quasits? imps? perching on roofs and hovering over what seems more like a small city, judging by the skyline. Huh? No way was this picture drawn with Hommlet in mind. This was a picture of an entirely different place pasted on the cover with little regard to what was printed on the pages behind it. 2) Interior art and maps. Almost all of the interior art is recycled from the original. (They even repeat the same picture on the bottom of both page 1 and page 2!) The maps are repeated endlessly as well. There are 7 different maps for the Moathouse basement alone. 1 on the back page that depicts the whole level and then 6 inside that show smaller sections of the basement with some additional tactical notations. Maybe my first edition is showing, but how many tactical maps must one have? The map on the back page was plenty big enough to add whatever tactical detail deemed necessary. The repetition was both unnecessary and unfortunate because it wasted interior space that would have been better spent on... 3) Flavor. As in there was nearly none. A great deal of the original flavor was watered down, generalized, or missing entirely. Elmo no longer has a "brudder Otis". Kobort and Turuko are also gone. Many of the other named NPC's from the original are given short shrift and have been drained of personality. Jaroo and Gundigoot are no longer well meaning snoops with a cache of weapons laid secretly by in the cellar as insurance against the reemergence of dark times. Furnok of Ferd is now a dwarf(!?) without his "loaded knucklebones" and he no longer offers up a scroll in the hopes of parlaying it into far more... Gone is the detailed look at the Church of St. Cuthbert (now replaced with the ubiquitous Pelor) with its delightful, almost Zen like, koans. (SQUARE CORNERS CAN BE POUNDED SMOOTH or LAWFUL CORRECTION LIES IN A STOUT BILLET - classic!) None of the missing material is replaced with anything of substance or anything new. There is a new 2 sided color map, you say? It is a cheap version of a Paizo Flip Mat, I say. It is an homage to D&D's roots, you say? It is a lazy, uninspired "effort" that does little to capture the feel of the original "Gygaxian" roots of the game, I say. All in all, a shameful exploitation of one of the original icons of our game. I can't even begin to imagine what Gary Gygax would think.
I will be @ OGC in July, looking to help DM, play or what have you. It will be good to see you there Chris. Maybe I should whip up an evil PC's scenario for off-hours play. You could dust off your evil cleric of pain [I forget the exact god he worshiped] and we can hunt down Mike's elf character from that same adventure, our treasonous guide if you remember, and add him to the menu at our pegasus barbecue...
If you feel you have been mistreated, you know how to contact me directly. We play together five or six times a month, so you have plenty of opportunities to discuss my perceived lack of common courtesy and basic kindness. Using these forums for this seems inappropriate and inefficient unless your goal was merely to publicly paint me as an a@@!~~~. In any case, you have my cell phone number and my email address and will see me next time we play in Gary's campaign or Savage Tide. I'm happy to discuss at length with you all the ways I have slighted you if you so desire. You publicly portray my generous nature as being "conditional" on something, when you know from experience that is not true. I felt the need to respond, perhaps in an inappropriately public forum. I apologize. I don't feel slighted, but I am confused.I know you to be an intelligent, educated, and capable person. Why would you resort to begging to go to a Con? You're better than that dude. There are a hundred other ways to earn extra money. I know you to be an excellent writer, even when I disagree with your movie reviews, so you could teach writing. (Did you know that tutors in NYC make $50/hour?) You seem to be good with computers, so I'm sure you could hire out as an IT guy who helps people set up and/or fix their computers. You could even offer your properly remunerated services to set up the projection system for the Tower, especially if and when the fancy new table arrives. A win-win situation if there ever was one. That's just off the top of my head. I am not your enemy, yoda. I have hosted your weekly gaming group regularly for more than a year now, I have supported your desire to DM said group (when given the chance), and I share your interest in Golarion, PFS, and all things Paizo. Finally, whatever our differences, I have too much respect for your intelligence and ability to see you as a beggar. You should too. TtO
It's all good. I'll get there no matter the circumstances. Some people have been generous without conditions and I'm grateful. I've contributed to similar paypal fund drives for Paizo staffers and such and don't see it as any different. $5 for pizza or $10 to help a fellow fan get to Seattle aren't that different in my book. But no one's obligated to do anything, and I don't actually hold the illusion that other people will entirely fund a vacation for me. If they don't I'm fully willing to join Daigle in his hobo camp! By Erastil, I'm an Eagle Scout! I can bed down in a tent city with the best of 'em! I'm not sure common courtesy and basic kindness qualify as "conditions" being placed on anyone, but you say tom-aa-to, I say tom-ah-to... You get the idea.
I think you misunderstand the kinds of donations I am soliciting here. Unless by grenade you mean the money in your couch cushions over the interwebs via PayPal in which case I'll totally eat that shrapnel. Dude - If you had just tried harder to be nice to me, I could have bank rolled your whole trip. Know this, I'm the kind of guy who buys his good friends new cars for their birthdays. See what your unkind and contrarian ways have wrought? Just think what could have been... TtO P.S. It's too late to change your ways now. Now I'll think any kindness you show me is just to get at my money. P.P.S. Stop begging dude. It's unseemly. In public anyway.
I don't know if you can get to Nashua but there is going to be a convention there in July. There will be a new thread here soon for OGC, (Open Gaming Con)and by the way I play in the same group as "Tobias" Happy Birthday too! I was going to call you after midnight, apparently you were up, but I fell asleep in my living room chair. Now I can't sleep.I hope you have a good birthday. Let's go see the Celts soon. TtO
I don't know if you can get to Nashua but there is going to be a convention there in July. There will be a new thread here soon for OGC, (Open Gaming Con)and by the way I play in the same group as "Tobias" Yar dude It's me! Good to see you on the boards!All hail Ulserad, Lord of OGC's Paizo Organized Play! So when can I sign up?
How did you defeat Dragotha? Any tactics that served you well in the Writhing Tabernacle should be equally effective in your return to Alhaster. Find a safe house of some kind. Work out ways to get there without teleporting. Space out your attacks/encounters with plenty of rest and respelling in between and you should be fine. Healing at range is a must at these levels. Be aware of this. As far as greater dispel wreaking havoc with your buffs, think Spell Turning or Greater Spell Immunity, both spells that should be available to your primary divine and arcane spell casters. These buffs will counter targeted greater dispelling attempts, which is all you have to fear...until Kyuss himself fires off multiple Mage's Disjunctions and feeds on the remains of your pitiful little band of miscreants... uhmm... sorry... my inner DM got the better of me there for a moment.
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A member of our group played a wormhunter and he was a very solid PC he went in as a barbarian and the end his criting undead made him a real tank I have had the same experience DM'ing a Ranger PC who took this prestige class. I allowed him to use a spell to simulate the ability to channel positive energy (bone talisman - found on the wotc boards) and his ability to critically hit undead has been a consistent source of strength for him and his group. As long as the cleric can keep everyone breathing we all know that sooner or later the Ranger will bring the bad guys down. It's just a matter of time. So to answer your question, I have DM'ed a Wormhunter PC, it has been very advantageous to the party, bordering on unbalancing at times. But that just gives me an excuse to throw even more bad guys at them, right? We are about to reenter Alhaster, as the Dawn of a New Age begins, so we will see if his luck holds up.TtO
Has anyone seen this? Thoughts/reviews? Ghenghis Khan movie can't really go wrong, can you? (well Ok there is that movie with John Wayne playing Khan so it is possible) Am thinking of ordering it (not really any place to rent movies where I live) I saw this in the theaters. Prior to seeing the movie, I read the history book "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World", as well as the historical fiction series by Conn Iggulden (Genghis: Birth of an Empire and Genghis: Lords of the Bow). I can highly recommend all of the above books. The movie itself follows the main thrust of these books closely. It is, however, fairly slow, long and subtitled. Not that I have anything against subtitles; one of my favorite movies ever is "Black Orpheus" which was filmed in Brazil in the 50's and is in Portuguese. Mongol is worth a look, especially if you are interested in an accurate portrayal of Genghis Khan's early life, at least according to the most recent historical scholarship. Let us know what you think if you watch or read any/all of the above. The Great Khan is truly one of the most significant, fascinating and little understood figures in history. Pax Vobiscum,
I heartily endorse the aforementioned options as follows: 1 - Yes! Mithril is Truesilver after all. 2B - Let's not nerf mithril armor too much. If we must(2C), then, at the very least, we should preserve elven chain as a special exception, as was the case back in the day. Cold Iron Armor with a bonus versus magic?!? Yes! For the win. And, btw, it makes you look FABULOUS!!! TtO
To whom it may concern,
Not every feat has to scale up perfectly to high levels. Kaisoku, This is well put. I very much like your rationale for differentiating general feats from "Fighter Only" feats. In my opinion, this line of thought suggests a way forward with regard to improving the viability of the fighter class, while preserving backwards compatibility. Well done, sir. TtO
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Amen. Let's try to remember the child so many of you seem to be in favor of torturing and killing is 7! Yet you would punish this child by doing to him or her exactly what the kid did to caged zoo animals? You would teach other children not to torture and kill animals by torturing and killing a child? This is instructive how? This kind of ethical hypocrisy is the worst kind of group think, in my opinion.Holding the parents legally responsible in some way is both appropriate and acceptable. Suggesting the torture and execution of a child, even in jest, is objectionable in the extreme. TtO
Isn't it conceivable that OJ wanted to get caught, convicted, and sent to jail? Isn't it possible that his guilty subconscious predisposed him to make choices that would ultimately land him in prison? There was never any question, in my mind (and I watched every single day of the trial on courtTV), of his guilt in the double homicide 13 years ago. I suspect that deep down, where any last shred of humanity might yet dwell, OJ wanted to be punished for the wrongs he had done. That is the only reason I can think of for committing armed robbery and kidnapping in a Las Vegas hotel. Either that or gross stupidity.
hellooo?
As someone who values the story more than specific mechanical issues, I'd rather someone fudge die rolls than read the adventure and use the knowledge taken from it in-game. That said, if a player can adequately separate in-character and out-of-character knowledge and take his PC in a direction he knows might not be best but works for the story, I have no problem with it. Bust not telling you until after he had done it is a bit unethical, not so much because it gives him an advantage, but because it violates the trust between a player and GM. Dude, How do you apply these ethical concerns to your own behavior? As far as I know you have not come clean with Tav about having read through STAP before we started playing. You have also used OOC kowledge to make IC decisions. ("Let's not bring the fake cleric on the boat with us! He might be infested!) I became aware of the situation due to your apparently encyclopedic knowledge of Slaadi egg laying habits. Now I feel terrible that I have become an accomplice after the fact. In my view you have violated the trust between not just DM and player, but between player and player. Come clean to Tav! Tonight!! Please!!!TtO
Pssst! Yar, dude, it's me! Your Runelord of Sloth alias entries are lol funny. I was hoping that some of the powers that be might throw us a hint about the "Acts". Just a brief skeletal overview, if you will. Even if its just for the seventh of the eleven. We at least already know the location of that particular miracle. Maybe there will be more information in the Guide to Absalom when that comes out. To quote Tom Petty, "The waiting is the hardest part". TtO
To whom it may concern - For some reason I am unable to download the Beta release for the PRPG. It shows up in my shopping cart, I proceed through checkout smoothly, I am told to check "My Downloads" page, I do, and its not there... Is there any answer to this mystery? Am I using the wrong somatic components to properly complete the ritual? Can anyone help? Thank you in advance for your consideration. I have looked carefully, but I will do so again in the interest of completeness.
Does anyone have a complete listing of each of the 11 miraculous acts of Iomedae? I'm interested in what she did, where she did it, when she did it and why. For example, we know the 7th of the "Acts" took place in the Ascendant Court district of Absalom at the sight of what is now her "Seventh Church". We do not know any of the other specifics with regard to when this miracle took place or what it consisted of, as far as I can tell. So how about it? Anyone with inside information about Iomedae and her 11 "Acts"?
Yours in peace,
To whom it may concern - For some reason I am unable to download the Beta release for the PRPG. It shows up in my shopping cart, I proceed through checkout smoothly, I am told to check "My Downloads" page, I do, and its not there... Is there any answer to this mystery? Am I using the wrong somatic components to properly complete the ritual? Can anyone help? Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Yikes!!! The Eye of the Wormgod! I like it! Now I can dust off that beholder miniature that I have been dying to use. Did I say dying? Hehhehheh... To respond to your query - no I had not invented any new worminess for my AOW campaign - but now that you have inspired me I will to give it some thought. I have always been intrigued by the Tauric template from MMII. Perhaps I could combine the two. A tauric, worm-touched some such...hmmmm
I have been anticipating that my group is going to kick some draconic butt shortly (they are just finishing the Champion's Games) and have been trying to script out Ilthane's tactics in the likely event that she is overmatched by my group. I think I am going to have her go to ground (so to speak) in the polluted waters of Diamond Lake itself! This way she can continue to harass the town and the party while being difficult to track and/or follow. I have even thought of populating the lake with some escaped alchemical golums that had been created by the Benazel the Alchemist of smelting house fame. My group has cohorts and followers in Diamond Lake as well, so even if Ilthane doesn't attack the party directly she can still cause pain and suffering by going after their home base, especially if they disappear into the Whispering Cairn shortly after "defeating" her.
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