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While I still haven't received Dragon #358 and am missing the giant poster for #359, I thought I'd post some good news: Dungeon #150 arrived this morning in mint condition including its giant Map of Mystery. With only a hole or two, my Dungeon collection from #99 onwards is complete! Thanks guys. BTW, the Map is breathtaking. Kudos to Chris West.
This is cool. While his main interest is comic books, Gerard Jones, authour of Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence was asked to present a lecture at the Montreal International Game Summit (with regard to computer game violence). After his lecture, he was interviewed by the Electric Playground and said the following:
Link to full article can be found HERE. Book title (above) links to Amazon.com
Since touch attacks are generally made with the hand or fingers, and "natural weapons are always considered light weapons" (from the SRD), do touch attacks — specifically the ranged sort — benefit from Weapon Finesse? Forgive me if my answer is clearly stated somewhere. Right now I can't find it.
Hi all. Me again. Canadian subscriber. I've got no problems at present, but since it seems late or missing issues are becoming an epidemic, I thought I'd offer up a snapshot of my subscription woes since January. Bear with me as I rant and rave. In this thread, on 13 November, I said: I'll give each mag ~40 days before crying for a replacement. I gave Dragon #339 that and more. Finally I gave up. Cosmo kindly sent me a replacement on 19 January (thanks again!). That's 51 days after #339 left Paizo. Mind that replacements are sent Global Priority. Maybe I'm crazy, but I get the impression "priority" is meant to imply FAST. The replacement arrived 30 January. That's 11 days. Isn't that a bit long, even if it is being help up at the border? Dungeon #131 arrived in a slightly more timely fashion than most issues lately. I got it last week on 7 February. It clocked in at 49 days, but at least I didn't have to cry to Cosmo again. Now surprise, surprise. I opened my mailbox this morning and lo, I found a Dragon therein. Yay! methinks, It must be #340. But, nay! After 78 freakin' days it turned out to be my long MIA #339. WTF? In his First None Now Two thread from last week, Peruhain of Brithondy describes a similar experience. Ultimately says he: Must have been stuck in some weird little demiplane in the postal distribution center. To which the Director of Operations replied: And remember that next time an issue is running late, it might just be stuck in that demiplane again. :) This raises the question of how long we should expect to wait. Now, Peruhain, you didn't say which country you're in, or how long you'd been waiting before requesting the replacement. Jeff, you seem to imply we should be ready to wait indefinately. Back to that thread from November... US subscribers can mail customer service after two weeks, but we really prefer that you give it another week if you can be patient. So by Vic's estimate folks in the US should give an issue 14 days. Let's double that to 28 days for Canadians. We're all going way over that folks, by about another factor of 2. Note that at this time, while Dragon #341 and Dungeon #133 have shipped, I am still waiting for both #340 (so far 43 days — it's more than 2 weeks overdue) and #132 (22 days — it should arrive this week, but won't. Maybe next…). Now, understand that I'm not blaming Paizo in any way for any of this. On the contrary, everyone at Paizo has always been terrific. But I am concerned for Paizo. Having countless of pissed off subscribers impatiently waiting for the next awe-inspiring issue that never seems to arrive is bad for business. Having to send out countless replacements for issues that will likely arrive eventually anyway is bad for business. So I want to know: is there something proactive we can do about this? It all seems to boil down to the postal service sucking eggs! But is it Canada Post, the USPS, both? Does something happen at the border to cause these delays, or is it much closer to Paizo itself?
I sent customer service a note on Jan. 11 letting them know I haven't received Dragon #339, but never heard back. Should I assume a replacement was sent? Or was I overlooked? Perhaps I wasn't clear about my identity (my real name appears in full on the email's "From" line). It's been 50 days now, and still nothing. And I'm dying to see the new Class Acts format................<thud!>
Since animals with the celectial template get bumped up to Intelligence 3, does that mean they can speak? And if so, I imagine they speak Celestial, correct?
I have a terrible habit of forgetting which threads I've recently involved myself in, and though running off to "find myself" works fine, I was wondering if there were any plans to make the search results sortable. Reverse chronological order would be ideal.
In contrast to kodiak71's thread, I'm very pleased with the DRAGON Compendium. It looks great, and there's definately lots of useful stuff in there. Of course, I had perused the TOC beforehand and knew the 3e-to-older-edition content ratio. Also, the illustrated endpapers are a nice touch. I wouldn't mind seeing more of that. ;-) I do, however, have one complaint: the ink doesn't adhere to the page. For Volume II a more absorbant paper should be chosen (like the stuff Wizards' printer uses). I don't have excessively oily fingertips and don't generally leave fingerprints on magazine pages, so I'm dismayed that I do on the Compendium's. I even smeared about a cm² of ink off the edge of one page as if it were wet paint and revealed the glossy white paper underneath. Now I'm scared to touch the pages and hold it only by its cover. "Erasable" ink isn't the sort of thing I want to worry about for a book that'll see lots of action at the game table.
On Wednesday I was going to whine and whimper to customer service about how my copy of #128 must be a goner and could they please send me a new one, but I've been too busy lately and didn't get around to dispatching the email. Now lo, it finally appeared in my mailbox today. Blasted postal service! Now I see a thread's popped up regarding #129. Aaargh!!! Anyone else in the Great White North still waiting for their issue?
Interest in the list has increased greatly of late, and I've updated it. It's now current up to Heroes of Horror (which adds the Spite Domain). That makes 100 domains even. If you missed this thread the first time around and would like a copy, just send a request to argentiumhelm@yahoo.co.uk. On a related note, I may not have to maintain this little pet project for much longer. On October 24, Wizards started posting Consolidated Lists on their site (with page references). So far they've only provided lists of classes, prestige classes, and feats, but I'm sure domains will soon follow. Thank the gods, now I don't have to continue work on my Comprehensive List of Feats. The effort was maddening — MADDENING, I tell you!!!
Is a character with the Two-Weapon Fighting feat always assumed to have an off-hand? This concerns the half STR bonus to off-hand damage rule. As most of us know, in the 3e to v.3.5 conversion the Ambidexterity feat got folded into TWF, but here's what's bugging me: From Ambidexterity (3e PHB pg. 80):
I'd always read the above as: "okay, now I don't have an off-hand at all and both hands will supply equal melee damage." But now, since v.3.5 seems completely silent on the matter, I read the rules as: there are no ambidextrous characters. Ever. Has anyone else had this come up, or if this is a done-and-dead topic could I be directed to the relevant thread? Thanks. |
