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Hello,

If possible, I would like to cancel the entire order. I was able to recently buy all three books at a garage sale and would prefer not to spend another $200+ dollars for the same products. Thanks for all the work put into this order. I will re-order the pathfinder product another time.

Hi Diego. Thanks for the update, and I appreciate the diligence the paizo staff are showing to ensure I get my full order. I would like to wait until the whole order ships, please. I can wait the 4-18 business days. If 20 days go by and I don't have a shipping notification, I'll be on the message boards again :)

Again thank you.

Hello again! Looking for another update. My order is still marked as "Pending", though my credit card was charged a few days ago. I have received no shipping notice via email. We are into the 4th week since the order has been placed.

Hello. Just wanted to get an update as I see the order is still marked as "pending". Thank you.

Hello Vecna,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! It looks like there are two products holding up your order: AD&D Player's Handbook (2E) and AD&D Monstrous Manual (2E). We're currently waiting to get them in from our distributor.

Those items have a listed product availability of 4 - 18 business days, so I wanted to check if you'd like me to leave the order as-is or change it up. If I leave it as-is, the order will just remain pending until those two books come in, and then send out automatically. Otherwise, I could cancel the delayed products or move them to a separate order to be sent on their own once we receive them. Just let me know what you'd prefer, and I'll be sure to take care of it.

Other than that, everything on the order should be just fine. Please don't hesitate to ask if there are any further questions or concerns that I may assist you with.

Thanks, and have a great day!
Katina

Thanks for the quick reply! Keep the order as pending. I know the 2E stuff is really hard to get these days so I was excited to see that you had them for sale still and not for $100 each. I'll wait it out if it means I'll still get them.

This order is taking significantly longer to process than my orders in the past and I'm wondering if there is an issue with payment/shipping/stock?

Usually my orders ship within a day or two of ordering. This particular order was made on November 5th and still has not shipped. I'm just wondering what the delay is. Thanks.

I'm really looking forward to this game. Dragon Age: Origins is my favorite game. This one looks to be taking somethings in different directions, but I'm liking those directions.

I'm excited to see how the framed naratvie will play out. The exaggerations, and the re-tellings, and the fact that the game is to take place over a decade of time is very compelling.

Even though my e-reader of choice is my Kindle and I'll therefore have to wait, I'm insanely excited about this. Thank you Paizo!

O ye gods! This is something that would be incredibly useful to me. Rival adventurers can be far more villainous than many monsters in my campaigns.

A lvl 20 group of badguys would be most welcome.

Good morning!

Usually, Paizo is very quick at shipping my orders. This order, however, not so much. I made the order on October 8th, and it has yet to ship. I'm just wondering why the delay. If you could let me know, that'd be great!

I enjoy the World of Warcraft Soundtrack, as well as the soundtrack for Warcraft III.

Another good pc-game soundtrack is Morrowind (Oblivion's soundtrack just came out. It's fantastic). As mentioned above, the soundtracks for Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate are exceptional.

Other than those, my usual playlist consists of these movie soundtracks:
-Gladiator
-Braveheart
-Conan The Barbarian
-Troy
-Pirates of the Caribbean
-LOTR collection
-Black Hawk Down (surprisingly good for fantasy settings)
-Henry V

And lastly, the Eberron music that came with Sharn.

Would it make you guys feel any better that one of my partners shot a car burglar right in front of me? (...didn't think so....)

The guy attacked him with a screwdriver....bad tactical decision...attack cop armed with gun with screwdriver....I applied direct pressure to his wound and kept talking to him to keep him conscious until EMS got there. By this time large crowd had gathered (it was at a shopping mall).

"Why did you guys shoot him?" the crowd asked.

"He was breaking into a car and attacked my partner with a screwdriver..."

No sympathy from the crowd for the car burglar. One guy even said he hoped that he died. This was in the early 90's when our City was losing 130 cars a week to thieves and over 300 cars a week were being broken into.

The guy recovered and we arrested him two years later driving a stolen car.....however, I'm still glad he didn't actually die.

For a more amusing war story from my past involving police work and D&D--I handled an accident one time where one of the involved parties was obviously a gamer. His trunk had flown open and AD&D books were scattered all over the place. I helped him pick up the books. "Hey, here's a d20...can you identify it?" I asked him....he busted out laughing.
"Like there's anyone else around whose d20 that might be!" he guffawed. Only later did he look at me kind of weird, because I guess it hit him that most people don't call d20's...well, d20's.

Nice to meet another cop on the boards. I'm a mountie in Canada, and where I'm stationed, we deal with car thefts on a very daily basis from March to November (it's hard to start the cars in freezing tempuratures! And hotwiring doesn't help in the least, haha), the big thing they do here is take them out into the fields and burn em. More than 80% of the cars we recover are completely burnt.

I have no sympathy for the fool who tried to jump your partner. I hope the bullet hurt. A lot.

To the original poster, I am glad your books were still around. The sense of security will come back, but it takes a lot of time.

Myself, I would like to see the Rod of Seven Parts get more play. Though I have DM'd the 2nd edition Rod of Seven Parts (and still own it....being a packrat pays off), it would be nice to see a new spin on the Rod, and another series of adventures regarding that. Another well known artifact of that caliber would be great also. It would be very very interesting to see a campaign that could place the plot around a very powerful artifact, yet keep the focus on the player characters.

The trend I noticed is that elements of one AP appear in the one following (the Triad cultists, for example).

The bottomline, though, is that I will be pleased no matter what, as Dungeon's AP's have an amazing track record already.

And... PLEASE release AoW in hardcover. SCAP looks so nice on my shelf, but needs a companion! ;)

Well, here's my list:

Of the issues covering the 3.x rules, I have three.

Issue 303 - Gladiator. Before this issue, doing an adventure or even a campaign with Arena usually was normal mundane combat with a crowd watching the character. I found the information in this article to be invaluable and truly made the arena combat sequences of my campaign unique and flavorful.

Plus. . . Gladiators are cool.

Issue 309 - The Githyanki Incursion was simply amazing. Aside from those articles dealing with the Githyanki, though, the whole issue dealing with War Spells and Beasts of the Battlefield really makes for some fun and fresh new elements for mass combat.

Issue 315 - I am a huge fan of the various campaign worlds TSR put out in its hayday. I understand that it was exactly those many campaign settings that sunk TSR, but the diversity was fantastic and I owned nearly all of them. This issue was nostalgic and fresh at the same time.

Add the winner is (drum roll): [Fighting with envelope, curses start flying, finally the envelope is ripped into many pieces in a rage and the announcer picks up the pieces and tapes them together] . . .ISSUE 315!! The old school campaigns along with a preview to my now favored Eberron simply made this issue one that sits in my bathroom more frequently than the others.

Of the issues covering 1st and 2nd edition Ad&d, I have only one favorite (though I loved them all for the most part):

Issue 212 - Staggering amounts of advise to the DM. How to make adventures more like epic novels, how to rerun adventures after the heroes have completed them once already (My most successful campaign was the time I had the PC's play a rerun of Night Below. They played the children of the adventurers who came 2/3 the way of completing the campaign and gave up in shame when the odds seemed too overwhelming.)

Whew. The tension at the first favorite was a bit much, huh?. Well, thanks for tuning in. See you next time at Favorite Dungeon Issue!!!!!

Vecna wrote:

Now that's what I like to call "off-topic"!

Heh.

OMG.

I don't know what in the world I was thinking when I posted that. Great reply though, Gary Teter. You had me laughing for like 20 minutes.

Uhh, something "on topic" . . .
I have a dog. . .pretty good dog . . .had to put down her brother because he was too violent. That sucked.

Never owned a cat. Might be interesting.

Can anyone tell me where I've seen this picture? Gives ideas for an interesting character, but knowing where it's from and an artist name may be helpful.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/multipass26/Poster.jpg

The illustration is from Dragon #258, as stated above. The artist is Todd Lockwood.

His website is at www.toddlockwood.com.

The site is really cleaned up and is nice and slick now. Easy to navigate.

It must have taken a lot of work. Thanks for this.

Congratulations on the beautiful new website.

Hi there. The new site is flippin' great!!! I can see I will be posting here a lot.

Please tell me that there will be plenty of new Eberron adventures in the future issues. The Queen with Burning eyes was really nice, but I would really like to see plenty of overland adventures.

The Shadows of the Last War is fun, I am sure the Vampire's Blade will be fun too, but then there is like a 5 month wait for the next adventure in that series. I need Dungeon to pick up the slack. Eberron is a brand new world and I've always found that Adventures are a great way to get the feel of the world before starting Homebrew adventures.

Anyhooo . . .I digress.

Any plans for new Eberron adventures soon?

The new site is really slick. Easy to navigate. Thanks Paizo!

I have been buying Dragon and Dungeon for as long as I can remember (on and off subscription) and was hoping you guys would one day put up a message board.

Plus I got the name Vecna before anyone else, ha ha!!