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It is finally, gloriously, complete.

A Multiversal Apocalypse on the scale of Crisis on Infinite Earths that allowed our groups players to revisit settings and characters they'd loved across the last 20 years we've been playing together.

It began in the latter months of 2005 and early months of 2006 when over the span of just a few short weeks one of our players found Jesus, one of our players began planning a move to Arizona, one of our players got a job in the Pacific Northwest and two of us found ourselves unable to continue paying for our apartment without our Washington state bound roommate.

When the group broke up we found ourselves without a place to play and only two players and a gamemaster. Given we were in the later phases of a First Edition Exalted game with high essence Solar Exalts, we were disheartened and it seemed game had died.

The three remaining players were all a little bummed and we discussed it at the late night coffee shop we hung out in nightly and after some time one of our friends who worked there asked if he could enjoy what sounded like a fun campaign. When we told him we had nowhere to play, he offered to let us play at the shop in the hours he was closed but doing prep work on Sundays.

A new group was born, 20 years ago this year. That group completed our long running Exalted campaign by fighting and winning a war for the Realm, slaying the gods and combining a series of mystical mcguffins to sunder Creation and reform it as our known universe. A neat ending that closed out the world of Exalted and transitioned us into a game in the World of Darkness.

I found myself missing our Exalted game and characters, so when the opportunity to run a game came around I ran a Scion game and I brought in an element of a quest to find Excalibur which was in turn a shard of one of the magical metal weapons that had been part of our world sundering ritual at the end of the Exalted campaign. It was intended as a way to bring the Exalted characters forward as a lost pantheon so that they could become quest giving NPC's in Scion. But we never finished that game.

A later Vampire game ran by one of the other GM's in our group ended with a timey-wimey adventure where a Mage's spell interacted badly with a higher level blood sorcery ritual performed by a Vampire causing our Vampire coterie being thrown back in time to Imperial Rome.

Over the course of the next decade + I detailed notes. Every dangling plot thread, every campaign ended too soon, every reference from one game to another.

A few years ago I began teasing deep connections between some of the games I was running, building up to the plan that finally came to fruition last night.

Turning our individual games into a vast multiverse I crafted a story that explained the ritual that sundered Creation created a corruption that threaded through the universe and was exploited by the True Fey to destroy the ordered universe, so that the pure chaos of the Deep Wyld would be free of the shackles of the "real world."

And the Fey... won. They ended the universe. Except, in the last moments of existence a group of characters were catapulted through the Universe, inhabiting the bodies of old favorite characters to collect the reagents of the ritual that sundered Creation so that they could unwind time and return to the moment of that rituals casting so that the Multiverse could be respun in a way that avoided the corruption that allowed the Fey to destroy it all.

It was a really fun way to celebrate 20 years of playing together.


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Freehold DM wrote:
Exxxalted was a common supplemental book, and most players I knew had sheafs of backstory for their characters and game sessions were spent with more intrigue and backstabbing duels than straight up fights.

To be fair, that's not an officially published supplement and aftera quarter century in the community surrounding that game I can count on one hand the number of people I've met who actually incorporated that into their game.


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Auridel wrote:
Funny enough, I do not have the new Dark Archive on the new site, but the old digital archive has the new one.
I checked after reading this, and discovered the same thing, but a weird loop where it goes from personalizing to the download link and back again without ever letting me actually download the file.
What browser are you using? It works in Chrome, but not Safari for me.

I'm in Chrome. It looped like 8 - 10 times before if finally downloaded.


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Auridel wrote:
Funny enough, I do not have the new Dark Archive on the new site, but the old digital archive has the new one.

I checked after reading this, and discovered the same thing, but a weird loop where it goes from personalizing to the download link and back again without ever letting me actually download the file.


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I also do not have the pdf of the Dark Archive remaster.

Is it possible that people whose subscriptions did not port over properly that had to resubscribe are somehow not showing as elligible to receive the remaster?


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dirtypool wrote:

This is sort of an odd question. With the previous reissuing of remastered books like Guns & Gears and The Treasure Vault, I did not order the remastered print version but pdfs of both showed up in my downloads - I presume because I purchased both original versions through my subscription.

I had no intention of purchasing a second physical copy of Dark Archive. Should I still be seeing that remastered pdf arrive in my library?

Going to ask this one again, since we're on the edge of the release of Dark Archive.


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Did you not see my links to Rotten Tomatoes and The Wrap, wherein they list his efforts?

Did you not see that the link YOU shared to Rotten Tomatoes included in their top 10 (and both listed as fresh) both his 2023 documentary about Albert Brooks and THIS YEARS Spinal Tap sequel?

So unless August was “years ago” you kind of disproved your own point by claiming that the list you shared was the basis of your opinion.


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You think 2007 was over thirty years ago and yet used this tragedy to pivot to your political viewpoint regarding reading and math scores among American students?

Amusing.

Go get a blog, and stop being the toxic jerk stalking the Gamer Life pages to cosplay as a smart person.


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"Quark Blast” wrote:
As a talented director, we lost him years ago. No doubt an inestimable tragedy and a damning indictment of our approach to treating mental illness - millions of dollars spent with no good measurable results. How many more times do we need to run this experiment?

What is the matter with you? The man was brutally murdered in his own home, by his own son and THIS is the kind of garbage you have to say about a human’s death?

Paizo’s policy of trimming entire conversations back to baseline have done a disservice because it has allowed you to labor under the delusion that you can say TRULY toxic things on this forum with impunity, because the only consequence you ever see for being awful is your garbage posts disappearing.

Pathetic.


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Is there an estimated timeline on when PaizoPlus should reflect all prior purchases in points and tier? When I sent in a trouble call on day one I was told it was a known issue and to just wait, but I see other people commenting that the issue has been resolved for them.


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This is sort of an odd question. With the previous reissuing of remastered books like Guns & Gears and The Treasure Vault, I did not order the remastered print version but pdfs of both showed up in my downloads - I presume because I purchased both original versions through my subscription.

I had no intention of purchasing a second physical copy of Dark Archive. Should I still be seeing that remastered pdf arrive in my library?


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Aberzombie wrote:

So, what you're saying is Hollywood has some fetish about being dominated by aliens?

That actually explains a lot.

No, what I’m saying is that the comics had a nearly identical depiction in the 1980’s.

Smallville’s Jor-El said almost verbatim what Gunn’s Jor-El said. Those weren’t “insulting”


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“ On this third planet from the star Sol, you will be a god among men. They are a flawed race. Rule them with strength, my son. That is where your greatness lies." - Jor-El - Smallville 2003

Jor-El: “In time he will become the supreme being on their planet, almost a god.”

Lara Lor-Van: “Then he will rule them? Reshape them into proper Kryptonian ways?”

Jor-El: “Perhaps.”

Man of Steel 1986


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Giving instructions on how to carry Krypton’s legacy forward by fathering many children isn’t “behavior closer to Zod”

I think you are making a mountain out of a mole hill


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Jor-El and Lara being benevolent and kind aliens isn’t from the comics though. Jor-El was always aloof at best, Lara had barely any characterization beyond being sad to let Kal-El go. Even the version from the Silver age which basically tired Jor-El into a thinly veiled John Carter knock off was an arrogant jerk.

Byrne made the El’s out and out derisive and condescending about humanity; Post Rebirth Jor-El was flat out a villain albeit one manipulated into being one.

Various Elseworld’s El’s have said things more clearly villainous than what was said in S25.

The “good” version of the characters were mostly products of Brando and York’s performances in S:TM and S2 respectively.

It’s hard to feel like this is an insult to my fandom when it’s barely even connected to it.


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Aberzombie wrote:
Going back to "the message". Although I think of it as an insult to comic book fans.

I still don’t understand the stance that this is an insult to comic fans. How so?


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Disney HAS hit $1 Billion with Lilo and Stitch's 1.035 Billion dollars to date. The "Marvel efforts" encapsulate no specific reason for this as not a single hollywood film other than Lilo and Stitch has broken the Billion dollar barrier.


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And the big fun one: have been planning a special V:tM LARP one shot to celebrate one of our players turning 50. Bringing in some old friends we’ve not played with in years and making a big party of it.

This ended up being an awful lot of fun.

The player this was designed around had mentioned that they missed the feel of a Vampire LARP but didn't want to pay money and register with one of the LARP orgs to scratch that itch. Knowing it was their 50th this year (and my 45th) I invited a bunch of LARP friends and Tabletop friends that we'd both spent the last decades playing with and started building out a Chronicle fit for a one shot.

I wanted to play with VTM 5e's strata of player character ages to tell a story about entering Middle Age focusing on the middle group of Ancilla Vampires. With the Elders all being called off to fight in the Gehenna War and the Neonates are champing at the bit to acquire power, the squeeze around the Ancilla made for a perfect aging Gen X metaphor.

The central conceit was that a group of Ancilla Kindred arrive for the Summer Court and find themselves trapped in the venue confronted with the machinations of a mad Prince trying to hand pick his successor before accepting the call of the Beckoning and leaving to join the Gehenna War.

One of our players got us a great location and we played in a Planetarium for about six hours. Of our 20 or so invitees we had 10 who actually showed up and a great time was had by all.


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Aberzombie wrote:

Has anyone watched the movie through VoD? I've heard they either made a change, or people are just now noticing a bit at the end which now casts doubt on whether or not...

** spoiler omitted **

It’s not new. People were citing on Twitter on day one.


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Current tracking is estimating it closes at 680, which is more than Man of Steel made. More is certainly not "WELL SHORT". Even if it stopped earning today, in excess of 555M, it's not "WELL SHORT" of Man of Steel's 670. It's just 115 Short currently.

But you want to play studio mogul, let's go.

There are sources that claim the marketing budget was 200M, there is no confirmed number from the studio. If we assume that top end to be correct, and if we assume that the highest suggested production budget of 360 was correct then the total buyoff for the film to hit profit is $560M.

The 160M in tax rebates from the state of Georgia drop that to 400M.

The 140M in licensing and brand deals drops that to 260M

260M with a 50%/50% theatrical split (which is less than the actual split) means the film hit profit after 520M earned.

So with those most commonly guessed numbers - the film is currently at 17M profit. While still in theaters.

Director James Gunn has claimed that the 360M reportedly overblown by 110M. If HIS numbers are correct - then the film is sitting at 72.5M in profit.

For it to not be near profitability the P&G budget would have to be something more like 250 and no one is claiming that figure. It certainly LOOKS to not be at profitability if you ignore ancillary profit streams.

And this is ALL before the network and streaming media buy, Primary Theatrical Streaming, or home media.


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Except of course that isn't how inflation works. Man of Steel doesn't magically make more money because the valuation of the dollar has changed. It's an academic comparison only.

But let's give it a go:

For the prediction that it will fall short of the inflation adjusted total of $928 M "by about $400 M" - Superman would have to leave theaters THIS WEEK. At 502M as of COB Sunday, it's sitting at 426 M short of the the MoS adjusted total.

There is no sign, however, of Superman slowing down. It made 100 M Sunday to Sunday last week and has a stronger week to week hold than any DC film since TDK. It is being held over in shorter run art house theaters, there are already mutterings of a late august/early september premium screen repush by the studio like they did with BvS and like Marvel did with all four Avengers films.

It may yet fall short of 928 - but it won't be by 400.

Domestically Superman has now in week 3 surpassed Man of Steel's total domestic box office take from a 15 week run and since you love adjusting for inflation: It's currently made more money domestically than MoS had in it's third week both adjusted for inflation and not.


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Oh I thought it was commentary on the way "best since Endgame" has been a talking point centered around every MCU movie that has been released since Endgame.


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It’s presales so far have been well below Superman’s


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Dovetailing on

a couple of comments:
I don't think there is time in a brief cameo that sets up Supergirl to establish the trauma of knowingly surviving the destruction of your entire race. The CW series took seasons to unpack what that looked like for its version of Supergirl, and doing too much of that in the Superman cameo makes the scene suddenly her story in a very direct way.

The way it was presented tees up that this Supergirl is different than what anyone is expecting and leaves the audience wondering why that choice was made. If the trailer hints at the idea that Kara is dealing with being broken by the loss of her parents, her world, and her mission which was to raise her nephew - then it gives the audiences the pieces of that puzzle necessary for a story about Supergirl finding her own purpose.

As for Clark being concerned instead of being annoyed - I didn't feel that Clark was annoyed. He commented to Gary that Supergirl's lack of boundaries was unhealthy, he commented on her behavior as a way to express concern and Gary puts a button on it by saying if he had emotions he would be concerned.

I'm happy to see anything that tries to move the ball forward on Supergirl, because frankly it has felt like DC has no idea what to do with the character - and hasn't since she died in 1985.

The post DCAU white t-shirt Kara was kind of milquetoast, the version that appeared in Superman/Batman in the early 00's was all over the place, which makes sense given all of the "Kara's Soul visits Matrix Supergirl" stuff they were trying to not have to walk back from. The New 52 Kara's rage element never felt as naturally handled as it could have been, and often felt like a wasted opportunity. Rebirth Kara getting essentially de-aged in terms of characterization if not actual chronology and having elements of the CW Supergirl bolted onto her always felt very unnecessary.

Woman of Tomorrow was the most fresh feeling thing the comics had done with the character in a very long time, so teeing that up but also trying to establish her core as being broken by the fall of Krypton feels like it is trying to honor the whole of the character on her own terms - rather than just making her a Clark analogue. I like when they use her to tell stories that work for Superman, but she works best when she has a complete identity of her own.


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Aberzombie wrote:

One other thought:

** spoiler omitted **

Just wanted to add:

a reply to your another thought:
I would argue that what we're suggesting is not a way to "fix" this plot, since the Jor-El and Lara plot is left dangling. It isn't broken, it's just unresolved.

I personally would prefer resolving it via Brainiac, but knowing Gunn's penchant for giving lesser used characters a spotlight with mainstream audiences, I would be very satisfied if this alteration of the message was done by the rampant Eradicator AI.

A slick way to handle that would be to have Brainiac (The Collector) scanning the Kryptonian pod as it passed beyond his ship. He scans the ship, analyzes the source code of the ship and inadvertently activates the dormant terraforming protocols of the Eradicator. Then Brainiac lets the pod go, not yet having become aware of the destruction of Krypton - only to realize he let perhaps the last Kryptonian get away and begin a hunt to find him that ultimately leads to his arrival on Earth 35 or so years later.


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Aberzombie wrote:
True. I never liked it then either. I prefer the more common "they weren't bad" characterization.

In all of those instances, they weren't and it was just a manipulation.

Aberzombie wrote:

(I think we're talking about the same character).

There's no need to be coy, it's not spoilery or potentially giving anything about Superman 2025 away, I'm talking about Brainiac


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Aberzombie wrote:


I think we're talking about the same point...

** spoiler omitted **

I, personally, see that as crapping on fans. I'm old and cranky at the best of times and have seen a lot of crapping on characters over the years. So I've become far less forgiving. Other people (such as yourself) don't see it that way, and that's okay. I think it's good for fans to argue and nitpick over actual comic lore like this.

In fairness, this particular change has been made before. Smallville did the same thing in Season 2, similar messages existed in the Post Crisis Eradicator introduction. This is not new. It is also left unresolved, so that it is likely setup for a future story. Perhaps involving a character who is alternatingly a superior intellect/a futuristic AI in control of a series of Matryoshka doll like robots/ Kryptonian AI construct/obsessive collector of long lost civilizations.


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Saw one of the Amazon screenings last night and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I've been a Superman fan for 40+ years so of course I have a different set of expectations than you might. My wife, who is not generally a fan of the character enjoyed herself a lot.

The cast is great. The story is structured more like a 6 issue limited series than a traditional 3 Act Film.

No spoilers, but I definitely recommend it.


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*de rigueur


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DeathQuaker wrote:
I playtested Exalted 1e many moons ago. They didn't listen to most of our feedback. It was still a great game but... yeah, houserules help a lot.

We played it pretty extensively from 01 - 07, and it worked well when we were still in the habit of Storyteller system rules, but once you get away from rolling for your attack more than once and applying bonuses both before and after the roll it begins to feel more and more cumbersome to go back.

Looking back through each edition to figure out some simple hotfixes has me really curious what led them to put in place so many fixes for the 1e problems and then build an entirely bespoke (or copy from Scion that is) initiative system that creates an entire host of new problems.


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Over a year since I last checked in with this thread, and I find myself coming to the Paizo board less and less. In the last year so many of my longstanding Kickstarters and projects I’ve been following have finally fulfilled and that is an awesome feeling, but it has also been a famine year for game play.

Let me start by saying I am aware that in many ways my group is a unicorn. Stable groups that stay together with mostly the same players for almost 20 years, while maintaining a weekly schedule is a rarity among rarities. It’s been a bounty for all these years.

This year, however, one of our players took a job teaching that would limit his time considerably - he’d basically only have the weekends with his wife. So we did the supportive thing and put all of our games on hold and decided to play some short games in the interim with the players we had. Only, we barely did that.

From January to May we had three sessions where it turned out our missing player was able to drop in, but beyond that we had a session zero and three sessions of Call of Cthulhu in four and a half months.

Just as we were back to full strength at the end of the semester - the married couple in our group informed us all that the rigors of a weekly game were wearing on them and they needed to step away or adjust the way they interacted with game for a little while

We discussed as a group and agreed to something more encounter based and less focused on detailed plot and that we would play once a month.

We’re diving back into my homebrew setting for PF2 that we ran throughout the pandemic, which is nice, and I am excited to return to that world. The downside though is that this is a radical and sudden change from the way we’d been operating, and we had three games running when it happened - so it took the wind out of both GM’s sails.

We’ll get used to it, obviously. Maybe weekly games for 20 years is an embarrassment of riches, but that doesn’t make it less affecting when it changes.

The good of the last year: ran a few sessions of Shadowdark and LOVED it.

Spent the better part of the last few months editing a document that is a House Ruled version of Exalted using 2e, 3e and Exalted Essence rules to plug playability and quality of life holes in Exalted First Edition

And the big fun one: have been planning a special V:tM LARP one shot to celebrate one of our players turning 50. Bringing in some old friends we’ve not played with in years and making a big party of it.

It’s still a journey.


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You are the most correct, that statement should have been in the past tense. The common experiences witnessed in that threat when it existed however are the same as I expressed.


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ShinHakkaider wrote:
It wasnt a logical leap because you have no idea what experience most subscribers are having. MOST subscribers dont post on this message board. You don't personally know MOST SUBSCRIBERS. So when you say "is not an experience most subscribers are having?" What are you talking about?

Most subscribers who have issues do post on these forums in the Customer Service Threads. They also post on the Pathfinder subreddit and I've read many of these comments. So THAT is what I'm talking about. Why are you getting so needlessly aggressive?

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What I take umbrage to is this

Why do you need to take umbrage with ANYTHING that was said by anyone in this thread? Nothing in this thread rises to any level of real importance

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Without insinuating or downplaying anyone else's experience. AND most importantly, without inflating my own importance / relevance by saying that I know the experiences of MOST subscribers in order to invalidate someone's experience.

Right, because how dare someone point out that your experience is atypical?

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How hard is it to simply say: "yikes that's rough. Okay I get why {name} would feel that way. It hasn't been MY experience but okay." Pretty hard it looks like...

About as hard as reading someone speculate on why you had an atypical experience and not respond by condescendingly push back at them for the suggestion they made, apparently.


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schnoodle wrote:
I mean, you still have to email them to cancel your subscription. Even barring a recent FTC Rule in the US, it's just pretty anti-consumer to put barriers to stopping automatic charges to a card.

I'm not in agreement about the need for a PDF only subscription or a common PDF release date - but the above statement dovetails with one of the things I would love to see added to the subscription process.

It should be easier to cancel subs and it should be easier to pause subscriptions or skip books. Particularly if Remastered reprints like the upcoming Guns & Gears is going to be a pattern.

Cancelling my sub to not get a reprint of a book I already own and then resubscribing to get the next book feels like it could be streamlined.


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ShinHakkaider wrote:


Thanks for making that Neo sized leap to a false conclusion though...

They made that logical leap because consistently getting your subscription books after the street date is not an experience most subscribers are having. The one time it happened to me it was because my shipment was lost in transit and Paizo had to send me a replacement, otherwise - even though I am receiving my books after other subscribers I am still getting it prior to street date. This is the more common experience subscribers are having.


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dirtypool wrote:
The creeping negative thought darting around in the back of my mind is that those of us who are pending today will not come out of the pending state until after Gen Con.

Spoke too soon. Just got the shipping notice.


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The creeping negative thought darting around in the back of my mind is that those of us who are pending today will not come out of the pending state until after Gen Con.


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I’m almost more concerned about the idea of a pending charge on my debit card for the last 12 days.

This happened once before with a Paizo order and my bank just cancelled the hold charge and blocked the second attempt when Paizo went to reauth.


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Is today still the estimated last day of the shipping window? Have we seen any update saying that window had likely extended? Because I'm still in the "pending" boat


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Emailed CS because my order has been pending for over a week with no auth completion.

Was told that the delay in processing subscriptions was delaying processing other orders (which is strange because mine is a subscription order.)

So I'm unsure where I am in the process.


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Having games I'm likely never going to get to play is my curse. I have so many things I'd love to play, and more on the way, but there just isn't enough interest with my table for all of it. And these are just my games, I'm sure the others have their own stack of games we'll never get around to.

Just a quick glance reveals the following list of things I've purchased and never touched :

Mummy: The Curse 1st Edition
Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition
Geist: The Sin Eaters 2nd Edition
Promethian: The Created 2nd Edition
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Mutant Crawl Classics
13th Age
Pugmire
Everyday Heroes
The One Ring/Lord of the Rings Roleplaying
Old School Essentials
Level Up A5e
Shadowdark
Doctors & Daleks
Transformers
Kids on Bikes
Kids on Brooms
Teens In Space
Blades in the Dark
Index Card RPG
Scion
Star Trek Adventures
Stargate SG1
Worlds/Stars Without Number
Werewolf: The Apocalypse (5e)
Trinity Continuum: Assassin
Trinity Continuum: Adventure!
Trinity Continuum: Aberrant
Hunter: The Reckoning (5e)


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Freehold DM wrote:
why shock at 3e? What happened?

We're a largely traditional book and printed sheet group, and 3e Exalted is a siege weapon of a text. Nearly as dense within as its size intimates.


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Finally did it.

Ripped the bandaid off and played out a session featuring the Exaltation of three of our characters for the Exalted campaign. It had been quite a long time since I'd stepped into the world of creation, and in the interim my expectations had grown quite high.

Exalted 1e was my favorite game of all time, and after so much time away and disappointment with the system for 2e and shock at 3e I was worried that maybe it wouldn't work

To my delight it was like slipping on a perfectly worn hoodie, going home again is possible.


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Wrapping up Hunter: The Vigil took a little longer than planned due to some player choices.

The plan moving out of that was to sit back and let the other GM's at the table run alternating games while I did some worldbuilding in Exalted for our eventual Essence campaign.

Then there was a system shock issue with our Mythos campaign (not in CoC) and some players are focused on a cross country move so the hat got handed back very quickly and Exalted Essence is firing up this weekend.

Meanwhile playing Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition has been a blast so far. So much so that I'm wondering if this iteration of the old Storyteller system is actually smoother than the Storytelling system of Chronicles of Darkness. I would have said no before playing this.

I would have also said that Requiem has better player options until really digging into Masquerade V5.


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I'm sorry your core GM passed, but finishing the campaign is a great way to honor the years together. That's awesome.

I've considered going back to our own Hellmouth, but those players are all scattered to the wind. Still, it'd be nice.

That's why I'm leaning toward running Exalted. One of the other players at my table is my brother, he is the only member of our old group still playing with me. We ran a nearly four year Exalted campaign that spanned both groups, with both he and I running for big stretches. It's been 20 years since that campaign began, and we're fast approaching 20 with the current group. It feels appropriate to go back to where it all started for our current players.


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Tim Emrick wrote:

I was also introduced to the Buffy RPG around this time, and have been playing with the same group in a highly-alternate-Buffyverse campaign on and off ever since (in person the first few years, then moving increasingly online).

I loved the Unisystem rules for Buffy and Angel, and the group I was with before this one played in several seasons of two separate series that I ran. I also was lucky enough to get to playtest for Eden Studios.

That game was a blast


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I'm now at that difficult point of deciding where the journey goes NEXT.

Our group has been playing together now for about 18 years, and throughout most of that I've been one of two or three rotating GM's. We're never at a loss for ideas on what we want to play next, if anything we have reached the point where we have more games than we have time for.

Even limiting ourselves to short form narratives and one shots, each of the three of us has so many campaign ideas that we might never get to them all - and great new games keep coming out.

I'm just about to wrap up an arc in our Hunter: The Vigil game, while another GM is about to come online with a Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition campaign that I'm looking forward to greatly as I've spent very little time with Masquerade and LOTS of time with Requiem.

But where to next? Bringing the current arc of Vigil to a landing has given me a plethora of ideas for that campaigns next major arc, but I was also deep into planning a return to the world of Exalted.

That said I also have ideas I want to explore in PF2, OSE, Shadowdark, Kids on Bikes, They Came From Classified, They Came From the Cyclops Cave, Trinity Adventure, Trinity Aberrant, Scion, Monster of the Week, Star Wars

Too many games, not enough time.


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Antony Walls wrote:
maybe that's why poor customer service brews conspiracy theories

I'm really hesitant to call Paizo's customer service "poor" they're by leaps and bounds more involved and organized than any other TTRPG's CS departments.


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They do know what Baylen is going after.

There is an arc of stories in The Clone Wars called The Mortis Arc, it ties in heavily to the world between worlds where Ahsoka faced Anakin. Baylen is standing on a statue of one of the mythical Force deities presented in that story.

I don't want to spoil too much, you should definitely check it out.


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Different systems they need access to. It’s less like a physical key and more like an MFA token, but in this case featuring high end encryption

Full Name

Endrian Proche

Race

Human

Classes/Levels

3rd Paladin |HP 25/25|AC 15|CMD 16|Fort +7|R: +4|W: +4|Init: +0|Perc: -2|

Gender

Male

Size

Medium

Age

27

Alignment

Lawful Good

Languages

Common, Celestial

Strength 18
Dexterity 10
Constitution 12
Intelligence 12
Wisdom 7
Charisma 16

About Endrian

Endrian is a tall man, aged 27 with dark brown hair and peircing blue eyes.

Originally from Nivmadas, Endrian grew up in wonder of the tales of heroics of the mighty Saint Eveldine. At the young age of 15, with the blessing of his parents, he began his initiation to paladinhood. He joined the order of Saint Eveldine and his passion to follow in her footsteps grew.

Upon reaching the status of Paladin at the age of 23 he set out to begin his holy mission, secretly hoping to one day emulate a deed as great as Saint Eveldine.

He does not seek fame or glory in his life, his main desire is to be a force of good for the people, a force not unlike Saint Eveldine.

His deeds thus far have been few and his experiences wandering through the lands seeking those who require his aid have mostly involved the apprehension of bandits and the destruction of minor undead threats, but each experience feeds his passion to be a beacon of goodness.

Senses:

Initiative: +0
Perception: -2
Speed: 30ft, 20ft in armour

AC: 15 (10 + 5 scale mail)
Touch: 10
Flat Footed: 15

CMB: 7
CMD: 17

Hit Points: 25

Fort: +7, Ref: +3, Will: +4

Combat:

Melee:
Sera: +8 (1d8 +6)
Warhammer: +7 (1d8 +6)

Ranged:
Shortbow: +3 (1d6)

Feats and Traits:

Traits:
Divine Calling
Birthmark

Feats
Skill Focus (Diplomacy)
Power Attack
Greater Mercy

Skills:

Skills: 4 per level +3 favored class bonus
Climb: +7 (4 Str, 3 Ranks)
Diplomacy: +12 (3 Cha, 3 ranks, 3 Class Skill, 3 Skill Focus)
Heal: +3 (-2 Wis, 2 ranks, 3 Class Skill)
Knowledge (Nobility): +6 (1 Int, 2 rank, 3 Class Skill)
Knowledge (Religion): +7 (1 Int, 2 Rank, 3 Class Skill, 1 Trait Bonus)
Swim: +7 (4 Str, 3 Ranks)

Abilities:

Smite Evil 1/day
Aura of Good
Detect Evil
Divine Grace
Lay on Hands
Aura of Courage
Divine Health
Mercy (Fatigued)

Gear:

Starting Gold: 175
Sera Masterwork Warhammer Gift from the Seekers
Shortbow
Warhammer
Arrows(19) 1gp
Scale Mail 50gp
Clerics Vestments Starting Clothing
Backpack 2gp
Winter Blanket 5sp
Bedroll 1sp
Hemp Rope 1gp
Rations (10 days) 5gp
Large Tent Given by the Seekers
Potion of CLW (4) 200gp
Potion of Bulls Strength 300gp
Potion of Enlarge Person 50gp
Spring Loaded Wrist Sheath 5gp (currently loaded with one CLW potion)
Total Spent: 656gp 6sp
Gold Earnt: 1125gp
Total Donated: 200gp
Spent out on the Town: 20gp
Total Wealth Remaining: 423gp 4sp