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Heh... I was trying to do it myself in the Order History. You can use the card ending in 3025. Thanks!

No problem, figured I'd ask. Can we set it up for delivery then?

My contributor copy of Wayfinder #7 is in this order. Can I have you hold this copy for me to pick up at GenCon?

Thanks!

Not in the least upset with you guys, but I gotta trim the budget for a while.

Need to cut back on the subscriptions again. Can you cancel my Pathfinder Tales and Player Companion subscriptions? It's for purely financial reasons. Everything's been quality so far.

Finally arrived today.

And the crowd went wild.

yea.

mattdroz wrote:

I'm pretty sure that the books are out in the mail, floating around somewhere on their way to me. But, just in case, I wanted to let you know I still haven't received my last shipment (placed on 4/7, notified on shipping on 4/12).

Here's hoping it arrives sometime this week...

It should be arriving sometime this week. Let me know if you still haven't seen it by the end of next week.

Thanks,
cos

Thanks, I will! I just get antsy because normally it comes through really quick (usually within the lower 4 business days).

I'm pretty sure that the books are out in the mail, floating around somewhere on their way to me. But, just in case, I wanted to let you know I still haven't received my last shipment (placed on 4/7, notified on shipping on 4/12).

Here's hoping it arrives sometime this week...

Need to cut back a wee bit before convention season. Can you cancel just the Campaign Setting subscription? The rest are still good.

Ah, my thanks! I thought I remembered seeing that I could change it, but couldn't seem to find it when I was going through everything.

Hey team!

I need to cancel a few things and also want to know if I can change something.

The cancellations are for the Runner's Toolkit and Attitude books I have on pre-order.

Also, I just re-upped my subscription to the Campaign Setting, starting with the Inner Sea World Guide. Is there a chance I can get this shipped out ASAP instead of with my next subscription shipment?

Thanks!

Matt

Phew... That's rough. How much longer is this going on?

Lora as Feiya, the iconic witch

Thanks! Everything looks good and my wallet sends it's thanks!

Not due to the product, just need to tighten the purse-strings a little.

Thanks,
Matt

God bless us, EVERYONE! :D

(AKA Ashe Ravenheart)

The charge went through on Saturday, but I'm still showing everything as Pending and don't have access to the PDFs yet. Any ideas?

Reckless wrote:

Duh! Rick Deckard

He's smarter, younger, and edgier than either of those losers.

He's also a replicant and is therefore disqualified.

Pshaw! Ridley says he is, Harrison says he isn't and Dick took his story to the grave...

Now, don't forget about Jack Ryan, Dr. Richard Kimble or President James Marshall either.

I know this is a bit off the topic here, and I don't mean to hijack the thread but just thought I would mention some modern westerns that some of you might have missed and are fans of the genre.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: terrible name but great movie. Not your typical shoot em up western, but one that really displays it's acting chops with Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell from Moon, Jeremy Renner from The Hurt Locker and a budding Casey Affleck. If you can hang in there long enough, this one will have you enthralled.

Lone Star: Set in modern day and southern US, it can easily be transferred to the days of the Old West. Stars Matthew McCanaughey, Kris Kristofferson and Chris Cooper. About lawmen and an old crime.

Seraphim Falls: Starring Pierce Brosnan as a tough as nails army officer who is deadly with a knife and Liam Neeson heading a gang of bounty hunters trying to track him down. It gets a bit strange at the end and has some supernatural aspects to it, but the first 3/4 are as good as any western I have ever seen. Has the greatest hiding spot for a stealth attack ever!

I liked Assassination a LOT. It showed how Jesse James wasn't really a good guy or a bad guy, just a guy that couldn't figure out what he should be.

I'll definitely check out the others, thanks!

I hated the first Transformers movie, but as a little kid I always had a soft spot for the "Real American Hero" incarnation of G.I. Joe. I just couldn't bring myself to even watch the Joe movie, because it looked so wretched.

On the other hand, I loved Zombieland, and have higher expectations for the Joe sequel with this news. Might even get me to watch the first one.

It's all about being in the right frame of mind. If you don't go in expecting high drama and Shakespearean acting, it comes out pretty well. The best thing I can suggest is to watch the old 5-part Mass Device cartoon (HERE) which is about the same amount of camp/action (before the weekly series took it to high camp) as Rise of Cobra.

PS. Just a quick note, the VEOH site from the link above requires you to download their movie player to see the whole thing.

I dont think they can do any worse then GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra. That was horrible.

Honestly? I really didn't think it was *that* terrible. I felt they did a WAAAAAY better job than Bay's Transformer 1 AND 2.

mattdroz wrote:

Part me wants to see this since I know Jeff can act and a good western has been missing since Unforgiven.

3:10 to Yuma was a vastly underated western that wasn't seen by the masses.

Totally forgot about that. And it was a great remake too...

Part me wants to see this since I know Jeff can act and a good western has been missing since Unforgiven.

Then there's the part that dreads anyone trying to remake a John Wayne movie. There's just some lines you don't cross. And most Wayne movies are good for the simple reason that Wayne's in them.

Oh, because GI Joe is not a comedy ?

I know I was laughing myself silly when I saw Rise of Cobra

I refuse to participate as they are twins separated at birth.

The 8th Dwarf wrote:

delabarre wrote:

Interesting Fettnote (har!): In Ep IV, Leia says to Luke "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper?" Mark Hamill is 5'9".

Temeura Morrison is 5'7". Heh.

I would happily pick a fight with Mark Hamill and know I was going to live. Temeura Morrison on the other hand is fully capable of pounding seven shades of snot out of me.

You seem to be forgetting that Mark Hamill is also the Joker. *shivers*

Don't forget C***knocker!

Besides, the guys name is Dick Riddick. ;D

There's a reason for that.

;D

Nice scenario,

My favorite to think about involves the louisiana purchase.
Can you imagine what would have happened if the US had listened to the liberals of the time and not bought it.
Napolean would have had a place to fall back to forceing britan to have to bring there war over here. It would have dramatically changed the way the U.S. is today.
Or what if mexico had decided to take hitler up on his offer to get texas back and tried to invade the U.S. while we were fighting in eurpoe.

I like history and the possible alternate histories are a fun game to me.

Umm... Jefferson (by far, the biggest liberal of the time) was President at the time of the purchase and had doubts about the constitutionality of purchasing the land, but did so to prevent the French from establishing such a huge presence on the continent. The main opponents were the Federalists party, headed by Alexander Hamilton, and who were largely bankers and businessmen and sought to more closely tie ourselves with the British.

And, war with Britain happened anyway in 1812 when we fought back over Britain's impressment of US citizens into the Royal Navy and strict trade restrictions to prevent us from trading with Napoleonic France during the UK's war with France at the time.

Anyways, I think it's even more interesting to think if we kept the original module of election for the Presidency where the Vice-President was the guy that got the 2nd highest amount of votes, instead of what we currently have with party's putting forth their "combo" candidates.

I just thank god for Jon Stewart.

Daily Show 2/22/2010

You realize, of course, you're just giving all the Paizonians all sorts of evil ideas for plays and musicals for PaizoCon. (hell, wish I could make it to the 'Con to see what might start up)

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Boba Fett, without question. His death was the first travesty in the movie that became unhinged, and hinted of how the SW legacy would go in the future.

E-bloody-woks were a 300 foot neon sign that George had personally jumped the shark and everything else he touched was to be tainted by merchandising and greed.

Please. Everyone knows that George's official Jumping of the Selachimorpha was when he produced Howard the Duck. He just ain't been right since.

Both of these films had good effects for the werewolves/wolves. However, as much as I liked seeing a dire wolf sized creature in the New Moon preview on iTunes, I'm not seeing the movie. I do admire the work they did on the animation, though, and I'd like to see that used more often.

The Wolfman, on the other hand, was fun to watch, but had too many weak parts to make it a good film. ** spoiler omitted **The original was a classic and this remake only proves that.

Now, the letter from that fan is ridiculous to the point of idiocy. Meyer may be a good author when it comes to appealing to young girls, and that's fine, but this kind of fandom, unfortunately, only proves how foolish some Twilight fans can be.

In regards to all the gore, remember that they brought on Rick "American Werewolf in London" Baker to help with the creature and special effects. Cutting back on gore with him would be like asking Ray Harryhausen to not use so much stop-action.

As for the fan herself, I'm reminded of the story of my friend who saw Titanic in the theater (because he wanted to see the special effects of the ship sinking). He mentioned in the line to the movie that he couldn't believe he was waiting two hours for a three hour movie about a boat sinking.

Then the girls behind him were outraged at him and loudly complained that he "gave away the ending".

Yeah, but has anyone written any songs or made music videos about Riddick? No, I don't think so.

Here's a video for Fett... ;)

Are they?

It's in pre-production, scheduled for release sometime in 2012 (assuming the world's not done for).

I brought it up because I was just watching Chronicles of Riddick earlier on TNT (and the genius of programming decided to follow up a classic such as this with Batman & Robin)

Fett the big bad bounty hunter got taken out by accident and then swallowed by a sarlacc. Riddick became the ruler of the necromongers by accident.

Riddick wins.

Alas, Fett survived the sarlacc. Even had a daughter. Wound up working with Han Solo for a time too... But Riddick did outrun the sun on Crematorium.

Of course, you have to take into account the entire story of both men. From Boba Fett's being cloned and pampered by Jango to Riddick's surviving being strangled by his own umbilical cord and being raised in the prison system.

Not that I'm biasing this or anything... ;)

Sure, Boba's got a jet pack and missiles and rules Mandalore (nowadays), but Riddick kills guys with a teacup and rules the Necromongers.

James Jacobs wrote:

pres man wrote:

Shadow13.com wrote:

IMO: playing one gender, whether it be male or female, "almost exclusively" is a little creepy.

With so many roleplay options available, playing a single gender "almost exclusively" is probably a sign that the player has some sort of weird subconscious hangup.

Now, I don't think there is any reason to personally attack poor old JJ like that.

No worries! I'm used to folks not understanding why some of us prefer transvirtual characters! Personally, my opinion is that gamers who get weirded out by transvirtuals have their OWN set of psychological problems and hangups.

Oh! I hope it didn't come across like I was going after James!

I was actually thinking of a guy in my previous group who ONLY plays with male characters.
Everybody else is very adventurous when it comes to character building, but not this guy. Every one of his characters is a male dwarf, which got old after a while. He was always flirting and harassing the female NPCs.

Another friend of ours always plays with female characters. He's one of those guys who worships the female body and borders on dangerously obsessive.

So, from our personal experience, people who play with a single gender "almost exclusively" have been kinda weird about it.

Actually, that sounds less like the same gender and more like they play the same character again and again.

Well, none of my female characters (or male characters, or robot characters, etc.) had any of those types of backstories, but I think I know why some of them do. (Of course, the following is NOT true about EVERYONE, but is a generalization to some thought processes. Don't want to offend.)

From the perspective of the player, putting together a character of the opposite gender means thinking through all possible avenues of role-playing. So, by creating a backstory of a character that has been traumatized sexually or selling their bodies, it frees the player to have it set in stone how the character feels about sex in the game. If they have been traumatized, it puts it on the DM and other players that the character is not a sex object, taking that aspect of the character out of the equation. Most of the characters that spoke of how they sold their bodies in the past are looking to move past that point in their life, meaning they are going to swing the opposite way and want to be taken seriously as more than the physical aspect.

It's kind of a line in the sand the player draws saying "You can treat my character as any other type of character, but don't go there" without having to actually have that discussion.

Funny side note: My female samurai earlier was fun to play because the DM of the game was very open about sex in the game (most of the other characters had a hook-up or something similar). My character didn't, mostly because she was on a mission for the emperor. But, being a good DM, he had my character's antagonist being this dashing ronin that spent most of his time flirting with my character.

Halfway there!

Woo-hoo!!

Dark_Mistress wrote:

Xpltvdeleted wrote:

Have yet to play a female character (have in WoW but that hardly counts), but i have a rogue that i plan on making an Assassin, and the more i think about it, the more i wish it was a female. Just had the character concept pop into my head and it seems to fit a female better.

Maybe i'll have him be confused and on the lookout for a powerful wizard who can cast a sex-change spell on him...that'd make for an interesting character imho.

Has anyone seen said character naked yet? If not talk to your GM maybe they would be ok with you switching the gender and it can slowly come out that "he" is really always been a she pretending to be a "he". Maybe she has enemies looking for her or something.

Not a bad idear...i'll have to bring that up and see how it goes.

Either that or the character had fallen into the Belt of Gender-Changing trap and is now trapped in a man's body... ;)

Anyone else think its a little suspect that Judge_Jack made this post, possibly knowing full well that it would generate a lot of discussion, and then disappeared?

I think he disappeared because there hasn't been a single post agreeing with him...

I have problems with the characters males make when they play female characters, but not with males playing female characters.

In my experience, I've seen way to many guys playing females and it was always either they were

Lipstick Lesbian (and not played like any real female I've ever known)
Slut
Dominatrix
Dominatrix Lipstick Lesbian/Bi-sexual Slut

They were alway high charisma so they were always portrayed as one poster put it "big t%%*"

When I hear a guy say "I'm playing a female character" it sets off alarm bells, but I'm not uncomfortable unless it winds up as one of the listed above.

However I've played a female specifically to break that stereotype and play a real character who wasn't one of the above, and had a great time for the short time it lasted.

Interesting. My samurai character has a very high Charisma score and is very pretty. However, the Charisma score is because of her SCARY intimidation abilities... Hell, she give the half-ogre cleric in the party the willies when she stares down opponents.

From my own experience, I usually get a character idea before I even start rolling the stats out. When my friend wanted to run a Forgotten Realms game based on the Baldur's Gate computer game, we went over what we could pull stuff from. He approved the Samurai class from Complete Warrior and I started thinking about playing a samurai on a quest from Kara-Tur to the Western Heartlands. When working on background, I started building the character as a young warrior who was born poor but 'adopted' by a samurai clan after showing prodigious ability. Somehow, her being female 'fit' her story a lot better.

Later, when playing an Eberron campaign, I went with a Changling. In that case, I was saw the picture for Changlings in the Eberron Campaign setting (this one) and my mind immediately created a fully fleshed out back story for her.

The third female character I've played is the daughter of my first (and still going) character, the male ranger of Mielikki from the longest campaign I'd been a part of. She followed her father's footsteps and originally was created as an NPC for a campaign I was running.

Of course, one of my favorite characters was female. Or male. It was an R2 Astromech droid hacker for a Star Wars game. And he wasn't at all like RD-D2. ;)

Wait, does this just cover Sovereign Press, or Margaret Weis Productions as well?

Sovereign Press and MWP are two separate entities. SP handles Sovereign Stone and Dragonlance, while MWP has Serenity, Battlestar Galactica and Serenity (the best gorramn RPG ever). I can't find anything on either sites regarding SP's pulling the pdfs, but I wouldn't doubt it's another step from WotC bringing Dragonlance back in house.

It looks like that all the Sovereign Press PDFs are all $4.99.

Information on the Paladin's Divine Bond

When the Campaign Setting goes out of print, are there plans to update it to PRPG and re-release it?

Just in case people didn't know, I've had a page on d20pfsrd.com that keeps track of these things for months... well since final rules were released. You can see that page here if you like.

Dude, do you GET any cooler than that? You da man!