I vote without a single shred of bias for Richard and the Prince of Redhand.
That I have not seen it or have even the faintest idea about either of the aforementioned scenarios - is a mere technicality. My own love of the English countryside, Wensleydale cheese and my home in Yorkshire are also a complete coincidence and have no bearing on this decision.
God save the Queen, Rule Britannia and huzzah for proper beer.
Your ever obsequious servant
Host of Angels.
Well Hoorah and Huzzah my old entirely unbiased Yorkshire chum! I found myself in sunny Rotherham today in fact. Up Sam Smiths and have a Black Sheep on me!
A pint of John Smiths and a night out in Barnsley for Greg as consolation - Hoorah!
So Greg, looking at that cover of #131 (which is stunning btw), which adventure do you think it's from hmm?
Hmmm?
Are those worms I see?
By jove he's taken a good swing at it! It's soaring, my goodness its gone for a six! Hoorah for Redhand! And thingful thingacy is out for a duck already! Well hoorah and huzzah!
Rich
First blood to Redhand Sir! First blood I say! By jove, WG Grace and erm, oh you get the idea...
By Jove, is that cricket you're playing at?
GGG
By Jove, is that cricket you're playing at?
GGG
It sure isn't football. Or American football. Maybe rugby? Silly Brits. ;)
Pip-pip, lads, let's queue up and not form a scrum, shall we?
So there's my two cents. You may now return to your regularly scheduled criticisms...of which I haven't seen nearly enough in regards to Richard Pett yet.
Uh, he probably spells "specter" with the "e" at the end ("spectre"). Oh, nevermind that's the way the Monster Manual has it. Skip Williams would have failed my third grade spelling test too. That's how I used to spell it until I realized I could get better grades if I didn't insist on fighting "the Man". All in all I guess I'm just another brick in the wall.
D@mn you D&D for screwing up my life with your accursed Anglicisms!
Ye Great Green God
'Rumour' would be my bugbear - a bugbear my friend that wears fiendish awakened false teeth! (Hey, that gives me an idea...). Honestly, where does the 'u' go all of a sudden? One quick trip across a pond and it vanishes poor chap, that and all those 'z's suddenly appearing, you don't know the half of it!
And, my triple-g friend, I have noticed a distinct cozyness between you and mr Vaughan - so called author of 'Dreadful Literacy' (Dungeon #131) et all. Do I hear the words mast, hang, and colours charging on the back of a fiendish dire owl-bear!?
Aha - the conspiracy has been unmasked you cad.
Bah! And perhaps you would kindly explain what happened to all those Ts, Es and Ns at the end of "Forgotten!" Or all H-sounds that begin words in certain locales about London. I'm on to your little game. Your your hording those letters so you can spell "THEN" a lot aren't you? Aren't you!
I rest my case.
GGG
Not for any particular reason other than I believe I'm the last person on earth to receive my issue each month, but has anyone received 131 yet?
If you think you have to wait a long time for your subscription copies, try being a subscriber in Australia....
Oh, and so that this post isn't entirely irrelevant, I vote for the adventure by the English bloke... and I also vote for all future Dungeon magazines and D&D products to use real English instead of your American McEnglish. :)
God save the Queen!!!
Hoorah and God Bless Rolf Harris!
The English Bloke.
I also vote for all future Dungeon magazines and D&D products to use real English instead of your American McEnglish. :)
Oh come now, the English don't even known what's "real" English from one street corner to the next in London. I mean even the current Doctor Who is Scottish.
Speaking as a native midwesterner it's nice to speak in the current Common tongue.
I would give you my two cents, but I'm Scottish on my mother's side.
G'Day!)
GGG
Consider your challenge taken you topiary guardian murdering cad, Prince of Redhand will prevail against...thingy.
And I don't live in Cleveland, I just haven't been well. I actually live in a cardboard box in a bog in deepest highest derbyshire (which, ok can be a bit like Cleveland in the right light) - hoorah and up the queen, I shall take your challenge for merry England - this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in the sea, this...oh, you get the idea.
Well, as an observer from the grassy plains of Leicestershire, my vote goes to Mr Pett just for being "next-door".
Well, as an observer from the grassy plains of Leicestershire, my vote goes to Mr Pett just for being "next-door".Consider your challenge taken you topiary guardian murdering cad, Prince of Redhand will prevail against...thingy.
And I don't live in Cleveland, I just haven't been well. I actually live in a cardboard box in a bog in deepest highest derbyshire (which, ok can be a bit like Cleveland in the right light) - hoorah and up the queen, I shall take your challenge for merry England - this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in the sea, this...oh, you get the idea.
Hoorah and up...erm...famous leicestershire folk....Gary Lineker! Huzzah!
GGG wrote:I mean even the current Doctor Who is Scottish...
Ah, but he is awesome as well.
You guys better call a truce... Don't make me go down there!!
Ultradan
GGG wrote:I mean even the current Doctor Who is Scottish...Ah, but he is awesome as well.
I disagree, I think he's fantastic!
Jellybaby?
GGG
For once we agree me old GGG - stupendous.
Since I haven't seen the issue yet, but did have a chance to read "The Thingful Thingy" or whatever it's called (this thread has definitely muddled the title in my mind) for playtest purposes, I'll enter my vote for Greg. Hopefully this will counter Richard's shameful attempt at getting his family to influence the final numbers. Only very shallow people with low self-esteem would stoop to such a level.
That being said, I have but one last thing to say to Greg: So, little brother, what else do you have in the works?
Since I haven't seen the issue yet, but did have a chance to read "The Thingful Thingy" or whatever it's called (this thread has definitely muddled the title in my mind) for playtest purposes, I'll enter my vote for Greg. Hopefully this will counter Richard's shameful attempt at getting his family to influence the final numbers. Only very shallow people with low self-esteem would stoop to such a level.
That being said, I have but one last thing to say to Greg: So, little brother, what else do you have in the works?
Scandalous! Shameful! Outrageous!
Now that my brother has outed me, I guess I should've explained that we're yuan-ti. Of course, I'm pureblood--he's abomination (those little arms of prosthetics).
Well, if you're going to let my little secret out, I'm changing my vote to Richard, sight unseen.
Boomer Sooner, damn the torpedos, remember the Maine, and all that jazz.
Ahhhh!!!!! My head hurts, I can't decide. Since I'm not a subscriber, I haven't read 131 yet, but Greg and Richard are some of my favorite Dungeon writers (btw, much love to Tim Hitchcock, Tito Leati, Philip Larwood). Please sway me. I'm easily suggestible.
Ahhhh!!!!! My head hurts, I can't decide. Since I'm not a subscriber, I haven't read 131 yet, but Greg and Richard are some of my favorite Dungeon writers (btw, much love to Tim Hitchcock, Tito Leati, Philip Larwood). Please sway me. I'm easily suggestible.
Vote Redhand Shroomy, you know it makes sense.
Rich
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Ahhhh!!!!! My head hurts, I can't decide. Since I'm not a subscriber, I haven't read 131 yet, but Greg and Richard are some of my favorite Dungeon writers (btw, much love to Tim Hitchcock, Tito Leati, Philip Larwood). Please sway me. I'm easily suggestible.You're getting very sleepy. Vote "Hateful Legacy". When you awake the mere thought of the "Prince of Redhand" will make you violently ill.
Oh yeah, and you're a chicken.
Careful there Greg, don't go tryin' to hypnotize Shroomy for
showing me the love.Tim
For some reason, I spent the entire weekend scratching at the dirt and waking up my neighbors with excessive clucking. I'm chalking it up to the vast quantities of beer and champagne that I consumed this weekend.
But now I feel the need for a swim. And I feel strange...I'm clearly seeing visions of a GH adventure steeped in obscure Oerth-lore, but I haven't even read my copy of Living Greyhawk Gazateer yet. Perhaps I will write it down, as it is already fully prepared in my mind, and send it into Dungeon tonight.
Okay, Tim. A compromise then.
Shroomy, you are an aquatic psion chicken.
You're a cold man Mr.Vaughan.
And a despicable cur to boot. I like the way this thread is going...
There can be only one--
(to quote some Scottish guy in a movie...I think it may have been Braveheart)
Are you sure it wasn't an ancient Egyptian who only looked and sounded scottish? I made the same mistake in the film version Hunt for Red October ("One ping only."). Of course you might also be thinking of the Belgian dude who was supposed to be Scottish. And how did an Australian get to Scotland for Braveheart anyway? Regardless it still beats Kevin Costner trying to act English ("I have a brother?"). The English speaking world truly is divided by a common tongue.
Here we are, born to be kings! We're the princes of the universe!
GGG
So the cover goes to Redhand, does it. Obviously a shallow ploy to shore up a shaky adventure. (Erik thinks to himself, "hmmm...perhaps some nice art can save this wretched thing.")
You are just ticked that your character in the playtest blew up the island, couldn't navigate a row boat, didn't get hit on by the watcher, vaporized the ghoul, and then got poisoned twice and ended up roaming the countryside as some undead abomination. Ahhh the memmories ;-)
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Well, I just got my copy of #131 today, so I may now make a half-assed informed decision on this topic. Giving a quick read-through I must say I am impressed all around. Truly these are the fine works of two titans of the industry!
Ricky Potts "Price of RedMan" was an instant classic! A fete with a cavalcade of NPCs that could populate half of downtown Des Moines. Caperings and going's-on such as to make the PCs heads spin! And, the whole addition of a backdrop! Mercy!
But, I have to give my vote and deep respect to Gary Vann and his "Hateful Lego-set". Man! An adventure that forges brave new ground while forging a bridge with Greyhawk history... it's what Mr. Vann is so well known for...among geeks. But really, at the heart and soul of it, it comes down to this... Sentient monkeys and muddy druid mummies! If that's not what D&D is about, I don't know what is. Mr. Vann, you had me at "awakened dire ape ranger".
In the end, though, it is all of us...the humble readers, DMs, and players who win from this worthy competition. As a pair of wise men once said: "This one is dedicated to all of you modern day troubadores out there, and I think I know who you are."
"But, I have to give my vote and deep respect to Gary Vann and his "Hateful Lego-set". "
Is this a dagger I see before me? Thwarted once by an ape no less! Aargh!
OK I make that 8-1 redhand? Is anyone keeping score?
I liked it. :-)
BTW, I think your onto something with that Hateful Lego-Set idea. I've got this thing kicking around in my head with a dire flumph. It could be just the missing piece I was looking for.
We could combine this with the 'singular affair of the celestial gas-spore paladin troupe and the dread magenta temple of the wayward sky-bleeders' synopsis I sent you and your harshly rubbished, or erm, maybe not then.
We could combine this with the 'singular affair of the celestial gas-spore paladin troupe and the dread magenta temple of the wayward sky-bleeders' synopsis I sent you and your harshly rubbished, or erm, maybe not then.I liked it. :-)
BTW, I think your onto something with that Hateful Lego-Set idea. I've got this thing kicking around in my head with a dire flumph. It could be just the missing piece I was looking for.
Not, of course that I would ever considering working with you on anything, just to make THAT point very clear.
flumph jokes!!!! now you're just hating.I liked it. :-)
BTW, I think your onto something with that Hateful Lego-Set idea. I've got this thing kicking around in my head with a dire flumph. It could be just the missing piece I was looking for.
It's just jealousy Tim.
So I get my issue #131 today and I skim through it. . . Blah, blah, blah. Lots of big words later. . . I hear it that it has been unseasonably warm in Derbyshire lately.
I must say, your vocabulary has come a long way since our childhood days of "I know you are, but what am I?"
Oh, and I change my vote to Skip's adventure, just because.
"The Prince from Ipenema"
Great, now I've got that song stuck in my head.