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Not to sound too egomaniacal here or anything, but in a world of Nic Logues and Richard Petts one feels that one must beat them at their own self-aggrandizing game. Out-Pett Pett, so to speak (that doesn't sound very good when I read it aloud actually, but you get what I mean).

Now some of my naysayers (namely those that reside across vast reachs of ocean) might mention that I am the chief abuser of self-aggrandizement of all, and I suppose it could be said that such is true...when one looks at it "from a certain point of view" (thank you, Obi Wan Kenobi, for giving us all that most-excellent argument of deflection). So since "from a certain point of view" I feel like I can say I'm at best the second-worst shameless self-promoter (without feeling the need to put forth any other viable candidate), I will remain gleefully oblivious to all such arguments.

So moving on from all that unpleasant business on to the topic at hand. It is a simple statement of logic that Paizo regularly features products from WotC (and other publishers) at the top of the homepage complete with a blurb, and that with the release of The Twilight Tomb I have now been published by the above-said entity, it, therefore, stands to reason that The Twilight Tomb should be featured atop the home page of the Paizo website. It's a simple 1+1+1 = The Twilight Tomb. How can you argue with that? Add into that, the fact that both Richard Pett and Nic Logue have previously been published by WotC and yet failed to think of this idea, and I think the answer is irrefutable--The Twilight Tomb it is.

Now it's true, that I receive no royalties for said adventure, but if it should reach platinum status in sales then there is a chance WotC might someday throw more work my way and I can finally achieve my lifelong dream of owning a solid gold rocket car off of the ridiculous wages thrown at freelance adventure-writing (I actually blush to think about the amounts, and we never even get random drug tests like those poor professional athletes).

That having ben said, I think the answer is once again obvious, Down with Logue and Pett....I mean put The Twilight Tomb on the home page.

I hope this subtle post is viewed in the true spirit of humility and world peace that it is intended and with this gesture we no longer have to endure any more frightening wars with foreign lands like England or Hawaii.

Don't tread on me...um, dude.

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Greg V wrote:

Not to sound too egomaniacal here or anything, but in a world of Nic Logues and Richard Petts one feels that one must beat them at their own self-aggrandizing game...

A BUNCH OF BLAH-DITTY-BLAH ABOUT HIS ITTY WITTY ADVENTUREUMS CALLED "TWILIGHT TOONS" OR SOMESUCH!

...Hawai'i

The Hawai'ian Sovereignty Movement is alive and well on the Paizo boards!!! WOO-HOO!

You stink Vaughan.

I wish I'd thought of this.

I'm getting your adventure tomorrow probably (if it's out in the magestic foriegn land of Hawai'i yet that is)! So poo on you till then. Of course after I read it, I'm sure I'll have to post about how good it is...DAMNIT! I hate my life...

Oh well, back to holding court with the Queen out here in Hawai'iland. The weather is here, wish you were beautiful Vaughan!

Uncle Pett!!! He's being mean to us! Get in the mix!

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

Awesome post. I have no influence on what gets into the "store blog" (which is what we call the thing you're trying to get mentioned in), but I will forward a link to this thread to those who control said blog.

On the other hand... dude... At least include a link to the product so everyone can see its awesomeness and buy it. :-)

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Gary Teter wrote:
On the other hand... dude... At least include a link to the product so everyone can see its awesomeness and buy it. :-)

I would have...if I knew how (in the most dignified voice he can conjure).

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Nicolas Logue wrote:

...Hawai'i

....The Hawai'ian Sovereignty Movement....

....the magestic foriegn land of Hawai'i ....

....Hawai'iland....

......

Uncle Pett!!! He's being mean to us! Get in the mix!

Hah! You and your superfluous apostrophes! (silly foreigners)

Bring on the Pett! Let him bask in my GLORY!!!!

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Greg V wrote:
Gary Teter wrote:
On the other hand... dude... At least include a link to the product so everyone can see its awesomeness and buy it. :-)
I would have...if I knew how (in the most dignified voice he can conjure).

Ha! I too have no idea how to do the link thing...don't feel bad Greg...

Wait a minute, what am I doing!

FEEL BAD GREG!!! FEEL BAD!!! ;-)

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Greg V wrote:
Nicolas Logue wrote:

...Hawai'i

....The Hawai'ian Sovereignty Movement....

....the magestic foriegn land of Hawai'i ....

....Hawai'iland....

......

Uncle Pett!!! He's being mean to us! Get in the mix!

Hah! You and your superfluous apostrophes! (silly foreigners)

Bring on the Pett! Let him bask in my GLORY!!!!

James J. hates my apostrophes too... :-(

C'mon Pett, get him!

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Gary Teter wrote:
I have no influence on what gets into the "store blog" (which is what we call the thing you're trying to get mentioned in), but I will forward a link to this thread to those who control said blog.

Yeah, um, see, here's the deal. We reserve that space for products we think someone might actually, you know... want to buy.

-Vic.
.

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Vic Wertz wrote:
Yeah, um, see, here's the deal. We reserve that space for products we think someone might actually, you know... want to buy.

Okay—kidding! Kidding!

We are including it in our weekly e-mail this week....

-Vic.
.

Frog God Games

OUCH!!!!! ;-)

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Vic Wertz wrote:

We are including it in our weekly e-mail this week....

-Vic.
.

Ah! I'm spam! That's very nice of you, but I'm afraid that's just not going to be good enough.

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Nicolas Logue wrote:


James J. hates my apostrophes too... :-(

C'mon Pett, get him!

James is obviously a man of distinguishment and taste.

Pett's running scared. Har, har!


Greg V wrote:
Ah! I'm spam!

I gotta say, of all the things I called you growing up, Spam (TM) was not one I had thought of.

Oh, and "out-Petting Pett" sounds just enough dirty that the filters should have caught it.

Frog God Games

WOOHOO! YEAH, BABY YEAH!!!

"Greg A. Vaughan Calls Us Out on Our Own Site!
Take a look at his new Forgotten Realms adventure to make him happy!
List Price: $9.95
Our Price: $8.96

1 hour, 25 minutes ago
It's not every day that a whiny author calls you out on your own message boards. But that's just what occasional Dungeon author Greg Vaughan did last week. "You keep featuring everybody else's products in your blogs. Why don't you love me? Waaaahhhh!" Well, we got sick of the whining and decided to give in to his little temper tantrums.

Mr. Vaughan's newest adventure for the Forgotten Realms setting, The Twilight Tomb, was recently released to much fanfare. (OK, really, it was probably just Greg's mom that was excited, but, hey, who's counting?) The Twilight Tomb is a standalone Dungeons & Dragons adventure designed to take four 3rd-level characters from the sun-dappled paths of the Yuirwood into a realm created by the Duskwalker, an ancient and corrupt star elf wizard. And we'll say this much for it: if you look at all of the official Dungeons & Dragons adventures released this year, The Twilight Tomb is absolutely one of them.

So, please, for the love of all you hold sacred, give Mr. Vaughan's adventure a look. Heck, you could even buy a copy! It's reasonably priced! And if you like it, check out some of his Dungeon adventures. So, Greg, are you satisfied now?"

Yes. Yes I am.


so Vic,

I'm guessing you don't have any kids....

<evil grin>

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sigh...

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This sort of thing always seems to happen when I go on holiday...

Honestly, you have an innocent couple of weeks away - soaking up the Adriatic sun, consuming a very small, tiny amount of their excellent red wine, and are undertstandably approached whilst there to spearhead the promotion of a certain consumable by being photographed with a delightful dazzling blonde lady wearing fruit on her head at Dubrovnik airport and this is what's waiting for you...

HAVE YOU NO SHAME MAN!

(and I use the word 'man' in its loosest possible sense of course:))

Khazad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

Good to be back smell-face.

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Vic Wertz wrote:
Gary Teter wrote:
I have no influence on what gets into the "store blog" (which is what we call the thing you're trying to get mentioned in), but I will forward a link to this thread to those who control said blog.

Yeah, um, see, here's the deal. We reserve that space for products we think someone might actually, you know... want to buy.

-Vic.
.

I've changed my mind - this is the best post EVER

Liberty's Edge

"God save the Queen!
We really mean it, man!"
Johnny Rotten

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Heathansson wrote:

"God save the Queen!

We really mean it, man!"
Johnny Rotten

...and I, I wanna be...ee

Liberty's Edge

Richard Pett wrote:
Heathansson wrote:

"God save the Queen!

We really mean it, man!"
Johnny Rotten
...and I, I wanna be...ee

CHAOTIC NEUTRAL!!!

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Chef's Slaad wrote:

so Vic,

I'm guessing you don't have any kids....

<evil grin>

No—that would require that I share my toys.

-Vic.
.

Frog God Games

Rich is back?!?! NNNNNOOOOOOOooooooooo.........

Dang it. Evidently my cleverly disguised fruit-hat bomb must have malfunctioned.

Paizo Employee Director of Sales

Greg V wrote:

Rich is back?!?! NNNNNOOOOOOOooooooooo.........

Dang it. Evidently my cleverly disguised fruit-hat bomb must have malfunctioned.

OOOOohhh... Fruit HAT! Y'see I thought you said fruit BAT bomb.

Silly me. I did wonder why you wanted a bomb that would fly away, but I figured... you know... "The Customer is always right" so I went with it.

Sorry. My bad.


Cosmo wrote:

OOOOohhh... Fruit HAT! Y'see I thought you said fruit BAT bomb.

Silly me. I did wonder why you wanted a bomb that would fly away, but I figured... you know... "The Customer is always right" so I went with it.

Sorry. My bad.

Cosmo, this is clearly not the sort of customer service we've come to appreciate from Paizo. I demand that you ship out the correct item post-haste to Greg, so that he may enjoy the fruits of his success...

Paizo Employee Director of Narrative

Ya know toward the end of WWII they actually tried to wire bats with bomds to destroy cities.


Daigle wrote:
Ya know toward the end of WWII they actually tried to wire bats with bombs to destroy cities.

That was a cool episode on the History Channel.


Richard Pett wrote:

with a delightful dazzling blonde lady wearing fruit on her head at Dubrovnik airport and this is what's waiting for you...

Dubrovnik is cool. My parents used to take me to Tucepi all the time for vacation when I was kid growing up in Germany.

I learned to swim in the Adriatic.

Edit: I just google-earthed the hotel we used to go to all the time, Hotel Jadran in Tucepi near Makarska...and it appears abandoned now...overgrown with trees and shrubs, road all gone...very depressing.

Frog God Games

Hey, what's this delightful little fruit bat doing on my window sill? Why it has a Paizo Customer Service shipping label. (fwoosh*) AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

*The sound of gelatin-gasoline accelerant propelled in a wide dispersal pattern by a small incendiary trigger.


Greg V wrote:

Hey, what's this delightful little fruit bat doing on my window sill? Why it has a Paizo Customer Service shipping label. (fwoosh*) AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

*The sound of gelatin-gasoline accelerant propelled in a wide dispersal pattern by a small incendiary trigger.

Well, that will certainly make Thanksgiving at the Vaughan household a bit of a downer.

Oops. Sorry to the British audience about the Thanksgiving reference. I know, I'll make it up to them by inviting them to our next Independence Day celebration . . . what?

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farewell2kings wrote:
Richard Pett wrote:

with a delightful dazzling blonde lady wearing fruit on her head at Dubrovnik airport and this is what's waiting for you...

Dubrovnik is cool. My parents used to take me to Tucepi all the time for vacation when I was kid growing up in Germany.

It's mostly been rebuilt now and is still indeed a very cool place, except whilst there I went into an internet cafe and saw the name Vaughn which sort of ruined things holiday wise - at least I couldn't find a copy of twilight thing on sale - that would have been very sad, almost as sad as when amazon emailed me to recommend nic logues adventure from wizards...

Rich

Good to be back though chaps, and a new nic logue adventure to ridicule on its way prior to the far superior, storm laden alienesque Sea Wyverns Wake, where they mostly come out at night, mostly...

I thought that fruit looked a little lob-sided


Wow, only on the Paizo boards could an act of SHAMELESS SHAMELESS self promotion turn into a bizarre war of Fruit Bat Bombs, and mysterious journeys to and from inpronouncable Eastern European states.

Rock + Roll + Awesome = Paizo

Paizo > Fruit Bats.

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Fruit Bat adventure...hmmm


Nighthunter wrote:
...an act of SHAMELESS SHAMELESS self promotion...

You should have seen the e-mail he sent me. I believe the exact words were, "don't be the last one on your block to own The Twilight Tomb."

This with my birthday just around the corner. The nerve of some people.

Perhaps Pett and Logue are on to something...

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BV210 wrote:
Nighthunter wrote:
...an act of SHAMELESS SHAMELESS self promotion...

You should have seen the e-mail he sent me. I believe the exact words were, "don't be the last one on your block to own The Twilight Tomb."

This with my birthday just around the corner. The nerve of some people.

Perhaps Pett and Logue are on to something...

desperation

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Nighthunter wrote:
an act of SHAMELESS SHAMELESS self promotion

Woohoo! I got two "shamelesses", a new record! Ouch...hurts to woohoo.

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Greg V wrote:
Nighthunter wrote:
an act of SHAMELESS SHAMELESS self promotion
Woohoo! I got two "shamelesses", a new record! Ouch...hurts to woohoo.

I have a feeling it won't be your last...


I'm mainly concerned about those poor fruitbats, you sick b@$^@rds! ;)


It's like watching a tennis match.....now that the names are clickable, they have an easier time hunting each other down on the Paizo boards to swat fuzzy balls back and forth across the net...while our heads swivel like some crazy nerd bobblehead doll.

(Okay, I need some coffee...that just sounded stupid)

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Greg V wrote:
Nighthunter wrote:
an act of SHAMELESS SHAMELESS self promotion
Woohoo! I got two "shamelesses", a new record! Ouch...hurts to woohoo.

Hey, take it easy there 'occasional.'

:)Horrah, Hoorah and hoorah an unecessary third time.

And where are you Logue??? Is it milk time or something???

Charge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Saern wrote:
I'm mainly concerned about those poor fruitbats, you sick b@$^@rds! ;)

Disclaimer: No fruit bats were harmed in the making of this thread...well, except for the one that pretty much got obliterated a while ago, but other than that one almost no fruit bats were harmed (of course, there are rumors of many failed bomb tests by the Paizo Customer Service Dept., but I hear those records are buried deep so we'll probabluy never know the real numbers).

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farewell2kings wrote:
now that the names are clickable, they have an easier time hunting each other down on the Paizo boards ...

Wha....? I hadn't noticed that before. The Pett hunt is on! Somebody wake Logue up fom his nap, it's rumble time.

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Greg V wrote:
farewell2kings wrote:
now that the names are clickable, they have an easier time hunting each other down on the Paizo boards ...
Wha....? I hadn't noticed that before. The Pett hunt is on! Somebody wake Logue up fom his nap, it's rumble time.

I take that as a virtual slap across my virtual face with a virtual gauntlet...or something...and how did we get from blondes in dubrovnik to fruit bats anyway???

Wake up the child, it's poker time...

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Greg V wrote:
Rich, your adventures are so much better than mine

Well, that's jolly kind of you old chap.

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Greg V wrote:
I especially admired the hugely underrated Hollow Threats in Dungeon 96, with its fantastic bait and swtch trick

How nice.

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Greg V wrote:
And the fantastic Devil Box in Dungeon 109, much better than Tammeraut's Fate.

Well, what can I say?

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Greg V wrote:
And all those great Campaign Workbooks you've done

well, this is getting embarrasing...

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Greg V wrote:
I wish I could write a Campaign Workbook...

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Greg V wrote:
Boo hoo hoo


Vic Wertz wrote:
Chef's Slaad wrote:

so Vic,

I'm guessing you don't have any kids....

<evil grin>

No—that would require that I share my toys.

-Vic.
.

Figured. :-)

Kids will teach you not to give in to blackmail quicker than you can say "put my adventure on the homepage or I'll start whining".

Guess you'll have to learn the hard way :-)

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