Pretty cool. Great bunch of guys to game with.
The article was also featured on their home page on Saturday, January 10th, 2009.
Pretty cool. Great bunch of guys to game with.
The article was also featured on their home page on Saturday, January 10th, 2009.
That is pretty cool. Which one is you Veector?
That is pretty cool. Which one is you Veector?Pretty cool. Great bunch of guys to game with.
The article was also featured on their home page on Saturday, January 10th, 2009.
Dungeon Master! Blue shirt. Bald. Trying to explain how the Starstone fell beginning the recorded history of Golarion.
Good times.
Good stuff.
My wife doesn't always understand my "obsession" (although I wouldn't call it that), but I liked the comparison between D&D and baseball stats that the guy in the cap made.
It's just another object of geek fascination, and I'm using the word "geek" here to mean any kind of dedication to a hobby, be it sports, video games, music, what have you.
As I have gotten older (I'm the same age as most of those interviewed in the article), I have become much more comfortable telling people about my D&D games, and I'm always surprised by the number of folks out there who seem really interested. The best was the beautiful, young Spanish teacher at my school who responded at a faculty get-together with, "Hey, could we all play sometime?" Now, if only my wife would do that ... But someday I'll turn my daughter to the Dark Side. :)
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That is seriously the coolest plug I think Pathfinder has ever received. Thanks so much for participating in this, veector!
This article is fantastic. What did I like even more than seeing a bunch of old guys like me still playing? The fact that the only product identifiable to the public in the video is AP #1. Sweet, sweet justice...
Thanks for sharing, Veector.
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That is pretty cool. Which one is you Veector?Pretty cool. Great bunch of guys to game with.
The article was also featured on their home page on Saturday, January 10th, 2009.
Dungeon Master! Blue shirt. Bald. Trying to explain how the Starstone fell beginning the recorded history of Golarion.
Good times.
Good job! You and your group made excellent spokesmen for D&D, and the article was great. I also like your Battlemap technique....I'll have to try that.
You guys came across as good, normal people who play a game, which normalizes D&D in people's head a bit. Great job.
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That's awesome! I'm glad Pandemonium is still around. Used to shop there back in the late 80s, early 90s. Got a lot of Traveller and Harn stuff at that place...
sigh..memories..
don't see the picture that you all are talking about though..
edit:nvm..had blockers on preventing the flash movie! Very cool..Go-go Pathfinder!
Did you read one of the messages about this article?
Why do liberal states like this one raise such infantilized adults? And we wonder why the rest of the world is surpassing us in science and manufacturing...too many "men" in this city are momma's boys.
Classy, eh?
I saw this on the page 15 minutes ago, and was about to start a thread - I work in Framingham (live in CT) so I check boston.com quite a bit
PS if you guys start a legacy of fire group and need another, let me know :)
Thanks Cpt! It's slow going since we only play every two weeks but I love the Legacy of Fire adventure path idea so I'm definitely interested.
You and your group made excellent spokesmen for D&D, and the article was great. I also like your Battlemap technique....I'll have to try that.
Thanks for the kind words. :) In case I didn't clarify, I'm Tahsin Shamma as mentioned in the article.
The videographer shot 2 hours of video (roughly) and boiled it down to what you saw. A separate still-photographer took about 100 or so pictures and then used the ones you see online. In print, the article appeared as the front-page article for the Boston Globe Saturday magazine (I think it's called G Magazine). They took a shot of the "Eberk, Adventurer" dwarf mini and made it the full-page cover photo of the magazine. Inside the magazine, we got the center spread with the HUGE headline: "THE NEVER-ENDING STORY". Floating with the text was a shot of a Reaper crusader miniature with sword and shield that I had painted! And I am by no means a good miniature painter.
The writer of the article interviewed myself and a couple of the other guys on the phone. The videographer asked us a TON of questions all across the board. The article mentions a guy named Johnny Liu. I don't know who that is, so I assumed he responded to the writer's request for people who play D&D (he posted on the Meetup message board).
My wife's reaction to the whole thing was: "Couldn't you have worn a nicer shirt?" LOL... Going back and viewing the video again, I saw a shot of considerable length showing me munching on candy while reading the adventure. OUCH! Hope she can show her face in the office Monday. :)
All-in-all, a great experience. I'm gonna have the article and magazine cover framed for the game room.
For our mapping, I take a screenshot of the maps from the PDFs and enlarge the image so that 1 square = roughly 1 printed inch. I then use Photoshop to obscure secrets doors, room numbers, etc. Once finished, I print out on a color inkjet to cardstock paper and cut out using Exacto knife.
But it would be great if I had a pre-formatted, players view of a room map so I wouldn't have to Photoshop anything. hint hint Josh :)
The coolest thing is that Pathfinder is called D&D. :)
Did you read one of the messages about this article?
Classy, eh?
Why do liberal states like this one raise such infantilized adults? And we wonder why the rest of the world is surpassing us in science and manufacturing...too many "men" in this city are momma's boys.
Yeah, not a bright statement. Somebody needs to tell the guy there are conservative states like Texas that have gaming as well and that there are many conservatives like me who enjoy gaming.
I really liked that, it filled me with a warmth of affection for the game and its gamers, I'd like to hope in ten or twenty years I can get around a table with friends like that and still enjoy this game, and hopefully still be using golarion!
So as younger player I too really enjoyed this video. Keep on rocking, and may you have many more years of enjoyment!
Hell I wish I knew players like you guys around where I'm from too!
Good work, guys. Make us famous.
And brave of the Globe to show a D&D game that isn't riddled with exaggerated cliches.
veector, thanks for the pointer to this thread. And even more thanks for making playing D&D look cool (I think) and for promoting pathfinder along the way. Is there a way to have a look at the print article you mentioned online?
Very cool!
Stefan
Thanks for posting this.
The article and video are so good that I've emailed the Boston Globe http link to friends and family who wonder what my fascination with rpgs is all about.
Great work!
I absolutely love your dice box!
Where'd you get it? :D
It's a jewelry box from Egypt. Let me see...
http://www.worldwidegemsnjewels4u.com/new-hand-painted-egyptian-genuine-lea ther-jewelry-box.html
Most of the ones of this size from Egypt have different compartments on different levels.
Thanks to everyone for such nice comments. I owe a lot to the guys I play with and their enthusiasm for the game as well. It's probably the best group I've ever gamed with mostly because we're all at the same stage of life and we all have lots of experience with gaming.
veector, thanks for the pointer to this thread. And even more thanks for making playing D&D look cool (I think) and for promoting pathfinder along the way. Is there a way to have a look at the print article you mentioned online?
Very cool!
Stefan
If I can get around to it, I'll scan it in. Maybe today or tomorrow. I'll upload it to my web site and post it here when I do.
Cambridge!
'sup homey!
If I hadn't moved away to Rochester for school, I would totally force my way in to your game. Lucky you!
Print version...
Boston Globe Magazine print article 1.9 MB PDF
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It's a jewelry box from Egypt. Let me see...
http://www.worldwidegemsnjewels4u.com/new-hand-painted-egyptian-genuine-lea ther-jewelry-box.html
Most of the ones of this size from Egypt have different compartments on different levels.
Oh, very nice! Thank you very much. :)
It's a jewelry box from Egypt. Let me see...
Mine are in a compartment box. I feel so cheap. For a RPG geek, I mean. :D
On the other hand, I do have dozens of dice sets, hundreds of dice all in all, so I guess I am a major league RPG geek after all :D
Veector, thanks for adding the scan.
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I want to know about that map style you're using. It looks like you enlarged the map from the Pathfinder in question, then did some color print outs and cut out different bits and pieces. It seems like a very cool idea. What do you recommend in terms of preparation for that sort of thing? Program-wise to enlarge it, business to print it out, where to cut off the pieces, etc.? I got a projector a while back in hopes of getting some sort of setup with that, but it's more complicated than I though and I'd love to hear more alternatives to just drawing the map each time.
Assuming it isn't too costly, of course. :)
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This is great. Thanks guys for being willing to spend some time with the media. As some of us (including you, no doubt) can remember, during the early days, D&D was so vilified by popular media--you know, "plan of the devil to steal our children" kinds of stuff, or worse, the media would feature it when the needed some kind of human-interest-kick-dog piece and just ridiculed it. So it's great when a group of smart, profession people can put a great, lifelong game into the proper context for the non-geeking world! ... and all the better that it's Paizo, 'cause that seems fitting too ;)
Cheers!
I want to know about that map style you're using. It looks like you enlarged the map from the Pathfinder in question, then did some color print outs and cut out different bits and pieces. It seems like a very cool idea. What do you recommend in terms of preparation for that sort of thing? Program-wise to enlarge it, business to print it out, where to cut off the pieces, etc.? I got a projector a while back in hopes of getting some sort of setup with that, but it's more complicated than I though and I'd love to hear more alternatives to just drawing the map each time.
Assuming it isn't too costly, of course. :)
Thanks for the interest Karui. You can see my post above about the mapping.
If you'd like to know more specifically, you can email me:
me (at) tahsin (dot) com
Yea, I gotta admit, that was seriously cool. Glad the BG did a quality job of showing us as we are instead of a bunch of loser dorks. Kudos to them. And thanks for participating.
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If only you'd had a girl playing in your group...that would have been even better press! LoL
I'm lucky, my wife plays in our group...we have 3 females actually, 2 wives and a teen daughter.
In the future, my twin boysa will join the adult gaming group...that'll be a huge group then...I have 6 atm, and have to turn people away!! My house is just too small.
One of my twins I'm sure will be learning the rules soon and DMing his own game...THEN I CAN PLAY!!! WHEEEEE
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Excellent article and video! Nice work!
Funny thing; up until two weeks ago, my living room and dining room (where I run my games) had pretty much the exact colour of walls as your game room, and the same blinds. I like the colour, but we had to repaint after having new insulation blown into the walls, and we decided to go with something lighter.
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I want to know about that map style you're using. It looks like you enlarged the map from the Pathfinder in question, then did some color print outs and cut out different bits and pieces. It seems like a very cool idea. What do you recommend in terms of preparation for that sort of thing? Program-wise to enlarge it, business to print it out, where to cut off the pieces, etc.? I got a projector a while back in hopes of getting some sort of setup with that, but it's more complicated than I though and I'd love to hear more alternatives to just drawing the map each time.
Assuming it isn't too costly, of course. :)
Thanks for the interest Karui. You can see my post above about the mapping.
If you'd like to know more specifically, you can email me:
me (at) tahsin (dot) com
Doh, I totally missed those couple of lines. That's what I had figured, I just need to get a color printer and some cardstock. :)
What part of Mass are ya'll from...I live in danvers. Been meaning to go to a pathfinder event just havent't made it yet....does pandemonium cary pathfinder books?
I'm not veector (or anyone in his group) but I am from the area (Braintree) and can confirm that yes, Pandemonium carries Pathfinder books.
What part of Mass are ya'll from...I live in danvers. Been meaning to go to a pathfinder event just havent't made it yet....does pandemonium cary pathfinder books?I'm not veector (or anyone in his group) but I am from the area (Braintree) and can confirm that yes, Pandemonium carries Pathfinder books.
As does Danger Planet in Waltham. We play at my house in Holliston but my players come from the MetroWest area.
Ha! Slow news day at the Globe?
If nothing else, this article will help shift the stereotype of “nerdy men meeting in their parents’ basements” to “nerdy men meeting in their *own* basements”.
Seriously, though, it boggles me how ignorant the non-gaming population is of the gaming culture. I mean, I don’t follow sports at all, but I can accept when the chief surgeon shows up at the hospital in his Steelers jersey to support his team. I doubt I’d get the same understanding if I had dice sitting on my desk. I was recently being interviewed for a security clearance and had the hardest time explaining roleplaying to the agent. “Oh yeah, I forgot about that trip to Canada” was easily accepted by her, but the idea that my friends and I pretend to kill ogres was too much of a stretch. Maybe now I can just email her the link to this article.
... We play at my house in Holliston but my players come from the MetroWest area.
Are you originally from Holliston Veector? My dad and stepmother were both long-term elementary school teachers there.