Heh, we could turn into a messageboard game.
On the twelve day of waiting, I kept from going crazy:
On the twelve day of waiting, I kept from going crazy:
...by visiting Kobold Quarterly..
RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32
aka Bats Kabber
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On the twelve day of waiting, I kept from going crazy:
By uh . . . Ummm . . . getting snowed in at work?
Oh wait.
That pushed me closer to crazy.
I'm not going to make it. Go on without me. Save yourselves.
P.S. Can you make sure they give me a padded room with a space flat enough to roll my dice on? I hate it when they land on edge.
Heh, we could turn into a messageboard game.
On the twelve day of waiting, I kept from going crazy:
...by studying for my Comparative Constitutional Studies exam. (I think it translates to that...)
Go me.
On the twelve day of waiting, I kept from going crazy:
by running the battle on the rooftops at Bloodgem Park in Planescape's Harbinger House, sometimes the old Adventures are the best :=)
Heh, we could turn into a messageboard game.
On the twelve day of waiting, I kept from going crazy:
By checking these posts...brain storming other ideas...rechecking these posts...posting responses to other peoples threads...checking these posts...and of course, checking these posts! Oh, working a lot helps too.
By studying for my scholarship exams. :(
Heh, we could turn into a messageboard game.
On the twelve day of waiting, I kept from going crazy:
,,,by working on next year's item?
Heh, we could turn into a messageboard game.
On the twelve day of waiting, I kept from going crazy:
... by having my Mom and Uncle come for a couple days visit :) (Also helped with the prior days as I frantically cleaned up from the Christmas break!)
Eleven Nymphs a waxing...On the Twelvth Day of Waiting, Paizo gave to me:
Twelve Goblins Burning...
Ten Orcs a raging...
Ooh! Nice touch!
Nine Planes of Hell!!!!!
Yeah I can imagine that being drawn out like "Five Golden Rings"
Eight wizards a circling
Seven rods a parting
Heh, we could turn into a messageboard game.
On the twelve day of waiting, I kept from going crazy:
...by starting a group of mostly newbs through Expedition to the Demonweb Pits. They hit Yggdrasil by night's end and got waylaid by winter wolves right off the bat. Rawk.
I was going to say seven heavens singing, but the Rod reference is a nice touch.
Nine nymphal ninjas...
On the Twelvth Day of Waiting, Paizo gave to me:
Twelve Goblins Burning...
Eleven Nymphs a waxing...
Ten Orcs a raging...
Nine Planes of Hell...
Eight wizards circling...
Seven rods of parting...
Six sided dice...
On the twelfth day of Superstar, my GM gave to me:
1d3 raven familiars;
1d3 covens a cackling
it should be:
and a Tarrasque in a pear tree.
On the twelfth day of Superstar, my GM gave to me:
1d12 drums of panic;
1d10+1 pipes of haunting;
1d10 arclords leaping;
1d8+1 weapons dancing;
1d8 saves a' Willing;
1d6+1 swanmays swimming;
1d6 arrows of slaying;
Five Pathfinder factions.
1d4 calling spells;
1d3 raven familiars;
1d2 dragon turtles;
And a parchment from a pear treant.
And that is why you made it through the first round and into the top 16.
Very nice!
1 small, yet large week. Thrilling is it? Just look at you guys I wasn't even thinking that much of it (keeping busy with anything else) beofre two days ago when I read all of this. Now you got me all over-anxious. Oh, well, guess it's my own fault when I drop by here.
1 week. 7 days. Anyone feeling ready?
I'm not. But I won't be in a week either.
Anyone feeling impatient?
Probably all of us.
Seven Days to Revelation of who gets top 32 is surely better than Seven Days to the Grave
(yes I allowed myself a CotCT reference) ... but reference aside waiting to have it revealed and having it revealed is certainly better than dying on the day it is revealed. See that would be cruel.
Six days left, nervously sharing a smoke.
Right there with you. I'm working on a pack of American Spirits (blue box, thank you) and polishing up my villain for tonight's game. Next it will be time to raid back issues of Dungeon for Maps of Mystery and find a tower layout to use.
Five paranoid days left, eyeing each other, looking for the knife.
LOL
I think the board will be very busy in 5 days. :)
LOL
I think the board will be very busy in 5 days. :)
::nod:: If the tradition holds true, you'll find people wandering through the items offering their comments on each one. Some are real troopers, offering a comment on each single one. The really noteworthy ones get a lot of discussion, as do the controversial ones.
Its kinda like a Superbowl Sunday party. Some people just chitchat and eat snacks, and some people stay glued to the game. Most everyone has a lot of fun.
EDIT: Ironically, if you place in a round, you won't have time to chit chat and dwell on the boards too much.. except for a figurative smoke break for a few moments. You'll be crafting your next entry!
Ironically, if you place in a round, you won't have time to chit chat and dwell on the boards too much.. except for a figurative smoke break for a few moments. You'll be crafting your next entry!
I've taken my blog posting from "once every few weeks or months" to 17 articles so far for 2010. In part because I knew if I *did* get in the top 32 I'd need to be a lot better at producing content more quickly. :)
Ironically, if you place in a round, you won't have time to chit chat and dwell on the boards too much.. except for a figurative smoke break for a few moments. You'll be crafting your next entry!I've taken my blog posting from "once every few weeks or months" to 17 articles so far for 2010. In part because I knew if I *did* get in the top 32 I'd need to be a lot better at producing content more quickly. :)
Oh I've already told my gaming group that if my entry makes the first cut my game is suspended for the duration. you guys are right - whomever makes it into the first 32 is committed to a brutal schedule!
it would be well worth it though. I'm particularly intrigued by the earlier comments about the quality of submissions. that bodes well for the gaming industry as a whole. If there are THAT many skilled writers out there all of whom are willing to spend their time and energy putting things together for the hobby....well, that gives me a good feeling.
Oh I've already told my gaming group that if my entry makes the first cut my game is suspended for the duration. you guys are right - whomever makes it into the first 32 is committed to a brutal schedule!
I currently run two Pathfinder/3.5 games a week and play in a third SWRPG game. One of those game nights is for a group that more or less begged me to run something, and I've begrudgingly agreed because one of the players is an old friend (they're the ones going through Demonweb Pits). Were I selected as a finalist, I'd have to stop running the Demonweb game and probably drop the Star Wars game too, to keep focus on the next round of entries and also meet my writing quota for my day job.
But I don't think I could drop my core gaming group to make time. We've been playing together for about three years now, and I get too much inspiration and quality feedback from them to cancel. (It also helps that I have that campaign planned out about four to six weeks in advance with story ideas and basic dungeon designs.)
To me, being a GM is as much a responsibility as a hobby. My players put time and effort into building characters, thinking about their backstories and personalities, and immersing themselves in my campaign world on whatever level they can muster as a hobbyist. Giving them a story and a good fight every week is the least I can do for the people who bring me so much joy.
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To me, being a GM is as much a responsibility as a hobby. My players put time and effort into building characters, thinking about their backstories and personalities, and immersing themselves in my campaign world on whatever level they can muster as a hobbyist. Giving them a story and a good fight every week is the least I can do for the people who bring me so much joy.
</sappiness><kill mode re-engaged>
Excellently said. I, also, would not drop my gaming group for 2 months either.
In many ways, your gaming group(s) can serve as a source of support, encouragement, and yes, even votes...should you make it into the competition. I ran all of my games on Friday nights, so it was easy to use gaming night with my group as a chance to wind down from the stress of meeting the afternoon deadline that day. So, I think there's real value in continuing your games rather than putting them on hold.
We run our home campaigns a little differently, our GM, and I love his style which he has a huge EPIC story plot going on in his head and we can barely fathom what he really has planned, however the encounters are the best things ever. This is how we run our encounters, and amazingly enough you would be surprised how the complete randomness of the monster generation really fits right into the campaign. So now to really confuse everyone.
He has us roll a d6, whatever the die roll, that is the number of the 6 monster manuals he selects from. Then its random dice depending on page numbers, did I mention we run away or die alot?? :) Seriously though it makes for very interesting encounters. Especially if you start pulling monsters from the 3.5 MM3 and MM4. You know the ones that have the EPIC beasts in them hehe.
Four determined days left, standing shoulder to shoulder against the night.
If my submission shall be blotted out by a judge... I shall write in the shade! Eww. Too corny?
Only because you asked.
Brazen statements must stand on their own. Explanation or doubt kill them on contact.
Haha! Point taken. An exception might be if the question was asked rhetorically for comedic purposes only. This is helping pass the time at least. We're a whole 35 minutes closer to the big announcement now since my last post.