I read the whole thread, but I don't remember if this question was asked already. It is a question my group likes to ask whenever we change campaign settings.
If you were born in Golarion, what class/race/level/build would you be?
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If a cleric, which god?Well... if I were born in Golarion, I wouldn't have a level or a class yet. But assuming you're curious about where I end up at the end of my adventuring career: I like to think I'd be a Varisian bard or cleric.I read the whole thread, but I don't remember if this question was asked already. It is a question my group likes to ask whenever we change campaign settings.
If you were born in Golarion, what class/race/level/build would you be?
Desna.
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The fact that you answer these has me convinced you're either the coolest or most pathetic individual I have run across in quite some time.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and go with the former.
What's the capital of South Dakota, and how is it pronounced?
[And don't go looking it up like some privileged child.]
My Grand Pa's first name. He never used it either.
In your Unspeakable Future are there non-human PC races? What about mutants as PCs?In Unspeakable Futures, the race choices are:
Human
Android
Deep one hybrid
Half ghoul
Troglodyte (cave man, basically; not a stinky lizard dude)
Serpentfolk
Fosterling (this one's basically a mutant, but one that's caused by eldritch Lovecraftian magic, not radiation)
Have you read this? It's free. It's a Cthulapocalypse.
..and it's not bad. In a stream 'o consciousness kinda way.
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The fact that you answer these has me convinced you're either the coolest or most pathetic individual I have run across in quite some time.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and go with the former.
What's the capital of South Dakota, and how is it pronounced?
[And don't go looking it up like some privileged child.]
What's a South Dakota? Is that one of those parts of the world not bordered on at least one shore by the glory of the Pacific Ocean?
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well Jason said something about a playtest, open and words of power...are you exited for what will be happening on monday?Ummm... maybe? (As far as I know, this could mean anything, but at this point means "Going back to work after the end of the weekend.")
We'll see if the new playtest is ready to go on Monday or not on Monday. As for me, I'm pretty much not involved in the actual playtest stuff so it doesn't really impact me, really. So no, personally I'm not all that excited about the Playtest. I'm excited for all the people eager to see some new rules, though! And if folks can compose and comport themselves more maturely than they did during the magus playtest, I'll be deeeeeelighted! (crosses fingers)
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In your Unspeakable Future are there non-human PC races? What about mutants as PCs?In Unspeakable Futures, the race choices are:
Human
Android
Deep one hybrid
Half ghoul
Troglodyte (cave man, basically; not a stinky lizard dude)
Serpentfolk
Fosterling (this one's basically a mutant, but one that's caused by eldritch Lovecraftian magic, not radiation)Have you read this? It's free. It's a Cthulapocalypse.
..and it's not bad. In a stream 'o consciousness kinda way.
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I have not read it. Probably won't either—I'm kind of old-fashioned when it comes to reading books and stories. Print is better.
Maybe some day after I get an iPad I'll change my tune, though. ESPECIALLY if they can figure out how to make an iPad smell like a book.
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On that note, what is it that makes books smell so good? Especially the ones like rule books with the glossy paper?
Will the print indstry ever go out of business becasue of things like iPads etc?
If so, how will folks like us get our true level of satisfaction from the reading material we so love to physically hold in our hands?
As a man working for a publishing compnay that has embraced PDF's as a means of sale, do you worry that this type of sale mode will see the end to printed material? (hmmm, that sounds like a veiled attack on you and the company but isn't meant to be, its more about you knowing the inside numbers on sales and such)
Cheers
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On that note, what is it that makes books smell so good? Especially the ones like rule books with the glossy paper?
Will the print indstry ever go out of business becasue of things like iPads etc?
If so, how will folks like us get our true level of satisfaction from the reading material we so love to physically hold in our hands?
As a man working for a publishing compnay that has embraced PDF's as a means of sale, do you worry that this type of sale mode will see the end to printed material? (hmmm, that sounds like a veiled attack on you and the company but isn't meant to be, its more about you knowing the inside numbers on sales and such)
Cheers
What makes books smell so good is that from childhood I associate the smell of paper, ink, and glue with discovery and knowledge and entertainment. It's a Pavlovian type thing.
I'm not worried about the so-called "end of print." Books have been around for a long, long time. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon. They might get more expensive, and they might get harder to find for sale, but they still have some VERY real advantages over electronic readers, not the least of which is their centuries of inertia. Or their ability to be enjoyed without relying upon a computer operating system. Or being able to read a book at any time in any place, regardless of the state of a theoretical battery charge.
In fact, I suspect that what we'll see in the future is easily affordable home-print technology that allows the printing of an entire book from a PDF file. While print books are probably gonna be around for a lot longer, actual book printers might not be around as long.
Look at it this way: Movie theaters and TV and portable video devices have not scrubbed stage plays or operas or concerts from existance. They're no longer the primary way one consumes visual or auditory entertainment, but they're still around. Same goes for books vs. PDF.
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Thanks again for answering the questions I throw your way.
I tend to buy PDF's now for my game material because it so much cheaper than the books. This is true for the AP's and modules at least. I still buy hard copies of the rules.
I guess we'll always need print stuff for young children too, as they don't have the necessary skills to navigate tech readers. I hope to instill a love of print books in my children, bacause there is something magical about books that the cold screen of a PC can't replace.
Now another question
What are your favourite style of books to read? (novels,colour print information books, graphic novels, encyclopedia etc.)
I love a good fantasy novel, but find more of my time is now spent reading over rule books and setting material, or source material for work and learning than I do novels.
Second question
Do you enjoy reading more for leisure or for learning (in whatever capacity you choose)?
Cheers
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In fact, I suspect that what we'll see in the future is easily affordable home-print technology that allows the printing of an entire book from a PDF file. While print books are probably gonna be around for a lot longer, actual book printers might not be around as long.
I've been tracking print-on-demand hardware for quite a while. As soon as I can order up a stack of e-books, all hard-bound in my choice of colour leather with the titles on spine in gold, I'm going to be a happy man.
Paper wins, but I want to put it in the cover of my choice and (ideally) in the font of my choice.
What would be really cool would be a PDF-like format that allowed you to reformat and reflow the text properly and have the references (see page xx) automatically regenerate. So if I decide I want to reprint an adventure path hardbound in A5 paper size, optima 13 pt., line and a half spacing, single column, no problem.
What's a South Dakota? Is that one of those parts of the world not bordered on at least one shore by the glory of the Pacific Ocean?Great. Another of those Left Coast twits. :)
Where I come from the glorious Pacific Ocean in on the right (east) coast so I think you've become a little confused :^)
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What are your favourite style of books to read? (novels,colour print information books, graphic novels, encyclopedia etc.)
I love a good fantasy novel, but find more of my time is now spent reading over rule books and setting material, or source material for work and learning than I do novels.
Second question
Do you enjoy reading more for leisure or for learning (in whatever capacity you choose)?Cheers
My favorite style of book to read is a tie between novels and anthologies of short stories/novellas. My favorite genre is horror, hands down, with fantasy and science fiction and nonfiction coming in tied at 2nd. Of the nonfiction category, my interests range widely, from film to nautical history to serial killers to dinosaurs to lots of other stuff.
I prefer reading for leisure, but enjoy learning while I read for leisure. I'm not as fond as reading as an assignment unless I'm being paid to read, in which case I quite enjoy reading as an assignment.
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What's a South Dakota? Is that one of those parts of the world not bordered on at least one shore by the glory of the Pacific Ocean?Great. Another of those Left Coast twits. :)
I can't help it if the West Coast is superior in all ways. (shrug) I can't argue with simple, raw, science.
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Where I come from the glorious Pacific Ocean in on the right (east) coast so I think you've become a little confused :^)What's a South Dakota? Is that one of those parts of the world not bordered on at least one shore by the glory of the Pacific Ocean?Great. Another of those Left Coast twits. :)
Which is why I'm usually careful to say "bordered by the Pacific" because it can be on the south, east, west, or even north coast, depending on your luck.
We'll see if the new playtest is ready to go on Monday or not on Monday. As for me, I'm pretty much not involved in the actual playtest stuff so it doesn't really impact me, really. So no, personally I'm not all that excited about the Playtest. I'm excited for all the people eager to see some new rules, though! And if folks can compose and comport themselves more maturely than they did during the magus playtest, I'll be deeeeeelighted! (crosses fingers)well Jason said something about a playtest, open and words of power...are you exited for what will be happening on monday?Ummm... maybe? (As far as I know, this could mean anything, but at this point means "Going back to work after the end of the weekend.")
Wow! You are a very optimistic person.
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Ocean, this is word I am unfamiliar with. You mean a real big lake?Awww! Poor thing! :-(
Now I have been on Puget Sound, and I have seen the Gulf, as well as the Atlantic when I was in Mexico. So I know they exist. But the biggest parcel of water in these parts is a man made reservoir. It's nto much to look at either. :(
Where I come from the glorious Pacific Ocean in on the right (east) coast so I think you've become a little confused :^)What's a South Dakota? Is that one of those parts of the world not bordered on at least one shore by the glory of the Pacific Ocean?Great. Another of those Left Coast twits. :)
Ahh watching the Sun rise over the Pacific, its wide orange pink rays glowing against the wisps of cloud, the ocean rolling from the darkest blue to royal aqua, dolphins and surfers carving elegant patterns across the face of the waves.
Golden sand and platinum blonds with bodies the colour of bronze.
Laughing dogs, shrieking gulls, the whip of sails and kites, the roar of the surf and the rhythm of a radio.
The smell of salt, seaweed, eucalyptus, coconut oil and battered fish frying.
I am home sick all of a sudden........
Now I have been on Puget Sound, and I have seen the Gulf, as well as the Atlantic when I was in Mexico. So I know they exist. But the biggest parcel of water in these parts is a man made reservoir. It's nto much to look at either. :(Ocean, this is word I am unfamiliar with. You mean a real big lake?Awww! Poor thing! :-(
Having been to the Gulf, the Atlantic, and the Pacific, as well as Lakes Michigan and Superior, there is very little difference. For all of them are big enough that you can't see the opposite shore.
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1. John Carpenter's The Thing (1982): Best movie made to date, or best movie that ever will be made?
2. Have you seen The Call of Cthulhu (2005)? If so, what did you think?
4. What happened to 3?
When was the last time you Ran/Participated in an "evil" campaign?
(The poor struggling criminals taking down the scary scary paladins!)
And do you think in theory, that writing an adventure for an assumed evil party would be fundamentally different than writing an adventure for a good one?
(Structural changes in how it's set up, or just noun changes?)
What's the capital of South Dakota, and how is it pronounced?
Mount Rushmore, and incorrectly in most cases.
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1. John Carpenter's The Thing (1982): Best movie made to date, or best movie that ever will be made?
2. Have you seen The Call of Cthulhu (2005)? If so, what did you think?
4. What happened to 3?
1) Second-best movie; Alien is still better, but only by the tiniest of hairs. The fact that Alien has more bad sequels than The Thing is the only major advantage The Thing has over Alien, but Alien has one SUPER good sequel so even that is suspect.
2) Not only have I seen it, I own it. It's great. It's probably the best and most faithful adaptation of one of Lovecraft's major stories ever put to film, actually. I eagerly anticipate the release of their next movie, "The Whisperer in the Darkness" (their "first talkie!").
4) It's time traveling. You'll probably be posting it soon enough.
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When was the last time you Ran/Participated in an "evil" campaign?
(The poor struggling criminals taking down the scary scary paladins!)And do you think in theory, that writing an adventure for an assumed evil party would be fundamentally different than writing an adventure for a good one?
(Structural changes in how it's set up, or just noun changes?)
Last Tuesday: Sean K Reynolds is running a high-level, all-drow-PC evil campaign. We just killed some surface paladins, have absconded with the bodies, and I'm trying to convince Rob McCreary's character to animate one as a zombie and Jodi's character to resurrect another one so it can watch it's zombie buddy eat the third, still-dead paladin.
Writing an adventure for an evil party is no more fundamentally different than writing an adventure for a good or neutral one. The story will be different, but the layout and presentation and rules and organization wouldn't change at all.
The biggest issue with evil parties is their tendency for one player in the group to mistakenly assume that evil = PVP. Not every evil creature sees its allies as enemy #1; in fact, evil needs to band together and help each other out as much as anyone else. Keeping that mindset under control isn't the adventure's job though; that (like so much else) is on the GM's hands.
If you were going to do a sequel to Red Hand of Doom, what would you put in it?
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It might seem a strange question, but it is all fairly meant, so here goes: If James Jacobs could answer any question put to him, what would James Jacobs then ask himself? Hmmm, I should stretch that it should be "answer to satisfaction"."If it snows, will living only a minute away from work make me actually no longer hate snow?"
So, what did the answer to this end up being? Inquiring minds want to know.
This question is in reference to an artifact you statted up for the Wizards website's Far Corners of the World column:
The Durakistad Coin has turned up in my Pathfinder campaign as a semi-major plot point and the players plan to use it to smuggle a large number of civilians en-masse out of a war zone. (They aren't aware of the temporal displacement effect yet)
Would it be logical to re-skin the inhabitants as Azlanti or would Taldan fit better?
Have you ever looked at a really large group of people and asked yourself which among them would be tastiest to a T-Rex?
Whoa, the Gneech! Welcome over to Paizo, haven't seen you around here before. Last time I saw you was in the Star Wars area on Gleemax. How've you been?If you were going to do a sequel to Red Hand of Doom, what would you put in it?
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Hiyas! I come and go both here and ENWorld as the mood strikes. :) I'm pretty good in all, and yourself?
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So, what did the answer to this end up being? Inquiring minds want to know.It might seem a strange question, but it is all fairly meant, so here goes: If James Jacobs could answer any question put to him, what would James Jacobs then ask himself? Hmmm, I should stretch that it should be "answer to satisfaction"."If it snows, will living only a minute away from work make me actually no longer hate snow?"
I'm actually about to find out. It's snowed today, enough that traffic is a mess and there's all sorts of on-the-street mayhem. Within the next 10 minutes, I'm gonna make the call about driving home or walking home. How my decision pans out will inform my answer.
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This question is in reference to an artifact you statted up for the Wizards website's Far Corners of the World column:
The Durakistad Coin has turned up in my Pathfinder campaign as a semi-major plot point and the players plan to use it to smuggle a large number of civilians en-masse out of a war zone. (They aren't aware of the temporal displacement effect yet)
Would it be logical to re-skin the inhabitants as Azlanti or would Taldan fit better?
Woah... THERE'S a blast from the past.
This fits perfectly for a "in the dark future of Razmiran" campaign, but it'd also fit pretty well with an Azlanti city. Taldor's too recent; the vanishing of an entire city would still be well-documented and legendary.
Have you ever looked at a really large group of people and asked yourself which among them would be tastiest to a T-Rex?
They're all delicious in their own unique way.
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Whoa, the Gneech! Welcome over to Paizo, haven't seen you around here before. Last time I saw you was in the Star Wars area on Gleemax. How've you been?If you were going to do a sequel to Red Hand of Doom, what would you put in it?
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Hiyas! I come and go both here and ENWorld as the mood strikes. :) I'm pretty good in all, and yourself?
-The Gneech
Absolutely awesome! It's always good to see a friendly face from around the gamingverse. It's a small internet afterall. :)
More devils and MUCH less dragon spawn.If you were going to do a sequel to Red Hand of Doom, what would you put in it?
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Heh!
FWIW, the reason I ask is because I'm running a PF sequel to my Red Hand of Doom game. It's full of giants, rather than devils, but I'm with you on the dragonspawn. So far we've had a half-dragon fire giant who traces his lineage to Tiamat, and I expect a bluespawn godslayer to show up later, more as a nod to the original game (and because I have the mini) than anything else. :)
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Absolutely awesome! It's always good to see a friendly face from around the gamingverse. It's a small internet afterall. :)
Heehee. And I'm all over it! :D
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1) Second-best movie; Alien is still better, but only by the tiniest of hairs. The fact that Alien has more bad sequels than The Thing is the only major advantage The Thing has over Alien, but Alien has one SUPER good sequel so even that is suspect.
Totally agree. Alien and Aliens, definitely great movies. I thought Alien III was good, not as good as the first two but good.
But when Alien 4 came out, a buddy of mine said:
"Hey, guess what? They're coming out with an Alien 5."
"Really?" I said.
"Yeah." He responded, "Their calling it, "The Apology"
TARE-I-BULL movie.
Just my $0.02.
Don't mind me. You all may continue with your questions.