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Are you surprised that people don’t really comment on the short movie quotes at the bottom of the Credits page of the sixth instalment of each Adventure Path?
Whose idea was it to do those?
They're not movie quotes, necessarily. They're quotes from all over. And I'm not surprised at all. I doubt many people read the credits page and I suspect even fewer read the legal text. Those things are prizes we put in there for the dedicated few.
In any event, the idea to do them was Wes's, and he's the one who's put all of them in there so far.
James, what happens if a mortal sold his soul to a deity, made a diabolical contract with a devil for his soul, made a pact with a demon for his soul and another one with a daemon?My GM had the main villian do this same thing....he also had the villian set it so his soul would go into a item....what happen is it becomes very interesting for the PC as the various outsiders showed up to collect the soul of the villian.
This is more or less the storyline for my first published DUNGEON adventure, printed way back in 1991, 20 freakin' years ago. It was called Sleepless. Copies are available on e-bay all the time...
Are you surprised that people don’t really comment on the short movie quotes at the bottom of the Credits page of the sixth instalment of each Adventure Path?
Whose idea was it to do those?
They're not movie quotes, necessarily. They're quotes from all over. And I'm not surprised at all. I doubt many people read the credits page and I suspect even fewer read the legal text. Those things are prizes we put in there for the dedicated few.
In any event, the idea to do them was Wes's, and he's the one who's put all of them in there so far.
My favourite 'hidden' message from a credits page is from the final issue of Swedish music-magazine POP. "Reproduction of the contents in this magazine for private use or distribution to others is punk."
A question... Have you read Ellen Kushner's Riverside trilogy. If so, how do you think a setting like that would work as the setting for a social interactions heavy campaign?
Wow. Over 1,000 posts since I last visited. My questions:
1. Is there any particular one I missed that you want me to read?
2. Do you foresee a time that you tire of this, surely one of the greatest inventions of all threaddom?
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James, what happens if a mortal sold his soul to a deity, made a diabolical contract with a devil for his soul, made a pact with a demon for his soul and another one with a daemon?My GM had the main villian do this same thing....he also had the villian set it so his soul would go into a item....what happen is it becomes very interesting for the PC as the various outsiders showed up to collect the soul of the villian.This is more or less the storyline for my first published DUNGEON adventure, printed way back in 1991, 20 freakin' years ago. It was called Sleepless. Copies are available on e-bay all the time...
20 years ago :(
I remember reading it and thinking "I should find the occasion to run it."I haven't done that jet .....
Owning all numbers of dungeon from 20 onward there there are plenty of great adventures I haven't never GMed or played.
Once either of those need to snuggle, yes, they become cute. They also gain googly eyes.It's hard to imagine anything that needs to snuggle NOT being cute.A snuggly centipede or a lobster?
I'd snuggle a centipede. Or a millipede, millipedes are cuter.
But I'm not snuggling a spider. No matter how much it needs it.
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Are you surprised that people don’t really comment on the short movie quotes at the bottom of the Credits page of the sixth instalment of each Adventure Path?
Whose idea was it to do those?
They're not movie quotes, necessarily. They're quotes from all over. And I'm not surprised at all. I doubt many people read the credits page and I suspect even fewer read the legal text. Those things are prizes we put in there for the dedicated few.
In any event, the idea to do them was Wes's, and he's the one who's put all of them in there so far.
My favourite 'hidden' message from a credits page is from the final issue of Swedish music-magazine POP. "Reproduction of the contents in this magazine for private use or distribution to others is punk."
A question... Have you read Ellen Kushner's Riverside trilogy. If so, how do you think a setting like that would work as the setting for a social interactions heavy campaign?
My favorite credits easter egg comes from the end of the credits to "Phantasm II." It said something like, "Any unlawful reproduction of this film is subject to punishment by law and the wrath of the Tall Man."
As for the Riverside trilogy, I haven't read it.
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James, what happens if a mortal sold his soul to a deity, made a diabolical contract with a devil for his soul, made a pact with a demon for his soul and another one with a daemon?My GM had the main villian do this same thing....he also had the villian set it so his soul would go into a item....what happen is it becomes very interesting for the PC as the various outsiders showed up to collect the soul of the villian.This is more or less the storyline for my first published DUNGEON adventure, printed way back in 1991, 20 freakin' years ago. It was called Sleepless. Copies are available on e-bay all the time...
20 years ago :(
I remember reading it and thinking "I should find the occasion to run it."
I haven't done that jet .....Owning all numbers of dungeon from 20 onward there there are plenty of great adventures I haven't never GMed or played.
It's a great adventure! I ran it back in the day. And one of the bad guys in that adventure stuck in my mind so much that I ended up name-dropping him (Siragle the demon) in a few things I wrote for 3rd edition, like the Fiendish Codex 1. Good times!
That said... as long as you got enjoyment from READING an adventure, I'd count that as money well spent. You don't need to run or play an adventure to enjoy it. In fact, some times, running or playing an adventure makes it LESS enjoyable; some adventures read well but play horribly.
That said, "Sleepless" was one of the ones that read well and played well, so maybe that doesn't help you overcome the grief at having never played it... oops.
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Once either of those need to snuggle, yes, they become cute. They also gain googly eyes.It's hard to imagine anything that needs to snuggle NOT being cute.A snuggly centipede or a lobster?
I'd snuggle a centipede. Or a millipede, millipedes are cuter.
But I'm not snuggling a spider. No matter how much it needs it.
but spiders are cute! or at least they can be... just look at a close up picture of a jumping spider, with its huge eyes
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Wow. Over 1,000 posts since I last visited. My questions:
1. Is there any particular one I missed that you want me to read?
2. Do you foresee a time that you tire of this, surely one of the greatest inventions of all threaddom?
1) Probably, but I'm sure I forgot which one.
2) Not unless it descends into a tangled mass of rules bickering or edition warring or homophobia or misogyny or badmouthing of my favorite movies. So far, so good!
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2) Not unless it descends into a tangled mass of rules bickering or edition warring or homophobia or misogyny or badmouthing of my favorite movies. So far, so good!
So... do the 4e rules say that I can't gay-marry Ridley Scott's/H.R. Giger's Alien?
2) Not unless it descends into a tangled mass of rules bickering or edition warring or homophobia or misogyny or badmouthing of my favorite movies. So far, so good!So... do the 4e rules say that I can't gay-marry Ridley Scott's/H.R. Giger's Alien?
How do you know it wasn't a shelien?
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It's a great adventure! I ran it back in the day. And one of the bad guys in that adventure stuck in my mind so much that I ended up name-dropping him (Siragle the demon) in a few things I wrote for 3rd edition, like the Fiendish Codex 1. Good times!That said... as long as you got enjoyment from READING an adventure, I'd count that as money well spent. You don't need to run or play an adventure to enjoy it. In fact, some times, running or playing an adventure makes it LESS enjoyable; some adventures read well but play horribly.
That said, "Sleepless" was one of the ones that read well and played well, so maybe that doesn't help you overcome the grief at having never played it... oops.
I am a strong recycler of ideas, characters and maps from adventures, so I have no qualms with the money spent buying materials, even when it is not stellar.
When it is well written and I can use it at least partially it is a good investment. Some of my buys have stood for years on a shelf before being used and even even if the whole adventure never get played some idea will creep in a home made adventure or as a "add on" in some existing adventure.The only "grief" is that isn't possible to indefinitely extend the good gaming session and to get enough time to play with old friends and, at the same time, get into new playing groups and, with your third body, try new games.
"JAme" Madrox, the multiple man, is the ultimate gamer :)
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2) Not unless it descends into a tangled mass of rules bickering or edition warring or homophobia or misogyny or badmouthing of my favorite movies. So far, so good!So... do the 4e rules say that I can't gay-marry Ridley Scott's/H.R. Giger's Alien?
I am willing to bet that there are some things even James does not care to know about.
but spiders are cute! or at least they can be... just look at a close up picture of a jumping spider, with its huge eyes
I seen that up close once. Waaaaay up close. I woke up to see those spidery eyes staring me in the face as it sat on my nose. And then it bit me.
Cute it ain't.
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well i can't say what the spider had against you ANebulousMistress
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i haven't asked a question in a while
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what do you think of adding a flaw(s) system to the game? maybe like what unearthed arcana had, maybe something completely different... which one if you would add one would it be?
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How do you know it wasn't a shelien?2) Not unless it descends into a tangled mass of rules bickering or edition warring or homophobia or misogyny or badmouthing of my favorite movies. So far, so good!So... do the 4e rules say that I can't gay-marry Ridley Scott's/H.R. Giger's Alien?
Because the more you look at Geiger's art, the more obvious it is that the alien is very MUCH a male.
Since the next Bestiary is focused heavily on creatures from around the world, any chance that the Set-beast from Egyptian Mythology will make an appearance?Depends what you're talking about when you say "Set-beast."
We won't be rolling in actual deities from real-world mythology into Bestiary 3, but there are certainly a fair number of monsters from Egyptian myth in there.
Not the deity himself; something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-animal_(hieroglyph)
Sorry, I was wrong in my original post; it's referred to as the Set animal / Typhonian animal / salawa.
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I'm actually of the opinion that between APG, Ultimate Combat, and Ultimate Magic that we've got enough archetypes out there, honestly. There's room for a few more here and there in Player Companions and the Campaign Setting line, but those will have more world flavor than the generic ones do.
More oracle curses is something I'm seeing a lot of (although I haven't bothered to cross-check to see if that's just one or two or three folks posting the request over and over in different threads). But those aren't really things we can make an entire book out of; they'd have to be a smaller element of a larger book, and we've pretty much already done the three books that they'd make sense to show up in (APG, UC, and UM). We'll see, though.
Also, rogues and bards HATE it when they're called skill monkeys.
I'd love to see a base class for evil healing. Maybe a life-stealer or something. Right now witches are the only thematically appropriate evil healing class. Clerics lose it all in favor of negative energy and evil Oracles focused on healing seem odd.
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what do you think of adding a flaw(s) system to the game? maybe like what unearthed arcana had, maybe something completely different... which one if you would add one would it be?
The only way I see that working is if the flaws don't enable characters to gain additional powers. If you introduced a flaw system where each PC had to pick a flaw and then, during the course of play, could earn a way to undo that flaw... that'd be fine.
But in my experience, when you introduce flaws as a mechanic to allow players to pick bonus feats or gain extra points to spend on their other perks and advantages, players invariably find ways to make their so-called "flaws" irrelevant.
It's a system that works a lot better in video games, in my opinion.
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Since the next Bestiary is focused heavily on creatures from around the world, any chance that the Set-beast from Egyptian Mythology will make an appearance?Depends what you're talking about when you say "Set-beast."
We won't be rolling in actual deities from real-world mythology into Bestiary 3, but there are certainly a fair number of monsters from Egyptian myth in there.
Not the deity himself; something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-animal_(hieroglyph)
Sorry, I was wrong in my original post; it's referred to as the Set animal / Typhonian animal / salawa.
Ah! Interesting. That's kinda similar in appearance to what we've done with yeth hounds, though... there's no Set hound or whatever they'd be called in Bestiary 3, in any event.
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I'd love to see a base class for evil healing. Maybe a life-stealer or something. Right now witches are the only thematically appropriate evil healing class. Clerics lose it all in favor of negative energy and evil Oracles focused on healing seem odd.
Problem is that thematically, healing is not really all that appropriate for an evil class. The evil Oracle focused on healing seems odd because of that.
That said, an evil cleric who just prepares a lot of healing spells rather than other spells is a good way to set up an evil healer, honestly. Because if that's what you want the bad guy to be doing, it doesn't matter if he's preparing healing spells anyway—that's what he wants in the first place.
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I'd love to see a base class for evil healing. Maybe a life-stealer or something. Right now witches are the only thematically appropriate evil healing class. Clerics lose it all in favor of negative energy and evil Oracles focused on healing seem odd.
A vampiric channeling alternative could be neat.
I'm a big fan of spreading healing out anyway. A rage power that granted a decent amount of fast healing (or temporary hit points) for barbarians, a ki power that allowed a monk to transfer his own life-force around, a rogue talent that allowed a rogue to make improved use of the Heal skill, and / or a bardic performance option that either allowed fast healing, or granted some temporary hit points, could all rock.
Some arcane healing options, such as a wound closing transmutation that turned some lethal damage into nonlethal damage, could also be cool. A party of people who are capable of at least marginally healing themselves and others, and don't have a cleric (or even a single class capable of casting CLW or using a CLW wand) could be neat.
Because the more you look at Geiger's art, the more obvious it is that the alien is very MUCH a male.How do you know it wasn't a shelien?2) Not unless it descends into a tangled mass of rules bickering or edition warring or homophobia or misogyny or badmouthing of my favorite movies. So far, so good!So... do the 4e rules say that I can't gay-marry Ridley Scott's/H.R. Giger's Alien?
What if it were like a female hyena?
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What if it were like a female hyena?Because the more you look at Geiger's art, the more obvious it is that the alien is very MUCH a male.How do you know it wasn't a shelien?2) Not unless it descends into a tangled mass of rules bickering or edition warring or homophobia or misogyny or badmouthing of my favorite movies. So far, so good!So... do the 4e rules say that I can't gay-marry Ridley Scott's/H.R. Giger's Alien?
Same difference.
What if it were like a female hyena?Because the more you look at Geiger's art, the more obvious it is that the alien is very MUCH a male.How do you know it wasn't a shelien?2) Not unless it descends into a tangled mass of rules bickering or edition warring or homophobia or misogyny or badmouthing of my favorite movies. So far, so good!So... do the 4e rules say that I can't gay-marry Ridley Scott's/H.R. Giger's Alien?
Wouldn't that just bring us back to gnolls?
Gnolls in space?
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Will their be a psyonics book made by paizo?
Not in 2011. Not in 2012.
Beyond that, I can't say (but it's not as high on my to-do list as would be books about mass combat, mythic level play, deity-level play, more bestiaries, social stuff, enviornment stuff, character background stuff, kingdom building, planar stuff, steampunk, and a few more...).
You're aware of how LARP Vampire games have taken on enough of a life of their own that people are seriously running around thinking they're vampires, right? I mean the guy who introduces himself as a Malkavian or a Gangrel or a Setite and means it.
Have you ever thought what it might look like if someone decided it was a good idea to immerse themselves so far into Golarion that they began introducing themselves as a Varisian bard or a paladin of Iomedae?
People who treat Scent as "autodetect anything within 30 feet" aren't reading the rules for scent properly; nowhere in the rules for scent does it say something like "...most kinds of concealment are irrelevaqnt..." like it does for blindsight. It only says "you can detect opponents by sense of smell, generally within 30 feet." The word "automatic" does not appear in there at all.This is not a rules problem as much as people not paying attention to the words or making assumptions about things that aren't really there
I'm curious as to exactly how we WERE supposed to read it, since the auto detect interpretation seems to be in the majority or at least a close 50 50 split, I don't think the problem is with the reading.
A creature with the scent ability can detect opponents by sense of smell, generally within 30 feet. If the opponent is upwind, the range is 60 feet. If it is downwind, the range is 15 feet. Strong scents, such as smoke or rotting garbage, can be detected at twice the ranges noted above. Overpowering scents, such as skunk musk or troglodyte stench, can be detected at three times these ranges.
If the ability isn't supposed to be automatic then what exactly does it do? The distance seems to be important, going so far as to factor in wind speed, but why does the distance matter if its just a perception vs stealth roll? What does the above clause say? Anyone can detect another creature with a perception roll. Furthermore when they do so they spot the creature, they don't just gain a vague sense of "there's something near me"
The creature detects another creature's presence but not its specific location. Noting the direction of the scent is a move action.
Noting the direction of the scent is a move action. There is no action listed for detecting a creatures presence. It has to be less than a move action, implying that it was a non action. If its not autodetect then what does it do? Anyone can detect a presence with a perception check.
A creature could take a move action to make a perception check to try to find a creature even if it didn't have the scent ability, and would gain more than "its over that way" if successful.
If the creature moves within 5 feet (1 square) of the scent's source, the creature can pinpoint the area that the source occupies, even if it cannot be seen.
It would seem that detecting its precise square once you're within 5 feet is a non action, or else it would be impossible to do (because the creature has to use a move action to detect direction and then a move action to move to it) Since there's no roll, action, system, or mechanism at all mentioned this lead me to believe it was automatic.
I guess. It doesn't even grant any intrinsic bonus to Perception either.
Special: Elves, half-elves, gnomes, and halflings receive a +2 racial bonus on Perception checks. Creatures with the scent special quality have a +8 bonus on Perception checks made to detect a scent. Creatures with the tremorsense special quality have a +8 bonus on Perception checks against creatures touching the ground and automatically make any such checks within their range. For more on special qualities, see Special Abilities.
It basically just ALLOWS you to roll a Perception check to notice a non-unusually scented creature by smell. None of that would be fixed by a reorganization of the skills system.
That would make scent a non ability, since perception already includes all of the senses there would be no difference between a human making a perception roll to spot a rogue and a wolf doing so except flavor text.
1)If the Atomie is in the Beastairy III, can they be taken as an option for improved familiar, a cohort, or a summons?
2)Even though the Kaiju didn't make the final cut in the Beastairy 3 but what about the other creatures mentioned in the Beastairy 3 product description?
3)Any chance of seeing sprites, sea sprites, jack o lantern, jack frost, or celtic style fey in the near future?
4)So Bigfoot is your favorite cryptid yet he was the only one you mentioned who isn't statted up, so whats up with that?
5)So since the higher ups have no interest in stating the domains, subdomains, and favored weapons of real world dieties in a book, how about a blog that focuses on one panthion at a time like once a month?
6)Will Ultimate equipment have minor and major artifacts? If so how about ones that are body parts of monsters like dragons, magical beast, outsiders, aberrations, or monstrous humaniods?
7)Have you ever listened to any foreign singers? if so do you have any favorites
8)What are your favorite prehistoric animals from the less than 65 million year ago range?
9)What were your favorite tv shows growing up?
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7)Have you ever listened to any foreign singers? if so do you have any favorites
To clarify this question, what do you mean by foreign singers? Technically, living in the US, singers from Canada, the UK, etc. are foreign, so I know I certainly have listened to some, and would think James has also. I'm guessing you mean something else though, such as non-english language singers or something.
Dear james I know you love Werner Herzog(Gozreh) . Did you saw his new documentary , Cave of Forgotten dreams ? Did you like it?
greetings from brasil.
What is your favorite prehistoric creature before dinosaurs came about?
How often do you end up thinking of great ideas to put into a book after it has already gone to printer?
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You're aware of how LARP Vampire games have taken on enough of a life of their own that people are seriously running around thinking they're vampires, right? I mean the guy who introduces himself as a Malkavian or a Gangrel or a Setite and means it.
Have you ever thought what it might look like if someone decided it was a good idea to immerse themselves so far into Golarion that they began introducing themselves as a Varisian bard or a paladin of Iomedae?
I invented a lot of the elements in Golarion for my homebrew game two or more decades ago. The first time I saw someone cosplaying a Golarion element was at Gen Con, when a woman dressed up as a cleric of Desna. Seeing someone dress up as something I invented back in high school was one of the more surreal parts of my life.
And even more surreal was seeing DaVinci middle school's stage production of "Burnt Offerings," which had a bunch of kids and adults performing a 2 or so hour rendition of my adventure, complete with costumes, special effects (they even had the giant hermit crab!), huge battles with real weapons, music, multiple sets, and more. THAT was, in fact, the most AWESOME (and MOST surreal) thing that's ever happened in my gaming career.
So at this point, the thought of encountering someone who'd immersed themselves so far into Golarion that they began introducing themselves as something from Golarion wouldn't shock or surprise me too much. It would probably amuse me greatly, in fact, and would then probably weird me out in equal amounts to make me proud.
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1)If the Atomie is in the Beastairy III, can they be taken as an option for improved familiar, a cohort, or a summons?
2)Even though the Kaiju didn't make the final cut in the Beastairy 3 but what about the other creatures mentioned in the Beastairy 3 product description?
3)Any chance of seeing sprites, sea sprites, jack o lantern, jack frost, or celtic style fey in the near future?
4)So Bigfoot is your favorite cryptid yet he was the only one you mentioned who isn't statted up, so whats up with that?
5)So since the higher ups have no interest in stating the domains, subdomains, and favored weapons of real world dieties in a book, how about a blog that focuses on one panthion at a time like once a month?
6)Will Ultimate equipment have minor and major artifacts? If so how about ones that are body parts of monsters like dragons, magical beast, outsiders, aberrations, or monstrous humaniods?
7)Have you ever listened to any foreign singers? if so do you have any favorites
8)What are your favorite prehistoric animals from the less than 65 million year ago range?
9)What were your favorite tv shows growing up?
1) While there's at least ONE fey in Bestiary 3 that can become a familiar or cohort, I'm not gonna say yet if that one is the atomie or not.
2) If you mean grave knights, savage cyclopes, kappa (all of whom are on the cover), and clockworks, sphinxes, dragons, and the like, yes. And again... while the actual kaiju template isn't in Bestairy 3, there are plenty of monsters that fill the generic role of "colossal kaiju" in the book. The behemoths, for one (and that's all I'm gonna say about them for now).
3) Some of those, yes.
4) That's interesting, isn't it? If ONLY we had a Bestiary that I was working on RIGHT NOW that would let me scratch the sasquatch itch...
5) We don't have a book line that a book like that would fit into EXCEPT for the rulebook line. Every other line we do is Golarion-themed, and it's not appropriate to do a non-Golarion book in that line at all. So nope; that's not an option.
6) No artifacts in Ultimate Equipment. We've done monster part artifacts for Golarion before... we've actually done an entire Adventure Path that's about those types of artifacts. In any case, artifacts are not "equipment." They're also best handled in the context of a world, so we can get more flavor into them than we ever could in the context of a world-neutral book like Ultimate Equipment.
7) Dead Can Dance is one of my favorite groups—does Australian count as foreign? I think it does.
8) The top ten: arsinotherium, diatryma, zeuglodon, wooly rhinocerous, megalania, smilodon, wooly mammoth, glyptodon, daeodon, and megalodon.
9) The top ten: Creature Features, the D&D Cartoon, Captain Cosmic, Star Trek (original series), Gilligan's Island, Benny Hill, In Search Of..., Unsolved Mysteries, Knight Rider, and The A-Team.
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James, what's happened to Thursday is Golarion Day in the blog? The last 2 Thursdays have had wallpapers, which used to be on Fridays.
What happened was Gen Con and Bestiary 3. Golarion Day posts not only take me a fair amount of time to concept and write (and I can't do that if I'm at Gen Con or jamming on Bestiary 3, which I'm going to be finishing my pass on this afternooon finally), and more to the point, they take the editors a longer time to edit and format. As a result, I actually haven't even thought of blog posts for a few weeks, and the people who schedule blog posts didn't remind me/ask me to do them. (begin conspiracy rant) It's almost like THEY want me developing books and not writing blog posts at all! (end conspiracy rant)
It might seem like a small thing to swap out a Golarion Day blog post for a wallpaper, but it does save us a lot of time.
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James, what's happened to Thursday is Golarion Day in the blog? The last 2 Thursdays have had wallpapers, which used to be on Fridays.What happened was Gen Con and Bestiary 3. Golarion Day posts not only take me a fair amount of time to concept and write (and I can't do that if I'm at Gen Con or jamming on Bestiary 3, which I'm going to be finishing my pass on this afternooon finally), and more to the point, they take the editors a longer time to edit and format. As a result, I actually haven't even thought of blog posts for a few weeks, and the people who schedule blog posts didn't remind me/ask me to do them. (begin conspiracy rant) It's almost like THEY want me developing books and not writing blog posts at all! (end conspiracy rant)
It might seem like a small thing to swap out a Golarion Day blog post for a wallpaper, but it does save us a lot of time.
Completely understood. I thought that last week was due to Gen Con, but when it became 2 weeks in a row, I wanted to make sure it wasn't a permanent change. If B3 is the reason for further delays in Golarion Day (that should really be an annual holiday off work), then I'd rather miss the G-day blog another few weeks if needed to make B3 as good as it can be.
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Dear james I know you love Werner Herzog(Gozreh) . Did you saw his new documentary , Cave of Forgotten dreams ? Did you like it?
greetings from brasil.
I did indeed see it; it's VERY good. I normally don't like 3D movies, but the way Herzog utilized 3D in this to help show how cave paintings take advantage of stone contours and the like was fascinating. One of the best movies of the year.
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What is your favorite prehistoric creature before dinosaurs came about?
How often do you end up thinking of great ideas to put into a book after it has already gone to printer?
Top ten Pre-Dinosaur prehistoric creatures: dimetrodon, eurypterid, trilobite, dunkleosteus, and helicoprion.
And I'm always coming up with "OH DANG! SHOULDA DONE THAT" ideas for books after they've gone to the printer.
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Completely understood. I thought that last week was due to Gen Con, but when it became 2 weeks in a row, I wanted to make sure it wasn't a permanent change. If B3 is the reason for further delays in Golarion Day (that should really be an annual holiday off work), then I'd rather miss the G-day blog another few weeks if needed to make B3 as good as it can be.James, what's happened to Thursday is Golarion Day in the blog? The last 2 Thursdays have had wallpapers, which used to be on Fridays.What happened was Gen Con and Bestiary 3. Golarion Day posts not only take me a fair amount of time to concept and write (and I can't do that if I'm at Gen Con or jamming on Bestiary 3, which I'm going to be finishing my pass on this afternooon finally), and more to the point, they take the editors a longer time to edit and format. As a result, I actually haven't even thought of blog posts for a few weeks, and the people who schedule blog posts didn't remind me/ask me to do them. (begin conspiracy rant) It's almost like THEY want me developing books and not writing blog posts at all! (end conspiracy rant)
It might seem like a small thing to swap out a Golarion Day blog post for a wallpaper, but it does save us a lot of time.
At this point, there's a big ripple effect going on. Gen Con pushed back my development time on Bestiary 3, which itself is wreaking devastation on my development time for Dragon Empires. It could well still be a few weeks before Golarion Day returns... it'll probably be coming back faster if I can convince another writer here to do something for it... but it turns out that Gen Con more or less messed ALL of our schedules up.
Complicating THAT, of course, is that several Paizo employees are out until next Monday due to PAX.
Conventions. They frustrate me.
1)Any chance of an archtype or feat(s) that grants a druid a magical beast for an "animal" companion?
2)I see you didn't mention "Monty python's flying circus", so did you like it or not?
3)When will we see some creatures from the positive energy plane?
4)What are your top ten 80's movies?
5)Do you watch southpark? if so there is a 3 parter that had cuthulu in it. also the one that spoofs the "heavy metal" movie was awesome.
6)Have you seen the "Underworld" movies? will see the new one coming out this january?
7)any chance of seeing cat sidhe, cu sidhe, fir bolg, puca, or leanan sidhe?
8)Have ever seen the old Sinbad the sailor movies? wich one was your favorite?
9)Will ever see a creature that it's treasure is a part of it? examples:1) a golem made of gold(or other treasure),2)a giant snail like creature with a shell made of gold,3)a giant oyster with a giant pearl,4)a bee like creatues that produce magical honey with healing and/or curative properties.
I did indeed see it; it's VERY good. I normally don't like 3D movies, but the way Herzog utilized 3D in this to help show how cave paintings take advantage of stone contours and the like was fascinating. One of the best movies of the year.Dear james I know you love Werner Herzog(Gozreh) . Did you saw his new documentary , Cave of Forgotten dreams ? Did you like it?
greetings from brasil.
Me too. By the way, speaking of Herzog i am pretty sure that you saw fitzcarraldo that was made in the amazon jungle. My point is , Brazil has a huge number of rich folklore and perhaps, some of this tales could be used in some region of golarion in the future. What do you think?If you want i can send you some book titles about brazilian folklore.
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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What is your favorite prehistoric creature before dinosaurs came about?
How often do you end up thinking of great ideas to put into a book after it has already gone to printer?
Top ten Pre-Dinosaur prehistoric creatures: dimetrodon, eurypterid, trilobite, dunkleosteus, and helicoprion.
And I'm always coming up with "OH DANG! SHOULDA DONE THAT" ideas for books after they've gone to the printer.
Giant trilobite?
You would find a good number of supporters for that.