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While I play video games James, I believe you have more eclectic tastes in that medium than I do, have you seen the new 'I Am Alive' clip?
In case you missed the earlier cinematic trailer from 2008.
Those links, they do not go where you think they go.
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Just call them 'Vargr'.
(oh wait-- I think that might be some other game's copyright for a canine-related race... I would like to play them in PF though.) :)
How about 'ulfenbrud'? It's a vague mashup of Scandinavian/Icelandic components, roughly meaning "wolf's bride".
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Who would turn doing giving a raise to someone with a tank?He'd have to get a pretty big raise though. I think his weekly pay check wouldn't cover the gas for one trip!IANJ, but he would no longer have an excuse to miss work due to snow...Dear James,
If you had a Sherman tank would you drive it to work?
Someone with a anti-tank gun?
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How about 'ulfenbrud'? It's a vague mashup of Scandinavian/Icelandic components, roughly meaning "wolf's bride".Just call them 'Vargr'.
(oh wait-- I think that might be some other game's copyright for a canine-related race... I would like to play them in PF though.) :)
Hmmm... pretty cool, I'd say. And not taken by anyone else.
Vargr (used by that other game) is also a name taken from one of the dialects of Old Norse-- literally means 'Wolf' (but has the unfortunate association that it was also used to mean 'Outlaw' or 'Brigand').
My RPG library is... pretty big. I'm about halfway through cataloging it.
I'm thinking of doing this very thing with my own collection
how are you cataloging your RPG Library?
Are you using a specific method or program?
Dan Simmons' novel The Terror is one of the best novels I've read in the last few years, and his novel Drood is also really cool.
Interesting; having seen you reference Dan Simmons as an author you like, I was going to ask your advice on the latter of those two books, as nobody I know in person has read it. I loved the Hyperion Cantos, and greatly enjoyed Carrion Comfort and The Terror, but I'm bogged down about halfway through Drood. I've renewed my library copy more time than I ever knew you were allowed to, but I'm only getting through two or three chapters a week, at best.
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How about 'ulfenbrud'? It's a vague mashup of Scandinavian/Icelandic components, roughly meaning "wolf's bride".Just call them 'Vargr'.
(oh wait-- I think that might be some other game's copyright for a canine-related race... I would like to play them in PF though.) :)
Hmmm... pretty cool, I'd say. And not taken by anyone else.
Vargr (used by that other game) is also a name taken from one of the dialects of Old Norse-- literally means 'Wolf' (but has the unfortunate association that it was also used to mean 'Outlaw' or 'Brigand').
Actually Vargr is quite taken. It's the name of the uplifted canine race in the Traveller SF rpg...it's one of the old classics. so yeah... anyone that's over 30 in the field would instantly recognise that name.
You do realize that's what I was referring to with that "oh wait-- I think..." quip in my original post? :D
(I played Traveler when it was a brand new game, fresh on the market-- haven't played Traveler itself or its direct derivatives in about 25 years, but I've played GURPS Traveler since those days-- in those WAAAAYYYYYY back when days of gaming, a couple of my Traveler characters were Vargr)
How about 'ulfenbrud'? It's a vague mashup of Scandinavian/Icelandic components, roughly meaning "wolf's bride".Just call them 'Vargr'.
(oh wait-- I think that might be some other game's copyright for a canine-related race... I would like to play them in PF though.) :)
Hmmm... pretty cool, I'd say. And not taken by anyone else.
Vargr (used by that other game) is also a name taken from one of the dialects of Old Norse-- literally means 'Wolf' (but has the unfortunate association that it was also used to mean 'Outlaw' or 'Brigand').
Actually Vargr is quite taken. It's the name of the uplifted canine race in the Traveller SF rpg...it's one of the old classics. so yeah... anyone that's over 30 in the field would instantly recognise that name.
You do realize that's what I was referring to with that "oh wait-- I think..." quip in my original post? :D
(I played Traveler when it was a brand new game, fresh on the market-- haven't played Traveler itself or its direct derivatives in about 25 years, but I've played GURPS Traveler since those days-- in those WAAAAYYYYYY back when days of gaming, a couple of my Traveler characters were Vargr)
Vargr is the Norse word for outlaw/wolf. It's related to the word Tolkien coined - Worg - which is also in PF.
The Wulver is a creature from Shetlands folklore with the head of a wolf and the body of a man. The Wulver seems like a good name for your concept, since it's authentic folklore.
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While I play video games James, I believe you have more eclectic tastes in that medium than I do, have you seen the new 'I Am Alive' clip?
In case you missed the earlier cinematic trailer from 2008.
Nope; haven't seen it yet.
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James, have you (Paizo) given any thought to creating a mega-adventure for Pathfinder along the lines of Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, Return to Castle Greyhawk (I loved that one) and Red Hand of Doom (possibly my favorite adventure of all time)?
Our "mega-adventure" energies are pretty much focused on the Adventure Path for now. Doing an additional enormous adventure akin to the ones you mention in a standalone format would not only spread our current resources too thin... but we don't really have a product line that could support something like that. Things can change in the future, of course, but for now, a giant adventure isn't something we're planning on doing...
...unless the upcoming hardcover Anniversary Edition of Rise of the Runelords counts, which it should.
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James have you seen 30 Asian Hornets Massacre 30,000 Bees?
Somewhere, Calistra is smiling.
I have. I've also seen how bees fight back against those Japanese Hornets—they swarm them, cover them in a ball of bees, and kill them via a combination of asphyxiation and overheating! Cool.
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My RPG library is... pretty big. I'm about halfway through cataloging it.I'm thinking of doing this very thing with my own collection
how are you cataloging your RPG Library?
Are you using a specific method or program?
I'm using a computer program called Delicious Library 2, which is a fantastic program. You just hold your book or video game or movie or CD or whatever up to your computer's camera, it scans the bar code, and it drops that product in on a virtual shelf that you can then organize similar to how iTunes organizes stuff. It's super cool and even kinda fun to use!
Only available for the Mac, though, so if you're on a PC, I can't help ya.
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Interesting; having seen you reference Dan Simmons as an author you like, I was going to ask your advice on the latter of those two books, as nobody I know in person has read it. I loved the Hyperion Cantos, and greatly enjoyed Carrion Comfort and The Terror, but I'm bogged down about halfway through Drood. I've renewed my library copy more time than I ever knew you were allowed to, but I'm only getting through two or three chapters a week, at best. ** spoiler omitted ** Is the pace going to pick up sometime soon, or should I just conclude the book is not my cup of tea and move on to something else? "Something else" would probably be A Dance with Dragons, which I've been putting off while reading Drood myself and rereading A Game of Thrones aloud to my girlfriend.
Dan Simmons' novel The Terror is one of the best novels I've read in the last few years, and his novel Drood is also really cool.
I actually LOVED Drood. Didn't have a problem with the pacing at all. Sounds like you should probably move on to something else. I've actually had that happen twice to me so far with some of Dan's books—both Carrion Comfort (which I've tried to read twice, now) and Black Hills ended up being books I just couldn't get into and gave up on.
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So has your night elf hunter then gone down to Un'Goro and tamed the King Devilsaur yet? Or a rhino from Northrend? Back in the day usually the first encounter with one is when you see it's legs around you and it's already bitten you in half. That thing could be stealthy when it had a mind to.
It's kind hard to see how those three roles can be avoided. They do basically describe the three functions you need in a group. And having everyone play at being tank kind of makes healers explode.
See... just as I can't really get into playing more than one character in the game, I also can't really get into taming more than one pet. My current pet, a bright red raptor named Guttugger, is as much a part of my character as my bow, really, and when Guttugger's not around, things just feel off. I do have a few other pets tamed, including a devilsaur that's ALSO named Guttugger (I tell folks that Guttugger got into some polluted demon juices or something and hulked out in that case), but I generally do my thing with the red raptor at my side.
The three roles can be avoided by simply changing the way the game is played. Specifically, the role of "tank" can be changed by handling aggro (the AI method of determining who a monster wants to attack) differently. It's not a solution I need to solve though, thankfully—that's up to the fine folks over at Goblinworks to figure out.
So is working at Paizo your dream job? If not, what is?
Do you think a quick way to generate a spinoff thread (with a link back) would benefit strong topic threads like this one? I've suggested it a few times, but in light of your recent post maybe I can win your support!
Do you think a quick way to generate a spinoff thread (with a link back) would benefit strong topic threads like this one? I've suggested it a few times, but in light of your recent post maybe I can win your support!
You need to roll Diplomacy first, dude.
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Do you think a quick way to generate a spinoff thread (with a link back) would benefit strong topic threads like this one? I've suggested it a few times, but in light of your recent post maybe I can win your support!
This thread is far too enormous and fast growing—a link back to this thread on a spinoff thread won't keep its relevance to this thread long at all.
And no one needs my support for starting their own thread anyway! ;-)
I have. I've also seen how bees fight back against those Japanese Hornets—they swarm them, cover them in a ball of bees, and kill them via a combination of asphyxiation and overheating! Cool.
Nifty fact: only Asian honeybees have that defensive behavior. The European and African populations of Apis mellifera, not having coevolved with Vespa mandarinia, have never developed the defense mechanism. V. mandarinia is one of the potential invasive species we least want to see find its way into North America -- our honeybees are having enough problems already with throat mites and colony collapse disorder. (UC Riverside-trained entomologist here -- doesn't take much to get me talking about bugs.)
I'm using a computer program called Delicious Library 2...
WANT! Thanks for putting me on to that, I'm going to download it to my MacBook as soon as I get home this evening.
I actually LOVED Drood. Didn't have a problem with the pacing at all. Sounds like you should probably move on to something else. I've actually had that happen twice to me so far with some of Dan's books—both Carrion Comfort (which I've tried to read twice, now) and Black Hills ended up being books I just couldn't get into and gave up on.
De gustabus non disputandum, I guess. Have you read much/any of Dickens' and/or Wilkie Collins' work? And, if so, did you enjoy it? I have a feeling the fact that I hated Great Expectations with a passion probably should have warned me against Drood -- with Collins and Dickens as his protagonists, Simmons was bound to emulate the meandering Victorian serial-novel style at least to some extent.
Oh, and just for fun: when you pronounce "Drood," does it rhyme with "food," "good," or "blood?"
My current pet, a bright red raptor named Guttugger, is as much a part of my character as my bow, really...
Heh. Did you know that your character is the ultimate nemesis of Randall Munroe's nightmares?
Do you think a quick way to generate a spinoff thread (with a link back) would benefit strong topic threads like this one? I've suggested it a few times, but in light of your recent post maybe I can win your support!
How hard is it to include a link to the particular post from which you're spinning off in the first post of your new thread? Just clicking on the time/date of the post gets you the URL, and making a link is trivial.
So, what would you do when your players decided to TAME the those three Allosaurus, you were planning to do some ravaging of them with?
Supposing you allowed them to try and use Handle Animal, what would you do when the player in question rolled a 20 (plus like +16 or so)?
Supposing you allowed your a´players to "befriend" these Allosaurus, what would the related problems and solutions be?
If one of those problems were that Allosaurus are Huge and you player (dual-wielding falcata ranger) wants to ride his new mount into combat...?
If same player wanted to armor a Huge Allosaurus (barding), but was a guide archtype and therefore unable to give the Allosaurus Armor Proficiency feats?
How would you make an Allosaurus into a stealthy mount?
And, finally,
What is the plural of Allosaurus? Just Allosaurus? (My latinist side will curl together in a corner if that is the case)
Thanks a lot
And no one needs my support for starting their own thread anyway! ;-)
To clarify: what if your post saying "Go elsewhere" automatically doubled as a link to an "elsewhere" thread? This would spare the effort of creating a new thread, copying the url back into this thread and generating yet another off-topic post within it.
I often feel the need for such a thing when I'm trying to keep a constructive thread on-topic and a good-but-off-topic side-discussion starts up. Couldn't hurt for the PBP folks either.
It's really something I would bother the Postmonster about, but your post was a near-perfect example of the need for it, so I thought: "Why not ask?"
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De gustabus non disputandum, I guess. Have you read much/any of Dickens' and/or Wilkie Collins' work? And, if so, did you enjoy it? I have a feeling the fact that I hated Great Expectations with a passion probably should have warned me against Drood -- with Collins and Dickens as his protagonists, Simmons was bound to emulate the meandering Victorian serial-novel style at least to some extent.
Oh, and just for fun: when you pronounce "Drood," does it rhyme with "food," "good," or "blood?"
I've not read any of Collins' work, but I've loved what I've read of Dickens quite a lot. So that helps, I suspect.
And I've always pronounced "Drood" to rhyme with "food."
Heh. Did you know that your character is the ultimate nemesis of Randall Munroe's nightmares?
Excellent.
How hard is it to include a link to the particular post from which you're spinning off in the first post of your new thread? Just clicking on the time/date of the post gets you the URL, and making a link is trivial.
I guess that's fine... although when a topic threatens to derail a thread this large, I'm pretty sure it's got enough energy to self-sustain.
Have you seen the 1967 television series "The Prisoner"? What the heck is going on in that show?
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James,
Are you excited about the RPG Superstar reveal tomorrow?
How much input do you have on the later rounds regarding the rules and twists?
Have you ever considered getting a Segway with a kit to make it look like a T-Rex for riding around the office?
If Merisiel was to be a character in a movie, which actress would you want to portray her?
Would you prefer an island, bunker, or office building for an evil lair? Or something else entirely?
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1) Are you excited about the RPG Superstar reveal tomorrow?
2) How much input do you have on the later rounds regarding the rules and twists?
3) Have you ever considered getting a Segway with a kit to make it look like a T-Rex for riding around the office?
4) If Merisiel was to be a character in a movie, which actress would you want to portray her?
5) Would you prefer an island, bunker, or office building for an evil lair? Or something else entirely?
1) Not really; as an employee, I have the ability to find out how things are going behind the scenes at any time... but speaking of time, I don't have that much of it to devote to RPG Superstar at all. I guess I'm eager to see the reaction to the reveal, but the reveal itself? Not that exciting to me.
2) I help out sometimes at the start, and I generally serve as a judge on the final round, but beyond that my involvement with RPG superstar is pretty minimal.
3) HA! No.
4) Keira Knightley. Or maybe Milla Jojovich.
5) Island.
My current pet, a bright red raptor named Guttugger, is as much a part of my character as my bow, really, and when Guttugger's not around, things just feel off.
Is that name taken from a certain Rowyn Kellani's pet or is it the other way around?
5) Would you prefer an island, bunker, or office building for an evil lair? Or something else entirely?5) Island.
Would you prefer a prehistoric island, a volcanic island, a prehistoric volcanic island, or OTHER (please elaborate with comment here)?
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My current pet, a bright red raptor named Guttugger, is as much a part of my character as my bow, really, and when Guttugger's not around, things just feel off.Is that name taken from a certain Rowyn Kellani's pet or is it the other way around?
It's the other way around. I wrote that adventure, after all. And by the time I'd written that adventure, Guttugger as my hunter's minion had already been around for quite some time. His picture shows up (along with all of the Paizo employee characters from Warcraft) in the editorial to Dungeon #143, in fact.
Bonus Round: Rowyn herself is named after one of my characters, although she's a quite different character than the cleric her name came from.
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Would you prefer a prehistoric island, a volcanic island, a prehistoric volcanic island, or OTHER (please elaborate with comment here)?5) Would you prefer an island, bunker, or office building for an evil lair? Or something else entirely?5) Island.
I feel that I don't really need to answer, it's so obvious to me... but:
Prehistoric.
NOT Prehistoric volcanic. I don't want my island to blow up after the first would-be hero invades it.
1)Is there any information for the pathfinder comic book?
2)Is "Ultimate Equipment" actually going to be called "Ultimate Equipment"?
3)What made you guys deside the page sizes for your books to be 32, 64, and 96 instead of 35, 50, 75, 100, etc.?
4)Are there any conventions you guys are taking part in before july?
5)Do you collect anything like books, comics, movies, toys..I mean action figures, artwork, coins, etc.?
How do you pronounce Groetus?
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My RPG library is... pretty big. I'm about halfway through cataloging it.I'm thinking of doing this very thing with my own collection
how are you cataloging your RPG Library?
Are you using a specific method or program?I'm using a computer program called Delicious Library 2, which is a fantastic program. You just hold your book or video game or movie or CD or whatever up to your computer's camera, it scans the bar code, and it drops that product in on a virtual shelf that you can then organize similar to how iTunes organizes stuff. It's super cool and even kinda fun to use!
Only available for the Mac, though, so if you're on a PC, I can't help ya.
As a PC user, I was inspired by James' previous mention of this product to get something similar. I settled on Book Collectorz, and since I have a desktop PC without a webcam, I also got a cheap laser bar code scanner. It works pretty well, and I'm pretty happy with it.
3)What made you guys deside the page sizes for your books to be 32, 64, and 96 instead of 35, 50, 75, 100, etc.?
We didn't. The printing industry set the paper size standard (likely 24x36 inches with bleed and trim). Printing is done 8-up (that's 8 pages per sheet), double-sided. Everything is trimmed down to double-page spreads and stitched or stapled together in 16-page signatures. That's why everything's set up in multiples of 16.
As a PC user, I was inspired by James' previous mention of this product to get something similar. I settled on Book Collectorz, and since I have a desktop PC without a webcam, I also got a cheap laser bar code scanner. It works pretty well, and I'm pretty happy with it.
The Goodreads app ties in with your Goodreads.com account. Your android or iPhone works as the scanner. I'm pleased with the results. :D
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1)Is there any information for the pathfinder comic book?
2)Is "Ultimate Equipment" actually going to be called "Ultimate Equipment"?
3)What made you guys deside the page sizes for your books to be 32, 64, and 96 instead of 35, 50, 75, 100, etc.?
4)Are there any conventions you guys are taking part in before july?
5)Do you collect anything like books, comics, movies, toys..I mean action figures, artwork, coins, etc.?
1) Nothing new to report at this time.
2) Yes.
3) The fact that the way books are printed, a group of pages is organized into groups known as signatures is what determines how many pages a book gets—and a signature doesn't work with a weird amount of pages: See more info here, courtesy of Wikipedia.
4) Yes. I'm not sure which ones though; I don't really keep track of conventions. I'm very likely only gonna be taking part in Paizocon and Gen Con.
5) I guess you could say that I collect movies, RPG books, and horror books. I've sort of got a goal to collect all the original British published Fighting Fantasy books too. And Lovecraft stuff. And things with dinosaurs or Godzilla or frogs.
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James, I'm picking up EvE after all the talk about it in the Pathfinder Online/Goblinworks segment of the Boards, and I was wondering, do you play, and if so, any pointers you could give me?
Not James, but:
- If you know someone that already play you can get a 21 day trial instead of 14 day and if you subscribe he will get some kind of reward (I think 30 days of game time), so he will have an incentive in easing you into the game. Way better if he is someone living in your time zone.
- Caldari ships and missiles are easy for a guy starting the game. But Caldari space is the most crowded part of the universe. But nothing force you to live there or restrict you to the ship of your starting race.
- Do the tutorial and the tutorial missions (they give out the skillbooks for useful skills and a few decent ships).
- Never fly something that you can't replace at least 3 times.
- if you need a hand try sending a in game mail to Manuela Asante and Oskar Kranzekian. I will not guarantee a prompt reply, but I would do what I can. I am semi retired so my corp isn't the a good one to join. And I am a carebear.
- beware of scams. They are allowed.
- Good luck and fly safe.
@James
Sorry to intrude the thread this way, but the Paizo forum lack a way to contact directly another player.
Easing a new player in a game I like (even with all its limits) is always a good thing.
James, they just recently updated the font sizing. So join back up and let me pop your ship. Yeah for non-consensual PVP...Pass.
If it takes that long for a company to fix something fundamental as fonts in their text... no thanks.
More to the point... I'm not a fan of non-consensual PVP at all. It is, in fact, pretty close to a deal breaker for me whether or not I'll play a game. A game's got to knock it out of the park in pretty much EVERY other front before I'm interested in playing a non-consensual PVP game at all in any way other than an idle distraction for an hour at a friend's house (like in Halo deathmatch style). AKA: The bigger a rule non-consensual PVP plays in a game, the less time I'll end up spending playing it.
(Let's just say I'm hoping the way this works in Pathifnder Online is something I won't hate, cause I really want to play the game. But if that's not int he future for the game, I'll still do everything I can to make sure it's the best Pathfinder PVP experience possible, as far as my influence on the project goes.)
EVE has suffered and somewhat still suffer from legacy code and being born as a small company game.
You can avoid the combat PvP part if you want but then you must be someone that like the trading & building part of the game. PvE is interesting till it get too easy (but I hear that the more recent addition can be interesting, if you are in a corporation that do them).Hopefully in the future we will get first person interaction with other player characters and not only ship to ship communications in the chat box.
I think that some level of PvP will spice up PFO but it should have ample room for other activities. It is not a dark and simal future.
EVE was capable to keep my attention for 6 years mostly with the non combat PvP activities and I really hope PFO will do the same and even more.
Elves of Golarion was indeed designed for 3.5; since that's the only one in the races book that has that honor, chances that we'll do something to update it in the future are not insignificant, but it's not something we have any plans to do anytime soon.
If you're just looking for rules crunch, I can't really say which ones you should pick up next since they've all got about the same amount of rules crunch, honestly. The Arms and Equipment one has more crunch than most, I guess, but that crunch had some problems with errata and also had chunks of its crunch reprinted in hardcovers here and there.
But since the majority of the Player Companion line (although they DO have rules in them) are built to serve Golarion and to build the world's flavor first and foremost for players to build Golarion-themed characters from... it's kinda hard to say what ones you might like best.
If you haven't picked up the Inner Sea Primer, though... that's probably the best bet since the contents of that one support ALL of the other ones.
Does writing "crunch" that many times in one post make you cringe?
Does writing "crunch" that many times in one post make you cringe?
Probably not, he does fancy himself as a dinosaur...
James are you a dinosaur?
-Tundra
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Can Kitsune have children with humans? If not is there anyway one can tell if another is nearby? Is all this answered in the Primer? (still waiting on my copy. :) )
None of that is answered in the Primer, which pretty much only presents the rules for the new races and very little flavor. For the moment, the Gazetteer is the go-to place for non-rules info on these races.
As for whether they can have kids with humans... that's up to the GM, as in all cases of interspecies breeding that isn't directly supported by something like a half-elf or half-orc.
(I'd certainly allow it in games I run, in any event.)