I love my AP subscription.
I'm stoked to play in a CoT campaign this weekend and then DM a LoF campaign for an all Saturday extravaganza! (That is as long as I kick this cold, but heck we'll just reschedule for the next weekend).
I'm dying to hear about the next product releases and the AP that will be after Jade Regent.
How's that for positive?
I've been DMing for 32 years, and the Pathfinder homebrew campaign I'm running right now is probably the most fun I've ever had.
I really enjoy the way the Developers allow us to playtest new content before it comes out. It's like getting a Christmas gift early! :)
Oh, and the RotRL AP is absolutely amazing.
I became aware of Paizo during the Beta testing for PFRPG. Over the years I have added more and more items to my subscriptions due to the high quality products and great attitude of this company as a whole. I like to spend my hard earned money with a company and product that gives me countless hours of entertainment.
Being the Internet you will always have people that frankly you would not want to talk to face to face... ever. You also have people that get the intent of their message lost in the translation of text postings. So I try and keep that in mind when reading these or any other forums.
All that said, Paizo and this fanbase is one of the best communities out there. And with only a few exceptions I enjoy most of the common posters.
Paizo is a great company and I think gamers in general are a good group of people who use intelligence and imagination to make what can be a harsh world a little better.
So thank you Paizo and fellow gamers for remembering that this is a game and we all have fun with it in our own way or we would not be here.
Haven't had a chance to play Pathfinder in months (GM moved away), but we are taking a trip tomorrow night to see him and start up a new campaign. I don't know how often I'll be able to make the trip, but it is going to feel damn good to see everyone and play!
I kind of made a New Years resolution to not get sucked into forum pissing matches, but it is a personal weakness I haven't mastered yet. I think that complaints and drama will always draw more attention then they should. I would like to think that it is just that people are so passionate about the game, and want to to be the best it can be. Also, it is often the exceptions that stand out, rather then the norm. For example, I don't have enough hours in the day to post all the things I love about Pathfinder (People are still #1), but I can post all the things I don't like into a few paragraphs.
I also have begun to explore the Play-by-Post area of the site a little, and found a quite but active world of game enthusiasts seperate from the "nerf sux" of the general discussion.
If all else fails, there is a script know as the "greasemonkey script" that apparently lets you block individuals. Seems like 75% of the strife comes from a handful of people, so you might be able to do some spring cleaning with that.
I know this is fantasy but these forums over being overrunned by trolls.
Adding a spoiler for those folks that want to keep this chain 100% Positive Energy. LOL
Let's here more about it, lvl 12. Also what state are you from?
Virginia.
I have a great group. Five players consisting of two couples about 10 to 12 years younger than me, and another guy my age with similar old school sensibilities*. We rotate hosting duties, host picks up the dinner tab.
I was running a homebrew game for my three daughters and had a germ of an idea for a series of related adventures, but they're not high enough level for it yet. That, and it's a tad too adult-themed for them. So I told a friend at lunch about it and the gaming group was born. None of them had ever played Pathfinder, and I'm new to it myself (being a 1st Edition guy), so we're all learning the system together. One of the wives has never played an RPG before.
The adventure idea has really grown into something special and, I think, unique. Meanwhile, the players are falling more and more into character, they're engaged and interested in solving the mysteries of the setting, and I feel like an evil genius. They speculate about what's really going on, and they're way off the mark, but they're stumbling toward the answers regardless. Plot devices planted early are blowing up in exciting ways.
They're teaching me about ways the younger generation looks at table top gaming, and I'm giving them a glimpse of what it felt like back in the day. The action and suspense couldn't be unfolding any better, certainly as well as I could have hoped. They've gone from believing I'm trying to kill them, to thinking they're unstoppable, and back to thinking they're about to die again. Pieces of the setting are fitting together in ways I didn't anticipate.
We've learned some interesting tidbits along the way, such as Things You Don't Want to Hear Your DM Say ("Let's see, damage, damage...hmm...I'm gonna need more dice").
Best part is, this is all a play test to prep me for running this same adventure series for my kids (toned down, of course, but every bit as deadly). Could be even better with them.
Like I said, 32 years and I've never had it go quite this well. No complaints here.
* I mean old school flavor. I'm not going to knock myself out trying to keep you alive. Hire henchmen and beware of traps. Magic doesn't come cheap, and magic items have personality and, often, drawbacks. Etc.
I am very excited to be heading to my first PaizoCon this year.
Happy thoughts?
This weekend a local group of gamers is running their own con, and there will be roleplaying. Looks like 1 session of 3.5 (my preferred system) and a few sessions of PF, as well as others that I'm not interested in. So I hope to get to play 2-3 different game sessions on Saturday.
Afterwards, I hope to see Tiffany vs. Debbie in "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid" on SyFy. What can I say, I love really horrible sci-fi/monster pics.
I also have recently completed my own version of the 3.5 game system (if PF is 3.75, mine is 3.51, you could sit at a game with 3.5 players and never know the difference), called Gauric Myths. It is self published on Lulu (free downloads), mainly for me and mine that want to replace our core 3.5 books when they fall apart and when new players join. It is not a business venture, just a labor of love. Something that I've been working off and on for about a year and some change.
So those are my current happy thoughts.
Oh yeah, order a bunch of minis, so those should be getting here in a few days (probably early next week). Now, I just have to finish with the last set of minis I bought (wife is going to kill me :D).
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I too am really looking forward to PaizoCon.
I am also starting what I like to think of as a PFS Outreach Program. I currently run PFS games in Little Rock, AR. About an hour north, give or take, is Conway. And to the east is Jacksonville. I think that once each month I will trek out to stores in these areas and run PFS games to try to drum up some excitement and interest. Hopefully I can identify some GMs to run games when I am unable to make the journey. I hope to bring at least one or two other GMs with me to be better able to adjust to, and accommodate any number of players.
It's going to be awesome.
Tam
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Some of the most die-hard FR and Dragonlance fan gamers I've ever met, who are at the moment playing in my second run of RotRL, have expressed their admiration and preference for Golarion as a setting.
PFRPG is gaining momentum among every gamer I know, and most of them after a bit of culture shock (coming from AD&D2e or after having tried other systems) consider it their RPG of reference when measuring up other titles.
Every time I take a look at a PF AP issue, a Chronicles book or an hardcover for bits of rules, my GM juices are flowing, and I'm filling up notebook after notebook of concepts and ideas to be used or expanded in future games (thank you digital voice recorder!).
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This is what I want to read. thanks guys.
I have yet to read anything on glorion specifically. I am waiting for the next release of it. I can't wait, I have yet to hear one negative thing about it yet. I want embrace it in all its glory for the first time without having bee influenced by previous editions. I just need to find myself a gaming group and I am set.
I would love to get more and more expierence as a GM as well. I have a hard time being in character due to embareassment. Which is silly, I know. I guess it takes time to be comfortable around new people!
I am positively thrilled with the skills of the developers. Time and again they throw out an interesting raw class framework, then take the time to sort through all of our garble and use the good parts to make great, well-rounded classes that has their own flavor instead of just being silly clones of other classes.
Here I would like to point out the Witch, Inquisitor, Magus and newly the Gunslinger. Awesome work and I applaud them! :)
Some of the most die-hard FR and Dragonlance fan gamers I've ever met, who are at the moment playing in my second run of RotRL, have expressed their admiration and preference for Golarion as a setting.
Yeah, for all my griping, I have to say that, while my preferred settings used to be Greyhawk and Mystara, once I discovered Golarion, I always felt compelled to use that, even when running an adventure written for some other setting.
Some of the most die-hard FR and Dragonlance fan gamers I've ever met, who are at the moment playing in my second run of RotRL, have expressed their admiration and preference for Golarion as a setting.Yeah, for all my griping, I have to say that, while my preferred settings used to be Greyhawk and Mystara, once I discovered Golarion, I always felt compelled to use that, even when running an adventure written for some other setting.
I use Golarion for my tabletop 4e game. Just adding MO.
I'm looking forward to this weekend because I'll be DMing Kingmaker for the first time since mid-October. The campaign was unavoidably halted on a temporary basis due to an outbreak of real life, but things are looking better for at least a few more weeks.
I am getting ready to start a Serpent's Skull campaign, post baby birth. So regular gaming seems to be on the horizon again.
Don't we already have a thread like this? Ah well.
I just got my first smart phone!!!!!!! Optimus S! May it light my darkest communicatory hour.
Also, we got TONS of snow over the past few days, which I love!!!
AND I'm starting Kingmaker tonight!! I'll be DMing for some people I have not DMed for in YEARS(since I first started DMing and quite poorly I might add), so I'm super excited!!!
@Freehold I just got news we are getting more snow as well, woot!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
Wunian? google doesn't know what it is either.
PF is the first game system I've gm'd and have stuck with. The campaign I'm running now is the longest I've had. I play 3.0 and 3.5 but PF is so well written and I love Golarion so much I want to finish this campaign to do it great justice. I am a player at heart and no matter how bad I wanna play, I try to make my game interesting and challenging and I try not to kill the players off (but if they die they die.) I love what Paizo is doing and will continue to support their efforts.
I'm excited to be playing in Savage Tide soon and I put in a request to have my character drawn on these boards. I hope someone takes up the challenge of drawing my Teifling Aristocrat/ Sorceror (abyssal).
Oh and I'm currently piecing together a homebrew FR campaign centered around the rebirth of the dead god Moander. I'm currently getting the red herrings situated in my mind and all the "behind the scenes" mumbo jumbo worked out.
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I am getting married in 105 days time and our honeymoon will be spent at San Diego Comic Con and Gencon (with a week in New York smack bang in the middle of it)
Oh and the sun is out, I don't have work tomorrow, Andy Murray won the tennis, work is going well, I had a fun singing lesson last night and I am running two extremely enjoyable AP's to an enthusiastic group.
So yeah pretty positive.
Don't we already have a thread like this?
I thought TheOrangeOne started this thread for saying something positive about Paizo, rather than about life in general.
I am getting married in 105 days time and our honeymoon will be spent at San Diego Comic Con and Gencon (with a week in New York smack bang in the middle of it)
Oh and the sun is out, I don't have work tomorrow, Andy Murray won the tennis, work is going well, I had a fun singing lesson last night and I am running two extremely enjoyable AP's to an enthusiastic group.
So yeah pretty positive.
Where in NY you gonna be man? That's my stomping grounds!!!
My name should be a clue to my location. I am upstate, near no gamers :P!
Come on DOWN man, we could hang at the Strat!!!!!
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Where in NY you gonna be man? That's my stomping grounds!!!I am getting married in 105 days time and our honeymoon will be spent at San Diego Comic Con and Gencon (with a week in New York smack bang in the middle of it)
Oh and the sun is out, I don't have work tomorrow, Andy Murray won the tennis, work is going well, I had a fun singing lesson last night and I am running two extremely enjoyable AP's to an enthusiastic group.
So yeah pretty positive.
Our hotel is on 54th St and 5th (I think). Something like that anyway.
I wanted to spend a week in New York because it is the single most awesome city I have ever been to, like walking onto a movie set only for real. For me only London comes close to it. Love the place.
My name should be a clue to my location. I am upstate, near no gamers :P!
I'm upstate. Rochester.
I recommend the OP should try to avoid the specific subforums where the trolls haunt. Sometimes I get frustrated too, and really, just closing the offending forums is really helpful. That's what the disclosure triangles are there for!
80% of the forums are dedicated to setting and Paizo products, places where there really is not much to bicker over. I find the setting and AP forums to be overwhelmingly creative and constructive, with no trolls in sight.
The best way to kill a troll is to starve them of attention.
Where in NY you gonna be man? That's my stomping grounds!!!I am getting married in 105 days time and our honeymoon will be spent at San Diego Comic Con and Gencon (with a week in New York smack bang in the middle of it)
Oh and the sun is out, I don't have work tomorrow, Andy Murray won the tennis, work is going well, I had a fun singing lesson last night and I am running two extremely enjoyable AP's to an enthusiastic group.
So yeah pretty positive.
Our hotel is on 54th St and 5th (I think). Something like that anyway.
I wanted to spend a week in New York because it is the single most awesome city I have ever been to, like walking onto a movie set only for real. For me only London comes close to it. Love the place.
It is good to see NY get the respect it deserves!!!!
OOOh; nice; in Old Town in San Diego; there is an awesome mexican restaurant that serves a champaign and strawberry breakfast and it is very inexpensive and a great deal and the food is awesome; as a good thing; I highly recommend it.
Where in NY you gonna be man? That's my stomping grounds!!!I am getting married in 105 days time and our honeymoon will be spent at San Diego Comic Con and Gencon (with a week in New York smack bang in the middle of it)
Oh and the sun is out, I don't have work tomorrow, Andy Murray won the tennis, work is going well, I had a fun singing lesson last night and I am running two extremely enjoyable AP's to an enthusiastic group.
So yeah pretty positive.
Our hotel is on 54th St and 5th (I think). Something like that anyway.
I wanted to spend a week in New York because it is the single most awesome city I have ever been to, like walking onto a movie set only for real. For me only London comes close to it. Love the place.
Why do I not find these things out until I am potentially close to moving? I live in Brighton.My name should be a clue to my location. I am upstate, near no gamers :P!I'm upstate. Rochester.
Because the player-finder threads don't have email notifications.
I think I did actually post in response to you, once, way back.
I live right next to RIT, actually. Email me if you like, we might grab a beer before you move. Email is my (non-alias) username with gmail.
PS - where you moving to?