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My boss is being an idiot.
My posts were removed.
Upset Freehold is upset.
They removed the "Aslan" post. Color me flabbergasted.
Paizo always remove posts that quote posts that removed during moderation, no matter the number of nesting - I think that happens even if you only quoted innocent parts. (I am not sure if it is matter of the engine used or simply a matter or policy - there might have been cases of posts being overlooked removed later)
I don't remember if Freehold's post was containing quotes - it might be what caused their removal too.
My post still stands, and he made an amusing post quoting mine about misreading my post. As the OP, I found his response funny and light-hearted. I cannot think that someone thought it offensive, but what do I know?
Yeah, after I looked again at your posts there wasn't anything quoted from the past posts. Maybe Aslan comment was removed for excessive lightheartedness for the topic at hand...
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Speaking of excessive...
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Yeah, after I looked again at your posts there wasn't anything quoted from the past posts. Maybe Aslan comment was removed for excessive lightheartedness for the topic at hand...My boss is being an idiot.
My posts were removed.
Upset Freehold is upset.
They removed the "Aslan" post. Color me flabbergasted.
Paizo always remove posts that quote posts that removed during moderation, no matter the number of nesting - I think that happens even if you only quoted innocent parts. (I am not sure if it is matter of the engine used or simply a matter or policy - there might have been cases of posts being overlooked removed later)
I don't remember if Freehold's post was containing quotes - it might be what caused their removal too.
My post still stands, and he made an amusing post quoting mine about misreading my post. As the OP, I found his response funny and light-hearted. I cannot think that someone thought it offensive, but what do I know?
That’s my thought. They may have removed the humorous posts along with the incendiary posts.
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Speaking of excessive...Aren’t dragons always naked?
Sometimes we wear a top hat. For formal occasions.
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Warning label on the safety glasses provided by work: Do not use for protection from large objects, liquid splashes, air dust, extreme temperature or severe impacts, such as explosions, fragmenting grids, and abrasive wheels.
It's a good thing I read that before trying to sharpen my eyeballs with a grinding wheel.
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Warning label on the safety glasses provided by work: Do not use for protection from large objects, liquid splashes, air dust, extreme temperature or severe impacts, such as explosions, fragmenting grids, and abrasive wheels.
It's a good thing I read that before trying to sharpen my eyeballs with a grinding wheel.
How else are we supposed to keep our eyeballs sharp?
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How else are we supposed to keep our eyeballs sharp?Warning label on the safety glasses provided by work: Do not use for protection from large objects, liquid splashes, air dust, extreme temperature or severe impacts, such as explosions, fragmenting grids, and abrasive wheels.
It's a good thing I read that before trying to sharpen my eyeballs with a grinding wheel.
F@$# it, Beta Carotine and Vitamin A take too damn long!
F#++ it, Beta Carotine and Vitamin A take too damn long!How else are we supposed to keep our eyeballs sharp?Warning label on the safety glasses provided by work: Do not use for protection from large objects, liquid splashes, air dust, extreme temperature or severe impacts, such as explosions, fragmenting grids, and abrasive wheels.
It's a good thing I read that before trying to sharpen my eyeballs with a grinding wheel.
Honestly, my next answer was going to be explosions, but apparently that's wrong too.
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The day I see Captain Yesterday do a Bruce Lee style nunchuk kata with a bobcat is the day I surrender to the overwhelming power of Wisconsin.Before the shutdown this spring, when the construction on our new middle school building started at my school, a coworker and I were watching the construction workers maneuver a couple of bobcats through the trees at what was, for them, probably an impressive pace.
Coworker: WOW. That's some skill.
Me: Meh. I've got a friend who can shave an angry bear with one of those.
Coworker: ...
Ooooo, I forgot about the bear shaving. Now I'm rooting for a comic book-style misunderstanding -> understanding -> team-up featuring Captain Yesterday vs writer Gail Simone.
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How else are we supposed to keep our eyeballs sharp?Warning label on the safety glasses provided by work: Do not use for protection from large objects, liquid splashes, air dust, extreme temperature or severe impacts, such as explosions, fragmenting grids, and abrasive wheels.
It's a good thing I read that before trying to sharpen my eyeballs with a grinding wheel.
yeah...
Eyeballs....
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*bleurgh*
*double bleurgh*
Some interesting stuff going on here, but as much as I would like to comment and participate, I'm just going to favorite some posts, show sympathy to those who could use it (Orthos and Scint come immediately to mind, but there are others), then crawl back under my rock to sleep.
Carry on!
Phantom in the Twilight was a fun little anime series. It is on Crunchyroll.
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How else are we supposed to keep our eyeballs sharp?Warning label on the safety glasses provided by work: Do not use for protection from large objects, liquid splashes, air dust, extreme temperature or severe impacts, such as explosions, fragmenting grids, and abrasive wheels.
It's a good thing I read that before trying to sharpen my eyeballs with a grinding wheel.
yeah...
Eyeballs....
Whatever you’re into is your business. FAWTLs don’t judge.
Whatever you’re into is your business. FAWTLs don’t judge.How else are we supposed to keep our eyeballs sharp?Warning label on the safety glasses provided by work: Do not use for protection from large objects, liquid splashes, air dust, extreme temperature or severe impacts, such as explosions, fragmenting grids, and abrasive wheels.
It's a good thing I read that before trying to sharpen my eyeballs with a grinding wheel.
yeah...
Eyeballs....
I'll be the judge of that.
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Ooooo, I forgot about the bear shaving. Now I'm rooting for a comic book-style misunderstanding -> understanding -> team-up featuring Captain Yesterday vs writer Gail Simone.The day I see Captain Yesterday do a Bruce Lee style nunchuk kata with a bobcat is the day I surrender to the overwhelming power of Wisconsin.Before the shutdown this spring, when the construction on our new middle school building started at my school, a coworker and I were watching the construction workers maneuver a couple of bobcats through the trees at what was, for them, probably an impressive pace.
Coworker: WOW. That's some skill.
Me: Meh. I've got a friend who can shave an angry bear with one of those.
Coworker: ...
I'm throwing money at the screen but nothing happens.
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Your throwing that worthless PAPER stuff.
Throw good, solid COINS at it. Preferably the gold-tone dollar coins, or the extra large 50cent pieces!
I guarantee something will happen. Probably you'll need a new PC monitor, but something will happen,... :)
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Your throwing that worthless PAPER stuff.
Throw good, solid COINS at it. Preferably the gold-tone dollar coins, or the extra large 50cent pieces!
I guarantee something will happen. Probably you'll need a new PC monitor, but something will happen,... :)
Gold bricks!
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Gold bricks!Your throwing that worthless PAPER stuff.
Throw good, solid COINS at it. Preferably the gold-tone dollar coins, or the extra large 50cent pieces!
I guarantee something will happen. Probably you'll need a new PC monitor, but something will happen,... :)
I suspect that will look like it is working without actually working...
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I'm throwing money at the screen but nothing happens.Ooooo, I forgot about the bear shaving. Now I'm rooting for a comic book-style misunderstanding -> understanding -> team-up featuring Captain Yesterday vs writer Gail Simone.The day I see Captain Yesterday do a Bruce Lee style nunchuk kata with a bobcat is the day I surrender to the overwhelming power of Wisconsin.Before the shutdown this spring, when the construction on our new middle school building started at my school, a coworker and I were watching the construction workers maneuver a couple of bobcats through the trees at what was, for them, probably an impressive pace.
Coworker: WOW. That's some skill.
Me: Meh. I've got a friend who can shave an angry bear with one of those.
Coworker: ...
If you're not flicking groats in its general direction, you're bound to lose.
Welcome back to my world.
Too bad DOOM comes for everyone eventually.
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Fantasy Monster: Wightlin Gremlin. Still no bikini.
I tried playing XCOM 2, that lasted about a minute.
Not the type of game for me.
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I tried playing Call of Duty WW 2, that lasted about five minutes.
Super realistic though, I must have died at least 15 times trying unsuccessfully to get across that beach.
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"As you approach the building, you see that it used to be a temple. Now it's likely a lair for runaways, or bandits, or maybe a nest of CR22 creatures. You just don't know!"
"Look Dick, if you really don't want to DM, just say so."
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Speaking of Richard GMing, Shattered Star is really making me happy I canceled my subscription to Paizo APs.
- A group of 8 "terrifying croak" boggards so if any PC misses 2 of 8 saves they're panicked, no protection? Check!
- A group of 8 "stench" troglodytes, or "Make 8 Fortitude saves or you're sickened?" Check!
- A pair of, "When the fight starts everyone make two Fortitude saves and if you miss one you're out of the fight" skavelings? Check!
- A quartet of, "If you hit me with a weapon, even a magic weapon, you lose it" caryatid columns? Check!
Book 3 kicks off with more boggards, then a fight against 3 seugathi, which is THREE DC 20 Will saves a round or you're Confused, plus they can control your confusion as an immediate action, plus saving doesn't make you immune, so it's 3 DC 20 Will saves a round for the entire fight, and with 3 seugathis against 5 people and they can control 3 of those 5, anyone who makes their saves is still going to be suffering a multitude of "attack nearest creature" attacks.
So, I will argue that there isn't a single player in existence who thinks that, "Make a whole bunch of saves at once or you're out of this combat," is a fun way to play any game.
The fact that nearly half the encounters in Book 2 took this approach, plus the first two encounters in Book 3 (first more boggards then the seugathis) indicates that the authors think this somehow makes things "fun".
I just don't see it.
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Oh, look, now DeviantArt jumped on the "pointlessly changing the interface" wagon now :/
And they managed to f-up scaling of the image view...
In the past, you could cycle through three or four steps, now it only cycles through two.
Well NH, in my Jade Regent campaign they are nearly at the end of the labyrinth in book 5. It worked really well in roll20 with the fog of war. After a while, every new corner I revealed was another set of groans :D
I don't recall having any issue running that book, and I checked, and I think we're talking about two different things here. In the entire labyrinth, one creature casts the uber-cheesy Waves of Fatigue, a second *single* creature casts Waves of Exhaustion, but I don't see a single "save or you're out of the combat" ability in the entire labyrinth for a "standard" party that has Magic Circle Against Evil up.
And they managed to f-up scaling of the image view...
In the past, you could cycle through three or four steps, now it only cycles through two.
Havent been on deviant art since they took away the sit back feature.
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I'm still taking notes on this sort of stuff, NH. And if you're up for it I really want to be able to get your POV on my own campaigns once they're written.
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Gil Scott-Heron was right, the revolution will not be televised. It will be streamed online.
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Well NH, in my Jade Regent campaign they are nearly at the end of the labyrinth in book 5. It worked really well in roll20 with the fog of war. After a while, every new corner I revealed was another set of groans :DI don't recall having any issue running that book, and I checked, and I think we're talking about two different things here. In the entire labyrinth, one creature casts the uber-cheesy Waves of Fatigue, a second *single* creature casts Waves of Exhaustion, but I don't see a single "save or you're out of the combat" ability in the entire labyrinth for a "standard" party that has Magic Circle Against Evil up.
It was more to let you know where we are as you ran it before and you liked book 5 a lot.
It was more to let you know where we are as you ran it before and you liked book 5 a lot.Well NH, in my Jade Regent campaign they are nearly at the end of the labyrinth in book 5. It worked really well in roll20 with the fog of war. After a while, every new corner I revealed was another set of groans :DI don't recall having any issue running that book, and I checked, and I think we're talking about two different things here. In the entire labyrinth, one creature casts the uber-cheesy Waves of Fatigue, a second *single* creature casts Waves of Exhaustion, but I don't see a single "save or you're out of the combat" ability in the entire labyrinth for a "standard" party that has Magic Circle Against Evil up.
Yes, yes I did.
Book 6 *can* be really solid, but you have to read it first and tie all the loose plot strings together at the start.
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Our Sunday Pathfinder game was just interrupted by the doorbell.
WW's mom had told us that she might be stopping by this evening to drop off an anniversary card she forgot to put in the mail. When we went to the door, we found not only WW's mom, but our entire church choir and the pastor and his wife, all ranged six feet apart down the sidewalk on both sides of our corner lot. Mom had emailed the choir director the list of hymns from our wedding 21 years ago (she saved the program), and he picked two. Being old-school Methodists, they sang every single verse, in six part harmony. Quite a few of our neighbors came out on their stoops to watch, which was a little awkward. But so lovely.
Best. Anniversary. Ever.
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Of course, now the kids are all riled up and I can't get them back to the table to fight this gosh-darned nosferatu aboleth.
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I'm still taking notes on this sort of stuff, NH. And if you're up for it I really want to be able to get your POV on my own campaigns once they're written.
So...
Shiro has written his own published game system. He assisted authors in publishing other systems. He's been running at cons for nearly 40 years now. And he has very strong opinions on what makes good (or bad) APs.So if you're willing to get Shiro's feedback, fire away! He has more time than I do and he LOVES providing such feedback.
Just PM me and I'll give you my and his email addresses when you're ready.
But really, if you want the "Big Four" that Paizo APs fail at regularly, they are:
(1) Do not take away player in-combat agency.
- I.E., no area effect, "make 3 saves and if you fail any you don't get to act for n rounds" crap. Paizo APs are full of such things (yeth hounds in RotRL; at least half a dozen in the Lady's Light alone in Shattered Star, etc.).
- Nobody likes to be told, "Well, you made two of the saves, but you failed the other one so why don't you go make us some sandwiches while we finish the fight?"
- Don't mistake this for, "The monster can fly so the fighter is out of it," or, "The monster has SR so the caster is out of it," because both of those are easy to overcome with preparation. The, "You cannot prevent this and if you fail one of multiple saves you're out," is really sucky.
(2) Do not take away player out-of-combat agency.
- My absolute favorite was Jade Regent's, "You can take one of three paths," then punishing the players for choosing any except the "right" one.
- Honorable mention goes to Carrion Crown's "Teleport trap that puts you in an iron cage with a banshee just outside of the cage so if you try to teleport half the party dies with no warning".
(3) The same rules apply to both the players and the monsters.
- Somehow in virtually every AP the monsters hear the PCs fighting or talking or approaching, then cast 6 rounds of buffs, but the PCs aren't allowed to hear the monsters casting because...?
(4) Good-aligned players shouldn't be punished.
- Surprisingly, the horror-themed APs (Carrion Crown and Strange Aeons) are the worst at this, when one of the standard tropes of the horror genre, especially the Chthulu mythos, is that if you succumb to evil to try to overcome evil, you will lose.
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I will work my hardest to keep those in mind. And when I inevitably screw up, I will do my best to correct it before declaring the job finished.
Much appreciated =)