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I started with the red box. My first conquest was the caves of chaos then I moved to the small town of Threshold in Karemakos.
I first jumped to AD&D 1st edition in 1981? I was going to play a fighter, but rolled up using the 3d6 method a character strong enough to be a ranger who tried to return the fire gems from a keep across the river Styx.
I even got to play a game hosted by the man himself in the 80's at a three week summer program called Gateways. For 15 three hour sessions my 24 companions and I battled a band of the most dangerous orcs I have ever seen in a graveyard using miniatures in he most extensive modeled graveyard in a forest you've ever seen. Hundreds of grave stones and each held a miniature underneath it that would reveal itself as the battle raged over
Them. I remember one fireball disturbed 6 wights and 14 skeletons in a single blast like it was yesterday.
Second edition came with dragonlance and the forgotten realms. Who didn't want to play a Drow back then.
Spell Jammer really grabbed my imagination for a while.
Then my friends kind of outgrew D&D and moved on to Earthdawn, werewolf, Vampire and others I have forgotten. I still read ever Dungeon magazine that came every two months.
Along came 3rd edition. D&D was now what we had been searching to table rule it into. Then 3.5 refined it and fixed the power curve. Full steam ahead and into 4th edition.
4th edition was a turd. Wow, it was like a top ten restaurant just stopped making their house specialties and decided to become a microwaved hot dog stand.
Thank god Paizo stood on the hill with a beacon burning bright. They may have killed Dungeon Magazine, but they had not killed Paizo. They had a desparate plan, we would evolve 3.5 into pathfinder and so it was that Paizo became the guardians of the flame. The keepers of the spirt of those of us who discovered d&d when we opened that red box so many years ago.
I still had a gaming group going a few years ago. I broke my neck and was bedridden with a spinal injury, one of my friends died of cancer, one moved away and others had to chose marriages over a four hour session every other week (b**#*), but the spirit of the game never left me.
I still love reading the material and I can calculate the battles in my head.
But perhaps I have said too much already!
The Goblin
Out in San Diego
Just want to say if your interested there are many extensive play by post (PbP) games on paizo's very own website. I my self and my wife are in three games here which are amazing. (Name dropping commencing) Two of which are run by Downrightamazed the other by Coreue. All three games are awesome.
That is if your looking for games since it seems your group has disbanded for various reasons.
I have never tried that, but I would like to try havoc xiii.
Well said. As the last players from the 2nd edition era fade away, there is new light afloat in a sea of RPG's. The torch burns bright at Paizo. The fans have spoken and their voices are heard here. The spirit carries on with Pathfinder, and the refugee's have joined this safe haven.
Man in hope 2nd edition people aren't fading because I got on board with first! But I hear those of us that are that old just fade away like Jedi. Maybe that is why you didn't say 1st edition.
Heh I guess it was pretty lame to write this on a Sat. The staff members arent even there to see it.
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Yesterday we were busy prepping for our 10th anniversary summer party (which was fantastic), but no matter the hour of the day, some Paizo staff members are awake (and readin' ur posts). Glad that you found Pathfinder, and hope that you can join a play-by-post group and get those dice a-rollin'!
Man in hope 2nd edition people aren't fading because I got on board with first! But I hear those of us that are that old just fade away like Jedi. Maybe that is why you didn't say 1st edition.
We're perfect examples of 2nd editioners who have made their way to Pathfinder with a smile.
Man in hope 2nd edition people aren't fadingI've been gaming for 30 years now. Not only do I play Pathfinder, I also run a weekly 2nd edition game as well...
Yeah you are one of the rare few.
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...but no matter the hour of the day, some Paizo staff members are awake (and readin' ur posts)...Far be it from me to day there is such a thing as too much coffee, but ... ;)
Remember that most of them live in the Seattle area. It's part of our atmosphere here. You can sometimes feel the caffeine in the air on cold mornings.
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So you really are sleepless in Seattle!?
I often am. I don't drink coffee either. I think I just absorb it through my skin. It's like second hand caffiene. There's at least 6 Starbucks in a 1 mile radius of where I work. That's not hyperbole either. There is one at Target, 3 in the mall, 1 a quarter mile away, 1 at Barnes and Noble and one in the theater next to the mall. There may be more I am unaware of. There are still at least 4 other coffee shops in that same 1-mile radius.
Rolls perception 1d20-4=6 "Sooo you are saying you like coffee shops!?"
I don't drink coffee at all. I'm one of the weird Seattlites.
If I had one job choice right now, it would be for paizo, definitely...
Well, we are hiring...
If the movie Gamers seems more like a documentary than a comedy.....
Having played all editions including janky 3.5 & 4th.. Thanks Paizo for saving the franchise of DND.
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If I had one job choice right now, it would be for paizo, definitely...Well, we are hiring...
Why do you never have jobs where a PhD in physics or chemistry is a requirement. What does Paizo have against us folks?
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Why do you never have jobs where a PhD in physics or chemistry is a requirement. What does Paizo have against us folks?If I had one job choice right now, it would be for paizo, definitely...Well, we are hiring...
nerd rage...
nerd rage...Why do you never have jobs where a PhD in physics or chemistry is a requirement. What does Paizo have against us folks?If I had one job choice right now, it would be for paizo, definitely...Well, we are hiring...
You know, I'd be careful. Physics? Chemistry? Sounds someone is highly qualified to apply for the 'Mad Scientist' position that just recently opened up. You don't want to be his first 'assistant' now do you?
Why do you never have jobs where a PhD in physics or chemistry is a requirement. What does Paizo have against us folks?
I'm pretty sure SKR is a chemistry major.
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I started with the red box. My first conquest was the caves of chaos then I moved to the small town of Threshold in Karemakos.
I first jumped to AD&D 1st edition in 1981? I was going to play a fighter, but rolled up using the 3d6 method a character strong enough to be a ranger who tried to return the fire gems from a keep across the river Styx.
I even got to play a game hosted by the man himself in the 80's at a three week summer program called Gateways. For 15 three hour sessions my 24 companions and I battled a band of the most dangerous orcs I have ever seen in a graveyard using miniatures in he most extensive modeled graveyard in a forest you've ever seen. Hundreds of grave stones and each held a miniature underneath it that would reveal itself as the battle raged over
Them. I remember one fireball disturbed 6 wights and 14 skeletons in a single blast like it was yesterday.Second edition came with dragonlance and the forgotten realms. Who didn't want to play a Drow back then.
Spell Jammer really grabbed my imagination for a while.
Then my friends kind of outgrew D&D and moved on to Earthdawn, werewolf, Vampire and others I have forgotten. I still read ever Dungeon magazine that came every two months.
Along came 3rd edition. D&D was now what we had been searching to table rule it into. Then 3.5 refined it and fixed the power curve. Full steam ahead and into 4th edition.
4th edition was a turd. Wow, it was like a top ten restaurant just stopped making their house specialties and decided to become a microwaved hot dog stand.
Thank god Paizo stood on the hill with a beacon burning bright. They may have killed Dungeon Magazine, but they had not killed Paizo. They had a desparate plan, we would evolve 3.5 into pathfinder and so it was that Paizo became the guardians of the flame. The keepers of the spirt of those of us who discovered d&d when we opened that red box so many years ago.
I still had a gaming group going a few years ago. I broke my neck and was bedridden with a spinal...
You think their product is good wait til you experience their customer service...it what really pushes this company over the top. (and Cosmo 'might' have paid me to write that...)
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Actually... having a background in physics or chemistry or any of the hard sciences is a GREAT advantage to a designer or developer here... because the fact is that we're creating worlds here at Paizo, and the more real-world knowledge we get into the company, the better.
That said... the primary skill we look for remains English—be it writing or editing.
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Cool, nice to know Paizo isn't completely populated with hippies... ;)Why do you never have jobs where a PhD in physics or chemistry is a requirement. What does Paizo have against us folks?I'm pretty sure SKR is a chemistry major.
You have never hung out with the folks from the Chemistry block in the university bar. :)
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The Goblin,
Like SuperSlayer and you, I started with 2e and have that "Jedi" thing going on: the sourcebooks and boxed sets in my office are older than the undergrads who walk through it!
I thought tabletop gaming was done with the changes at the other company and the closure of all the company stores in 2003-2004, but Paizo is taking up the torch in a lot of great ways and I'm stoked to see so many new players coming to the table along with so many old-school gamers pushing their chairs back up.
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Actually... having a background in physics or chemistry or any of the hard sciences is a GREAT advantage to a designer or developer here... because the fact is that we're creating worlds here at Paizo, and the more real-world knowledge we get into the company, the better.
That said... the primary skill we look for remains English—be it writing or editing.
Me am speek english gud. U am give job?
Started playing with 2nd edition, so Im still around. Just got my old gaming group together after many years and added a few newbies. I still remember how excited I was when I got that white covered 2nd ed monster manual for christmas. I went digging through my old stuff and even found my old Night Below box set, to this day I remember the whole "weird fishy smell" from those aboleth mind control potions.
Wil Wheaton has warped my brain. Every time I see this thread title in the forums, I parse it as, "Paizo staff members I am in you!"
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Actually... having a background in physics or chemistry or any of the hard sciences is a GREAT advantage to a designer or developer here... because the fact is that we're creating worlds here at Paizo, and the more real-world knowledge we get into the company, the better.
That said... the primary skill we look for remains English—be it writing or editing.
You definitely need a librarian who speaks Finnish and Chelaxian...
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You definitely need a librarian who speaks Finnish and Chelaxian...Actually... having a background in physics or chemistry or any of the hard sciences is a GREAT advantage to a designer or developer here... because the fact is that we're creating worlds here at Paizo, and the more real-world knowledge we get into the company, the better.
That said... the primary skill we look for remains English—be it writing or editing.
Yes but not a smelly dwarf!
I had to reduce my stuff when baby #2 came along. 4th edition went into the trash, it wasn't worth the space. 1st edition through 3.5, the basic sets all got to stay.
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Was thumbing through some old ad&d stuff just this morning. Ahh memories. The old monster manual folder and deities and demigods with the lovecraftian mythos in it. I love me some pathfinder though. 4th just wasn't for me.
GO GOLEM!!!
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No they literally went into the recycle bin, thus ended my frustration with 4th edition. I had ordered it thinking of how much I liked 3.0 and 3.5 thinking hey 4th will be that much better. Well it wasn't and it should never have been called Dungeons and Dragons on the cover. They should have marketed it as some other game.
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No they literally went into the recycle bin
Ouch! I could never do such a thing. A few months back I was getting rid of a load of RPG books (complete run of 1st to 3rd Ed of Shadowrun, complete FASA & LRG Earthdawn books etc) so I could get more shelf space (scarily I have filled it all again).
I didn't want much money for them and so put them on a Bring & Buy at a convention for the minimum amount, those that didn't sell I just gave away as I couldn't stand to just dump them. Hopefully someone somewhere is getting some enjoyment out of them.
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