Getting what you want.

[Tacticslion]

I think the ninja-assassin simply got caught up in deletions. I was fairly certain he didn't actually say anything bad about anyone else. I don't even think he quoted anyone else. If so... I certainly apologize.

[Ashiel]

Tacticslion wrote:

I think the ninja-assassin simply got caught up in deletions. I was fairly certain he didn't actually say anything bad about anyone else. I don't even think he quoted anyone else. If so... I certainly apologize.

Well my pro-peace, pro-love posts got swept up too, so don't feel bad. :)

[Tacticslion]

It's okay, just really surprising. Makes his occupation in his bio seem a bit more random without all his edited posts. (Now it's just, "Why is he an 'editor' again...?" instead of any way to form a slow realization.)

But alas - the past is in the paaaaaaaaaaaaast*!

* Warning: phenomenal cosmic music!

[Ashiel]

Tacticslion wrote:

It's okay, just really surprising. Makes his occupation in his bio seem a bit more random without all his edited posts. (Now it's just, "Why is he an 'editor' again...?" instead of any way to form a slow realization.)

But alas - the past is in the paaaaaaaaaaaaast*!

* Warning: phenomenal cosmic music!

I swear I can't wait to get this movie on DVD. I cried like a baby when I saw it. XD

[MattR1986]

Didn't watch it, but all the kids are obsessed with this movie atm. I'll probably have to watch it eventually now with the youngin' but I really don't like the CGI stuff that's done now.

I've heard someone dies or something. Either way no Disney can ever fully traumatize a child like Bambi did.

Oh look the mommy and her fawn they're so nice and cute together an.. *BAM*

wtf!?

[Ashiel]

MattR1986 wrote:

Didn't watch it, but all the kids are obsessed with this movie atm. I'll probably have to watch it eventually now with the youngin' but I really don't like the CGI stuff that's done now.

I do miss the oldschool 'scratchy' Disney animation. My favorite Disney movie is probably Sleeping Beauty as well (even if it bombed at the Box Office, Maleficent forever!). But the animation is really good in Frozen. Really, really good. It's beautiful and feels right for the movie. I feel like a lot of it wouldn't have been as good with the oldschool methods and that's saying something 'cause I'm a big animation fan.

Quote:

I've heard someone dies or something. Either way no Disney can ever fully traumatize a child like Bambi did.

Oh look the mommy and her fawn they're so nice and cute together an.. *BAM*

wtf!?

I won't spoil it for you, but yeah, Bambie. Jeez, Bambie. That movie was traumatizing for me as a child too. :P

[Rynjin]

MattR1986 wrote:

Didn't watch it, but all the kids are obsessed with this movie atm. I'll probably have to watch it eventually now with the youngin' but I really don't like the CGI stuff that's done now.

I've heard someone dies or something. Either way no Disney can ever fully traumatize a child like Bambi did.

Oh look the mommy and her fawn they're so nice and cute together an.. *BAM*

wtf!?

And then you make them watch Beauty and the Beast afterward and point to Gaston and say "That's the man that killed Bambi's mom" and the trauma just comes flowing back (and this is true, BTW).

[Jaelithe]

Rynjin wrote:

MattR1986 wrote:

Didn't watch it, but all the kids are obsessed with this movie atm. I'll probably have to watch it eventually now with the youngin' but I really don't like the CGI stuff that's done now.

I've heard someone dies or something. Either way no Disney can ever fully traumatize a child like Bambi did.

Oh look the mommy and her fawn they're so nice and cute together an.. *BAM*

wtf!?

And then you make them watch Beauty and the Beast afterward and point to Gaston and say "That's the man that killed Bambi's mom" and the trauma just comes flowing back (and this is true, BTW).

Are you saying that it's true there's a rumor of this sort, or that the rumor itself is true?

[Rynjin]

Jaelithe wrote:

Are you saying that it's true there's a rumor of this sort, or that the rumor itself is true?

Last I heard the people who wrote Bambi had confirmed that this is what they were trying to imply when Beauty and the Beast came out (her head is mounted on Gaston's wall). I can't find a good citation though.

[Damian Magecraft]

MattR1986 wrote:

Didn't watch it, but all the kids are obsessed with this movie atm. I'll probably have to watch it eventually now with the youngin' but I really don't like the CGI stuff that's done now.

I've heard someone dies or something. Either way no Disney can ever fully traumatize a child like Bambi did.

Oh look the mommy and her fawn they're so nice and cute together an.. *BAM*

wtf!?

Bambi traumatic? I guess having grown up in a hunting household it really didn't do anything to me.

Now "Old Yeller" that was traumatic.

[Jaelithe]

Rynjin wrote:

Last I heard the people who wrote Bambi had confirmed that this is what they were trying to imply when Beauty and the Beast came out (her head is mounted on Gaston's wall). I can't find a good citation though.

They may have done that just for fun, or they may have intended it to be serious. Not sure.

I think the film version of Bambi takes place in North America, while Beauty and the Beast transpires in France. Bambi (and thus his mom) is a white-tailed deer, if I'm not mistaken. Those are native to the Americas, but not France, as I recall.

I don't remember either well, having seen Beauty and the Beast only once like two decades past, and Bambi in pieces twice that long ago. Did the mounted deer in question have antlers? Bambi's mom didn't.

I just don't remember. I do think, though, that they used stock footage from Bambi in Beauty and the Beast.

[Tacticslion]

The Nemian Lion that Hercules killed and wore as a skin was Scar from the Lion King - hardly "Nemion Lion"-worthy. I suspect, as such, that it's more of a kind of "quasi-continuity" rather than true continuity.

I'll have to look it up later. :D

[Ashiel]

Well Rapunzel and her hubby are in Frozen. Theoretically the ship is the one in the Little Mermaid. And I think there were a few other "in jokes". It's a Disney tradition. One of my favorites is in Aladdin when the Sultan is stacking the toy animals. If you look closely, one of the animals isn't an animal at all.

It's the beast. :)

[PathlessBeth]

In an attempt to un-derail-the thread (incidentally, if you wonder if it is possible for a thread to stay on topic, you are over-entitled and a terrible forum-goer!),
I just found it hilarious comparing this thread with that one.
In that thread, people are insisting that it is the GMs responsibility to modify treasure to fit the party's needs/wants.

In this thread, people are insisting that they can drop whatever treasure they want and how dare you nasty entitled players expect it to be useful to your character?!?

[MattR1986]

You posted the same thing in both threads. Are you trying to play match maker to the threads so that they hook up?

And I hadn't seen that thread yet to set them straight. No, but for serials, how an AP works will often be different than just a regular game. As I've said previously, an AP is like the Pop-Tart of campaigns. It's out of the box ready to be eaten with very little effort. Sure you could put it in the toaster, you could put sugar on it, you could prepare a strawberry puree to go on top, but more often than not people eat it as is, the same as they run an AP as is. For the record I like pop-tarts so I'm not trying to tear down APs even though I've had issue with one or two. I'm hesitant to use the word lazy, because it's probably not fair, so instead I'll say that many DMs are very busy in their personal lives and want to DM, but don't have the time in their schedule to make something from the ground up. Maybe they don't want to and they like to run games more than do the creation process for them.

Again, APs are intended to be fully compatible with Golarion so you don't have to change anything. They use the WBL system in their stat blocks from my experience, so it's expected you can go to your local Costco City-O-Magic and get the stuff you want. Could you run an AP as low magic and take away their WBL city statblocks? Sure. It will make the game a little more difficult but it's manageable.

[Mark Hoover]

Ashiel wrote:

MattR1986 wrote:

Didn't watch it, but all the kids are obsessed with this movie atm. I'll probably have to watch it eventually now with the youngin' but I really don't like the CGI stuff that's done now.

I do miss the oldschool 'scratchy' Disney animation. My favorite Disney movie is probably Sleeping Beauty as well (even if it bombed at the Box Office, Maleficent forever!). But the animation is really good in Frozen. Really, really good. It's beautiful and feels right for the movie. I feel like a lot of it wouldn't have been as good with the oldschool methods and that's saying something 'cause I'm a big animation fan.

Quote:

I've heard someone dies or something. Either way no Disney can ever fully traumatize a child like Bambi did.

Oh look the mommy and her fawn they're so nice and cute together an.. *BAM*

wtf!?

I won't spoil it for you, but yeah, Bambie. Jeez, Bambie. That movie was traumatizing for me as a child too. :P

It was also a good depiction of fighting an elemental. Now if Prince Hans had been in possession of, say, a +1 Flaming longsword, that probably would've been a different fight. It probably wasn't part of his build though.

[RDM42]

137ben wrote:

In an attempt to un-derail-the thread (incidentally, if you wonder if it is possible for a thread to stay on topic, you are over-entitled and a terrible forum-goer!),

I just found it hilarious comparing this thread with that one.
In that thread, people are insisting that it is the GMs responsibility to modify treasure to fit the party's needs/wants.

In this thread, people are insisting that they can drop whatever treasure they want and how dare you nasty entitled players expect it to be useful to your character?!?

Well, that would be an interesting observation if it even minorly matched with reality, unfortunately "you don't always get your exact shopping list" is not actually the same as "you don't get stuff you can use",

[Oceanshieldwolf]

As a character, I often want to get whatever I can. But I don't expect it to be what I want or for that matter, what I need. If I were a mage that found wondrous gauntlets of uber strength/gauntlets of ogre power/AoMF I'd be looking for a way to wear them without them screwing with my casting. I might swap it for something else with someone in my party/anyone who has an item I really want.

As a player, it's pretty much the same.

Another vote here for naked "builds" that are not projected 1-20 and no magic shops. APs and Pathfinder may require the Christmas tree effect, but my games do not. And that's okay.

I prefer a little more immersion, the ubiquity of magic shoppes and teleportation magic item tourism is not conversant with my usual playstyle. Maybe a relaxed murderhobo romp, but not my preferred gritty style.

Please note, I prefer gritty, but I equally enjoyed a PbP with my Human Slayer Darque Naia who the GM nicknamed Buffy in a revamped Drow-infested Sunken Citadel. And Buffy rocked!!! She totally shops for magic items. Sadly that PbP GM disappeared like so many others...