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  1. Obryn

    Getting close to the end... Thank you folks.

    Hah! Well uh ... That would definitely be an approach I could take. :D Thanks! Email sent.
  2. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    It's pretty important context. Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk
  3. Obryn

    Getting close to the end... Thank you folks.

    Oh and my main worry about the finale is map size. Even at 1"=10' (which I used for the voice of rot and other encounters through the campaign) both maps end up like 3-1/2' square if I eliminate extra space. Blowing them up to 600% size is also making it a bit on the ugly side. Are there maybe...
  4. Obryn

    Getting close to the end... Thank you folks.

    Oh yeah I'll give a complete rundown once it's done. Spoilers follow, for those reading along. We stuck very close to as-written, by and large, but didn't do the full climax helix part at the end because I felt it would kill the momentum at least once. So we've wrapped up 12 completely and...
  5. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    I don't think that's a response to the actual post I made, and I'm wondering if you're confusing me with someone else? What people do at their home games as consenting individuals - which includes dealing with 'edgy' and/or grimdark and/or simply mature material - is their own business. That's...
  6. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Honestly, I'm not buying this excuse. It's too on-point, and doesn't make much sense in any other context. (1) The accusation of 'virtue signaling' is basically saying the other person isn't sincere in their beliefs and is just pretending to give a rat's ass about topics that they claim are...
  7. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Yeah. It can both be true that... (1) Assault and harassment are not the same thing and shouldn't be treated as such, and (2) Both assault and harassment are serious issues that convention staff must take seriously. There's this weird thing going on in this thread and the one about Mentzer...
  8. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Remember, a lot of these folks are sticking with unrealistic legalistic standards that simply don't apply in actual human day to day life. And only applying them on one side, too. It's cool, you see, to believe the harasser should be considered innocent of harassment until the accuser reaches...
  9. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    No. Sent from my Moto G (5) Plus using Tapatalk
  10. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    It's a few things - the tardiness of any official response, and a lack of any announced action for future conventions. Probably in a vacuum, this would suffice. But there's the other NDA allegation, Price's allegation that she was asked to keep quiet on harassment while employed there, plus the...
  11. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    There's another thread for it, from a few days ago. And the Empyrea kickstarter was already crashing and burning. You could see it on Day 1 if you know kickstarters. It had an extremely ambiguous pitch beyond "look at these names of people I know," an unrealistic goal (250k for a generic...
  12. Obryn

    Getting close to the end... Thank you folks.

    Ha! Next I think we're going to do something simple and low-key and not exactly D&D, because epic-tier gaming is hard, we all deserve a break... and I want to avoid any inevitable comparisons wherein my world-building comes up short. :D Probably Feng Shui 2 for a campaign instead of a...
  13. Obryn

    Getting close to the end... Thank you folks.

    We are on the final legs of Zeitgeist (4e) and man oh man, am I going to miss this adventure path. You folks did such an amazing job, top to bottom, that it will be really hard to top this whole experience. It is far beyond anything that I could have put together on my own, but believe me, I...
  14. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Holy crap, dude. "Don't harass women. Harassment is a serious issue, and here are some examples where people in the industry did it" is not political content. That's absurd. Unless demeaning women is key to your political ideology? I can't imagine that's the case - it's not a core tenet of any...
  15. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Well, it's helpful to consumers, con-goers, and convention organizers, at a minimum. Robert didn't name any victims - I had no idea until she came forward. But it's a pretty serious incident, so yeah, I think on the balance it is something that needed to get out there. And I don't think we'd...
  16. Obryn

    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Evidently, what was behind that allegation is that it actually happened. And yeah, with Weinstein in the news right now - and O'Reilly, Ailes, etc. not too long ago before him - the time is right to bring incidents of harassment and assault into the light.
  17. Obryn

    D&D 5E (2014) Are You Planning on Subscribing to D&D Beyond

    I've kept my own DDI sub active - mostly for the Compendium - but I have no illusions about it being up forever. One big server outage, and they might decide it's not worth fixing. I also still have the downloadable Builder along with all of the installation files; it has been fan-modded to...
  18. Obryn

    D&D 5E (2014) What Races (classes) do you allow or disallow in your campaign?

    Nah - but it's good to go into it with open eyes. For example, I love Call of Cthulhu and Lovecraftian roleplaying in general. But both the man himself and many of his stories (which I also love, for the record) are intensely racist/xenophobic/classist - sometimes in text, but almost always in...
  19. Obryn

    D&D 5E (2014) Resting and the frikkin' Elephant in the Room

    Okay so I read this, and it reads like you're conceding the point. The core argument (as I understood it) is that 5e is bad at certain types of adventuring styles because of its encounters/day and short/long rest structure. Two of those styles are hexcrawls (that is, travel through the...
  20. Obryn

    D&D 5E (2014) Survivor Iconic Greyhawk Characters: MORDENKAINEN WINS!

    Arnd 13 Bigby 30 Bucknard 21 Gord 26 Heward 23 Keoghtom 21 Leomund 24 Melf 31 Mordenkainen 29 Murlynd 0 Nolzur 18 Nystul 21 Otiluke 22 Quaal 6 Rary 15 Riggby 10 Robilar 18 Serten 21 Tasha 26 Tenser 20
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