New Confessions: The Down & Under Adventurer

[Sitara]

So when are you going to provide us with a link to all your deftly humorous AND informative articles?

Its not my job to write articles for the mainstream fans of the most popular pnp rpg on the market. If it was though, I would certainly take it more seriously and write things the audience wants, things which would be informative, and which would ultimately aid in increasing sales of the upcoming new product.

 

[frankthedm]

I real dislike blogs, so i thank Enworld for giving me the relevant data.

Well, the mention of journeybread made me pretty mad, so at least some of us can get upset about that sort of thing!

Oh well, easiest thing in the world to toss out, I'd imagine, but if I wanted to run LotR, I'd be running LotR. Waybread isn't cool. Unless maybe it's made by magic and ludicrously expensive.

Yeah, felt the same way about sunrods. Minimum those should have costed was a scroll of light [25gp]. That's IF you don't add in the multipler for "potion"[twice a scroll] or "Tome and Blood's" One shot use activated cost [4 times scroll cost]. If you let the cost of Create food and water be divied up in ' single person per day loaves' the value would be 25gp at scroll level cost, 50gp at potion level cost and use activated costed at 100gp.

 

[frankthedm]

They bow to the all-power bread and pasta markets and add journey bread to what adventures should be eating while fighting monsters.

No more Akins diet for my fighters, no sir! Mearl wants them to eat grain! What a rip!

If you are fighting monsters, why do you need to carry "bread"?

If i ever get the chance to run him, my dragonborn fighter is going to have a VERY Atkins diet plan.

 

[cincinnati reds]

If you let the cost of Create food and water be divied up in ' single person per day loaves' the value would be 25gp at scroll level cost, 50gp at potion level cost and use activated costed at 100gp.

ZOMG someone needs to tell the bakers and innkeeps they're underpricing their wares.

 

[jaer]

I real dislike blogs, so i thank Enworld for giving me the relevant data.Yeah, felt the same way about sunrods. Minimum those should have costed was a scroll of Daylight [375gp]. That's IF you don't add in the multipler for "potion"[twice a scroll] or "Tome and Blood's" One shot use activated cost [4 times scroll cost]. If you let the cost of Create food and water be divied up in ' single person per day loaves' the value would be 25gp at scroll level cost, 50gp at potion level cost and use activated costed at 100gp.

What did you not like about the sunrod? That it was alchemical, or that it had 30' bright and 30' shadowy illumination, which is slightly better than a Light spell (and the same as a hooded lantern)?

Daylight has double that radius (60' and 60') and would work through a Darkness spell. I wouldn't consider the two to be on equal footing.

At 2gp, sunrods did seem a bit underpriced. But the hooded lantern had a 1-time cost of 7 gold, and 1 pint of oil was only 1 silver after you had the lantern. For 8 gold, you could get 4 sunrods (24 hours of light) or a hooded lantern and 10 flasks of oil (60 hours of light).

One takes up less room, but prodives many fewer hours of light. It wasn't so bad, except for the alchemical element.

 

[Lackhand]

If you are fighting monsters, why do you need to carry "bread"?

If i ever get the chance to run him, my dragonborn fighter is going to have a VERY Atkins diet plan.

Bwah hah hah hah hah.

'Bread'? Vee do not eat... 'bread'.

It's true, raw steaks make way better adventurer rations.

Still, I'm glad to see waybread on the equipment list; my guess is that it's the Silk Rope of rations; the adventurer standard because it's 1/10 the weight for 10x the cost, and +2 to some sort of check (maybe fort checks for forced marches?).

 

[frankthedm]

What did you not like about the sunrod? That it was alchemical, or that it had 30' bright and 30' shadowy illumination, which is slightly better than a Light spell (and the same as a hooded lantern)?

Daylight has double that radius (60' and 60') and would work through a Darkness spell. I wouldn't consider the two to be on equal footing.

At 2gp, sunrods did seem a bit underpriced. But the hooded lantern had a 1-time cost of 7 gold, and 1 pint of oil was only 1 silver after you had the lantern. For 8 gold, you could get 4 sunrods (24 hours of light) or a hooded lantern and 10 flasks of oil (60 hours of light).

Sorry, had a monumental brain fart.

 

[kennew142]

Its not my job to write articles for the mainstream fans of the most popular pnp rpg on the market. If it was though, I would certainly take it more seriously and write things the audience wants, things which would be informative, and which would ultimately aid in increasing sales of the upcoming new product.

I believe that Shelly is writing what her audience wants. She is a pretty successful author, and there are a lot of us who like her articles just the way they are.

 

[Tewligan]

Its not my job to write articles for the mainstream fans of the most popular pnp rpg on the market. If it was though, I would certainly take it more seriously and write things the audience wants, things which would be informative, and which would ultimately aid in increasing sales of the upcoming new product.

The mainstream fans seem to mostly enjoy her column/article, though.

 

[helium3]

Its not my job to write articles for the mainstream fans of the most popular pnp rpg on the market. If it was though, I would certainly take it more seriously and write things the audience wants, things which would be informative, and which would ultimately aid in increasing sales of the upcoming new product.

I'm not going to belabor this point much further (gotta watch the blood pressure and all that) but I want to make sure that my position on this is clear.

I'm not saying that you're not allowed to have your opinion or even that you're not allowed to express it.

What I'm saying is that when I read your posts on the matter, the mental image I constructed in my head was (as is SOP for me when I read posts that have roughly the same content as yours) that of the proprietor of "The Android's Dungeon" in the cartoon "The Simpsons."

On the off chance that you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, here's a quick synopsis:

• The character looks like this. .
• All he pretty much does is come on screen and tell whoever's in earshot that "X is the worst Y EVARH!"
• He also occasionally tries to encase other characters in lucite.
• To my knowledge the cartoon has not once, in the 18,000 years that it has been on the air, protrayed this character in a positive manner.

Why does it matter that I imagine that you're that character when I read your posts on Shelly's newest article? Well, it really doesn't. You probably don't care. And that's fine.

However, that's really not the crux of my point. My actual point is this.

If, as you claim, you can easily produce material of significantly higher quality and relevance than Ms. Mazzanoble I feel I need to ask the following questions:

• Why is your original and secondary post on the matter not chock full of fun to read and wittily rendered relevant criticisms of the material?
• Why are you not already writing columns for WotC? Presumably they would pay you more than they are currently paying Shelly for her talent.
• Why have you not yet provided clear examples of your greater capability and talent with the written word?

Anyhow, that's pretty much the sum of my thoughts on the matter.

Cheers!!