The Hive is ALIVE! It's not dead yet!

[Dog Moon]

Which reminds me that I should finish reading the 4e books. The necessary bits, that is.

I JUST received them. What I find REALLY odd however is that my books in the case arrived wrapped in plastic came separate from the cardboard box they should have arrived in. Corners are a little smudged on the case, but hell, I've done worse with things just by accidentally dropping them on the floor, so it's no real big deal.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I JUST received them. What I find REALLY odd however is that my books in the case arrived wrapped in plastic came separate from the cardboard box they should have arrived in. Corners are a little smudged on the case, but hell, I've done worse with things just by accidentally dropping them on the floor, so it's no real big deal.

I take it that WoTC decided to print more copies of the box itself and sent them to Amazon (or wherever you bought it from) so that they could "ship" you a complete set.

 

[Dog Moon]

No, I don't mean the books came separate from the sleeve of the gift set, I mean the actual cardboard box that Amazon sends EVERYTHING in. I go down to the mail room and there's two things waiting for me: an empty cardboard box and then my books in the sleeve wrapped in plastic. There was a note on the cardboard box saying 'Empty box' or something to that effect.

Not that my books and the sleeve were shipped separately.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Which reminds me that I should finish reading the 4e books. The necessary bits, that is.

Don't remind me, now that I finally have free (for a month) time I should start working on fixing my portfolio but I think I'll most likely start writing notes down so I can begin a pbp game.

I ended up putting aside my idea for a low powered M&M game, but the problem is that my current one, a 'western', begs to be ran in either True20 or 4e. Sadly, if I ran it in True20 it might not even find many potential players as I would it as 4e. At the same time, I realize some people would be put off if mention from the get go that it's a 'western', however, with PoL it would be easy to mask since that whole setting screams "western/spaghetti western inspired" once you divorce it from its medieval trappings.

 

[Aeson]

No, I don't mean the books came separate from the sleeve of the gift set, I mean the actual cardboard box that Amazon sends EVERYTHING in. I go down to the mail room and there's two things waiting for me: an empty cardboard box and then my books in the sleeve wrapped in plastic. There was a note on the cardboard box saying 'Empty box' or something to that effect.

Not that my books and the sleeve were shipped separately.

They sent you a box to return the books in.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Ah, I saw a thread about that.

With the current state of things (faulty binding) I'd say its a prudent move.

 

[Dog Moon]

They sent you a box to return the books in.

Haha. I like my books. They're neat.

 

[Aeson]

I miss the spells. From what I'm seeing, finding a musty old spellbook is useless now. Maybe I haven't read enough.

 

[Aeson]

With the current state of things (faulty binding) I'd say its a prudent move.

Something else for me to dislike about them? Hoorah.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I miss the spells. From what I'm seeing, finding a musty old spellbook is useless now. Maybe I haven't read enough.

I think wizards are the funniest and lamest class now.

As you advance in level and only get to learn/cast a few spells (like a gimped 3.x sorcerer). Each of those spells you learn are instantly written into your spell book along with every ritual you gain at certain levels ( you have to manually write all other rituals into the book). THEN after a while, you can get rid of an old spell in exchange for a new. When that happens, the old spell instantaneously vanishes from your book and is replaced by the new one you chose.


LAME! EPIC FAIL!