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Gov. Nikki Haley on Friday vetoed 81 line items in the General Assembly fiscal year 2012-2013 budget, including all the funding for two state agencies. Haley also struck a $10 million appropriation to increase the Closing Fund, which pays for infrastructure to attract new industry and encourage job creation in the state.
Gov. Nikki Haley on Friday vetoed 81 line items in the General Assembly fiscal year 2012-2013 budget, including all the funding for two state agencies. (Photo/James T. Hammond) |
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Published July 9, 2012
Gov. Nikki Haley on Friday vetoed 81 line items in the General Assembly fiscal year 2012-2013 budget, including all the funding for two state agencies: the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Sea Grant Consortium.
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The complete list of Haley's vetoes can be found on the S.C. governor's website under the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 General Appropriations Act and the Capital Reserve Fund.
Meanwhile, the S.C. Arts Commission will be closed pending Legislative action, according to the organization's website. The Sea Grant Consortium office will also be closed until the vetoes are resolved. The consortium is a university-based state agency that seeks to enhance the practical use and conservation of South Carolina's coastal and marine resources.
In order to overturn Haley's vetoes, the House and the Senate must each vote by a two-thirds majority to keep the General Assembly's version of the vetoed line item.
House Speaker Bobby Harrell responded late Friday with a sense of urgency, saying the House would reconvene at 1 p.m. July 17 to consider whether to override the governor's actions.
Rep. Joan Brady, a Richland County Republican, may have foreshadowed the attitude of returning lawmakers on Sunday when she tweeted: "We're going back to the Statehouse on July 17th to take up the governor's vetoes. Getting ready, by exercising my 'override' finger!"
Haley's vetoesAmong her vetoes, Gov. Nikki Haley struck:
Harrell said in a statement issued by his office that while it was the General Assembly's original intent to come back in September to address budget vetoes, "the ambiguity created by some of the governor's vetoes, like whether teacher salaries will be funded and whether or not some agencies will still have the authority to continue operating, needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.
"School starts back in a couple of months, and the governor does not want teachers to get the pay raises that they are supposed to get," Harrell said. "The decision on whether to let the governor stop their pay raises needs to be made before the school year starts. Teachers need to be able to plan for their families."
Harrell took the opportunity to criticize Haley for an ongoing dispute over her stance on Georgia's plans to expand port operations in the Savannah River.
"The shining economic development accomplishments of this balanced budget are the 40% cut to small-business income taxes and the harbor deepening fund," Harrell said. "With the governor's DHEC board giving Georgia its approval to dump toxic dredging sludge on the proposed Jasper port site for the next 50 years, our state needed these measures to make our port and our state's small businesses as competitive as possible.
"The way we addressed funding core government services, tax relief for small businesses, fully funded a harbor deepening project that will keep South Carolina's port competitive, included pay raises for teachers, law enforcement officers and other state employees, this is a balanced budget plan that taxpayers can proudly stand behind," Harrell said.
Haley defended her vetoes as eliminating "numerous earmarks and pork projects" that were scattered across the budget; as programs that don't work, citing a Writing Improvement Program, the S.C. Geographic Alliance and School Improvement Council; programs that show "excessive growth," citing the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Math; and "irresponsible practices," citing $10.1 million in non-recurring money the lawmakers intended for teacher salary supplements.
In her Friday afternoon news conference on the vetoes, Haley proposed that the governor be allowed even greater powers to shape the General Assembly's budget through a so-called "blue-line" veto. Currently, the governor can only accept or strike line items as they are written in the budget. The blue-line measure would allow her to keep a line item, but reduce the amount of money in the line item.
Haley argued that the provision would not amount to the General Assembly ceding powers to the executive branch, because the legislative branch would retain the power to override the vetoes.


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The Florida area code for Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, and nearby areas. Coincidently it also represents the last three seconds of a space launch countdown. Making it very easy to remember. I live in the 321 area code.
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countdown county
The area code for most of Brevard county, Florida: includes the Kennedy Space Center unites the G's of Cocoa and Palm Bay and the Surfers of Beachside and the gayass emo bitches of Cuntree. bitch, tha 321 got that funky krip nugs.
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When you disagree with someone or something, usually used on the internet. This derived from chat rooms when people would typically ask you type in 123 if you agree with someone. For example "Press 123 if you like _______." People who would disagree would type the number backwards. It is not necessary to say you disagree, as it's a subtle enough sign of saying that you don't. Jessica: "Press 123 if you're looking forward to the concert!"
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USAgain, whose corporate office is in West Chicago, Illinois, is a green, for-profit textile recycling company that employs 220 full-time workers.
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Are you sure you aren't independent? :P
Vote: Poyo
For having a cute sounding username. :3
I put Reshiram as my active Pokemon and Tepig on the bench, then play with the old rules that allow Rare Candy on T1, evolve Tepig into Emboar, allowing me to put all the 7 Fire Energies on Reshiram, then using Blue Flare to deal way too much damage on your only Pokemon in play, winning on the first turn.
Vote: AlphaMouse
...what do you mean this isn't Pokemon TCG?
*ahem* Allow me to explain.
*stands up*
Poyo requests an unvote because she wants to fight those who harm she and Human. The only way that she could possibly know that Human is on her side is if she is:
A. A mafioso
B. A mason
Yeah, but he's also a rookie. I wager that he might have said that due to inexperience. But then, I dunno.
What are you afraid of? And what are you made of?
Flesh and bone
And I'm running out of time,
Flesh and bone
Or it could be because the odds are that Human is town, so she assumed...? I don't think it's all that scummy.
Or maybe Poyo said that just to try and get unvoted?
It was merely a Day 1 back and forth between players like some others were doing. :3
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Profile America — Thursday, May 17th. On this date in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its most historic decisions, changing the social landscape of the nation forever. The justices ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public schools based solely on race was unconstitutional. The ruling effectively did away with the "separate but equal" concept. The case was argued by Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first African-American Supreme Court justice. In the early 1950s, 15 percent of adult blacks were high school graduates. That figure is now 81 percent. Then, only 2 percent had college diplomas; now the rate has risen to 18 percent. Profile America is beginning its 16thyear as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
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I have extracted the vertices of a mesh and have used "interconnect points" to add springs between all of them. The rest length is equal to the length of the springs. With this setting I expected the mesh to stay as it is when running Kangaroo but the mesh just blows away. Am I doing something wrong?
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Victorian all-rounder Andrew McDonald says he's ready if given the chance to again play for Australia
- November 02, 2012
Australia A captain Andrew McDonald believes he's better player than when he made his Test debut almost three years ago and could still play an important role for the national side, if given the chance.
McDonald was a key figure in Australia's dramatic victory over the Proteas at the SCG in his Test debut in the 2009 New Year's Test, and then in the 2-1 away series victory over South Africa that followed.
The 31-year-old has emerged victorious in three of his four Test against the now-world No.1 Test team, but hasn't played for Australia since they were thrashed in the third Test in the Republic in 2009 by an innings and 20 runs.
McDonald's selection as Australia A skipper shows he remains a respected figure in Australian cricket and he hopes he can be involved again this summer and beyond.
"I think I'm a better player than the last time I stepped out in Australian colours," McDonald said ahead of the Australia A v South Africa tour match at the SCG beginning on Friday.
"Hopefully I can put that on show this week and I think all the boys will be trying to do well, personally and from a team aspect."
McDonald, who averages 21 with the bat and 33 with the ball at Test level, said his batting had improved markedly since his last taste of Test cricket.
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And his first class bowling average of 29 and batting average of 40 suggest he remains one of the most consistent all-rounders in Australia.
Incumbent Test all-rounder Shane Watson has called upon the next international allrounder to stand up for Australia and in an Australia A team loaded with ability with bat and ball, including John Hastings, Glenn Maxwell, Moises Henriques and Steve Smith.
McDonald insisted he would be ready if the call from the Test selectors came.
"I'm holding down a middle order position for my state and doing quite well there so I would like to think I could make that next step," McDonald said.
"It's obviously always an unknown step from first class level into the international scene and I feel I'm more prepared than I ever have been before.
"I played those four Tests against South Africa and if I get the opportunity again I feel I would be able to take up a role."
The medium pace seamer and dependable middle order batsman said he had learned from his sacking from the Australian team and was mentally stronger because of it.
"It is a step in the right direction to be made captain of Australia A," he said.
"Anytime when you do get dropped and you lose your contract you can think it could be the end. But that's the thing about sport, the next opportunity is around the corner.
"And it's up to each player in this (Australia A) team to take that step up to the next level."
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JK of Sydney says November 02, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Good luck to him. He is twice the player of a few others who have pulled on the baggy green lately.
Frank The Tank of McDonalds says November 02, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I almost spilt my coffee. Never a worse player to put on the Baggy Green. He looked like a club player who was lost.
Comeon of Philippines says November 02, 2012 at 9:37 AM
No he is not ready, never was and never will be. Secondly he looks like a homeless drunk who found a hat. Imposter of a cricketer.
oldy of goldy says November 02, 2012 at 9:38 AM
this would be a massive step backwards for the test side, equal to cameron white in the t20 or 1 day side wtf!!!!
David Boon says November 02, 2012 at 9:51 AM
He is one of the most consitent & better players with the bat in Australia in recent seasons and could hold down a position in the middle order on that alone. Don't know if we will see him again but he has more to offer then alot of these young starlets who are constently having their names thrown forward. I'd take substance over style any day. I'd like to see McDonald, Cosgrove, Quiney & Rodgers with their names infront of selectors as oppossed to Hughes, Kahwaja & Ferguson etc at this stage.
Mouse says November 02, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Always liked Ronnie Mac - the last Test innings he played in SA was very classy, and he's a very useful bowler and slips fielder too. If Watson manages to get injured for the 457623rd time, this bloke wouldn't let the side down.
Gnocki of Melbourne says November 02, 2012 at 10:03 AM
just to name a few; S Marsh, P George, S Smith, G Manou, B McGain, C White, B Casson, D Cullen and my all time favourite Scotty Muller
Lewis of Macksville says November 02, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Give me a break, the worse player we could pick, he is not good enough for his batting or bowling at the top level. But knowing Inevarity's obsession to pick older players(i.e Hogg) I wouldn't be surprised if he got picked, at 70 years old all players in their 30s must seem young to him. How Cowan is still in the team after 5 failures in shield is beyond me, he should have been chosen in the Aus A side to justify his position.
ben of in the stands. says November 02, 2012 at 10:37 AM
I want to make mention he cant get into the VIC Shield team, how his he going to crack the Australian Team ??
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I'd love to see him and George Bailey in the side, if only because they both seem like really nice blokes! I mean Hussey's got to go before too long, which leaves a spot in the middle order. And if Shane Watson doesn't work out in the middle that opens up another slot.
Stephen of Lockleys says November 02, 2012 at 10:46 AM
I think he has improved - particularly his batting. We could do worse.
Old Skool says November 02, 2012 at 11:11 AM
What happened to Ronnie Mac and Jimmy Hopes? Two rock solid Aussie allrounders that were never given fair chances. They dont have blonde hair and supermodel girlfriends but they can bat, bowl and field well. Above all they are tough nuts with guts and determination. I'd take either of them to be with me in the trenches than some of the fairies getting around these days.
William Bragg of Melbourne says November 02, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Frank The Tank of McDonalds i totally agree with u I was laughing when i hear this article he is a resonable batsmen not a great bowler he did ok during his time with aus but his time is over its time for younger all rounders to take spots in team such as Henriques and Maxwell we dont need that ranga
William Bragg of Melbourne says November 02, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Gnocki of Melbourne Peter George has played 1 test, he is only 26 and he has a first class bowling average of 30, which is quite good, he is a beanpole bowler still developing and he does not get injured as much as pat and starc he will play for aus again, he has 1o years of quality cricket left in him, also s marsh and smith will play for aus again and they are also good players and G Manou was a good backup wk and did his job for Australia when he was required to so maybe think before u name and shame layers who u think are 1 hit wonders
asd of sydney says November 02, 2012 at 11:38 AM
first class ave just under 40, 10 hundreds. Decent player but he would need to string together a few hundreds to be considered. Very much a part time bowler. and samcar yes he does seem like a good bloke
Andrew McDonald of MCG says November 02, 2012 at 11:41 AM
You're only saying this because Im a ranga. If I was blonde I'd be batting number 3 for Australia next week.
Tim of Victoria says November 02, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Mcdonald got a duck today, Hughes got 5 caught you know where, yes these two are really pushing for a spot, give me a break.
cambio of recoleta says November 02, 2012 at 11:59 AM
4500 first class runs with an ave of 40 & 200 wickets ave 28. Yep hes terrible.
Rocket of Brisbane says November 02, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Well, he certainly helped his case this morning! Big fat egg next to his name in the scorebook. Well played sir.
Jon of Melbourne says November 02, 2012 at 12:24 PMDid you want to make a comment? Use our form below
Jeez some of the comments here are ridiculous, comment no.9 - can't make the Vic shield team? What are you on? And the other stupid twits like the commentators at nos 2 & 3?? "Worst cricketer to ever pull on the baggy green" - what a flog you are to say that. Bowled consistently to a team plan that allowed attack from the other end, took vital wickets, and in only his 3rd test a 70 with the bat in a lost cause? "An imposter of a cricketer" - what an absolutely stupid thing to say, players don't make the test team without having some talent and a heap of mental fortitude - pull your head in you flog.
Sir Francis of Sydney says November 02, 2012 at 12:29 PM
The people who are criticizing have obviously never watched him. He's the best allrounder in the country and should never have been dropped. Actually watch the guy play! His only deficiency is that he's a victorian. If he was a Blue I'd call for him to be captain.
cut it out your killing me of Sth Adelaide says November 02, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Stu of Brisbane says November 02, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Pity he just got dismissed for 0 against the Saffas.
Please says November 02, 2012 at 12:52 PM
This is a joke right?
David of Shellharbour says November 02, 2012 at 12:57 PM
He canot crack the Victorian team let alone the Test side c'mon. SamCar of Melbourne since when has the Test side been picked on the basis of being a nice bloke!?
Chris W of enemy territory of Sydney says November 02, 2012 at 12:59 PM
I guess if you add his ordinary bowling skills with his ordinary batting skills you get a Test player? C'mon. Why write this story, he's awful. Possibly as useless as Cameron White and that's saying something. We need to respect the baggy green.
Faz says November 02, 2012 at 1:03 PM
He got out for a duck against SA.
Sachin of Strathfield says November 02, 2012 at 1:53 PM
I would love to see him and Khawaja in the side, top order needs a solid player like Khawaja
Go Vics of the other shade of Blue of Carlton says November 02, 2012 at 2:02 PM
Wow a lot of haters out there.As a Vic supporter I'm biased but he is a solid cricketer without being a star. I reckon he could be a 30/30 bat/ball average player much the same as Watto will be. In terms of Aussie allrounders though there aren't many stars out there. Watson (as much as it hurts to say) is the best of them. I wish we just went for specialists and moved on from the Flintoff experiment and played to our strengths. We have so many good fast bowlers at the moment they should just rotate those boys around. Love to see Cosgrove get a go in the test squad and playing with punter won't hurt his chances any. Go vics
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And then he got a duck this morning. Moral of the story: Ensure batting capability is in gear before engaging mouth.
BoneheadMaz of Sydney says November 02, 2012 at 2:22 PM
I always liked "Ronald". He like Jame Hopes a few years earlier is a clearly good cricketer with everything right except enough ability.... .....saying this from position of having had far less ability and recognising the work those (and many others) did to get as good as they are/were. Good luck to any cricketer trying to get better !
Terry of Sunny Coast says November 02, 2012 at 2:58 PM
Comment no. 9, Ben of the stands. Obviously you sit behind the stands'! Your a joke, when was the last time McDonald missed a shield game? Better to sit behind the stands' and say nothing than making a ridiculous comment like that. Maybe try google at least..
king of the mountain of Toowoomba says November 02, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Whilst you can't knock the bloke for backing himself, he doesn't deserve the criticism he is copping from most of these comments, ease up. it would take an injury to Watson for the selectors to even consider him first, and that's if he is even still in their eyes.
Tim of Victoria says November 02, 2012 at 7:12 PM
Contrary to some of the idiots here he's one of the first picked in the Victorian side. He's missed a couple of games this year cos he was in South Africa for the Champions league and he missed this game cos he's CAPTAINING AUSTRALIA A! McDonald probably won't play for Australia again, he's a bit too old and is surplus to requirements with Watson in the side but that doesn't mean he isn't good enough. His batting has improved out of sight since his last time in the Australian team and he's always been good enough to be the 4th seamer like Watson is.
Jack Robbins of fheirfjo says November 02, 2012 at 7:58 PM
excuse me you bogas, a duck is not getting you into the test side. onkkk
Terry of Sunny Coast says November 06, 2012 at 11:13 AM
There must be two Tims' of Victoria. Tim comment 34 is right, whereas earlier Tim hsn't a clue along with Davo from Shellharbur. How did hughes' get out Dave?? lf your going to make comments' try to make them factual..Their is a saying about being "thought an idiot rather than commenting and confirming it". Keep up the humour boys'..


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Trenton Frazier helped his Tiger team on the mound and at the plate in an 8-1 win over the Phillies Monday in Cartersville Little League postseason action.
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Braves 13, Crackers 7
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I prefer an old school feel to my games and have been known to use the following table to randomly determine the level of NPCs: D100 NPC Level
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Keep in mind that most of the rules content of the White Wolf Everquest book was specifically designated as Open Game Content, so there's no reason why a Pathfinder adaptation couldn't be made. Sony retains all rights to the intellectual property specific to the Everquest setting, but the rest of the material is fair game. Personally, I always liked the way that the EQ RPG handled weapon speed and iterative attacks - it seemed much closer in spirit to second edition AD&D.
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That just means that you'll have to do another session sometime :) It was very interesting listening to the "war stories" from the early days. I'd love to hear the story from Peter Adkison's side as well. Perhaps you could interview him next time? (I've still got a copy of The Primal Order with the "Rantings and Other Gibberish" by Lisa Stevens in the back. Plus our group still used the Whimsy Cards from Lion Rampant until quite recently..lol)
Damn, this is a real pity. I was hoping to see Gardner Fox back in print some day. But at least we got some Manly Wade Wellman and the series exposed Leigh Brackett and C.L. Moore to a wider audience. I guess that it's back to haunting second-hand bookstores for a while :( One question - is there any chance that you would look at negotiating ebook rights for any of the works published under the Planet Stories banner? I notice that Gollancz seems to be having some success with the SF classics that they are releasing in electronic format under the Gateway branding. They had a blog entry a while ago stating that although it wasn't economically viable to republish these works in 'dead tree' format, releasing them in electronic format effectively allows them to stay in print indefinitely.
Doggan wrote: Goons are probably the best example you can make for any game to not have any form of Open PvP. They destroy every game they touch. However, the Goonswarm wiki does have a nice introduction to Eve Online that outlines the things that they do and don't like about the game. This list should give PFO devs insight into the features that attract griefers and those that they don't like.
I think the decision to reveal your plans so early is risky, but it's probably the right way to go about it. Ryan is no fool and I'm sure that he has addressed the issue of risk management in the business plan. He's also a guy who makes bold moves to secure business opportunities and has a decent track record in that area. I think that the decision to remain public about the development process is an interesting one. However, the open development model has served Paizo well in the past and it may do so again. They probably have more experience in open development of game rules than anybody than anybody else in the world - in either the traditional hobby games industry or the computer gaming industry. This may be a competitive advantage that can be leveraged to validate design choices and ensure that the game satisfies even its toughest critics ;)
kyrt-ryder wrote: Sociopathy isn't an alignment thing (though I'll admit evil sociopaths are more common than neutral ones) it's a behavior thing. Is it possible to be a lawful good sociopath? What about a Chaotic Good sociopath? Can there be a true neutral sociopath? Forget the MMO for a second - these are interesting questions from a pen-and-paper perspective.... I've got a suspicion that any alignment can produce dysfunctional individuals. For example, a lawful good character might mete out justice a bit to quickly, without making sure that all of their facts are in order - there's a reason why people say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Similarly, evil characters can be regarded as heroes under the right circumstances. Heck, how many times in human history have people admired ruthless dictators for restoring a sense of pride to a nation or religious minority or ethnic group? I can easily imagine situations where good people support a tyrant because he or she seems better than the alternative.
Perhaps players who hit a certain negative reputation threshold should become lootable upon death? Or perhaps the person who wins the bounty on a wanted murderer gets to choose one of the murderer's items as part of their reward for serving justice. Maybe griefers won't be so keen to cause havoc when their cool toys are at risk.
I personally prefer PVE to PVP, but PVP appeals to many people and the game needs to cater for it. In my own experience, most PVP enthusiasts are decent people who don't want to ruin everybody's fun. Griefers are a small minority of the PVP players out there, but they have the potential to ruin the game experience for the majority of people. It's one thing if you occasionally get defeated by another player who has a clever PVP build. It's another thing entirely to get repeatedly ganked by the same group of griefers over and over using exploits (such as ambushing players as they move from one zone to another while they are stuck behind a loading sreen). The first type of PVP player is an asset to the game; the second is a pain who drives people away from the game. At the moment, the methods proposed for controlling PVP abuse in PFO look very weak. I know that it's early days, but this is a critical issue for the devs to get right. Failure to do so will drive a lot of people away from the game - myself included. Griefers are such a major issue in some MMOs that they effectively sink the game. The game needs to have a clear vision of what is legitimate PVP and what is not from the outset and use every method available to discorage griefing.
The choice of the River Kingdoms as the setting is interesting. It permits the injection sandbox elements that might distinguish the game from the other MMOs out there. I suppose that a lot will depend upon how well the implementation is done - nobody has done a sandbox-style MMO well yet! I wonder if the new game will generate any pen-and-paper tie-in products?
Azten wrote: I had an inquisitor that ran into a summoning circle at the wrong moment, and wound up infused with the essence of a cornugon demon. Just goes to show that breaking up a cabal of evil wizards isn't always a good idea. Oh...an involutary acquisition of the half-fiend template! Nasty... Mind you, I imagine that receiving the half-celestial template comes with some disadvantages too. You acquire a heap of nasty enemies and the higher powers start contacting you regularly to do their dirty work.
I dunno. On the one hand, I figure that the Empyreal Lords might imbue a mortal champion with the half-celestial template as a reward for a great deed performed in their service, but it would need to involve a truly epic achievement - such as slaying a minor demon lord or the destruction of an evil artifact. On the other hand, this is the sort of thing that should be reserved as the Crowning Moment of Awesome for an entire campaign, rather than something that happens during the course of play. The miraculous transformation of the character should be clearly shown to be an extraordinary event - it's not the kind of reward that the higher powers hand out to their mortal servants on a routine basis. Speaking personally, I would expect any character who ascends to half-celestial status to be retired from play shortly afterwards to continue their journey towards full transcendence. However, if you allow want to allow a character in your campaign to become acquire the half-celestial template during play, I strongly recommend picking up the old Anger of Angels sourcebook from Malhavoc Press. This book was written by some random guy named Sean K. Reynolds long before Pathfinder came around. There is a section on Becoming Angelic on pp.48 - 50 that might give you some ideas. This section is open game content and could easily be adapted for the Pathfinder RPG. Some of the organizations and factions in this book might also be a useful addition to any campaign in which the celestial powers are pulling the strings from behind the scebnes. I believe that this book is still available in PDF format - although sadly not here at Paizo.
The Advanced Player's Guide introduced the concept of Alternate Racial Traits. These allow you to exchange one or more standard racial traits in order to customize your character to reflect his or her individual heritage. Is there a way for a GM to use the new system to offer players a couple of alternate racial traits for a campaign-specific custom race? How would people handle this? Is it reasonable to allow players to swap out one racial ability for one with an equivalent RP cost from a list offered by the GM? Is this a good way to model variant subraces within a single species?
I still remember a trap that we used back in an older edition involving a wizard who was selling frozen meat to adventurers heading off into the wilderness. The 'meat' was actually a chunk of frozen troll and as it thawed it began to regenerate. It gave the adventurers a nasty fright when a hungry troll crawled out of their baggage in the middle of the night! Unfortunately, the character on sentry duty was concentrating on what was going on beyond the mouth of the shallow cave where they were camping - he didn't consider the idea that his companions would be eaten by a ravenous escaped troll from the area that they had thoroughly searched only a few hours before. When the characters got back to town, they searched for the wizard who had sold them the frozen rations only to discover that he had vanished. Upon investigation, they discovered that he was actually an assassin hired by a nemesis of one of the adventurers. Although you couldn't get away with this trick in Pathfinder, barrels containing frozen troll parts would be a good way to sneak a nasty assault force into a well-guarded stronghold....
I'm sure that Paizo will eventually release a new edition of the Pathfinder RPG....but this is probably still a few years away. Pathfinder is still early in its edition cycle and has a lot of life left in it yet! However, with that in mind, here's some general speculation. When the Pathfinder core rulebook came out, Paizo worked hard to maintain a degree of backward compatibility with 3.5. However, from the release of the APG onwards they have started to put their own stamp on the game and take it in new directions. For example, witness the way that Prestige Classes have been downplayed in favour of Archetypes. I'm sure that at some point Paizo will want to consolidate some of these innovations into the core rules. I suspect that when Pathfinder 2E comes out, it will involve incremental improvements to the existing game system rather than a radical redesign. In fact, I expect the biggest change in a future Pathfinder revision might involve changes to the way that the rules are presented - I get the feeling that Paizo has learned a lot about how to present the rules clearly and succinctly from their recent work on the Beginner Box Set. The idea hat WoTC will produce a modular "meta-edition" of D&D that is compatible with every previous edition is an intriguing concept. I know that Mike Mearls has mentioned something along these lines a while back. It would would be really clever if such a version included a Pathfinder plug-in that integrated the Pathfinder RPG into the expanded D&D ecosystem on a formal basis. Such a move would benefit both companies, enabling them to strengthen both brands. However, I'm not sure that it is very likely.
I find that the following two quotes from the first edition DMG still inform my attitudes towards fudging. On the one hand, Gygax advises the GM that it is OK to fudge under certain circumstances: Gary Gygax wrote: You do have every right to overrule the dice at any time if there is a particular course of events that you would like to have occur. In making such a decision you should never seriously harm the party or a non-player character with your actions. "ALWAYS GIVE A MONSTER AN EVEN BREAK!" Buit on the other hand, Gygax provides some fairly stern guidance about the wisdom of fudging to save the characters from certain death: Gary Gygax wrote: Now and then a player will die through no fault of his own. He or she will have done everything correctly, taken every reasonable precaution, but still the freakish roll of the dice will kill the character. In the long run you should let such things pass as the players will kill more than one opponent with their own freakish rolls at some later time. Yet you do have the right to arbitrate the situation. You can rule that the player, instead of dying, is knocked unconscious, loses a limb, is blinded in one eye or invoke any reasonably severe penalty that still takes into account what the monster has done. It is very demoralizing to the players to lose a cared-for-player character when they have played well. When they have done something stupid or have not taken precautions, then let the dice fall where they may! Again, if you have available ample means of raising characters from the dead, even death is not too severe; remember, however, the constitution- based limit to resurrections. Yet one die roll that you should NEVER tamper with is the SYSTEM SHOCK ROLL to be raised from the dead. If a character fails that roll, which he or she should make him or herself, he or she is FOREVER DEAD. There MUST be some final death or immortality will take over and again the game will become boring because the player characters will have 9+ lives each! Gygax also makes an interesting comment in his afterword to the module Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth that might be relevant to this discussion: Gary Gygax wrote: Players will not improve if the DM pampers rather than challenges them. If your players perform badly, do not allow their characters to increase in experience level...Allowing foolish and ignorant players to advance their characters to high levels reflects badly upon the game and even more so upon the Dungeon Master who allowed such a travesty to occur. In effect, it is the excellence of the DM which is judged when the caliber of play by any group is discussed. Keep yours high! Based on these quotes, I summarize the intentions of the game's original designer like this:
Call me an old-school GM, but I find this to be a balanced set of guidelines. Feel free to discuss :) EDIT: I would also draw attention to the following quote from Gygax's book Role Playing Mastery: I would also quote from Gygax's book "Role-Playing Mastery": Gary Gygax wrote: There are times when the GM will bend or break the rules of the game system in order to allow his players to maintain their characters. Just as he sometimes metes out punishments for infractions, the GM at other times intervenes benevolently, spreading his aegis over the PCs to save them from probabilities gone awry....If the party is in danger of extermination through no direct fault of its own AND because a string of unlikely occurances have all somehow come to pass, then it is time for the GM to step in and set things back on the right track, or at least keep them from getting any worse.! I find it interesting that Gygax emphasizes again the importance of being even-handed - if you are going to help pou the players every now and then, you shouldn't hesitate to punish them harshly if they do something stupid. He clearly sees the two ideas as being closely related...
Vic Wertz wrote: "How we teach you" and "how it looks" are very much intertwined, and there was much more of a collaboration between graphic design and game design than we've ever had in any other product. This is a good thing and I suspect that this is the way of the future for the whole industry. If we are going to make it easier for newcomers to enter the RPGs hobby, we need to make it simple for them to pick up the concepts behind the rules quickly and painlessly. And strong visual design can play an important role here. I wonder whether the work on this product will influence the graphic design of future Paizo products? Were there any lessons learned during the work on this product that would make Paizo change the way that they would handle a (theoretical) revamp of the core rulebook? Was it possible to explain key elements of the system in a more concise way?
Not only did early editions of the game assume that the distribution of attributes amongst the general population followed a bell curve, they assumed that player characters WERE typical members of the population who achieved greatness through their deeds - rather than starting out with the advantages conferred by atypical attribute scores. There was also an assumption that certain character classes were far more difficult to gain entry to and their incidence amongst the population was much lower. Neither approach is inherently better than the other, but they do reflect very different assumptions about the kinds of fantasy tropes that the game is intended to simulate. Early fantasy RPGs draw much of their inspiration from Sword & Sorcery fiction where the heroes are more human in scale than they tend to be in High Fantasy. Their ambitions often revolve around getting rich or having interesting experiences rather than saving the world. However, later editions of D&D have tended to draw more inspiration from high fantasy novels where the characters tend to start out as "special snowflakes" - the lost heirs of important bloodlines or the inheritors of important artifacts. It's easy to point to the release of the original Dragonlance modules as an important turning point in this trend, but I would argue that TSR was merely responding to broader market conditions when they embraced that style of fantasy - this was the period when authors such as David Eddings and Terry Brooks were at the height of their popularity. By the end of the 2E Era, the RPG industry had embraced the idea that an interesting character concept required an interesting backstory - the idea that your PC might start out as some peasant schmuck was becoming anathema. Things such as character kits (remember those?) encouraged the shift in expectations and fed into the design assumptions for 3E. In addition, the mechanical complexity of character generation for 3e meant that people were investing a lot of time in creating their PCs. If Pustule the Fighter (CHA 5!) wasn't made of sturdier stuff than a typical peasant, he might not even make it to second level - and that would mean that an hour or two had been wasted. So there was another pressure dictating that PCs should be above-average in at least some areas. Ironically, both Pathfinder and D&D have reduced the need for exceptional stats at 1st level by beefing up low-level characters slightly to improve their survivability. To me, one of the most interesting relics of how far the game has drifted from it's sword & sorcery roots is a little-known table from one of the early Greyhawk products that spells out the expected distribution of the various classes amongst adventurers (fighter types 50%; thief types 24%; cleric types 15%; magic-user types 10%; and others 1%). This seems distribution reflects the assumptions of swords and sorcery fiction very well - where protagonists tend to be warriors or rogues and arcane spellcasters are quite rare. It doesn't reflect the assumptions of high fantasy, where the protagonists often possess some kind of arcane magic talent that gives them an edge against the Dark Lord. A world where barbarians and assassins are more common than wizards or clerics speaks to a very different set of assumptions than modern RPGs such as Pathfinder do. These days GURPS and Runequest are better at enforcing the bell-curve than just about any game derived from D&D
James Sutter wrote: We have indeed! Sojan the Swordsman/Under the Warrior Star was our attempt to do some new material. Whether we do so again really hinges on how well things sell. New fiction is a LOT more expensive than reprints... I quite liked Under the Warrior Star. It's not the best work that Joe Lansdale has ever produced - I still think that The Bottoms is his best work - but it was still an enjoyable riff on traditional Sword & Planet themes. Unfortunately there aren't many outlets for original fiction in that style any more - with the obvious exception of Black Gate magazine. Perhaps Paizo could do some web fiction under the Planet Stories imprint someday (although I don't know whether that would be financially viable).
James Sutter wrote: No Planet Stories announcements quite yet... Hopefully we'll hear something soon! It's interesting that Gollancz has recently announced a venture similar to Planet Stories with their SF Gateway initiative, which aims to make out-of-print titles by classic genre authors available as eBooks. Doing a bit of a search on Amazon, it looks like they've managed to secure the ebook rights to about half of Appendix N. As an aside, has Paizo considered commissioning new sword & sorcery novels in the vein of the classics to build the line? I'm not talking about Pathfinder-specific fiction here - I'm talking about entirely new works.
I love me some Guinness, but down here in Australia we've got a good range to choose from. Personally I'm a fan of Cooper's Extra Stout in winter and Cooper's Sparkling Ale in Summer. I'm also fond of the India Pale Ale and Jack of Spades Porter's Stout from James Squire's Brewery.
TojuXinshu wrote: I agree that the beer garden at the Great Northern is nice when the weather is decent and the food is pretty good for pub fare.
Reebo Kesh wrote:
\ No problems...I'm actually busy settling into the new place and a new job, so it'll be a month or two before I'm free.
Hi, everyone. This thread is very interesting to me as I've just moved to Chatswood from the Blue Mountains ;) I don't have a huge amount of free time at the moment, but I'm hoping to get some space for gaming again over the next few months. I've been a gamer since 1980 and my main interests these days are Pathfinder and the various retroclones. I'm interested in running a new campaign in the near future, so if anybody in the local area would be interested, please let me know. I tend to prefer sandbox-style games over tightly plotted ones. In addition, my tastes run towards old-school sword and sorcery rather than high fantasy.
Hama wrote: Hmmm....as much as i hate Bill's work and his destruction of whatever he gets his hands on, i am sad that a man lost a job. Hope that Paizo doesn't take him in though. Bill Slavicsek did some fantastic work for the old d6 Star Wars RPG from West End Games back in the day. He also worked on the Dark Sun campaign setting for TSR and did some good work for WoTC in the early days of 3E - including large chunks of the d20 Modern product line. Although I don't like the direction that D&D has taken with 4E, I respect a lot of Bill's past work and wish him all the best for the future.
TriOmegaZero wrote: And the forums are way too long because of all these thread thingies ;)
Marc Radle wrote:
Oh...I didn't notice that! And I agree that Raging Swan's stuff is excellent. But I'm also a big fan of the production values of LPJ Designs.
Congratulations, Louis. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of this venture! (Personally, I hope that the mystery partner is Raging Swan - it would be awesome to see their cool content pimped out with the kind of graphic design that LPJ does so well...)
Snorter wrote:
My copy of The Primal Order has a special mention of Lisa on the credits page: Quote: In particular a special word of appreciation goes to Lisa Stevens who spent many long hours on the phone, and eventually packed up her life and moved to Seattle to join Wizards of the Coast This was obviously a fateful moment! There is also an official WoTC newsletter on the last page containing "Rantings and other gibberish by Lisa Stevens (Editor-in-chief)" - along with a funny cartoon of her at her desk. How times have changed!
rkraus2 wrote: Some things I'd like to see addressed in a Mythic Adventures book.... I agree with pretty much everything that you have said here - one of the big issues with high-level play is that the maths behind the game system starts to break down around level 18+. At that level, the size of the bonuses that characters have to certain abilities is much larger than the random element introduced by rolling a d20 - effectively reducing the role of chance in the game. High-level combat can be a matter of attrition unless you can target a specific weakness or vulnerability. This slows the action right down at that level, creating combats that hinge on indentifying and exploiting weaknesses in the opponent's defenses. To make matters worse, the saving throw system starts to break down as you approach level 20, increasing the 'swinginess' of combat. Take a look at the gap between a character's best saving throw and their worst saving throw at different levels and you will see that by level 20 the gap between them grows to a size that is difficult to bridge. For example, at 5th level the gap between a fighter's Fort save and Will save is 3 points, at 10th level it is 4 points, at 15th level it is 5 points, and at 20th level it is 6 points. This means that the vulnerability of fighters towards effects that trigger a Will save actually increases as the characters goes up in level - assuming that the difficulty of the Will Save increases at the normal rate! In effect, around 20th level characters become almost invulnerable to certain forms of attack - but remain extremely vulnerable to modes of attack that target their weakest saving throw. I would like to see a Mythic Adventures book that re-normalizes the maths behind the system at level 20+, ensuring that the game remains playable at those levels.
Heh...I'd forgotten about the Mongoose book. There's some decent stuff in there. I thought that you were referring to the Immortals Handbook: Ascension, which was published by the same company who did the "Immortals Handbook: Epic Bestiary Volume 1" (Eternity Publishing). The Green Ronin Advanced Bestiary is a great book, but most of the contents are designed for non-epic play. I still think that the Primal Order books are better than any of the above though. It would be awesome if Paizo could produce a Pathfinder adaptation of these works at some point - I believe that the rights reverted to Peter Adkison when he parted company with WoTC. Unfortunately it's not very likely to happen though :(
Sam McLean wrote: Is the Immortals Handbook worth the investment, if I intend to play some "post-20th" that has only a hint of divinity in it? The Immortals Handbook is decent, provided that you accept the author's slant on divine-level advancement. For my money, the best treatment of divine-level entities is still The Primal Order - a generic book published by WoTC way back before they hit the big time. That book got them into a fair bit of legal trouble and it can be hard to find a copy nowadays, but it's worth hunting it down if you are interested in the subject matter.
Kthulhu wrote: I have a question for those who want an "Mythic Adventures Handbook"...lets say it gets released. It places a hard cap on level advancement at level 36. How long until this same discussion comes up asking for an "Uber-Mythic Adventures Handbook" covering levels 37+? If we're going to have a hard cap, and actually keep it, 20th levels seems to be pretty good, since that's about the level that nascent demon lords hang out out, and full demon lords are listed as being not that much higher. If we assume that the transition from normal adventures to mythic adventures occurs at level 20, then I would suggest that the hard cap on mythic-level play should be set at level 40. Divine level entities could then exist in between levels 40 to 60 - which is close to the power level implied in the 3e "Deities and Demigods" book. This would create three distinct tiers of power - heroic, mythic, and divine - each of which contains 20 levels. Even if you don't ever intend to let characters reach such power levels, having such a conceptual model helps when thinking about the kind of things that players might face in the crowning moment of awesome at the end of a 'heroic' (level 1-20) campaign. Personally, I would emphasize that mythic level play should be qualitatively different from normal heroic adventuring - as characters push past levels 15-17 they start to move beyond the limits of normal human achievement and into the realm of myth. The transition to a mythic style of play shouldn't be based on a sudden leap in power that occurs at level 20, but should be a gradual process that occurs between levels 15 and 25. At this power level, there should be a law of diminishing returns for advancement - characters must push back the frontiers of what is possible for mortals, venturing where only a few of the mightiest heroes and villains of legend have passed before them. I would welcome the introduction of an exponential experience progression beyond level 20 to highlight this fact. Perhaps there is a need to undertake mythic quests to unlock certain advances - a system similar to the Prestige Award system outlined in the Faction Guide might work. This would make continued advancement contingent upon story-related factors rather than the mere accumulation of experience points. In any case, I feel that any set of Mythic Adventures rules published by Paizo should be subject to a full public playtest, as it is one of those areas where game balance will be extremely difficult to maintain. Although it won't be possible to please everybody, I think that one of the problems with the old ELH was that it did not receive sufficient scrutiny from playtesters before publication.
I'm sure that once Pathfinder has been out for a few more years and has more support material available, people will complain about how unbalanced it can be too if a player uses a particular build based on combining material from multiple splatbooks. I think it will take Pathfinder longer to reach that point than it took 3.5 simply because Paizo isn't pumping out as much material, but I'm sure that it will happen within a decade or so - it simply isn't possible to build something as complex as an RPG without introducing some bugs here and there. That's why every GM has the awesome power of Rule 0 at their fingertips ;) Mind you, Paizo's quality control is higher than that of WotC towards the end of the 3.5 era - the fact that Paizo conducts public playtests of major rules elements ensures that they are thoroughly vetted by the community before they go to print. Plus some hard lessons from the d20 boom years have been learned. A lot of the 3PP material coming out for Pathfinder is better than the 'official' material released in the twilight of the 3.5 era
SmiloDan wrote: Things are really swingy. You're either super powerful, or totally gimped. I played an epic warlock, and my epic feat let me teleport at will. It was my main big power. And then we were stuck in a dungeon that was a teleport dead zone, so I was pretty much gimped. Most effects are save or die or save or suck. The dice are far less important at epic-level play. The size of the bonuses that characters possess can be far more important on the outcome of a skill roll or saving throw than the actual result that turns up on a d20. As you reach the epic levels, characters have modifiers so big that they reduce the element of chance in the game dramatically. Epic-level combat is about detecting and exploiting vulnerabilities rather than wading into combat swinging a sword wildly.


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