No face to face gaming, due to people ‘having a life’. Pff. Whatever. Here’s what’s up with CoX stuff:
Author: doycet
“Okay, it’s time for the Controller Wave to — OMGAHHHHHHHHH.”
So a few weeks ago, someone on Virtue griefed a Hamidon raid by activating the mission that queues up the
Test Server Hijinx
Logged into the Test Server last night for the little event thing they had going on — half to get
Rudalak the Spooky TF
What? Legend of Rudalak Task Force (SS TF2) Where? Shadow Shaaaard When? Weekend surrounding June 10th Why? Well, we wants
Just screwing around…
… with, not coincidentally, nothing but melee characters. Got Kethos to 24. Got Touch of Fear. Holy Emmert, that’s an
Matt Miller Speaks
Interview with Positron, the new creative head for CoX. Very very interesting stuff there.
Goals in a Conflict
The thing with the Heroquest system is the Conflict Resolution vs. Task Resolution; it’s all about the former and unremarkable
More stuff for Jagged Mind to do while everyone else is fighting
CoH – All In-Game Emotes
CoH: week in review
Some interesting play-time in the last week or so. Let’s review:
Trials and Task Forces
I turned my Task Force List into an editable wiki page, so that folks can (if they choose) correct anything
Gankin’ gankin’ gankin’…
PVP is Serious Business. Right. Don’t gank 11 year olds, apparently. Sheesh. Also, since folks have asked, the origin(s) of
Portal Smasher TF
… which sounds so much better than “that really long, level-limited, shadow shard TF.” Okay, come hell or high water,
Now Testing in the Training Room – 5/08/06
Among other things: * Glue Arrow now has a -Fly component. For real this time. * Fixed an issue where
Respecalicious
Respecs either happening or on my mind of late, so that’s how I’m going to approach this CoH character recap.
Weekend in Review
Was a bit caught home this weekend, and with John messing with the Boomtown Saints stuff, I spent a lot
Excellent question
I did a book report back in high school on the Icewind Dale trilogy. Yeah yeah, Drizz’t — sue me.
CoH History Lesson
City Of Heroes – Issue Discussion: A really, really great summary of each of the “Issue” updates that have occured
Geekcast
Geek Podcasts Durham 3: rocks. The Sons Of Kryos: Gaming bits. I started with the 11th -cast, which was fun
Another DitV post that makes me want to run (or play) the Game
[DitV] Temperance and Accountability
HQ Rules analysis
Really great Heroquest Probabilities Question that then wanders off into the question of ‘is it better to spend 10 Hero
The Family Dynamic
I keep thinking about doing a “super-family” Supergroup for CoH, along the lines of The First Family from Astro City…
Detoggle this.
HUGE drop in the percentage chance that powers have to shut off toggles in PvP with I-7. Huge.
i7 release notes.
Notes on I7 (currently on test). Grabbed from here. Notes below:
CoH summary
Due to messing around with retro costumes during my free time last week (ha!), I actually had pretty much everyone
Introducing Keeley …
… with this little gem: Table 4-78: 11th-Level Office Encounters. 23-28: 1d8+2 dire secretaries 29-45: 1d2 marketers (demon)
Reading the Encyclopedia
You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to make up a really rough sketch background against which to
Fodder
Because this should just be relinked to, periodically: Random Plot Generator. Groovy.
“I prefer the term “gentleman adventurer.”
So I’ve been messing around with some Silver Age and Golden Age stylings… Hype was… well, ugly, but yeah, he
Dress your Age
For those of you who are logging into CoH for the Golden/Silver Age party on Friday, allow me to provide
“Your romantic relationships all tend to end in a plummet.”
Via Dave: How to Tell if You’re a Superhero. Darn funny.