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Respecalicious

2006-05-08 doycet MMO & Computers

Respecs either happening or on my mind of late, so that’s how I’m going to approach this CoH character recap.

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Weekend in Review

2006-05-08 doycet MMO & Computers

Was a bit caught home this weekend, and with John messing with the Boomtown Saints stuff, I spent a lot

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Excellent question

2006-05-05 doycet Links & Resources One comment

I did a book report back in high school on the Icewind Dale trilogy. Yeah yeah, Drizz’t — sue me.

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CoH History Lesson

2006-05-05 doycet MMO & Computers 4 comments

City Of Heroes – Issue Discussion: A really, really great summary of each of the “Issue” updates that have occured

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Geekcast

2006-05-04 doycet Links & Resources

Geek Podcasts Durham 3: rocks. The Sons Of Kryos: Gaming bits. I started with the 11th -cast, which was fun

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Another DitV post that makes me want to run (or play) the Game

2006-05-04 doycet Links & Resources

[DitV] Temperance and Accountability

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HQ Rules analysis

2006-05-04 doycet Links & Resources

Really great Heroquest Probabilities Question that then wanders off into the question of ‘is it better to spend 10 Hero

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The Family Dynamic

2006-05-03 doycet MMO & Computers 20 comments

I keep thinking about doing a “super-family” Supergroup for CoH, along the lines of The First Family from Astro City…

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Detoggle this.

2006-05-02 doycet MMO & Computers

HUGE drop in the percentage chance that powers have to shut off toggles in PvP with I-7. Huge.

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i7 release notes.

2006-05-02 doycet MMO & Computers 4 comments

Notes on I7 (currently on test). Grabbed from here. Notes below:

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CoH summary

2006-05-01 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

Due to messing around with retro costumes during my free time last week (ha!), I actually had pretty much everyone

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Introducing Keeley …

2006-04-28 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

… with this little gem: Table 4-78: 11th-Level Office Encounters. 23-28: 1d8+2 dire secretaries 29-45: 1d2 marketers (demon)

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Reading the Encyclopedia

2006-04-28 doycet Musing

You know what I’d like to do? I’d like to make up a really rough sketch background against which to

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Fodder

2006-04-28 doycet Links & Resources

Because this should just be relinked to, periodically: Random Plot Generator. Groovy.

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“I prefer the term “gentleman adventurer.”

2006-04-28 doycet MMO & Computers 5 comments

So I’ve been messing around with some Silver Age and Golden Age stylings… Hype was… well, ugly, but yeah, he

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Dress your Age

2006-04-27 doycet MMO & Computers 6 comments

For those of you who are logging into CoH for the Golden/Silver Age party on Friday, allow me to provide

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“Your romantic relationships all tend to end in a plummet.”

2006-04-27 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Via Dave: How to Tell if You’re a Superhero. Darn funny.

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PvP Coh Random thoughts

2006-04-26 doycet MMO & Computers 12 comments

“If you bow at all, bow low.” — Chinese Proverb As noted here, in the comments, I messed around with

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Task Force: Munchie

2006-04-23 doycet MMO & Computers 8 comments

There’s been talk and planning for doing the Synapse Task Force this Munchie Monday the 24th. I’d very much like

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Double-plus geek

2006-04-14 doycet Scheduling

If you’re interested in staying up to date on the Game Calendar for Casa/Consortium events, and you use some kind

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“Doug am troll…”

2006-04-12 doycet MMO & Computers

The collected CoH Livejournal Community entries for Doug the Troll. Some of this stuff is laugh-out-loud funny. Start from the

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Random quote from the Internetwebbosphere

2006-04-12 doycet MMO & Computers

I love that you take this throwaway idea you have — “oh, I want to try out a Dark Brute”

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Week in review

2006-04-11 doycet MMO & Computers 5 comments

Let’s see: since last CoH post, I’ve made up a LOT of new guys — sort of playing around to

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Too damn funny

2006-04-10 doycet Links & Resources 5 comments

Via Dave: Southpark Amber trumps. It’s kinda true, as a few people have said, that there’s nothing new under the

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In regular gaming news…

2006-04-07 doycet Actual Play

Firefly game tonight, session two. Session One is here, basically.

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Week in review.

2006-04-07 doycet MMO & Computers

Let’s see: since last CoH post… … Markov (level 21ish) ran into Catelyn (spelling? I think that’s right), the younger

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Week or so in review

2006-03-28 doycet Actual Play 2 comments

Last Wednesday, had a great, unexpectedly great, time on Victory server. Good stuff. Friday: Firefly game, using Heroquest rules. Set

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Week in review

2006-03-20 doycet MMO & Computers 4 comments

Right. Gaming. Haven’t had any of that. Lesse… Umm… Other No FtF gaming, but Firefly (using Heroquest) is this Friday

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Sweet; a place to practice

2006-03-17 doycet Links & Resources

Java-based Settlers of Catan

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Week in Review

2006-02-27 doycet Musing 5 comments

CoH: Messed around with a couple lower-level characters — notably Bear Claws (who I think still has (annoyingly) the hero-side

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Doyce Testerman

Mostly actual play from online tabletop games, played on Roll20. Also random other stuff.

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Session 09 of our co-op playthrough of Ironsworn: Starforged.

We pause long enough to trade supplies with an old and deeply unsettling acquaintance: Anora Talin, a razor-sharp trader with too much insight and no hesitation about using it. What starts as a resupply stop turns into one of the biggest lore sessions of the campaign so far.

In this episode:

- the precursor map/tablet reveals more strange behavior
- Cole’s importance becomes clearer
- secrets about the Balefire and Cobalt Reach emerge
- a new faction concept appears: The Tethered
- Tinker risks deeper contact with the symbiote
- navigation experiments go very, very wrong
- we end with one of our favorite cliffhangers yet

Thanks for watching/listening along with our little corner of space.

2026 04 14
Sometimes, the story tells you it wants to be something else.
Timefoolery finds us once again.

2026 03 10
See the thing is, I called episode six "Crystal Snails", and then I got Vulfmon's Disco Snails stuck in my head, and then this happened. I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry if you've never heard of Disco Snails.
I'm sorry if you HAVE heard of Disco Snails.
Mostly, I'm sorry to Vulfmon.

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

There's bodies in the airlock, for the snails are on the loose
Watch your step, they're only one inch tall and they crawl right at you
They've synthesize deadly toxins up in their buggy bodies
This downright funkadelic bunch have come to start the party (P-p-p-party)

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Their location? In your station
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.
(With apologies to Vulfmon.)

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system fail
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They're not ill-willer, they're just killers...

2026 03 03
Tinker and Quin engage in a time-honored spacer tradition (drinking and conspiracy theories) followed by another time-honored ironsworn tradition (fighting for your life).

2026 02 24 timebolted
We meet Quintin's daughter, and then head out on our main mission. Both of these go exactly as we expected, as usual.

2026 02 17

Music by Kevin MacLeod. Intro by kleber-kgf.
This game, man... this game....

A few notes: the audio is still uneven. I tried a few things, but I need to try a few more. Stay with us and I'll get it sorted, I promise.

2026 02 13
Kiri's symbiote saves him... from something, or for something?
Quinn pulls on the strings trailing from everyone on Providence Station.

2026 02 03
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