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2005-05-04 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

City Of Heroes – Issue 4 is live There is a TON of stuff happening in this release — this

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Evolution of the Game

2005-04-12 doycet MMO & Computers

I think to myself that this last week has been incredibly slow on CoH in terms of leveling up… Then

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Hang Time’s evolution

2005-04-06 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

About a week ago, playing CoH, I had the chance to pick up a new power on Hang Time, who’s

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Well, *I* had a good time…

2005-04-06 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

So, last week, on CoH, I was running a mission with a friend, and we were ICly discussing the Lord

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CoH Thought for the Day

2005-03-29 doycet MMO & Computers 5 comments

Comment from Lee last night while on a mission: “Every archetype is a support archetype.” Hmm. This is food for

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Online GMing

2005-03-28 doycet Actual Play 3 comments

My second (and first ‘solo’ attempt) in-game meta-plot: Skyway Community Rec.

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CoH Weekend update.

2005-03-28 doycet MMO & Computers

Everything ‘normal’ in our game calendar was either cancelled or not scheduled, due to either weather or Easter, so there

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CoH Personal Update — Recreation and Responsibility

2005-03-23 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

As noted here, it was a pretty active weekend on CoH. Hang Time dinged 33, as did Shock about a

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CoH Issue 4 Changes

2005-03-23 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

Here are some of my personal WOOHOOS and BOOS: WOOHOO o Improved Max Stealth capability (High stealthy powers like Superior

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CoH news

2005-03-23 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

Defender Changes in Issue 4. UPDATE: ALL Changes in Issue 4.

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HQ: Extended Conflicts

2005-03-15 doycet Links & Resources

A great example of an HQ extended conflict: Climbing a Wall. Had our first couple extended conflicts in the HQ

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See, now… this is responsibility I *like*

2005-03-11 doycet Musing One comment

Related to the “Who killed Freedom Girl Stateswoman” story: The Liberty Song: Battle for Axis Earth — a big-as-hell, all

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Sweeet

2005-03-10 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Screenshots of the Arena, some of the new costume options and the new face/body sliders at GameSpot

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… because here in the Freedon Phalanx, the multi-gigs of in-game plot isn’t considered enough…

2005-03-10 doycet MMO & Computers 4 comments

Alliance of Champions :: Phalanxers murdered, Stateswoman among them A big old ‘what the hell’. UPDATE: Read HERE, at least

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

2005-03-09 doycet Musing 4 comments

Certain things that always seem to happen with me and multi-player online games: 1. I make a wise-cracking, relatively-fragile, power-throwing

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CoH Invul Build Advice

2005-03-09 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

Alliance of Champions :: Build help — very very very useful suggestions on approaching the Invulnerability Tanker set. Between Gilly,

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Super Characters

2005-03-07 doycet MMO & Computers 4 comments

Updated the wiki page on CoH with my and Jackie’s characters. Also, because I wanted to mention it: Dave’s Blog

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Making a list, checking it twice…

2005-03-07 doycet Links & Resources

CoH Issue Four Trailer on IGN.

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Strategist: Day One

2005-03-06 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

Strategist: Old Man’s War, Young Man’s Game. Fun.

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Aggro-vating

2005-03-04 doycet MMO & Computers 5 comments

Where are all the good tanks dead? In the heart, or in the head? In the past week of teaming

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Outstanding!

2005-03-01 doycet Links & Resources 3 comments

The non-Glorantha version of Heroquest is coming, titled QuestWorlds QuestWorlds is a poly-genre roleplaying adventure game in which players portray

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CoH Hero Planner

2005-02-23 doycet MMO & Computers 3 comments

For those of you who a) care and b) don’t watch the CoH Warcry feed: NEW HERO PLANNER. Updated with

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Probably the only time I’ll mention the SG.

2005-02-22 doycet MMO & Computers 7 comments

Looking for a supergroup on City of Heroes? Enjoy playing your character … in character? Want a little roleplay to

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CoH — Group Tactics

2005-02-15 doycet MMO & Computers 5 comments

Dave and Stan and Avocet have been having problems with bad teams on CoH lately, it sounds like. CoH is

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Frillickheath?

2005-02-15 doycet Links & Resources One comment

The Pseudo-Elizabethan Place Name Generator (via Randy)

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Tons o’ fun

2005-02-14 doycet Links & Resources

Make your own CoH character trading cards!

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How do I prep?

2005-02-10 doycet Musing 3 comments

Over here, here, Shawn wrote: How do you prep and run so many different games? I’m blown away by planning

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Purely CoH link-post with no other useful application

2005-02-09 doycet MMO & Computers

Guide to gaining XP and/or getting rid of Debt on CoH: So, you’re sick of being stuck down at at

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Heroquest, Spring Fountain: 2

2005-02-09 doycet Actual Play One comment

I’m currently running an HQ game for my die-hard DnD group on the alternate Fridays from the regular game. Here’s

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A term from The Shadow of Yesterday that I really liked:

2005-02-09 doycet Links & Resources

Define: “Pumpkin-Fantasy”

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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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