Changed this site’s name. Just like this one better.
PSA
Phlogiston: Another Word from Our Sponsors: Do you, or some Mad Scientist you know, struggle with bouts of crippling Sanity?
Book, Game, Movie
There are three stacks of things on or near my desk at home. Each stack has a book, a movie,
Commence the whuppage
Okay, they fixed ArchVillains and Giant Monsters on CoX. Who wants to do the last Shadow Shard TF, and when?
CoH Character updates
Updates to my City Of Characters. A few brief highlights: Pummelcite Pushed through last week and got him to 32,
Another one:
[Photoshop] Rpg motivational posters
Pictures worth a thousand words
Take a movie poster, make it an RPG poster. Result: The Funny. New Photoshop Challenge: RPGs go to the movies
Once again: Failure = Fun?
Failure is Always An Option: Character Defeat is Player Victory Too The biggest benefit of failure being entertaining for players,
Ask the Blind Man
One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead men got up to fight, Back to back they
Happy!
Story Games Community This forum was basically created to be a midway point between RPGNet and The Forge. I love
Relationship Mapping Tool
Diagram Designer — a sort of Visio-lite program that seems ideal for charting out relationship maps for highly-social games. A
“Kronos Sighted!”
Couldn’t agree with this poster more: I’d like to take a moment to promote the current state of giant monsters.
Lifecycle
Multiplayer game designer Raph Koster offers some observations on the Lifecycles of a Gamer: In many ways, we are all
Not Impossible. Not completely.
Someone beat the Lord Recluse Strike Force. Yeah, the one with Four level 50 heroes all standing together. Yeah, the
“Impossible” ArchVillains
So I ran into one of those ‘impossible’ AVs last night — the ones that are supposed to be made
Awesome
The Cheap and Cheesy Adventure Generator
Really do like that game…
Risusiverse, the Risus Wiki. Awesome.
Random Wiki thing
Changed around the layout on the page for my City Of Characters, to two purposes: 1. Lets my just update
And somehow I played with Kaylee alot…
As noted here, played Kethos and Pummelcite enough over the weekend to get Keth up two levels to 29 and
The only CoH-related thing that happened last weekend:
Coming out of my cage And I’ve been doin’ just fine Gotta gotta be down Because I want it all
AV’s, Rudalak, Munchies, and YOU
Current chatter about how difficult AVs are to beat in i7 is making me a bit nervous about the end
“Awesome, I failed.”
Random Heroquest thought, prepping for the Firefly game tonight: Failure means conflict.
For tonight:
Spoileriffic: Shadow Shard Task Force Two Checklist
Respeccy
Used a few of the free respecs over my lunch break today — mostly on my bad guys, where I
SS TF #2 : Ze Plan
Planning Stage for the Second Shadow Shard Task Force When: Thursday evening, 6/8, 8pm Eastern til whenever. Wrap-up on Sunday,
Mayhem!
From the CoV LJ community: Mayhem Missions — YES! Sounds like a friggin’ ball — though I’m not sure Markov
This explains a few things…
The officially-listed boosts given for Defense, Acc, Resist, and Damage inspirations (25, 33, and 55%, by size) are, generally, nowhere
CoX — Destiny Manifest
Issue Seven releases today. Key bits of stuff from the release notes, below the cut:
Sort of a vague character recap
Started up a long list of where all my toons are and what I’d like to do with them, but
Strike that.
CityOfHeroes / Task Force List to include the Villain Strike Forces and Trials, and added checkboxes for the three guys