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Tag: LotRO

Progression

2020-12-02 doycet MMO & Computers

Sixteen years ago, @ktbuffy and I started playing Lord of the Rings Online together, as a Date Night, because she

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LotRO: Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey

2011-10-05 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

One of the more interesting bits in the Lord of the Rings Online MMO is the fact that the events

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Star Wars: The Old Republic — The Question of PvP

2011-09-28 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 6 comments

A few days ago, Fogsong wrote: Star Wars: The Old Republic. My LoTRO guild is debating whether to go with

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LotRO: Rise of Isengard Release Day

2011-09-27 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Also known as “Thank god I lagged out, or I might have never logged off.” Okay, here are some thoughts,

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LotRO: Rise of Isengard Patch Notes – My thoughts.

2011-09-26 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

My first thought: as a player with a lifetime subscription, the fact that the latest expansion abbreviates to “ROI” is

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The Play’s the Thing: A New Holiday Acting Event for LotRO Thespians

2010-12-12 doycet MMO & Computers

Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online has popped to the top of MMO news many times, most recently due to

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Tanking Vows (So You Want to Tank, Part 3)

2010-08-12 doycet MMO & Computers

So we’ve got to part where we decide if we’re going to cowboy up and do this tanking thing. Below

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So You Want to Tank (Part 2)

2010-08-11 doycet MMO & Computers

You came back. Okay then. Let’s talk about the real challenges of playing a tank class. First thing: the challenge

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Cry of Vengeance can Bite Me (LotRO)

2010-08-10 doycet MMO & Computers

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Tanking Part 2 post to bitch about Cry of Vengeance. I’ve said this before in

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So You Want to Tank (Part 1) (LotRO)

2010-08-09 doycet MMO & Computers

First off, let me dissuade you. There are some necessities that come with taking on a tanking role, and they

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“So fast, the bowstring smokes”

2010-08-07 doycet MMO & Computers

The first character I ever created on Lord of the Rings was a hunter. I didn’t know much about the

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Raiding for a New Raider, Part 2: Good Manners

2010-08-06 doycet MMO & Computers

When I first starting playing Lord of the Rings Online, I was struck by one really consistent element among the

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(LotRO) Salves are Evil and Worthy Only of Disdain

2010-08-05 doycet MMO & Computers

Heh. Got your attention? I actually have a two a few other posts I plan to write today, but I

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A new raider’s raid-readiness Checklist (LotRO)

2010-08-04 doycet MMO & Computers

(Disclaimer: I’m not an uberleet raider in LotRO by any means, but I do run raids and I do know

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So What can Two People do in a Moria six-man?

2010-07-20 doycet MMO & Computers

… pretty much anything they want. (Click for bigger.) A few notes: No, this wasn’t challenge mode. We certainly didn’t

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Someone’s Working Through Some Issues

2010-07-04 doycet MMO & Computers

From “Conversations With My Wife As We Play LotRO”: A Disturbing New Trend In Faction Reputation

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What not-game am I not-playing, here?

2010-01-13 doycet MMO & Computers

Yesterday I was pondering a couple of recent gaming purchases I’ve made. Annalise. Diaspora. 3:16. Trail of Cthulu. Like that,

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This weekend…

2009-07-20 doycet MMO & Computers

We painted our house, introduced Kaylee to classic musicals… And killed a friggin’ BALROG. If that picture doesn’t adequately convey

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LotRO – a set on Flickr

2009-07-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Kate and I have taken all the screenshots from the last two years of playing LotRO and put them up

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Still making a hobbit of it.

2009-06-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

Kate and I started playing Lord of the Rings Online about two years ago.  I’m only aware of this because,

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LotRO: They can rebuild it. Better, stronger, faster, and dude… way f@*#ing cooler.

2009-06-24 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 10 comments

As I mentioned on my other blog, Kate and I decided a week or so ago to try out some

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Machinima: Order of Middle Earth

2009-04-04 doycet Links & Resources, MMO & Computers

I’m a big fan of machinima made from games that I’m playing.  My only MMO at the moment is LotRO,

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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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