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by thruar
Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:53 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Old DSR members please read
Replies: 14
Views: 2874

I'm playing WoW on Tichondrius atm. It's a lot of fun, though the PvP is a little gimped. Duris was an awesome mud with some of the best players I had the chance to play with, more challenging and skill required to play it well. Sojourn is a good mud, a lot of zones to do and a lot of nice people to...
by thruar
Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Old Players? ('95-'97)
Replies: 123
Views: 32171

Raluen wrote: Played Vruar (conj) and Urghug (troll warrior). Had a few others as well (Vomar, Carastil, Thruar and I'm sure some others that I've forgotten).


Pretty sure one of your characters is not Thruar, coz then who am I? Heh heh
by thruar
Mon Nov 11, 2002 5:31 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: How did everyone actually hear about Sojourn for the first t
Replies: 73
Views: 17065

Nice to see a thread that sparks everyone's interest. I'll join in! It was my old High School friend Averyn that showed me Sojourn. He was already mudding years before I started. Sometime in his HS years he was chatting about music on the BBS at the time he wrote music on his PC. One day a buddy on ...
by thruar
Mon Nov 04, 2002 7:45 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: I said...B**************TCH!!!!
Replies: 9
Views: 1739

haha that was so funny Jon!

Long time no see.. hope all goes well? Is Silsaterur your new name on mud now?

"Wendy I'm going to kill yoo"

lol
by thruar
Thu Oct 31, 2002 2:28 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Civilization 3: Play the World
Replies: 24
Views: 4102

Yeah I really liked heroes of might and magic 3. It's the best turn based game I ever played. Even though it is an old game maybe you all wanna play a game? It might take a few sessions to complete but if there are enough interests we'll get one going http://www.sojourn3.org/ubb/smile.gif
by thruar
Thu Oct 31, 2002 7:20 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Civilization 3: Play the World
Replies: 24
Views: 4102

Got the game now, will install it tomorrow tho! so lemme know if you got it too and wanna play me!
by thruar
Wed Oct 30, 2002 8:48 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Civilization 3: Play the World
Replies: 24
Views: 4102

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jegzed: <B>Have I ever mentioned how insulting I think it is to players to sell features like "MP" as an addon, when they've had MP code since Civnet in 1995. Especially when t...
by thruar
Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:57 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Civilization 3: Play the World
Replies: 24
Views: 4102

Hey Gene: I played civ2:multiplayer gold to death, The game is a tad unbalanced in terms of pvp, where diplomats and key wonder of the worlds decides the game, well that and your starting surrounding lands. I also played civ3 quite a bit and felt that they added in a lot of features for a balanced p...
by thruar
Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:54 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Civilization 3: Play the World
Replies: 24
Views: 4102

Civilization 3: Play the World

The game should be arriving to stores tomorrow the 30th east coast. Is anyone getting it?

Maybe if there is enough people who has it we can have a multiplayer game. I for one a big fan of the genre so I can't wait! Going to be at my former job at gamestop 10:30am waiting for the shipment!
by thruar
Wed Sep 11, 2002 4:07 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Sept 11, 2001 memories..
Replies: 25
Views: 3128

The memory of that day is still fresh in me though I lost track of the exact time the tower(s) were hit. Woke up at about 830-9am that morning to see one of the towers up in smoke on the news just as I went to brush up. As I was ready to leave my house for work, I saw live on the news 2nd plane hitt...
by thruar
Fri Aug 23, 2002 10:05 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: An idea . . . .
Replies: 26
Views: 3372

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Daz: <B>see, this would involve me playing :P just logging on gets me bored, heh </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Do like what I did. Not log on for months. Eventually I think I fo...
by thruar
Fri Jul 12, 2002 5:28 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: New yorkers
Replies: 28
Views: 3985

Yuh I live in NYC, queens. Averyn, Kurz, Tessaire, Corth, Larok (Tarrok) and Khamul all live in NYC, Queens. Funny thing we all live less than a mile within each other, Lloric lives in NJ, I met em all! Corth looks like a shady merc in real life though. Hey gene I lost your number, was going to call...
by thruar
Thu Jun 27, 2002 11:40 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: First Neverwinter Nights Impression
Replies: 57
Views: 13228

Both Blizzard and Bioware corp are excellent companies and what every other game company should follow. Blizzard releases their games bug free because they are not pressure with release dates. Bioware deals with deadlines but still make sure the game is of great quality even after the game has been ...
by thruar
Thu Jun 27, 2002 3:08 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: First Neverwinter Nights Impression
Replies: 57
Views: 13228

That's strange because I'm in the middle of chapter 3, still did not have any bugs in my game. Did you download the 1.18 patch version?
by thruar
Mon Jun 24, 2002 6:57 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: First Neverwinter Nights Impression
Replies: 57
Views: 13228

Glad you got it running Ragorn. I am not familiar with the 3rd edition rule set. NWN is still loads of fun. The single player campaign is ok. I can't wait for people to build modules, and act as DM for 5-6 players. It would bring out the best of NWN undoubtedly the game's best feature. I run a AMD a...
by thruar
Fri Jun 21, 2002 5:49 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: First Neverwinter Nights Impression
Replies: 57
Views: 13228

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ragorn: <B>"3DFX is no longer in business; although some Voodoo 5 cards may work occasionally they are no longer supported by 3DFX and available drivers do not generally includ...
by thruar
Fri Jun 21, 2002 4:28 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Jurdex
Replies: 58
Views: 9016

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Nilan: <B>Nobody Quits. I mean has anyone ever truely quit that said "i'm gonna quit"? No http://www.sojourn3.org/ubb/smile.gif The bearded Dwarf will be back, if not leading h...
by thruar
Thu Jun 20, 2002 4:38 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: First Neverwinter Nights Impression
Replies: 57
Views: 13228

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ilshadrial: <B>I have to wait for Xmas so I can play it on my super micro computer! My APPLE MAC! Thruar, I nearly fell out of my chair when you said, "Ice Wind Dale series pro...
by thruar
Thu Jun 20, 2002 3:49 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: First Neverwinter Nights Impression
Replies: 57
Views: 13228

You know I think you have a point there. I like really like NWN, and it is more of a story based game just like the BG series and planescape. I still rather have the 2nd edition rule system where you have the old AC and Thac0 system which seemed to be removed in 3rd edition. Maybe the Icewind Dale s...
by thruar
Wed Jun 19, 2002 6:44 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: First Neverwinter Nights Impression
Replies: 57
Views: 13228

First Neverwinter Nights Impression

Got my hands on 2 Copies of Neverwinter Nights last night at the store I used to work at Software etc. now called Gamestop. I've not seen most of the employees in months but was happy to be in their company. First thing I noticed was new layout of the store which have more room and shelf space than ...
by thruar
Wed May 15, 2002 10:26 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: 101 reaons why Sojourn is the best...
Replies: 27
Views: 2790

I don't know about you all but the best thing I like about the MUD is the connection speed and the fact that this MUD will be around longer than most other MUDs because of dedicated ownership for close to a decade now.
by thruar
Thu Apr 11, 2002 6:18 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Meet Caz, the leading loot whore of Soj3
Replies: 121
Views: 20154

Er.. It's all my fault for claiming the beer mug on the first Tiamat trip which resulted in this long thread Image
by thruar
Thu Apr 04, 2002 1:14 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: The Bad Title List
Replies: 64
Views: 10852

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Todrael: <B>I really don't feel like getting into this thread. I just wanted to point something out about the 'obviously terrible' CrocHunter title. Check out this thread: http...
by thruar
Wed Apr 03, 2002 12:38 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: The Bad Title List
Replies: 64
Views: 10852

[50 War] Gormal BraveShroom - United States Army (Dwarf)

I'm proud of you Image
by thruar
Thu Feb 21, 2002 6:34 pm
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: How tanks are suppose to be
Replies: 17
Views: 2345

I wrote something about flee on the guild site.

www.dsrising.com/columns.asp?ColumnistId=2
by thruar
Tue Feb 12, 2002 8:10 pm
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Trophy
Replies: 45
Views: 5324

Hi everyone! As far as I know there is no trophy. At least The way trophy works does not deter anyone from doing exp in the same place. My levels 35-50+ all came from WD elites. You can get level 50 doing walls and lighthouse. For paladin you can get level 20-50 all in tower, trophy matters very lit...
by thruar
Thu Jan 24, 2002 8:41 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Who... 10th of January 1999
Replies: 6
Views: 947

Heh he was highest bard because I did exp with him everyday along with Jhorr Dhurn Kneth(Marforp) and a few others who wanted to come along. I made level 15-46 all with abusing bard heals and 2-3 rotating tanks all day long. Didn't use cleric till level 46 to exp. On sojourn2 I was first to reach le...
by thruar
Mon Jan 14, 2002 6:22 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Hi everyone! please read
Replies: 0
Views: 456

Hi everyone! please read

The darkstorm rising website is live. Unfortunately it's not full functioning yet, only the columns are working, you can read it for now. in the coming days/weeks we'll work on each part to a working state. Thanks for your support and we hope you will learn something on your visit here. http://www.s...
by thruar
Fri Dec 14, 2001 7:51 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Unfair leadership at it's best! (favoritism)
Replies: 155
Views: 25908

Doing eq splits in any fashion has always been the most waste of time on the MUD. It's one reason why I hand out fast as I can, not always going to be fair but then again you can't keep everyone happy all the time. With that in mind, if you play with the right people you are going to get the eq. Jus...
by thruar
Mon Dec 03, 2001 4:46 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Jot Changes
Replies: 68
Views: 8019

I like the idea on what Todrael and the shroom(Gormal) has to say and felt both their messages has very good suggestions, not flaming or criticizing all the time. It's not necessary to single out any one player or point fingers. In this BBS history it solves nothing to this day. Let's try to focus o...
by thruar
Tue Nov 20, 2001 5:47 pm
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Justice...I think not.
Replies: 82
Views: 10678

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by moritheil: <B> Maybe we could just make it so you lose some prestige when sentenced. Death is harsh for those of us who have RL things to tend to.</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I...
by thruar
Tue Nov 13, 2001 1:56 pm
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: CC Zone pop
Replies: 24
Views: 2125

I also want to respond that Nokie is right about that, same thing happen with invasion 2nd gates there are always 21-24 guards no matter what because of the block code. I think the blocking code is a good idea so people cannot abuse the zone by foddering pass. There has to be a way to flag it so tha...
by thruar
Mon Nov 12, 2001 3:25 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: stupid things you do while playing
Replies: 33
Views: 4598

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t kalthanan you are my bitch!
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t dartan dork
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t larok feh needum res
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by thruar
Mon Oct 29, 2001 7:21 am
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: paladin tanking and warrior's role if they still have any
Replies: 76
Views: 9943

I have to agree with what Lyt said. I also think people are whining too much about how evil warriors suck. All in the hps anyways, dwarf and barbarian simply get a 670-680 average at level 50 and trolls get 740-750, ogres maybe more if not the same as troll. I know that warriors sp were toned down a...
by thruar
Mon Oct 15, 2001 4:52 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: A BUG!
Replies: 0
Views: 473

A BUG!

Due to an Association bug it must be done!! <> Miax raises his dagger high into the air and strikes at you! The dagger comes to life, freezing you where you stand with utter terror! It sings through the air towards your chest, craving your heart. You cannot move as the dagger strikes your chest with...
by thruar
Mon Oct 01, 2001 5:53 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Another article
Replies: 67
Views: 9401

I agree with the things you said and glad you are back to help the mid level players who does not have direction. The way we do zones is basically continuous battle without ever meming till the main mobs. Not doing a full mem that is why I thought zones were too easy because of the mem time. It does...
by thruar
Sun Sep 30, 2001 7:29 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Another article
Replies: 67
Views: 9401

No my ideas not being implemented immediately does not have anything to do with it bellehshel. Read the article again, sure it can be a little frustrating at times that I may have felt my ideas to balance the MUD is not being done for at times months. I also know that whatever I would say would also...
by thruar
Sun Sep 30, 2001 8:52 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Another article
Replies: 67
Views: 9401

Another article

Forgot abouthttp://mithrilhall.isyourtown.com?

Anyways new article up.



[This message has been edited by thruar (edited 09-30-2001).]
by thruar
Thu Sep 27, 2001 9:43 am
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Invasion
Replies: 31
Views: 4048

Invasion

On zoning, Invasion zone rare load. I think a more fair approach for all manner of groups is to move invasion items around. I would like to see either Surtur crown or Twilight moved to Thrym area instead of having both item at palace. Make one of each item a random load so you would never know which...
by thruar
Tue Sep 11, 2001 2:22 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: World Trade Center Attack
Replies: 95
Views: 17883

This morning when I turned on the news I saw 2 buildings on fire. 2nd plane crashed into the other tower in just 18 mins apart. There had to be some planned terrorist attack. I live in the heart of NYC, I could see the smoke coming from the 2 buildings just a couple miles away going to work and the ...
by thruar
Tue Aug 28, 2001 5:59 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: twilight change?
Replies: 12
Views: 1641

Originally I was vouching for Twilight being 1h when we first got it. I was a little hasty as to get my point through with very valid points which some god agrees and some did not. I had an extensive talk with Gargauth eventually he was able to convince me that Twilight should stay 2h backed up with...
by thruar
Tue Jul 31, 2001 6:01 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: A New Website!
Replies: 3
Views: 834

A New Website!

Hey guys check out this site i worked hard to build for this mud as well as for http://isyourtown.com
The site is http://mithrilhall.isyourtown.com also check out http://www.speakeasy.org/~quenn123/
by thruar
Sat Jul 28, 2001 4:59 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Group Size Limits
Replies: 113
Views: 18658

Don't know where all this talk about no one is taking invokers, druids not being needed, or rogue is taking over ranger class. I feel every class and subclasses are needed to fill the group gaps. I've been running around with a versitile group of player classes and feel they are all needed in the gr...
by thruar
Thu Jul 05, 2001 7:04 am
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Most anoyingest code i've dealt with
Replies: 53
Views: 6682

Most anoyingest code i\'ve dealt with

There is a piece of code that really bothers me and been meaning to say it for more than a month now. As it stands the group is hardcoded 15 man which i'm all cool with. But the charisma thing is the only anoying code i've ever dealt with not only that it serves no purpse except just disband and hav...
by thruar
Wed Jun 20, 2001 7:55 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Why is it so hard to just get along? :)
Replies: 62
Views: 8136

I felt like I'm being forced to post again after not posting for the last nearly 2 months now. I try to stay away from mud politics and just enjoy the game. If everyone want to know the truth, I will tell you exactly what happen. Gorblie told Saerian that the stormload loaded. In turn Saerian told t...
by thruar
Mon Apr 30, 2001 3:07 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: The early levels
Replies: 1
Views: 634

Depending on what class you are playing, either way your best bet is to always group so you can tackle tougher mobs for exp. Playing a hitter class you will find getting levels easier early on level 1-20. Caster will have a tougher time to level at low levels but not as EQ dependant at higher levels...
by thruar
Thu Apr 12, 2001 7:24 pm
Forum: S3 Ideas Archive
Topic: An Ogres old ability revisited.
Replies: 29
Views: 5360

That's strange. According to the News it mentions they get +1 more hps a level for ogres..maybe a god might need to look into it.
by thruar
Thu Apr 12, 2001 5:34 pm
Forum: S3 Ideas Archive
Topic: An Ogres old ability revisited.
Replies: 29
Views: 5360

I wouldn't mind seeing ogre wielding 2h and a shield. The way ogres are looking right now I think it's as worth playing as much as troll warrior. They crit at 7% now which is extremely high amount. Plus they got hitpoint boost which puts them at the most natural hitpoints in the game. Maybe this tim...
by thruar
Sat Apr 07, 2001 3:24 pm
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: hitroll needed to hit mobs?
Replies: 7
Views: 1635

The new combat system for melee seems fine when gargauth came to us while we were doing exp, he said that we were suposed to be hitting about 85% vs. mobs 1 level higher than us. I was hitting about 81-82% on average from serveral fights with 8 hitrole. I am a few levels higher now as my skills went...
by thruar
Fri Apr 06, 2001 5:43 pm
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Down with invokers
Replies: 136
Views: 24842

I have to agree with what marforp and corth is hinting at. If invokers staying in, downgrade their damage output to more reasonable means.

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