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Ruhr

Not if he's of evil alignment, he won't.

Sounds like he's RP'ing an assassin (evil).

Not to mention spanky, evil only sharkskin gear...

Ruhr

I go to Virginia Tech. Y'know, we could have a great big mud party at Miax's house in the DC area. Right Miax?

I live in northern VA also. Would be nice if we (who live in this area) could get together at some point.

Who besides Ragorn, Lithel and Miax live in the DC metro?

Ruhr

33.6k modem? I started MUDding with a 300 baud modem, lol.

Err, but anyhow. Thanks to all 3 forgers and support imms for bringing the best MUD in history back online.

-R

Ruhr

Didn't think that was possible with soj2 stuffs mplor. You musta had 2 fumes, and an artifact or something--didn't avenger get downgraded to +0/+6 or some such? Care to elaborate, so I might have some idea what eq to strive for, as it doesn't appear that great changes are in the works as far as upgr...

Ruhr

Was that with toril or sojourn2 eq mplor?

Ruhr

32: no wife, no horse no mustache.

Ruhr

Kyse wrote: 20 min commute? hehe, you work at macdonnalds? get a real job with a hour commute in and outta DC. I live in the D.C. metro area--7 miles from my job. I can either walk 3 blocks to a metro, or take 66 for a 10 minute commute (at night). When I did commute to Georgetown from the suburbs, ...

Ruhr

About 3-4 years back, I'd MUD all day from work over a T-1 line, then come home and MUD till 11pm, wake up and repeat. Weekends were 16-20hr sessions. These were the toril days when things were really exciting. Though I can't commit nearly as much time to Sojourn3, I'm looking forward to playing aga...

Ruhr

Ionari: Thanks for the refreshing candor. Just remember: Everything in moderation. Schedule your play time; have it coincide with your husband's tv time, and your children's homework time. Set an hour that you'll log off, and stick to it. It'll be easy to trade your exercise regimen and time w/ fami...

Ruhr

Erf, corth, that sucks--just wait till you graduate, then the real nightmares begin. Work, taxes, bosses, wives, kidlets, no time for yourself... Or you could become the eternal bachelor(tm) like yours truly, and work night shift, have your afternoons to yourself to either:<ol> [*]drink beer [*]MUD ...

Ruhr

Marforp, I'm thinking you're right about pallys. It's been about 3 years since I played one though--can't recall the experience progression. I know you couldn't kill elites and such, so had to be evils... Did it go something like this: <ol> [*]gnolls [*]split shield [*]tower of sorcery agro guards [...

Ruhr

Corth, I tried to play a caster, but it was a bit boring for me. I'm more of a hands on type mudder, need some violence to satisfy my blood lust

Ruhr

Galzar wrote: rhur, bro, i had 550 nat hps at lvl 50, with con notch to 101 put me at 600 and 2 ame rings put me at 720, which was not bad for a tank vit put me at 900, then i had avenger stone and heal, no biggy i still died to padashaw in 3 rounds even with lay hands That's pretty good, what did y...

Ruhr

Ragorn wrote: Fleshmental is another word for tank, which is what warriors are 100% designed to be. If you don't want to be a tank, I don't understand why you would play a warrior. Umm, warriors have always been PC tanks bud, the point is to bring attention to the fact that we'd like to do some dama...

Ruhr

Yah, I'm not too keen on the fleshmental thing either; especially when I remember how fun toril warriors were to play, so I'll probably play a paladin this time around.

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Ruhr

Waelos wrote:

Warriors: Warriors go as the combat system goes. They will be the tanks (along with Pallies and Apallies).

Did paladins get an HP boost?

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Ruhr

You can roleplay specialization too if that's what your concern is. Make up a story about how you found a wise sage in the depths of Undermountain who was never seen again. I dunno, detail your quest to become the best marksman in all of Faerun. Infinite possibility. I supose, but RP is far more sa...

Ruhr

I think rare loads holding up groups was more of an acute problem with Sojourn2 from what I hear , due to the fewer number of players... If the success of this BBS is any indicator, the Sojourn3 player base will approach Toril levels, where, if anything, there were too many people in respect the the...

Ruhr

the biggest automatic upgrade that comes to mind is that 10 extra AC points paladins get from armor spells/potions... Especially in light of AC's purported newfound relevance. Who knows, paladin's might be viable tanks this time around (that is, if an HP increase is in the cards...) Hell if they fix...

Ruhr

Depends on what your motives are. I'm more interested in the RP aspects of the prestige class(es). Consequently, they wouldn't have to be demi-gods, just unique in some way. It's just something else to strive for after hitting 50th. Well at any rate, there's zero probabilty of any of this getting co...

Ruhr

Personally I´d rather have more prestige classes (e.g. liches). An example of a prestige class in 3E for warriors is swash buckler . Aside from feat(1) prerequisites, one is encouraged to come up with an RP means by which you learn the class (e.g. captured by pirates, taught the ways of the sea rogu...

Ruhr

Will have to check that out Malacar. I'd also recommend Jack Vance. A good fantasy book by Vance is "Tales of the Dying Earth"; in particular the Cugel chapters... It's sad how few people know of him, and he's up there with Sturgeon, Asimov and Heinlein. My favorite all time fantasy/sci-fi novel is ...

Ruhr

...with the possible exception of a boulder. Fezzik(1) sized ogres hurling large stones springs to mind.

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(1) A character portrayed by the late Andre the Giant in "A Princess Bride."

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Ruhr

Hmm. You all read "Wheel of Time" that many times? I lost interest after the first couple books. I wish Jordan would return to writing Conan, his Conan novels are amazing. If you want to read a real epic fantasy series, check out the Song of Fire and Ice series by George R.R. Martin (first book is A...

Ruhr

Trolan, way back in the day, used to do this. 10 or so 40th+ lvl barbarian warriors (no casters) running through lighthouse elites, and the marshes north of WD. That was a lot of fun.

Ruhr

Hmm, weren't the old stats +2 hit -5 sv bre, farsee?

So the jot earring is +1 hit or something? Too long ago to remember...

Ruhr

Fire plane still load the *flaming earring*? It was pretty annoying, but the earring is worth the suffering--only the split is pretty sucky, b/c of so few items...

Ruhr

Don't be surprised if Maryland is the Cinderella story this year...

Ruhr

"Undead farms?" have you been down the well yet? That is very fun; all sorts of undead with a fast repop and a nasty vampire at the end. Great mini-zone IMHO, and good training for single file room warrior fighting to prepare you for roots and cave city. Re: Tiamat, most of the time we did it with >...

Ruhr

I'd love to run a reverse dungeon (a la Chaos Christmas) where the players get to run the Imms through a zone or two: ***STATUS: Miax killed by pixie at A widdle clearing in da forest. ***STATUS: Mask killed by succubus in his bedroom. ***STATUS: Tempus killed by a rat while sneaking through the sew...

Ruhr

10. No social life. 9. Computer is too old to play quake3. 8. Your D&D group is too full, and you can't get a seat. 7. Agoraphobia. 6. Unemployment. 5. Disgust with the so-called "real world" 4. Your subconscious desire to get fired from work--for repeated tardiness due to all night MUD sessions. 3....

Ruhr

mmmm lava pendants... where they still +2 dam for sojourn2?

Ruhr

You could cheat with a mental also.

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order followers say "I have 205 hit points"

instead of

order followers report
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Then if you asked them to group the elemental, they'd get offended.

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Ruhr

Handing Tagad my portable hole, typing /quit.

Ruhr

"basilisk scale leggings - proc stoneskin"

This must be a new (soj2) item, very nice--from maniscorps' I presume? How was the stoneskin? Comparable to the sorcerer spell in duration/strength, or more along the lines of ambram stone?

Ruhr

Wouldn't mind seeing more race specific zones. Like a hill giant cavern on prime, or an ogre camp. Or some more classic dungeon crawls (didn't like UM, bored me to death...). God knows there's a wealth of material to work with--over a quarter century of fantasy role playing. Perhaps with the inclusi...

Ruhr

Since there (at least in the past) is a max point celing that is distributed btwn all 9 stats (luck is hidden), best thing to do is aim for "bad" in worthless stats, this (ideally) increases the numbers in your prefered stats. Might take a few hours though...

- My kingdom for an autoroller...

Ruhr

flames heh, well there's that one dragon fight in flames (as I recall) that is fun. Purple worm was never popular with warriors at least b/c he'd eat ya. Only time I did da worm was to help with *** quest. Always like fighting that ogre guarding the way down to UD though. Would be nice if more of UD...

Ruhr

Mplor, I agree with the PWK. If anything, Tiamat shouldn't get unlimitted PWKs. Even high lvl lich mobs (in 3E) only memorize one of these. I guess I just enjoyed the company. It was a grim task, but done with good friends and guild-mates, it's a great time. Must have killed her 15 or so times, neve...

Ruhr

I have never been to maniscorp either, looking forward to it. UM/UM2 were really boring for me, not sure why ppl liked it--other than a fleeting semblance to a traditional dungeon crawl. Jot is up there, but I must have done it over 200 times, which becomes a bit boring; the exception being Invasion...

Ruhr

Nah, Kris mirrors his drives.

Ruhr

While I'm enthusiastic about this newest change, I can't help but think 'a rose by any other name is still a rose.' Specifically, if the max point celing is as low as it was in the past, your stats will still be substandard. In light of this, I plan on spending a long time rolling to get the best po...

Ruhr

That's the point... It's realistic that nobody would talk to you, let alone reveal valuable information if you had a charisma of 30--that's not only ugly, but rude and quite possibly smelly. Like I said, the idea of role play in this case is to make sacrifices. The problem with MUD NPC interaction i...

Ruhr

vynigumba: No way should this level of quest be do-able solo. A lich is a rare creature--if it were easy to power up a necro, become a lich in short order w/out the long and painful quest, then the class/race wouldn't be unique anymore. The necros I've run across are pretty strange and anti-social. ...

Ruhr

Canadian mudder: Canuck: Whatddaya mean I HAVE TO PAY FOR TRAINING?!? Education is FREE in Canada, ya know. Guild master: Out wi'ya socialist scum! — Shopkeeper: That'll be 12 gold for those healing potions. Canuck: uhh, at home we get health care for FREE, ya know. Shopkeeper: Guards! — Canuck (tal...

Ruhr

Tempus,

Plz don't change Jot Invasion load rate, it's just fine as it is.

Ruhr

Conj = twink class.

Glad to see the MUD going back to PC tanking.

Ruhr

Averyn, The point is to encourage RP in a tangible way. In order to get quest level charisma, you'd have to make sacrifices from other stats--I think attaching leadership and group size limits also has this goal in mind. Not sure if this could be twinked easily by rolling up a mule/storage char with...

Ruhr

Somerled: I have those 1978 editions also, and they are AD&D. The original D&D was printed on much much smaller, thin paper covered books--then came "Advanced" D&D, A.K.A 1st edition. Not sure the royalties would be all that much. I recently read the satistical breakdown for the east coast region of...

Ruhr

Very funny. I'd like to make an addendum, however. Favorite Unix command: ----*Real Men* "kill -9" ----*Loonies* "rm -rf" hehe ----*Munchkins* "huh?" Favorite Distro: ----*Real Men* Use Debian GNU Linux! ----*Real Roleplayers* Use Mandrake ----*Loonies* use Slackware ----*Use Munchkins* Windows ME (...

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