Fleeting Whisper

I play in windowed mode, too. But I still wouldn't object to the suggestion.

They give us a badge for CoH launch anniversary =/

I have a couple always-flying characters. 3 Fly enhancements in Hover and 1 Fly enhancement in Swift puts me up at a nice pace. Not quite as fast as Sprint, but faster than Swift with 1 Run enhancement. And faster than the majority of enemies in the game

Industrial Hemp =/= Marijuana

Cannabis sativa sativa is industrial hemp, containing less than 0.3% THC (at least the strains approved for import into the US. I think the subspecies is capable of getting up to 1%).
Cannabis sativa indica is used for marijuana production, containing between 3% and 22% THC.

Um... today's common usage for 'decimate' (destroy a large portion of) started in the 19th century. That's over 100 years ago, not 10.

And I have trouble believing you're over 100 years old.

Yeah, accolades are nice to have. But with the exception of my two badge hunter characters, I've got very few accolades on any character, and most of those were obtained by chance.

Mako was actually born on Easter Sunday.



Joking aside, I would like to see some kind of event in the summer. All the events we do have are clustered around the cold months. I want to see the ski slopes melt and turn into water slides!

Awesome.

I don't know why, but that story reminds me of a session of Exalted I was playing about a year ago. The story was basically "Dragon-Blooded High School", with the players all acting as young Terrestrial Exalted Dynasts on the Blessed Isle.

The session I'm recalling was a field trip to the Heptagram (sorcerous secondary school). At one point during the trip, we were to witness some of the Heptagram students performing a routine deomstration of the Demon of the First Circle spell (the only demon-summoning spell that Terrestrials are capable of learning). Something went wrong (ie: Plot Hook), and rather than summoning an Erymanthoi (blood ape), they managed to summon Erembour, That Which Calls to the Shadows, seventh soul of the Ebon Dragon (a third circle demon). Those who hear Erembour's horn and cannot withstand its call are transformed into creatures of darkness, as the students who were performing the summoning were.

So, of course, the PCs entered into a fight scene with the newly spawned creatures of darkness, while (fortunately) Erembour stood back and watched the chaos.

At one point during the battle, one of the creatures rushed to attack me (a Fire aspect Dragon-Blooded, normally well known for quick tempers and combat prowess)
Storyteller: How do you defend yourself?
Me: I don't.
ST: What?
Me: I'm not going to do anything to defend myself. I'm standing in the creature's path glaring at it with my arms crossed.
ST: You realize if you take no action to defend yourself, you've got a DV of 0?
Me: Yes. But I'm expecting you to miss. And in any case, I've always got Third Dodge Excellency - Essence Resurgent as a backup plan. And if he still hits me, I can flare my anima and burn him up while he's in contact with me.
ST: Okay...
*ST rolls creature's attack*
ST: Um... *shows results of roll*

Triple botch. The creature not only failed to hit me as I stood there waiting for the blow, but the thing fumbled, tripped, impaled itself with its own claws, and died at my feet.

Normally in Exalted, you can get motes of Essence, temporary Willpower, or even experience points for being awesome ("In Exalted, there is no such thing as impossible. Merely varying levels of awesome"). The storyteller gave me an experience point for being so awesome I made him botch his roll.

Needless to say, I didn't push my luck for the remainder of the session. (Although the supernaturally potent alcohol that I had stolen from some alchemy students earlier proved to be an extremely useful asset during our escape from Hell after Erembour dragged us there...)

I seem to recall that Castle made a comment on adding -Res to Rage's crash during the time when the AffectingSelf was changed to -Dam.

Of course, I have no idea where the post is or even if it still exists, and my memory is not perfect. But according to my memory, Castle said they didn't want to add -Res to Rage's crash because, while it would indeed make resistance sets approximately equal to the state of defense sets without the -Res, it would also further hurt defense sets, since the defense isn't perfect. In effect, making Rage a combo of -Def and -Res would bring the resistance sets down to where the Defense sets were, but it would also bring the defense sets down further. I don't remember whether he commented on sets that rely on a mix of the two.

"Speak of the Devil" when someone you're talking about enters the room, versus "Speak of the Devil, and his tail will surely follow."

Then again, alternatives for the same phrase are "Speak of the devil and he doth appear," and "Talk of the Devil, and he's presently at your elbow."

The Pilgrim's mission sending you back to the tutorial zone exemplars you to 1 (leaving you with your level 6 powers). You can also exemplar to an actual level 1 player (again, leaving you with your level 6 powers)

The only fix to drops I can think of in recent memory was a bug with the RNG on certain specific special mission maps.

So do badges.


Growing hemp is illegal in the US, though it can be imported. North Dakota, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, West Virginia, Vermont, and Oregon have laws making it legal to grow hemp, despite the federal law against it.

IIRC, a WoW dev recently said (paraphrasing) "Don't copy us if you want to be successful. Look at City of Heroes - they're doing something different!"

Not to mention, if you shell out $10 for the Martial Arts pack, you get Ninja Run for all of your characters at level 4 without picking up any extra powers, and NR is on-par with Fly as far as speed goes.

Not quite true.

• Granite only provides mag 10 Fly protection. If the Granite character activates Hover, and 7 teammates activate Group Fly/Group Energy Flight, the Granite character will become airborne. (Hover is mag 4, GFly/GEFlight are mag 1; 7 + 4 = 11)
  
  Rooted does add an additional -10 Fly (for a total of -20), but it can be turned off.
• "Combat mode" for the animation system includes things such as dual blades, two-handed weapon (katana), and assault rifle. And even if the character can't get into a certain combat mode with a powerset, there's temporary powers to consider. (IIRC, BAB said that single-handed weapons such as broadsword are treated as an extension of the dual bladed mode)

It is true that such a project would only have one skeleton that needed the work done, but you're still basically re-animating all of the melee sets.

AM gives +30% recharge, not 20%...

Of course, that doesn't help if the players decide to use Defense debuffs, instead

Aside from arguments already made, I don't think -Dam is entirely athematic. Yes, getting hit with a big rock hurts... but Granite Armor also slows you down. Getting hit with a heavy rock at normal punching speed may hurt more than a fist, but getting hit with a heavy rock slowly doesn't. Admittedly, the slow from Granite is only displayed visually with your running speed since changing the animation sequencers while in GA would probably make BAB cry. But it's something to think about.

Alternatively, "Beyond All Recognition".

I thought it stood for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. What's wrong with that? [/innocence]

(Take two)
It's just "For The Win" backwards, indicating the opposite. Or maybe it's indicating Niw Eht Rof...

I tend to agree. I've duoed the Flier (okay, technically it was a trio, but the third guy didn't show up until the very end and I'm not sure he got the badge), with a super speeding Mastermind (not easy to traverse Grandville with SS + pets that can't keep up to the Flier) and a super jumping Brute.

I would actually say Caleb is harder to get than the Flier. While you can intentionally spawn Caleb, you have to defeat Nerva Spectral Daemons (which don't spawn outdoors in a high-traffic area, so you're likely to be the only ones killing them) during a specific period of the day. And then he doesn't spawn immediately when you meet the criteria, but rather he spawns at the next sunset. And then, he spawns incredibly high in the air, so you require flight to even reach him. If your flier doesn't have Taunt or -Fly (and just having Taunt isn't guaranteed to work), you won't get him down to the ground, either. And even if you do have Fly, finding him can be difficult sometimes.

The only time I've ever gotten the badge for Caleb was during some event when a GM/Dev spawned him in the middle of Aeon City, along with several other monsters.