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I've decided to run two accounts; two characters and two mercs. I'm going to use the Bard as a music box and pull/tank with the SK that I am leveling now. My mercs will be rogue and cleric. Those two types of mercs seem to do a reasonable job. The cleric needs its cast list curated though. I...

Absolutely. One of the major misses of 5e is how shallow the proficiency system is. I massively expanded it so that characters can progress from Proficient -> Expert(ise) -> Mastery and reap benefits from their investment. Non-magical gear is another area that needed a lot of help. For...

I still play 5e regularly, but I've house-ruled it so much that you could argue that it's a new system. I haven't really changed any of the core fundamentals, but I have layered a massive number of additional systems on top of the existing framework. Over the last few years I have experimented...

Yep. For the last few years I have been holding on to the miniscule bit of hope that WotC might pull D&D out of its tailspin, but the recent wave of hires has completely destroyed that hope. There's .01% chance that a new Dark Sun product is anything more than the logo. The D&D IP is...

AI tools are making the losing battle against cheaters even worse. In the past, the black hats needed some degree of competence to create effective cheats. Now, the bar is so low that people with minimal knowledge are creating problems. The hacks written by the new legion of retards aren't as...

I played the demo months back and the controls were infuriating. It always felt like I was dragging my mouse through molasses. The performance was terrible, too. Hopefully, they've ironed those issues out.

Yep. If it does make it to print, it's going to be sandblasted into something that is Dark Sun in name only. The old setting material is enough to put Leftists into a permanent seizure. There's a super long thread about it at ENWorld (don't visit that board if you value your IQ) and based on...

Armor Class is the single most powerful stat in 5e. All the damage reduction stacking you can pull off in BG3 is Larian's spin because it doesn't exist in the official rules. 5e uses the bounded accuracy system and every +1 has a meaningful impact on a roll. That's especially true for AC. The...

Normally, I'm not a fan of races that are a huge departure from the more traditional humanoids, but Thri-Kreen were cool as hell.

The first few months the server was up was incredible for low-end guilds and casual players because the GMs did give out a lot of loot. There was even a zone that dropped loot at higher rates from easier mobs. However, none of it was useful (beyond twinking alts) to any guild that was even...

You can still find amazing deals this way, but shit like Stranger Things raised public awareness and it's much harder now. It can actually be super frustrating because a lot of the people with old D&D material automatically assume if it's got the ampersand on it, it's worth money and that...

I have forgotten some of the details, but if we're talking about the same adventure, the players take a back seat to some extremely important/powerful NPCs that come in and save the day when the players are getting their asses handed to them. It was/is a really controversial adventure because...

The price of Dark Sun stuff has seen a surge recently. Likely in response to the rumor of a 5e Dark Sun product in the near future. I'm not the least bit excited about a Dark Sun product designed by current WotC. They literally just hired (3!) trannies for the D&D design team in the last few...

Yep. I think that plays some part in why it's so expensive now. When the stuff first came out, a lot of it basically rotted on shelves and that led to smaller and smaller print runs. Several of the last few products for each setting had relatively small runs and once people finally realized...

All the old 2e Planescape stuff is amazing. The setting is somewhat hard to run, but reading the material is S+. I'm fortunate to have gotten physical copies of everything long ago because there's little chance that I'd buy stuff now. Most of it has gotten stupidly expensive. For example - A...

Thank you @Tuco.

The people who only lost the Steam cost are fortunate. There were people that spent 100s (some in the 1000s) on the early cosmetic packs and testing phases. I loosely followed this game throughout its life, but never played it because I didn't want to get excited and then have the rug pulled. I...

Look, I get it, $400 is a lot of money to a street-shitter, even today. I mean, your national GDP is 85% Lowe's gift cards stolen from 85 year-old grannies.

Seriously, get help. Surely whatever shithole country you're from has socialized medicine so it shouldn't cost anything. Though you might have to wait a year to address your mental-illness. You're a new guy and the massive amount of leeway that we're allowed here may have given you the...

*Edit* I jumped the gun -- seems to be a local issue with the weather being unusually cold.

Ha. From what I have read, I think it's April to May. And I have every intention of revisiting Seb during that event if I'm the correct level. I'm a little confused about some of the Kunark zones though. I saw two different tiers of Fabled loot from there. One had hundreds of HP while the...

Great info. I wouldn't say I "like" tradeskills, but I do them when there's a significant incentive for it. I've watched a few videos and heard mention of a few awesome items that require TS's. An earring is one of them, I think? I've got several of them started (200-250ish skill) from my past...

As I make my way through the levels, can you experienced guys give me a list of items, useful clicks, quests, and zones I should definitely visit? With as many options as I have, I think it'd be easy to miss some gems without a little guidance. There's one item (Jann's Veil) I know I...

I feel like I got put in a time machine. New class, but staring at mob ass in BoT like so many years ago.

Yep, Adetia said the entire racing thing is completely pointless nowadays. And, as you said, the winners are decided by minutes. Not weeks/days like it was in the past. How far can a Journeyman merc take me, solo? I'm running Bard right now, but plan on doing a Shaman Persona and one more that...

Yeah, I'm active and currently leveling a Persona. I'm level 59 and gotten a few AA dumps, but I really had/have no idea how helpful it is later on. Does it do a fairly good job getting me to a functional state at max level?

I only have his comment to go by. I really don't know, but he said one of his characters had almost 100k.

I talked to Adetia and she said that it has the 'best' raiding guild in the game. I have no idea, but I have an absolute fuckton of catching up to do. The first time I logged in some random dude started talking to me because I'm unguilded. We bullshit for a bit and I mention I hadn't logged in...

I have no ties to the server I'm on. Everyone I knew has been scattered to the wind, but there are a few my old guildmates in Township Rebellion on Luclin. It blows my mind that the same person (Adetia) has been actively leading the guild for 20+ years. They even climbed back to top 3...

You play an army of boxes though, right? I'd probably be a third wheel, but if you want an actual person to hang with next time you make the rounds, let me know. I'm genuinely enjoying the game.

I had no idea the game even existed until the guy mentioned it to me, but I did check it out after his offer. And I have to agree, it looked like it had a lot of promise. It was very EQ-like. Though I'm pretty sure it crashed hard and didn't last long, but I didn't look for anything but the...

Are any of you degenerates actually playing the game on Live? I folded and I'm exploring the Persona system on Xegony (it's where I got punted to after all the server merging).

It was actually triple. And the server's economy was completely fucked. There were a few things that were cheaper, but most stuff that had any demand were stupidly expensive. And, like I said, the GM presence was omnipresent. Gold sellers got their pee-pees smacked pretty fast. 70-IQ...

I think you must legitimately suffer from Down Syndrome. What about the two statements you quoted has any element of 'gotcha?' If it's because I said I only received the cash a few times, then you are truly an incredibly massive fucking retard. It clearly states I only received $1200...

All the people saying it couldn't have been true provoked me to do a deep dive on the price history of the Fungi. I'm 99.999999% sure I'm remembering it correctly, but I really don't like making claims that aren't true. And a .0000001% chance of me misremembering bothers me. What I found is...

Sorry, but no. That's not something I will ever forget because of the way I got paid. The guy mailed me personal checks. I don't remember his name, but he was from Florida and the checks were always $400, $800, or $1200 (that only happened a couple times). Back then, it was a considerable...

Prior to two weeks ago, I hadn't thought about or visited any of the EQ related threads (much less played the game) in 22ish years, but the popularity of the TLPs managed to inject EQ into my algorithm and I got baited in to taking a trip down nostalgia lane. I came here looking to scratch that...

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Yeah, I missed it. I liked reading it when it was about other guilds, but I didn't want to be a part of it when it came to my own. I do remember there being a cycle, but my memory about that is fuzzy. I want to say there was some kind of drama or politics that the leadership felt warranted...

Yeah....the guild wasn't well-liked. Though, to be fair, what uber-guild back then was? Still, I rarely, if ever participated in the flaming shit though. I just showed up to raids and did the best I could. Just seeing someone else type Vindi hit me hard in the nostalgia feels. It's been many...