First floor of Newfallen to 80%. I deleted the old story and the old maps. Now, the only way to go is full speed ahead. Floor 2 will probably only have two encounters (floor 1 has five, three of which are optional). There is enough room on floor 3 for as many additional encounters as I can think of reasons for. My one rule in foundries is: each encounter must have a reason to exist. ...
Just for verisimilitude’s sake, I ran through the “Plight of the Undead” Befallen quest in actual EverQuest to get tips and pointers and you know what, I think my version of the quest is going to be better. The original quest really, really wants you to jump into the well and then work your way back up, fighting the quest NPCs plus all the other random Befallen trash. I really, really don’t want people to jump down the well (or at least, not live to regret it if they do). My fear is that players will jump in the well, kill all the uber mobs I’m going to put there, run around, kill Rethkan, and be done with it in five minutes. On the other hand, I want to leave that as an option. ...
This is a thing that happened. You may now bow down before me. #Neverwinter #DrizztLives #GogoTiamat This was posted on Google+
Anyone remember UBER YOU? #EverQuest #nostalgia This was posted on Google+
Weekly Foundry Reviews – 1/28/2015** Well, I missed a week, so this week, there’s a double helping of foundry goodness. Blame it on the blizzard. And remember, if I seem harsh, every single one of these quests has gotten more plays than any of mine. So who am I to talk, right? A Missing Man - CotW:1** by @redneckrobin** A man mysteriously disappears on the night of a full moon. Perhaps this had something to do with a mysterious wound he got long ago during his days as a caravan guard? You’ll never believe what happened! ...
I made decent progress on the first floor of “Newfallen” this weekend. Most of the ceiling has been added. I’ve sketched out the Gynok Moltar encounter, but I think I need to make it a little easier. The druid is now Pham Willowbark, who appears in most of my other EQ adventures. The plan is for each room to be its own little mini-adventure. I’ve decided to use the Befallen quest “Plight of the Undead” as the model for my Befallen revamp. It’s one of the newer Befallen quests – and by newer, I mean only a decade old. Unlike classic Befallen, this one has minibosses and a final boss. The original quest begins with a trip down into the well… I’m going to split that up a bit. ...
Finished re-tiling the floor to the Well in Newfallen. The NPC gives the quest to get his buddy’s gear from the bottom of the well. The buddy accidentally fell down, was instantly killed, and now his stuff’s going to poof before he can run back from Freeport. Ooooh I should make it Qeynos. I activated Skeleton Lrodd to see how hard it would be to fight in the room. It wasn’t easy. I had this idea to lure Lrodd into the well to see what happens. He falls into it fine, but then there’s aggro that’s impossible to fully lose, making things annoying. I need to stop him from falling into the well unless the player is already headed for the express down elevator to oblivion. ...
It’s a wonderful world we live in where we can have a videogame show people at a conference table and still get in a decent crotch shot. STILL not understanding why Seven of Nine has to wear skin-tight clothing. The Borg don’t. Starfleet doesn’t. And, why does The Doctor look old? I know Robert Picardo has gotten older, but this is a video game. The Doctor can look like the younger him, no problem. Is this some sort of weird Bicentennial Man thing going on? And he’s always going on about his subroutines. I guess that doesn’t mean the same thing that it does to those long-dead 20th century programmers who defined it in the first place. ...
DCUO: Thanks, Internet! Okay, I actually went so far as to look up a DPS build, put it in play, went back and soloed Mister Freeze. I didn’t even need a second orbital strike. Almost full health and power. I should… I should go try the Metropolis Historical District dailies… Wonder if I could do those now. #DCUO This was posted on Google+
It’s been a whirlwind few days since I mysteriously hit CR 106 and became eligible to play the newest endgame content in DC Universe Online. “Mysteriously” is the word. I’ve been at CR 105 (CR = Combat Rating, the gating factor for endgame content). The CR calculators we use showed that I was quite a long way from CR 106, a trip that would require a lot of upgrades and mods. Clever Clara sent me some mods that would help, but even with those, it would be a long stretch. ...