DDO Cocktail Hour, Episode 85, To Bank or Not to Bank? That is the Question.

Welcome to the 85th episode of DDO Cocktail Hour where we discuss the social aspects of Dungeons and Dragons Online!  To bank or not to bank, that is today’s big question, among other things!  *cough* Avengers *cough* Listen to find out why Samius Gurobo doesn’t agree with me.  Careful for some major Avengers spoilers if you haven’t seen the movie! Thanks so much for listening!

 

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    • Avengers!   (Warning, this is long and contains spoilers!)
    • Marvel and DC…can we find middle ground?  (Howard the Duck gems below!)

 

  • Keith Baker’s point about Superman…
  • Netflix!

 

  • Samius Gurobo Doesn’t like it when I play his character in Dungeons and A-holes.
  • Sitting Ducks first Caught in the Web Raid!
  • DDO Kersplat with Patrick  Saturday!  Wayfinder, VOD Raid.
  • Banking Levels During a TR… yes or no.

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DDO Cocktail Hour Episode 84, Hero to the People

Welcome to the 84th episode of DDO Cocktail Hour where we discuss the social aspects of Dungeons and Dragons Online!  We are talking all about our character builds for the great role reversal experiment as well as a little Avengers hype.  Listen to find out why Samius was meant to be a female half orc and hero to the people and what he thinks a “fluke” means in Permadeath! Thanks so much for listening!

 

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  • Avengers
  • Dare Devil
  • Summer Shows?

 

  1. Samius Gurobo Was raised by wolves, Tabletop gaming the hard way.  Dungeons and A-holes Sundays
  2. Life Swap!  Twitch!  Level 10. Ways to get Samius more XP…
  3. The Fling
  4. Sitting Ducks Level 27
  5. DDO Kersplat with Patrick
  6. Shroud Weapons!
  7. Surprise Permadeath Rant

 

 

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DDO Cocktail Hour Episode 83, Off The Leash!

Welcome to the 83rd episode of DDO Cocktail Hour where we discuss the social aspects of Dungeons and Dragons Online!  This week Samius comes out of the closet to complain about life, the universe, and everything!  Listen to find out what happens when we let him off his leash.  Thanks so much for listening!

 

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  • Intro:
  • Bitten
  • Life Swap!  Twitch!  Level 9. How do we change that?
  • Samius Sausage Fest on Sunday, Tabletop gaming the hard way.
  • DDO Kaspalt with Patrick
  • Rent2Pwn
  • Spring Fling wrap up
  • Raëlism

Samius Says:  

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Erdrique’s Blog

 

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DDO Cocktail Hour Episode 82, You can put it anywhere!

Welcome to the 82nd episode of DDO Cocktail Hour where we discuss the social aspects of Dungeons and Dragons Online!  This time around we are celebrating St Patrick’s Day by making up Limericks.  Listen to find out what Baaaahhd things Samius’ D&D Tabletop group is up to on Sundays!  Thanks so much for listening!

 

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Intro:  On the Way to Ireland via Free Play Music

Outro: Don’t Go Drinking with Hobbits via the amazing Marc Gunn!

Make Your Own Limerick!

Life Swap!  Twitch!

Samius Sausage Fest on Sunday, Tabletop gaming the hard way.

DDO Kaspalt with Patrick

Samius Inappropriate Topic

 

Twitter Question!

Christians Against Dinosaurs
Samius Says:  

Backpack space

Tiny House

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

 

Group Discussion  (Champions!)  

Greatest Hits!   

Emails:

  • Steiner

 

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DDO Cocktail Hour Episode 81, Fifty Shades of Gurobo

Welcome to the 81st episode of DDO Cocktail Hour where we discuss the social aspects of Dungeons and Dragons Online!  This is a bonus pod because the servers were down while we were supposed to be playing!  We put Bonnie Bew into our van/ basement and ransom her for Turbine Points!  Find out what happens when you let other people choose a safe word for you!  Thanks so much for listening!

 

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  • Bacon Flavored Cream Cheese
  • Lent!
  • Make Your Own Hireling!
  • Incubus/ Succubus/  trap skills/ Illusionary skills/ Chest buffing / Chain spell Safeword = Bacon
  • Life Swap!  Twitch!
  • Next time, Pugging!  Tangle root? STK? Sharn?
  • Bitten!
  • Twitter Question!  What is the one thing your character cannot live without?

Samius Says:  

  • Tiny House?

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

Group Discussion  (Champions!)  

  • Dandy Tank Email!
  • Samius Sausage Fest.

Emails:

  • +2 loot weekend!

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Damsels of DDO Episode 7, What goes up!

The Damsels of DDO are a group of girl gamers who talk about things that are important to them in the world of Dungeons and Dragons Online.  This time we finish out the Stormhorns with an epic adventure on a giant floating rock!  Bonnie Bew joins us once more for the fun and Mythery bestows wisdom on all of us!   Thanks so much for listening!

 

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Link to the Stormhorns quest on Twitch via DDO Stream!

Intro:  

      • The Damsels of DDO Recorded Live on February 4th 2015 11pm pst.  Our special guest Damsel this week, Bonnie Bew.
      • NEWS BULLETIN!
      • DDO Players News

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 Rumors and  (or) News  (and whatever I want to talk about) by Sahba Jade:

      • Risia
      • Another forum thread about game difficulty
        • Do most players play only elite difficult, even new players? Is the game that easy?
        • Is there an entitlement-based mentality where people demand no-fail elite completions?

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  • Patrick has started a PD character and is going to play/ stream starting Thursday.  

 Get to know your Damsels presents: Damsels Trivia!

    • Just a few questions:
      • Where is Mythery?
      • What does Sahba Jade do every time she gets a new Twitter follower?
      • How many server events has Lessah hosted?
      • If a train goes 45 miles per hour north and another goes 30 miles per hour south, where is Mythery?
      • Who is most likely to wipe a Damse’ls Party?
      • Who is Mythery’s/ Lessah’s/ Sahba Jade’s favorite hireling?

 (**psst, read these notes from Myth and tell me she shouldn’t be writing for the DDO Wiki!) 

Stormhorns, Look Mom, it’s a flying fortress with an army of orcs, giants, and gnolls on it!  And a bad bad Wizard.

 A Break in The Ice

  • So, the point of this quest is to defeat wizzy Thamo and on your way to find him you run into a giant names Rungnir who has been prancing around in this cavern taking off his clothes and leaving them lying around all willy nilly. He says he’ll help you if you find his clothes for him. I think you should find his clothes because the sight of a naked giant is horrifying. Kill the wizzy and then kill the giant.
    • Guardian’s Glasses (Level 27) – Vitality +40, Seeker VII, Green Augment Slot
    • Sage’s Spectacles (Level 27) – Intelligence +9, Fire Lore VIII, Combustion +132, Colorless Augment Slot
    • Skirmisher’s Lenses (Level 27) – True Seeing, Protection +8, Green Augment Slot
    • stupid gloves for a wizard and a slashing weapon blah

 What Goes Up

  • So, in yet another cavern, with many little cubbies that have a barrier up to prevent…hmm….I’m gonna go with preventing letting some things out cuz there are a lot of things in them. Mostly evil shadar kai. Sheesh, hate those guys and gals. After lowering all of the barriers and getting a crest to match the crest that some other dude has you get teleported into another chamber to fight more shadar kai and a wizard. Winning that battle allows you to finally get outside where you can see that you are flying through the air on a glacier, wheeeeeee! First have the rogue go into an area with a bunch of traps and chests and open the correct one. You will see the others later. Take down three pillars, kill everything. Win. Jump off the side and the aforementioned chests will plop down in the snow nearby.
    • Guardian’s Ring (Level 27) – Sheltering +24, Strength +8, Yellow Augment Slot
    • Sage’s Ring (Level 27) – Potency +92, Charisma +8, Wisdom +8, Yellow Augment Slot
    • Skirmisher’s Ring (Level 27) – Constitution +8, Thunderstruck, Yellow Augment Slot
    • Consuming Darkness – Ring – Bound to Character on Equip seeker and combat mastery
    • Boots made from a goat with some augment slots and random effect. Has anyone seen any goats around here??
    • Monk stuff blah
    • You can teleport to these far-off areas once you have walked there once.  Touch the “Harpers Camp”  and then you will have it.  Or spend shards and no one wants to do that!

MISC

  • Mythery Says:  Protect Mythery at all costs. You are expendable.
  • In case of emergency, giant underpants can be used as a tent.

Housekeeping!

  • New shows will go up on the Damsels website and be linked from the CTH as well that wasy I don’t have to do double work! <—–LIES! All Lies! The show is up at the CTH!
  • Also we have an iTunes feed but for now I will keep posting the cast to YouTube with pics and fun stuff because the video projects are fun for me and I learn something new every time I do it.  So I’ll do it until I get tired of it.  Or if there is an outcry from the DDO community for me not to stop.  😀  Big thanks to Mythery for squaring the iTunes feed away without breaking the internet!
  • We can haz a website Damsels of DDO dot com!
  • The Adventures of Sahba Jade!  What’s Next?  Wolfpack in heroics.
  • When is Next time?
    • Twitch Tuesday February 10th 2015 at 11pm Pacific Time!
    • Podcast Live Broadcast February 11th 2015 11pm Pacific Time!

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DDO Cocktail Hour Episode 80, Champions

Welcome to the 80th episode of DDO Cocktail Hour where we discuss the social aspects of Dungeons and Dragons Online!  This time around we are talking about Champions!  Listen to find out where the best real estate is in DDO and how a homemade multitool relates to Samus’ pants!  Thanks so much for listening!

 

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  • Risia
  • Damsels of DDO  
  • Make Your Own Hireling!
  • Life Swap!  Twitch!
    • Next time, Pugging!  Tangle root? STK? Sharn?
    • Lessah’s Pale Master as seen on Wiki!
  •  The Flash
  • Twitter Question!
    • Where would you live in Stormreach?

Samius Says:  

  • Favorite pants.  Multitool

Group Discussion  (Champions!)  

  • Champion Emails!
    • B writes:
    • Bonnie Writes:
    • Anon Writes

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DDO Cocktail Hour Episode 79, Permadeath 2, The Resurrection!

Welcome to a very special episode of the DDO Cocktail Hour where me and a few of my guildies discuss what Permadeath is all about, how it has evolved as the game has evolved, and where it’s headed as the game goes on!  Listen to find out why halflings should never be allowed around explosives!  Thanks so much for listening!

 

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Disclaimer:  Permadeath is a style of gameplay that uses self-imposed rules in order to make the game more challenging and offers a closer approximation to pen and paper D&D by disallowing the use of resurrection shrines or store-purchased rez cakes.  If you die in a Permadeath party and no one in the party has the power to raise you, you are dead.  All your money now belongs to the guild bank.  Choose one item to “will” to your next character, delete (or leave the guild), and reroll.

**We don’t go into many of the rules we covered in our first Permadeath show that can be found here!

 

Where is Samius?  Wut?

Getting to know you!  

Favorite Death of all time?  Yours or someone else’s?  

(this is one of the reasons why we play, not just for the elation of quest completion by the skin of our teeth, but for the waves of crushing defeat and the “laughter” that comes with a good death.)

  • “Hey Guys, Watch This!”  Ding!  You’re Party member had died!
  • “Thacko” The afk, wife aggro death. The Real Mystery of Delera’s Tomb

Let’s talk Rules, because for every rule you make, there is always someone who will try to work around them.  DISCLAIMER!  The rules and game play situations discussed here are strictly for the Sublime Permadeath Guild on Thelanis.  Other Permadeath may have slightly different rules.  I’ll talk about a few of them, but not all.  

  • Death.  What counts.
    • Lag
    • City Deaths, as in falling into Lava in the Twelve
    • A party wipe, our last party wipe was in Thunderholm.
    • Let to talk about the proper way to raise a party member.  And the IMPROPER way to raise a party member.
    • Some PD Guilds have a constitution rule, as in, you can only be raised as many times as you BASE constitution will allow, and that’s over the life of the character.  Say for example, your base con is 12.  Your character can only be raised 12 times over his/ her adventuring career, and after that, you must delete that character.
  • Most dangerous levels for a Permadeather?
  • Most Dangerous Bosses/ Situations for a Permadeather?
  • Hirelings?
  • Ship Buffs
    • What is a Ship Buff?
    • PD Halls of Valhalla, Level 7 “Untouchable status”
  • Commodity Items.  Potions, Wands, Scrolls.  Why not outlaw those?
  • Auction House?
    • Does the use of the Auction House ruin the experience?
  • Shard Exchange?  Trade Channel?
  • True reincarnation and Epic reincarnation
  • Trade restrictions
  • Crafting

Questing Rules of Thumb:  

    • Difficulty
    • Traps?  (Everyone has a job, let them do it)
    • Aggro Management
    • Meta gaming, No spoilers etc
    • Grouping level range… Sometimes you have to solo
    • Communication.  Take care of yourself.

Always take two halflings because the first one might wiggle off the hook and you’ll need a spare.  

Personal Guidelines

  • Lessah
    • From My mentor Tupe…
      • Don’t spend real money. It might be over tomorrow and your money with it.
      • If you have an enhancement, spend it, if you have a level, take it.
      • If you have money, spend it.  Better to be broke and alive than rich and dead.
      • Fortune favors the bold.  If you aren’t on the verge of wetting yourself at least once per gaming session, you are doing it wrong.
  • Chai
    • Many of the “flavor of the month” style builds do not always work in PD.
    • Some builds that would be “suboptimal” to most, actually work better in PD.
    • Abilities with longer cooldowns are more tolerable in PD than regular play
    • We put alot of abilities you see labeled “useless” on the forums, to good use.
    • The Dandy Tank
  • Tupe

What do we think of?  

  • Level 30?
  • Champions?  Wassup with that?  True Seeing?  Bypass Fortification?

Other Permadeath Guilds on Other Servers (that we know of!)

  1. Sublime
  2. PD Halls of Valhalla on Ghallanda
  3. Mortal Voyage Permadeath Guild on Argonnessen
  4. DDO Forums!  There are plenty of guilds, look at all of them!

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DDO Cocktail Hour Episode 78, Producer Says What?

Welcome to the 78th episode of DDO Cocktail Hour where we discuss the social aspects of Dungeons and Dragons Online!  This time around we are talking about the Producer’s Letter and Shiny Objects.  Listen to find out what “wife swap” means in DDO. Thanks so much for listening!

 

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Festivult

 

  • Damsels Do DDO  
  • Make Your Own Hireling!
  • Wife Swap!  Twitch!
  • You’re a Wizard ‘arry
  • Ground Rules!
  • Anything bound, you keep.
  • Use Found Gear
  • Can use Guild Stuff.
  • Max equal to Level of Stuff.
  • Farming for collectibles.
  • Level together w/in one level
  • Grouping?  Challenges?

 

CTH Semi-Regular Schedule!

Samius Says:  

  • Warlocks.  Why are you sexy?

Group Discussion  

  • Why is Temple of Elemental Evil Worth my Time?
  • Mysterious Artifacts?  Wassup wit that?
  • Level 30?
  • New Festivals?  Vague.
  • Champions?  Wassup with that?  True Seeing?  Bypass Fortification?

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Damsels of DDO Episode 6, Stormhorns

The Damsels of DDO are a group of girl gamers who talk about things that are important to them in the world of Dungeons and Dragons Online.  This time around the Damsels run around the Stormhorns with special guest Bonnie Bew!   Thanks so much for listening!

Here is the Quest!

Intro:  

  •  Bonnie Bew, president and founder of the Owl Bear Protection Society.  No way.  I saw her drown an owl bear!
  • How was everyone’s holiday?  Playtime?
  • Rumors and  (or) News  by Sahba Jade:
    • Sahba Write or link something here!
      • Producer’s Letter – what’s happening in 2015
        • Temple of Elemental Evil
        • Warlock (“We are looking into adding a new class during the year and we are considering the Warlock class.”)
        • Epic Vale and new adventure pack in Shavarath
      • Turn in coins by Jan 18

 

Before we start!  

 

  • Get to know your Damsels – this week, we get to know Bonnie Bew, honorary damsel!
    • Just a few questions:
      • Where were you when you first heard of Mythery?
      • When did you start playing DnD?
      • DDO?
      • How excited were you the first time you played with Mythery?
      • Shroudapalooza?
      • If a train goes 45 miles per hour north and another goes 30 miles per hour south, where is Mythery?

This time around, we ran the Stormhorns Quests!  

 

MISC

  •  Mythery Fan Club is up and running!  You can join!  

Housekeeping!

  • Show will go up  Saturday at the latest due to technical issues that must be ironed out!
  • Website Update Mythery!
  • Next Time!  Sahba Jade? Stormhorns (what goes up)
  • When is Next time?
    • Twitch Tuesday Jan 27th, 11PM pst
    • Podcast Live Broadcast Wednesday Jan 28th, 11PM pst

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