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Hopped in for a quick visit. Glad to see you're doing well. Made a couple of posts just to keep the count up, lol.

Playing STO & Neverwinter these days, the former more than the latter. To find me over there on those games, just look for <@nickodaemus>.

Cheers!

 

Although my contributions have been meager, I am back and testing out 8.01 for dialog glitches. I worked for an international school in Taipei teaching literature, which was quite exhausting (partially because of the distance from home). I have taken the past year off to get my U.S. teacher's license online and to start my master's. It looks like I will take another year off since I can't find any job that I am newly qualified for. So, I'll be around.

Why can't I find the game.quests[x].state list? So much has changed!!

 

Welcome back Basil! I do stop in from time to time, but am taking a break from ToEE, for a bit.

Might give it another go in another version or two

 

A large pile of old newspaper and other rubbish stirs in a forgotten corner of the forum. An empty wine bottle clatters out and rolls across the floor, followed by the thunk of a grimy bong. A confused and disheveled figure slowly bring itself, unsteadily to its feet. Slowly straightening and making a vain attempt to smooth out the wrinkles in its robes the figure stumbles into the light, blearily squinting and blinking it's harshness.

"So." the figure says in a rough voice, "What'd I miss?"

 

Welcome back, my Brother from another Mother! I will let the more active members fill you in. I haven't played a go through since 8.0, myself.

 

Great to "see" you too, Maalri!!

I was wondering who'd be the first to welcome me back.

Need to carve out some time to take in all the latest developments. From the few glances, it's been seriously impressive. Alas, immersing myself again may need to wait until I upgrade this PC.

 

Fr. Ted, I saw! Looks great!

It has been quite awhile and I'm glad to be back! :thumbsup:

 

Haven't seen you in a while. I'm glad you're back!

 

So am I GA82, so am I! :thumbsup:

 

So whatever happened to.... Gaear?

 

Yay! :wave:

 

Welcome back to the Fold: Endarire!! You were missed!

 

Thanks for welcoming me back!

I got tired of DDO (Dungeons & Dragons Online) because it was too MMORPG and too little D&D. It was grind, grind, grind to be able to join groups for high-end content. I was also level capped and had my heart broken over how stupid the lore had gotten and how squandered the game's potential was.

I tried doing D&D 3.5 tabletop online, but GMs kept leaving. (Not because I was rude, but because they were busy.) Thus, Temple of Elemental Evil, a game that I had 'completed' back in the day (Zuggtmoy died and I saw the ending before Verbobonc was fleshed out), was the closest thing I had to a reliable 3.5 game. It didn't demand I ask a hundred or a thousand questions to find out what was legal, who else was playing, and so on. It was simple and straightforward for entry.

Then I played it, having not played the game in about a decade, and got Rickrolled at the Moathouse with my 'optimized' 35 point buy party of Human Druid, Elf Rogue, and Human Sorcerer + Ronald. We didn't have the damage to beat anything worthwhile. I remembered what "Gygaxian" meant and how Gygax did, in fact, made this ToEE module.

I restarted with a duo of Elf Wizard and Human Cleric, all 18s in their stats. They needed them. I did beat Zuggy after about 207 hard saves and about as many quicksaves. I discovered many things, like how spiffy Clerics are, and how great Great Cleave is in this game, and how conventional D&D 3.5 optimization wisdom assumes no one likes using swords or casting fireball. Also, longspears and glaives for the win!

Now, I'm going back through the game in pseudo-Iron Man fashion (link to planning thread) and trying to beat the game on a limited number of lives, including Verbobonc and content I've never played before. So far, fireball is the best spell!

Thanks, all, for welcoming me back! I may be interested in doing online tabletop of 3.5 sometime. (I'm back in school for a teaching credential. Time is a factor.)