Smersh

My only real experience with Aeon that I remember?

Fiteclubbing with him in Warburg. That was, of course, before he joined the staff.

I understand he ran with my brother more often, though.

What NC would see is "Someone is using our IP. Distribution of a tabletop game set within our IP could hurt our future ability to sell products based on our IP."

Paragonwiki and the like are seen differently, as they are aids to using the IP in the form that NC can profit from. (Even so, all it takes is one harshly-worded letter, and the entire Paragon Wiki goes down.)

What you're doing here is offering a replacement.

It's a quite different thing.

Really, the best thing you could do to your project to keep it running would be to strip every last reference to City of Heroes out of it. Sure, you can still call your mechanics To Hit and Defense, those are generic. But every power and every archetype will have to be renamed, and all the villain groups scrapped and replaced.

Basically, even if you are not trying to profit from it, it could hurt NC's future sales. If they, miraculously, came out with a CoX tabletop game next year and tried to market it, its sales could be hurt because it would be competing with your system.

And, as far as the legal system is concerned, just because the IP holder isn't doing it now doesn't mean they won't in the future, so they have the absolute right to shut you down.

I am not a lawyer, your mileage may vary, et cetera.

...shouldn't the headline be 'Effecting Change,' rather than 'Affecting Change?'

If you like a roguelike every now and again, I can recommend Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. Delightfully balanced, with a good-sized but not overwhelming set of options.

We'll aim for this Firday again.

Fparn.

Also, amusing. I would have loved to see Retro-Posi in game.

I'm starting work on a project, an epilogue of sorts for my characters, those of my wife, and KGB Special Section 8 as a whole. Wrapping up the loose ends.

If you ever had a character with a strong association with any of these, drop me a PM and I will do my best to include them if you would like.

Yes, it means I'll be writing a story - and I may be trying to turn it into a comic.

You're tempting me to go over there, at least for a bit...

Polaron needs someone smarter than him around, after all, da?

Here's hoping you land on your feet.

You made us a great game.

I will miss this forum terribly.

I... don't know.

I never played any other MMOs, except a little bit of DDO when it went free. I did the beta for Champions, I guess, but I was unimpressed. My brother plays Champions - he was Hammer-Jack here.

I might do a trial of The Secret World, as a couple of people I know are there. I'll probably try TOR when it goes free.

But my computer is old and creaky. I don't know that it can hack those newer games.

I... don't want this game to go away.

*raises hand*

Conceptual freedom.

In any other game, a dwarf fighter is a dwarf fighter - there's only so many possibilities.

Here, we take the a few Inv/Fire tanks, and we end up with, because of the amazing costume creator: a Soviet in power armor, a djinn, a dragon, a robot, and a catgirl.

And, aside from a few things like capes being locked at level 20, we could look and feel powerful, fulfill our vision of our characters right out of the gate. No wandering around in rags killing rats with a rusty dagger for us: we had shiny and colorful costumes out the gate that fit our visions of the characters.

That's huge, and the vast majority of other MMOs will simply never have it.

And a task force where I'm drinking.

Sign up for tonight, ladies and gentlemen. For a drunken attempt at Master of Ms. Liberty's TF.

It's the only badge I've tried for and never managed. May not get it tonight, but I intend to have fun anyway.

Meet up on the boat in IP at 8:00pm Pacific Time.

1. Comrade Smersh, Inv/Fire tanker
2. Siberian Spring, Cold/Rad defender
3. Paladin, BS/Regen Scrapper
4. Shadowed Memory, Staff/WP Scrapper
5. Captain Lightning Elec/Elec Blaster
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Yeah, this is a bittersweet post, but it does have to be said: Thank you, Virtue.

I think it's appropriate to post a few memories of Virtue, and I'm going to indulge.

I remember starting the game shortly after launch. My gaming group had vaguely discussed City of Heroes at the gaming table; not a single one of us was actually going to play the thing. That's where KGB Special Section 8 got its genesis, actually.

I remember being given my copy of the game by another friend - his video card couldn't run the thing. I was going to play for the free month.

I'm still here. I never left.

I made my main character, Comrade Smersh, as my second character ever. He wasn't the second character on my account - I was sharing the account with my brother at the time. My first character was an MA/Regen scrapper, whose name is lost to the ages. I was level 3 or so, and saw someone standing under the statue of Atlas with a fire sword, and I had to have it. Hence, the Daring Armored Comrade Smersh, and his Linux-fueled Soviet powered armor suit.

I remember not being the actual founder of KGB Special Section 8 - that was actually Red-Eye. He got to level 10 before I did.

I remember the RP community, first starting out under the Statue of Atlas. That's when I met some great players - Capt. Valor, Dr. Trinity, White Geisha, and others, who I had some great times with.

I remember being the unofficial tank for Freedom Factor, and the great folks there - Dwarf Star, Red Robin, and others.

I remember Cog Sprocket. She was a good friend.

I remember playing King Jones when Issue 1 came out, and the dance party under Atlas crashed the Virtue server.

Mostly, I remember Gemini Park as it was, and KGB Special Section 8 as it was. We were once a top 50 supergroup, and we had some great members. Dueling Dervish. Lady Midday. Agent Ravage. Shae Firewarder. Red-Eye. Iron Joe. Soviet Shadow, my strong right arm, without whom it couldn't have been what it was. Mrwrk. Kohlstadt. Lunar Lass. Seigyoku. Soviet Omega.

I remember meeting some great folks IRL - Miss Independence, Vagabond Mage, Sayterra, Lyte, Shae Firewarder and her husband, Rowr, Lord Paladin and others. So many others. Hit People Guy. Kinsolving. Ascendant - I almost forgot meeting Ascendant.

I remember the fun that was my other supergroup I ran, the Guardians of Funk.

So many great times, so many great memories.

Heck, I even met my wife because of this game, at third hand - a friend of a friend of a friend I met playing this game.

Na zdorovie, to everyone I mentioned, and everyone I forgot to mention, and to everyone on Virtue. It's been a hell of a run.