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Not that it is particularly helpful, but I still have my docs that I bought 30 years ago. They literally survived my house burning down, I dug them out of the ashes. Everything I have heard is that new docs suck and Solovair are essentially what the old docs are, so I'd go with those.
This is freakin awesome. (er, sorry for your house, I meant that the shoes survived...) You shold give them a name, like: "Ashenborn" or something. They definitely give you plus one on your saving throws.
A missed opportunity for sure, it feels a bit late to name them now. My Atari 2600 and games, as well as most of NES games survived as well (with a few of the NES games slightly melted, system itself was toast) were the only other things that survived the fire. Once cleaned almost all the games worked.