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by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:20 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Economy Feedback
Replies: 326
Views: 11476777

Re: Economy Feedback

I'm not gonna quote anyone for this one, I'm just going to address a sentiment I'm seeing a lot here. I see a lot of defensive sentiment towards "what's wrong with me having a bunch of gold when I play a lot?" Nothing. I don't think that's the problem here. I think the problem here is two-fold. Firs...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:15 am
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Economy Feedback
Replies: 326
Views: 11476777

Re: Economy Feedback

Allow two types of accounts; secured and unsecured vaults. The bank will guard your money for you, but it costs gold to do that - vaults to build, guards to hire, security experts that need to be supplied with equipment for complex locking mechanisms and traps. Allow banks to be burgled. Accounts wi...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Mon Sep 12, 2022 3:01 am
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Invoker
Replies: 30
Views: 2745

Re: Invoker

Hot take - all spellcasters should have a spell component pouch in their inventory (yes, I'm looking at you, too, divine casters - ya'll get a lot of stuff that you can't use a holy symbol for), that they can purchase from any mage vendor for 3 GP. It should cover the components to most spells, and ...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Tue Aug 09, 2022 5:21 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Discussion: Metagaming and IC/OOC confusion
Replies: 69
Views: 5202

Re: Discussion: Metagaming and IC/OOC confusion

Seriously? Bags is now a problem? Do we really need to go around policing what roleplaying words are allowed and not allowed aside from harmful, sexual, etc. words. You can use leylines all you want. You can't use it when looking at the playerlist, saying they are not on the ley, and not actually s...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:41 am
Forum: Questions & Answers
Topic: Rituals
Replies: 17
Views: 1543

Re: Rituals

My thoughts on FOIG all tend to slant one direction, which is that FOIG is a reductionist philosophy that attempts to preserve a sort of reverse dramatic irony (the players/audience can't know even though the characters they're playing could reasonably research and know these things), that ultimatel...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:22 am
Forum: Questions & Answers
Topic: Far Realm Deities
Replies: 3
Views: 452

Re: Far Realm Deities

You may need to take a Gift of Devotion. I've tried this with an identical character on the PGCC and still doesn't work. A warlock character can take an Eldritch Entity as a deity. Devs, is this intended? I don't myself see any reason it would be illegitimate RP for a non-warlock to serve an Eldrit...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Fri Aug 05, 2022 9:50 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Discussion: Metagaming and IC/OOC confusion
Replies: 69
Views: 5202

Re: Discussion: Metagaming and IC/OOC confusion

"On the ley" is super lame. I don't even know what that means. Often times, attempting to create IC justifications for server mechanics will always, always risk metagaming. "Ley lines" aren't an Arelith invention, the concept exists in D&D and other fantasy properties and it's not any more nonsense...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:15 am
Forum: Questions & Answers
Topic: Elementalist Overcharge
Replies: 2
Views: 377

Re: Elementalist Overcharge

I feel like unloading unlimited 9th level slot spam at a dungeon boss spawn is a pretty solid tactic (magic-immune bosses notwithstanding), and since most boss fights immediately precede the end of a dungeon, you usually have plenty of time to regain mana after the boss is dead. Granted if the boss ...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Mon Jul 11, 2022 2:22 am
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Summon Buff Changes
Replies: 428
Views: 32779

Re: Summon Buff Changes

I'm actually less concerned about epics than the teens. There's a point around... maybe 10-16 maybe where your summons aren't quite good enough for the content as-is and maintaining buffs is a necessity. These items are going to be way too difficult for characters of that level to acquire. If it wa...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Mon Jul 11, 2022 2:07 am
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Summon Buff Changes
Replies: 428
Views: 32779

Re: Summon Buff Changes

I confess I don't understand the general distress. I've taken two separate arcane casters to epic levels, in varying amounts of both party and solo play. One of them is an evocation specialist wizard, no conjuration spells, and the other one is/was a true flame, meaning neither one could use any of ...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Sat Jul 09, 2022 12:23 am
Forum: The Slanty Shanty
Topic: How far, exactly does Cordor have jurisdiction/influence over Arelith?
Replies: 21
Views: 2717

Re: How far, exactly does Cordor have jurisdiction/influence over Arelith?

god yall be some of the most rigid roleplayers I've ever met To be fair, I don't think anyone's trying to stimy border disputes. I think there's an interest in visualizing a map, which usually includes border outlines when differing sovereign settlements rest against each other. Nothing saying that...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:52 am
Forum: Questions & Answers
Topic: Warlock Pact RP
Replies: 38
Views: 3782

Re: Warlock Pact RP

I watched a level 6-8 warlock get lynched in Cordor the other week for the crime of being seen using eldritch blast in the Bramble Woods. That sort of thing gives me a bad taste in my mouth for a base class that while worthy of suspicion and caution, doesn't turn you into Mega-Hitler in any other i...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:34 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Is it Too Easy to be a Non-Evil Monster?
Replies: 54
Views: 4854

Re: Is it Too Easy to be a Non-Evil Monster?

I don't necessarily think it's too easy to be a non-evil monster, nor do I necessarily think that there's too many of them. One of the first things worth noting about the generic drow (to focus on one example, but IMO a premier one for the underdark) stat block is that they are usually Neutral Evil....
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:13 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather
Replies: 31
Views: 9746

Re: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather

It would require Admins' decision, yet it is worth a shot to draw their attention. Possibly, on the invoker release, the TF path is no longer selectable, but the automated script to migrate is not executed the same day, but a couple of weeks after to give people time to react with RP, one way or th...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Thu Jun 30, 2022 6:34 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather
Replies: 31
Views: 9746

Re: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather

Is there really, honestly, an answer for this that would be enough? The devs have said on this and every other grandfathering attempt that it makes things harder for them. Trying to balance mages, spells, spawns, etc, around weavemaster was hard enough it got chunked. What kind of hypothetical futu...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:39 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather
Replies: 31
Views: 9746

Re: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather

Having to consider what update number 1000 will do to grandfathered things when you're currently on update 500 is development nightmare; now we have to write all this extra code because 5 people complained that so they could play things exactly the same as before. I respect this line of thought, bu...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:18 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather
Replies: 31
Views: 9746

Re: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather

Trueflame needed changes. I know you're going to disagree. It's irrelevant. You don't have to feel it was necessary, but for the vast majority of people, they wouldn't have shown any interest in the class because it was absolutely a massive trap. You're talking about how this new class is so much w...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:17 am
Forum: Polls
Topic: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather
Replies: 31
Views: 9746

Re: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather

Wouldn't the more productive path here be to participate actively in the testing and feedback of the TF replacement class, to make sure that it feels as good as possible for TF users as well as everyone else? rather than clinging to the past It would be, if the reason I didn't want to be migrated w...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:21 am
Forum: Polls
Topic: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather
Replies: 31
Views: 9746

Re: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather

Grandfathering is a terrible thing for the development side. It's like leaving leftover spaghetti in the fridge. It starts to rot after a few years. And instead of throwing the spaghetti out, one has to spray deodorant around it to keep everything else not smelly. I get where you're coming from on ...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:36 pm
Forum: Polls
Topic: Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather
Replies: 31
Views: 9746

Current TFs: Migration or Grandfather

I realize I'm probably not the only one who has a TF that they still spend time on. The question is in the title- I'm not staff, and the outcome of the poll in no way guarantees that's what'll happen, I'm just curious about the sentiments of the current TFs. The invoker sub-classes are clearly mecha...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:20 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: True Frost: Why play it?
Replies: 16
Views: 1418

Re: True Frost: Why play it?

Regarding TF: I'd personally prefer if these were just grandfathered in. Its not to say I wouldn't like to play the new class, however I do like my TF also and these do feel like totally different classes to me. Please. Pretty please, this, instead of... True Frost - Path decommission The path will...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:10 am
Forum: Feedback
Topic: True Frost: Why play it?
Replies: 16
Views: 1418

Re: True Frost: Why play it?

People continually associated the class with some sort of flame-based concept due to the name. To hammer the point in that that wasn't the intent with "True Flame" they renamed it to its polar opposite. The path was never objectively good. It's always served as a gimmicky concept. A potentially str...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Wed Jun 22, 2022 12:22 am
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Character awards & Writs
Replies: 45
Views: 3208

Re: Character awards & Writs

-snip And, if I may respectfully add, you can still have fun while playing a "suboptimal" build. A good build isn't what makes a character memorable. Having a higher ability score than most others won't make you stand out. It'll help if you are roleplaying someone extremely (insert ability score ad...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:35 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: Character awards & Writs
Replies: 45
Views: 3208

Re: Character awards & Writs

{Respectful Snip} Yet also, I can't think that a -1 deficit in a useful ability score will mean that a character is completely, utterly and comprehensivly unplayable or even unlevelable. Sure they won't be the most optemised thing in the universe, maybe not absolutly top-tier at PvP or completing a...
by Aelryn Bloodmoon
Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:54 pm
Forum: Feedback
Topic: New and Overtuned
Replies: 99
Views: 7375

Re: New and Overtuned

The only thing I really, really have a problem with are the Greater Shadow Spiders, their crippling strike (which is completely unavoidable if they web you!) is just dreadful, chugging lesser restoration potions after every fight is simply not fun IMO. For what it's worth, if you can find a cleric ...