Arelith

Entry 1 THE BIG BOOK OF KURTULMAK One cycle, after a reasonable time of labour in the mines, whilst on this one's allotted eight hours of rest, a vision came to this one, glorious and terrifying. Before this one appeared one that seemed larger than any scale ever seen before, as big as a great wyrm...

As someone who loves decorating quarters, I have definite preferences. Minimal internal static fixtures - yes, I get that static module placed fixtures have less lag, but the inability to repurpose spaces and give fixtures custom descriptions and names is frustrating. Smaller spaces with cleaner lin...

I’m not involved in politics on Arelith anonymous, heck, I rolled and moved on with life. But I do miss y’all so I check in here to see what’s happening, and this (and the book thing!) caught my attention. In my opinion, the way to “address” the election system is: Staff confirm the 48 hour period w...

The NPCs who give totem access require you to be at the level where you can access spells.

For a Ranger, that’s level 4.

My previous main was a Bard 22/Cleric (Evangelist) 3/LM 5, and the calculations for caster level showed that I never got the bonus CL for being a level 21+ bard, and this was without taking the Divine Might/Shield feats.

I am 100% certain of this.

If you have levels in a class that gives you turn undead, and therefore the capacity to run Divine Shield or Divine Might, regardless of whether or not you take those feats you do not get the bonus to CL.

Same is true if you get Charisma to Saves from Hexblade, Paladin, or Blackguard.

Bard is… hard to balance, but I would honestly always recommend going with EDR3 over SOTH, as one is negated by a silly little spell called Silence, while the other is not. The investment requirement for SOTH is so high that it shoehorns your build, and makes involvement in PvP situations less likel...

Term limits on factions cannot be automated (so many ways around this) and would require manual DM interaction; this is troublesome and prone to accusations and arguments, as we’ve seen with ANYTHING where it’s handled by people as opposed to automation. The difficulty with putting in place rules is...

I never personally had one of my characters elected as a settlement leader, but I have had a lot of involvement in settlement and faction leadership on Arelith, beginning in Guldorand and then the Underdark. I feel like if Elections were held once every four RL months, but no-one was barred from run...

Meh. Current system is what it is. I rolled Ner’enthis and got a normal. Even if I wanted to come back and try Arelith again in future, the current system does not incentivise roleplay, all it incentivises is grinding on a timer if you want a higher award, and if you don’t care about awards you won’...

New Greater: UD non-award monstrous races OTHER than Goblin and Duergar able to be inked as Sencliffian Pirates (currently Goblin and Duergar can do this with a Normal)

It’s been two months since I posted my farewell and moved on. Thank you all, for your kind words and for sharing things that touched my heart. My wife and I had our 20th wedding anniversary today, and I thought you would all appreciate an update. My health hasn’t improved, but my family and I had th...

This is a difficult message for me to write, but it's the message I need to write. After 4+ years, and more than 8000 hours of play, the time has come to say goodbye to Arelith. And due to the fact that there's no good way to do this in-character, I'm not even going to try. There's no reason why my ...

It depends on what level 3 spells you are trying to put into potion form.

It is less the SPELL LEVEL, and more the INNATE LEVEL that you need to check.

One can only Brew Potions that go up to Innate Level 3.

Yep, just append your ring’s names with (left) and (right), then resave your outfit, and it will work

It's difficult to talk about such things, because the majority of names that will come up are names from the past of Arelith when things were done differently and the server was smaller. Comparing folks from the age of slower levelling and more DM events, and now, is like comparing theatre actors in...

Is this also why the "Settlement bidding properties" system is out of whack?

It talks about years on the old 1:10 scale, then the months seem to drag when it gets down to bidding time

I raised this as a bug as I was initially advised by a dev that the hp values were wrong.

Now that the overflow no longer occurs and we can see actual yields, it may be time for them to be adjusted.

Whether this counts as a bug or a suggestion therefore, I leave to the devs.

At the moment, the settlement system requires all sorts of materials to ensure that one's settlement stays well stocked There is, however, one resource type that is incredibly irritating to get stocked to a decent degree, and that is cloth. A bolt of cloth, for example is 50 units. Which requires 16...

It’s functionally a surfacer friendly version of Draconic Leathers, and Draconic Leathers are DC 48.

I can see grounds for dropping it to the same DC, but increasing the points cost in line with Draconic Leathers.

So, a bit of history. Arelith often does large changes to mechanics and classes. The classes have a caveat that the world is a sandbox that is often changing and so things may not always stay the way they are. When I became an admin, and saw large sweeping changes, I personally offered to do class ...

The issue, for mine, is not so much "having an awareness of mechanics". It is that mechanical rebalancing is a thing that happens regularly on Arelith. For example; Hemomancers lost the ability to summon/create undead. Which they had. And there was no roleplay given around why they lost that ability...

Thought experiment here One could cut the sail DCs down from 100 cap to as low as a 60 cap, incrementing by 3 instead of 5, if basined Sailing gear bonuses are removed, and if Sail no longer gets a boost from any of the Stats, and if one removes the Sea Shanty bonus to Sail, meaning that at best, a...

Removing +sail from items (other than perhaps the epic sail items) would mean that folks would no longer need to gimp their gear for sailing, and would reduce the seeming requirement for multiple gearsets.

With that said, it is a significant shift that would cause a lot of grief, no doubt.

- The Dreadnought ship should be a rental without an internal quarter, with the current internal quarter moved to the Dreadnought crewhouse. This would mean that the controlling district gets a three quarter guildhouse and a rental ship that requires six crew, but as it is a rental it does not need...

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Re: Deity Book Contest [Submissions]

Re: Quarter Ownership

Re: Why elections need a run up period

Re: Totem Path for Ranger

Re: Bard +3 CL vs Dispels is bugged?

Re: Bard +3 CL vs Dispels is bugged?

Re: Song of the Heart vs EDR 3 for bards

Re: Settlement Election Integrity

Re: Settlement Election Integrity

Re: Timer on Roll

Re: Greater and Major Awards Options

Re: Good Fortunes, Good Hunts - Farewell from Rei_Jin

Good Fortunes, Good Hunts - Farewell from Rei_Jin

Re: Brew Potion Not Working For Level 3 Spells

Re: -loadout fails to equip second ring

Re: Mythic Characters

Re: Clocks Out of Sync

Re: Underdark Wood Nodes have incorrect HP

Increase the unit allocation for cloth items

Re: No one can make this armour - Sharkskin Armour

Re: Lvl 1, -setstat, -setclass - Changes Feedback

Re: Lvl 1, -setstat, -setclass - Changes Feedback

Re: Sailing - Is it viable anymore?

Re: Sailing - Is it viable anymore?

Re: Property, population pressure, and bidding eligibility