BrandNewKitten

I miss world building. I enjoy it more than RPing. Sign me up when my computer is fixed!

Fair points. I think we can all agree that a brewery plugin would be a good step. Maybe that’s what we need again. Plugin testing? We went through a lot of plugins in Anthos. Would be cool to revisit some of them.

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Actually, it’s just a bunch of your fellow playerbase didn’t like it and they didn’t enjoy that version of Lotc. What was annoying about nexus to me? Here are a few things: The menus that organized everything but also made it difficult to find anything. If you weren’t grinding you couldn’t do anything with it. It promoted grind over rp. There was an economy but it made people stockpile items for no reason. Tons and tons of chests of useless **** that stayed useless until it was phased out of the map. There was a clear line between RP & Nexus. It never felt fully integrated but instead it felt like a wall. Wanna play a blacksmith? If you didn’t grind 200 hours (or more like 2000) then what is the point? Your crafted items suck in comparison to the average player. Any casual player got left in the dust with little incentive to return. I remember many a time returning to LoTC after a break, logging in, and logging out 10 minutes later after not wanting to figure out the system again. You can’t do any MC thing without figuring out Nexus and the learning curve was too high. Pro: Once you learned to do something with it and spent the time getting the resources you could revel a bit in your semi-customized pixels. Just because some of us didn’t enjoy it doesn’t make us whiners or invalidate our opinions. It is the server we play on too so respect the differing opinion a little bit more. Also the polls were always rigged and in general, LoTC polls are never accurate. Yet we used them in so many situations that it’s weird that the Nexus poll, sparking it’s removal, is controversial.

News Flash: The playerbase weren’t into Nexus and were the ones that pushed for its removal. We just lost most of the dev team too so... gl?

I am worried about some of these and the 1 hit KO potential. Lava & electric water seem problematic in this regard.

It is a non-damaging spell. Meaning a mage is spending 3 turns to cast something that isn’t even registered on the lethality scale. 3 emotes seems fair to me.

I think this works well within the complexity that is LoTC lore. +1

A quеег character that is respected OOCly and ICly.... Edit: I also want free reign and unlimited use of the elytra......

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Outdated lore stated blood mages were allowed to learn. Blood mages can also use the horror blood within a celestial for rituals. Outdated lore also stated that a shade could not learn Celestialism after they were made a shade but a Celestialism user could keep their magic if they were made a shade. However Shades nixed that in their rewrite that came after, stating a general “incompatibility” despite me attempting to give roleplay variations. At the time they wanted access and I came up with some ideas on how dark magic interacted with said magic. In the end it was too complicated and went unused.

Celestials are beings of Order. Dark magics are chaos-based. Most holy magics disallow void magic anyways. Ascended is the exception to this. Idk about Runesmithing but basically if you follow a deity your being is affected by them and thus the “stage” you are looking to operate on in the void would be awfully crowded. The Celestial would probably be pulled towards the Deity’s realm instead of the caster’s. Familiars are instinctual, simple beings. Nothing more than a blob of energy within the void, it can be assumed that if horrors can see Celestials for what they are (super tasty beings of light) then Celestials, in their uncoiled-voidbound form, can do the same. They would stay away from creatures they see as predators. In other words a mouse learns to recognize a lion as a lion. BUT. Anyone can have a Celestial bound to them unless I missed somewhere in this piece disallowing Celestialism users from binding to anyone. P.s. add Requiem back in ? but just make it so the Requiem Talent safeguards them in the void.

I enjoy this fresh new take on Necromancy.

Cats: The Broadway Musical is coming to LoTC? I don’t like this idea but maybe some people do?

And you called it upon your own authority to moderate. So chill it. Can a mod just clean up the thread for the author, including my “tangent.”

Cool it with the sass. It was in direct reference to the topic of THIS thread. Thanks!

And I have always said that mages should get less magic slots in general so they are more specialized and less of an “everything mage.” I am fine with it either way regarding the current system. However In my opinion you shouldn’t get 5 slots. You should only get a certain number of tiers to spend. Right now everyone gets 25 tiers (5 tier-5 magics) and unlimited feats. You should get less tiers and feats should cost a tier.

Oh it has just been redacted! I’m okay with that. I still think Celestialism should be where that second slot comes into play.

They have never made this point to me. In fact it was the opposite. They wanted Celestialism (where the second slot comes into play) to not take up that second slot. This magic isn’t even that big. It just has a lot of spells that are incremental so they each needed an entire section for themselves, inflating the space they take up. That being said you didn’t read the lore closely enough. Else you would have seen the part where it is stated that with 1 slot of Arcanism you get 1 out of 3 combat specializations. If you want the other ones you need to add additional slots to the magic. Meaning it could potentially take up 3 slots.

I appreciate you. This is exactly what needed to get done! You have my mage-heart. Also 9000 words woooof! I didn’t do you any favors with the monsters that were the original copies.

I have always wanted to be a necromancer :0

I wrote the lore for the original Thanhium. Always loved its use in Golem lore. G-g-g-get it!