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Instead of fixing my laptop to play LoTC I bought a very nice ipad during quarantine and have been teaching myself to illustrate.
I do miss RPing magic tho.
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This is now canon. (but no seriously I tried to search for info on Rivel but could not find any) edit: Wait wait wait… isn’t Rivel the floating city from Athera? edit 2: This lore would work for me if I was playing. It pulls in all the “simple” mechanics of Arcanism that were cultural fixations.
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BNK magic is the only magic you should be talking about. Nuff said.
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In Which Aesopian Does Something of Questionable Value and Not Much Else
Stag replied to Aesopian's topic in Announcements
Honestly, I didn’t know you had gotten the orange tag. However I share a very similar Lotc-passion with you & am incredibly happy that you are here to push your dream forward. This admin and his work have an official #bnkstampofapproval *u*k sh** up dude. You do what you think is best! -
Who the *u** is Rivel?
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Thank you for the clarification.
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The abjuration fixes seem more strict. Perhaps an explanation regarding what these changes would fix?
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so basically, we agree on most things, but the format of this guide needs work. Your points are valid but let’s get some people together to make some user-friendly magic RP guides that cut out the BS.
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This isn’t a guide. It’s a rant. “People aren’t doing things the way I want. They suck. Do what I want instead.” -> Is the impression I get from reading this. I agree with some of what is being stated here like how magic lore should be open enough to leave the concept of light & dark out of the majority of its OOC context. The idea that magic should be motive driven is right on point as well. “I want the power” shouldn’t be an acceptable motive either. This is very much not reading as a guide though. If the original use and intent of the void was to serve as an explanation for why fireballs are being slung around then it isn’t “misappropriation.” It simply isn’t the thematic choice you desire. Not everyone on the server wants some sort of dark souls / cthulu trope all the time. The server might have too many different opposing magic themes & systems though & if one has to be chosen I’d much rather go with anything else besides a grimdark style. Magic culture & magic science are the same thing. Does the system encourage the use of magic to demonstrate science? Maybe, but magic in science was a large part of the culture for a long time. The issue is that people wanted the lore to be so defined that the science part of it was undeniable. At the same time you had magics like mine that were the complete other end of the spectrum. So free & non-scientific that it was also game breaking. It is easy to blame older players and those of us who eagerly crafted magic in the old, vague system. However the fact is that if you look back 3-5 years magic was cultural, it was whimsical, and it was spontaneous. It would be more beneficial to look at what allowed magic to have that cultural influence rather than continue with the current narrative that old magic & its users sucked. Even if we did at least we were having a heck of a good time with it. As I see it magic is suffering the same way it always has. A small group of people set a new set of standards and people are pushing those standards to their limits, aka abusing the system. However now a lot of the creativity that drove day-to-day RP has been reduced to make way for carefully written spell lists. The culture of magic was expunged to ensure each subtype is adequately stocked with players. While the old system was easily abused it also allowed for people like myself, who never had a single issue of abuse, to supply culture and roleplay in a DM-like fashion. You need some of that freedom back but in a format that is easily referenced. Now we have both ranted.
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[✗] [Feat Lore][Dark Art] ⛧Voorak's Boon; The Corrupted & The Damned⛧
Stag replied to luv's topic in Denied Lore
Magic starting/restarting and growing from a feat seems like a good way to introduce/reintroduce magic. +1 -
Minecraft RP: The Best Thing You've Never Heard Of
Stag replied to Treshure's topic in Announcements
I’ve been out of a working laptop as of last July & man this got me all sorts of frazzled that I can’t explore this map. I’ve been trying to explain to my friend IRL that I don’t play minecraft, I play LoTC. It’s the reason I got the game. Now I have an exciting video to explain it to them for me! You are the best!! edit: also for years and years we have seen our own community members dissing our entire community cuz “hurdur mineman rp nerds still play this?” so the positivity is very uplifting. We work with a medium just like others use DnD but we do it better because we do it together! -
This rendition of chi and the duality between the paths is a nice read.
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Not sure why you are acting like I **** in your coffee but dude... cold. Do you have one though? Asking for a friend. It’s the one thing on LoTC I have a connection to & I’d like to input my opinion to something I was passionate about. Of course it’s all you will see from me. I’m a magic goblin, you see? Also I’m not whining about being harassed. I’m whining about people taking every opportunity to criticize something that worked during that older iteration of LoTC magic (i.e. when everything was vague). It’s outdated & from a simpler time. It was obvious that it had to go come lore games. It is okay for me to request that lore writers leave out the big middle finger taglines in their OOC sections though. I know they don’t have to listen but I can still request. I recognize that it’s unintentional but I’m still here, reading your lore, getting excited about it. As for the lore I pinned; It’s been in lore channel for longer, hasn’t been talked about, and I thought seemed very similar in terms of aesthetics & theme. It seems like it could get in the way of the acceptance of this piece. Oh, but after thinking about it I agree about the event idea. It’s up to the players to create culture around something. It doesn’t work to force it via events. @Lhindir_my apologies if my initial comment was rather aggressive. Your lore is fine. I just get in a tude about lore sometimes.
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Before I give feedback I’d like to state something; I did not create Arcanism with any intention of it having an edge of other magi. I created a magic based on aesthetic and the freedom to choose what you did with it. It was largely used in events and the system of magic simply outgrew its standards. The only blatant thing about it is its diversity. It is upsetting to see so many people who used my lore slandering me and my years of work just so they can pander to the current ST. I loved my magic, I was a master of its artistic uses, and I understood why it had to go. I also understand why people want something like it back but please all who attempt to re-write my **** be a little kinder. Its hard to read something only to see a tags like this on the end. I’d like to return to my magic someday instead if feeling ostracized. As for actual feedback; Arcanism leaving the realm shouldn’t be explained via lore documents. It needs proper event lines if even just a small part returns. Otherwise it will still be missing the one thing that lead to its eventual hard shelving. Why? Why does it exist and what long term effects does it have on the world? How does this go from being a clique magic into being something cultural again? It should also be noted that if this lore below is accepted then you would very likely be able to do arcane weaponry, art, and structures.
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Mobile forums are still not working. Clicking anything just reroutes you to home page
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Hello Arcanism & Celestialism remix. Why didn’t anyone ping me this is cool. edit: if it passes lore trial let me GF when I return ^_^
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@firespirit44 one of my favorite people on here. Sorry that we have spent so little time RPing & catching up over the years. Go get that bread.
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This is the lore we were looking for.
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So let me get this right;
Nations must pay 700 minas a week to staff in order to exist.
Players only get 2-3 minas per vote.
So it takes 350ish votes a week (or 50 a day) in order to just stay afloat. Then those minas just vanish...What. Is. The. Point?
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@Laeonathan either you aren’t following the same math as those above or you are out of touch. Can you explain how 1 player can get 210 mina a week off of 2-3 mina a vote? @jdesarno says 1 player can make 75 mina a week if they vote consecutively.
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@jdesarnois incorrect. It is 30 mina a day. (6 times 5. You get 5 mina for each vote if you vote consecutively, 2+3). 30 times 7 is 210.
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Oof can’t wait to see Eshtael with her new golem arm
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^ The kind of people LGBTQ players have to deal with on LoTC.
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I have been in enough voice chats to know RP isn’t just RP. There is always OOC feelings mixed in. Not saying it should be done away with. I’m saying we should keep a closer eye on just how far we allow people to take it. In the end it is giving space to homophobes who find LoTC and the LGBTQ community are the ones paying the price.
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Homophobic Roleplay on LoTC is way too normalized and it ******* sucks.
Can’t wait for the next installment where we discuss how fun rape and genocide can be to RP! smh. I’m out.
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I can agree with how hard it is to achieve historical accuracy, but without wanting to go too far from the topic at hand, “grim dark” can be much more than peasants spitting, and has to do with much more than language. Obviously this depends on the hand which wields it, and we all have different opinions and tastes, though some such as homophobia might be deemed unacceptable, and limiting its use might create further controversy in a roleplay community that already has staff deeply involved in most conflicts.
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Okay but to be fair it’s kind of lotc’s own fault for making homophobia extremely likely among elves. A mostly infertile race would be extremely unwelcoming to those who refuse to try and increase their population. It just makes sense for them to be less welcoming to gays. If people want to explore that aspect of rp, it’s fine. As long as they don’t take it oocly, I don’t see a problem.
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Genuinely appreciate the thoughts and opinions shared on my status. As a gay male I have advocated for using homophobia less and less since joining LoTC. It makes me uncomfortable & I don’t think is necessary for roleplay.
And I also advocate for less extreme uses of racism & sexism as well. A snow elven prejudice built from story scenarios seems okay but homophobia started as an OOC religious concept that is forced down ***** throats time and time again. We come here to exist in a fantasy universe. It’s just shitty that people replicate the most traumatic parts.
I understand that the issue isn’t an easy fix but I’d rather be vicious in my reaction to it so you know how angry it makes me than to let it continue to silently fester.
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