Ventusyr

1. That's conversation RP. The difference between this cryogenically freezing stuff and healing RP, even if the subject is unconscious, is that the healed subject also emotes the changes affecting their body, or complications of the wound the healer did not originally see. Then, afterwards, the cleric/shaman/druid is tired, and their subject can do as they see fit with them, whether pamper, kick, or simply walk away and ignore them. Mutual RP, loads of fun, everyone goes home happy and with most of their characters' limbs intact. This? You describe side effects, but those come after the thawing process. The process of freezing someone would be instantaneous (at least, according to popular sci-fi and fantasy. If you could provide an example of this being used in an RP scenario, that would be groovy :) ), so the subject would only nod, struggle, or simply lie unconscious while the mage/mages alakazambed ice around him. Its a neat concept, to be sure, but not much RP takes place during and directly after the magical event. 2. I'm sorry, not seeing how arcane shielding can be used for that. You'd have to make billions of tiny shields or something around the individual cells, and this is LOTC, I don't think we have cellular theory yet :P 3. Okay, did so! 4. While its true lore on fauna and flora isn't really necessary, magic lore is its own thing. All lore on magic that is accepted was necessary before people started using it because it has prominent differences. If there is something that is exactly like necromancy and has no unique qualities, for example, it will get denied. Aengulic evocation also got denied, because it was pretty much evocation, just with a source other than the Void. This magic describes some sort of healing (or anti-injury? anti-damaging?) agent using the Void, which treads on Holy ground.

I'm sorry, amma say this shouldn't be implemented. It creates no roleplay for anybody except the mages. If you are freezing someone to preserve them, then they can no longer play that character until they are thawed and healed. I could understand freezing parts of the body to stop bleeding or something like that, but that's sort of already covered by cryomancy by itself. Besides, you say this magic involves healing magics? To my knowledge, magical healing requires deity help. Druids use the Aspects, clerics use Aenguls of all flavors, shamans/orc magic people use the Spirits. There is Medicinal Magic (https://www.lordofthecraft.net/topic/107713-lore-medicinal-magic/), which is a way to use the Void to stop bleeding and stuff. It's not a subtype, per say, but is a way to use Domestic Magic for healing purposes. It doesn't even really heal, it just replaces the need for bandages and casts and stuff. So, overall, creates no roleplay for anybody except users of the magic, just bloats magic lore because we already have magic that is / is better than this.

I like it as an ET race, but not a main race. Spreading us out even more is not a good idea. We understand you put some work into it, but unfortunately, some ideas simply don't fly, no matter how much work is put into them.

Honestly? I enjoyed when all magic was locked. Searching for a teacher for magic creates a lot of RP. All the locked magics I can think of are locked for a reason. I'm going to very tentatively divide the locked magics into minor protagonists and antagonists. Necromancers and dark magic people that sacrifice babies or whatever fun things they do are sort of minor antagonists, creating chaos and fear when they leave their piles of dead bodies or command swarms of raised dead (both things I have actually witnessed and created a good deal of RP). Clerics and shamans and druids, amma call them minor protagonists, because they go around doing good and healing people and summoning spirits and whatnot. Its special when a cleric or a necromancer or a druid visits. They may not create a ton of RP, sure, but do mages of unlocked magics create a lot of RP as well? Not usually. Magic is useful only in given situations. An evocationist or conjurist will be useful in battles or in magical light shows. In the same way, a cleric only creates RP when a healing needs to be done or some undead creature needs to be slain with holy fire or somebody just needs a little prayer. A druid will be useful in growing stuff and battles. A shaman... Well, I don't have much experience with Shaman RP, given they live with orcs and I have never played an orc, but I'm guessing they contribute a good deal of healing and spiritual RP. They don't even need to be unlocked. You dramatize how hard it is to find a teacher. If you wanted to be a cleric and you looked, and I mean really look, just ask random people in cities and towns, you will find a cleric. I spent two weeks searching for clerics and it was the most fun I have ever had. It's an adventure! It's a challenge! It's something to actually do when you're bored with your character's situation. If you don't pursue magic, do you really want to provide or experience RP? It also wouldn't make RP sense for them to be unlocked and would create a HUMONGOUS hole in our lore if we just removed the lore for them. They have patrons, or specific rituals, that only they know. Void magic requires only a gentle push in the right direction of your branch of magic and you can go on that, requiring only meditation, concentration, and a great imagination. Clerics and druids need to be bound to their patrons to use their patron's powers. Shamans and necromancers, again, very unfamiliar with their lore, but I 'm pretty sure it's a similar thing. TL;DR Locked magic should stay locked and present cause its been around for too long and thats just how the lore works for it.

(( Oh my GAWSH, please, either BartYap or SonOfAragorn need to stop. This is escalating very quickly into a flame war and I am incredibly hopeful that at least one of you is mature enough to walk away from it. Just don't reply. This is the internet, they can't do anything to stop you. BartYap, I will agree with SonOfAragorn in that your post was only barely an RP post (the only thing making it so was the quotation marks. No character was mentioned saying that, no explanation of how that person found mention of the guild, etc) and was pretty unnecessary and rude. SonOfAragorn, this is an RP post, so technically he is allowed to post. It was rude, but don't be rude back. It solves nothing. )) Heshakomeu furrows his brow as he sees a small poster lying on the ground. Picking it up, he studies it for a moment, and his intrigued expression grows even more intrigueder. He immediately finds the closest messenger-bird station, hastily writes a message, and sends the bird into the air to find this Amondir. The note would read as follows: I found mention of your guild. Find your conclusions intriguing Please send bird as soon as possible. Would like interview for my thesis on ancient Athera. - Heshakomeu de Campari Shidari EDIT: ((Nevermind, y'all handled it. Sorry bout that))

Argh, I really really really really like it but players are spread thin enough as is between races... I definitely support as an event team race, but as a player race, I think it would do more harm than good.

The hate on snow elves has been ridiculous. It disappoints me that the snow elf community are actually considering disbanding because the bullying and harassment they have received is enough to make playing it not fun. Culture or subrace, is would make RP sense for the snow elves to stay, unless the Great Freeze climaxes in everything literally turning into a giant glacier. That might not fly too well with anybody. So... I say go for it. The Snow elves will fade into legend and people can do culture study on them and stuff. I know Heshy will tell stories about them.

::OOC:: MC Name Ventusyr Did you ever have a character with magic? Yes; Heshakomeu had Domestic Magic prior to becoming a cleric, which he is now. Are you aware the rules of Magic? Indeed I am. I want to set an example for potential mages, and I’m also slightly paranoid about being banned and my reputation as a magic-user destroyed. Skype Holy Heshakomeu ::IC:: Name Heshakomeu de Campari Shidari Age 147 Gender Male Race Mali’aheral What would you like to learn? I have an interest in alchemy, which I dabbled in for quite some time. To learn the art of potion-brewing from a master would be splendid. Rune Studies and Archaeology also interest me; the history of the races is crucial for every being on our world to know. Which Class(es) are you enrolling for? Alchemy*, Rune Studies, Archaeology * I noticed that, although some of the professors on the list of registered teachers teach alchemy as a subject, it is not a course available in the list of courses given. If Alchemy is indeed a course, I will enroll for it. If it is not, disregard it as one of my desired courses.

New maps solve nothing related to roleplay. A map is just a bunch of pixels and land that hopefully looks pretty. Switching to a new land, or even an old one, will do nothing to improve roleplay or stop the pvp-faction-esque atmosphere. There will be a brief period, at most a week, of exploration roleplay, before things return to the way things are now. You want less stale roleplay? Work with the Fringe. I'd prefer less staff resources be put into another temp map. How about we just have the zombie rise in the Fringe? FLood the roads with undead. Have ET raiding cities with zombies and destroying homes and generally destroying our civilizations. That'll get people jiving and running about and creating roleplay, even if it is just expeditions to slay the hordes, no? We need a new conflict. I didn't even realize there was a drought until I looked at this thread, and unfortunately, that only affects farmers and their profit. Everybody has enough food stockpiled to survive a nuclear apocalypse.

I think we should just wait for one of the nations to get a power-hungry leader, then they'll invade all the other nations. The one with a playerbase large enough to do this would probably be Oren, so... Human horde?