As Jerc pointed out, and a lot of people heard me talk about back in COGG's voicechats, it's hard to balance this kind of thing, when the skill caps are so arbitrarily large. That's all, really. We're probably too far along to just scale the entire skill system back by a divisor, though ...

As long as the "rust" system has a way to bypass it and make skills impervious to rust based on specialization (I.E. if you're in a guild, any associated skills cannot rust, if your class is associated with a skill set, they cannot rust) or it takes all of a couple minutes per month, it's an okay ...

Oh, I'm not telling you to throw ideas around. In fact, I like some of these ideas a lot, especially for some tradeoff abilities that could definitely see use depending on changes (and I'm still a big Dwaedn Wyr literally tearing an enemy limb from limb with bear claws fan). Just saying that this is ...

What? Rare post from me? Naaah, this is all a dream. A hallucination!

I personally feel like this should wait until *the* brawler class actually gets implemented, but it does give some fun ideas of the Brotherhood getting upgraded variants of stuff thought of here. Although I'm also wondering how ...

The problem with this approach is that it's inviting people say "You can't banish me, the specific thing I did wasn't on the official list!" This is the same reason we don't (and Shadgard doesn't) have a list of crimes one can get arrested for. I think we're okay leaving it to a common sense ...

If you've reached the point where you've gotten yourself kicked out, and I can promise that I've seen cases of people working their way steadily up to it, chances are you deserved it. I've seen NPCs warn, post, and do everything except downright shoot a person, and no remorse equalled banishment ...

Looking at this from the opposite perspective sounds like assuring players that no matter how disruptive and destructive and problematic their characters are, and how many times they do it, even if deliberately, they will always have the guarantee of being allowed back into the community that they ...

I was banished from Shadgard in COGG for a real, well roleplayed on all sides, and reasonable reason. I then roleplayed, and roughed it, and generally moped, for several months, before I was let back in. Granted, I had friends to make it a little easier, but all in all, I made it work. It was hard ...

Rare reply from Marauder time. Let me address the gore-splattered elephant in the room as even-handedly as I can.

The issue of not allowing people to play with the same things even if they get banished from Shadgard is just that. It kills roleplay by way of forcing people who want to create ...

This is problematic in many ways because of the lack of anonymity. If the desire isn't for people to be able to metagame, even inadvertently, threats to them or otherwise because they can see the characters' tree name all the time instead of a system being in place to allow disguises, the current ...

The only thing I want to add here is that while there will always be people who will get upset over IC consequences on an OOC level (not speaking of this case in particular, this is valid upset), making it a situation where you use a highly to extremely lethal attack (triple channel sorcery in this ...

Did somebody call for me???

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Yeah, thirded. Marauders are about adaptability and honorless combat, which doesn't necessarily exclude a lot of guilds. Thug-based Thieves would be GREAT. The major issue with Dwaedn Wyr is the lore behind Dwaedn Wyr might exclude Marauders because they're ...

If this isn't already a thing and just untested because ropes are inaccessible currently, I think ropes (when they exist) should be able to be tied to corpses to make dragging them easier and make climbs easier while dragging a corpse. Maybe a slight roundtime reduction or energy cost reduction for ...

Your wish has been granted to the best of my capacity without being able to edit the main page of the wiki. https://clok.contrarium.net/index.php?t ... _Beginners (under "still lost?").

https://clok.contrarium.net/index.php?title=Magic/Metaphysics_FAQ

From the above page's statements on that matter and my personal knowledge:

1. Yes, however only things that are nonferrous and non-actively heated or burning.
2. As far as I recall, they're a form of superior Nethrim, but that's ...

I honestly can't see any drood fighting atop a horse to train their riding skill above 101, so an ability to either restore energy or, like Tangela suggested here, share energy with non-sapient animals that are allied to you would be pretty cool, though I'm not sure the lore permits sharing energy ...

"Consider possibility of tweaking thaumaturgy guidelines and allowing monks to battle against nethrim with a heavy emphasis on using thaumaturgy in combat. Still on the fence with this, let me know your opinions on the BBS."

I honestly support this quite a bit. Mainly because it's very hard for ...

Being at least one of the people who made the suggestion, I wholeheartedly approve, especially with the exam you have creeping up on you.

Hopefully you get some free time to enjoy yourself and relax while working on those things.

And hopefully you'll find a way to send me tacos from your superior ...

I really would like Mummers to have SOME sort of solo combat effectiveness since it's not just about singing songs and playing an instrument, some Mummers are explorers (which is inherently dangerous due to the region), but the combat effectiveness of the guild is second to none due to how you can ...

Not to burst the bubble here or anything, but Mummers are already really, really strong right now, especially in a group. If you want AoE period, you should probably expect the duration and effectiveness of the Word being used to be halved or more. Probably quartered per opponent effected ...

I don't think the Mummer camp leader would be too thrilled about someone using his teachings for nefarious purposes or damaging the reputation of his crew either.
Yeah, there's that too. Some guild leaders will not be pleased with members giving the group they belong to a bad name and that could ...

Technically, yes, however I have no idea how the game handles guards reacting to that kind of thing since it's more of an obscure ability. A person generally wouldn't understand what you're doing to your target without some knowledge from a Mummer or by being a Mummer themselves due to how the ...

It does help at least one of your abilities by making the effects of Mind Fog on your victim greater. To my knowledge, there aren't any real abilities that go under "anthems" despite the ability saying they exist. It's more of a support ability that makes Mummers even more sought out for assistance ...

I'm personally of the mind that a skilled pickpocket would be able to open any closed sheath, backpack, or other container on a person without it being realized. So I would argue that there should be an ability to open other peoples closed containers.
Once we can permanently cut off someone else's ...

Once more, very situational, as a clasp could be undone before the start of battle as well. The firearm is not always drawn before the fight, either, as such assumes everyone who uses a firearm in the open is wielding one capable of multiple shots.

As far as relying on players for other basic ...