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It this supposed to be in character or not? It seems to be straddling the boundary between the two.

This is probably going to be pretty unpopular, if anyone bothers to read it, but I think mages should be a 'support' class, rather than a 'combat' class. Rather than trying to have fighters and mages have the same offensive capabilities, they should have different areas of expertise. All fighters re...

Whoa, that's a huge change from the last picture I saw.

That's a terrible analogy. Movies don't rely on the interaction of viewers for their appeal (Except Snakes on a Plane and the Rocky Horror Picture Show).

I don't know about anyone else, but the vast majority of my character deaths are because my internet connection cuts out, rather than a lack of caution.

I don't presume anyone to have more mathematical aptitude than Martin.However, I think the problem could benefit from having people with different backgrounds and methods approach the problem. If it's true that only 2 staff members really have the familiarity with mathematical modelling to understan...

The skill loss, and hard to learn skills of mages, are so time consuming most PO's do all they can to avoid being ghosted. This sounds a bit like a wild generalization to me, but then again I'm not sure what you're basing this on other than observed behaviour. If it is actually a player fear of dea...

Do you think the fields of sociology and psychology are hateful and practiced by bigots?

I think that after the initial anger and resentment as having been made to 'lose', the vast majority of players will find this a positive thing, with the exclusion of those who are angry about almost every change that's made. It sounds like player involvement will still be encouraged (nobles staying...

Maybe I should clarify that I had a character who was one of the governing members of Lyrenzia. It was established primarily by Dyluck (who was not a GM), Damien was the leader of the Order of the Grey Light, Tialdin was never a GM (as far as I can tell), Lyrenzia was composed of its member guilds (...

To the best of my knowledge, Lyrenzia was run exclusively by players who were the leaders of major guilds. The problem is that there were too many decision makers, who weren't active enough.

I'm a bit conflicted in regards to the whole thing. On one hand, I think that the added resources that the GM team can bring to running the town (NPC guards, an 'unlimited' treasury, quest support) will be great. Also, less related to the GMs, I think it's a welcome change to have a leader who's act...

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The laws mandate that all citizens are consulted in the election of the archduke. I understand the laws are rather wordy, so permit me to transcribe the relevant portions. §3) Civil Rights a) Citizenship allows every citizen who is at least 14 years old to participate at elections in Troll’s Bane, e...

If Cassandra, and whoever else is responsible for modifying the skill system, are really looking for solutions from the players, I think it would be hugely beneficial to establish a clear goal before moving forward with solutions. Maybe it's more well established in Cassandra's mind, but to me it ap...

Some portion of players simply log out when they hit the skill cap, and the developers are looking to keep more people in game, regardless of what they're doing. Edit: Mesha beat me to it. Depending on the severity of the reduced rate of skill gain, I think a skill cap is preferable. Being unsure of...

NPCs do have magic resistance. Dragons, golems, even the members of the Salk army had enough magic resistance to repel all my spells. Also, if you see a mage who's killing things in one shot, they've been learning runes at the fastest rate possible for atleast 11 weeks.

This is straying from the topic of skill books, but it's a point I'd like to address about skill gain in general. The short of it, I've always thought that characters should receive some amount of skill based simply on the character 'aging' (in terms of time since creation). Here's my idea for an ex...

You don't really need to worry about newer characters casting dangerous spells either. By my estimate, the absolute earliest any mage character would be dangerous would be about 10 weeks.

It will be a pity if you don't return, rainbird. It's good to run into new players who are already experienced roleplayers, and I hope you don't let this experience turn you off of the game. There was a time when, "My character is insane so they kill people at random," and, "My charac...

Magic Resistance?

As Joxia Doral is the signatory of this document, and Archduchess, I feel it is important that she make her thoughts on the termination of this legal contract clear, so there is no uncertainty as to the stance of the Archduchy regarding this matter.

Playing chapter 3, I've come to have a technical gripe. I find it annoying that items stay equiped on characters in the different stories, rendering them unusuable in all the other stories. Maybe it's meant to be like that, but it fills me with rage that Dax has all my best equipment.

Yeah, the way it's set up, huge supplies of food are a definite must, but given how cheap and easy to attain, I don't think its detrimental, just unexpected.

Also, I will make Inioch and Astral play.

The Illa points are just for bragging rights. I didn't find the rock dodging one nearly as horrible as those damn birds though. Although I'm not sure if the Illa points are working being recorded right. I'm up to the intermission in chapter 2 (with the sidequests) and I haven't skipped anything yet,...

Maybe it's just me, but the birds climbing up the mountain in Chapter 2 drove me insane! All of them were very reasonable, except that damn second last set. I did get past at eventually though, so certainly very possible, just very annoying.

All the tools like shovels and axes just allow you to gain resources after a fight. Once you have those resources, you use things like the needle, or the hammer to actually make goods.

Haven't got that far yet, but so far it's great! I love how Erdrick shows up absolutely everywhere to try and sell stuff to you, opportunistic bastard that he is. It was pretty nostalgic to hear the old music as well, and I love the names, "Talking Elk Heads on the Wall," and "I was o...

Open beta sounds like "crap, an unfinished game where I can only buzz around as a bee and next month, they'll close it down".

A shot at Cyrin maybe?

I think it's fair to say that Legends of Illarion is a legend of Illarion.