So, all agree ... Cherek is just completely out of touch with normal Christmas behavior.

Very good. Carry on.

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In America it is traditional to get your tree and decorate for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving. At least, where I live.

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Oh yes ... the first ornament on the tree this year is absolutely a Genesis LPMud dragon by Denis Loubet.

Decorating complete.

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I deleted about 8 posts that hijacked the thread to a new topic about tanking power of the Neidar. Stay on topic, please.

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As for giving the Rangers adaptability features similar to the Mercenaries - definitely not. We do not want to create redundancy between guilds in Genesis, but, on the contrary, make guilds unique and distinctive as much as possible.

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Mercenaries are not Ranger class at all - but pure fighters. They can adapt their skills, but their abilities are only those of special attacks in combat. A ranger class guild would offer jack-of-all-trade abilities in addition to skills.

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Kvator, I don't think this is worse than it has ever been. Even back when I was a mortal I recall the sword of darkness you could get, and how it was often a source of the blob you refer to in Sparkle and other well-populated areas. When the Vampire guild was in its prime, darkness use was rampant, ...

This is a truly good idea, Zhabou. Thanks for your detailed and carefully thought-out suggestion. I would not implement things exactly as you have spelled out here, but in reading it, I did feel seeds being planted for aspects of a Smith build that I would like to see developed to replace the existi...

Round the Corner, Round the Bend! 40 Zillian Mortal 14 Nov 2018 -------------------------------- Round the Corner, Round the Bend! -------------------------------- (a tavern song) So here comes Sontamara, with twinkly puppy eyes, one of them is normal height, the other half her size, I see their kn...

I split a bunch of stuff that started to talk about the Ranger recode into a new thread in the Guilds section, as Arman suggested.

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