All four of those sound like good places to start.

Personally, I would love to see more of the guild NPCs (Guild Leaders and Pit Masters as well as others scattered here and there) given more individual personalities and topics that they're willing to discuss. Currently only Rushleel and Yutwian have much to say about anything or anybody.

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Ogdaro
"Take chances and see what you can get away with, it only costs you a favor or two if you mess up." -Issus

#1. Not too high level, younger barbarians need to know what its all about. and maybe even a barbarian library that gives a little background, more responses to various questions by the guildleaders, etc. I promise my tog won't try to eat the book. Unless it smells like turnips....


a little background on the current leaders would be nice as well. for example, we didn't even know Mo had a brother named Les until he showed up in the guild one day.



Preces meae non sunt dignae;Sed tu bonus fac benigne;Ne perenni cremer igne [Dies Irae]

One and three, always like to feel like we live in a world where countless repeating the same actions isn't the only thing that is happening.

Further, the Gerstein idea of a Barbarian library, but it would have to be a proper barbarian library. For me this means an elder barbarian, who sits by something like a firepit, and wields epic (and thus long stories) for different important background things.

So basically not sure if its feasable, but an NPC would be a living books, there would be no shelf or whatever to interact, just the NPC, so like ask NPC about the seige of Crossing 397, and a compelling and detailed barbarian centric story is told of the last Battle of the Lyras War from the point of view of Crossings. Probably things on Gorbesh battles would be big, and Sorrow War, battles and physical conflict seem important, but other meditation, berseks and what not could be presented as well.

Its important for the information to be just as useful for the incoming gamer, as the veteran gamer.

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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

That confetti out of spell scrolls is still making me laugh as I type this.

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Victory Over Lyras, on the 397th year and 156 days since the Victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

Oh, bring back Osgeth or Vishlan please. Chakrels and roar masks need altering!

The ability to roar away familiars restored!

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Anything that adds to the Guild lore would be great, and even better if that was some type of Barbarian event.

>>Anyone can get rid of shadowlings, you just have to know how.

How?

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>>>>Anyone can get rid of shadowlings, you just have to know how.

>>How?

Mech abuse.

I would also like a guild library and maybe a book or two that has old (and new) stories and histories of weapons around the realms. Maybe even a weapon encyclopedia.

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>>Kinda annoyed barbs got robbed by traders on the whole weapon crafting thing

...Does that mean Caraamon, Codiax and Squanto are now Traders? Last I heard they were on top of weapon crafting :P

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>>If handing a shadowling a rock is mech abuse, someone better turn me in cause I been doin it for years and it works grand.

Lies.

> give shadowling
A shadowling ignores your offer.
> give rock to shadowling
A shadowling ignores your offer.
> throw shadowl
Awww, it's just a helpless little creature. And it's so cute! You couldn't possibly want to do anything to harm it.
> swap

You move a rock to your left hand.
> give rock to shadowling
A shadowling ignores your offer.
> feed my rock to shadowling
A shadowling refuses your offer.

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The fact that traders can make weapons when it was originally barb only is p stupid

Why you trolling bard. Don't you have your own forum?

>>The fact that traders can make weapons when it was originally barb only is p stupid

Tony Stark withstanding, race car drivers aren't always their own mechanics, nor do they necessarily develop their own cars.

Barbarians are still essentially the go-to people for weapon crafting, if you consider tech bonuses. They just don't have ultimate rule over it anymore.

>>Or, has it already been extablished somewhere why a Barbarian could never learn magic abilities while still maintaining his/her Barbarian talents? Perhaps memory loss, or perhaps the Mana-Manipulation cognitive thought patterns short circuit the Inner-Fire thought patterns?

The more a Barbarian becomes steeped in magical thought, the weaker the Inner Fire burns. In the obscenely rare (and unfortunate) case where a Barbarian spontaneously Attunes, it snuffs the fire out. The person in question is no longer a Barbarian.

The physics or biology behind this is not commonly understood, but the threat is well advertised.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

>>The joke used to be that Barbarians don't believe in magic.
>>Although the lore actually sort of supports that idea.

Thoughts affect the brain. In real life we do not understand the mechanism of action for this, but we have endless reels of examples. Your choice in how to take up the world psychologically can have a drastic affect on how your body functions, up to and including psychogenic death (literally, thinking yourself to death with no external cause).

Mortal magic in DR is grounded in patterns of thought and brain adaptivity. At the crudest level, you do magic by thinking about it hard enough. It's... not the same as Barbarians not being able to believe in magic, but it is a murky realm where there are no sharp categorical differences between studying to understand magic and training to become a magician. You'll never get there for game play reasons, and spontaneous Attunements are very rare in the setting, but all the same it's a step down the road to using magic.

-Armifer
"In our days truth is taken to result from the effacing of the living man behind the mathematical structures that think themselves out in him, rather than he be thinking them." - Emmanuel Levinas

Fifthing request to roar away familiars. Shadowlings I am a little indifferent about, as they cannot be made to harangue me, but I'll always take the ability to smash them any day.

I would also love an Anti-Locate ability. I'm not sure if it makes sense lore-wise unless it forced Locate to be a spell vs. stamina check when active, or some such. I understand we are trying to move away from arms races between stun/anti-stun, web/anti-web and the like, but I think Barbarians should have ways to influence spell effects.

I think the "handing the shadowling something" trick only works for the grumpy shadowlings. Been too long...I could be wrong.

Madigan

Since some/all of our new skills are going to be based on magic (ok call it spirit) how about releaseing a way to train the appropriate skill now without a penalty!
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>>The new skills, the new magic system and the new combat system are all intertwined and must be released together.

Oh snap, I actually thought new combat was going to come after new skills/magic.

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