I know other larger settlements have been rejected in the past because of not wanting to split the playerbase, and I personally think that a smaller more condensed grid is better than vast amounts of sprawl. That said. I know several people who would love to have a section of the Orkin explorable. P...

Yeah, man, why not throw it in for other concepts too? Certainly Inquisitors at the very least. Personally, I think any time there's a concept that provides a 'service' to the game that players may not be intrinsically motivated to provide, there's no reason not to take cost out of the equation and...

"And here we have Zarif, our beloved Grand Inquisitor, to make sure that none of us gets up to any mischief."
- A mage explaining the presence of a certain poppet doll within in an alchemy and magecrafting laboratory.

I dislike chance based things on principle. If it's meant to do something, just make it do it every time.

Damascus steel isn't any more flammable than regular steel. And swords already have a significant advantage over every other weapon due to their damage dice, ability to be sharpened, and nigh-exclusive range of medium. And setting a sword on fire (or any metal weapon on fire) would destroy the tempe...

yells from the common cells don't reach river square (i don't think), but they do reach another location

oooo mysterious.

Lorewise, there are 3 big reasons why mages can't cast spells in the cells, one of which is obvious to non-mages: the guards interrupting attempts. The others are only obvious to actual mages. There's no reason to gag a mage when they're in the cells at all. None of those reasons have to do with sou...

In regards to awakening, I really, really, really, really really do not like that it reveals the mage's identity through all disguises to the person being awakened, and I fully expect that this will result in zero awakenings from anyone who isn't already publicly outed as a mage. The risk factor is ...

I sometimes hear this, and I often think that it comes about only because most players aren't aware of all the shenanigans that do happen on grid; not every shenanigan is visible to the public or physically harmful. But more important than that, the simple facts are that: A. Most people aren't viole...

A mid-level magecraft recipe that produces 'a piece of mail' (different object codewise but visually identical to actual letters), which when read, self-combusts after a few seconds.

... I rewatched mission impossible recently.