[Vlog] Tarot's Soapbox

by **Vick** on February 2nd, 2013, 5:18 am

What is your view on Malediction and how players are using it? Is it how you pictured it when you made it or has it gone in another light?

by **Tarot** on February 5th, 2013, 8:42 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4d8JgQeWmU

by **Wrenmae** on February 5th, 2013, 9:08 pm

Magic is the manipulation of ones own djed into a multitude of forms which consist of the disciplines...from my understanding, sentient life sometimes stumbled into these forms of magic or were taught by the divine in some cases. Is it possible to invent magic? Are wizards capable of shaping their djed into a different way to create a discipline or are the ways djed can be used finite in nature?

Second question: what makes the life on Fyreden unique enough to bond to a wizard? Is it the planet or some other quality about them? I'm curious why it wouldn't be possible to bond to other life forms on other worlds.

Third: if a master became a nuit or Uldr undead, would that kill the familiar as well? There are nuits with familiars who are not technically 'alive'. So is it that the familiar is attached to the Djed of the wizard and will perish only if that djed is disrupted? (As in becoming a ghost or going to Dira)

Lastly, there isn't a lot of familiary on the site. Is it being used in the way you envisioned it?

Sorry to bombard you, these are a few curiosities I have about the craft.

by **Verilian** on February 5th, 2013, 9:24 pm

I really enjoyed the video, Tarot. I've never really thought of it in that way before. I've always just tried to offer everyone quests, and those who do well or really get into it I offer more and more. And when people come to me with their own ideas I generally just say go for it. I never really considered the idea of two different character types. I guess with my PC Sira, she would be a producer. Maybe not one of epic plots involving gods, most of the time, but I do just kind of push forward with my own agenda and drag everyone along behind me, lol.

Basically, I try to encourage everyone in Ravok to advance their own plots, and a good 75% of my threads are plots involving stuff that spawned from those producers. Either they asked me to help them, or I saw them do something and encouraged them to go further with it. I don't know if Ravok has ever had a major "producer" other than maybe Aello, but she has moved on from Ravok. Her plots influenced a lot of PCs, however, so I guess she is the biggest producer I've had in Ravok since I've been there.

I'm glad you opened my eyes to this. Now I have more insight into the PCs in my city. It's very interesting...

by **Naeya** on February 5th, 2013, 9:27 pm

Thank you so much for creating that video, Tarot! It was incredibly insightful, and I think it gives both mods and PCs a better idea of how cities thrive. I particularly liked that it wasn't necessarily just a storyteller guide; it's also applicable as a player's guide. I'm sure it will inspire some of us who aren't seen as plot producers to step up our game.

Looking forward to your next vlog!

xx

by **Rayage** on February 5th, 2013, 9:49 pm

Wrenmae,

I can answer your second question because I asked that same question to Tarot quite some time ago. His response was:

By default, Fyrdenese are the only choices because of their unique metabolism. They feed upon Djed in just such a way that they can establish a link with a Mizaharian. To obtain a different creature you'd have to engineer the same link with Alchemy and even so the risks are very high. It'd be interesting though.

Which has sparked in my mind many possible ways of reverse engineering the familiar bond hahaha. Or so I think

My Alchemy always has the possibility of being wrong.

by **Wrenmae** on February 5th, 2013, 11:29 pm

Thank you for the clarification, Rayage.

Also, Tarot, fantastic video...absolutely fantastic.

by **Oran Cavarcan** on February 19th, 2013, 4:51 am

Hello, Tarot!

There was a discussion recently on the Chat regarding Nuits, Ghosts, and whether or not they dream.

The discussion itself :

TL;DL - They don't, since they don't sleep, but the discussion itself made me think to ask the following:
Are ghosts able to Dreamwalk if they possess a sleeping person who has a Gnosis of Nysel?

by **N'all Rivent** on February 19th, 2013, 12:43 pm

Hello there Tarot, so I have been thinking about ghosts and how they use others bodies to gain other skills. Will the person possessed gain experience in the skills the ghost uses seeing as it is their body? I'm sorry if this has already been asked or explained and if it has then simply ignore me.

by **Phoenix** on April 4th, 2013, 1:53 pm

Ahhhhhhhhhh I'm still waiting for your guest celebrity!!!!!