Ambiguously Gendered Child of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Rystil Arden]

Yes, but I recommend only proposing a few at a time. There more there are, the more reading there is, and the less likely it'll be accepted.

At least, that's the impression I get. I tried proposing a bunch of feats before (fairly big list, they're from one of the EN World articles to help out Bards), and it was too much at one time I think. Change in LEW is run at the same pace PbP games play at -- pretty slow. And no one's above 4th level, so it's pretty low-powered too.

Well, I'd need to get the Lesser Orb spells accepted before I could make even a level 1 wizard, so I can bar myself from Evocation without making the entire party upset.

 

[Knight Otu]

Oh, I didn't know that. Is that to prevent supersaturation of classes?

That was kind of born out of the discussion surrounding Complete Warrior. I guess that was also the time it was fully decided to go SRD plus proposed material. I think all judges at that time voted "no new core classes."

Of course, with time, things might change. Deity proposals originally where limited to one per person, and the higher up that person in the hierarchy, the more powerful that deity could have been. Morrus had the right to propose an overdeiry, if I recall correctly. (obviously, he never did...)

 

[Jdvn1]

Well, I'd need to get the Lesser Orb spells accepted before I could make even a level 1 wizard, so I can bar myself from Evocation without making the entire party upset.

I thought Evocation isn't good until 3rd level spells. No one on LEW has 3rd level spells yet.

I'm not good with arcane casters, though. Anyway, I'm not sure if official stuff is allowed -- I keep getting mixed reactions from it. Better to homebrew stuff/find OGC material.

 

[Jdvn1]

Of course, with time, things might change. Deity proposals originally where limited to one per person, and the higher up that person in the hierarchy, the more powerful that deity could have been. Morrus had the right to propose an overdeiry, if I recall correctly. (obviously, he never did...)

I guess some people don't stick by that too much? Rae proposed two at the same time, before, and they were pretty powerful deities IIRC.

 

[Knight Otu]

All the official WotC spells.

Using official stuff is troublesome, I'm sad to say. The main reason we use the SRD plus proposed material is to keep LEW as accessible as poossible. Proposing a spell means putting it into the forums, for everyone to see. Proposing all official WotC spells would mean putting them into the forum as well - which WotC would not like to see.

If you want to propose official material, it would be best to tweak it in several ways. My own Dervish of Sairundan is an attempt of that - a dervish changed to fit into the world, and to be different from the CW dervish in several ways.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I thought Evocation isn't good until 3rd level spells. No one on LEW has 3rd level spells yet.

I'm not good with arcane casters, though. Anyway, I'm not sure if official stuff is allowed -- I keep getting mixed reactions from it. Better to homebrew stuff/find OGC material.

Well, I can homebrew as I please, but if I do that, then I have to worry about more questioning of the balance (I mean, what DM just lets players make up new rules for their own character without very carefully trying to see if the player is trying to create a giant exploit?) as well as the fact that a homebrewed spell would probably have to be researched (and then only I would have it or something like that), whereas I would rather just take an official spell and let it be a spell that anyone can learn.

 

[Knight Otu]

I guess some people don't stick by that too much? Rae proposed two at the same time, before, and they were pretty powerful deities IIRC.

As I said, that was once. That policy is no longer in place. Think of it as an example of how things might change over time. After all, that is what I intended it to be.

 

[Jdvn1]

Well, I can homebrew as I please, but if I do that, then I have to worry about more questioning of the balance

That's the point of the proposal thread. Proposals are rarely accepted without tweaks. I'm not sure if it's ever happened. Come up with a neat spell that you think is somewhat balanced, propose it, it'll be balanced for LEW (assuming people like the spell or don't see it as pointless), and presto. And I don't think it has to be researched. At least, not necessarily.

 

[Jdvn1]

As I said, that was once. That policy is no longer in place. Think of it as an example of how things might change over time. After all, that is what I intended it to be.

Gotcha. I really like the proposal system, myself. Anything is up for scrutiny.

 

[Rystil Arden]

That's the point of the proposal thread. Proposals are rarely accepted without tweaks. I'm not sure if it's ever happened. Come up with a neat spell that you think is somewhat balanced, propose it, it'll be balanced for LEW (assuming people like the spell or don't see it as pointless), and presto. And I don't think it has to be researched. At least, not necessarily.

I took a look at the approved content, and it seems that there has only ever been one spell approved, and it was a domain-only spell