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Playing Without Rules

August 8, 2013 by Belghast

This is another one of those mornings where I am sitting here struggling to find purpose… or at least something to write about. After a few nights of lousy sleep I managed to get a pretty solid one last night. The Ceiling Fan has essentially died in the bedroom, but yesterday I hooked up an oscillating fan and it was actually quite comfortable using it. Oddly enough though, even with a good nights sleep I am just out of it this morning.

Guest Posts

I have to say I was shocked that both of my guest posters had topics ready for me yesterday. I apparently fail miserably at the concept of a guest post, since most bloggers use them for days when they don’t actually want to post. I kind of feel like that would be cheating this little experiment I have been on, to see if I can manage to post every single day for a year. I fear for November, since I plan on doing NANOWRIO this year… and I am not sure how I will be able to write every night… and then still be able to come up with something worth saying in the morning. You guys might just get a lot of status updates to my word count.

Ariad and I don’t always see eye to eye, but honestly he said a lot of things I would have said. Ultimately my problem is not removing the Trinity persay… but that when you remove it… it has to be replaced with something. In his post he did a great job and outlining how various games both digital and real all have roles that are played. So if you want to remove what World of Warcraft essentially distilled those roles down to… you need to replace them with something else. The absence of role based play essentially turns everything into a mindless deathmatch, which while fun for some time does not lend itself to engaging gameplay.

Playing Without Rules

Sevok has been a pet class in essentially every game I have ever played with him. He pretty much personifies what I think of when I think about that type of player. There was a pretty good debate that spilled out onto Google+ as a result of yesterdays posting. Essentially when dealing with a pet class, I get frustrated because I would rather just do it myself instead of sending my minion in. That along pretty much identifies me as NOT being a pet class person. While I raided on a hunter in WoW during Vanilla… I tended to lose interest once they fixed the pets and we actually had to use them in combat.

The above shot is from a run through Scarlet Monastery House Stalwart did a few weeks after the launch of World of Warcraft. Essentially we had two hunters, a shadow priest, a dps warrior and a mage. We had no real “healer” and we used a combination of the two pets to tank…. additionally if you look above you can see that I was a survival tree “melee” hunter. I am in fact the dwarf banging on the Abbot with the polearm. Everything we were doing was “wrong” but we didn’t really care.

Why did we play this way? Quite honestly because we didn’t know any better… we had yet to be told by the internet that everything we were doing was not effective. Honestly I think that has been more to blame with the stagnation within the MMO market than anything else. The “Elitist Jerks” of the world quantify and distill everything about the game world, and reduce it to a series of equations. Math is solid and unyielding, and extremely hard to argue with… but also pretty boring at times. It seems like in EQ, DAoC, and the early days of WoW we were extremely willing to make bad decisions… just to see what the consequences would be.

So what if I was a melee hunter… the brunt of internet jokes. I had fun doing it… I made it work… and through a mixture of stubbornness and creativity we were able to make things work. Sure there was always a point at which it became difficult… but even once the golden path was deeply ingrained in me… we managed to do a Blackrock Depths run with 2 rogues and 3 hunters and finished it off without much issue. Additionally our raid used to do all hunter Upper Blackrock Spire runs for fun. When 10 hunters cast aimed shot at exactly the same time… mobs pretty much just evaporate.

Flexibility of Roles

Ultimately what I am saying is that while we were using sub optimal builds and class compositions we were able to get through the content by the use of our wits. While we did not have the things that people prescribed as a “tank” or a “healer” we adapted through the use of what we had. We still very much had someone playing the role of the main tank, and someone playing the role of the healer, but we were doing so in non-standard ways. Ultimately this is the sort of thing I feel we need going forward. The ability to blur the lines of what is the tank and healer, and allow multiple people to fulfill these roles in multiple ways.

Ultimately to me it is not the failing of the trinity or role based combat, but the failing that the designers have allowed games to get distilled down to the equation of “only one right answer”. Having a Golden Path is fine, but quickly there becomes way too much social pressure to conform your character to the most optimal path. I think that is why I have enjoyed playing Rift so much over the years, is that there are literally thousands of possible right paths out there, that can be tweaked and tailored to fit the exact preferences of a specific player.

Sure there are golden paths, but they seem to change on a weekly or monthly basis. With the ability to have an extreme amount of prebuilt “roles” you can switch to it allows players to have both their experimental builds and their tried and tested builds and be able to swap back and forth between them freely. On my warrior I totally have a 61 paragon and 61 champion tried and true dps build… but I also have a number of Tanky builds that have different personal flavors to them that I am using to test various things out.

No Right Answer

Ultimately I think this is the hope I have for Everquest Next and its implementation of Storybricks. I feel as though there will NEVER be only one right answer. That we the players will be able to tailor a solution that fits the skillsets we have available. But I still feel as though role based gameplay is one of the tools in that toolkit to allow us to build those solutions. I think as Ariad, Sevok, and myself were trying to point out.. that each of us as players brings with us a certain favored role based mentality. My hope is that we can apply those ways of thinking towards new and complex challenges regardless of the character abilities we happen to currently have and come out with interesting gameplay as a result.

Flexibility of purpose and the ability to shift back and forth between what role a given player happens to be playing at the time completely seems like a viable way to deal with smarter mob AI. As evidenced by all the comments the other day regarding my wanting not to lose tanking as a thing that is done in MMOs… some of us have very technical definitions of what that role is. Much of that is rooted in the construct of the “Taunt monkey”. But as I tried to explain in the “Tank is” post… I am very flexible in what that definition means as it is applied to a given games mechanics.

My initial fear with Everquest Next was that they would be going with the “Everyone is DPS” solution that Guild Wars 2 used. This was most definitely not the path to interesting gameplay, and more or less over the course of several discussions since the weekend I have arrived at a point where I believe that EQ Next will have much more meat on its bones than that. It sounds as though they are building in roles to replace the trinity… but we just simply do not know what those roles will be or what exactly they will entail. I really look forward at getting my hands on Landmark as it goes through the beta process. I am hoping it will help to answer a number of questions.

Wrapping Up

It is that time again, and I need to be getting on the road. I have managed to turn a day where I had no clue what to write about into another long ramble. I cannot guarantee that anything I wrote is really worth reading… and is likely just me working out concepts in my own head… but my readers should be long used to that by now. I hope you all have a great day, last night we had a fun guild night running around and closing rifts. Was fairly relaxing and had a great time hanging out on mumble with Rowan, Psynister and Fynralyl. Hopefully we can get some dungeons going before too much longer, even if I have to start playing my cleric so we have a healer. I will be happy when 3.0 releases and rogues and warriors finally have a main healer.

Out to Pasture

August 5, 2013 by Belghast

I need to hustle this morning so the post may or may not be disjuncted. I had a generally lousy time sleeping last night as all sorts of odd noises kept waking me up. The end result is that I gave myself 15 more minutes to sleep at one point… and now I am probably more than 15 minutes behind schedule.

Out to Pasture

Yesterday my post about EQ next, its removal of role based combat, and my subsequent despair caused a pretty large comment storm divided up between my blog, Google+ and twitter. I have to say I had a vastly different gameplay experience than a large number of the posters. But that said it does seem like there are a massive amount of people disgruntled about tanking in general or even the concept of needing one. Rowan wrote a pretty great rebuttal with his post “Thanks, But no Tanks”.

I feel in many ways like I am being put out to pasture, like I am some relic of a bygone era. It reminds me of the same kind of feeling I had when Warriors in World of Warcraft went from the only viable tank, to by far the worst one. It’s like being told, “Thanks for tanking all of those years, but we really have no need for you any more”. I am sure that a lot of my healer friends will be feeling the same way. I remember going into GW2 with some of those folks, and ultimately they were extremely disenfranchised when they couldn’t find a healer to play.

Divide and Conquer

All of this is to say that I am not open to new ideas, but more that I am extremely disillusioned with the alternatives that we have seen before. Brian “Psychochild” Green who happens to be part of the Storybricks team, made a quick comment in my Google+ thread.

The holy trinity came about because of primitive MMO AI. Vastly improved AI means a new dynamic is needed. Wait before you despair.

And honestly I am completely fine with a new dynamic… but I want there to be a “Tanky” role in whatever it is. This can mean a lot of things but so long as there is room for strong defensive and protective gameplay, I will probably be okay. Taunt has always been a crutch, and a tool that the good tanks used only in situations where things were already out of control. I can live without the artificial construct of instant threat generation. Additionally I can live without the concept of the tank being the one person who gathers up all the mobs… in fact the “AOE it down” mentality while effective is extremely boring.

I want a role so that I focus on the biggest and hardest hitting mob, while the rest of my party burns down everything else. I want to engage and keep busy the big guys while my team either through the use of crowd control, or simply dps juggling takes out the rest of the group . I am completely fine with that kind of a paradigm. I just want a beneficial role to play, and this really has not been the case in any other game that tried to blur the lines of the trinity. A guardian in Neverwinter is about the most useless thing ever when it comes to grouping… I don’t want to be the sword and board guy that is dragging the entire team down.

Physical Mass

They could go down a completely different avenue and pattern the constructs off of pvp based tanking like Warhammer Online. I am again completely fine with this paradigm as well, as I really enjoyed tanking on my Ironbreaker. The different there and the construct that allowed this to function was that players had physical mass. You could not idly clip through other players or npcs… and as a result “Tanks” could create physical barriers to keep players from attacking the squishier targets.

This was an enjoyable mechanic and there was quite a bit of synergy between the support functionality I was supplying and the damage dealing my friends were doing. With the destructible and constructible world concept… I could definitely see a tank being an obstacle maker that slows down or impedes the enemy from getting to the party. So long as I play an important role in the party, and the addition of my abilities improves gameplay rather than drags them down… I will find a way to be happy with whatever defensive gameplay it provides.

DPS is Boring

Ultimately I play a tank most of the time because I like being able to take tons of abuse. I habitually level in every game as either a full tank or a custom tank hybrid build. It is the style of gameplay I always gravitate towards. The avatar I have in my head, always has a sword and shield and lots and lots of armor. My time constraints often times push me into a mode where I simply cannot be the lynchpin of the group, and cannot tank… so I fall back on dual wield dps generally. The problem is I find that style of gameplay boring.

DPS to me is avoiding stuff on the ground while trying to execute a “Simon Says” like pattern as quickly as possible to do the maximum amount of damage. Obviously from the comments in all the threads yesterday, this is a gameplay style that a lot of players enjoy. For me if I am not having to juggle targets, manage aggro, and protect other players I quickly get bored and zone out. My biggest hope is that whatever the new scheme ends up being with EQ Next that it gives me more to do than just run around idly and mash a few buttons blindly.

I realize that I am probably in the large minority of players that enjoy tanking, and do so even when NOT in a group situation. I know we are out there however, and that tanking to me is just something we do instinctually. I just hope was we move forward there is still a place for us to have a valuable team contribution without having to fall back on a gameplay style that just isn’t natural for us. I like grouping with my friends, and in many ways I took up tanking because I wanted to protect my friends… it ties into my deep protective instinct.

The problem is this same instinct just doesn’t really apply in the same way to strangers. The evidence of the lack of people who want to tank or heal that keeps being brought up are the long lines in the dungeon queues. I present an alternate explanation… those of us who tank or heal because of this protective instinct… simply do not want to tank for strangers. I love tanking for friends and guildies… but I have zero interest in ever queuing into a random because every experience I have ever had as a PUG tank was relatively bad. The tank in these groups is the focus of everyone’s ire, and until that changes you will always have able bodied tanks like myself unwilling to subject themselves to the crap storm… especially when we can form groups

relatively easily within our own guild.

Wrapping Up

I have rattled on enough for the day, and I probably will have opened up a few more cans of worms that will work themselves out during the day. I am open to new ideas, but every break from the trinity thus far has failed miserably in my eyes. Here is hoping that Storybricks will be the magic sauce that makes non-role-based gameplay enjoyable. I have a lot of hope about what Storybricks will do at least from a single player experience… but I just have yet to see any alternate scenario actually work as far as a grouping one. If they can deliver fun and non-chaotic group play I will be more than happy to hitch my banner to their wagon. I hope you all have a great day, and I hope nothing I have said offended anyone.

Blizzard Edition

July 27, 2013 by Belghast

Good morning you happy people in internet land… I am struggling horribly to get up and around today. I gathered up breakfast but did so while wearing a skullcap to hide my disheveled and unkempt hair. This is feeling one of those screw the world days… it is nice out but I don’t really want to go out and experience it. I am perfectly happy sitting on my comfy couch with my laptop and chilling out. The week had an odd amount of stress for nothing major actually occurring, and last night I had a temporary relapse of the panic attacks. Jury is still out on whether or not I will be drug out into the world to experience today kicking and screaming or not.

Blizzard Free?

The big semi-shocking news of yesterday is that Actiblizz managed to bail itself out of ownership by Vivendi and now is a relatively free agent. Granted for me so long as Activision is tacked on front of Blizzard it will never actually be a “free” company, but I feel that ship has sailed and the two companies will forever be joined at the hip. There have been a lot of news reporting that Blizzard is now the largest “indie” company… but I feel like these same outlets have zero clue what that term even means anymore.

Do I think it is good overall for Actiblizz to control its own fate? Sure… I feel that Vivendi was directly responsible for pushing out games before in an “unprepared” state in order to recuperate some of its money. Additionally there were several stories floating around just prior to this announcement talking about how Vivendi was planning in raiding its cash cow to try and repair its own bottom line. In essence this move fixes both problems… Blizzard is free from pillage, and Vivendi got a shot of money in the process.

The Footnote

Almost as a footnote the press release also casually announced that the subscriber base of World of Warcraft had fallen once again to 7.7 million. After watching the two stories play out in my RSS feed yesterday, there was a significant delay as individuals got over the shock of the first and began to Grok the second. Basically this was no real shock to me, because somewhere… and I am seemingly unable to find the source I saw a quote after their last big drop… that they were fully expecting to be at 6 million by the end of the year. Another 600,000 subscribers seems like they are on course for that possiblity.

This is more “Bel talking out of his ass” time, because I don’t really have references to back myself up… but essentially what I have heard thus far is that Blizzard is losing China. These losses are essentially the fallout of that problem. What happened in China then? Essentially there are so many WoW clones in the Chinese Market, that simply market and hit the culture touchstones better. Even more… WoW is no longer an aspirational game in the way it was. It used to be a brand that Chinese consumers wanted to identify, even Coke drew upon it to sell soda. From everything I have heard… this has changed and WoW is simply “not cool anymore”.

A Change in Model

I have said it multiple times… and I will continue to say it until November when I may or may not have to eat crow… but I believe this year at Blizzcon we will see the announcement of some form of a free to play model. They have already publically confirmed that a cash shop is on the way, and usually going hand in hand with that is a switch to one of the many now viable free to play options. My only hope is that they choose to follow the lead of Rift and giving players a Carrot, instead of following SWTOR and bashing players down with a stick.

Do I think going to Free to Play would help? Honestly I am not sure. I would likely poke my head in every now and then pending the model is not egregious. I figure there are lots of people with a mild interest in the game that would return every now and then and maybe spend a little money there. What I do think however is that there are probably still enough extremely devoted fans that the model would still be profitable for them. At this point I feel the subscription model is just no longer viable.

As I said yesterday a huge chunk of why I will not be playing Final Fantasy XIV is because I just don’t feel it is worth a monthly fee. Right now we have only a handful of holdouts still charging a monthly access fee, and the vast majority shifting to pay as you go or pay for perks schemes. I feel that regardless of when it happens, sooner or later World of Warcraft will convert and do so in a big way. Given their flair for showmanship and ability to spin something that would normally play as bad, into a positive for the Blizzcon audience… I feel that all the signs are right for them announcing the shift.

Vanilla Servers

Yesterday there was an interesting post by Syp over on Bio Break, asking if we would play on a Vanilla server if Blizzard created one. Essentially the post was spurred by comments that Drysc apparently made back in 2008 that hey had been seriously considering the model. Since that time however… Everquest has made a killing by creating Retro servers that allow players to experience the game through the eyes of history. Essentially SOE has proven that the model is completely viable, and viable enough that at last count I believe there were three different “retro” servers.

The most interesting part about Syp’s post however is the large batch of comments that occur afterwards. It seems like the majority of the posters essentially said “take my money now”. A few of us however were more “sounds awesome, but not for me”. I definitely fell into the second camp. I like the concept of a Vanilla server, but I feel as if it is probably best leave our happy memories in the rose tinted past. When I think about just how much WoW progressed as it went through its expansions… what would exist as a Vanilla server would feel like a primitive shell of what exists today. So while you would lose heinous inventions like the dungeon finder… you would also end up losing quality of life changes such as the ability to trade BOP loot in dungeons and even the “Need / Greed” loot system.

Ultimately while I am still interested in the advancement of that game… as evidenced to the fact that I devoted an entire blog post this morning to little blips about Blizzard in general… I just think I am done with the World of Warcraft as a game. I might return every now and then to check in on it… but I am not returning for the game itself… I am returning for the few people that are still there and rabid about it. I feel as if I have just moved past the limits of that game, and want more. In my “MMO Must Haves” series of posts, I rattled out all the features that I wanted in a game… and expectantly WoW has very few of them. On the converse Rift has damned near every one of them… so it is no shock that I am playing that these days.

I think eventually Vanilla servers will come to fruition, because there will come a time when Blizzard is trying to wring out every last drop of cash from an aging brand. I do not however think we will see it until they change their business model. There will likely be some access fee that you add to your account that allows you to roll characters on the closed Vanilla servers. I think the same kind of people that find the Everquest Retro servers alluring will also find the old world WoW servers that way also. I will admit… I would be more tempted if they started releasing servers for each era. Wrath of the Lich King was my favorite time in the game, and after we killed Arthas… everything felt tarnished.

Wrapping Up

I have a feeling that my wife is going to want to go out and explore the world… and as much as I do not want this at all… I figure I will end up being a good guy and aggressing to it. As a result I really should get up and around and get ready for the day. It is a lovely day outside at least, and the temperature is an unseasonable 80*. I just have zero interest in the outside world and would prefer to sit at home on my sofa. I hope you all have great weekends, and that you get accomplished anything you need to.

Abolish Faction Walls

July 25, 2013 by Belghast

Good morning you happy people out there. I joked yesterday about opening a real life air rift, but in reality I guess it felt a bit like that. We managed to get through the storm relatively unscathed, but not everyone did. Yesterday the report was that roughly 100,000 customers were without power, and in on the drive in there were numerous intersections that were reduced to four way stops. The neighbor across the street lost the entire fence on the front part of his yard, and the shopping center my favorite game store is in was pretty much demolished by the winds. It is so odd to have tornadic style damage without the Tornado.

Race and Class Restrictions

Yesterday Rowan posted a thought provoking pieces on whether or not there should be class and race restrictions in games. Namely this was spawned by Wildstar, but the question carries over to every game. Why does it make sense that fanatical characters should be limited by some sort of pseudo real world logic? In an example he gives… why CAN’T a robot do magic… isn’t that just imposing some kind of logic on fantasy gaming that doesn’t really exist? Is it not just as fantastical that humans can perform magic?

Ultimately I am against class and race restrictions… but even more so I am against faction based restrictions. My general theory is… that in every situation… ideology never breaks down solely along racial boundaries. There will always be people that play across the lines and are branded as either Sell-swords at the best, or Traitors at the worst by their own faction. One of the worst experiences you can have is when a new game comes out… and you are super pumped about one specific race… only to find out that every single friend you have wants to play the OTHER faction.

My mantra has been anything that gets in the way of you playing with your friends is bad. Faction based race restrictions get in the way of you playing what you want to play… and also playing with your friends that might have different tastes. I will go one step further and say that Factions in general… are generally bad, but more so games that try and set up an artificial “red versus blue” faction wall. That essentially feels like imposing artificial limitations on your players just to solve poor design problems. If have to rely on polarized faction based combat to keep your game moving, you made some bad decisions somewhere along the process.

Abolish Faction Walls

Some of the most liberating gaming experiences I have had come from games with much more flexible factional boundaries. The Everquest series probably takes the cake for its ability to give the player malleable faction alignments. Essentially you start out as either aligned as an Evil race or a Good race… and that sets up certain default racial relations that you have with other factions in the world. Given the time and the inclination… you can perform tasks that will alter these boundaries through lots and lots of player faction work.

Iksar for example started off hated by everything and could do business nowhere but the neutral Nexus and Cabilis their home city. However I had a friend who through lots of work managed to become maximum reputation with the Halflings… and he was treated as a favored guest in their territory. I myself took my Half Elf ranger which is natively a good aligned race… and managed to get him the same reputation with the Evil Erudite city of Paineel. This experience of letting the player dictate their alliances through their interactions with the world is the best possible scenario I have seen. Sadly… no one since has adopted this model.

In Everquest 2 you had something similar… defacto good vs evil racial set up… but over the course of the game you could decide to betray your home faction and begin gaining rep with the other. While this was not as rich and robust as the Everquest system… it was still a far better choice than the archaic “red versus blue” mentality. Additionally no where in the Everquest realm are you ever limited in who you can group with, communicate with, and trade with. All players can interact regardless of their personal choices.

Faction as Fiction

Singlehandedly one of the best choices Trion has ever made with Rift is to release the fabled “Faction as Fiction” patch abolishing strict faction walls in that game. While not as open as a game like Everquest that was designed NOT to have firm factions, it was a great way to “hack” that functionality into an existing game. Essentially in one pass they allowed Guardian and Defiant characters to group and guild freely, and set up a new neutral three faction based PVP system called Conquest. Players essentially act as mercenaries for three different political factions and wage proxy battles for them.

I feel like this decision point more than anything has allowed House Stalwart to grow so much recently. Many of the players that we were pulling in, tried it shortly after the release of Rift, but felt limited by the race and faction based choices. We were a Defiant guild, but many players just feel more comfortable with the kinder, gentler, greener… Guardian starter experience. Being able to tell them that “faction no longer matters” has almost become a rallying call as I get new folks invested in the game again.

I cannot help but think that games like World of Warcraft and Wildstar would not be far better served if they threw off the mantle of “red versus blue” and embraced letting players choose their own alignments. While we have extremely rabid Horde and Alliance players… I was one of those players that had friends on both sides of the pond. When Stalwart originally launched with the release of WoW, we had an Alliance Guild on Argent Dawn and a Horde Guild on Silverhand. The intent was to play in both places, so that we could stay together… but over time the majority greatly favored Alliance… leaving a skeleton crew manning the Horde bulwarks.

So instead of having like Fifty players all happy and acting together… we had 35 happy alliance players, and 15 unhappy horde players that felt abandoned. Any design choice that forces potentially pits players against their friends… is ultimately a bad one for the sake of building long lasting communities. Had we been able to BE an Alliance guild, but also had a number of “Horde” race sell-swords… I feel as though this would not have been a problem. The players didn’t care about the faction… they cared about the available races to play… and ultimately went to the side that they could play what they wanted to.

Looking Forward

One of the biggest detractors for me in everything I have heard about Elder Scrolls Online is the fact that once again there will be three distinct and insular faction groups. While choosing which faction to align to was easy for me… since I always play a Nord, Argonian or a Dunmer… it will not be quite so easy for my friends. I have a few friends that prefer Altmer for example… and I tend to go out of my way to kill them when playing Skyrim. The Elder Scrolls is a setting where there have NEVER been absolute race based factional boundaries. There are always Nords that are willing to sell their blade to the highest bidder, as well as Altmer that throw off their heritage and adventure freely in the world.

My biggest hope is that there will be a way for my friends to be in Ebonheart Pact where I plan on building the House Stalwart guild… but be able to play whatever they want to play. This will ultimately determine whether or not a Stalwart guild succeeds in this game. I realize that this is probably just a pipe dream, because everything that we have seen to this point seems to enforce the strict racial boundaries. But I guess I can hope… I realize factional boundaries are easy for companies to enforce, that they greatly simplify many aspects of the game. However this does not stop me from feeling like they are bad for the players.

ESO is still a long ways off, so I have the smallest glimmer of hope that they might rethink the firm racial limits, however Wildstar feels as though it is right around the corner and has set up the same tired walls. We are going through the same problems with that game as we have every other faction based title. Granted I am only really mildly interested in the game… but various Stalwarts are EXTREMELY interested. The problem is… each of us seems to natively align ideologically with one faction or the other… and currently it the sentiments seem to split down the middle. All of this is generally because we prefer to play one type of race over another. They could really serve to take a book from Trion and make guilds transcend factional boundaries.

While we are on pipedreams… one of the biggest flaws in The Secret World is the fact that Cabals are faction locked. This game is so liberating in certain fashions… you can group with any player on any faction or shard. However the fact that their guild system is limited based on a specific faction really throws a monkey wrench in this whole openness scenario. It has essentially forced guilds to manage three separate factional units… and then try and communicate between them using server channels. Everything would have been far simpler had they just said that cabals were free floating. I really hope this is a decision they revisit in the near future.

Wrapping Up

Well it is that time again… I have wasted another perfectly good morning rambling on. I had intended to talk about all the awesomeness that we did last night as a guild, but that yarn can wait for another day. On a related note however.. I totally suggest you check out Fynralyl’s blog post about her entry into the guild and reentry into Rift in general. Warms my heart to see that folks are enjoying themselves in an environment I have pulled together. Any questions I had as to whether or not forming a House Stalwart in Rift was a good idea… have long since gone out the window. I hope you guys have a great day, and that the weekend comes quickly.