It could be worse (saved post)

2/25/2003 by SHADOW

IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE, by Goat

I tried to keep my mouth shut. I really did. Count to ten, they said. But I got to nine and then just couldn't bear double digits.

What happened to sorcery is inexcusable. When they changed "torment" to "fluffy pink bunny" I thought, "Well at least they're working on genocide." But do you see genocide? No. I waited patiently but to no avail. And now I feel I must uncover the nonsense once and for all.

GMs spend all day downtweaking us. I can still remember the day Limb disruption turned into "summon yummy tart." (Boy, you kids that saw limb disruption back in the day, you're missing out on one of the greatest moments of sorcery.) Halflings across ELanthia were convulsing for months, unable to control themselves from one more cast... wonderful event, but a downtweak nonetheless. GMs dream downtweaks by night and neglect other parts of the game to implement them by day. When one of them has a "backwards day" they implement a bunch of new, useless spells.

Sorcerers never get any attention. GMs haven't thought about us in years. Think about it. We haven't had a new spell in years. Most GMs don't remember that there's such a thing as the sorcerer class. I bet just the other day Nilven was thinking "I'm not thinking of sorcerers right now." Remember 5 years ago, when we were promised that spell to evaporate the target's relatives and dog, but no one ever came through.

We are currently missing an irrational amount of spells, and by irrational I mean the square root of eleven. No one else is even close, their numbers of missing spells are integer-valued. Of course there are bards, missing 5+2i spells, but come on, it's bards, and it's complex numbers. Clearly sorcerers should be the highest priority right now.

This outrage can only go on so long before I start complaining unproductively on these boards. I don't know how much longer I can hold out.

Sincerely,

Goat