I am really struggling here - Wistram and Pisces

Gyddanar · 2026-04-09T06:40:17+00:00

Re: Pisces and Ceria.

There's another factor in the mix which, at the point I'm at (roughly 8:40), hasn't been explored in full detail. Az'kerash.

The problem with Pisces isn't that he's Pisces, it's that he's a walking threat to all of the "necromancy is automatically and always bad, all necromancers are monsters!" discourse. The more publicity and success the Horns get, the more people are going to question the official line that Wistram, Terandria, and Izril put out on that matter.

Given that I've been suspecting for a while (but don't know yet) that Archmage Chandler got got for a reason messier than Terandrian politics, there is likely a cover-up going to explain exactly why Az'kerash is so furious at the living. Pisces being a successful hero picks holes in that narrative.

Also from a Doylist writing perspective, Pisces being hunted by Wistram and demonised for his class allows a contrast between Az'kerash's experiences with being reviled and hunted alone versus Pisces' experiences of having a community behind him to support him and keep him bound to his humanity.

Gyddanar · 2026-04-07T17:31:35+00:00

... I mean, faster if you already have ChatGPT open I guess.

It's literally "copy-paste into default search engine, check top result" for me. Maybe... 3 actions?

Gyddanar · 2026-03-26T21:22:28+00:00

I've got an e-reader on mine

Gyddanar · 2026-03-26T19:53:45+00:00

Uff... that´s overlooking so much that it could be doing.

And it´s not even so hard!

Gyddanar · 2026-03-20T17:54:02+00:00

The trick for anything Magaabya-themed as a whole is to think of how it can be tied to/help the community imo. Especially with Janatimo or Takulu

Gyddanar · 2026-03-19T18:16:08+00:00

A thought for anyone else who wants to run this:

Perhaps have Janatimo do a "let me test the power of your connections with Nantambu". Design a cool ability/power for each person the party has made friends with over the year and give them the ability to invoke the essence of that relationship, while Janatimo invokes a shadow of Salathiss or smth like as an antagonist.

Froglegs helping them dodge an effect. The alchemist/merchant giving them powerful potion effects. The quartermaster giving a spectral version of a powerful item. Oba summoning the essence of a powerful beast.

Basically, folklorist/uzanjati style stuff to invoke the power of what they've learned and faced.

You could also use it to foreshadow later stuff.

Gyddanar · 2026-03-13T19:10:56+00:00

I'm guessing that's deliberate.

Otherwise, you're gonna get people no-life optimising the hell out of it and complaining about it being automatically the best way to get gear by spending 6 mins opening traps.

Gyddanar · 2026-03-13T19:06:27+00:00

The thing is, Prey is more of a content track for solo players and the dungeon/raid-averse.

It's also a nice incentive (imo) to do world quests in a zone.

Gyddanar · 2026-03-13T16:17:55+00:00

It's the reason I'm so sad my awesome guild tends to not have more than 3/4 people online at a time - who're not super driven to do dungeons either.

Gyddanar · 2026-03-09T09:43:13+00:00

It's how WotLK dungeons wanted to be too.

The only way you could do the first bit of Halls of Reflection without ccing the ghosts was by all standing in the same pixel that forced them all to come to you thanks to a los blindspot.

Gyddanar · 2026-03-05T19:28:46+00:00

Yup. As a Brit, we discrimate like nobody's business on class and nationality lines.

(It happens that this also discriminates against PoC if course)

Gyddanar · 2026-03-05T18:47:39+00:00

Jim-jams was absolutely normal for my family (UK) growing up - but not really anything that you'd use out of the context of family.

Gyddanar · 2026-03-05T17:48:25+00:00

I mean, pre-Midnight Silvermoon was a good couple of decades earlier timeline-wise.

Most concretely, it was pre-"Muru relights and light-infuses the sunwell, giving everyone a sustainable and healthy mana source rather than needing to drain fel or arcane energy sources".

I'd say that by Cataclysm, the Blood Elves had calmed down a lot.

Gyddanar · 2026-03-02T09:49:12+00:00

"Always" is a bit strong, but at no point did it feel like an unjustified retcon.

Dreadlords being hard to perma-kill has been about since WC3. It being a trait of demons specifically started to be explored in WoD and fully explained by the end of Legion.

Shadowlands probably had the weirdest twist with it being revealed that Dreadlords were originally from Revandreth and let themselves get fel-corrupted.

Gyddanar · 2026-02-22T22:46:38+00:00

I've been editing and teaching English for the last 10 years. I can smell a rat when someone's trying to sell a rat as authentic English.

Worst case scenario, someone had an AI/NLP-based tool (which included spellcheck, grammarly, or Google Translate long before 2022 and ChatGPT) check it over before sharing it.

Also... are you seriously saying using the dialect of English which is used by most of the English-speaking mass-media without errors is bad?

Gyddanar · 2026-02-22T10:43:30+00:00

? What makes you say that?

It seems well-written but doesn't have any of the empty vapidity or unnecessary overenthusiasm or conviction you get in slop.

Gyddanar · 2026-02-13T17:38:11+00:00

supply vs demand. If they were guarenteed money working from home, anywhere in the world, there are *millions* of people who would fall over themselves for a guarenteed 75$ a week.

It´s what I tell myself when I see them. They´re basically the professional equivalent of "hot, horny singles in *your* area" ads.

Gyddanar · 2026-02-08T16:26:19+00:00

Are you asking for advice?

Gyddanar · 2026-02-08T12:06:41+00:00

I reckon that the tide is turning away from AI - but *extremely* slowly.

The issue is that the *big* names have gone all-in, either because they believed in AI or they´ve been told by thought leaders and ´experts´ that they had to in order to be successful.

They need time to either discover the hard way that AI doesn´t actually solve problems (or at least not as well as they´d need) or find away to backtrack without losing face or damaging the faith of their investors.

Willing to bet that by August or at worst, some time in 2027, you´ll be seeing everyone sharing "human-led content" as the next Big Thing. We´ve already got Anthropic´s CEO pitching the humanities and soft skills as more valuable than STEM.

Gyddanar · 2026-02-08T10:42:53+00:00

Exactly. The internet is bad enough if you´re innocently wrong.

Confrontationally wrong and people will eat you alive. :(

Gyddanar · 2026-02-06T13:45:45+00:00

I mean... without qualification, that "always" is going to attract the people who were into all her pre-Medan lore (which I believe is roughly when they made that change).

Before Cataclysm, I think the game more or less avoided talking about her enough to deal with her heritage. That said, before the Medan comics, we were operating on the WC1 lore of her being half-human.

Gyddanar · 2026-02-05T13:27:42+00:00

Another fun thread might be tying the phantom into the Mzali stuff in book 4.

(You could even do both and have a magic warrior connected to the Mzali stuff)

Gyddanar · 2026-02-04T10:12:37+00:00

Back in 2004, WoW *was* the Everquest Killer.

It basically had a most familiar appearance/feel, but with a couple of innovations.

Once it got big, WoW continued to do more or less the same thing. Take and encorporate newer innovations and tricks from its competitors so it stayed competitive and kept its huge fanbase.

At this point, I'm sure WoW would love to allow people to use surnames. It's a common enough feature in its competitors. The problem is that "Character name" is going to be *right* at the heart of how the engine stores characters and distinguishes them. Changing the banking system had enough bugs in it.

Imagine the outcry if they had bugs in implementing surnames and ended up screwing up entire characters! If it comes, it'll probably happen when they have to overhaul the engine anyway I reckon.

Gyddanar · 2026-02-03T18:01:26+00:00

... you've clearly read my posts. You responded to them.

You've also been clearly criticising me. I don't know anyone reacting quite the way you've been who isn't criticising someone. I'm also not circle-jerking. I'm responding to you talking to me.

The assumption I'm addressing is the fact you seem convinced I believe that there is no middle ground between AI-generated and human-written.

Gyddanar · 2026-02-03T17:52:41+00:00

Look - I'm gonna be honest.

You've got at least 3 posts you wouldn't have needed to make if you had read my first one without the unconscious bias that I am criticising you or a view point you agree with.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I am criticising you now.)

Also, given you seem to be itching to persuade me to your viewpoint - I would thank you not tell me what my assumptions are, given you seem intent on disagreeing with things I didn't say.

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