Happy March, everyone! We have for you a shorter update for a shorter month, although we were no less busy. Below are all changes made throughout February, along with two new hot spots and some Time Until fun. We hope everyone is looking forward to the coming month because we have a few fun things up our sleeves!

Development
Healing
On using Healing magic for Luck: On a Complete Success, the healer restores +1 Luck to themselves or another. On an Extraordinary Success, the healer restores +2 Luck to themselves or another. A character cannot restore Luck above the maximum for any character.

Order > Abidance
The keyword “Order” has been changed to “Abidance” to better convey the powerset it represents.

Partial Success > Partial Failure
The wording for "partial success" has been changed to "partial failure" to better convey the inherent risks of utilizing magic.

Path Keywords
The total number of keywords for each Path (except the Arcanist) has been updated to eight, spread throughout the ranks. Make sure to check the documentation for your Path, and if you find you are missing one, tag @admin in the mod-request channel to update your selection.

Shape Shifting
The keywords of Dire Beast, Fascimile, and Partial shifting have been redefined to allow for greater flexibility.

Quote:The size and shape of a shifter are considered to be on a spectrum the shifter controls, based on the size/shape keywords they have access to. Based on which type of shifter the character is, they start with different access to these keywords. See the Advancement tab on the Afflicted and Natural Shifter pages for more information.

Shifter Documentation

Bloodrush Update
When a half-blood goes into bloodrush, their Cinder rolls no longer explode on a 5 and a 6 and they no longer lose 2d6 from their Strike pool. Like the other Paths, this has been dropped in the interest of balance and pushing the true flavor and creativity of Bloodrush, much like the other Paths (e.g. Feral, Deanimation, Resonance, etc). When a half-blood pushes themselves beyond their limit, they take on the best and the worst of their inhuman ancestor. Emphasis on the worst.

For all threads before March 1st, 2022, players may continue to use the old rules, but from here on out, updated Bloodrush applies.

Double Luck
Cinder rolls now no longer do double damage to Luck on an Extraordinary Success (5 or more). Instead, any character can achieve double damage to Luck on a Strike or Cinder roll that meets or exceeds 10 passes.

Leave of Absence
We have updated the Leave of Absence terms.

If a player gives no notice, we will deactivate accounts and clean up threads for them after one month.

If a player has left a Leave of Absence notice, then we will deactivate accounts and clean up threads for them after two months.

Group Event Threads
Should a player not post in an event thread for two or more weeks and others are waiting on them, then the waiting players may choose to skip them, although they are invited to rejoin the thread when they are ready. This does not apply to social non-event threads, but communication is key!

Current Theme Clean-Up
We've updated to a new theme, and now it's time to update the update. "Lighthouse Argentum" has been thoroughly vetted and is now live. It will become the default theme March 1st, 2022.

Among other changes, the dice modal has been reorganized and updated and the guest chat has been removed.

New additions
The Shifter Path has been given its own unique Keyword pool to reflect their more unique use of magic. Along with this, they have been given what is known as Combination Keywords.

Quote:At the Hyrd (Dabbler) and Mundian (Apprentice) ranks, a shifter can gain a combination keyword. These keywords can only be used in combination with a keyword from the path keywords. These have various mechanical effects, but they can also have purely flavour effects, based on how a player wants to interpret the combination keyword with its support keyword.

If you need to select an additional keyword, make sure to tag @admin in #mod-request so we can update that!

All changes below come into effect in March, and any use of the old rules in February will still count towards advancement. This applies to all future updates as well, even if we're editing the documentation as we go. We'll always note down each new feature or edit and publish at the beginning of the next month so everyone can track the changes.

Upcoming

• Further development of the Spirit Path
  
• Further advancement prompts from dabbler to the higher levels.
  
• Continued refinement of the Guidebook for ease of use.
  
• New Time Untils
  
• Refinement of Double or Nothing mechanic
  
• Path and Keyword Icons
  

March Hotspots

Time Until

Our Time Until meters can be found the Player Toolbox, under the toolbox icon in the sidebar. What is this about Sheol? And something's up with Blood Born!

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