GAME INFO: FAQ

[rysligmods]

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a reason why werewolves and –bears are being treated as two different monster categories? Reading their description I don’t see much of a difference between them besides one being a bear and the other a wolf (even the text is mostly the same). It seems a bit unfair that you have to spend two opt outs on them if you’re simply not interested in any sort of were-animal in general.

[rysligmods]

Werebears were a pretty popular request. I'll see if there's more I can do to differentiate them from werewolves though.

[(Anonymous)]

It honestly might make more sense to have werebear and werewolf part of the same category, and have "weres" just have a few different predator types to pick from.

Because different anon here, but I was also concerned about it taking two opt outs to avoid weres all together.

[(Anonymous)]

Orinigal anon here!

I’m going to agree with second anon that it might work better to make “weres” one category with maybe some options or slightly varying sub-categories than to try and make the bears more special. I know that a lot of people like ‘BEARS!’ and can be quite vocal about it, and personally I also find it awesome of you to give an alternative to traditional werewolf, but speaking for myself I can’t see people who don’t care for were-animals to begin with to suddenly start liking the bears just because they’re a bit more different from the wolves. Turning into an animal that can go berserk is still turning into an animal that can go berserk no matter what kind of animal it is.

Making people use an extra opt-out for the variations of it feels a bit like you’re pushing for there to be more weres considering that all other monsters are more blanketed (e.g. Merfolk can have fish- or squid-tails and there’s no extra opt-out needed for it.)

Thanks for replying and hearing out our concerns!

[captain_asthmatic]

Yeah I agree with the two anons. The wendigo you can choose a number of different antlered animals but you guys don't have, like different categories of wendigo. I think the main thing with weres is the uncontrolled transformation, and what specific animals they turn into is just window dressing like the mermaid tail and wendigo features.

Werebunny FTW

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry for doing this! I just wanted to pitch in that I do think that werewolves and werebears are distinct enough that they can stay separate - they have different behaviors and whatnot that might crowd the pages if they are lumped together, and if you do add more in to differentiate them, that's even better.

But maybe it would work if they were an exception in the opt-out system, if it's that important - someone could just list "Were" or get six opt-outs if two of them are werewolf and werebear?

[(Anonymous)]

Could we get an official word on this? Because I don't want to have to work with the were schtick in general because it's not as exciting as the other stuff, but it really doesn't feel fair to have to spend 2 opt outs on it.

[rysligmods]

I added a few more things to werebears to differentiate them from werewolves. Unfortunately, a lot of people do like the werebear and don't want to see it removed altogether, but a 'were-anything' option would have been way too general in comparison to all of the other monster types.

[(Anonymous)]

Rather than getting rid of it, I mean, could you allow people to opt out of "weres" as a category? I don't want you to get rid of the different sections, but just allowing a special rule for option out if you just don't want to do the were thing in general.

[rysligmods]

Unfortunately, they will count as two opt-outs. Opting out of both and counting it as one would make things more complicated and be unfair to people who don't want to opt-out of weres and thus technically get one less opt-out than people who do. As the game was conceived, only two opt-outs were allowed, and this limit was upped to five already with the consideration that someone might want to opt-out of every creature in a given category (weres, undead, venomous, etc).

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding (thirding?) the suggestion to make a general "weres" category and allow players to choose which animal or which of a set group of animals they want their character to transform into. I love weres, but there are animals (i.e. big cats) that I feel would be much more fitting for my character's personality and more fun for me, personally, to play with. It would allow for a bigger variety of monsters and more customizability. It also does seem more fair with regards to people not having to spend two opt-out slots on extremely similar monsters.