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The Wisdom of Alteration rules

11:17 AMWhat do you think about the alteration rules that have been put into play over the past 2-3 years?

No shimmering, flashing, sparkling, gleaming, pulsating

No flowing, swirling, or showing movement

No bloodstained, gory, or having the body parts of any of the player races.

This is an abbreviated list. What do you think of the logic applied toward the ban on these adjectives?

What do you think of the implementation of it?

What do you think should happen to the items that go against these policies?

Aerienne reg

12:00 PMPossibly this list was put into affect becuase of the shear number of alterations that had <insert adj.> So this was a way of limiting it. Maybe after a year the list will change and some of these adj. will be allowed back in and some new ones will be added to the no no list. Just a thought but considering I own roughly zero alters I wouldn't be suprised if I am just plain wrong.

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Anticor Rifling, Giantman Wizard reg

01:13 PMI think the rules are dumb. If they were gonna stop any word from being in an alter, it should be rune, or rune-etched, edged with runes, surrounded by runes, rune-incised, rune covered, or any of the millions of dumb things people do with squiggly letters...

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I got no dukes. reg

02:05 PMWhat drives me nuts is that they aren't uniformly implemented. Either allow it or don't. But don't have some GMs making stuff, and another say, ohh no shimmering.

Shimmering is one of my favorite words. It's pretty appropriate for items like silk or sparkling jewels. The logic in banning this is that some rooms don't have light. Ummm.....No light, ergo no color. So no color anymore?

I can understand no flashing or pulsating. No need to give an item a property it doesn't possess.

However, if the item is reasonably able to do the property intended, (silk shimmers in light, even low light as a reflective surface)then it should be ok.

But to make this policy even worse, is the fact that even thought there is a ban on shimmering as an alteration word, I found out a few months ago that a bunch of items I'd bought that shimmered were from the boutique in Ice Mule and unless the merchandise has changed, is still being sold there. Ummmmmm......Logic check please?

Worse still, is the fact that SOME GMs will make alterations that shimmer, especially if the word is already in there, and others won't. Or they will do something for one person, and won't for another.

If the policy were uniformly implemented, I'd be fine with it. But this half-assed way of doing things is not professional.

Aerienne reg

07:19 PMYeah, certain alterer's will completely ignore the rules and do whatever they want. That, pardon the language, is bullshit. What's the point in even having the rules if any alterer can break them on a whim? Although it isn't surprising, policy is done the same way, why not alteration rules.

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I got no dukes. reg