1. Sparring gloves are no longer allowed for unarmed combat. The standard claw/brawler phys rep must be used by all players to represent fighting unarmed. I think this issue has been fairly thoroughly discussed in public already, but the primary reason for this change is because the quality of the gloves and the issue of consistency of safe fighting ability with them have proved far too problematic to keep allowing them.
2. The
Lore skill has been clarified with the following supplemental information:
• Lores are categorized as follows:
--- "Monster" Lore - Examples: Monster Lore: Undead , Monster Lore: Zombies
--- "Culture" Lore - Examples: Culture Lore: Goblinoids, Culture Lore: High Elves
--- "Region" Lore - Examples: Region Lore: Sea, Region Lore: Chaos Wastes
--- "Divinity" Lore - Examples: Divinity Lore: Malyc, Divinity Lore: Valos
--- "Other" Lore - Examples: Lore: Etiquette, Lore: Magic, Lore: Advocate, Lore: History
- Lores are limited in how specific they may become. So while you can learn a monster lore on a general level (Monster Lore), a specific level (Lore: Undead) and even down to a given type (Lore: Zombie), you cannot purchase lores about specific creature derivations (Lore: Greater Zombie).
- Lores are assumed to function on three levels:
--- 1 - Lores may be used in combat to basically identify a creature ("Monster Lore, what do I see?")
--- 2 - Lores may be used to glean more information from a marshal ("Monster Lore: Undead, what do I know?")
--- 2 - Lores may be combined with Research and Identify Item to gain further more specific information ("Monster Lore: Zombies, how tough are the different types of zombies?" or "Culture Lore: Kormyre, Identify Item on this old church, what period in Kormyre history was it built?")
Effective Dates
- The sparring glove change will be effective the May 2008 event, to afford players time to acquire or make alternative, approved phys reps.
- The lore change is effective immediately.
