Petition for an Arcane Healing spell for Women.

[Blackbird]

This is the suggestion section isn't it? As far as I know you are allowed to post ANY suggestion however silly or ludicrous it may seem to others. While I can agree with some of the thoughts expressed (though a bit too harshly), did it ever occur to you that maybe Seliana isn't as knowledgable as you might be in Eberron history? Perhaps she actually realized midway through posting that what she was asking was probably not feasible and thus tapered her request back a bit (started requesting Arcane Healing spell for women and ended asking for different appearance in warforged characters).

It seems to me that people are picking apart the words rather than the general idea expressed. If I understood her problem correctly: she likes to play female characters, she likes to play sorcs, and she is having a hard time keeping her health at the level that warforged sorcs do (through reconstruct etc). She then posited possible solutions to HER problem, some radical, some not so radical.

Since this is the forum for suggestions and ideas, if you do not like her idea and feel it necessary to respond, perhaps you should explain why you think it is wrong in a rational manner. e.g.: the history of warforged makes it so, sorcs are powerful in other ways and thats why they don't have arcane healing for non-wf, have you tried a hireling, etc.

I'm not sure that phrasing your objections to the original suggestion in an abusive or angry manner is going to get your point across any more acutely (if at all).

Despite popular belief, some people do play this game as it was originally intended: a fantasy role playing game. As such they may want to make their character as closely as they can to their envisioned character. I personally suspect that giving sorcs an arcane healing spell for use on non-wf would severely unbalance the game, but she is certainly entitled to her suggestion. She is certainly not alone in her desire to make her character appear in a certain manner as evidenced by the recent armor kits and the changes made to docent appearances in the past. Personally I don't place much thought on what my character looks like after character creation, but that does not entitle me to rebuke all who do.

I am reluctant to post much on the forums as they seem to have become less of a community and more of an area dominated by harshness. I suspect I am not alone in that belief. Do you really want to discourage people from expressing their ideas? What if someone has an innovative idea that you (or all of us) DO agree with but is afraid to express it? We all lose then.

Did I say she wasn't allowed to post her suggestion? No. But when you post your suggestions on a public forum you are opening yourself up to critiques and criticisms of your idea. Last time I checked, everyone wasn't required to agree with people on the forums. I criticized this suggestion because it is based solely on gender, a basis I find it abhorrent to make classifications based on. Guess I'm not entitled to *my* opinion or to be offended at the suggestion that the game that I've played for the last 5 years needs to be changed to accommodate my gender. Sure, I have made suggestions about being able to dye my WF pink (and got mad when they got rid of pink docents) but that's no different that requesting armor kits and certainly doesn't affect fundamental game balance or mechanics.

If she changed her mind halfway through her post, there are means to edit what you have previously typed (i.e. backspace or "edit" if you already clicked "post"). Either way, she wanted a game mechanic changed because she didn't like the way something looked. It doesn't matter what the Eberron history is of it. I wouldn't have even clicked on a post suggesting different body types for WF. But, I did click on a post entitled "petition for an arcane healing spell for women".