Edited by Zulg: Moved original topic so the conversation can continue and not clutter up the announcements. Any responses to this should be taken to the Gameplay forum.

Originally posted by Daevryn:
(Edited to add more information and provide some clarifications)

This system has been updated/revamped somewhat. This project was originally started by Valg, worked on in bits by probably a bunch of people, and finally finished up recently by Raybaer and I.

Some highlights and answers in anticipation of probable questions:

- A lot of potential sleek black/amber/sienna rod locations have been added.
- New characters may receive some of these new locations.
- Being able to get a black rod from location X no longer implies that you'll find a sienna rod in location Y or an amber rod in location Z.
- In general, shield locations are less difficult/dangerous than aura locations which in turn are less difficult/dangerous than barrier locations.
- Not all potential locations will be available for all characters. For example, one current rod location is in a protected city, where Tribunal really shouldn't get it according to their rules. Going forward, Tribunal mages won't receive this location.
- This also means that you may need to consider some potential locations that you could safely rule out when the possibilities were more universal. To use the most common example, previously you'd never need to kill a good-aligned NPC to get your wand, since with the older system a good-aligned PC could get any location. You can no longer safely rule this out in general.
- Pre-existing characters retain their previous wand locations, with this caveat: Your locations are the same, but different rods may be found in each. In particular, your amber and sienna locations have probably swapped with each other for them to conform to the above paradigm of relative difficulty. Pre-existing in this case means "rolled before the reboot that brought this set of changes in."
- Sleek black rods can no longer be discovered at a level below the minimum to actually use them.
- Detect Artifact has been updated for these changes, and may be a new best friend for many of you who never needed it before.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!