Creature Handler Archive

I've said a few times that I'm a musician getting CH for fun. I'm also a roleplayer, and lest night I thought about the old line about calming creatures with music. This provoked horrible images of what SOE might do to help these two professions, both of which are in desperate need of help.

If any dev reads this, stop here. This is a list of things that would be very, very bad.


So the first thing that came to mind was the currently useless instrument experimentation. And I thought 'Hey, what if the mandoviol (stringed instrument -- master entertainer) had CH skills on it? I usually carry the thing with me in combat (counts as unarmed) so why not?
This came to the realization that while that would be good for me, bad for everyone else. The same is true for adding CH mods to the musician tree in line with their 7 melee/ranged defence at Master.

The next idea was pets that could be trained to play an ommni box or nalagorn like a seal can be taught to pay horn things to entertain small children. At this point I began questioning my sanity.

Third up was a bit simpler: let me play music on a mount. That kinda fails with all the flourishes; they'd have to program mount flourishes. But it would be neat.

Fourth was the idea that there be yet another class that sprung from Empathy IV and Music IV (entertainer, no heal XP needed) that would and at that point I decided I needed more coffee or something because I have no idea where I'm going with this.


So, ah, what have you thought would be neat and interesting but on second glance is actually absurd and horrifying?

Ryyger, don't be so hard on yourself.

You're showing more imagination that the devs have in the actual live game.