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Announce News Post #5381

Artefact pets

Written by: Makarios, the Meticulous
Date: Monday, September 27th, 2021
Addressed to: Everyone


We've just made a change to artefact pets.

Historically, we've always been against the ability to have a pet deliver items at range (this is one of the few things we specifically disallow as reaction options). There are a lot of reasons for this, but unfortunately pets have not really kept up with the modern game: with the ability to tie a pet's movement into a mapper and immediately move it across the world to a determined location, it became possible to sidestep this limitation with this combined with the TELL PET GIVE functionality.

One of these two things needed to change, and we settled on removing remote give instead of restricting remote movement. Consequently, you can no longer TELL your pets to give items to players if your pet is not in the same room as you.

Penned by My hand on the 9th of Phaestian, in the year 869 AF.


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Announce News Post #5381

Artefact pets

Written by: Makarios, the Meticulous
Date: Monday, September 27th, 2021
Addressed to: Everyone


We've just made a change to artefact pets.

Historically, we've always been against the ability to have a pet deliver items at range (this is one of the few things we specifically disallow as reaction options). There are a lot of reasons for this, but unfortunately pets have not really kept up with the modern game: with the ability to tie a pet's movement into a mapper and immediately move it across the world to a determined location, it became possible to sidestep this limitation with this combined with the TELL PET GIVE functionality.

One of these two things needed to change, and we settled on removing remote give instead of restricting remote movement. Consequently, you can no longer TELL your pets to give items to players if your pet is not in the same room as you.

Penned by My hand on the 9th of Phaestian, in the year 869 AF.


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