Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[ReynTime]

I think people should stop fixating on "they should let the scions go", which is a superficial issue. It's not the core problem. They are all our friends, if the devs have brains that allow them to write well, they can legitimately come adventuring with us if they like, since as you said they are "free people", why can't free people join us? And why can't they have new stories too? I mean the devs can choose not to, but that's not inevitable no matter what people claim. People who dislike these characters will like to not see them, that's totally understandable, but that's a separate issue. There are tons of characters I don't like seeing again, doesn't mean if the devs have chosen to they can't make more new stories for them, my taste notwithstanding.

The fundamental problem is that the devs no longer know how to write ANY characters and stories in a not "in-your-face" and superficial way. There are tons of new characters this expansion, I don't see this new cast of characters being written any better. No matter whether they write the scions or not, if they don't wrestle back the ability to actually WRITE, nothing will work.

Dawntrail doesn't prove shit for fuck about potentially replacing the Scions, because the few new characters they brought were designed to have their arcs rushed within 20 hours as opposed to the Scions who had development from 2.X to 5.3, some which didn't wrap up until 6.0.

[ArcturusWhisper]

Dawntrail doesn't prove shit for fuck about potentially replacing the Scions, because the few new characters they brought were designed to have their arcs rushed within 20 hours as opposed to the Scions who had development from 2.X to 5.3, some which didn't wrap up until 6.0.

It proves that if you are bad at writing, new characters you write will be bad too. If you are rushing arcs, it's part of the evidence that you didn't write well. Did I say anything else about "potential of replacing the Scions"? It can be done, it can be done well. It just cannot be done well by people who can't write. "Remove the scions" is not going to save bad writing. What do you think I was saying?

Edit: And since we are in this particular thread, I am going to add that, yeah, removing Wuk Lamat also probably won't save bad writing, if they can't figure out how to write other characters. They are just going to write other characters badly too!