I think that's fine. As long as the description is well-written and it isn't truly silly I think anything would be fine. I mean, just about any heavy object attached to a stick can be a mace, for example.

Other materials can make cartel designs pretty darn good, for example, I'd like to make a Onyx Blade, and a Ruby tipped version of it, that sort of weaponry would be more fashionable to one of the Ur'guard.

I think real reason behind one design per year is to 1) make age of cartel matter; 2) discourage people from submitting a lot of lame designs.

I think real reason behind one design per year is to 1) make age of cartel matter; 2) discourage people from submitting a lot of lame designs.

Each cartel can submit up to 20 public lame designs, and 1 really cool design for their cartel only. That's how I understood it from Lord Fain's post on here, anyway.

Regarding the "Isune shield", that has been pulled--it should never have been approved but in our defense we've been approving a LOT of items lately and sometimes things get passed on which shouldn't be.

As a rule of thumb, cartel designs should *not* be specific to any city, order or guild. Thus, no demonic shields, angelic helms, Moon Spirit ale, Lord Fain booties, etc. will be approved as public. All these are fine, however, for cartel-specific designs (though I don't know what Fain would think of the booties in his honor).

Regarding the actual topic of this thread, I'm not inclined at this time to increase the number of cartel specific designs. I suspect we will be seeing many more private cartels in the future which will obviously increase the number of designs that need to go through approval. (You can, of course, be a member of as many private cartels as let you in.) Right now, however, we really want to concentrate on fleshing out the public designs which is why you see the high number of 20 (which is in and of itself giving us quite a few designs to approve).