Spending lots of time in the speedrunning Discord for this game, the magicians of gaming exploits have produced a plethora of skips/fake spells/etc that allows the player to skip major parts of the game or do things in vastly different orders. Which in my opinion, is amazing. I love this stuff, but it also begs the question. Should we make a decision on which of these things (if any of them) are game breaking enough to warrant a NMG category that excludes them?

I suggest you submit runs under Current Patch subcategory like other glitchless or NMG runners have already been doing, and use the run comment field to elaborate. Actual completed runs make a stronger case for new categories.

Once the tech discoveries slow down more--it has started already--it will be easier to nail down NMG that participating runners agree on, but until then runners have just kinda had to guess. Part of trailblazing a new game.

(ARC and Soul Door Skip probably make the banned list. Clipping through walls, floors, and barriers probably do too. Using enemies to get over short walls or gates... big question mark. Everyone has an opinion, this is just mine, and cue the healthy discussion lol.)

Also, feel free to bring it up in the Discord as well, since it is already very active and you mentioned you're in it, though conversations like this do tend to get lost there... and as least it's not "Under a lot of pressure right now" like this site is --gah I had to retry sending this post 8 times.

Great points m8! I'll start working on a straight through 100% run since we're missing one of those on Current Patch anyway, and I'll add comments in about it and then bring it up on Discord afterward to try to get the ball rolling. Good feedback :)