With a shadowsteed we are probably the only person who can wage a dwarf!crusade part-time, you know.
The reason is mostly that people and domesticated animals don't tend to have two separate sewage systems for liquid and solid waste and when it's already mixed up you can't really unmix it, can you? In settings where you can regulate things like that (i.e. an army) it was sometimes regulated.
Did the veekie bandwagon just work in our favor for once? I could get used to this.
I just want to call the QM's attention to the opportunity missed here to name this action I Am A Dwarf And I'm Digging A Hole
As the default good result from human prospectors and dwarf prospectors should be the same (i.e. the minerals present will not change no matter who is looking for them) I would rather give inferior human prospecting a shot before investing our dwarf favor in it. Saving an action slot is a convenient bonus, too.
I like internalizing learning a lot, but with Magistery imminent and Magic 5 requiring additional learned spells I want to focus heavily on spells at the moment. Fortunately, the two aren't incompatible- every time we learn a new spell it's a Learning action, meaning that it'll give a bonus to future internalize learning attempts. I would be happy to internalize learning next turn and take advantage of the bonuses from the three Learning-based actions taken this turn.
The reason I want to do the learning action this turn, is because next turn takes all of the war time stuff outside of "in the last year" part so it's effectiveness should pretty drastically decrease IMO. Wars like what we fought aren't common things after all. Meanwhile there's no downside to learning the spell next turn, in fact, it'd be easier next turn with the learning boost if that action succeeds.
The dwarf option for minerals makes the human one a waste. There months be things the human prospectors are literally incapable of finding short of miraculous happenstance (aka Nat 100).
There is a downside to learning the spell next turn. Specifically, learning a spell has a significant chance of failure, and getting Magic 5 requires learning several new spells. We're probably going to have to retake one of those spell actions due to failure to learn it, but we don't know which or if in advance. Because of this, dropping a spell learning action is likely, in my opinion, to push out testing for Magister by a turn. I would rather not do that as I consider rushing Magister important.
There may indeed be such things. However, human prospectors are inferior, not incompetent. Where dwarves would shine is finding things which are quite difficult to locate or which humans might not recognize and appreciate as useful. Not all useful minerals would fall into those categories, however, so if humans can find something relatively easy to locate to exploit without costing us an action slot to do it, why would we not want that?
And our Dwarf rep is, I presume?
It is hell of lot more infinite than our dwarf favors though.
No, but there are few other uses as efficient as having dwarves help us with rocks.
In three hundred years we will make a fortune out of tourism.I found more exclusive pictures of our estate in the Sonningweise hills!
Extra Plus Bonus Points if anyone works out why these make us more like Gandalf.
The main road up to our fief:
Proposed site for our Hold:
Prime grazeland, under consideration for test farms:
RE: spells and learning failure, should we learn Invisibility? Presumably it gets a boost because we tried and failed before.
I don't think so. Whether undead lich or superforgettable embodiment of shadows, either magical means of immortality would probably make the dwarfs stop wanting to have anything to do with us.
Dunno if this has been answered yet, but ogres don't tend to give a shit about taste. They'll bite a pig in half if theyre hungry. They just want to sate their eternally gnawing hunger
I would like to learn Shroud of Invisibility, but it's a moderate difficulty spell. Because Magic score increases based upon the number of spells known rather than their complexity, moderate spells have higher DCs to learn (and thus greater failure chances) than simple spells, and increasing our Magic score is important for the Magister's exam, I'm focusing entirely on simple spells for now.
I wanted to get Mutable Visage years ago when we could Bind Spell it to our agents, but I don't think that's necessary anymore.
It's a fine design, but do we really need a castle? I don't think we're liable to be attacked by anything more significant than a bandit raid - and even then, only if we find something really valuable in the hills.So on a side note if we do eventually intent to make build a castle of some kind then I found a pretty good design
