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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover

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I like it. Rhango is older and patient, so "wordy" is fine so long as there's a point to it.

Also we've been generous, so even barbarians can be accommodating to long-winded ponces.
 
Crake said:
I like it. Rhango is older and patient, so "wordy" is fine so long as there's a point to it.

Also we've been generous, so even barbarians can be accommodating to long-winded ponces.
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Ah, but the point isn't to talk to Rhango! We're trying to reach the young hotheads. Less wordy please, far less wordy.
 
Crake said:
I like it. Rhango is older and patient, so "wordy" is fine so long as there's a point to it.

Also we've been generous, so even barbarians can be accommodating to long-winded ponces.
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Well, if we are at "telling the tales of our people at the fire-side", we can also take a moment to spin our own tale. These things only come off as wordy in comparison to short and on the spot votes, but they are not that long.

Edit: Seriously people. That's 350 words. We just got told tales for an hour.
 
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@Azel I like your speech... but you know what I also like? That fireside story idea. Can you spin an epic yarn for our Dothraki?!
 

Leshy, Gourd – d20PFSRD

"Superstition and love of rituals run deep in gourd leshys. They do their best to exactly reproduce what worked before with every trivial activity, and change seemingly random details when attempting tasks they previously failed. Gourd leshys collect random odds and ends as good luck charms, ranging from polished stones to bird feathers to tarnished coins. Credulous to a fault, gourd leshys believe nearly anything they hear from those they trust. However, their admittedly hollow heads still hold memories, and a gourd leshy betrayed rarely forgets."

So, these are the perfect solution to make them farmers?
 
[X] Plan Re-Education
-[X] Let Vee sporadically Teleport over to heal the Dothraki as part of her healer duties.
-[X] Check with the Lotus Leshy what he thinks about farming. If he has no blanket problem with doing so, introduce him to the Dothraki. A spirit of the land given flesh should be able to talk them around.
-[X] Tell them about the Old Gods, who have given great boons to you for a tithe of the blood from demons and great beasts.
-[X] Also look for a few freshly trained mages after Tyrosh, who would be interested in riding with the Dothraki.
 
Crake said:
@Azel I like your speech... but you know what I also like? That fireside story idea. Can you spin an epic yarn for our Dothraki?!
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You... what...!?

First it's too wordy to speak for a minute or two and now you want me to write a whole story for him? :confused:

Tomcost said:

Leshy, Gourd – d20PFSRD

"Superstition and love of rituals run deep in gourd leshys. They do their best to exactly reproduce what worked before with every trivial activity, and change seemingly random details when attempting tasks they previously failed. Gourd leshys collect random odds and ends as good luck charms, ranging from polished stones to bird feathers to tarnished coins. Credulous to a fault, gourd leshys believe nearly anything they hear from those they trust. However, their admittedly hollow heads still hold memories, and a gourd leshy betrayed rarely forgets."

So, these are the perfect solution to make them farmers?
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Given the farming ritual we just purchased from the Archons, we should really make a bunch of them. They seem the perfect guys to make sure that the ritual is performed properly.
 
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Crake said:
@DragonParadox Does Viserys come to feel respect for people he takes the time to learn because of some need to feel more down to the earth, or is it some part of him more open to the idea that there's something worth respecting about most, if not all, people, if you take the chance to listen to them?

I mean obviously it is hard for Viserys to feel respect for slavers, but then Rhango was a slaver when the world "made more sense". So is Viserys warming of disposition coming more from respect for people who adapt to the new world and less about the things they do to adapt to it by themselves?

I get the notion that you write it as though Viserys is less concerned with the details, and more about the character. Basically as soon as he humanizes someone and separates the actions they do and the "good" that they are, he's more likely to respect them (and make little secret of it in some cases).
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Viserys certainly dislikes slavers quite a lot but its not something that keeps him from respecting people. For instance he respects Zherys the way one does a potential rival, for his cleverness and magic both (though he does not like him) and the man is an unapologetic slaver. With Rhango however Viserys actually likes him to a (small) extent because he is taking responsibility for his people, the hardest one there is in fact, not to rule as they have always been ruled but to change them for the better.

This is at the heart of what makes Viserys Lawfully Neutral rather than Lawfully Good, that he is perfectly willing to work with, and empower people who are morally repugnant personally so long as the ultimate goal is the betterment of the world and its peoples.
 
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@Azel, why "Re-Education"? We're just passin' along some sweet, sweet worldly(kinda) knowledge, not like we're stuffing the lot of 'em into some madhouse. :V
 
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Conpletelely unrelated to the current conversation, but @DragonParadox have you read 'The Ice Dragon'? Seems to take place inside the same general continuity as AGoT, for all it's very short, and could be a very interesting source for an (N)PC in The North.

Tempted to make an Omake from it, actually.
 
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And like that I get the urge again to make a better city system that also models economic activity.

Which is an NP-hard problem and all my ideas for solutions revolve around a massive simulation that would require to stat every settlement in the world before it spits out roughly sane numbers.
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So, it scales with the number of settlements ...
 
[X] Azel

We should introduce the Ironborn to them as well. The Ironborn may well be, the Dothraki of another sea, and look what we did to them!
 
@Azel If we find somewhere there is iron, we can mine it with the lyre. It seems weird, but it's explicitly in the item description. (Or create a mine, and then have people go in an gather all the semi-loose rocks? Something like that).

Also, something for Viserys to do if he has a free moment is one or two commune with natures outside Port Sorrow, look for mineral wealth, get the lay of the land to see if it would be good for farming, etc. Actually, we should be able to do that on the way back to SD, stop off at and finish that survey. Viserys has never met the mistress of Port Sorrow, we should correct that...

Bloodstone is the biggest island, and originally was the highest part of the land bridge, so it might have iron, or some other mineral wealth in the middle part.
 
"And that, offshot, is how we spirits incarnated in the world and replaced the fleshy's who came before ..."
 
[X] Azel

Just realized—no regenerating Rhango's eye. All of us forgot that Malarys hates Dothraki since they razed Essaria. We'll just do it when Dany levels up.

Also, @Azel, instead of Vee time, why not pledge a baby mageling in the near future? This would be constant fighting and a great way for them to grow.
 
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