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

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Adhoc vote count started by TotallyNotEvil on Sep 12, 2018 at 10:17 AM, finished with 35 posts and 10 votes.
  • [X] Plan "The Turtling Has Begin"
    -[X] Use Rina's ice magic as a terror tactic.
    --[X] She places aa Snowsigh spell on Viserys, uses Blizzard to sow confusion and fear while blinding the whalers, then drops a Death Hail on them in order to weaken them against Viserys' magic.
    --[X] Viserys uses Resist Energy (Cold) and Ancestral Awakening to learn the Chain Spell Metamagic feat, then subdues as many whalers as possible with Chained Baleful Polymorph spells, prioritizing Efreeti over lesser targets. He transforms them into Fire Turtles, because that's how magic gets stuff done.
    [X] Baella will receive 25% of the wealth we reappropriate from the whalers, along with our assitance in hiring beings capable of helping to protect her and her fellow Fire Whales.
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Duesal said:
No matter where we are, no matter how they're formed, there shall be turtles.
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"So - you are an anthropomorphic fire turtle.
...
How come?"
"One of my ancestors ran into the dragon emperor. He turtled him."
"Turtled him? On the plane of fire? How does that work?"
"Before - there weren't fire turtles on the plane of fire.
After - my ancestor was the first one. And because the concept came into being ..."
 
Duesal said:
@Goldfish, sacrifice gathering seems like a moot point if you're just unleashing Rina first.
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She's only able to use those spells once each, and neither will kill anything. Death Hail deals some Constitution damage, which lowers Fortitude saves, which makes Baleful Polymorph more difficult to resist.
 
[X] Goldfish

Flat percentage will run into similar problems as always, since ships and sacrifices are hard to quantify.
Better give her a higher portion of the valuables found on the ships and of the value of the corpses, while we keep the ships and turtles completly.
 
@DragonParadox you said that the Grimoire needs an action to switch spells/pages, was it move action, or swift or...?

Can we have True Casting ready as policy in that case?

@all True casting to turtle groups things that have SR.
 
Random thought: Did we ever badger Richard into writing a book?

"Fantastical Creatures And How To Kill Them" - written by Ser Richard Lonmouth, co-authored by Bronn Bigcastle
 
Azel said:
Random thought: Did we ever badger Richard into writing a book?

"Fantastical Creatures And How To Kill Them" - written by Ser Richard Lonmouth, co-authored by Bronn Bigcastle
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Deliste said:
Richard we did. Bronn we have yet to.
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Crake said:
He was writing an Arms Manual. For supernal killing techniques.
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Right, he was writing that manual that would allow us to train people in the stances he knows.
 
@Azel, here's what we're looking at.
DragonParadox said:
  1. Daenerys: 38%: On the nature of divinity, advanced scholarum manual
  2. Sir Richard 17%: martial primmer that would allow you to train a very limited number of martial adepts
  3. Lya: 14%: On the foundations of magic and spell-casting, including tips on spell creation
  4. Waymar & Tyene 39%: Guide to harvesting and testing arcane reagents for viability
  5. Garin 57%: Infiltrator's handbook basically
  6. Vee 84%: Bestiary of selected magical creatures and how they can be best tended
  7. Maelor 32%: Book of Demonology and Abyssal lore
  8. Xor 100%: understanding mortals
  9. Teana 61%: shadow-weaving
  10. Malarys 93%: Dragon lore
  11. Rina 100%: Book already presented
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BeepSmile said:
@DragonParadox you said that the Grimoire needs an action to switch spells/pages, was it move action, or swift or...?

Can we have True Casting ready as policy in that case?

@all True casting to turtle groups things that have SR.
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It makes most spell you use it in a full round action as you use a move action to find the page and a standard action to cast.

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Adhoc vote count started by TotallyNotEvil on Sep 12, 2018 at 10:17 AM, finished with 35 posts and 10 votes.
  • [X] Plan "The Turtling Has Begin"
    -[X] Use Rina's ice magic as a terror tactic.
    --[X] She places aa Snowsigh spell on Viserys, uses Blizzard to sow confusion and fear while blinding the whalers, then drops a Death Hail on them in order to weaken them against Viserys' magic.
    --[X] Viserys uses Resist Energy (Cold) and Ancestral Awakening to learn the Chain Spell Metamagic feat, then subdues as many whalers as possible with Chained Baleful Polymorph spells, prioritizing Efreeti over lesser targets. He transforms them into Fire Turtles, because that's how magic gets stuff done.
    [X] Baella will receive 25% of the wealth we reappropriate from the whalers, along with our assitance in hiring beings capable of helping to protect her and her fellow Fire Whales.
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Goldfish said:
Or we could just let her come study with us while we convert her to our cause, cost free?

I wonder if Malarys likes girls with horns?
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Goldfish my man, you're a genius!

Hehe, the Valeana plotline thickens! Wonder how she would react to this exotic newcomer, of valyrian ancestry and sporting fashionable horns, talking to Malarys so she can learn...

And how will Eragorn react to that change?! Relief? Satisfaction? Will he seek to take advantage? Perhaps there's a twist and Siduri takes a liking to him?

Man this stuff writes itself. @DragonParadox I'd like to request a valeana/eragorn interlude when she's in SD next month or the one after it. I really got to see this!

TalonofAnathrax said:
Are we bringing lord Darry to the conference?
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We have to diplomance him first, but by the way the thread's cronic divination paranoia is blowing (justified or not) it seems we wont have any loyalist lordly interaction until the invasion is mere days away.

I dont care much for that and would even go so far as to try working something out with DP if its true. We're outgrowing Planetos and soon most ASOAIF politics/intrigues will be less and less relevant. Can't we just enjoy what little remains of it before we outgrow it completely guys? Lanna going with a checklist and communing every House's loyalty from the Wall to Dorne makes watsonian sense, but from a doylist perspective it just kills westerosi intrigue, and two thirds of the more unique half of this crossover.

Azel said:
Frankly, I would focus on other things for our next attacks.

Strike ports and lay waste to them.
Raid and collapse mines.
Go after forges and manufacturies.

Not only do they have a lot of valuable in those places, but we are draining the Sultans ressources four times over.

1. Loss of looted materials and products.
2. No production / use during rebuilding, which will cost ressources.
3. Brain drain as skilled artisans and personal is freed from slavery or outright killed during the attacks.
4. Redeployment of troops to defend the hone-front means less troops to fight the Shaitan.

All in all a great outcome for us.
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Sure, I was just pointing out that killing whalers makes some strategic sense, beyond helping our friend.

Goldfish said:
Shadow of the Doom is a great spell in this regard. Not for the damage it can cause to our enemies, if they avoid petrification, or the frightening visual effects, but for the ability to transmute absolutely incredible amounts of otherwise useable stone into volcanic soil.

The only useful real estate on the Plane of Fire is solid stone, else the heat and molten metals and stone will just wash away any permanent structure.

A single Shadow of the Doom can spoil an entire port facility, not just damaging the structures, but also permanently rendering their very foundation unuseable in the future.

EDIT: One tactic I've already touched on, in my theoretical plans to destroy Casterly Rock, would be to use Shadow of the Doom to transform a large area into volcanic soil, then use one or more high level Control Winds spells to just blow away the entire transmuted area.
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I'm leery of using it too much. Our turtling habits are already spawning newt prevention beeds everywhere, it would be a shame something vaguely similar happened to our best spell. Of course, we have to be wary of the opposite (classic RPG potion hoarding), but still being frugal with SotD is a good idea.

Azel said:
Random thought: Did we ever badger Richard into writing a book?

"Fantastical Creatures And How To Kill Them" - written by Ser Richard Lonmouth, co-authored by Bronn Bigcastle
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When are we making Bronn a lord? He really deserves a bigger reward for his services (beyond another pithy pay rise), but I'm stumped on what. Knighting him would apperently upset Waymar, and a lorship is too soon because there's the risk he'd just live there. More gear is a classic but we can only use that boomerang gift tactic so many times before it grows stale...

[X] Goldfish
 
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I wonder how Malarys and Eragorn are with one another. Fellow dragon lords I wouldn't be surprised if Malarys took one look and said "my student now" and ran with it. Also he has an egg correct?
 
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