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

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Duesal said:
I just really don't like the idea. Ser Ricard is honored plenty, there is zero reason for this. Handing out lands and titles and wealth is one thing, but making anyone -- even Ser Richard -- a cadet branch to the freaking royal family is too much for me.
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It also doesn't make sense... we want to play down inheritance here. We don't plan on dying anytime, after all.
 
Snowfire said:
Again, it took humanity...not that long, honestly, to work out how to help fix physical problems. We are still trying to understand the baselines of mental problems. A physical issue is, in most cases, as simple as 'this is broken, this is fix'. A mental issue is far more complicated than that, purely on the basis that they apply differently to everyone. Two people with a broken arm have basicaly the same recovery profile. Two people with, say, chronic depression, can have very different recovery profiles.

That's the problem here, and why trying to equivocate Cure spells to them is flawed.
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Artemis1992 also mentioned Polymorph which will change your literal brain chemistry, there are also mental buffs that can triple the mental capacity of a mundane, how do you retain personality through that? DnD spells have bumpers on, that is simply a fact of their nature worked into the very construct of the spell itself, you can't fuck it up.

Snowfire said:
Nah, my main argument is 'the writers had no idea the complexities they were dealing with and therefore the spell is based on foundations that don't exist". Also that the spell is dumb. Oh yeah, and capital letter E Evil. Because changing someone like that is wrong.
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That comes across as more than a little arrogant, not in that you are incorrect about the writers not having full understanding of the implications but that it matters more for your pet area of focus than it does the multitude of others the very same issue violates all over the place.
 
Wheel of time said:
The time is neigh at last?
The age of kung fu fury foretold in the anals of the Caves of Salt?
Oh joyus day
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Horse Style
Known for powerful kicks and incredible stamina, while practitioners of Horse Style may have a susceptibility to multi-foe harrying do not assume a simple flanking maneuver will be sufficient or you may just end up with a broken jaw.
 
Good GOD! Viserys got fucking fat! 20,000 lbs! :o
Flight speed of 190ft per round or 190ft/6s

M = 9071 kg or 9t
V = 9.651997968 m/s

That is a KE of 422532 J or 311,643.6 Foot pounds. 400.5 BTU.
Good gods how is he not reducing anything he hits when moving at maximum speed to mist!?
 
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*looks at giant vote*

Well done guys. This is going to be great for keeping things on track.

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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jan 19, 2019 at 2:20 AM, finished with 267362 posts and 14 votes.
  • [X] Plan "Shut up and get in my bottle!"
    -[X] Dany uses the Blackened Rod to cast a Daylight spell as a Swift Action in order to render the Shadow Demon powerless. (assuming she prepared a Daylight spell for the occasion; if not, she just Dreamcasts it).
    -[X] Viserys casts a Transdimensional Blood Wished Smoky Confinement spell to capture the Shadow Demon (assuming he used Ancestral Awakening to learn Transdimensional Spell before they summoned the Shadow Demon; if not, he uses it, then proceeds as planned).
    -[X] Allow Maelor to chat with his father using Lya's spirit drum, if he wishes. Otherwise, to the Larder with him.
    [X] Planar Trade
    -[X] Attempt to arrange a meeting with the Shaitan Vizier in order to learn of the latest news of the war, vital missions that may need to be undertaken in the future, and what intel, if any, was garnered from the Shaitan we freed from the Sultan's Prison Tower.
    -[X] Obtain Planar Currency:
    --[X] Take 6.5 million IM of Gold from your reserve.
    --[X] Buy trade goods for part of that sum on Planetos.
    --[X] Sell the trade goods and the gold in Amun Kelisk to obtain planar currency, half of it Silk Notes and the other half Glass Scepters.
    -[X] Regular buying:
    --[X] Buy crafting materials for 500,000 Imperial Marks in the Opaline Vault.
    --[X] Buy two more sets of Titan Tools there.
    --[X] Pick up the last commission and commission another 4 Mindblank items.
    --[X] Look for some Elysian Bronze, Griffons, and Hippogriffs.
    -[X] Land Buying:
    --[X] Speak with the appropriate office or the palace in Amun Kelisk to learn what is necessary to buy land in the city for a Planar Terminus and at what price it could be obtained.
    [X] Festival Planning
    -[X] To facilitate participation, anyone who intends to compete in one or more of the tournament competitions, and who books passage on a ship flying the flag of Sorcerer's Deep or one of its vassal states, will have the cost of their passage refunded at the conclusion of the festival.
    -[X] Security will of course be heightened during the preparations leading up to the event and all throughout the festival. Inquisition agents will work overtime, as needed, with aid from Dawn Fruit and Keep Watch spells. Tyene, Dany, Rina, and Malarys, will all take turns using Brain Spider, when they are available, in order to scan the minds of tournament participants and anyone else deemed suspicious. Detect Thoughts will also be used, when available, with other magics being used to detect compulsions, hostile Divination, and other enemy interference.
    --[X] The House of Mirrors Divination corps will be on constant look out for trouble, making certain to check for all reasonably predictable issues.
    --[X] All Lesser and Greater False Ravens not currently assigned elsewhere will maintain discrete surveillance on visitors. Greater False Ravens will do most of their work under cover of their Invisibility SLA.
    --[X] Nitty Gritty Details:
    ---[X] 150 Tonnes of steel will be used to produce extremely complex and highly detailed/faceted colored figurines as described here and here.
    ---[X] 100,000 Imperial Marks used as a discretionary budget by the organizers to fund the following:
    ---[X] Alms for the poor. The Westerosi ideal.
    ---[X] Feasts and balls for the nobility. No gauche or tasteless theming. Essosi are very particular about appearances, so try to keep that in mind, but if there's any central theme, it will be decidedly "Imperial". Rhaella's book will be these people's gospel.
    ---[X] Honoring the Legion. Make sure their field rations are upgraded to full-on catering following grand speeches or momentous announcements this month.
    --[X] The Mirror Vision network will be used for a variety of purposes this month, including:
    ---[X] Glyra and her Dawnkin Gremlins will spread across the Imperium with the resources to do something creative for the children, such as telling riddles, organizing games and rewarding good deeds. Try to work in a contest of some sort. Winners receive Companion and King metal figurines?
    --[X] Ask Xor to perform the play about the heroic efforts of the Legion and the King to rescue Tyrosh from the daemons, taking over the city from those horribly wicked magisters with the help of those very nice and upstanding magisters who rejoiced at our coming.
    ---[X] During free moments throughout the month, when not holding court functions, not giving grand sweeping speeches or making momentous announcements, he will interview various people throughout the Imperium, asking carefully prepared questions which either serve an educational purpose, or merely pure and simple propaganda. Teana would lean towards the former, Waymar the latter, as an example. Include a discussion with someone like up-and-coming business owners in SD or Tyrosh who have really taken advantage of the greatest changes that have occurred these last several months. Or a former Slave who has managed to work his way up to an Officer, for surely there is at least one or two by now. Make sure they are well-coached beforehand. The setting should be equally tasteful and suited to the interviewee.
    ---[X] Announce the Dates of Tournament events throughout the month in between other things taking up your time, and where more information can be acquired (details on prizes, what the events involve, where they are held).
    ---[X] Make a series of speeches spaced throughout the month, about:
    --[X] 1) The Network of roads, bridges and canals, both completed and planned. The sweeping changes these infrastructural improvements will bring, the guard posts that will secure them and all who travel through the land, and the messengers who dutifully connect the people to each other from far and wide.
    --[X] 2) The Legion and their due diligence upon the field of war, the unfortunate reality that the chaos of the age has required their constant vigilance and presence across the realm, that they simply have no time for a public parade of any sort, but their struggle is not forgotten (nor, implicitly, the people they are being employed against).
    --[X] 3) The Annexation of Myr and the Conquest of Lys, the events preceding and unfolding at present, and what will be done from there with their acquisition.
    -[X] Invitations and Advertising:
    --[X] Spread word of the tournament through all the means available to us. For the Westerosi audience, make sure to emphasize the construction of the new Grand Sept being constructed in Sorcerer's Deep and the need for worthy candidates to make up the soon to be formed Sept Guard.
    ---[X] Arrange for town criers and gossip mongers to spread news of the tournament all throughout Westeros and Western Essos.
    ---[X] Send Three-Eyed Ravens to Westeros and to deliver broadsheets announcing the tourney and festival at taverns, population centers larger than a hamlet, and to keeps of minor knights, stating the prizes to be won.
    ---[X] Every ship departing to Westeros will carry the same message. The captains and crew will be paid a bonus to spread news of the festival and tournament to every port of call they visit.
    --[X] Invite your Westerosi allies (Brune, Velaryon, Doran, Bronze Yon) by brazier. Tell them that you fully understand if they can't attend in person due to the short notice and political concerns, but that you will gladly receive them or whomever they want to send, such as heirs and loyal knights.
    --[X] Tell Lord Commander Mormont about the event and offer him to Teleport some recruiters to SD so that he might get a few men out of this.
    --[X] Get a selection of good fighters with the appropriate skill set for each event from the 1st Legion with General Torchwood making the suggestions. Inform the soldiers that it might be possible that not all of them will be able to compete, as you do not want to appear to stack the deck. At most 25% of the attendees of each event can be Legionaries.-[X] Tourney:
    --[X] Include a joust, a melee, archery and a spellcasting event.
    ---[X] The joust and archery events will be handled in the traditional manner.
    ----[X] There will be no melee free-for-all. Instead fighters will be paired against one another in single elimination bracket matches that will be broadcast via MirrorVision each day of the festival. Between matches, the fighters will be healed of injuries so that each round is between two fresh combatants. The final day of the festival will see the last round of matches between eight semi-finalists.
    -----[X] Mage duels will be handled similarly to the melee event, though the final day of the festival will only pit the two finalists against one another, due to the limited magic available to low level spellcasters.
    -----[X] A team battle competition will also be held during this time, with each team composed of up to four individuals, though only one member of the team can be Large-sized for the sake of fairness. Like the melee fighting and mage duels, this competition will be handled through single elimination bracket matches. Each member of the winning team will be able to select a prize equal to the top prize awarded in either the joust, archery, melee, or mage duel events. Prize money will be awarded immediately, but equipment will need to be enchanted once it is selected, a process which will take no longer than one month.
    --[X] The prizes will be:
    ---[X] Joust:
    ----[X] 1st Prize: 5,000 Imperial Marks, Valyrian Steel weapon of choice, Valyrian Steel armor of choice, +1 horse barding of choice, +1 Shield of choice, Amulet of Tears, Gloves of Heroes Strength (+2 Strength), Healing Belt (+2 Constitution), Ring of Protection from Evil. Include an option to receive a sizeable land grant in the former Disputed Lands if the winner is willing to swear themselves to us to serve as a loyal vassal.
    ----[X] 2nd Prize: 3,000 Imperial Marks, Valyrian Steel weapon of choice, +1 armor of choice, +1 Shield of choice, Amulet of Tears, Gloves of Heroes Strength (+2 Strength), Healing Belt (+2 Constitution), Ring of Protection from Evil.
    ----[X] 3rd Prize: 1,500 Imperial Marks, Valyrian Steel weapon of choice, +1 armor of choice.
    ---[X] Archery:
    ----[X] 1st Prize: 5,000 Imperial Marks, +1 Dragonbone Longbow of Distance (w/Strength bonus customized to the winner), Quiver of Abundant Ammunition, Gloves of Zephyr's Grace (+2 Dexterity), Healing Belt (+2 Constitution), Ring of Protection from Evil. Include an option to receive a sizeable land grant in the former Disputed Lands if the winner is willing to swear themselves to us to serve as a loyal vassal.
    ----[X] 2nd Prize: 3,000 Imperial Marks, +1 Dragonbone Longbow (w/Strength bonus customized to the winner), Quiver of Abundant Ammunition, Gloves of Zephyr's Grace (+2 Dexterity), Healing Belt (+2 Constitution), Ring of Protection from Evil.
    ----[X] 3rd Prize: 1,500 Imperial Marks, +1 Dragonbone Longbow (w/Strength bonus customized to the winner).
    ---[X] Melee:
    ----[X] 1st Prize: 5,000 Imperial Marks, Valyrian Steel weapon of choice, Valyrian Steel armor of choice, +1 Shield of choice, Amulet of Tears, Gloves of Heroes Strength (+2 Strength), Healing Belt (+2 Constitution), Ring of Protection from Evil. Include an option to receive a sizeable land grant in the former Disputed Lands if the winner is willing to swear themselves to us to serve as a loyal vassal.
    ----[X] 3rd Prize: 1,500 Imperial Marks, Valyrian Steel weapon of choice, Valyrian Steel armor of choice.
    ----[X] NOTE: There will be two separate melee brackets, a normal one intended for Small and Medium-sized combatants and a Heavyweight bracket intended for Large-sized combatants, though Medium-sized competitors can enter if they choose. A competitor cannot participate in both melee events.
    ---[X] Sorcery:
    ----[X] 1st Prize: 5,000 Imperial Marks, Standardized Sorcerer's Deep Mage Gear appropriate to the winner's class, and a selection of available spell scrolls of their choice (x4 1st level, x3 2nd level, x2 3rd level, x1 4th level). Include an option to receive a sizeable land grant in the former Disputed Lands if the winner is willing to swear themselves to us to serve as a loyal vassal.
    ----[X] 2nd Prize: 3,000 Imperial Marks, Standardized Sorcerer's Deep Mage Gear appropriate to the winner's class.
    ----[X] 3rd Prize: 1,500 Imperial Marks, Healing Belt (+2 Constitution), Ring of Protection from Evil, Stat Booster appropriate to the mage's class (Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma)
    [X] King's Landing Action (Not festival related, but this seemed like a good time to add it)
    -[X] Mia and Anya will cooperate with the companions on their respective missions, but maintain some degree of separation for OpSec.
    -[X] Try to subvert or infiltrate existing information networks.
    -[X] Set up at least 3 independent cells that know nothing about each other and all get separate orders.
    -[X] At least one cell should be based in Fleabottom.
    -[X] Look for loyalists in the Gold Cloaks to subvert.
    -[X] Look for multipliers like courtesans, bartenders, money lenders, organised crime, etc.
    -[X] Potential locations for cells:
    --[X] Near the Fish Market to observe events in the harbor,
    --[X] Between the Hook and the Muddy Way, to observe events in the better areas near the keep.
    --[X] Between Cobblers Square and the Street of Steel, to observe events in the western barracks of the Gold Cloaks and the Great Sept of Baelor.
    --[X] In Fleabottom, due to the locale offering security from the Gold Cloaks and ample disposable patsies.
    --[X] Between the Eastern Barracks and the Street of Silk, to observe the garrison and to use the courtesans as information sources.
    [X] Let Maelor handle the conversation
    -[X] But give him silent support. We are here for him and he is not alone.
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Hey @Duesal, what was the name of that slave turned officer DP wrote an interlude for? I think it was right before Tyrosh?

@Golfish, maybe interview her? You day "a slave turned officer" in your plan, after all.

@Goldfish, I am not a huge fan of the "only one Large person per team" limitation. It feels arbitrary and annoying. Minotaurs can lose in melee (and especially against anything requiring Will saves, Alchemical stuff...)

Also dayum, those prizes are huge !
 
He said propaganda, not war crimes.

I understand how you came to be under the misapprehension however. He is only German. :V
 
@DragonParadox by 5000 Imperial Marks what IM specifically are you talking about? Are we talking the Sovereign Mark? Or the Legion or what?

Depending on the denomination that is a range difference of 5000 - 500 000 Gold Dragons/Iron Marks.
 
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@Azel @Goldfish

Heads up, with Menel added to the front page now, we for sure have another Hero Unit who can do both Economic and Intrigue actions.

Aubert is next up.

I am inclined to leave Lothos, Grazdan and Koron to someone else, since a couple of people suggested some ideas for them.
 
Arimai said:
@DragonParadox by 5000 Imperial Marks what IM specifically are you talking about? Are we talking the Sovereign Mark? Or the Legion or what?

Depending on the denomination that is a range difference of 5000 - 500 000 Gold Dragons/Iron Marks.
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Imperial Marks are the unit of currency, not the denomination.

IM is 1:1 with Golden Dragon/Iron Mark.
 
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