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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 Goldfish on Jul 2, 2019 at 7:03 PM, finished with 221 posts and 12 votes.
  • [X] Plan "Welcome to the fold."
    -[X] "You have your duty here in the Stormlands, my lord, to rule well and to protect your people. As your king, it is my responsibility to help you in this."
    --[X] There is much he needs to know to weather the coming days in a position of strength:
    ---[X] The value of gold is going to continue to decrease in the near future. He should consider investing his liquid assets in alternate currencies, such as the Imperial Mark.
    ---[X] The price of grain is going to decrease significantly within the next couple seasons as commonly available rituals greatly increase the amounts that can be harvested. He should be careful not to invest too heavily in it, at least not with intent to sell it. Rather, he should make certain he has enough stockpiled to help feed his people should there be a famine caused by a mass shift to other, more lucrative crops.
    ---[X] Present company excepted, the Maesters as an institution are not to be trusted. Thare is a conspiracy within the leadership of the Citadel. Tell him what we've learned of them so far, along with our encounters with them.
    ---[X] Not only is Tywin magically binding his mages, there is some evidence that he might also be doing the same to his vassal lords, perhaps even outright compelling them through magic.
    ---[X] Provide explanations, evidence, and reasoning as needed for what we share with him.
    --[X] Offer him enchanted arms and armor for himself and his trusted men, along with items of power to ward their minds and strengthen their bodies. They would serve as the core of his forces sent to deal with inhuman threats.
    ---[X] This would include Valyrian Steel weapons and +1 Adamantine armor for up to two dozen men or women, along with a Healing Belt and Ring of Protection from Evil for each of them. Additional mundane but masterwork quality equipment can be provided in much higher quantities. Significant quantities of useful Alchemical substances, such as Healing Salve and Alchemist's Fire, can also be provided.
    ---[X] Among what we share will be the following texts: Canticle of Decay (guidebook on Daemons), Journals of the Betrayed (Guidebook on Others), Reign of Madness ("guidebook" on Illithids), The Bitter Cup (guidebook on Undead). Also give him copies of what notes we have on Devils, Demons, and the Fey. It is critical information relating to the true enemies of mankind.
    ---[X] We will leave Stannis with a Whispering Brazier so that we can communicate freely with no time delay, as well as a trio of Sending Stones to contact us even more directly if it proves necessary.
    ---[X] If he would like, we will also leave him a Calligraphy Wyrm. They are incredibly useful assistants who can help ease the demands on Stannis' time while being unquestionably loyal.
    --[X] Make available training in sorcery in our Scholariums for as many trustworthy people as he can find with the potential for magic, along with training from our Inquisition and other institutions to recognize and combat inhuman threats.
    --[X] Offer to loan him additional manpower. Depending on his needs and desires, we can make available trustworthy mages and men-at-arms to supplement Stannis' forces until his own are ready.
    --[X] Shireen's continued wellbeing is also a cause for concern. If Stannis does not wish to send her to Sorcerer's Deep for instruction, we can provide a tutor and protector. Although humans are available that are well suited to this task, we would recommend a Lesser Phoenix instead. They possess the temperament to work with children and are one of the few unabashedly good beings we have met in our travels beyond this realm.
    ---[X] A Phoenix could also blend into his household with little trouble, considering Selyse's recent conversion to the Red Faith.
    --[X] Finally, offer Stannis the last unassigned Mind Blank ring we currently have available. Explain to him what it is and what it does. Not only will it guard his mind, but so too will it prevent the Lannisters and others from Divining his decision to join us.
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DragonParadox said:
Here's a list of what you had to do until this point to get him to do it:

  1. Treat him with respect as a prisoner of war
  2. Give him aid and information against devils in his lands
  3. Heal his daughter of a seemingly incurable illness with no immediate request for a reward
  4. Protect his daughter against the dangers of magic
  5. Actively work to defend the Seven Kingdoms as their king even though you had none of the privileges of kingship

Stannis is stubborn, enormously, impossibly stubborn, but he is not insane, he can see the world under his nose and the fact of that matter is Viserys is a more worthy king in his eyes than Robert, just as Robert was more worthy than Aerys during the rebellion. I bears remebering that Stannis has broken oaths of fealty before in extremis.

That said all this disbelief makes me wonder if I should have written this as a Stannis interlude.
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One big thing that was missed here.

6. Explain the f!Renly scheme that both Stannis and f!Renly himself were unaware of, and then proceed to not take advantage of it and help Stannis take his rightful place as Lord of Storm's End even though it wouldn't help our cause.
 
There's actually a Statblock. Beyond us at the moment. And so it shall be, for a long while. Worse, the thing reforms after death.

Let's just.. Avoid offending an eldritch abomination who is probably puppeting this long line of nobles.
 
Nickan said:
There's actually a Statblock. Beyond us at the moment. And so it shall be, for a long while. Worse, the thing reforms after death.

Let's just.. Avoid offending an eldritch abomination who is probably puppeting this long line of nobles.
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If we're lucky he's constrained somehow. Like, maybe the Sorcerer Lord of Carcosa is just a prominent minion of Hastur's while the Great Old One himself is trapped somewhere else.
 
If he stood around for seven or so rounds, we could get him with that many Shadows of the Doom.

Of course, that doesn't kill him, but destroys his manifestation and someone has to bring him back again.
 
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Also here's hoping that the Yellow Emperor not responding to our attacks on other Aberrations means he doesn't care or doesn't feel we're worth the bother.
 
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