You never know what you will need the favour for. And I sincerely doubt that the thread will consider buying burning vengeance unless it's of immediate benefit to the proposed plan turn. This turn does not call for any kinds of deep raids, so even I would probably not support it.
It literally doesn't matter? What action would we care enough about to pick as an Action but not care about missing a DC check?
I mean, most humans would technically be considered second class in the Empire. Feudal society isn't all that kind.
Already I'm dropping the list format because it's no longer helpful and I think by this point neither you or I are arguing specific points. My original point was that there are other things to buy, whether I listed them or not- and to some extent there always will be.
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CELEBRIMBOR YES
What option would we care enough about to pick as an action for that turn and be simultaneously concerned about failing and not apply Gambler to it? This upcoming turn might have Deciever booked, but the next one probably doesn't. Either of those options would be probably getting a +46 in light of that ignoring our extant library bonuses, of which I expect we can probably push it up to +50 Antiquarian subject book or no.
I don't think it's the QM doing this. I think it's the dwarves.
Could our copy be the same one taken from the Sigmarites?
No, we have the original, not a redacted copy.
No, because the Sigmarite one was incomplete and this is the original penned by Van Hal's own hand that we own. Passed down through the family by Abelhelm.
I mean, we can only Gamble one thing, and sometimes we want another face. Consider our Sylvania turn; we Night Prowlered to get its OP bullshit, but its OP bullshit is scope-limited, so going into that turn we also bought a ton of extra anti-undead books. Or the turn before that, where we studied the Aethyric Vitae and coined it, but also bought books on the use of the Greatsword to supplement our training actions, which we also didn't want to fail.
Spending college favor to hire Brights for Kvinn-Wyr seems absurd to me when Mathilde can just kill the trolls personally herself, at virtually no risk. Trolls do not have magic weapons, and they do not use fire or other forms of light. They live inside or under a mountain, where it will therefore be dark all the time- nothing to cancel a Substance of Shadow spell. And Mathilde has an absurdly strong weapon which can unquestionably kill trolls.
Putting aside the personal risk in #3, we would still need to stockpile college favor for Kyvinn Wyr. We'd just spend it on magical items like Speed of Light, Flame Storm, enchanted guns or any other spells we might need to maximize our damage and minimize our chance of death.
I am like 90% sure we can't kill some one while rendered immaterial with Substance of Shadow because we have to be touching the thing we want to interact with when we cast the spell.
Ah! That makes it far more convenient! Neat!
I mean this is far too much effort to invest in debating whether a single percentile is important in the long run. We can with say with absolute certainty that if we do in fact need a book for the upcoming issues at hand we can just spend the favor then. Otherwise it doesn't matter. If circumstance truly arises where we really feel the need to on a spur of the moment buy a book then we can.
WASTED
Given the resistance to spending favour for a subject we definitely value highly right now, I don't think we can say that. Maximizing efficiency is a siren song.
Because the Skaven Civil War isn't going to last forever. We only have a certain window of time before the Horned Rat declares it over, and then we'd be facing a resurgent Mors with Eshin and Skyre allies. We need to keep up our pace.
