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TFW you equip a 6th level Psion with high-end and/or rare gear just because they're the only one in your service.

I would really not want to be part of whatever kill team sent to retrieve her, tbqh, I almost feel sorry for them.
 
Goldfish said:
10 Single-Use Crystal Fate of One Charms (13th Manifester Level)
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Should be assigned to Companions that can't TurnFate their way out of any given situation.

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10 Single-Use Crystal Temporal Acceleration Charms (Augmented to 15th Manifester level, 2 round duration)
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These are just glorious, a mini-Timestop as a swift action.

I fear we have too many instruments available at this point, though.
Too many even for us to remember about and use when appropriate, let alone DP.
 
Tally's börked.
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egoo said:
Should be assigned to Companions that can't TurnFate their way out of any given situation.


These are just glorious, a mini-Timestop as a swift action.

I fear we have too many instruments available at this point, though.
Too many even for us to remember about and use when appropriate, let alone DP.
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That's what the character sheets are for. I'll update them again this weekend. They're easy references for us and for DP.
 
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Thought I'd share some more fanfic, be advised this one is weirder than either of the previous two. It's a full series of Harry Potter fics that can be found here.

The premise of the story is a time-traveling thirteen year old Belatrix Black from a universe where Tom Riddle never became Voldemort shows us in the canon timeline in the summer before Harry's third year. As you can imagine she is not pleased by the state of House Black and aims to rectify it.

Be warned though I said canon timeline not canon universe. It deals with original magical metaphysics, including a warhammer-like cast of gods and powers, wizarding politics with multiple parties with overlapping interests and alliances of convenience, a Dumbledore that is greyer than in canon, but still very much a flawed human being not a over-the-top villain with Veritaserum lemon drops. Probably not for Ron fans either, he gets sidelined pretty summarily, though again without feeling out of character to me (No Ron the Death Eater). It's well written at times thoughtful, funny without being crack.
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That is the weirdest shit I've seen all day, and this morning I was reading a fic that ships Voldemort's father with Hermione (it's so slow burn that the ship hasn't even been built yet, but the tags are there already).
I appreciate your recs, by the way, and it's very nice of you to make them. I'll give it a proper look tomorrow during my commute.
Is it SFW?

The fic I mentioned (which ships Tom Riddle Senior and Hermione) is In the Bleak Midwinter by TheLoud. The entire fic is Tom PoV, and the basic idea is that after Hermione arrives at his house with a baby she claims is his, Tom Riddle Senior decides that if his son is a wizard, he wants some of this magic shit for himself and he wants to make sure his son will have a place in wizarding society.
Basically it's the story of a very clever Muggle to decides to fake being a rich wizard. It's utterly amazing. There's no endless parade of "Muggle being shocked" or endless infodumps - Tom Riddle is just as clever and ambitious as his son will be, after all, and he knows that the greatest power of all isn't magic : it's confidence.
The shipping is so incredibly slow burn that I barely noticed it until I read the comments and saw the author say that eventually it would be a thing. You don't read this fic for shipping, you read it for excellent gambits, wild ambition ("end pureblood prejudice! End anti-werewolf prejudice, and get very rich doing so! Weasel time-travel muggle tech out of Hermione and try to get rich off that, too!"), and the amusing culture clashes of Hermione the modern woman living with 1930s aristocrats.
Incidentally, the PoV character is a manipulative little fucker (see his every interaction with Hermione after chapter one) but he does have an actual character beyond that, he was flaws and character development like everyone else, and more importantly he is not an objective narrator. That is, he lies to himself at times just as much as he lies to others.
10/10 fic, I'm on my 9th reread in two weeks and it's still gripping.

My current focus on good Tom Riddle fics started with this series by dwellingondreams. Dwellingondreams is an absolutely amazing fanfic writer with some great ASOIaF stuff, but this "Amy Benson is a witch" series was absolutely amazing. It got me back into HP fanfics!
Basically it's the story of a girl at Voldemort's orphanage who was a muggleborn witch. It's character-focused, heartbreaking, gripping, and all-around amazing if you want to read about the crazy plots of this very dysfunctional couple. Because yes, living the "childhood friend, teenage romance" dream is nice, but it's better if one of you isn't a sociopath.
10/10.
The writing here is so good that I can't bear to read the sequel fic until it's all finished (currently on weekly updates). Otherwise the ongoing plot threads just eat me alive. There's no way that this will end well, but I really really really hope she gets a happy ending!

Another fic that turned out to be amazing is Birds of a Feather by babylonsheep, who wrote Tabloid (and who is an excellent artist, so Birds of a Feather has cute portraits).
This is a timeline shift where Hermione is born in the 30s and has Voldemort as a childhood friend. I genuinely don't know how to describe this other than "Tom tries to teach Hermione Tom Logic (TM), while she tries to keep him out of trouble and reform him without admitting to herself that her only friend is an absolute psychopath"
Oh, and it's also very period-accurate and has amazing plotlines relating to the events of the 1930s/1940s.
Believe it or not, this is actually a rational fic / romance. I know, a good rational fic sounds like an oxymoron (and adding in slow burn romance just sounds even worse), but let's just say that I failed to notice it was meant to be a rational fic until I finished it, googled it, and saw it being discussed on r/rational.
Basically the three fics I recced here are amazing and you should read them. None are dead, all are excellent, and I'd love any more similar recs if anyone has any!
Yes, that last bolded part is the reason why I typed all of this out
 
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TFW you equip a 6th level Psion with high-end and/or rare gear just because they're the only one in your service.

I would really not want to be part of whatever kill team sent to retrieve her, tbqh, I almost feel sorry for them.
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Yeah, Jeyne is very well equipped for her level, but then again, that's par for the course when it comes to our people.

The specialty psionic stuff we've purchased for her synergizes really well with Jeyne's abilities, giving her the ability to hit much harder and for longer than anyone would reasonably expect of a Psion of her level.
 
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That is the weirdest shit I've seen all day, and this morning I was reading a fic that ships Voldemort's father with Hermione (it's so slow burn that the ship hasn't even been built yet, but the tags are there already).
I appreciate your recs, by the way, and it's very nice of you to make them. I'll give it a proper look tomorrow during my commute.
Is it SFW?

The fic I mentioned (which ships Tom Riddle Senior and Hermione) is In the Bleak Midwinter by TheLoud. The entire fic is Tom PoV, and the basic idea is that after Hermione arrives at his house with a baby she claims is his, Tom Riddle Senior decides that if his son is a wizard, he wants some of this magic shit for himself and he wants to make sure his son will have a place in wizarding society.
Basically it's the story of a very clever Muggle to decides to fake being a rich wizard. It's utterly amazing. There's no endless parade of "Muggle being shocked" or endless infodumps - Tom Riddle is just as clever and ambitious as his son will be, after all, and he knows that the greatest power of all isn't magic : it's confidence.
The shipping is so incredibly slow burn that I barely noticed it until I read the comments and saw the author say that eventually it would be a thing. You don't read this fic for shipping, you read it for excellent gambits, wild ambition ("end pureblood prejudice! End anti-werewolf prejudice, and get very rich doing so! Weasel time-travel muggle tech out of Hermione and try to get rich off that, too!"), and the amusing culture clashes of Hermione the modern woman living with 1930s aristocrats.
Incidentally, the PoV character is a manipulative little fucker (see his every interaction with Hermione after chapter one) but he does have an actual character beyond that, he was flaws and character development like everyone else, and more importantly he is not an objective narrator. That is, he lies to himself at times just as much as he lies to others.
10/10 fic, I'm on my 9th reread in two weeks and it's still gripping.

My current focus on good Tom Riddle fics started with this series by dwellingondreams. Dwellingondreams is an absolutely amazing fanfic writer with some great ASOIaF stuff, but this "Amy Benson is a witch" series was absolutely amazing. It got me back into HP fanfics!
Basically it's the story of a girl at Voldemort's orphanage who was a muggleborn witch. It's character-focused, heartbreaking, gripping, and all-around amazing if you want to read about the crazy plots of this very dysfunctional couple. Because yes, living the "childhood friend, teenage romance" dream is nice, but it's better if one of you isn't a sociopath.
10/10.
The writing here is so good that I can't bear to read the sequel fic until it's all finished (currently on weekly updates). Otherwise the ongoing plot threads just eat me alive. There's no way that this will end well, but I really really really hope she gets a happy ending!

Another fic that turned out to be amazing is Birds of a Feather by babylonsheep, who wrote Tabloid (and who is an excellent artist, so Birds of a Feather has cute portraits).
This is a timeline shift where Hermione is born in the 30s and has Voldemort as a childhood friend. I genuinely don't know how to describe this other than "Tom tries to teach Hermione Tom Logic (TM), while she tries to keep him out of trouble and reform him without admitting to herself that her only friend is an absolute psychopath"
Oh, and it's also very period-accurate and has amazing plotlines relating to the events of the 1930s/1940s.
Believe it or not, this is actually a rational fic / romance. I know, a good rational fic sounds like an oxymoron (and adding in slow burn romance just sounds even worse), but let's just say that I failed to notice it was meant to be a rational fic until I finished it, googled it, and saw it being discussed on r/rational.
Basically the three fics I recced here are amazing and you should read them. None are dead, all are excellent, and I'd love any more similar recs if anyone has any!
Yes, that last bolded part is the reason why I typed all of this out
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I've actually read all of those except the Amy Benson sequel which is on my to-read list. I've particularly enjoyed Birds of a Feather due to the way it keeps Tom Riddle in character while also making him at least somewhat relatable and also the historical accuracy. Will be on the lookout for more of the same.
 
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I know, a good rational fic sounds like an oxymoron
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Someone agrees with me!

I got introduced to Rational fiction and when I did, it didn't take me long to realize it was all just masturbatory garbage, the kinds of people who do feel the need to write that garbage are also generally self-absorbed smug little shits.

When I do see well structured plot-lines that seem to make internal and consistent sense, excellent! Even better if characterization remains consistent, and the people therein absolutely do not have to behave rationally all of the time, they merely need to have a rationale that you can actually intuit, even sympathize with, so that they become more than one-dimensional cut-outs formed as part of a conflict triangle.
 
Crake said:
Someone agrees with me!

I got introduced to Rational fiction and when I did, it didn't take me long to realize it was all just masturbatory garbage, the kinds of people who do feel the need to write that garbage are also generally self-absorbed smug little shits.

When I do see well structured plot-lines that seem to make internal and consistent sense, excellent! Even better if characterization remains consistent, and the people therein absolutely do not have to behave rationally all of the time, they merely need to have a rationale that you can actually intuit, even sympathize with, so that they become more than one-dimensional cut-outs formed as part of a conflict triangle.
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Agreed, a character's logic has to be internally consistent, not stand up to some supposed ultimate abstract rationality, because all the search for that particular chimera does is make every character behave interchangeably while being thin masks for the author's own opinions.
 
On an OOC note, the Kickstarter for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is in its last 8 hours at the moment.

If you want to pre-order the game at a very big discount or get other things, now's your last chance. The Kickstarter price is $28 for a digital copy of the game, vs something like $55 for the full price once it comes out.

I'm making this recommendation because people in the thread were how I found out about Pathfinder: Kingmaker and I loved it, and given that we're here playing a D&D game this is probably what a lot of you would enjoy as well.
 
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