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

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[X] Crake

So, aside from the mentioned mage-priests and the regular troops we know our allies have the following assets:
DragonParadox said:
Guardians of hollow bone stand upon its ramparts, remembering perhaps dimly the duties they took on in life, but these are not the only dead you see from afar. Ancient guardians wrapped in funerary linens to long dead gods watch the road with withered and unwavering gazes. Engines of war, now empowered as much by the spirits of their masters as golem-craft, each painted in the guise of some beast mundane and fantastical, glare down through murder holes.
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Mummies with unknown class levels (maybe those are the Theurges we just heard of?) and semi-undead siege engines.
DragonParadox said:
The roads at least had been cleared, you even catch a glimpse of a company of skeletons pulling down a wall whose foundations have been undermined while behind them a dead priest in gilded vestments whose bond to the divine had long since rotted away to nothing directs yet more of the lesser dead in rebuilding.
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Huecuva who could be lesser priests, or just the basic Pathfinder-version. But DP has always preferred to give Huecuva cleric-casting when we met them so far, so that's what I expect.
DragonParadox said:
Finally you come to the palace, guarded by two vast wights with the heads of elephants propped up upon a manlike frame as much iron as bone and bound in the tattered panoply of lost idols. No simple brutes these you sense, but animated instead by sorcerous will fit to rain down lightning and curses from the heavens.
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Giant, animal-headed wights with Sorcery as either spells or SLAs.

It would be nice to be able to quantify that.
We will have to plan if our allies will need support against enemy heavy/elite troops after all.
 
Artemis1992 said:
[X] Crake

So, aside from the mentioned mage-priests and the regular troops we know our allies have the following assets:

Mummies with unknown class levels (maybe those are the Theurges we just heard of?) and semi-undead siege engines.

Huecuva who could be lesser priests, or just the basic Pathfinder-version. But DP has always preferred to give Huecuva cleric-casting when we met them so far, so that's what I expect.

Giant, animal-headed wights with Sorcery as either spells or SLAs.

It would be nice to be able to quantify that.
We will have to plan if our allies will need support against enemy heavy/elite troops after all.
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We could dispatch some of our minotaurs to aid them. A few dozen Huge sized fighters can cover a lot of front-line.
 
Goldfish said:
The spell "donor" in such cases still has to cast the spell while helping with the crafting of each item. A Paladin has very limited spell slots and isn't going to be inclined to spend their days helping produce a few minor magical items.

Best case, if DP is generous, we could have one of our Paladins help craft a command-activated Veil of Positive Energy item, which could in turn be used by our crafters to mass produce the single-use charms. I think that should work.
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You guys can't quite cheese enchanting that way. It's usually below the level of abstraction but the way you cast a spell to use it is different to the way you cast it to enchant. Case in point you can cast spells that only work on self into enchanted objects that work on the bearer
 
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[X] Crake

BTW, caught up after spending a leisurely 3 months reading everything from start to finish. Will do my best to avoid dredging up ancient salt.
 
Ace of Scarabs said:
[X] Crake

BTW, caught up after spending a leisurely 3 months reading everything from start to finish. Will do my best to avoid dredging up ancient salt.
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Good rule of thumb, don't discuss any argument that happened more than a week ago unless a recent update dredges it up somehow. :V

Welcome in, careful you don't fall behind instantly, DP writes like 50,000+ words a month.
 
Vote closed, sorry it took so long today, combination of IRL stuff and this damn heat making it hard to write.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Jul 22, 2020 at 9:12 AM, finished with 44 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] Mixed mage circles, with your battle sorcerers focusing on either attack or raising the capabilities of your forces, depending on their spell lists and personal preference, and the Sathari priests focusing on countering enemy mages.
    [X] You have spare braziers, integrate command structures somewhat by feeding intelligence through to the Sathari officers with Legion junior officers acting as liasons and undead acting as messengers. Wyvern patrols will share positional information on enemy movements and terrain, finding the best routes for the Sathari force to decide on where to send their patrols.
    [X] Combine war councils completely like a traditional host would. It will give the senior brass some experience working with varied forces, granted you expected the first time this would happen is in Westeros. After working with the undead officers of Queen Namaaru, you don't expect they will have any trouble working around regular noblemen.
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Goldfish said:
This time of year makes me wish I lived in the far north.

Then the thought of shoveling dozens of feet of snow each winter makes me reconsider.
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Living in the tropics for me means the temperature never drops below the high 20s C. Hot days can be worse than deserts because at least deserts are dry and your sweat can evaporate, the humid/hot tropics means you accumulate a film of sweat in the heat that never completely dries out except near a fan or under air conditioning.
 
Ace of Scarabs said:
Living in the tropics for me means the temperature never drops below the high 20s C. Hot days can be worse than deserts because at least deserts are dry and your sweat can evaporate, the humid/hot tropics means you accumulate a film of sweat in the heat that never completely dries out except near a fan or under air conditioning.
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*notices you're Singaporean*

Ah, that's why. 'Sup, neighbor!

But yeah, that's why you built your house with tall ceilings. So that the hot air would stay up whilst the cool air stays down.

But a pair of electric fans never hurt. Scratch that, it's impossible to live here without it if you don't want to be a walking sweat generator.
 
Takesis said:
*Glances at the salt statues of a tree, a sad dog, and a devil... Picks up the ice cream can placed between them.

Salt does keep things cool longer you know?
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That reminds me, I need to pick up some rock salt from the store. Gonna make a batch of peach ice cream this weekend.
 
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