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

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egoo said:
Don't get too hyped, fams.
It was only one fight, across a pretty wide party.

While Shoggoths overlevel us all, we still have a very unfair advantage in gear, so it was a less than equal one in our favor.
From it alone there won't be that much XP.

Had we taken the "trap"-path or fought with the Undead, well...

While we'll still fight one more encounter at the very least, I don't think this is a "Viserys/Lya/Richard levels!"-territory regardless.
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I'm mostly hyped for Qyburn and the Merkdreki. All are probably gonna get a levelup.
 
BronzeTongue said:
Oops, my bad. I was looking at the 3.0 version which didn't specify who you reached out to, and flipped over to the 3.5 version without checking if the fluff changed.

Has Viserys cast a divination spell personally yet today? If not using Path of the Exalted to get the dragon dreams to weigh in on the entire discussion would be useful.

After that using the special intelligence effect of Visualization of the Mind would be helpful. 1 minute's worth of the caster's HD in ranks for something they previously had none in is a hell of a buff.

And as a maximum cheese suggestion: using Army Across Time to summon alt!Viserys and alt!Lyas to contribute to the discussion.

I mean, given how fucked time is here summoning alternative versions of ourselves might just make the whole place explode, but honestly this place would probably be improved by a sudden temporal collapse so I'd still call that a win. :V
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Unfortunately, everyone here who could cast Path of the Exalted has definitely used Divination spells in the last 24 hours.

I considered Visualization of the Mind, but it wouldn't be easy to cast (Wild Arcana only) and I don't think it would be too useful, since we already have ranks in all of the relevant skills.

Army Across Time has always seemed to be a very weird spell, IMO, though I can see how it would be useful here. But we're still neck deep in temporal shenanigans right now, so no magic related to Time is on the table.
 
@Goldfish, Qyburn can use Call to Mind to re-roll knowledge checks for 1 PP, gaining +4 Competence on the re-roll too. By RAW, he could do so how often he wants, but once per roll seems more sensible a limitation. The bonus can also be increased by +1 per additional 2 PP, so by spending 12 PP in total, he can get +10 Competence, which is a net of +6 from his Channel Vigor. Can't be used in conjunction with Investigative Mind though.

Also, the knowledges for Religion and Psionics are most likely going to be important here too. We are meddling with a pseudo-divine entity (Religion) made by the Illithid (Psionics).
 
Azel said:
@Goldfish, Qyburn can use Call to Mind to re-roll knowledge checks for 1 PP, gaining +4 Competence on the re-roll too. By RAW, he could do so how often he wants, but once per roll seems more sensible a limitation. The bonus can also be increased by +1 per additional 2 PP, so by spending 12 PP in total, he can get +10 Competence, which is a net of +6 from his Channel Vigor. Can't be used in conjunction with Investigative Mind though.

Also, the knowledges for Religion and Psionics are most likely going to be important here too. We are meddling with a pseudo-divine entity (Religion) made by the Illithid (Psionics).
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I didn't include Call to Mind because of its 1 minute manifesting time and the requirement to first fail a Knowledge check. I'll make a note of it in the buff scheme, but only for use when doing so wouldn't be detrimental to overall efforts.

I included mentions of the relevant Knowledge (Psionics) and Knowledge (Religion) skills in my plan post.
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
Why?
I mean, which minorities are you even thinking of?
  • Serpentfolk have their own city in which no humans live, so that should take care of itself. They've also done an amazing job of preserving their culture through the repeated extinction of their species, so I'm sure they'll manage.
  • Essarians? We wrecked their culture when we revealed that their "Gods" were fake. I also think that their significant size difference from the rest of the population + their tendency to live together (IIRC some are completely mixed into SD, but a whole bunch aren't) will help there.
  • Minotaurs? Do they even have a specific culture? Every adult minotaur was a human being ten years ago, and the rest are babies. A specific culture might form in due time, although seeing as they mostly live in human cities it'll most likely be a bunch of subcultures of whatever regional cultures they grow up in.
I think that this is not necessary, and might even be detrimental to our efforts to create a cosmopolitan, magic-rich, hopeful, transformed culture in SD and other cities. Our existing propaganda + cult of personality stuff will necessarily involve massive cultural changes, and the economic and social shifts will increase the effect. Fundamentally transforming human cultures is our basic MO at this point!
On another note, we already have a university and art patronage to preserve and fund things like specific art styles and histories and whatnot. Do you want to develop those further?
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You misunderstood my intent here. The core idea is not to preserve existing cultures, but to ease their integration and assimilation into the wider Imperium.

In detail:
  • Essarians and Minotaurs mostly need some medical / fleshforging aid to expand their numbers. Culturally, they should be fully absorbed already, since there was no real distinct culture to begin with.
  • Serpentfolk have their own old, rich and complex culture, so here the ministerium would be more concerned with making their culture more accessible for scholars and those interested, while spreading Imperial culture, thought and values to them. On the biological side, they should be largely fine on their own since we figured out their reproducitve troubles, but some further financial aid surely wouldn't hurt to boost their population numbers.
  • Ratfolk are mostly in the same boat as Essarians and Minotaurs.
  • Kobolds already have their own programs set up to take care of everything. The infrastructure and administration set up for that could be expanded and adapted for other species.
  • Children of the Forest need some heavy aid to boost their numbers and could really do with some aid to preserve their history, knowledge and heritage. Also, definitely a good deal of eugenics. Their gene pool is ankle deep at this point.
  • Assorted minor species could do with some governmental agency that helps them to integrate, such as our rock giants, various people we plundered from the PoF, immigrants from the PoE and PoW that are not wealthy merchants or the like...
  • Fey definitely could do with some help to understand and integrate with human society, especially the law parts.
  • On the other end of the spectrum, we can be certain that there are racist and specicist incidents in our realm and that will expand in the future as more and more kinds of ever weirder people come into our cities. The Inquisition is perfectly equipped to deal with any organization peddling these ideas, but ill equipped to lead the counter-propaganda efforts.

So, basically an agency that actively leverages propaganda, education and economics to create the cosmopolitan culture we desire. It would have to interface with the lawmen, the local administrations, healthcare, education and other services to help the integration of non-humans, while using our propaganda machinery and the Inquisition to ensure popular support for these ideas.
 
Depending on how far back in time we really are, we might have found how the Red Dragons were able to resist the Cosmic Dracorage shit the Void/Others pulled back when their first push brought down the Empire of the Dawn. The Dragons could have gotten a mysterious boost to their Will saves courtesy of an unknown benefactor acting through the Dragon Dream...

Perhaps even a Planes-wide shot of Mythic Dragon juice brought to them by their friendly neighborhood descendant, Viserys Targaryen, appearing in Red Dragon form to them all simultaneously via the Dragon Dream so they could benefit from his Beacon of Will feat at just the right time.

(Mythic) Beacon of Will: All allied beings who can see, hear or somehow physically perceive you and who accept your rule and aid gain the benefits of Indomitable Soul against non-Mythic effects. For instance, being present on a battlefield affects the whole army, however being in telepathic communion with someone from whom you are otherwise separated from does not confer the bonus.

And thus Viserys steps into Legend (again)...
 
Goldfish said:
Depending on how far back in time we really are, we might have found how the Red Dragons were able to resist the Cosmic Dracorage shit the Void/Others pulled back when their first push brought down the Empire of the Dawn. The Dragons could have gotten a mysterious boost to their Will saves courtesy of an unknown benefactor acting through the Dragon Dream...

Perhaps even a Planes-wide shot of Mythic Dragon juice brought to them by their friendly neighborhood descendant, Viserys Targaryen, appearing in Red Dragon form to them all simultaneously via the Dragon Dream so they could benefit from his Beacon of Will feat at just the right time.

(Mythic) Beacon of Will: All allied beings who can see, hear or somehow physically perceive you and who accept your rule and aid gain the benefits of Indomitable Soul against non-Mythic effects. For instance, being present on a battlefield affects the whole army, however being in telepathic communion with someone from whom you are otherwise separated from does not confer the bonus.

And thus Viserys steps into Legend (again)...
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Take careful note of this:
Goldfish said:
(Mythic) Beacon of Will: All allied beings who can see, hear or somehow physically perceive you and who accept your rule and aid gain the benefits of Indomitable Soul against non-Mythic effects. For instance, being present on a battlefield affects the whole army, however being in telepathic communion with someone from whom you are otherwise separated from does not confer the bonus.
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It only works if they first accept Viserys as their lord and savior. Literally.

I mean, to be fair, we are starting to develop habits like stealing afterlife like structures and sticking bendy straws into hell dimensions to suckle sweet, sweet power out of them, so even most Red Dragons might start getting instinctual "Bigger Fish"-vibes from us.
 
Azel said:
It only works if they first accept Viserys as their lord and savior. Literally.

I mean, to be fair, we are starting to develop habits like stealing afterlife like structures and sticking bendy straws into hell dimensions to suckle sweet, sweet power out of them, so even most Red Dragons might start getting instinctual "Bigger Fish"-vibes from us.
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Indeed, ancient red dragons are not gong to accept anyone as their savior, that much Viserys is certain of. Even just banding together against the Void was only possible because of their shared wrath beyond anything they had ever felt or would feel again. Rage dragons achieving peak rage and coming out the other side focused willing to cooperate in the interest of bringing ruin to That which had made itself their enemy.
 
i just read through all of the unkindly scattered omakes again. it was a lot of fun and i hope crake get's back to it sometime. just seeing Richard being Richard in a setting he is out of place in is a lot of fun.

also the fact that richard can literally cut bullets out of the air is fun to me
 
Yeah, Richard is operating on purely anime physics by this point. Without RWBY Aura.
 
Crake said:
Yeah, Richard is operating on purely anime physics by this point. Without RWBY Aura.
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What would you say Aura would grant as a mechanical benefit? Extra AC? Temp HP? A plus to certain modifiers? What would you count a Semblance as? Would it be an SLA or something else?
 
Crake said:
Yeah, Richard is operating on purely anime physics by this point. Without RWBY Aura.
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The hilarious part is that he's operating on anime logic with a thoroughly no nonsense personality.

Anyway guys, no second update today, I just can't seem to get into the rhythm for them when I'm dictating. I'll keep trying as best I can.

Good night, see you tomorrow with the battle for the keep past.
 
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