A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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We mostly gave him supplies and support, we didn't dump gear on him IIRC.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Sic Semper Tyrannis.
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Dorne has some decent crafters and the Dayne are rich.
I bet he has at least a PfE, which is nice against evil people like Amrelath.
But we gave him money to buy whatever gear would be best for him and his group right?
That would be a very good candidate yes, although getting rid of an oracle curse would not be easy.
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Not an unreasonable assumption, but it's one we'd need to confirm with DP.
Anyway, for Darkstar as a level 9 human Fighter that's, what, a total of 10 Feats to play with? One for being human, one at level one, one bonus feat at level one, bonus feat at level 2, regular feat at level 3, bonus feat at level 4, bonus and regular feat at level 6, bonus feat at level 8, and regular feat at level 9.
Maybe, but from what we saw of their group pretty much everything we gave them would have been best served via supplies.
What place did he get in the contests he participated in? Could use the rewards he got to equip himself or buy some. If he didn't buy anything then just the stuff he won. Still think they'll lose but how much is in the air for me at least.
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Nah.
If you build the sheet you give him some equipment he could reasonably afford and have.
If DP doesn't say anything about it assume it works.
At least that's how I've worked with my NPCs so far.
Dorne has both crafters and connections to Phoenixes that can get their feathers on extraplanar equipment, so anything you think fits his style goes unless you get a clear no on something.
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He might be able to commission a +1 weapon from our magesmiths, I suppose. Along with a few other basic things. The problem is we gave him a budget of 5,000 IM for magic items, but that was split among like 6 or 7 champions of the Lads, so funds would be pretty thin. They might have tried for Amulets of PfE for all of them or something, along with +1 weapons for the fighters.
I wasn't going to build the sheet, I was just compiling information so people with more experience would have it readily available.
If nobody else has time I can go ahead and do my best.
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This is very, very satisfying to hear.
He won money and got valyrian steel daggers right? How much steel does he need for a sword?
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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*an Elder Spreadsheet appears*
Update in beta.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
I think you mean don't grow on trees, at least unless I missed a chapter, about us making a tree that grow Qohorik smiths in the Fungus forge, and planting them everywhere.
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No, the spreadsheet is an integral part of the quest itself. That's like saying "with the Interludes, we shall rule the quest!"
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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Huh.
Is there a correlation?
Is DP more afraid of spreadsheets than of riots?
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Druids dude.
We grow druids on trees.
Haven't figured Smith's out yet.
Part MMDCCXXIII: Of Heritage and Trade
Of Heritage and Trade
Twenty-Eighth Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC
You suspect it will take Jeyne quite a while to accept that her dark dreams barely remembered though they may be were true, and even longer to accept that this is not the body she had been born to. Thankfully, she will have help in doing so in Ser Roger and far more reliable prospects than she had before, even as one of the Golden Shields, much less a rootless wanderer. As has by now become common practice, you offer a royal stipend and a town house. Beyond that you pledge to see her endowed with more wards and enchantments than the single talisman she had been bearing.
"I found it on shore in the wreck of an old ship..." She looks at the talisman as though it were a serpent about to bite, and little wonder seeing as it must have been placed her way by the Deep Ones to better sell the ruse that she can't have been influenced or enchanted.
"It's entirely safe as far as I can determine, that was rather the point of offering it up, but I certainly would not begrudge it if you would rather have another in its place," you assure her. "In any case, before you can begin acting as a battle mage, I would ask of you to make yourself available to research the unique alterations the Deep Ones made to your body so that they might be replicated in willing subjects."
"My body..." Jeyne shakes her head, stretching out her right hand in front of her face. "How can it be my body in truth?"
"You are the one living in it, so there is no reason to call it anything else," you offer with a very deliberate shrug. "I can assure you I was not born like this... or this." With each pause you take successively less human forms. "Yet I am still myself regardless, so too are you."
She blinks, a touch bewildered by the casual display of shape-shifting, and as you had hoped is distracted from maudlin thoughts. Perhaps she will eventually think back on the words and believe them in full, but now is much too soon.
"So about these studies...?" she half-asks, more than a little nervous.
"It won't hurt and I won't be doing anything you're uneasy with," Vee interjects, her no-nonsense tone carrying off the reassurance in spite of her young age.
The sorceress nods in agreement and thanks.
"If there is anything else you need or wish to ask of me..." you trail off inquiringly.
Somewhat to your surprise Jeyne does not answer at once but looks at Ser Roger. If she could politely do so you imagine she would be elbowing him.
Finally the knight takes the hint. He clears his throat and asks: "Is there some sorcery to know where the blood in a man's veins springs?" The reason for the question is obvious but he continues regardless. "My grandmother claimed her daughter, my mother, was a bastard of Ser Reynard Reyne, and it is from him that I take the red lion upon my shield."
"Easily enough done," you nod and turn to Vee. You had not needed to use the belt in the previous divinations but made do with other portents.
Jeyne and Ser Roger watch faintly disturbed as your friend's belt comes alive and whispers sibilant secrets in her ear in response to echoing the knight's question.
"She was his get alright. Looks like you got a feud with the Lannisters," Vee says solemnly, showing surprising knowledge of the matter, or perhaps not so surprising. Through you the Lannisters are her foes, and so she would wish to know who their other enemies, alive or dead, might have been.
The hedge knight looks at once surprised, pleased, and not a little daunted. You rather suspect he had not believed his grandmother's tale himself and simply taken up the red lion for the notoriety it gave him. From the way he had rode in the joust you would say he came late to the lance, his knighthood likely earned from another wanderer. Still, he rallies quickly, "Well then, I've picked the right lord for both my grudges, haven't I?"
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After returning them to Sorcerer's Deep you head up to the keep for dinner and to discuss the day's happenings so far. Beforehand, however, you have an unexpected guest—Siduri, fresh from her team's victory in the Circle, asks for a moment of you time after having charmed her way past five servants at least, though thankfully with naught but words. You would hate for the discussion to be about the lawful use of enchantment and compulsion in your realm.
As it happens, however, that is what the discussion turns to, if in another manner altogether.
"You know that I am an enchanter, you have seen my magic and will hopefully see much more of it in the days to come," she begins with a smile that is just confident enough to be charming rather than arrogant. "In like measure I hope to see much more of your charming city. Yrten is considering making this the Golden Wind's safe harbor and I can't say I disagree, there is much here to be appreciated—vibrant trade, strong protection, and much exotic cargo to take on."
"Thank you for your assessment," you nod, appreciating that she had praised your realm and your achievements rather than simply laying on accolades with a throw as so many do when seeing some boon.
"However, I do have a concern regarding your laws, two in fact, though they are linked," she goes on to explain. "My magic is such that rather than bind fiends to me with pacts, such that they inevitably end poorly for the conjurer, I simply place a geas upon them to serve me faithfully until such a time as they perish or I no longer have need of their services. That would, by the laws of your realm, be slavery, so of course I have no such fiends with me. In any case the process is dangerous enough that I would not attempt it were I not expecting some battle, or other challenge."
"And the second concern?" you prompt, willing to listen to the end. As former slavers go she has been one of the most reasonable so far, even though you do not suspect her of any sort of altruism.
"I have through my studies gained power over the substance of flame and those in whose blood it flows, similar to how certain sorcerer-priests can bind the living dead. As you can imagine that is a rather useful skill to have when sailing the Sea of Fire." Though her smile is cheerful the glint in her eye would not be out of place in the gaze of a devil. "Obviously I cannot bring such enthralled warriors to Sorcerer's Deep either, leaving me, as the fight today showed, in danger of being made an arrow cushion or split in twain by someone with an excessively large axe whenever I should return to sailing."
"How would you see this being resolved?" you ask, pleased with the candor from one who would naturally not be inclined to share all her secrets thus.
"A dispensation to have bound fiends, but not use them in any active manner within the bounds of your realm for the first. It will be rarely used, I assure you, and for the second I would like to commission constructs, ones loyal by nature not compulsion." Again the brief, calculated smile. "The funds you released to us are certainly enough to spend a respectable amount for the task."
What do you reply?
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OOC: Siduri is a domain wizard from Complete Champion with the domain Fire allowing her to turn and destroy water creatures, rebuke, command, or bolster fire creatures as a cleric. For obvious reasons she gets more use out of the latter than the former. Also as abjuration is a restricted spell for her she does not bother with a circle when calling fiends, she just dimension anchors it and has Yrten and some of the rest of the crew beat said fiend into a pulp after which she casts geas/quest on them. This is, as she said, something she only does sparingly.
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Crake
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Accidentally a word.
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I'd have to check if he got far enough for a dagger, but:
1. A dagger is 1 lbs, a Thinblade is 3 lbs, a Longsword is 4 lbs. Even if he did win a dagger that's not enough to reforge into a sword.
2. The many smiths who know the Craftsmen's Pride ritual to make +1 weapons and armor are available to everyone for commission, but the Qohorik smiths who deal with Valyrian Steel and those they taught to do the same? Those are exclusively ours and are not available for commission. Even if someone had enough Valyrian Steel he couldn't just walk up and get it reforged.
I'll be damned. He's actually a Reyne.
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Bastard but he will certainly do. We don't really give a shit about it. It is too bad that Castamere currently belongs to Lanna. I wouldn't mind restoring him to his ancestral home.