Thank you for your kind words, always nice to see a new perspective on things.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Thank you for your kind words, always nice to see a new perspective on things.
Goldfish
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Welcome aboard! Always nice to see another fresh face.
It would not have quite the same effect these days since there are actual training methods to get people to awaken.
Crake
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There's also an opportunity cost to preparing interesting material if our goal is to awaken people who already have experience with casting spells or seeing them casted.
Viserys awakened those Sorcerers I believe because his oration was really their first view into actually "getting" what magic was all about, if @DragonParadox explained it right.
Like if Princess Celestia broke it down before the village people what the Magic of Friendship is all about.
Viserys awakened those Sorcerers I believe because his oration was really their first view into actually "getting" what magic was all about, if @DragonParadox explained it right.
Like if Princess Celestia broke it down before the village people what the Magic of Friendship is all about.
egoo
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-"So, like, just have Twilight deal with whatever your problem is".Like if Princess Celestia broke it down before the village people what the Magic of Friendship is all about.
Broadcast hourlong specials on the nature of Magic, Lifs, the Universe and Everything on those Projector Screens to every city?
Well either that or his reasonings on his Political, Social and Economic philosophy and practices. Dont know which people would consider more magic talk.
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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-"So, like, just have Twilight deal with whatever your problem is".
So basically, Maelor.
It would not have the same effect, inspiration at a distance is less effective, not to mention that the people would lack the knowledge that scholarum initiates study for.
egoo
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...If after the years of trials and lessons learned under our tutelage, Maelor will break all ceilings and "ascend", please oh please for the love of everything let's not have Viserys sing a heartsong.
He has no talent
Also,
*Pictures of past experiences start floating through the ethereal fog*
*its exclusively Bear Asses*
Maelor: "Oh, you motherf-"
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There's also an opportunity cost to preparing interesting material if our goal is to awaken people who already have experience with casting spells or seeing them casted.
Viserys awakened those Sorcerers I believe because his oration was really their first view into actually "getting" what magic was all about, if @DragonParadox explained it right.
Like if Princess Celestia broke it down before the village people what the Magic of Friendship is all about.
"Yes" the Khal nodded sagely, "much of what you tell us we already knew, from our most ancient most sacred of legends"-"So, like, just have Twilight deal with whatever your problem is".
"It is known" the other dothraki around the fire also assented, the stories the Dragon King had told them just confirmed what the elders had told them as children.
"The mighty steeds of the earth like my own mount and companion are indeed the strongest, their might can shake the earth and make the trees provide their fruit"
"Of the Pegasi of the sky we knew little, so we look forward to meeting them once they arrive at your lands, we know only of their great speed and agility to control the weather"
"Even less we know of the beautiful and mysterious unicorns that may yet hide in the feywilds, the stories say that they could weave magic with the power of their horns"
"Now allow me to tell you our stories, it is said that in the distant past, the horses and the dothraki lived in harmony, the colors of their manes as varied as the grasses of the sea, and together we brought bloody conquest upon all the realms from the shadow to the narrow sea, but one day they all left"
"In despair our ancestors burned all the cities of men, hoping that the open plains would welcome them back among us, but they never returned, the stories of the greatest and wisest of all horses, the Alicorn khaleesi of the sun and moon, and how they grew apart, sundering the realm in their wake"
"But there is a prophecy, of six ancient relics that together can mend the divide and bring them back to our world, let me tell you of the elements of harmony"
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egoo
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pfft.
We all know that the one and only would be "The element of HORSE".
...6 aspects?
"The element of horse"
"Wait aren't we all horses...?"
"HERETIC, you dare insult the sacred horse!" *sound of head flying off *
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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A Dothraki in Princess Celestia's Court, a tale of our times!
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"There is the element of Horse"pfft.
We all know that the one and only would be "The element of HORSE".
...6 aspects?
"Also the element of Horse, not to forget the elements of horses and horse, the element of horse is also vital, and finally the rarest and most special of all, the element of horse."
"..."
"Ah, I forget the limitations of Westerosi, Dothraki has 48 words for horse you see"
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Aww, thanks.
On another note : @DragonParadox, will I be adding a few new Scholarum centers to the Google Sheets document? Do Braavos and Volantis have magical training schools of some sort, or are they all run on the apprentice system? I was under the impression that Braavos doesn't have a school, and mostly functions through apprenticeships (the list you gave me conveyed that impression, at least).
Then there's the following problem : every mage in the cities we have conquered should have entered the Scholarum - even if they don't follow classes, their name should be on the registers. How will we handle that? Will you be giving us a list for each conquest that I'll put in the document (perhaps as a Scholarum center without any teachers or something, so that they level up but don't train new magelings).
Or shall we agree to abstract that away and only really keep track of those we have trained up in our Scholarums, counting weak local magelings as less useful and dependable?
There's a spell to ignore ageing penalties. He can get it on an item. He'll be fine. It's also a less invasive and politicall risky process as Reincarnation into a new body.
And why are we giving him a Launcher? Weren't those meant to stay characteristic of our forces? Can he even afford to restock his ammo?
An Intimidate build is honestly quite good. Most humanoids and monsters are in fact still vulnerable to Fear, unless they're undead, constructs or Plants. It's an interesting change of pace and doesn't need much changing IMO.
His magical gear should help him deal more damage anyway.
Goldfish
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Even the Lesser Age Resistance spell is 4th level and only removes the -1 penalty from the first age category. He would need the 6th level version to remove his current penalties and that would be extremely expensive, even if we just made a 1/Day version.
As for the Launcher, I included it out of habit. No need to give him one of it doesn't make sense.
If we Reincarnated him, he could use his Greater Ribbon of Disguise to appear as his normal old self, if necessary.
BTW, @DragonParadox, More Umber's Intelligence and Wisdom are both only at 8. Was that intentional? Or did you forget to include the bonuses to mental attributes from getting old? Having only 6 Int and Wis as a young man would have been...difficult.
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egoo
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ooh, an opportunity to mention this and not sound like I'm pestering ya!
Mind adding Horticulturits on the list/sheet for the scholarum?
We got the lore needed to train them from those guys in Gogoss.
*closes a tab he kept open for over a month now, finally having inserted a link from it*
*has 32 more tabs to go through*
*life is pain*
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He's a Northerner, and an Umber. We're lucky he's literate
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I'll add a reminder to do it next time I do a big rework (I'll probably have to add in Braavos and Volantis at the end of the month).
- Braavos works mostly on an apprenticeship system, Volantis however has a school which I'm not entirely sure how to model, they are good but they go quality over quantity, so higher cap for much fewer mages in total
- I would like to add, hedge mages and such flowing in, though again I have to think of a system
When we gonna come back to get them to bend the knee? Also the message we sending to them?
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Are you sure you want to raise the cap? Because we players will immediately dulplicate their methods for our level 5 magelings and start asking to raise the cap everywhere... And establishing a precedent that you can beat level 5 through simple training is a little weird.
Maybe the "quantity over quality" thing could simply be that they don't train Adepts but have a lot of Wizard and Sorcerer magelings? Or they could have some clever build for their magelings?
Crake
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They intend to reach out to us. Once they do we can respond very quickly. The wonders of teleportation. I am mostly waiting because they have some delicate back-and-forth letters to navigate through, so anything can happen still, really, and I don't want to act prematurely.