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

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We need more Fey vassals we can delegate this stuff to. Hopefully we can meet with the Wildfae and the Goldenwood Court soonish.
 
Crake said:
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
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Nah, feeding it to Void would be.

Ah, it is truly sad that the most efficient garbage bin ever known is kinda possessed and wants to violently kill everybody. :(


The best we'd have to settle for, is repeated Mythic Frostfell/MR 10 Shadow of the Doom. Simultaneously, in same locations.

If Heroes of Might and Magic IV taught me anything...
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A CR 9 to 11 group with proper gear, knowledge, and group composition should be able to do quite well for themselves in the vast majority of the Feywild. The more dangerous areas where the really esoteric or powerful Fey reside should be avoided if at all possible, of course, but that's what a good guide is for.
 
Goldfish said:
A CR 9 to 11 group with proper gear, knowledge, and group composition should be able to do quite well for themselves in the vast majority of the Feywild. The more dangerous areas where the really esoteric or powerful Fey reside should be avoided if at all possible, of course, but that's what a good guide is for.
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The end goal for the quest is to meet with the Wild Hunt to figure out what happened to Renly. We better hope for good rolls.
 
Duesal said:
The end goal for the quest is to meet with the Wild Hunt to figure out what happened to Renly. We better hope for good rolls.
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Plot twist: he became the asshole Fey that got turned into a stag for his misbehaviour, and we'd still have to hunt said stag down, manually, without magic.
:V
 
Crake said:
Это не может быть менее последовательным, спасибо.
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[This couldn't be less linear/sequential/following] is what I get.
I assume the "последовательным" here was meant as "cathartic", or something?

Damned be google translate, eh?
:V
 
I went with "incoherent" originally, and Google shrugged and gave me "inconsistent".

More proof that Google has already been subsumed by artificial intelligence, they learned laziness from us as the best way to blend in.
 
Crake said:
I went with "incoherent" originally, and Google shrugged and gave me "inconsistent".

More proof that Google has already been subsumed by artificial intelligence, they learned laziness from us as the best way to blend in.
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Truly, we live in the darkest of timelines.
 

Sea Serpent, Gilded – d20PFSRD

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A neat CR 5 poisonous sea dragon with surprisingly high charisma. The poisons can be used to make basically opium. That Charisma could make the basis for a nice Sorcerer. Do we already have an undersea casting unit for the ithilid war? Something like an Advanced Giant Half-Dragon +8 HD Sorceror Creature.

Gowrow – d20PFSRD

www.d20pfsrd.com www.d20pfsrd.com

A CR 5 amphibious dragon with (clumsy) flight and a sonic scream breath weapon. It's got all terrain options and sonic is barely resisted.
 
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JamesShazbond said:

Sea Serpent, Gilded – d20PFSRD

www.d20pfsrd.com www.d20pfsrd.com

A neat CR 5 poisonous sea dragon with surprisingly high charisma. The poisons can be used to make basically opium. That Charisma could make the basis for a nice Sorcerer. Do we already have an undersea casting unit for the ithilid war? Something like an Advanced Giant Half-Dragon +8 HD Sorceror Creature.
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Hey look DND drugs...Love it. Sell it to everyone.
 
JamesShazbond said:

Sea Serpent, Gilded – d20PFSRD

www.d20pfsrd.com www.d20pfsrd.com

A neat CR 5 poisonous sea dragon with surprisingly high charisma. The poisons can be used to make basically opium. That Charisma could make the basis for a nice Sorcerer. Do we already have an undersea casting unit for the ithilid war? Something like an Advanced Giant Half-Dragon +8 HD Sorceror Creature.

Gowrow – d20PFSRD

www.d20pfsrd.com www.d20pfsrd.com

A CR 5 amphibious dragon with (clumsy) flight and a sonic scream breath weapon. It's got all terrain options and sonic is barely resisted.
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We've got Druid Leshys, Tritons, two Mercenary Companies from the Plane of Water, and a CR 20 Herald of Yss who's assigned to our waters.

That said we won't say no to more. These Opium Snakes look great.
 
@DragonParadox What're demographics in SD looking like? We've had some passive immigration just from the sheer call of wealth and trade in SD, not just the concerted and resource intensive effort invested in moving tens of thousands of people each month to the capital and surrounding islands. Lots of exotic people like Oreads and ifrits and avariels and more?

Also, in addition to the 100,000+ people in SD (not counting new immigrants this month) at last count, there's another 100,000+ people across the other Stepstones, discounting Tyrosh. Is Westhaven and I guess Port Sorrow starting to resemble small cities like Gulltown and White Harbor more and more, or are they still just larger towns? I realize the islands are actually deceptively big places so those people could be pretty spread out. Maybe at around 500,000 people living around there total we'll start seeing some new cities pop up on the other islands...
 
Crake said:
@DragonParadox What're demographics in SD looking like? We've had some passive immigration just from the sheer call of wealth and trade in SD, not just the concerted and resource intensive effort invested in moving tens of thousands of people each month to the capital and surrounding islands. Lots of exotic people like Oreads and ifrits and avariels and more?

Also, in addition to the 100,000+ people in SD (not counting new immigrants this month) at last count, there's another 100,000+ people across the other Stepstones, discounting Tyrosh. Is Westhaven and I guess Port Sorrow starting to resemble small cities like Gulltown and White Harbor more and more, or are they still just larger towns? I realize the islands are actually deceptively big places so those people could be pretty spread out. Maybe at around 500,000 people living around there total we'll start seeing some new cities pop up on the other islands...
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SD looks like no other city in the world in many ways:
  1. Highly planned yet with an ever expanding population
  2. With no walls and relatively little military presence yet scrupulously policed
  3. With enough readily accessible magic that practically every long term citizen has directly benefited from a spell at some point
The Stepstones tend towards urbanization as it, but with the various forestry textile and other rural industries expanding too Port Sorrow has not quite reached the tipping point into city

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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Dec 20, 2019 at 2:30 PM, finished with 111 posts and 11 votes.
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Part MMMCCXLIII: Seeing Fate and Seizing Fortune
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    • Seeing Fate and Seizing Fortune ​

    Twenty Seventh Day of the Eleventh Month 293 AC

    Seeing no reason to rush into an unknown conflict you bide your time, but not to speak to Colonel Xi. There are better uses for the coin you were planning to bribe him with and perhaps the mage might offer answers as to the state of the Orange Emperor's court. Thankfully four more foreigners among the bustling streets hardly make much of a show, though the woman you follow certainly notices from the way the air grows ever so slightly warmer again. Though fire was no longer at her fingertips it was still at her beck and call, the whispering kami close at hand. What exactly they make of the subtle void you and your companions present to all arcane senses you cannot say, but from the body language you can read past the flowing robes the young mage does not seem overly wary.

    "Looks like we are expected," Tyene half-whispers as the shugenja unexpectedly turns into a teahouse rather grandiosely proclaiming itself 'the House of Beauty and Grace'. From what you can glimpse of the clients you suspect the name owes to this being a gathering place of artisans, craftsmen and those who would commission them. A veil of silence descends upon the bright painted benches at the mage's approach, the attendants are left practically stuttering as she orders a private room for five and motions for you to follow.

    It is only after all of you have taken a seat in the small room, its walls hung with carpets so fair they would not look out of place in the Archon's palace in Volantis, that she turns to you with a quizzical tilt of the head and asks deliberately. "Who do I have the honor of addressing and why did you follow me?" Without pausing long enough to allow an answer she continues. "Please feel free to set aside whatever commonplace guise you have chosen to adopt. I sense no fire within you as one might find even upon ice scoured by the frozen winds atop the Bone Mountains. I would think you all the illusion of some shadow-spinner save that you cast unblemished shadows of your own."

    "You may call me Corlys Waters if it please thee," you reply, carefully avoiding outright lies in case the full truth should prove useful at some other point. "My companions and I were seeking Colonel Xi for a reason not unlike your own and we were struck by your display of both magic... and restraint. The skill to wield sorcery is an uncommon one, the wisdom to not make use of it when sorely provoked unfortunately even more so."

    "Words sweet as honey and a compliment I have not received of late..." she purses her lips, dark eyes narrow slightly taking in your dress and manner, from Mereth and Aradia's obvious weapons to your Volantene styled robes and Dark Sister at your belt. "I doubt the reasons for your visit to the Keeper of the Steel Gate was quite the same as mine, though you may have hoped to reach the same place. Emperors do not love being told bleak omens, however true." She pauses again, this time surprised. "You have no idea who I am, do you?" the words are more amused than angry. "I have the, currently the rather troublesome, honor of being Pol Ning An, sister to Pol Qo, Hammer of the Jogos Nhai who would take up the Challenge of Split Heavens."

    The expression certainly has the virtue of poetry, but you doubt one many in Trader Town would dare to make. You bow low in the manner of Yi Ti rather than Volantis just the same with the others mimicking the gesture a moment later, even Mereth who cares little for her bloodline but at least respecting her magic and poise. The names they give are like yours, the ones you presented at the gates, though just as careful in how they say them.

    "What omens did you deliver onto your brother, my Lady?" Tyene asks as she picks up her tea cup once all of you had taken your seats.

    "That no concubine will bear him a male heir until he is in truth uncontested beneath the heavens and he should stop trying to replace me and worry more about the black wings that circle ever closer to this place," the young fire mage replies, her expression darkening.

    "So you know about She whom they serve, the one whose scales reflect all colors and none?" Aradia asks in turn perhaps a little hastily, though at least she remembers to mangle Tiamat's title so the dark goddess is less likely to hear.

    "Yes," Ning's replies with a short sharp nod for emphases. "Given that you know so much yourselves I would very much wish to know more of you all than what to call you by before we continue."

    What do you reply?

    [] Reveal your full identity
    -[] Write in

    [] Speak a partial truth that you are an agent of the rising power in the west
    -[] Write in

    [] Write in

    OOC: So that random encounter roll from earlier... it was a 98.
     
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    • DragonParadox said:
    SD looks like no other city in the world in many ways:
    1. Highly planned yet with an ever expanding population
    2. With no walls and relatively little military presence yet scrupulously policed
    3. With enough readily accessible magic that practically every long term citizen has directly benefited from a spell at some point
    The Stepstones tend towards urbanization as it, but with the various forestry textile and other rural industries expanding too Port Sorrow has not quite reached the tipping point into city
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    Would you say that they have plans for the city down to entire districts written up well before they even get to that part of the grid on the maps?

    Also, I bet the maps of the area are super-fricking-precise.
     
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