Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Look, if it wasn't a Killer Gnome, I was going to be making an Arcane Hierophant. Killer Gnome is frankly weaker 
On another note, @Crake, the "take people with you" part is hard not just because the number is so large (who's going to write out that many choices?) but because the "take real people" option raises ethical issues. I would definitely prefer to take some friends and family, but would they want to be torn from their IRL lives? And "sure they'd want it" raises the "are they being mind-controlled" question.
IMO this would have worked better if IRL people hadn't been allowed, or if they'd been a way home. How about "3 to 5 posters here need to agree on a setting and insertion mode, and they all appear in the same world"?
On another note, @Crake, the "take people with you" part is hard not just because the number is so large (who's going to write out that many choices?) but because the "take real people" option raises ethical issues. I would definitely prefer to take some friends and family, but would they want to be torn from their IRL lives? And "sure they'd want it" raises the "are they being mind-controlled" question.
IMO this would have worked better if IRL people hadn't been allowed, or if they'd been a way home. How about "3 to 5 posters here need to agree on a setting and insertion mode, and they all appear in the same world"?
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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The conceit of the challenge is that you would only be taking people who are fully read in on it and want to join you... or alternate universe versions who would be read in on it and also willing... or however else you want to justify it. It's more of a writing prompt than some kind of philosophical quandary, so that you can take your dream team with you. You could take fucking Kobe Bryant for all I care, I doubt Kobe has ever played a game of D&D a day in his life but goddamn he would be happily dunking on teams of Outsiders at the first Inter-Planar Basketball League if you picked him.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Like I said, I had survivability concerns...
It doesn't hurt that it also synergizes extremely well with a Charisma-based caster, and comes with Positive Energy Channeling.
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Have a choice of my own :
- Pick an ASWAH character whose PoV we have seen. You are inserted as them at quest start, without any of their memories. Have fun! You can pick the details of their build if it's unknown, and you can keep their levels and skills and all that. You just won't have their mannerisms and actual memories or anything.
- Alternatively, you can be inserted at the moment we first got their PoV.
- Limits:
- No Gods, nothing with more than ten HD at the moment of insertion, and no Dragons.
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A human with more HP than a Great Wyrm is certainly one way of addressing that. 50 from 20 d4s, start with CON 16, add +6 item and the templates boost to get +200 from CON, 18 CHA +4 from levels +6 item +8 template for 260 from CHA, plus 20 from Toughness. So easily 510 HP without buffs.Like I said, I had survivability concerns...
It doesn't hurt that it also synergizes extremely well with a Charisma-based caster, and comes with Positive Energy Channeling.
Likely enough to tank a nuke to the face.
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Tiamat better have a few dozen dragons squirreled away to throw at us.Very strongly.
We are so, so inefficient, after all...
It was a nice mini-arc, DP, I liked how our expectations of Galzerai were gradually subverted, even if that meant no dragon-fighting.
Worry not, @Duesal, chances are, we'll have enough of dragons to fight this very month.
[X] Goldfish
And with that, I'm off for a nap, see y'all tomorrow.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Damn, that whole "no memories" caveat is a lodestone. No lap of luxury or relative influence at all, not in the Planes, not anywhere. Too damn likely someone will catch you out and then mind probe you (prison would be a Mercy, someone determined enough might get creative trying to get their relative/friend back and that won't have good odds for you).
I can't think of anyone with 10 HD that wouldn't have ass for starting conditions either, though if you face the same problems in anyone but a very small child, and then your lack of agency poses a problem, there's pretty much very little reason not to pick whatever you feel like...
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Qyburn:
+ I know his mannerisms from canon
+ free access to the Citadel in the beginning
+ should have decent notes of his more useful work
+ build starts decent and has potential for adapting
- have to mess with the Citadel factions
- have to cover up the left-overs of my research
Tyrion:
+ money!
+ more money!
+ easy access to magic when Gerion returns
+ heir to Casterly Rock
- I'm related by blood to Tywin, Cersei and Jaime
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Strange, but okay.
Roose Bolton.
Good class, 9 HD, few close relatives or trusted people who could easily recognise him.
I could possible keep up enough theatre in being just weird, rather than a different person, for at least a single day to gether some valuables and get on the road to Whiteharbor.
Once I find a ship to Essos there will be good work for a mercenary who can kill about 1d3 regular NPCs per round with no trouble.
It's not great, but it's something I believe I can survive as at least, unlike most no-memory characters.
Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
To be fair that just makes you the best of the lot.
Being the best out of a pile of fetid rotting elephant droppings baking in the summer sun might not be much, but a gold star is a gold star.
Also you lose nothing jumping over to the winning side because all of your immediate family is a pile of dicks and if you're quick you might be able to salvage your niece and nephews from the sinking ship that is your family while you do it.
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Roose only got his neat class and most of his levels after the quest started and girst PoV from him would be my recent omakes.
If you want to just bugger out with a ton of money, try Zherys. Memory loss makes him unplayable in Volantis, but you could yank his money and disappear towards Mantarys.
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Wow, these are not the answers I was expecting (except Azel's answer, which I predicted before even figuring out who I'd want to be myself).
Roose Bolton is solid, Tyrion is risky because you're a Lannister and do you're born with a huge list of enemies but probably don't want to be too close to your natural allies (and you're also either basically a baby or very far along in the timeline and stuck in a subpar position), and Qyburn seems amazing but I really don't want to be pigeonholed into Necromancy.
I thought of a Volantene character - Zherys has fucking Immortality and a pile of levels for exemple - but they're all enmeshed in politics that I couldn't keep up with. And how would I deal with their enemies?
I would pick Vee. Clearly the best character to be at quest start.
EDIT : Seriously, I immediately assumed Azel would say Qyburn or Zherys. They're powerful Lawful evil choices with actual magic from the start. I hadn't guessed Tyrion though!
Roose Bolton is solid, Tyrion is risky because you're a Lannister and do you're born with a huge list of enemies but probably don't want to be too close to your natural allies (and you're also either basically a baby or very far along in the timeline and stuck in a subpar position), and Qyburn seems amazing but I really don't want to be pigeonholed into Necromancy.
I thought of a Volantene character - Zherys has fucking Immortality and a pile of levels for exemple - but they're all enmeshed in politics that I couldn't keep up with. And how would I deal with their enemies?
I would pick Vee. Clearly the best character to be at quest start.
EDIT : Seriously, I immediately assumed Azel would say Qyburn or Zherys. They're powerful Lawful evil choices with actual magic from the start. I hadn't guessed Tyrion though!
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Wait, @TalonofAnathrax is starting at their first PoV a condition that lets you keep their memories?
I was thinking of Zherys too >.>
But let me mull it over.
I was thinking of Zherys too >.>
But let me mull it over.
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No. Losing the memories is the main difficulty, after all.
EDIT : Wait, if you want their memories then just pick a character who's sufficiently traumatized and I'll give you the option. Leila? Rina?
DOUBLE EDIT : Leila is unironically a good option though, assuming you don't ask to get her memories. Be sure to specify that you pick her at first PoV and not at quest start though, otherwise you'll be raped and tortured just because you forgot a sentence. That would really suck.
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@TalonofAnathrax, trying to play volantene politics without a whiff of knowledge about the players at quest start is a death sentence, otherwise I would have taken him too.
Malarys is also an option, but with serious risks.
However, I think my preferred choice would be... Cersei. Lots of soft power, no direct enemies, canon gives me all the knowledge I need...
There's a lot of potential there.
Malarys is also an option, but with serious risks.
However, I think my preferred choice would be... Cersei. Lots of soft power, no direct enemies, canon gives me all the knowledge I need...
There's a lot of potential there.
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He would have been my second choice, but he has propably many foes and allies willing and able to hunt down a man who magically dissapeared.
Same issue with Tor.
Roose promised a cleaner cut.
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Yeah, I'd either be afraid of losing my Will saves against Tiamat, or afraid that Viserys would notice the change after my first PoV interlude. When was that again? Just after we met but just before a big fight, right?
Holy shit, that's actually genius. Did we ever get a canon Cersei PoV though?
EDIT : Tor is a terrible choice though. His class and magic access really sucked.
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How about Mereth?
Vee interlude next.
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This is very clever. Does she have less than 10HD? If yes, you can pick her. I strongly suggest picking her from her first PoV interlude (whenever that was, I've quite forgotten it) because otherwise you may have to experience Hell. Also your boss will almost certainly notice immediately.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Teana when we first meet her would be my choice, I think. I feel like I've shaped her development pretty heavily since she entered our service and she has become an integral member of our regime.
She's quite powerful and versatile as a spellcaster, too, along with a great template.
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She has 11 now, but as a regular advanced Erinyes she had 9.
Not sure when her first PoV was through.
Long after we looted her.