A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Jot me down as one who wholeheartedly supports the absence of level scaling. It's awful, imo, particularly as the PCs and other agents available to Viserys and the Imperium continue to increase in power and become more able to act as strategic assets. Sometimes, it's nice to make a goal easy. I think that's why I enjoy this quest so much; no level scaling makes the world feel real in a way that lots of quests don't manage.
Some Rings of Counterspell and 1/day items of Evacuation Rune? The first of those is a very flexible alpha strike blocker.
I've been toying around with using a Cloak of Daggers and some specialty weapons to make ambushes more difficult, but I'm not sure in the action economy of it. A Dagger of Black Sands would be perfect if you didn't have to attack first to use it.
As it stands with the quick action anklets, a cloak of daggers, and a dagger of black sands, a PC would be able to do a lot in the surprise round. Free action to draw the dagger, standard action to halfheartedly stab someone and on a miss use an immediate action to dimension door away with the dagger.
Or you could just use the Evacuation Rune to jump away. with mindblank, soul vault, and a Counterspell ring set to dimensional anchor you'd be perfectly capable of teleporting. The knife thing is only worth it for occasions where they're right on top of you and you don't want to completely leave the area.
Other than that, maybe some 1/dayPossession Trap items? Since it triggers off an attempt it might catch people before they even hit the other defenses. As a contingency for someone getting possessed and booking it a Dagger of Repossession might be nice, but is a little niche to make in the sort of quantities that'd make it useful unless they try this all the time. Maybe for minions we can't afford to give personal gear?
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This is completely unrelated to this specific problem, but I found an excellent item for pumping out consumables for minions. Gemcarver's Tools lets the user make elemental gems, which summon large elementals when crushed. The trick here is that you only need to speak the associated elemental language and know how to work gems, not actually meet the normal prerequisites for making those items.
With a little language training we could give groups like inquisitorial hit squads a pretty potent "fuck it" button for their level.
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While we're talking about gear, the enchantment on a Ten Ring Sword would be nice if we could get it as a weapon upgrade for applicable companions. It's pricey to add anything to those weapons, but this enchantment adds a ring slot to the sword, and lets you use the ring like you're wearing it while wielding the blade even if you're already wearing two rings.
An extra equipment slot would be pretty useful, though we'd need to be careful not to cheese the ring on the sword too much.
An extra equipment slot would be pretty useful, though we'd need to be careful not to cheese the ring on the sword too much.
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I've added 20 slotless Rings of Counterspell to the proposal, enough for Viserys and the Companions, with some left over for other VIPs. 20 slotless 1/Day Evacuation Rune charms and 20 slotless 1/Day Possession Trap charms have been added to our crafting schedule. Evacuation Rune and Possession Trap are some of those rare useful spells with a 24 hour duration, so not only does a 1/Day use work well, they also have a 50% cost reduction. Making them slotless charms just works out to negate the discount.
The Cloak of Daggers is neat, but kinda niche. Instead of ordering them, I've added an upgrade for Garin's cloak onto the crafting schedule this month. It's really nice for him, and that 1/Day 15ft Cone of Daggers is nothing to sneeze at. His current Sneak Attack damage is 7d6+22, so the ol' Cartwheel o' Knives trick will be a nice surprise for some unfortunate enemies.
Also added fours sets of Gemcarver Tools, plus four Jeweler's Loupes, each with a +10 Competence bonus to Crafting (Jewelry). Those loupes, plus our Crafter's Fortune statues (+5 Luck bonus to Craft checks) and the island-wide Fox's Cunning (+4 Intelligence) blessing, should make it simple for four eligible users to pass the required DC 21 Craft check to create Elemental Gems. I don't see why we won't be able to start producing 20 to 25 Elemental Gems of each Elemental type every month after those are delivered, since finding citizens or hirelings able to speak the necessary Elemental language shouldn't be any problem at all. Neat find, dude.
Yep. Added a bunch to the proposal.
Those are neat, but in most cases it's just easier to add the effect to a preexisting ring or make a slotless ring.
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And the spells loaded into them can always be swapped out for other missions. For example, being North of the Wall makes Dimensional Anchor nearly superfluous, so they could instead be loaded with Greater Dispel Magic spells.
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Fair enough. If buying more ring slots isn't on the table, how do you feel about buying more spell slots?
I don't recall if these have come up before, but as long as we don't do anything excessive another high level slot or two a day would be nice.
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I've looked at those before, but they are very expensive for relatively little effect, considering just how many spell slots our spontaneous casters already have. The Versatile Spellcaster feat we selected for most of them also helps with that.Fair enough. If buying more ring slots isn't on the table, how do you feel about buying more spell slots?
I don't recall if these have come up before, but as long as we don't do anything excessive another high level slot or two a day would be nice.
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Hmmm. I suspect these might just a bit OP as written. Just a guess, I'd love it if they were judged fair, but I doubt they will be. If they don't fly, what if they were consumed when used? They'd have more narrative weight that way, too.Fair enough. If buying more ring slots isn't on the table, how do you feel about buying more spell slots?
I don't recall if these have come up before, but as long as we don't do anything excessive another high level slot or two a day would be nice.
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Yikes, I just checked out the character sheets after QUITE some time, you're right. One slot here or there isn't going to make a load of difference. Idea retracted.
Fair enough; I was thinking another level 8-9 spell would be useful since they're always in limited supply and can't reasonably be replaced with items, but they are expensive at that level. Last things then:
For Richard:
Blade Storm 3/day - because stabbing 17 people in less than 6 seconds sounds like something he'd do.
For Erinyes:
Sonic Weapon 3/day - sonic damage is all kinds of fun, and this buff both lasts a while and transmits from a bow to the arrows it shoots.
For Viserys:
Blazing Robe - not sure if it's worth it, but finding caster level buff for fire spells is surprisingly rare, so I thought I'd mention it.
For Richard:
Blade Storm 3/day - because stabbing 17 people in less than 6 seconds sounds like something he'd do.
For Erinyes:
Sonic Weapon 3/day - sonic damage is all kinds of fun, and this buff both lasts a while and transmits from a bow to the arrows it shoots.
For Viserys:
Blazing Robe - not sure if it's worth it, but finding caster level buff for fire spells is surprisingly rare, so I thought I'd mention it.
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I like this a lot Crake, I still for some reason struggle with parsing your writing style but I always enjoy it (3 or 4 times a read through by necessity
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These character moments are fantastic, two updates in a row, is this going to be a "gotta actively stop myself from spamming the past" kinda day?
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@TalonofAnathrax I summon thee and thy ability to find the juiciest narratives of the past, so mote it be.
P.s. Pretty please
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This was when we watched Pycelle teach him history. We were pretending to be Varys at the time.@TalonofAnathrax I summon thee and thy ability to find the juiciest narratives of the past, so mote it be.
P.s. Pretty please
In this update, we told Pycelle to do a more interesting job of teaching the Usurper's sort-of-children history, but we didn't do it ourselves.
However I have no memory of us ever impersonating Pycelle directly and spending time teaching Joffrey history.
Semi-unrelated : This is the best chapter involving Pycelle. I really wish it had been canon, even though I understand why we didn't do it.
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Thank you Talon, much appreciated.
Confirmation that Scholar's Touch works on webpages. The only question left is if you're a Cleric, Wizard, Sorcerer, or Bard.
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How would someone without the magical knowledge know that it was fake and not immaterial or any other number of things that made their hand pass through?
Illusion is not the only explanation, of course if they always think it's an illusion that is to our advantage in some ways but it does feel a bit odd.