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

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[X] March, when you get there you can set all the mages assigned to the battle for Sarnath a swell as those of your allies against it
-[X] Have Viserys cast Magic Army on the forces now, considering the duration of the effect will not disappear before approaching the city.
 
egoo said:
I don't particularly like slowing down.
This whole thing's purpose seems to have been nothing but slowing us down.
Every moment we aren't on the offensive, the Undead are preparing more measures to fight us with, establishing contact with the Void, prepping Doom-rituals, you name it.

[X] March, when you get there you can set all the mages assigned to the battle for Sarnath a swell as those of your allies against it
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Whats your plan to keep our troops from getting wrecked by whats left of the storm? I don't see any way we can feasibly ward our army against that.
 
Archibald said:
Whats your plan to keep our troops from getting wrecked by whats left of the storm? I don't see any way we can feasibly ward our army against that.
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@egoo, have Viserys use Miracle to cast a Wandering Weather spell. Worst case it doesn't do anything. But in that same scenario, high level spells are impeded anyway, so it's not like the slot would be wasted.

It's like Control Weather, but the effect stays centered on the caster.

@DragonParadox, how much did our efforts shrink the cloud?
 
[X] March, when you get there you can set all the mages assigned to the battle for Sarnath a swell as those of your allies against it
-[X] Have Viserys cast Magic Army on the forces now, considering the duration of the effect will not disappear before approaching the city.
-[X] Use Miracle to cast Wandering Weather as an attempted countermeasure against the cloud.
 
Goldfish said:
@egoo, have Viserys use Miracle to cast a Wandering Weather spell. Worst case it doesn't do anything. But in that same scenario, high level spells are impeded anyway, so it's not like the slot would be wasted.

It's like Control Weather, but the effect stays centered on the caster.

@DragonParadox, how much did our efforts shrink the cloud?
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In the minutes since the spell it does not seem to have s much contracted as grown ragged along he edges.
 
[X] egoo

@Goldfish, for spellslots our high level spellslots just become unusable for high level spells. They should still work for lower level spells, and we can use our high level spellslots to stack as much metamagic as possible onto what we can cast.
 
Duesal said:
[X] egoo

@Goldfish, for spellslots our high level spellslots just become unusable for high level spells. They should still work for lower level spells, and we can use our high level spellslots to stack as much metamagic as possible onto what we can cast.
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Not quite, you can use high level slots for low level spells, but the effect of the cloud caps spell effects not just spells. A quickened maximized fireball still does not work.

Archibald said:
So to a non-mythic non-spellcaster, its just your garden variety wind storm, where the wind isn't blowing fast enough to be a serious bother?
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It does not seem to be doing so now, but then you have been in there for half a minute subjective time less in objective terms
 
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it seems like going into the storm is just going to get our people roflstomped. If that's going to happen anyway, maybe we should figure out how to deal with the storm? You can't win if your only option is to lose.
 
Crake said:
it seems like going into the storm is just going to get our people roflstomped. If that's going to happen anyway, maybe we should figure out how to deal with the storm? You can't win if your only option is to lose.
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I don't like going in one bit, either, but I don't really see us handling it now, if our previous (OP plz nerf) casting didn't manage to handle it.
Chances are, they'll restore the cloud soon, too.
 
Also, did anyone bother asking @DragonParadox if this stops ALL high level spellcasting from any source, or only from people not the undead creators of it?

We can't win if we're going in with 5th level spells against 9th level spellcasters. That's GG from the outset.
 
Crake said:
Also, did anyone bother asking @DragonParadox if this stops ALL high level spellcasting from any source, or only from people not the undead creators of it?

We can't win if we're going in with 5th level spells against 9th level spellcasters. That's GG from the outset.
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A Runecrafted caster would presumably not be stopped by it, and we know the Others have knowledge of runes, so even if they're not default immune, they can probably grant immunity.
 
Okay, we need more information. There isn't any reason we can't try to learn more about the cloud and it's effects while our engineers prepare fortitifications.

[X] Try to study the strange effect further
-[X] Dany will perform a Divination to learn what she can of the cloud and it's effects and Viserys will cast a Commune spell using his Prophet's Rod (+1 Commune question), with all questions aimed to discover information about the cloud, it's effects, creators, purpose, etc.
-[X] While this is being done, our engineering crews will use their Titan's Tools to create a fortified position for our forces to fight from, should it prove necessary. It will be set up in such a way as to prevent our forces from being overrun by superior numbers while allowing Undead to be channeled into specially prepared kill zones, if fighting occurs here.
--[X] If the fortification is not needed, we can leave it to use later or dismantle it when time permits.
 
tarrangar said:
A Runecrafted caster would presumably not be stopped by it, and we know the Others have knowledge of runes, so even if they're not default immune, they can probably grant immunity.
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This does not look like the work of the Void or the Other.

This is pure Sarnor, the rage of a god who died in an age of failing magic, because his people's magic and magitec-weapons started to fade out of usefulness just when countless savage horselords came to their doorstep.
 
[X] Goldfish

That storm has wrong footed us and while it may cost us some momentum to figure out a counter, charging into it will just make things worse.
 
Agree, I don't like fighting on prepared ground without a good plan of how to deal with it. Even if they have time to prepare more countermeasures, they would have had even longer to prepare defenses in the city itself. If we have to attack it, absolutely have to, I want to be informed as possible.

At a minimum, if we can't gather any more information, then I want overwhelming force. I don't care if we have to take the rest of the month or the next to deal with it. We can prepare a lot of undead to spring defenses and traps if we put in a backdated order for them.
 
Crake said:
I don't care if we have to take the rest of the month or the next to deal with it.
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Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, I'd rather literally drop rocks from outer space on top of the city generating it, than wasting that much time trying to deal with some angery existentially-challenged dudes.
 
egoo said:
Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, I'd rather literally drop rocks from outer space on top of the city generating it, than wasting that much time trying to deal with some angery existentially-challenged dudes.
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I'm just saying, any kind of solutions over "throw our people into a meatgrinder" for no reason or gain whatsoever.
 
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