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

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egoo said:
@Artemis1992, you mind us sending her and Liomond together to Crucible-stuff, then?

Liomond's the only non-companion melee we have of sufficient power to reasonably be present among levels of Lya, Marwyn and Gith and provide meatshield-yness.
...Asha can probably get some minor tutoring off the present Gith, too.
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If you want more offensive power, assign the twins. If you just want meatshields, assign some Black Champions.
 
Azel said:
Bug me again when I have spare brainpower for that.
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I still have to bug you about [what exactly do we tell our people stationed in Slavers' Bay?] and [what exactly do we plan for Reconquest, turnvote-wize?], so I think you should be careful with statements like that, I won't stop bugging once I start :V
Azel said:
If you just want meatshields, assign some Black Champions.
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The problem I'm trying to work around is that Mindblank can be cast only so much, even with Lya around.
So my foolproof method of giving a reasonable level of security, the "5-to-10 Black Champions per 1 mage" won't work here :cry:
But, fair enough I suppose.
 
egoo said:
The problem I'm trying to work around is that Mindblank can be cast only so much, even with Lya around.
So my foolproof method of giving a reasonable level of security, the "5-to-10 Black Champions per 1 mage" won't work here :cry:
But, fair enough I suppose.
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Then Black Wardens, who are already Mindblanked.
 
Once Asha develops her Warrior Soul version of the Soulknife class, do y'all think we could maybe do a citizen exchange program with the Githzerai, where Asha works with them for a few months while we get a Psion who can maybe help train Jeyne Weaver a bit? Or just for general cultural exchange stuff?
 
Goldfish said:
Once Asha develops her Warrior Soul version of the Soulknife class, do y'all think we could maybe do a citizen exchange program with the Githzerai, where Asha works with them for a few months while we get a Psion who can maybe help train Jeyne Weaver a bit? Or just for general cultural exchange stuff?
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Or if they don't really have any Martial Initiators, maybe send Liomond to do the same thing he's doing with Asha with them and then create a joint-training program.
 
[X] Diesel

We may want to look into getting some type of demon scaner up and running. IE something that would be able to detect the taint of demons and such.
 
So I've kind of gone from nature documentaries to a documentary about the Ice Age to a novel about the Ice Age. It's really good for a SF writer getting into a different genre, but I'm mostly sharing this because I had a thought about D&D. An Ice age campaign would be really cool.
  1. You would have all the dire animals right there
  2. There would be the sense of wonder and magic by just handing the players a piece of meteoric iron or steel, they can go an an epic quest to forge it
  3. Hell you would even have other species of hominids as your race selection
I don't really have the time to run something like that, just wanted to get the idea out there in case it inspires anyone.
 
Hmm, that does inspire me but in a different way, Conan the barbarian but it's literally the ice age and his name is Grug, lemuria is the encroaching ice flats.
 
DragonParadox said:
So I've kind of gone from nature documentaries to a documentary about the Ice Age to a novel about the Ice Age. It's really good for a SF writer getting into a different genre, but I'm mostly sharing this because I had a thought about D&D. An Ice age campaign would be really cool.
  1. You would have all the dire animals right there
  2. There would be the sense of wonder and magic by just handing the players a piece of meteoric iron or steel, they can go an an epic quest to forge it
  3. Hell you would even have other species of hominids as your race selection
I don't really have the time to run something like that, just wanted to get the idea out there in case it inspires anyone.
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The 3.0 DMG suggested some rules for it. All it really boiled down to was a set of special penalties for martial PCs who had to use bone or stone weapons and tools due to the unavailability of proper metals. :facepalm:

On the other hand, I'm positive that I've seen a bunch of third-part splatbooks dedicated to it somewhere...
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
The 3.0 DMG suggested some rules for it. All it really boiled down to was a set of special penalties for martial PCs who had to use bone or stone weapons and tools due to the unavailability of proper metals. :facepalm:

On the other hand, I'm positive that I've seen a bunch of third-part splatbooks dedicated to it somewhere...
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To be fair to the DMG that is where you get your rules not your setting fluff and that is the really fun part of the premise, researching the habits and tools of different hominids and different cultures within the Old Stone Age, writing up religions, customs all that fun stuff. You could have a whole arc about a particularly important hunt (it's caribou season and if you don't get enough meat for the winter the band starves etc...)
 
DragonParadox said:
So I've kind of gone from nature documentaries to a documentary about the Ice Age to a novel about the Ice Age. It's really good for a SF writer getting into a different genre, but I'm mostly sharing this because I had a thought about D&D. An Ice age campaign would be really cool.
  1. You would have all the dire animals right there
  2. There would be the sense of wonder and magic by just handing the players a piece of meteoric iron or steel, they can go an an epic quest to forge it
  3. Hell you would even have other species of hominids as your race selection
I don't really have the time to run something like that, just wanted to get the idea out there in case it inspires anyone.
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i love this idea the age when everything has it's own mysticism and awe of nature the age where a steel armor or a steel weapon just basically makes you a demigod storied across the lands and every achievement matters more then ever because we we're almost always i in state of fight against extinction against the cold the fauna and other hominids
 
I'd love to help out with the puppy but the only pet I've had is a cat and you don't so much tempt cats with food as leave it where they can find it and let them eat as they please. :V

Anyway good night guys, see you with ancient ilithid interrogations and more.
 
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Interlude CMLXXXII: Answers in a Jar
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    Twenty Third Day of the Fourth Month 294 AC

    A hypothetical intruder who made it past the deadly flesh-forged guardians, the rune-forged traps and the half-lidded eye of the Forge's guiding intelligence, and somehow slipped under the eye of the black armored 'knights' who stood silent vigil at the laboratory's door, might have thought the place eerily silent save for the slow arrhythmic thumps of the various masses and samples growing. Yet if one had the gift to listen closely to sounds no human ear was ever meant to detect, it would be possible to catch a sort of vibration in the air coming from the shifting tentacles of the laboratory's master as he glided inches above the floor. For all he had changed, Qyburn still had the habit of humming to himself when he was pleased with his latest work.

    It's not perfect, no definitely not that, he thought looking at the brass bound jar in which the captured illithid's brain floated with deceptive serenity. But it will do, it will do very well indeed for something crafted so swiftly. Above the jar, a simple unliving guardian glared down with balefire eyes affixed upon the dial on the opposite shelf, a detection method for the brain attempting to wield its innate powers. Even without a body, even without senses, the illithidae could still technically use the powers of the mind to escape, but not without being detected, and when the guardian noticed the slightest fluctuation it would administer a painful, though not harmful, burst of necrotic energy, just enough to break concentration.


    Given a bit more time the flesh-smith was certain he could link detection and shock in the same being, but this would do for now. Now for the important parts... "Are you inclined to cooperate?" he sent to his prisoner.

    The wave of rage, loathing, and contempt that washed over him in reply was all too familiar. How one could be part of a fellowship of like-minded and distinct beings like the Dominion for all those ages and lack basic courtesy was one mystery he was quite certain he would never decipher.

    Unfortunately, being several thousand years behind the times meant that many of the plans the prisoner knew of were of no real relevance to anything but historical study. If the Empire ever did organize an expedition to the Thousand Islands then perhaps the knowledge of the inhabitants' former customs and the layout of their now ruined realm would be of some use, but he doubted it would be anytime soon. King Viserys did have an affinity for odd subjects granted, but he did not let it get in the way of more practical concerns.

    Gained Binder of Information on the Thousand Islands (+10 to knowledge rolls about their past; more likely to be able to engage in diplomacy with the locals)

    I can still get more use out of the power and other knowledge locked within. Qyburn thought for a moment that the brain in the jar shivered away from the glass before he shook away the fancy with a slightly higher vocalization that sent crystalline instruments humming in counterpoint, a chuckle. It did not have anything to shiver with.

    His good mood did not survive the encounter with the chronomancer's corpse. Attempts to invest it with a semblance of life in order to extract its secrets only produced an incoherent jumble of sound and light bubbling through its flesh that might have been mistaken for a cunning trap by another mage. The truth was far simpler if more frustrating. The being to which the corpse had belonged to was simply too alien, too immersed in the energies of the Beyond for the spell-matrix to catch. Not even the Wisdom attempting to replicate the spell with her mastery of the arcane showed a different result.

    Aboleth Corpse cannot be affected by Speak with Dead or similar spells

    What next?

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    OOC: Not your best rolls this turn, but Qyburn is having fun at least.
     
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