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

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From the reactions, I'm beginning to suspect that not everyone here is a good christian and knows the New Testament by heart.
 
Azel said:
From the reactions, I'm beginning to suspect that not everyone here is a good christian and knows the New Testament by heart.
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I know my boy Jesus had no time for corrupt schemes like money lending, especially not while in the temple. So he made himself a whip and beat some motherfuckers with it. An icon.
 
That was a nice interlude though I'm surprised that Sansa was not more reverent/afraid/in awe the moment she saw Yrael considering how she was raised to see angelic beings like Yrael. Did she simply not know what he was?
 
So question about the Westerlands so I don't make silly assumptions like in KL, does the assault start as soon as the Duntless gets there or does it go first with the ship arriving as it is underway?
 
Trevor23 said:
That was a nice interlude though I'm surprised that Sansa was not more reverent/afraid/in awe the moment she saw Yrael considering how she was raised to see angelic beings like Yrael. Did she simply not know what he was?
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He was likely under a glamor. Also keep in mind even though she takes more after her mother in matters of faith, she was still raised in the North, where they keep to the Old Gods primarily. And the OGs don't really do reverence for angels.
 
I'd wager that Bronze Yohn helped to ground Sansa a good bit. Especially with the whole "you are being fostered here to increase your chances of survival".
 
DragonParadox said:
You know I have always found favored weapons odd, not from a mechanical D&D PoV, that was one more thing for the murderhobo cleric to have connecting them to their deity, but from and actual culture PoV. Why would every god have a weapon that is favored by them. Even if you posit that every god has a favored weapon, which does not always make sense because if you are a god why be restrained that way, why would that be a part of every god's legend? Why does the god of martyrs and peace need to come with a favorite pointy thing to kill people with?

I guess this is my slightly rambling way to ask if favored weapons make sense to ASWAH to you guys. What do you think?
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You could remove them entirely without bothering me. The concept has always seemed a bit odd to me, too.

That said, there are plenty of deities who are actually associated with a particular weapon. In those instances, I don't see any problem with that being considered their "Favored Weapon", both from a practical standpoint and a metaphysical one.

I assume Viserys' would probably be his Silver Tongue.

Lya: Yep!
 
Trevor23 said:
That was a nice interlude though I'm surprised that Sansa was not more reverent/afraid/in awe the moment she saw Yrael considering how she was raised to see angelic beings like Yrael. Did she simply not know what he was?
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The angelic being has high Charisma, very good diplo skills and he has a lot of experience keeping humans form falling on their faces before him. It is not something he wants to he worked towards not having to deal with it. Also having steel wings has slightly improved that issue since while most humans do not understand what Falling means they do instinctively feel a difference.
 
DragonParadox said:
So question about the Westerlands so I don't make silly assumptions like in KL, does the assault start as soon as the Duntless gets there or does it go first with the ship arriving as it is underway?
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The assault underground would start at the same time as the Dauntless arrives and opens fire to ensure that the Lannisters have no easy escape routes and have to split their attention between two problems.
 
Azel said:
The assault underground would start at the same time as the Dauntless arrives and opens fire to ensure that the Lannisters have no easy escape routes and have to split their attention between two problems.
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Steam cannon rounds pounding into the fortifications, Beetle Bombs exploding into clouds of Razorsharp Adamantine shrapnel or waves of Alchemical napalm...ah, what a way to wake up.
 
Goldfish said:
Steam cannon rounds pounding into the fortifications, Beetle Bombs exploding into clouds of Razorsharp Adamantine shrapnel or waves of Alchemical napalm...ah, what a way to wake up.
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You forgot those very special shells with the fluorescent green crosses on the equally special boxes they are stored in. For those extra troublesome targets. 👌
 
I always thought that the deities in D&D have a favored weapon because every single one of them is ready to shank a bitch if they get uppity.

If you consider the history of D&D in terms of myths they're roughly in the Mythic Era where Link Perseus is currently collecting his magic items to deal with Medusa, and Herakles is in the middle of his labors.

Basically they're in the middle of having their holy scriptures being written instead of having a finished product.
 
Azel said:
You forgot those very special shells with the fluorescent green crosses on the equally special boxes they are stored in. For those extra troublesome targets. 👌
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I wouldn't mind seeing some Inferno rounds being used, either.
Inferno Munition / Bomb #1 (10 pounds / 4.5 kg): 12d6 Fire damage (+50% damage if not already Vulnerable to Fire) to everything within 5 feet (1.5 m) of the target space and each creature must make a DC 20 Reflex saving throw or catch on fire (2d6 Fire damage per round for at least 6 rounds unless extinguished). Everything within the area between 5 (1.5 m) and 30 (9 m) feet of the target space must make a DC 20 Reflex saving throw or suffer 3d6 Fire damage, but they do not catch on fire.
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For those special times a Praetorian really needs to reach out and touch someone but doesn't want to risk being incinerated by overly enthusiastic Wildfire.
 
Duesal said:
We still have the paperwork to fall back on. They're not allowed to assemble in the first place without that paperwork. Then the lawmen can go from there with interrogations in the aftermath.

It might take months, but if you participated in a riot you will pay for it proportional to the harm you caused.
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Ehh people looking for an excuse to smash windows and set fires aren't super big on doing paperwork in the first place. And protests by definition kinda have to be in puclic, so people can end up just slipping in.

Re the interlude Awww that was sweet. Yeah I can see him enjoying simple adventure novels, we all need our turn the brain off media right? And huh Yohn brought Sanasa with him? I mean makes sense but didn't occur to me before.
 
Goldfish said:
I wouldn't mind seeing some Inferno rounds being used, either.

For those special times a Praetorian really needs to reach out and touch someone but doesn't want to risk being incinerated by overly enthusiastic Wildfire.
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Setting fires in tunnels isn't exactly a pleasant thing to do, even if you use bog standard Alchemists Fire.

I mean...

That's a pretty unpleasant thing to experience, even without the undead monsters and gas-mask wearing super-soldiers charging at you through the flames.
 
DragonParadox said:
You know I have always found favored weapons odd, not from a mechanical D&D PoV, that was one more thing for the murderhobo cleric to have connecting them to their deity, but from and actual culture PoV. Why would every god have a weapon that is favored by them. Even if you posit that every god has a favored weapon, which does not always make sense because if you are a god why be restrained that way, why would that be a part of every god's legend? Why does the god of martyrs and peace need to come with a favorite pointy thing to kill people with?

I guess this is my slightly rambling way to ask if favored weapons make sense to ASWAH to you guys. What do you think?
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Personally (and this is my head canon so bear with me here) I don't think that most Gods aside from the martial-type have a favoured weapon. I think it's mortals wanting to mimic their god in some way, and they find things related to their god to copy.

Like in middle-school where that one kid who was seen with a Beyblade for about 2 days and then never seen playing with it again. But somehow the fad caught on and now every brat in school has a beyblade and start holding tournaments.

But then again, this is just a theory....
A GAME THEORY!
 
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Azel said:
Setting fires in tunnels isn't exactly a pleasant thing to do, even if you use bog standard Alchemists Fire.

I mean...

That's a pretty unpleasant thing to experience, even without the undead monsters and gas-mask wearing super-soldiers charging at you through the flames.
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Good thing the Praetorians aren't in the business of being pleasant. 😈
 
The page counts shows that D&D is fundamentally about fights. Well no, considering the space devoted to it in the rulebooks D&D is fundamentally about to spellcasting, but most of the spells are all about fights so it evens out.
In light of that, and in light of the fact that every setting has an arbitrarily high number of monsters of every CR in it, it makes perfect sense to me that every God has a favoured weapon. If you're not willing to physically/magically/metaphorically fight for your life, you die and/or fade into irrelevance.
 
A_Somebody said:
Ehh people looking for an excuse to smash windows and set fires aren't super big on doing paperwork in the first place. And protests by definition kinda have to be in puclic, so people can end up just slipping in.

Re the interlude Awww that was sweet. Yeah I can see him enjoying simple adventure novels, we all need our turn the brain off media right? And huh Yohn brought Sanasa with him? I mean makes sense but didn't occur to me before.
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Hopefully the lawmen are able to arrest as many of them as possible then.
 
did we bring the orb of dragonkind ? , it might come in handy if Tywin brings out dragon seeds he'd recruited and given Valryian dragons in attempt to even the odd in the air
 
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