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

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Massgamer said:
No complaints here, Ser Richard being himself is always a treat.

Also, just plain better healing items is a good thing in general for those who can't use higher level magic.
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Keep in mind that if Denys makes better healing salve it is likely to be something that can only be hand-made so it would be of limited use to most people. In most cases you can just slather on more of the regular salve, getting better quality only helps when you need that extra healing now and not in 6 seconds.
 
Can't we make a auto injector thing or something. Just push the potion into the body.

That just keeps pushing more potion till you get up. Basically shitier regeneration
 
DragonParadox said:
Unfortunately not. Potions need to be drunk, the act has a symbolic value for the magic inside, even if you had something inject the stuff into your stomach it would not work
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How about an automatic salve sprayer then.

I don't get why we haven't given Richard a ring of regeneration. This fucking around with the potions is good but regeneration is better.
 
Acolyte said:
How about an automatic salve sprayer then.

I don't get why we haven't given Richard a ring of regeneration. This fucking around with the potions is good but regeneration is better.
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Ouranous said:
Can we modify richard's helmet to include a intrinsic bottle with a straw to have him drink it.:V
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Both spray and straw would work bu they would cost at least a swift action to use which is quite the cost in high speed combat.
 
Something similiar like this but modified and optimised for combat
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We can even enchant or do whatever needs to be done to make it a free action to use it
Its not like slurping on a drink could distract you much. Using the straw would be more instinctual.
 
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DragonParadox said:
By Small Steps ​

Twelfth Day of the Ninth Month 294 AC

The first thing Richard noticed on stepping through the heavy lead-lined door was the smell. It was neither foul nor fair but something of both sweet and sour, bitter as brine and fresh as spring air. He could not even see magic properly in here from all the vials on the walls and the strange tubes bubbling away, spirals of hardened glass and silver coiling around the chamber like many-colored serpents, the color of auras dancing before his eyes. Now where is Trainer in all this?

"Ser Knight.. er, what can I do for you?" the sandy-haired boy asked as she stepped out from some nook in the back of the laboratory. Granted, he was not that much younger than Richard, but the catch in his voice marked him as such regardless.

"I have a question about your craft and I was wondering if you could help me with it," he replied, sliding a box of healing salve across the table between them. The thing was so smooth it almost flew off, but to his credit Trainer caught it deftly.

"I will do my best, but I must confess I cannot think of any matter of the arcane in which I would know more about than Her Majesty the Imperatrix..."

"Her Majesty is currently trying to make sense of the Wall up North, and she was never much of one for potions and philters anyway."

The boy nodded cautiously and looked over the box in his hand. "This is fine work, Royce Alchemical works made, of course. They do excellent distilling and produce in far larger batches than could otherwise be managed."

"Can you make it better, though, if it was just you working on it and time was no matter, nor coin either?"

"Er... perhaps." It was clear he was unsure what Richard was getting at but did not quite know how to ask what he was about.

"I know there are potions that can do better, but you have to uncork a vial and drink it when you might have better things to be doing with your mouth in the middle of a fight. I want something like that, that can be applied by someone else right on the wound, just stronger." Something that would have woken you up faster, so you wouldn't have been dead weight when your liege was fighting for his life. The knight swallowed the bitterness, it would do no good now. Next time he would do better, he vowed.

For a long moment the young mage was silent. "Is aura strength a concern?" he asked at last.

Clever lad, Richard thought, offering a small approving nod. He had not gotten it right, of course, but he was using his head and that was always good to see. "No, this is for use in areas where higher spells can't be counted."

"I shall see what I can do, Ser Knight," Trainer said at last. "I make no promises save of diligence."

"And I do not expect more than that, nor does the Imperator," Richard said in parting, leaving the alchemist to his work.

OOC: I know you guys were expecting a Mereth interaction, but Richard is really not the sort to go bear his feeling every time something bad happens, he is more inclined to do all he can to make sure the bad thing does not happen again. Better healing salve is the sort of thing that is too simple for new form research actions so I thought why not show a companion doing something on their own initiative on this.
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Made a few minor edits to the chapter, DP.

Even without Mereth dropping in, this was a solid Richard interlude. Certainly felt true to his character.
 
Acolyte said:
How about the ring of regeneration.
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Would be great to have, of course, but it doesn't really provide a lot of combat-relevant healing. Awesome in between fights to get back to full strength, just too slow during the actual fight to normally make a difference. He's got his armor for that, as well. Constant Fast Healing 1 which can be boosted to Fast Healing 5 temporarily. I really wish we had thought to do that before the last fight started.
 
Goldfish said:
Would be great to have, of course, but it doesn't really provide a lot of combat-relevant healing. Awesome in between fights to get back to full strength, just too slow during the actual fight to normally make a difference. He's got his armor for that, as well. Constant Fast Healing 1 which can be boosted to Fast Healing 5 temporarily. I really wish we had thought to do that before the last fight started.
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Buts it's constent tho, we don't need to activate it
 
Razios said:
If it was some dude try to drop a delivery van sure, but this is more as elon musk with a merry band of cyborg decide to rob him personally, even if it was just a simple robbery, that it was the leader of a polis in the rising is concerning or a least intersting enough to check it up.
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If we were musk in this metaphor sure, but we really aren't. We're more like the millionaire to their multi-billionaire than any kind of peer ( as far as I can tell anyway).
 
Acolyte said:
Buts it's constent tho, we don't need to activate it
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Yeah, it would be nice to have, but it isn't really helpful in the way Richard is looking for. Burst healing is what is needed.

I wish I had thought about having Viserys prepare some max level Quick Potions before the previous mission. Some 3d8+15 HP Cure Serious Wounds potions could have been useful to have.
 
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Sorry to say update will be a bit late today guys, it is stupid hot, hot enough that I feel like I'm in a sauna and I just cannot focus on writing. I'll have to wait for evening and hope it cools down a little.
 
You need to create a symbiote, self aware armor bit, unseen servant effect, bound critter or similar to shove the potion down the recipient's throat without costing them an action.

The Legion can have mass produced healing potion camelbacks(potion availability allowing), because they mostly aren't at the level where swift actions become king. Making said camelback self aware enough to shove the juice into you, with the perception to know when to do it could be tricky.
 
I mean, the tech exists. One of the Praetori implants allows them to synthesise a potion of Cure Disease and Cure Serious Wounds a day in their body, though they still need to activate it as a Standard action.
 
I think having what our populace think of us and what various factions thinks of us including other countries like summer islands, Yin , westeros populace, the faiths in the empire and other relevant things like
1 to 10 opinion rating like in warhammer dynasty quest would be great.
 
I mean, there is a very simple solution to the most immediate problem, if you know you are going to fight in a warded area you charge your contingencies with a Cure Critical Wounds at max CL, instead of a Heal which can be blocked.
 
Ouranous said:
I think having what our populace think of us and what various factions thinks of us including other countries like summer islands, Yin , westeros populace, the faiths in the empire and other relevant things like
1 to 10 opinion rating like in warhammer dynasty quest would be great.
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I don't think a simple 1 to 10 scale can really represent that.

Take the faith of Burny, some people think we are the great enemy, quite a few people think we are dragon jesus, many people fall somewhere between those extremes (liking some of our policies, disliking others).
The faith is not united enough to have a coherent opinion, though most of the higher-ups do like us and Burny is at least willing to work with us until we win or fail.

Or take Yin, the Azure Court only of course, the Emps owes us his life and soul and he knows it, but he isn't the only opinion that matters. Anything between fear of the dragon with several archmages, to disdain for the western barbarian, to dissapointment that we won't take a stance in their little internal spat is present.
 
Artemis1992 said:
I don't think a simple 1 to 10 scale can really represent that.

Take the faith of Burny, some people think we are the great enemy, quite a few people think we are dragon jesus, many people fall somewhere between those extremes (liking some of our policies, disliking others).
The faith is not united enough to have a coherent opinion, though most of the higher-ups do like us and Burny is at least willing to work with us until we win or fail.

Or take Yin, the Azure Court only of course, the Emps owes us his life and soul and he knows it, but he isn't the only opinion that matters. Anything between fear of the dragon with several archmages, to disdain for the western barbarian, to dissapointment that we won't take a stance in their little internal spat is present.
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I know but i said something similiar and not exactly like that.
Also im bit more worried what the westerosi population thinks of us (except kings landing)
 
Artemis1992 said:
I don't think a simple 1 to 10 scale can really represent that.

Take the faith of Burny, some people think we are the great enemy, quite a few people think we are dragon jesus, many people fall somewhere between those extremes (liking some of our policies, disliking others).
The faith is not united enough to have a coherent opinion, though most of the higher-ups do like us and Burny is at least willing to work with us until we win or fail.

Or take Yin, the Azure Court only of course, the Emps owes us his life and soul and he knows it, but he isn't the only opinion that matters. Anything between fear of the dragon with several archmages, to disdain for the western barbarian, to dissapointment that we won't take a stance in their little internal spat is present.
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That's why the score is always accompanied by a little blurb that details it, but there is still value in having a general and fast to read measure of overall relationship.
 
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