Removing the need for people to understand the peculiarities of 50+ PC-grade characters that appear on the screen once every few months, know by heart 100+ obscure spells from 3.5 and Pathfinder, and have detailed knowledge of 200+ things in the Bestiarium to make a simple military vote is very much the intention of the system.
Aside from the mechanical resolution of your new warfare, there are still PC-fights happening, even if their impact is limited?
There are spells for that though. Scintillating Scales for example, makes Orb of Force cannons hardly better than common bows.
Considering that all other battle plans are exclusively made by Goldfish, if my system is understood and actually used by no more than two people, I would still have succeeded in making the quest more accessible. It's that bad.
Dispel Magic. Use splash weapons that do damage on non-direct hits. Etc.
It's just hard to guess when PCs might be useful then and when and where not.
The flip side of "armies matter because PC's can't arbitrarily roflstomp them" is "PC's can die in a battle". That's inevitable.
Not quite. If she is corned while under wards, she is dead.
These are islands.
I'd consider a war to be a perfectly real fight. Your ur-problem, which nobody will ever be able to fix, is that you think PCs should dominate everything, and armies be just window dressing for the setting flavor.
You are making it sound as if she definitely would get away though, which is not the case. Chance? Yes. Certainty? No.
No. The system is supposed to be simple and not to immediately revert back into curating giant lists of people nobody cares about except to get bonuses. It's a layer of complexity that is just not adding remotely enough value to justify the complexity it adds.
I'm not sure how helpful it will be to station Tyene, Maelor, and Waymar there for any length of time. If they're away for more than a day, they won't be part of Dany's Persistomancy, which will significantly impact their overall abilities and survivability. Would rather keep them in SD, since they, along with others, could easily Greater Plane Shift to the Salamander domain if necessary on a moment's notice, or to elsewhere in the Imperium if needed.
I feel your pain, dude.The update might end up being a bit delayed today.
It is obnoxiously hot again and I can't be sure I can write properly. Maybe the Sultan of Brass is trying to send me a message.
Bringing in supplies by ship is not feasible. Yrten would get bombarded and sunk without much ceremony.
Point. Especially after the above clarification.
Not like Europe is without its drownings.
See, the problem here is that you assume that the name would just appear in a casualty statistic and that is that.