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

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TotallyNotEvil said:
@DragonParadox are the Janni smart enough to spy from within the walls? As they are ethereal at will?
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I hope they have enough sense to make use of their natural abilities to the fullest.

14 Intelligence, +6 Move Silently, Invisible AND Ethereal...

If they can't pull off stealthy observation with all of that going for them, there is no hope for their species.
 
Artemis1992 said:
Ranged matters?

What are sthe rules on aiming while falling?
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MTB said:
You are just falling up to the edge of the area.
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From the Reverse Gravity description.
If an object or creature reaches the top of the area without striking anything, it remains there, oscillating slightly, until the spell ends.
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I doubt there's a rule for "oscillating slightly," but it doesn't sound completely debilitating. Probably some attack/concentration penalties rather than outright helplessness. Maybe contingent on a middling DC reflex save each round, with a success allowing the victim to stabilize themselves until the end of the effect.
 
Scribbler said:
From the Reverse Gravity description.

I doubt there's a rule for "oscillating slightly," but it doesn't sound completely debilitating. Probably some attack/concentration penalties rather than outright helplessness. Maybe contingent on a middling DC reflex save each round, with a success allowing the victim to stabilize themselves until the end of the effect.
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Or -1 to hit. Or no mechanical effect at all, because it's fluff.
 
It's functionally full Paralysis for any close combat foe without flight. However, those are few and far in between at higher CRs.

Would work nicely against Doomblob and similar foes though.
 
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Part MDCCXLV: An Echo of Darkness
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    • An Echo of Darkness ​

    Fifteenth Day of the First Month 293 AC

    In the end you decide that Vee's idea is best, though rather than having the minor genies attempt to persuade, or more properly capture a slave with which they barely share a language, you simply ask the girl to bid them find the mage-priest or his lair. Such otherworldly creatures would be more likely to know how to find a sorcerer's lair than know which slave might know something of use, after all.

    Thus you wait there amid the dust of the storeroom, in tense silence as a pair of spirits head out to find your quarry and hopefully report. Alas that many of your blessings and protections ware away in that short span of time.

    "I think you should wait outside, Aradia," Lya addresses the incarnate, more a suggestion than an order.

    "Yes, mother," the spirit rolls her eyes before departing.

    Lya's voice sounds sheepish as she explains, "They call me that when they think I'm being too protective."

    "It's good practice if nothing else," Dany teases her... and you.

    Before you can reply in the same lighthearted tone, however, the silence of the manse is broken by a distant blood-curdling bay, a thing of savagery of cruelty and of malice beyond what any mortal hound could match. At once you know the beast that gave it, though the knowledge serves you little.

    "So much for surprise," you say, scrambling for a solution. "What would our foe think to find two lesser genies sulking in his lair?" you ask Malarys urgently.

    "She would be on guard, but I do not think he would flee from such paltry foes," the mage priest replies. "No mage of the sixth circle would."

    "Unless she knew their true nature," Waymar interjects grimly. "We have to move!"

    "We could try to trap her, too," Vee speaks up, laying a land on the Valeman's arm to keep him from rash action. "If he comes at us, fine. Otherwise we wait right here nice and smug until his hackles are no longer up."

    "She could divine our presence, but the surer ways he has to do that would make him helpless for what might as well be an age as time is counted in battle," Dany adds.

    You have just enough time to nod cautiously to the argument before, to your not inconsiderable surprise the Janni return, looking none the worst for wear: "Deepest apologies, mistress," the taller of them declares, speaking quickly in spite of the deferment tone, likely because the magic binding it to this plane is near expiring. "A pair of shadow hounds caught our scent and though we were able to lead them away and slay them in a deserted corridor one of the beasts managed to howl before it could be silenced." The spirit then proceeds to recount how to get to the place where they first encountered the hounds and thus the likely apartments of the priest of Tiamat before fading from sight.

    Vee gains 600 XP

    "So we either have to run through three corridors through which we can only pass two abreast, or we swing back out and through the window of the room he is likely in," Ser Richard concludes.

    "Any sorcerer worth the name would have warded that somehow," you say automatically. At the same time few wards are stronger than that into which they are carved into, so simply opening the way with sorcerous flame would be an option.

    What do you do?

    [] Wait for the alarm to lower, readying a trap in the meantime
    -[] Write in plan (optional)

    [] Charge though the manse to the mage's lair
    -[] Write in plan (optional)

    [] Swing out and through the window of the chamber the Janni identified.
    -[] Write in plan (optional)

    OOC: Those Janni crit like crazy with their bows, they almost killed two CR 5 Shadow Mastiffs before the latter could react, and of course they did somehow see the things in time to set up a counter-ambush (no mean feat itself).
     
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    • @DragonParadox can lya dimension door to a location where her arcane mark is - well, someone carrying an arcane mark?

    Can a familar/mage pair uh... Spike emotions in a pattern, like inducing/focusing on fear-joy-fear to communicate? Waymar could send a message to winter for lya to dimension door over when we reach the outer wards of the room.

    Ideas for planners:
    Also, viserys can imbue greater blink to waymar and then he and garin and viserys just run through the walls to the room.

    Just throwing out ideas.
     
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    Man, I'm salty about how this infiltration is going. We could have at least pinpointed the cleric's horizontal position from the air with the Wayfinder, avoiding this whole "enemy partially alerted and some distance away" complication. It also would have been smarter to have Vee summon the spies before we entered.

    And we still don't know what allies the Shadowbinder has present or where Illyrio is. :cry:
     
    All of our buffs with a duration of 1 minute/level and above should still be in effect for at least 9 more minutes, as Vee's summons would have lasted a maximum of 22 rounds.

    How about some misdirection?

    [] Ask Vee to summon another Janni and have her command it to stealthily steal something of value from within the manse, then allow itself to be seen by the guards fleeing the property with its loot.

    OR

    Dragon Action Hero?

    [X] Swing out and through the window of the chamber the Janni identified.
    -[X] Vee will send a summoned Leskylor and pair of Medium-sized Air Elementals crashing through the window to engage the Cleric right after Malarys hits the window with an Area Dispel Magic.
    -[X] Viserys will use Blood Wish to Disintegrate a large hole through the exterior wall of the chamber as far from the window as possible so the group can make a surprise attack while the Cleric and any minions are distracted.
    -[X] Dany will activate her Holy Aura SLA simultaneously with Viserys' spellcasting, and Richard will do the same with his armor.
    -[X] Viserys will renew his Greater Blink (using two 4th level spell slots) and Haste spells, and Viserys, Richard, and Garin will activate their Earrings' True Seeing function just before the attack commences.
     
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    [X] Goldfish
    I dearly hope we get to kill/turtle at least this priest.
    The whole "stealth" thing is a giant bother when done realistically, and if there's something I can't fault DP for, it's writing world realistically, with people acting as smart as their INT allows.
     
    @Goldfish @DragonParadox would fabricate be as fast as disintegrate, and/or would disintergrate be better at ward-breaking if dispel dosen't cut it?

    I ask because Viserys would have more actions to turtle if fabricate is fast enough - I think lya could just move the bit of the wall where the hole will be to the area outside the hole rather than make a latched/hinged entrance.
     
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