A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Vee can't use the staff. She has divine magic, the staff uses arcane magic.Should we lend Vee the staff for a bit, or are we planning to use it in Volantis?
Again, Telepathic bond for Volantis party members, so we can keep an eye on everyone and respond quickly
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- being near locations is my passion.
Huh. So it is. That is genuinely surprising, since DP had intended for it to go to Vee in his initial design. Eh. Ravens will be useful in Volantis.
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Agonizing is superfluous here, and makes us spend 7th level spells.
Also, couldn't do two Mercifuls in a round.
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That was a mistake, imo. Vee is aligned with Yss. The one who's truly connected to the Old Gods is Viserys, and to a far lesser extent, Waymar.
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Naw, Vee is popular with gods and spirits. I imagine they find her sheer good sense appealing in a... contractor? occasional hire? She's the kinda mage that gets headhunted, and it's not like the OG care if you have dealings with people they don't hate, and Yss is chill wrt the OG, 'cuz they're not actually gods (I assume/personal head-canon)
Her PrC:
Warden of the Wilds
Special: Requires the favor from the Old Gods.
Of Rivers, Trees and Stone: The Warden learns how to, by herself, commune with the very earth.
Edit: Rh'llor hit her with a "protectiveness" feeling in Lys, way back when.
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I'm not disputing that the Old Gods might be fond of Vee, or that Yss and the Old Gods have no reason not to get along, but that doesn't change the fact that she's far more closely aligned to Yss and that Viserys is the one who's closest to the Old Gods. Let's just take a step back and consider which of the PCs has been growing all the trees, and which one of them has made a solemn pact with the Old Gods.
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You can easily say Yss hijacked the PrC for her, as seen in the first interlude she got it.
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That too. Speak with Animals at will suddenly turned into Speak with Snakes at will for a reason.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Agonizing raises the spell level to 6th. Searing doesn't raise the spell level, as we pay the blood price, and Merciful is a +0 level adjustment Metamagic feat. Agonizing is a not insignificant debuff which makes the spiders less likely to resist following spells.
I have removed Merciful from the first Firebrand, though. A single Firebrand should not kill any of the larger spiders we are initially targeting.
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I'm confused. Why isn't it possible to use Merciful twice in a row?
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Oh, well. Yes. I agree with all this.
"Thank you for bringing me here"
"Don't mention it, [really/I mean it]" (Yeah, I can't remember exactly...)
Kinda weird seeing a god say thank you, unless that was just some other snake.
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Ah, I thought Merciful was +1.
Because Sorc makes them a full round to use, and Spellsurge makes it a Standard.
And we only have one standard a round.
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Applying either Merciful or Agonising increases the casting time of the spell from a Standard action to a Full-Round action.
Spellsurge decreases the casting time from a Standard action to a Swift action and from a Full-Round action to a Standard action.
Thus to cast two Firebrands, we need to cast one with Metamagic to cast it as a Standard action and another without Metamagic to use it as a Swift action.
Searing is the odd man out, as we apply it by a different method and it thus does not increase casting time.
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@Goldfish I also am confused. With Spellsurge, it's a standard action for a metamagic spell, no?
Edit: Duesal'd
Shall we throw in some chronomancy for another merciful firebrand?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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A mechanic I forgot about earlier because I was distracted by my failing air conditioning unit and the rage I feel toward my property manager.
Sorcerers without special feats, or the Metamagic Specialist variant class feature, require a Full Round Action to cast spells augmented by Metamagic (except for Quicken Spell). We can get around that using Arcane Spellsurge, which allows us to cast Metamagic spells as a Standard Action instead, leaving us room to use a Swift Action as well. The spell we cast as a Swift Action cannot be Metamagically augmented, so it doesn't get the Merciful effect.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Agonizing should make our spells require a Full Round Action to cast, but it never has in this quest, so I've always assumed it's a special effect DP allows for due to our amazing dragonocity.
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I think he simply forgot about it. The extended casting time for Sorcs is one of those silly rules most DMs drop.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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...alright, I'm totally lost now.
Just tell me, @Goldfish, will we get these sacrifices with vote as it is now (if no new information will come to light and etc)?
Because that's honestly the only thing I care about.
Please don't blow up low-HP sacrifices.
Nor big-hp sacrifices, I suppose.
Just tell me, @Goldfish, will we get these sacrifices with vote as it is now (if no new information will come to light and etc)?
Because that's honestly the only thing I care about.
Please don't blow up low-HP sacrifices.
Nor big-hp sacrifices, I suppose.
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Yeah, I have always thought of it as just one more way the rules make clear just how inferior sorcerers are to wizards.
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That reward's probably going to go to Viserys now.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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We are targeting only the largest spiders within range. Here are the stats for basic Monstrous Spiders, before DP slaps any templates on them or otherwise upgrades them. A Gargantuan Monstrous Spider has 104 HP, while a Colossal Monstrous Spider has 208 HP.
The first Firebrand, the lethal one, will do 14d6+14 Fire damage on the first round, then 7d6+7 on the following round. Average damage will be 94.5 HP. We might kill some of the Gargantuan spiders with the first Firebrand, but certainly not the Colossal ones. There will be plenty more where that came from.
FUCK!
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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I cannot believe we all forgot about that...
Vee should get the XP instead.