Sure, but I'll have to axe the Greater False Raven and most of the Lesser False Ravens we have Valeria crafting. That cool with you? You were the one who wanted more of them.
Grudgingly yes. I would love to see her out in the field sooner rather then later and a Ring of Sustenance would help a lot to squeeze her training by a lot.
At the rate we're paying the loan to the Iron Bank back, and with our plans for Lys coming to fruition over the next couple months, our liquid funds should increase significantly in a few months.
Actually, our funds should become... interesting after the Conference.

I'm planning deals worth actual millions. We will be technically under mountains of debt, but the kind of debt we have to pay back over the course of years. Financing things like a state has it's perks.
 
Actually, our funds should become... interesting after the Conference.

I'm planning deals worth actual millions. We will be technically under mountains of debt, but the kind of debt we have to pay back over the course of years. Financing things like a state has it's perks.

That debt is going to be hanging over my head like the Sword of Damocles. I trust you when you say this is the best option, but damn, debt makes me so uncomfortable.
 
I'm assuming these are special materials and not just regular crafting materials?

Similar to the requirements of Azel's Herald, a few custom armors and a few pounds of planar materials.

Though there might be more I guess depending on what DP requires to add your Flight and Swim suggestions.

Speaking of your suggestions I still need to get some healing on there and I'm not sure how.
 
Similar to the requirements of Azel's Herald, a few custom armors and a few pounds of planar materials.

Though there might be more I guess depending on what DP requires to add your Flight and Swim suggestions.

Speaking of your suggestions I still need to get some healing on there and I'm not sure how.
Make an Item of Clockwork Mender Swarm for it.

Or possibly see if DP will let you outright built it into the construct as a 1/day Extraordinary Ability.
 
I'm planning deals worth actual millions. We will be technically under mountains of debt, but the kind of debt we have to pay back over the course of years. Financing things like a state has it's perks.

We should put in a commision for as many mindblank items we can in OV and AK for as many of our rich friends as we can. And take a very low cut. like... very low.
 
That debt is going to be hanging over my head like the Sword of Damocles. I trust you when you say this is the best option, but damn, debt makes me so uncomfortable.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We have enough of the Prime Material poised to be under our control and a shiny Mammon corpse to ensure that our government is considered stable.
Added to that, we need a way to obtain large quantities of foreign currency to act as a reserve for my money sheme.

Some light reading on the matter:
Foreign-exchange reserves - Wikipedia
Bond (finance) - Wikipedia
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We have enough of the Prime Material poised to be under our control and a shiny Mammon corpse to ensure that our government is considered stable.
Added to that, we need a way to obtain large quantities of foreign currency to act as a reserve for my money sheme.

Some light reading on the matter:
Foreign-exchange reserves - Wikipedia
Bond (finance) - Wikipedia
I trust your expertise in this. It's just that the whole thing is going to make me twitchy until we finish paying all of it off.
 
Grudgingly yes. I would love to see her out in the field sooner rather then later and a Ring of Sustenance would help a lot to squeeze her training by a lot.

Actually, our funds should become... interesting after the Conference.

I'm planning deals worth actual millions. We will be technically under mountains of debt, but the kind of debt we have to pay back over the course of years. Financing things like a state has it's perks.

Done. Removed one Greater False Raven and six Lesser False Ravens to add a Ring of Sustenance (Slotless) for Anya. It has to be slotless because she's getting a +2 Cha ring and a PfE ring. Of all the items she could have made slotless in the conflicting slots, the Ring of Sustenance is by far the cheapest, totaling 375 IM.
 
I trust your expertise in this. It's just that the whole thing is going to make me twitchy until we finish paying all of it off.
Better settle in for some twitchiness then, because we will literally never pay that off.

We will keep emitting bonds to finance the Imperium and to pay off the maturity of the previous bonds. This is how governments raise money all the way back to early modern era.
 
Better settle in for some twitchiness then, because we will literally never pay that off.

We will keep emitting bonds to finance the Imperium and to pay off the maturity of the previous bonds. This is how governments raise money all the way back to early modern era.
*slowly turns head to look at Duesal*

Raiding Tiamat?
Raiding Tiamat.
 
The tally is being weird again.
Adhoc vote count started by Goldfish on Aug 31, 2018 at 7:47 PM, finished with 204 posts and 18 votes.

  • [X] Goldfish
    [X] Her name will go on a monument in a secluded corner of the Deep. A set of as-yet empty plaques under a simple bust of Garin, with an inscription dedicating the monument and name plaques to "those who strive against the Great Darknesses."
    [X] No Spectacle Please!
    -[X] Make a modest monument in one of SDs parks where members of the Inquisition will be remembered for their great deeds by engraving their names on it. Above it the inscription "To those watching from the shadows, so that we may live in the light."
    -[X] A reward of 200 IM
    -[X] Gift her some equipment as befitting of her new duties.
    --[X] The following will be provided immediately.
    ---[X] Ring of Protection from Evil
    ---[X] Amulet of Tears
    ---[X] Healing Belt
    ---[X] Masterwork Razorsharp Adamantine Greatsword (this will be enchanted for her later in the month)
    ---[X] Masterwork Mithral Chain Shirt (this will be enchanted for her later in the month)
    --[X] While these pieces are commissioned specially for her and will be ready by the end of the month:
    ---[X] Anklet of Translocation
    ---[X] Earring of Arcane Acuity
    ---[X] Ring of Sustenance (Slotless)
    ---[X] Ring of Untarnished Glory (+2 Charisma)
    ---[X] Gloves of Hero's Strength (+1 Strength)
    ---[X] +1 Razorsharp Adamantine Greatsword
    ---[X] +1 Twilight Mithral Chain Shirt
 
Make an Item of Clockwork Mender Swarm for it.

Or possibly see if DP will let you outright built it into the construct as a 1/day Extraordinary Ability.
Or just give it Fast Healing as a Supernatural Ability?

I'm not great with balance to the numbers, my basic approach is to logically extrapolate/scenario craft and see what happens.

I was thinking of Fast Healing but it's a pretty strong ability, maybe Fast Healing 2, interrupted by damage and activated by a Standard Action.

:o:o:o
:cry::cry::cry:

Constructs can have Fast Healing?
Yeah, I think Shield Guardians have Fast Healing 5 but they're 15 HD, not 10.
 
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I'm not great with balance to the numbers, my basic approach is to logically extrapolate/scenario craft and see what happens.

I was thinking of Fast Healing but it's a pretty strong ability, maybe Fast Healing 2, interrupted by damage and activated by a Standard Action.
Even Fast Healing 1 would be enough to repair damage in between combat, but would be virtually useless in combat, so it shouldn't affect CR at all.
 
:o:o:o
:cry::cry::cry:

Constructs can have Fast Healing?
It's the thing with fiat currencies. You need some form of security and since we need to issue millions to actually crowd out gold within our realm, we need millions in securities. Neither the Shaitan nor the Genie will trust our currency unless we can back it fiscally with something, so we need to very quickly make a very large pile of planar currency.

Thus bond issuing. And those bonds will mature over literal decades.
 
Or just give it Fast Healing as a Supernatural Ability?
Or give it a clause on Magic Immunity that heals it.

Mind, @Deliste , if you want something uber cheap like the Herald, it's going to be unique.
Alternatively, the wand bracer from Dungeonscape allows you to draw wands stored in the bracer (up to 4 I believe) as a free action for 300 gp.
I thought that too, but the catch is that that Rod, which I hadn't seen before btw, let's you trigger three wands with a full round actions, even if it costs three charges from each.

So the action economy is enormous.
and a shiny Mammon corpse
I'm not sure what to call it, besides funny and awesome, that the greatest guarantee our country has for its economy is a shiny golden cloak and a museum piece.
Better settle in for some twitchiness then, because we will literally never pay that off.

We will keep emitting bonds to finance the Imperium and to pay off the maturity of the previous bonds. This is how governments raise money all the way back to early modern era.
There's a trick the government employs here, I'm not sure it does in other countries, that in very simplistic terms, every single salary paid to a physical person (as opposed to a juridical one, I.e. there are people who earn as if they were companies to get around this and other taxes), has a piece of it automatically deducted for a federal retirement fund.

Which, of course, the government manages.

So it's essentially a money factory.
 
Or give it a clause on Magic Immunity that heals it.

Mind, @Deliste , if you want something uber cheap like the Herald, it's going to be unique.

I thought that too, but the catch is that that Rod, which I hadn't seen before btw, let's you trigger three wands with a full round actions, even if it costs three charges from each.

So the action economy is enormous.

I'm not sure what to call it, besides funny and awesome, that the greatest guarantee our country has for its economy is a shiny golden cloak and a museum piece.

There's a trick the government employs here, I'm not sure it does in other countries, that in very simplistic terms, every single salary paid to a physical person (as opposed to a juridical one, I.e. there are people who earn as if they were companies to get around this and other taxes), has a piece of it automatically deducted for a federal retirement fund.

Which, of course, the government manages.

So it's essentially a money factory.
Yeah, we have that, too. It's called Social Security and it's the largest, longest running Ponzi scheme in human history.
 
I'm not sure what to call it, besides funny and awesome, that the greatest guarantee our country has for its economy is a shiny golden cloak and a museum piece.
We are a conqueror state. Our stability and prospects for the future are intrinsically tied to our military might.

Investing into Nazi Germany was a sound idea in 1940 and many people the world over did so.
By 1944, everyone tried to get as much money out of that shambling thing as possible before it collapsed.

So in a world where the Prince of Greed could come over to wipe out your investment (us), parading around his corpse is the same as posting a good yearly bilance.
 
Fast Healing 1 (Su): The dual nature of Air and Water causes a constant minor flux of sublimation and solidification, slowly mending the Bigger Fish.
Kinda weird, to be honest.

What about something along the lines of it's watery nature causes it to slowly reform, like droplets of water reforming into a puddle?
 
@Deliste, given the nature of your construct and what it's meant to be doing, and how much the Mind Flayers apparently rely on divination, I would suggest investing in an item of constant Nondetection. Doesn't fully protect against divination, but makes the construct much harder to track down.
 
Kinda weird, to be honest.

What about something along the lines of it's watery nature causes it to slowly reform, like droplets of water reforming into a puddle?

Fast Healing 1 (Su): When wounded the steam from the core of the Bigger Fish slowly issues forth condensing as new [flesh?] slowly mending it.
 
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