So are you guys still using archons to get the wildfire?
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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It turns out I was mistaken. The Mothers are wearing mantles, just really, really powerful ones. (It gets hinted that they are one individual in their most powerful one I believe. Fans mostly think they were Hecate). WOJ on the WOJ website is that Mother Winter is the original, but Mother Summer is the second in recorded human history.
Also on the Mothers and other powerful beings:
Jim: Oh, yeah, so like if the Ladies become the Queen, what happens to the Mothers at that point? The thing is that the Mothers are kind of the foundation. So, it's not so much what happens to them because the little mantles changed. It's what happens to the little mantles if the big mantles change. So, if someone whacks the being that is, for all intents and purposes, Baba Yaga, and then Mab succeeds, then Mab becomes the new Baba Yaga, and Molly gets drawn up to Mab, and they have to find someone else to become the new Lady. But on the other hand, the Mothers are extremely powerful beings, I mean, they're really really well, you can tell because they hardly ever show up on the real world. In the Dresden Files universe if you don't show up on the real world, it's because you're too big to walk around there. For instance, I think in the third book, when the Dragon is talking about how the Earth couldn't bear his weight, it's not that the Earth itself would literally crack, it's that reality would have issues trying to contain him, because every time he coughs, it would bend around like Neo in the Matrix. So, they spend most of their time NOT on the real world, they spend it hanging around in the Nevernever, all the really heavyweight guys do that. If you're in the real world, well, the problem is that you're in the world, and you're kind of mortal, and something could come along and try and whack you, if they're fast enough, or good enough, or lucky enough. Which makes Odin a kind of special guy, because he doesn't mind it, he thinks it's awesome. But anyway, you can always tell. If there's folks who don't show up in the real world, it's because they're super big. So, like, an angel shows up, and it's just sort of a whispered presence that one person is aware of, that's because he's just too big to show up here, it's a giant sandbox, and he's got to be very very careful to not squash the sandbox. So, he just shows up for that one bit.
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This. Some of the thread seems to want to break everything, without slightest bit of consequence in exchange.
Edit : I suppose it comes with the draconic greed and hubris.
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Oh yes, please. There must be an absolute limit on crafting time with no chance at all to somehow get something done that isn't equipment for the main party. How silly of me to actually pursue plans for rolling out low-level constructs to the Legion in useful amounts or planning large scale work.
There is absolutely a way to get to the point where you can make a magi-tech industrial revolution, several ways in fact.
Vote closed.
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Sorry, I was just gravely annoyed at the idea that we need absolute caps on crafting to balance it, when it's already pretty neatly balanced by the fact that it's humongously expensive to do anything semi-big or doing small stuff on a large scale.
It's not as if my latest idea doesn't have a price-tag of 132,572 IM already.
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Yes. A single Archon, buffed in all ways possible including a Mind Blank SLA from Dany.
The plan I had would involve Viserys and Malarys(using one of the Mind Blank earrings) would just use Scrying or Greater Scrying as often as possible for as many days as needed, with the Archon looking over their shoulders, also Mind Blanked.
Then once the Archon was shown all the Wildfire locations, we would buff it and it would Greater Teleport blitz each location, retrieving cache, dropping it off at a designated location, then moving on to the next. Rinse and repeat.
With proper preparation, the Archon should be able to retrieve all of the hidden Wildfire in minutes.
EDIT: Here's some of the preparation I'm talking about for the Archon. A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover | Page 9202
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I just don't find it reasonable to complain 15 days of costless research didn't revolutionize magical crafting.
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I'm perfectly fine with that not having resulted in a breakthrough. I just have an issue with the notion that it should be flat out impossible to do at all.
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That sacrifice experience must pay off somehow ...Make somebody else pay the price.
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Makesomebody elsequasits pay the price.
Fixed that for you.
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Well. As promised, here is the plan for our first anti-grav vessel.
The stats for the weapons:
Steam Cannons: 10d6 damage, critical 20/x4, range increment 400 ft.
Steam Projectors: 4d6 blunt + 4d6 fire damage, 60 ft. line, DC 15 Reflex for half damage, on failure, DC 15 Fortitude against knockdown
Alchemical Launcers: Goldfish covered those extensively
A thank you to @Goldfish and @TotallyNotEvil for helping me hammer this out and of course @DragonParadox for indulging the mad engineering.
| Anti-Gravity Experimental Vessel 1 / IMV Moonchaser | |
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| Type: | Experimental Anti-Grav Vessel |
| Volume: | 8,710 m³ (307,568 ft³) |
| Weight: |
Excluding Engines: 8,656.60 t Including Engines: 20,944.60 t |
| Length: | 66 m (215 ft) |
| Width: | 16.5 m (54 ft) |
| Height: | 8.5 m (28 ft) |
| Propulsion: |
2 Weighted Mercury Anti-Grav Engines 1 Plane-Shift Engine |
| Speed: |
Propulsive Force: 11,515 kN Air-speed (at sea-level): 986.83 km/h Water-speed (submerged): 35.48 km/h Combat-speed: 6 km/h (30 ft per turn) |
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Enlisted: 196 NCOs: 20 Officers: 2 |
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Bunk rooms: 100 VIP quarters: 2 |
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Capacity: 1,200 t Cargo Lifts: 6 |
| Bridge Equipment: |
2 Observation Stations 1 Weather Prediction- and Control-Station 1 Navigation Station 1 Planar Whispering Brazier |
| Other Systems: |
1 Everflame Thermal Generator 1 Autonomous Air-Cycling System 1 Autonomous Water-Cycling System 600 m³ Water Storage Tanks |
| Armaments: |
10 Steam Canons 8 Steam Projectors 10 Alchemical Launchers |
| Armor: |
20 cm laminated, hardened Steel-Lead Composite Armor Enchantment of 3. Grade Planar Adaption Crystal Matrix Forbiddance Warding Hardness 15, 212 HP per 5 ft square |
| Construction Cost: |
8,656.60 t of steel 6,144.00 t of mercury 132,572.00 IM enchantment materials |
Steam Cannons: 10d6 damage, critical 20/x4, range increment 400 ft.
Steam Projectors: 4d6 blunt + 4d6 fire damage, 60 ft. line, DC 15 Reflex for half damage, on failure, DC 15 Fortitude against knockdown
Alchemical Launcers: Goldfish covered those extensively
A thank you to @Goldfish and @TotallyNotEvil for helping me hammer this out and of course @DragonParadox for indulging the mad engineering.
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Space. There is literally nothing stopping it, barring magic failing if you go too high up.
As air density goes down, the top speed increases, but gravity falls off much slower, so you can reach orbital speeds after a while. Though the thing needs 30 minutes of acceleration to reach the given air-speed, so that would take a while.
Update in beta.
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The Launchers are so cheap and easy to create, not to mention small, a ship that large should have many more than 10 of them. In fact, while some singles would be expected, there should be quite a few arrays that use "blocks" of Launchers.
Nine Launchers stacked one atop another in rows of three could be easily loaded with prepared speed loaders. Then rather than firing a single Light Ballista bolts equivalent projectile, you are launching a spread of nine of them simultaneously. That opens up options for easy area bombardment, too.
And it would allow for massive quantities of Alchemical payloads to be delivered in a short timeframe as well.
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So would the constitution hit would it be permanent? Because if so it may be wise to continue research to mitigate it. At least that is what I think
Goldfish
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Per DP, the Arcanum won't suffer from Constitution drain if Lya makes them Dedicated Wrights. That means Valeria can craft full time and research ways to refine the ritual for non-Arcanum users.