Questions
@Imperial Fister
How many bandits were at the Northern camp when we scouted it?
How do the Byzantines buff up the Varangian Guard to make them as scary as Knights and similar things? We were speculating armor, but it could be a lot of things.
Other Stuff:
See, that I'll agree with... but there's a meaningful difference between "I'm very skeptical if the first is ever worth doing." and "I'm very skeptical that we'll ever hit a point where the first is worth doing."
It's more that I almost never feel the need to put '...unless the other option is death.' on the end of 'This is never a good idea.' I feel like that
usually goes without saying. Like, that's basically the only situation I feel that it's worth it (or the death of a friend or loved one, I suppose), and I don't usually feel the need to make that an explicit exception.
Okay. That's overselling it.
I don't think it is. No one point is gonna make a huge difference long term, but using it for the hell of it rapidly starts being meaningful reductions in our long term capabilities. I'm not saying we never use it, I'm saying using it 'just in case' on things where the 'just in case' probably doesn't matter sets a very bad precedent and will result in serious overuse.
Like, my whole paragraph her is in response to using it on a tactic that should work even without it. Basically throwing it on just in case some effect we've never seen before makes the tactic fail
and that technique can be stopped by burning the Odr. I'm not commenting on using it in general here, but on doing so in very niche circumstances.
Our stats and skills are a hard cap on how much odr we can spend on permabuffs, and the rising costs create a degree of soft cap as well. Our inner garden forms a hard cap on how much odr we can spend on refreshing temporary effects (...and the effects we get there are... decent but not great?) I'm not saying that we should be actively looking for places to spend Odr on temp effects. We shouldn't... but we get something like ten points of this stuff a round, we're going to get more of it per round as our orthstirr rises, and the more of it we invest, the less valuable it becomes. This is a very valuable resource right now, because we have a whole bunch of cheap high-payoff investing to do, but it's not critically limited like you're suggesting it is. Eventually, we're going to hit a point where we want to keep around a reserve of 20+ points of the stuff in case a fight breaks out because the buffs might be worth it.
I mean, it's almost certainly also how we break through to the next Realm. Like, I suspect we need a minimum amount of it to do that and the more we have the better. Additionally, even at 20 a round (way more than we'll be getting any time soon, I think), we would not run out of things to spend it on usefully any time soon if skills are, in fact, buffable with it and worth buffing.
Again, I'm not saying we never use it, I'm saying doing so should be something we do when we have no other good options to achieve the same thing, and only then.
Can we use odr on twists? Is there any way to test out "use Odr on punching up" under controlled circumstances? (I guess if we were sparring with Steinarr?)
We can per the Character Sheet, so it looks like it. Probably not to increase their effects, though maybe, I guess we don't know for sure.
