FaerieKnight79
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That short film is kind of amusing. But one should keep in mind that it takes all the worst tropes from 80's action movies and exaggerates them.
Scaling Up
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Neruz
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That is the entire point.
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Robo-Bird
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A very interesting Dragon.
Although I do wonder how much harder alchemy is to do when you inherently repel iron. I'd have to imagine that there is an entire subset of potions you simply cannot make as a side effect of that, on top of requiring custom made equipment that doesn't contain any.
FaerieKnight79
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That is the entire point.
Well, yeah. It's a tribute to the bad 80's action movies. However I've met people who have seen Kung Fury and think all 80's action movies are exactly like that, not realizing it's a tribute to the worst excesses of the time.
Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
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The iron repulsion is most likely a Supernatural Aura, and thus like all such auras can be intentionally suppressed as long as the user concentrates to do so.
I'm sorry I think you mean it is a tribute to the best 80s action movies.
e: It also has a full feature-length 'sequel' that finished filming last year and is expected to hit cinemas sometime this year or early next year, said sequel includes Arnold Schwarzenegger as the President of the United States, amongst other excellent casting choices.
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- Estonia
That seems a bit... cheap for a Dragon. It is probably important psychologically and magically fr a Dragon that their hoard have significant monetary value. Otherwise they might as well crush rocks into small enough stone rubble and sleep on that.
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- Philippines
Is that $60 there a one-time/lifetime payment or is it a monthly/yearly subscription?
$60 in Philippine Peso is no joke, especially in these times.
Kryslin
[Has Delusions of Authorship]
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Be patient, please.
Or else I'll have Lucas the Spider™ make cute little spider eyes at you until you agree to do so. I'll have to come up with a copy of it and look, but no, I've got no plans at this time to introduce any Dragons that aren't in any of the core rule books. Keep in mind I have core and splat books covering 1st & 2nd pretty well, a number for 3.5, and a few for 5e, that's a lot of dragons, including the noodle, I mean, Oriental dragons.
Re: Alternative means of burnishing / removing scales - A little known fact about polishing metal is that Walnut shells are great for cleaning up and removing flashing from softer metals like aluminum, brass and the softer bronzes. So I could very well see a desperate dragon raiding squirrels' nests for walnut shells so he can burnish his scales and work some loose. Otherwise, ceramic beads would work as well; The draconic equivalent of a ball pit, maybe? It could very well be that all Amy needs is to change shape back to a full on dragon form every so often, and the scales shed then.
But yes, I plan on addressing the issue of Amy's Hoard, Lair, and any spells she may have.
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Steelhooves
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If it helps the book is available on DrivethruRPG.Be patient, please.
I'll have to come up with a copy of it and look, but no, I've got no plans at this time to introduce any Dragons that aren't in any of the core rule books. Keep in mind I have core and splat books covering 1st & 2nd pretty well, a number for 3.5, and a few for 5e, that's a lot of dragons, including the noodle, I mean, Oriental dragons.
FaerieKnight79
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One time for the program it's self. There's a subscription service for synching Realms between multiple devices, but it's not needed if you're only using it on one computer.
If the Bismuth Dragon can turn its aura on and off, I could see one embedding iron and steel in and around its lair to essentially give itself a bargain basement version of Steelpush/Ironpull Allomancy powers from the Mistborn setting. Being able to levitate at will inside its lair or propel iron-laced boulders as missile weapons comes to mind as applications.
If somebody is sneaking into an enormous dragon's lair they probably aren't going to expect it to be standing on the ceiling waiting to pounce on them, possibly invisibly with the aid of a potion.
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Amusingly enough, one of the campaigns I ran back in my college days actually used aluminum as the highest value currency, for it's scarcity. For some reason, the largest quantities of the metal tended to be found in the lairs of certain dragon types.
As an alternative, couldn't the course sand from the beach work just as well for burnishing or working scales loose?Be patient, please.
I'll have to come up with a copy of it and look, but no, I've got no plans at this time to introduce any Dragons that aren't in any of the core rule books. Keep in mind I have core and splat books covering 1st & 2nd pretty well, a number for 3.5, and a few for 5e, that's a lot of dragons, including the noodle, I mean, Oriental dragons.
Re: Alternative means of burnishing / removing scales - A little know fact about polishing metal is that Walnut shells are great for cleaning up and removing flashing from softer metals like aluminum, brass and the softer bronzes. So I could very well see a desperate dragon raiding squirrels' nests for walnut shells so he can burnish his scales and work some loose. Otherwise, ceramic beads would work as well; The draconic equivalent of a ball pit, maybe? It could very well be that all Amy needs is to change shape back to a full on dragon form every so often, and the scales shed then.
But yes, I plan on addressing the issue of Amy's Hoard, Lair, and any spells she may have.
Note I'm mostly plugging the idea just for the humorous potentials. Imagine some old beach bum with their metal detector coming across a dragon scale. If nothing else the reactions from their internet when they try selling the thing online would be memorable.
Since there aren't any aluminum dragons, it's clearly a waste metal. So...Amusingly enough, one of the campaigns I ran back in my college days actually used aluminum as the highest value currency, for it's scarcity. For some reason, the largest quantities of the metal tended to be found in the lairs of certain dragon types.
Adventurer: "So you're saying that this metal that we humans have been stealing from dragons and have fought wars over...is..."
Dragon: "Dragon poop. Ore goes in one end, that comes out the other."
Adventurer: "And you never told anyone this because?"
Dragon: "It was funny! And, well, we actually thought you'd catch on sooner. A lot sooner. I mean, you don't see dragons stealing your poop."
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Is that supposed to be a threat or promise? Also Lucas is adorable!Be patient, please.
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- Missouri
Given how useful Aluminum is, and the fact we require fairly advanced processes to extract it in a usable form, it being Dragon Poop wouldn't turn people away from it... except maybe as a food container.
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Aurora Moon
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That just makes me think of that Breath of Fire IV, the rpg game I used to play. There's a scene where they need a certain rare material to forge a super weapon or something. And it looks like a giant rainbow pearl. But, it's not just any pearl.... it was apparently made out of fairy poop.
The look on Nina's face when she was holding it, admiring how beautiful it was, only to be told it was fairy poop.... heh, classic.
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That reminds me of Jack L. Chalker's Dancing Gods series. You know those tiny "Tinker Bell" style fairies that fly around leaving a trail of sparkles behind them? Well, guess what those "sparkles" actually are...
Aurora Moon
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And, I just had to look up that scene again. Not quite as funny as I remembered, but still funny. The embarrassed look on the fairy's face.. I think it was later on that Nina found out what she had been holding at the time?
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You've been good at keeping things "proper"(unlike Worm) so even if you DID mess up something now i think i can easily speak for the vast majority that we wouldn't begrudge that(writing something long and NOT messing up anything is noteworthy all by itself), also there's always room for outliers and exceptions to the rule, as long as you do not make the most extreme of those the norm(like Worm).
Also, you have an extra bonus escape clause thanks to what you're using for crossover. Clearly, if something ends up too weird, a wizard did it!
Or more recently, Breath of the Wild and Korok 'seeds'.
The truly funny thing about this is the fact that telepathy is one of few "paranormal" stuff that actually has some vague little evidence that it might have some form of reality component. There's even some hard science suggestions to how it could work.
Problem is that it is clearly not reproducible by common scientific standards because it's too unreliable or possibly chaotic.
OTOH, there are some classic tests that has been done and keeps getting results that should not happen. One of the better being with the use of one of those mechanical randomizer machines, lots of steel balls falls down on a bunch obstacles and gathers in catchers at the bottom. Normal result being that there is a relatively even distribution of balls at the end. Buuut, repeatedly, SOME people being in sight of those and "wanting" the balls to go to one side, has a tendency to put an abnormal amount of balls to said side. Not always, but too often to merely be dismissed as random chance abnormalities.
Then for "telepathy", there's the classic "sender draws 1 of 5 cards with symbols, receiver guess which it is". I actually used that to do a writeup for my psychology class. And while the average total was "high but not completely outside of margin of statistical error", the interesting part was that doing the tests, every time you had the same 2 people do it, you always got a similar result, high AND low.
Using examples with myself as one side:
With my best friend as sender, we always started pisspoor low, but if we did several series of 100 draws each, the result generally drastically increased with each series. Most notable day, 3 series, 12/100, 24/100, 48/100. While that was extreme, the pattern was repeteable and did repeat every time we tried(just wish we had had the stamina at the time to go another one or two series and see what happened).
The other way around(me as sender) however, always gave 20-35%-ish without any pattern visible.
With my mother as sender, i however got so bad results that it's statistically significant the other way, usually 8-12%, but lower rather than higher being the more likely outside of that.
While me as sender, my mom consistently got 30-40%-ish. ALL the time, 100% reliable.
Then, with my brother as sender, i consistently got 35-50% correct. While the other way around gave 5-15%. Again, statistically highly significant in both directions.
I did many dozens of series of draws, and while some were boring and close to statistical probabilities, quite a lot were very clearly not.
I still have all the results written down somewhere... IIRC, despite the several combinations that gave extremely low results, the total average was still in the 27%-ish range. Which after several thousands of cards drawn is, just by itself, statistically high for something that has a 20% chance of happening. But the deviances, those were the really interesting side.
Oi! The 75 in my online name happens to be my birthyear. I wrote that psychology paper in the 90s when a big chunk of people here wasn't even born... Old.... *sigh*
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I can understand his aversion, though not agree with it. He seems to have an intense phobia of having one's mind or brain "tampered with." To the point the greatest healer in his setting has a pathological neurosis about even healing brains under the most extreme circumstances because she thinks even the slightest change to the brain could be "murdering" the person inside it.
I read a fanfic that laid the blame for that at the feet of a rather bigoted and curmudgeonly old doctor who lectured her on medical ethics when she was just starting out, and scared her so bad she was never able to heal brains again. In Warcrafter, I had Parian (former med student before she became a designer) start to chip away at that irrational phobia about her power by pointing out that mundane doctors performed surgery on the brain all the time, and without nearly as elegant a set of tools as she had in her power.
It also seems to be a trend of those like Wildbow to picture telepathy as having essentially no limits in what it can do to the mind. Even J.K. Rowling had enough sense that her "occlumency and legilimency" had certain things beyond its reach. This isn't just narrative convenience, it's a recognition of one of the aspects of reality--- things have limits. Even if they aren't immediately obvious. We already know from research (some of it from very dark sources indeed) that even the most advanced brainwashing methods available to science--- drugs, hypnosis, neurostimulation, torture-- have some very hard limits and are in actuality far less effective than as portrayed in Hollywood (a la the Manchurian Candidate.) If telepathy existed, there would most certainly be very obvious upper and lower limits to how much you could psionically alter someone.