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Well, I'm just glad one of our Ducklings is coming back to recieve some screentime. I like all three of them and was sad to have the Club disbanded, even if it was necessary.
 
Besides, if anyone ever starts to complain about us hoarding too much money, there's always the option of making a small library's worth of out-of-pocket book purchases to shut them up.
 
Reading WFRP 1e: Castle Drachenfels, and I am disappointed by this author. Page 23:
"They are of no real value". Really. Mate, even entirely mundane books cost a lot of money. They're absolutely worth taking, heretical or no. This many books of these kinds in 4e would be enough to buy hundreds of swords, and swords are expensive! "No real value". Bah.

For those curious, the library is locked and closed, so even if someone has gone exploring in Castle Drachenfels and lived to tell the tale, they wouldn't be able to say the castle had a library, nor what was in it. As such I believe it isn't a valid target for a book acquisition adventure.
 
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The whole idea of looting the enemy makes me think about the issue of limited pocket space. Is there any enchantment that could serve as a Bag of Holding? Ranaldite Magic has Poor Man's Face (though with a risk of Ranald deciding to keep particularly intestesting trinkets for himself), but can arcane magic come up with something similar?
 
The whole idea of looting the enemy makes me think about the issue of limited pocket space. Is there any enchantment that could serve as a Bag of Holding? Ranaldite Magic has Poor Man's Face (though with a risk of Ranald deciding to keep particularly intestesting trinkets for himself), but can arcane magic come up with something similar?
This has come up before and Algard himself has been cited as an example of using pocket dimensions to store stuff, and if I remember right, the answer boiled down to no.
 
This has come up before and Algard himself has been cited as an example of using pocket dimensions to store stuff, and if I remember right, the answer boiled down to no.
IIRC, it was a flight school meme.
Mathilde hadn't really spent a lot of effort investigating spacefolding shenanigans, and we kind of suspect OOC he's found a way to manipulate existing Grey College magical infrastructure rather than make something like a bag of holding.
 
Honestly, if we want to be better at looting while staying within Mathilde's baliwick, we'd be better off looking at Shadowsteed than trying to fold space somehow.

More specifically, I wonder if there's some combination of enchantments (windherded or not) that could get us saddlebags that don't just fall off the shadowsteed.

We'd still have to carry the folded-up saddlebags around when *not* using shadowsteed, so they wouldn't be an enormous game changer, but for the purposes of looting it could probably easily double Mathilde's carrying capacity.
 
I was also thinking about the raid on Aklahest's necromancy school, where the issue was that the gyrocopter could only fit a little more stuff besides Mathilde and a bunch of dwarfs. All those burnt books...
 
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Shame there is no magic item for a bag of holding. @BoneyM Or is there?
Serious answer: Some creativity with utility spells could get you partway there, but nothing with the straightforward utility of the D&D item.
Comedy answer: Pit of Shades, if you can work out one or two bugs.
@BoneyM can we use Algard's pocket dimension magic to make a bag of holding?
Algard couldn't use Algard's pocket dimension to make a bag of holding.
 
Maybe the Hedgewise (if we can recruit them) might know something on the side? And we could investigate Branulhune, since the Rune of the Unknown seems to work on similar principles to what we might be looking for, though it only works for specifically runed items.
 
After learning that Algard's towers whole teleporting thing is actually a failure that he repurposed, I have a feeling the pocket dimension stuff is not even a spell, it's just him utilising the existing enchantment in the Grey College that holds it in a liminal space. As such, I have a feeling he can't really store things outside the College.

It does make me wonder how scary Algard could be in home territory. Never fight a Wizard in his lair probably goes double for him.
 
It does make me wonder how scary Algard could be in home territory. Never fight a Wizard in his lair probably goes double for him.
Home territory ala space shenanigans housing members of an organization he heads proximally surrounded by as-potent factions that combine into a self-sufficient city-state (I think Altdorf counts?).

@Boney can I ask what Alric got up to post-miniquest? Or is it a big enough thing to warrant being exclusive to an update? I think Mathilde has enough connections to find out and the compulsion to ask it. Reason I ask is I doubt he's gonna win any socials for a long time nor will anything he do be relevant to the Waystone Project.
 
@Boney can I ask what Alric got up to post-miniquest? Or is it a big enough thing to warrant being exclusive to an update? I think Mathilde has enough connections to find out and the compulsion to ask it. Reason I ask is I doubt he's gonna win any socials for a long time nor will anything he do be relevant to the Waystone Project.

Whether or not the Light Order leadership tumult is settled or still ongoing is important information. If Mathilde has a way to get that information without having to go out of her way to get it, it will come up. Otherwise it's something that will need active pursuing.
 
Going through WFRP 1e: Realms of Sorcery is like walking through a beautiful yet poisonous forest. So much here makes me recoil at its strangeness and incompatibility with Divided Loyalties, yet at the same time, it's fascinating to see how much magic-related stuff from 2e, 4e, and Divided Loyalties itself originates from here.

For example, Hysh's affinity with stone. I first saw it in Storm of Magic, but Hysh and stone continued to be linked all the way into Age of Sigmar, and yet I never knew why. This book is where it started and it explains it too, ending the years-old mystery.

Overall however, I think it's too different to safely include elements from the book into the library post. Too much chance for incompatibility, especially in the case of the elementalist colleges.


There's always that weird mix of satisfaction and disappointment when you go to give a post a rating but can't because you already gave one ages ago.
 
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You know speaking of magical storage I have just had an idea. @Boney as far as Mathilde knows an apparition that is 'bound to the wizard's soul' is in fact in the warp just with a leash right? It is not bound inside a wizard's soul? Because if that is the case I wonder if we can just hand the loot to say a handmaiden de-summon them and then call them back with it in tow. We know physical matter can last for some time inside the warp since people get pushed in and back out sometimes.
 
You know speaking of magical storage I have just had an idea. @Boney as far as Mathilde knows an apparition that is 'bound to the wizard's soul' is in fact in the warp just with a leash right? It is not bound inside a wizard's soul? Because if that is the case I wonder if we can just hand the loot to say a handmaiden de-summon them and then call them back with it in tow. We know physical matter can last for some time inside the warp since people get pushed in and back out sometimes.
Every time you summon a bound apparition, it's as easy and dangerous to lose control of it as miscasting Battle Magic. Using it for something like holding on to loot doesn't sound like an especially healthy idea.
 
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Every time you summon a bound apparition, it's as easy and dangerous to lose control of them as miscasting Battle Magic. Using it for something like holding on to loot doesn't sound like an especially healthy idea.

As far as I know that is not the case, the binding is hard, but once you have them they are on the easy side of battle magic. But even if it were a battle magic grade spell I think that if we had the option back in the day o cast a spell to take more of Evil Dumbledore's loot I think we would have taken it given how much we wanted his stuff.
 
You know speaking of magical storage I have just had an idea. @Boney as far as Mathilde knows an apparition that is 'bound to the wizard's soul' is in fact in the warp just with a leash right? It is not bound inside a wizard's soul?

You're trying to apply the terminology of the mundane physical three-dimensional reality to a completely different plane that has completely different fundamental properties.

Because if that is the case I wonder if we can just hand the loot to say a handmaiden de-summon them and then call them back with it in tow. We know physical matter can last for some time inside the warp since people get pushed in and back out sometimes.

Among the many ways trying it and finding out could go terribly wrong include 'punching holes in the fabric of reality', 'lodging a physical object inside Mathilde's soul', and 'matter-to-energy transformation'. A lot of them would be very fatal, some immediately so and some as soon as the Colleges find out what you did.
 
Speaking of Handmaidens, they eat fortune magic (among other things), so if we bind one let's never have it and the Gambler face of the Coin on the same action. (This might also apply to trying to bind a Handmaiden in the first place)
 
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