Eh, I'm not terribly worried about that. Delicate magical enchanting isn't the sort of thing one should, or even could do with an incorrect mindset, much less if it's Warhammer magic.
Lol. Maybe he could wrangle us an introduction to Teclis.And thus, providing an IC reason for Mathilde to join up with Asarnil, just so she can tell the college that she won't be free to do long-term enchanting! It's perfect.
No, but producing that many staffs makes it seem like something she enjoys doing. And it would probably have to be for her to bother making so many. Plus, I didn't get the feeling that making Magisters staffs was an Apprentice job. It seemed like it would be more delicate and complicated than that.
I know, I know, but the thing that I first called out wasn't soup kitchens, it was a tavern/gambling den, which doesn't really help poor people out like charity does. If the temple does both at the same time that's great. If the temple doesn't do charity but we spend money on the charity separately instead, that's also great.
A fair point, but I think there is likely to be space for more than one inn/tavern, and halflings are largely self-contained anyway. We can talk it out, but ours can have the differential of being an actual casino.
Magic Dart: Hits like a sling-stone - We've tried to use it as a distraction. We have a top-of-the-line, 125g dwarven revolver.
Fire is a common dwarven rune, and there's 1,000 runed weapons in Angrund alone, 1/10th of which are currently missing an owner. I think they could do us a solid on a loan if it's used to light hundreds of orcs on fire.
If you aren't covered in sneaky shadow magic, probably.
Eh, honestly its more me personally as a writer reading another's writing and for the sake of writing critique since I think it'd muck up scene flow too much. At the very least it'd break my reading flow.
I guess at this point I'm wondering why you want to go for a staff which is big and not handy when we both agree that we'd like something that is much more handy.
Grey Wizard... Halflings... Dwarves... adventure...
Well... apart from Wolf, who gives +1 Magic (same effect as a staff, I think).
we want the staff for when we start with battle magic. but that is a ways off at this point.
Apprentices-In-Perpetuity are essentially non-daring people who never Journey, or never do it for real. They take up jobs as librarians, or TAs, or straight up teachers in mundane subjects probably. Mathilde mused during her bout of cramming for the Magister exams that it's all-too-tempting to just gorge herself on the knowledge the College has to offer, and pay for it by doing some boring, menial job like that. Hell, I think she mused something like that recently, how the sort of people that help re-take lost Holds aren't the sort to become Apprentices-in-Perpetuity.
Read the previous postst on the matter.
Oh lol, that sentence was aimed at the meaning of "I don't think people want it to be more like Gandalf, but its the only thing that occurs to me with all the other stuff we do?" The Gandalf stuff in general is really entertaining so I could see why, but yeah as I said in my other posts.Grey Wizard... Halflings... Dwarves... adventure...
Nope, nothing like Gandalf.
I'm pretty sure I recall it as being that Apprentices-in-Perpetuity could be a matter of lack of power and/or skill, not just desire. And I believe it was also mentioned that staffs were crafted to match an individual, not just pumped out by the dozen. Or at least, the Order not having a couple hundred in storage from all the staffs they've had made over the last three centuries and the owners have died or there's just been no one needing a staff, is a bit odd.
There's a reason I ended it with a 'survive the Grey Order'+ ???= profit joke. Masquerading as a illicit noble conspiracy/secret society isn't worth the hassle.
... But I don't? Unless we are very succesful, I'm saying our first channeling implement should be a sword, because a plain greatsword is plenty serviceable.
And like I said, I agree with you. An athame or something of the sort would be damn handy.
And the point is, in those situations, such as casting battle magic, or dispel-offs, we have the little room we need to swap implements.
I think we'll have a significant lead if we build the first tavern/casino. There will be a lot of money moving through the Karak in the coming years and a lot of it will be in the form of mercenaries. A dwarf-built, halfling-staffed tavern will be things that the mercenaries will give a lot for. Attached casino for entertainment, maybe see if we can contract some dwarf apprentices to sell weaponry for some quick cash... It's definitely something that can be wildly profitable. If we put a tenth of our profits into charity or communal events, that should qualify as Ranald's cut and make people like us more.
So I feel there is a pretty big misunderstanding of what a priest is. Priests have really one job. To tend to the needs of their flock. Some priests will work for their entire lives in one small chapel because that is what they are called to do. Some priests travel for thousands of miles to many small communities and never have a warm bed. Some priests live in great temples and care for the needs of other priests.
Yeah, but the sort of personality that leads to someone being in that position is pretty ideal forturning out staffs repeately. It's not just the ones lacking in power, and finesse and knowledge can be developed with time.
Gotta agree with @Alliterate that we do not need to give Ranald a cut, because we've never followed that particular stricture- we've already given him his cut through the six thousand gamblers gathered explicitly in his name. Besides, you know, the whole Mork thing.
The thing is, he and Shallya basically are the charities. Unless you like spending your gold on solid gold churches, in which case Sigmarite churches might count too.
It's not always a matter of personality. Actually, given the reputation of the Grey Order as paranoid and secretive but also as people who don't like sticking around in one place for too long, I'd guess most of the AiPs we have are of the 'too little skill/power' variety, rather than the 'meh, don' wanna' type.