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Well, suppose I could be tempted by a good explosion.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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Quest
The Great One
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- Everywhere
There is a Explosives vote that isn't counted properly in the bottom as well.
- Location
- Berkeley
I doubt us acting on our own initiative in a manner that would escalate tensions with Bretonnia would be looked upon kindly, even if they are total assholes to their peasants.
I'd honestly prefer to straight out dump the bulk of our monetary earnings to charity rather than play around with it. Investing for increased income beyond a certain point would probably stretch the limits on what is tolerated—remember, these loopholes only work if people decide they do, and following the letter of the law while spitting on the spirit is the sort of thing that could have negative impacts elsewhere as well.
I do like the idea of setting up the Greenskin temple room where we disrupted the ritual as a "temple" to Ranald, but we don't need to own it for it to work. Toss the idea to Belebro, grab some faithful from the merc company that want a less active life (and/or are down a limb or two), provide some seed money, get some Halflings from the book club, and set it up so that the profits are donated to a worthy cause. The dwarves in the know would back it cause Mathilde plus it being a massive fuck you to the Greenskin gods, the seed money will get it started/established, and if a combination inn/gambling house that is on friendly terms with the local government ISN'T massively profitable and successful it deserves to die.
As far as our own charity ideas go, here are a few that appeal to me:
I'd honestly prefer to straight out dump the bulk of our monetary earnings to charity rather than play around with it. Investing for increased income beyond a certain point would probably stretch the limits on what is tolerated—remember, these loopholes only work if people decide they do, and following the letter of the law while spitting on the spirit is the sort of thing that could have negative impacts elsewhere as well.
I do like the idea of setting up the Greenskin temple room where we disrupted the ritual as a "temple" to Ranald, but we don't need to own it for it to work. Toss the idea to Belebro, grab some faithful from the merc company that want a less active life (and/or are down a limb or two), provide some seed money, get some Halflings from the book club, and set it up so that the profits are donated to a worthy cause. The dwarves in the know would back it cause Mathilde plus it being a massive fuck you to the Greenskin gods, the seed money will get it started/established, and if a combination inn/gambling house that is on friendly terms with the local government ISN'T massively profitable and successful it deserves to die.
As far as our own charity ideas go, here are a few that appeal to me:
- Scholarship fund for Grey Order. We're a former peasant and should remember what our schooling debt made us risk. Might also earn us some college favor or improve the overall quality of the Order.
- Survivor benefits for the mercenaries on the campaign. We fleeced them, but rather than giving it back instead effectively give it to the ones that got fleeced the most. Could earn us some goodwill with Stirland peasantry and any actual mercenary organization born from this too.
Fair caution, the armor spell lasts minutes, not hours. We do need to recast it in battle, though not frequently, as battles are really fast.
Updated robes of course is just far superior
Probably the hardest part is convincing a dwarf to loan an ancestral weapon to humans then.
Though they probably would accept loaning to Rangers
Given that we usually don't see difficulties on those, Mathilde has no way to know and Ranald likes it that way.
IS 1 correct though? The only word of GM on that is that the magic focus should preferably be a shape suited to quickly ground magical energies, which generally means anything you could symbolically thrust into the ground quickly when you fuck up, of which a staff is likely traditional simply because the easiest grounding channel is a stick.
Its also preferred if the shape is suitable for pointing at things, so if you aren't fucking up you could shoot it through the pointing end. But basically any weapon can be used for pointing purposes.
Eyeballing it, we're looking at something ideally about as long as your leg to the gripping end. Made of magic conductive and durable material. A 5-6 foot long staff/spear gripped on the middle or a 3-4 foot long sword/wand/knife(erring on the short side because smolwizard).
Seems that it just means that for lay Ranald worshippers you give him his cute by ensuring 10% goes to him by any of:
-Gambling
-Drinking
-Charity
-Slipping coins or goods to the poor.
-Noble or merchant followers may instead spend on public works for the people instead.
He's not strict about rules or how to tithe it. But if you don't pay it forward your luck may desert you.
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BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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- Lickwidget
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A nifty Inquisitor's pimp cane would work in that case : D. Like this fellow's:
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- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
So the biggest thing stopping Mathilde from being a priest is ordination. Lets use a non religious example.
You could be the best football player ever. You run the fastest. You hit the hardest. You jump the highest. You throw the longest. However, until you get paid to play football you are not a pro football player. No matter what you say. No matter what you do. No matter how you believe different, until you start getting paid to play football you are not a pro football player.
If indeed you are the best football player ever then the path to becoming a pro football player is very short. But you still need to be paid to play football to be a pro football player.
It's the same case for Mathilde. Until she becomes ordained she can't be a priest. No matter what her other deeds are or how pious she is.
Yes. It would be a very short road for Mathilde to become ordained. She could walk into any chapel of Ranald with a priest tending it and ask to be ordained. My guess would be its the work of an afternoon.
So you can be a saint and not be a priest. You do not need to be a priest to be saint. In fact Mathilde being a saint of Ranald is frankly fairly possible. He pays special attention to us and we did do a miracle, depending on the definition of miracle, with him. However, being a saint does not make you a priest. No matter how saintly Mathilde becomes until she is ordained she is not a priest.
- Location
- Aotearoa
I still disagree.
Or a rapier/swordcane.A nifty Inquisitor's pimp cane would work in that case : D. Like this fellow's:
But a stick that size would fit in a hip holster so that should be fine
To add to your list.
13. I don't actually think anyone mentioned donating to the college (they already take enough with college dues). But we did mention paying for classes. We'd probably just give the college a bunch of gold and then acquire the appropriate amount of credit to be spent on classes in the future.
There's also a variety of personal options to spend money on such as:
- Tutors (both human and dwarf)
- Equipment (you mention the rifle but we might also want another revolver, whatever magic items we can grab, runic items, etc)
- Expensive magic components (like our drake scales, expensive components we can use personally or trade for favor most likely in Altdorf)
- A pegasus/griffon (time to buy a cool ride with our money)
- Other random crap (like our dinosaur eggs, absurdly expensive bizarre items of uncertain return)
I added your suggestions. I am almost sure someone posted something along the lines of "just give it all to a bursar to avoid accounting problems" but I can't be bothered to search for it.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
I'm not sure if that was enchantment or animation. Either way, it's not proof it takes little power, as we don't know how much child Mathilde had. Also, we are definitely allowed to have money, because otherwise why would the College tithe us? There'd be no way of them asking anyone for money, because no one would be allowed to have any, side note, as a Magister, we only owe 1/20 of our cash to the College unless that's been changed. Yay.
I never said they would. Pressuring someone to do something isn't going "hey do this or we'll do x horrible thing" it could be as simple as insistently asking, or as not simple as trying to make sure we have less other avenues of work. I don't think either would work on Mathilde, but I do think the order would quite like it if she were to do that, and thought it worth raising the possibility, as unthreatening as it is, because I feel it's something we'd get into an argument with the College about, which I don't want.
- Location
- Vancouver
[X] Explosives
More seriously, establishing a spy network and retinue were money ideas being floated around that you missed. Also expand/improve niter factory business. Creating a college branch probably falls under money spending I guess.
How could you forget the best way to use our money? Going full dwarf and piling up all our treasure to sit on.
More seriously, establishing a spy network and retinue were money ideas being floated around that you missed. Also expand/improve niter factory business. Creating a college branch probably falls under money spending I guess.
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- Location
- yorkshire
do we have a plan on what we use are dwarf favour on
TheOmnimercurial
Dragon Bard
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- UK
[X] Shadow
Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
- Location
- Mother Russia
Current tally. I'm postong it sone we are past 24 hours and BoneyM would probably close the vote soon-ish. Very close, explosives is leading by just two votes.
The number of voters is relatively few, however. Did the mods scare everyone off?
The number of voters is relatively few, however. Did the mods scare everyone off?
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- Location
- Pilipinas
Yup! Its WHFRP 2edition Ranald strictures, some guy already posted it as well as 4th edition, basically Ranald looks down on those that dont use daggers and armor, you are only supposed to use your wits. I can try to find the images but i'm kinda busy. So just search for key words like Ranald strictures or something. Another guy recently posted it again before the update so that might be easier to find.
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- Austria
Actually!
We want a great weapon in part to ape a staff, and thus be able to ground via it.
Greataxe is also a good staff!!! In fact, almost a better staff than greatsword, what with having more wood!
So, folks, how about getting Greataxe + greataxe lessons from dorfs?
Nope. Mathilde is a sword gal.
I think that learning a new weapon when we already have skill with the greatsword may be a bit of an action sink, especially since as a two hand weapon style it does not seem to bring too much to the table.
- Location
- France
Open write-ins always means much fewer votes.
- Location
- Austria
Fair point, I suppose. It's just that, well....
There was talk about how staffs are easier to be used for grounding because wood is an easier thing to make into a conductor for your Wind than metals. And so I thought that weaponry with a lot of wood - axes, spears, etc - can be a good compromise between "wizard staff" and "implement of murder".
Who even knows where to find a metal which'd make for a good Ulgu-aligned staff? While also being a good metal for a sword no less?
- Location
- Pilipinas
@Atam the Ork here you go
WFRP 2e, Tome of Salvation, page 47
EDIT: These are the 4e strictures
@Andres110 thanks for the above
WFRP 2e, Tome of Salvation, page 47
EDIT: These are the 4e strictures
@Andres110 thanks for the above
Quest
The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
Votes are always higher for simpler and more polarizing topics. For this one, where most plans are fine you'll see a smaller number of voters.
Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
- Location
- Mother Russia
But this vote doesn't look to be a case of one? Sure, the first round of the vote was, but the second round is very much a choice between simple options.
Although I guess there would be some people who took a look at the first round and decided to wait until the next story update, missing the very existence of the second round.