I honestly think that's a better way to do it, have the spells, but have a note for the GM that they are big deals, and there better be a reason in the universe for why an Apprentice Wizard would have such a spell.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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What makes you think she didn't make that choice in that timeline?
Necromancers look to the death/slavery dichotomy and ask "why not both?" after all
Maybe because of the very first line indicating you are bringing something connected to this topic?
As that line seems to attempting to grab the attention of showing dangling a possibility of "good " necromancer Mathilde unless it was done to catch their attention to show a evil necromancer Mathilde. In which case carry on then.
Burned_Cookie
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If I was the GM I'd say yes and laugh as either the player with too much Hubris drowns in comedic misscasts, or rolls well enough to become a story for the ages.
"Have I ever told you bout the time one of my players was a widely renowned battle magic apprentice? See, it went a bit like this…"
Full +5 from the Colleges, none from the Elves. That'd be books on ritual theory and reference materials useful for constructing rituals, rather than outright full of rituals that you can go out and do. All the Colleges keep their rituals pretty tightly under wraps.
random assistant in the colleges that sees this combination being ordered: WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE DOING TO HER FOOD!
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@Boney If we do the scribes action for KAU next turn, would that get us the Halfling cookbooks from the Mootland Library for a +5 Imperial bonus to the Windsoak Mushrooms action (assuming we also do that next turn), or do we need to purchase Imperial books on Cooking at the end of this turn for that bonus to kick in by the time we start writing?
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SCIENCE!
"I'm making-" *lightning crackles* "-Toast!"-Mathilde Weber, probably.
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I like the implication that Adela didn't want her name on the hot beer paper.
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Mathilde published those because she had already been demoted when word got out of her... practices.
Damage done and all.
Parabola
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IIRC Boney said that the Halfling books will be coming along... eventually. At some point. I don't think it's something we can necessarily speed along. So we might not want to buy Imperial Cooking books, because it might be redundant with what the Halflings have.
But Boney did say that both Cooking and Fungi books would help out. So we could instead buy Dwarven books on one or both of those - same bonus, even if fluff-wise the Colleges might find it odd that they need to prepare their mushrooms Dwarven-style. Though we need to consider whether such a vote of buying it out-of-pocket stands a chance of winning, when we might see some movement to get books on the Druchii this turn.
I'm distantly hopeful that Borek tells us to spend the money into the Karaz Ankor in any way that directly benefits its people. Then we could guilt-free launder that money into the KAU and the books we need. Not particularly likely but not impossible either, I think. Slayers forgo all possessions.
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Oops, good catch.
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I think avoiding Imperial Cooking just because we'll eventually (at some unknown time) get it, when we have a good use for it this coming turn, is penny-wise and pound-foolish. Besides, presumably what that means is that instead of Halfling cookery books winding up in our library, we'll get books drifting in from other Halfling-related topics that we might find interesting (like their gods).
Currently I'm leaning towards Barak Varr for book purchases, as we can use it for two immediately-relevant topics (Metallurgy, Cooking or Fungi)* instead of one immediately-relevant topic (Rituals).
*Three if Cooking and Fungi library bonuses stack. Boney, I assume they don't stack, but it's worth checking.
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Parabola
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Fair enough. It wouldn't be the end of the world if we postponed Rituals and other College books. Certainly, my own plan wouldn't be changed that much over it.
Sidenote, they do.
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I feel like this is pound foolish in the other direction.
The mushroom book is a side gig, the waystones is the 9 to 5 job.
even if we can only get 1 (Rituals) instead of 3 (Metallurgy, Cooking or Fungi). that 1 is part of the job. it really should have the priority.
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Metallurgy is also part of the job, though, so it's not "job action bonus" vs "side gig bonus", it's "job action bonus" vs "job action bonus and side gig bonus"
Parabola
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The Capstone of the Waystones proper, which is made of a specific type of gold. It's a required part of the process to actually create a Waystone proper.
We're not obliged to attempt to create the tributaries right away, even if I would personally prefer it. We could do the Capstone and something else that's not creating tributaries, and then create tributaries next turn, after getting Ritual books.
I know, I thought we were going to put the capstone back 1 more turn.
not really as strongly as rituals are tho, we have 3 active rituals that we are probably doing at least one of this coming turn.
and we have a guy for Metallurgy (Max)
like, the action priority doesn't feel right: its not "job action bonus" vs "job action bonus and side gig bonus",
its 'very relevant to known coming actions job bonus' vs 'might be relevant to future actions job and side gig bonus'.
the known coming value isn't the same for Rituals and Metallugy for that to be a good comparison.
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I mean, there's no reason we have to. There's no recency bonus mechanic in Waystones that Boney has mentioned, so we don't have to follow up on the tributary work we did last turn, we can poke at a new big topic and see how much work it is.
Yeah, exactly. Honestly, one of my big reasons for veering away from the tributary work is that I really hope our Waystone actions this coming turn can identify some job-relevant magical topics; a Colleges library action gives us four topics, and the best suggestion I've seen so far is one and a half (Rituals plus Rune Magic).
Who says? We have so many Waystone actions we can take, there's no reason we have to do tributaries this coming turn if it would be useful to do something else.
Parabola
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I mean, plans have been proposed to that intent, but until the actual turn comes up they're really just suggestions. People who propose plans don't control everything. People can always disagree and choose something else. My own plan assumed Ritual books would be bought, but I also made a small variant in private in case we went with Barak Varr.
Adding onto what picklepikki said, Metallurgy books will surely stack with Max's own expertise, and Johann's. And at no time before has he contributed his own collection of books that I can remember. This is a net positive.
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technically yes, but not following through on the action that seems to be going places is a bit too silly for me.
as for college topics that could be useful for the project or coming ideas:
Rituals: duh
Rune Magic: probably limited, but better then nothing
Jade magic: might help with the tree one. (we only have a +2 currently)
Gold magic: for Max and Johann, and probably has a bit of Metallurgy in it. ( currently only a +2)