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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Briefvoice said:
Well there's two axis here: quality of enchantment and nature of enchantment.

Mathilde will never match dwarven quality, but she might be able to put enchantments on items to do things that Runesmiths never developed runes for. Shadow-related abilities, esoteric abilities, that sort of thing. Dwarves will always make better weapons, but if you want (off the top of my head) a set of magic saddlebags that would enable a Shadowsteed spell to carry cargo beyond what the caster has on her person, you need a custom enchantment that a dwarven runesmith can't or won't do.
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Sure, but the discussion was about magic weapons.
 
Briefvoice said:
Well there's two axis here: quality of enchantment and nature of enchantment.

Mathilde will never match dwarven quality, but she might be able to put enchantments on items to do things that Runesmiths never developed runes for. Shadow-related abilities, esoteric abilities, that sort of thing. Dwarves will always make better weapons, but if you want (off the top of my head) a set of magic saddlebags that would enable a Shadowsteed spell to carry cargo beyond what the caster has on her person, you need a custom enchantment that a dwarven runesmith can't or won't do.
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Okay now explain why teclis fucked around making his sword when he could have made one using a shadow enchant to give himself S10 attacks on demand with his might ld10. Turning battle magic into always on gear effects is going to be basically impossible. Otherwise the Elves would have done it already.

Edit: Never mind, grabbed the wrong end of the stick here.
 
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ShyPerson said:
Hell, look back on the first few pages, so few votes, and now this is one if the most active threads in the subforum. Wonder what the turning point was?
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Well, the vote immediately before the hiatus had around 60 voters, as far as I can tell. The one immediately after had 152.

So, I'm going to say a lot of people found the quest over the hiatus.
 
veekie said:
More like, if we wanted single use daggers theres an Ulgu spell for it, and enchanting daggers with it would make sense in the niche application of not having to cast one of the more difficult Ulgu spells when distracted/tired.

IIRC we explored the idea of Take No Heed weapons before and the conclusion was that protecting the wielder from the effect was too tricky without a lot more practice enchanting. Same problem with Invisible ones.

Daggers which trigger shadow choking are nice to silence a target though. Or daggers which cast Burning Shadows into a thing they hit.
Overall the limitation is AP cost.
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What might be workable would be a weapon with Cloak Activity, triggered on attack, allowing Mathilde to attack while not seeming to do so. A bit more complicated, but it might even be possible to get it to affect the victim as well, making it look like they're not doing anything, rather than falling over and bleeding.
 
I'm not trying to say that if we spend one action on enchanting we'll get a weapon to match Teclis' best, I just think that people are discarding our enchanting capabilities out of hand, and focusing solely on farming favour that we can exchange for relic/legendary tier equipment.
 
thamuzz said:
Off the top of your head, can you name Thor's belt? How about his hammer?
Which shows up in Marvel's Thor?

:p

EDIT: Counterpoint: the girdle of Hippolyta.
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Thor's belt is easy if you're scandinavian and you know that the name is simply the archaic form of "mightbelt". :p
Don't forget his gauntlets "irongrip", either.
And while it's primarily the hammer that shows up in Marvel, the belt and the gauntlets got more screentime in D&D, and umpteen D&D knockoffs since have had some form of gauntlets of strength.
 
Alliterate said:
Just wanted to say I don't think this necessarily follows, at all.
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It takes between 0 and 18 months, I find it a more than reasonable bet that it's a 1d3 turns roll. "At most exactly the lenght of 3 turns" seems a tad suspicious as a number, eh?
OneirosTheWriter said:
Apropos of nothing, but I'm not sure a status symbol actually gels well with being a Grey Order Magister - you're supposed to be a little more grey and unobtrusive.
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Unless you have Lord Magister aspirations, as those are the face of the college.
SuperSonicSound said:
I do as well but later not now. We also need to find more grobi shaman to kick their heads in and get more insights into waaagh magic so we can write a paper on it.. :V
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While a fun meme, the update itself had Mathilde thinking "maybe after some time, I can revisit this with fresh eyes". I don't think we need to shake down Mork for lunch money, just wait a bit.
 
Exmorri said:
Thor's belt is easy if you're scandinavian and you know that the name is simply the archaic form of "mightbelt". :p
Don't forget his gauntlets "irongrip", either.
And while it's primarily the hammer that shows up in Marvel, the belt and the gauntlets got more screentime in D&D, and umpteen D&D knockoffs since have had some form of gauntlets of strength.
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Well, I'm Romanian, I just happened to know the name because I like mythology, had only vague ideas on what the name of the belt meant.
 
SuperSonicSound said:
That was explicitly in response to the question of "Do we get further rep" from having a super sword made by Kragg. In other words "No, what you can't spend Rep to gain it."
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Aegon Targaryen said:
That was Boney's answer to the question of whether we'd earn rep just by having the sword. We won't, but we've already proven we're worthy of having it, elsewise we wouldn't be able to commission it.
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Yes, but imo it implies they expect we'll keep doing great deeds with it. I honestly don't think we can live up to the expectations since we're a caster, assassin, and scout first. I'd rather just get something good and not force one of the best Runelords alive to spend over a year crafting one of his best works when all we plan to use it for is a shank or holdout weapon.

15 favors is still really good.
 
HavocKeeper said:
Yes, but imo it implies they expect we'll keep doing great deeds with it. I honestly don't think we can live up to the expectations since we're a caster, assassin, and scout first. I'd rather just get something good and not force one of the best Runelords alive to spend over a year crafting one of his best works when all we plan to use it for is a shank or holdout weapon.

15 favors is still really good.
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I mean, we are already Dawongr Dame Magister Mathilde Weber, Mugger of Mork, Waaghbane, so I feel we're pretty worthy.
 
You know, if we're looking for Gromril, the stuff tends to be found in deposits riddled with Warpstone, as I understand it. And those trolls are clustered around a mighty large deposit of Warpstone.

It would be strange for Karak Eight Peaks to have not found such a deposit back before the Hold was lost, but I doubt the Warpstone was there at that point, either. However it got there to be found by trolls, there's a fair chance some Gromril might have come too...
 
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