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Please do not ask people to explain their votes. It puts them on the spot, and doesn't seem very friendly, whatever one's intent may be, sorry.
I am just not sure what else to do, can't engage with empity air, so what can I do beyond poking at logical inconsistencies.
Hubris is just a deadly a poison as Dhar. I emphatically am against people trying to bend the story itself into making Mathilde some super-heroic character when she's really just very very good at faking it forward.
You know this is realy bothering me I know Mathilde started as a derpwizard, but have you even read her charsheet recently ?
Diplomacy: 11+1-1-1=10 - You're social enough among your fellow wizards or the commoners you spent your youth around, but are slightly uncomfortable with anyone else.
Martial: 9+2+1+1+1+1+1+2+2=20 - You're no longer just a wizard that can wave a sword - you have become a warrior in your own right.
Stewardship: 12+3+1=16 - You've developed an intuitive grasp of business, exchange and logistics.
Intrigue: 16+2+1=19 - You've developed a somewhat frightening understanding of how to disassemble all kinds of psyches.
Piety: 23+1+1=25 - Ranald has your back, and you have His.
Learning: 18+4+1+1+1-1=24 - The magical world makes more sense to you than the 'real' one.
See the 19, 20, 24 and 25 ? For reference.
10 is average, 20 is impressive, 25-30 is heroic. For Stirland, about 12 would be expected for your position.
Mathield has grow trought the quest, and be every measure she is a big daam hero in a lot of way, and while a lot she did was due to luck, that is why her highest stat is piety.
Deny her this for any reason you want, but don't say she isn't heroic enought.
People were arguing for a 25 pt. sword long before we had the armour. It is entirely consistent to vote for an awesome sword, but not one forged from the metal of the armour.
Kind off, but not realy, yes we were disscussing, and those disscussion included gromrill and how good and rare it was, so ignoring the gromril doesn't make sense based on past disscussions.
 
We could get a magic item with Form of the Soaring Raven for only 2 favor. Who doesn't want to fly under their own power?

It also transforms all your equipment as well so we can bring it all with us and not have to worry about that.
 
See the 19, 20, 24 and 25 ? For reference.
Mathield has grow trought the quest, and be every measure she is a big daam hero in a lot of way, and while a lot she did was due to luck, that is why her highest stat is piety.
Deny her this for any reason you want, but don't say she isn't heroic enought.
Also for reference, Belegar's highest stat is a 20 in Martial. We're doing pretty well for ourselves.
 
Considering we still have an entire penthouse wizarding complex to build, I would politely ask that we cease library purchases after this turn to preserve our income. We're burning through our literal fortune at an alarming rate.
 
Could I ask you why vote the sword but not sugesnting the armor be remade ?


Could you maybe explain this vote ? I just can't undertand why vote for the best possible sword but also sugest he metal we want to make it from be given away.


I think you are reading to much into this, yes this sword will be worth of legend, we made deds worth of legend, but she isn't sigmar and never want to be in any way, that was all narrative paralels, with sobe joking sprinkled on top due to her trait.
The rational is that I believe the synergy advantage from using this specific Gromil for our weapon is less valuable that the advantage of using it to bolster Belegars damaged relationship with much of the dwarven realm.
 
This entire line of argument just stinks to me of Quester's Hubris. Bragging about accomplishments that haven't been made and over-inflating past achievements past the point of absurdity. Mathilde can become a world-recognized legend, but right now everyone's front-loading things by making the expectation that it's inevitable. It's not. Mathilde could still meet misfortune and die ingloriously. She could settle down and end up doing research for the rest of her days. Heck, maybe she'll even piss off the Grey College by accident and have to go on the run. None of those seem likely or like things that we'll vote for, but they're still just as improbable as Mathilde somehow inspiring armies to march for her when she's still that geeky wizard in the tower who carries a big scary sword that no-one actually sees her use out in the open.
Except people have seen her use her sword in the open several times.
We fought alongside Belegar at one point, then there was the time we charged next to Van Hal.

The sword is a massive part of what Identifies Mathilde to me it's the symbol of the Grey order, and her personal symbol as a Knight.

One of her best moments was using a runefang over Van Hal after the charge went horribly wrong.

Honestly half the arguments about not using a greatsword just feel like people trying to force her into a stereotypical greywizard role when the most interesting things about her to me are the ways she doesn't fit that.
 
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a welcome addition to the multispecies community of Karak Eight Peaks.

[X] [UNDUMGI] Make no recommendation.

[X] [ARMOUR] Make no recommendation.

[X] [LIBRARY] Imperial Texts: Extensive/Esoteric Skaven, Extensive Skaven Magic, Extensive Greenskin Magic, Antiquarian Grey Magic (2 College Favor), Extensive Amber Magic, Extensive/Esoteric Romance Novels, Extensive/Esoteric Linguistics, Extensive Warpstone, Extensive Morr, Extensive Karaz Ankor. Dwarf Texts: Extensive Greenskin Magic, Extensive Skaven Magic, Extensive Romance Novels, Extensive Linguistics, Extensive Daemons. Brettonian Texts: Extensive Romance Novels. Tilean Texts: Extensive Romance Novels.

[X] [RUNE] No purchase.

[X] [ENCHANTMENT] No purchase.
 
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the greenskins.
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the Skaven.
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a welcome addition to the multispecies community of Karak Eight Peaks.
[X] [UNDUMGI] Francesco Caravello, Tilean ex-merchant
 
I wonder if it would do anything bad to dwarves to melt down an Ironbreaker's armor, thereby invalidating the Grudge- that is, there is now some dwarf out there who will never be able to fulfill their Grudge to recover their X person's armor from the Skaven?

It's not like Belegar is buying Throgrim's party line and there are so many Grudges this one is chump change besides, but it sounds like an awkward thing for a Dwarf King to do.
 
The rational is that I believe the synergy advantage from using this specific Gromil for our weapon is less valuable that the advantage of using it to bolster Belegars damaged relationship with much of the dwarven realm.
Most of the realm is either neutral or supports him.

This is randomly gifting a random clan in a random Hold, who might well not exist anymore, whose ancestor died three thousand years ago. It's obsessing with the past.

And Belebro is done with that.
 
What exactly is an esoteric romance novel?
Probably books like 50 Winds of Grey or Teen Tomb King. You know, stuff that most normal people would claim that they rather jump to Athel Loren or Sylvania than actually reading it, while in reality it has a sizeable fandom and some people secretly collects any surviving editions that hasn't been burned by the masses.
 
Except people have seen her use her sword in the open several times.
We fought alongside Belegar at one point, then there was the time we charged next to Van Hal.
This really sounds like you're scrabbling for examples. "Several times"? "At one point"? "The time we charged"? Two of your examples are single events, and the last is a mere handful of times. Hardly befitting someone known for using a sword.
 
This entire line of argument just stinks to me of Quester's Hubris. Bragging about accomplishments that haven't been made and over-inflating past achievements past the point of absurdity. Mathilde can become a world-recognized legend, but right now everyone's front-loading things by making the expectation that it's inevitable. It's not. Mathilde could still meet misfortune and die ingloriously. She could settle down and end up doing research for the rest of her days. Heck, maybe she'll even piss off the Grey College by accident and have to go on the run. None of those seem likely or like things that we'll vote for, but they're still just as improbable as Mathilde somehow inspiring armies to march for her when she's still that geeky wizard in the tower who carries a big scary sword that no-one actually sees her use out in the open.
It's a tool of rhetoric. Presumably they are not making the assertion that we will gain more people coming specifically to see our fancy sword. Rather, they are likely suggesting that as a symbol of hope a new gromril weapon of impressive quality will represent the sentiments they wish to embrace; those sentiments might then drive the additional recruitment.

Again, though, I would request that you not downplay what we've done either. We can say without hubris that the lives we've saved have been in the thousands. The possible consequences of our actions could have only just recently toppled gods or caused species-wide civil wars (and that in the same action). Mathilde has already lived gloriously by most reasonable measures, and will be celebrated for it; that we have survived such things is good, and that we will attempt greater feats is likely, whether you believe that that is for better or for worse.
Well, it's definitely possible. But I don't think it's at all certain.
I believe the specific wording was that if they were to stick around our new priority would be enabling communication with them; as that could be solved with a king's commission, it would be what we would be most likely to suggest he do.
I wonder if it would do anything bad to dwarves to melt down an Ironbreaker's armor, thereby invalidating the Grudge- that is, there is now some dwarf out there who will never be able to fulfill their Grudge to recover their X person's armor from the Skaven?

It's not like Belegar is buying Throgrim's party line and there are so many Grudges this one is chump change besides, but it sounds like an awkward thing for a Dwarf King to do.
I believe that the armor has been missing for over three thousand years. It would be highly unlikely for this to be the case.
 
Most of the realm is either neutral or supports him.

This is randomly gifting a random clan in a random Hold, who might well not exist anymore, whose ancestor died three thousand years ago. It's obsessing with the past.

And Belebro is done with that.

But again, you're arguing with the vote that is *not* in fact beating the "melt it down" option. The leading one is "leave it up to Belegar".

If he is as you say, "done with that", then what are you worried about?
 
We could get a magic item with Form of the Soaring Raven for only 2 favor. Who doesn't want to fly under their own power?

It also transforms all your equipment as well so we can bring it all with us and not have to worry about that.
Flying is awesome. That said, if putting magic into Mathilde's head is a bad idea I shudder to imagine what the effect of putting so much off-wind magic into her that she completely transforms and then keeping it in her, in a stable way, for an extended period would be.

While we have easy access to off-wind items via College Favor that doesn't mean it's a good idea to use them outside emergencies, sadly. Particularly anything that has a sustained effect.
 
Considering we still have an entire penthouse wizarding complex to build, I would politely ask that we cease library purchases after this turn to preserve our income. We're burning through our literal fortune at an alarming rate.
I agree, but the main reason we are going hog wild at the moment is that we assume that we will want all of these purchases eventually regardless and that getting them now and occasionally getting bonuses out of them is better than just having a giant pile of silver to roll in/sleep on.

I do wonder what the economic impact of dumping this much money into purchasing a wide array of books is going to be...
 
The rational is that I believe the synergy advantage from using this specific Gromil for our weapon is less valuable that the advantage of using it to bolster Belegars damaged relationship with much of the dwarven realm.
I think the place you got it wrong is that the Gromril won't be used only for our sword, there is simple to much metal for that, so the msot part will become icons of the reconquest, and making something new should e a better answers to the high kings gauntlet than backtracking and using something old as a statement when that is the oposite of belegars stance.
 
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