What would a Dwarven book about engineering by non-engineers even be like? Notes from Holds that had to make due after gobbos swallowed their entire engineering guild? Traditionalists doing a piece by piece dissertation about how exactly each particular piece of equipment is an affront to Dwarfhood?
Books on basic principles and records of various siege weapons and their accomplishments and the like. Though they might grumble, the Dwarves will admit that the inclined plane is out of the bag.
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1. If we wanted to concentrate on enhancing pure damage of our marksdwarf pistol as much as possible, should we look at enchantment or at dwarf runes?
2. Would enchanting our marksdwarf pistol introduce any range limitations, I.E. spell running out of power with distance?
3. Could we add a silencer enchanted with Illusion to a runed pistol to suppress its sound/muzzle flash?
1. Ignoring all other possible considerations? Enchantment.
2. Depends on the spell.
3. No.
ooh New spell ideas. I am surprised nobody mentioned these before -they are not at the approved spell list-
Shadow Imitation
We merge our shadows with opponenet and force them to mimic our movements.
Shadow Sewing
Shadow tentacles that can pierce opponent.
@BoneyM would these work?
Shadow Sewing seems to be very similar to what the mastered Dread Aspect already does, and Shadow Imitation doesn't really fit Ulgu's theme - it's about confusion and misdirection and illusion, not outright mind control.
@BoneyM I'm a patreon of
Jay Eaton and I spent my monthly commission on a Mathilde sketch based on the previous portrait. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. Though I missed the stream so I couldn't give feedback as it was drawn. Spoilered for size.
This is really amazing, I'm adding it to the character sheet.
1. First is what I like to call the balrog cloak. It combines our own mastered version of Dread Aspect with Cascading Fire-Cloak to make a cloak that, when activated, gives the wearer Terror and unleashes tendrils of shadow and flame that attack the wearer's enemies.
2. A weapon fitted with Okkam's Mindrazor and Life's End. The problem with a Life's End item is that it puts its victim's willpower against that of an inanimate object. My hope is this: Mindrazor collects and weaponises the wielder's Leadership, and so by collecting its wielder's Leadership, the item effectively has it; Life's End still hits with the item's own willpower, but thanks to Mindrazor that willpower is the same as that of the wielder.
3. Enchant Item to improve one characteristic or skill bonus of a bound spell. For example, Reaping Scythe gives +10 to Weapon Skill but Enchant Item will increase that to a +15. Shadowcloak gives a +20 bonus to Concealment tests, increased to +25. With Consuming Wrath, which gives +10 to both Weapon Skill and Toughness, Enchant Item turns one of those +10s into a +15 but not both. This is admittedly colouring outside the lines given that Enchant Item improves characteristics, not skills, but it looks pretty much the same to me.
4. Crown of Fire+Death's Messenger. As Crown of Fire, but +30 to Intimidate tests instead of +20.
1. Viable.
2. Viable.
3. To prevent Chamon in the brainmeats, Enchant Item is limited to items where it would make sense that an improvement in the quality of the item would result in the desired increase intrinsically. So yes to the weapon, viable to the cloak, depends on the item with Consuming Wrath.
4. Viable.
For these purposes, 'viable' means 'no obvious roadblocks, worth giving it a try'. Results may vary based on dicerolls.
Do the Dwarves know about it? How do they feel about such a thing existing?
It's a result of them emulating Sigmar so hard it reminds them of his deeds, rather than any supernatural subversion. Dwarves are in favour of humans being more Sigmar-ish.
We are definitely not at that point of Mathilde's life yet, but once she becomes a Dumbledore-style wise old quest giver, it would be interesting if you were to change viewpoint character for short periods of time to dive into the decision making of an expedition leader while he travels far off at Mathilde's behest. Provided we ever get to such a point.
It's one way Mathilde's future could go, depending on how her story unfolds and what the thread wants to do if/when it gets to that point.
I also have a very bad memory, which is why I am very grateful for SV's search function. I just plugged in "In this thread" "Windherder" "by: BoneyM" and looked at the results.
I lean on this a huge amount too.
How many people do actually want do all that stuff that is talked during the Thread Madness period? It constantly brought up by the same actors that always do so, and I know that I personally don't care much about those plans and started skipping those posts because of my antipathy towards that stuff.
I don't think that you can really gauge that stuff before you get to the actual plan voting because you don't know who stopped paying attention to the thread momentarily.
I'm reminded of how the Liber Mortis vote turned out. The discussion was so lively I had to soft-ban the topic for quite a while, but the actual vote wasn't anywhere near as divided as the arguments might lead someone to believe. 'Thread consensus' is a tricky weathervane, and I'm careful to only ever use it to see if a topic has enough interest to put it to a vote, rather than trying to draw conclusions about what the thread actually wants from it alone.
