Fairly often, one would think, given that the Reik and its various tributaries reaches just about anywhere in the Empire. Instances where they wouldn't would likely be due to only having to go a short distance.
Out of curiosity, did you come into this quest with any knowledge of Warhammer Fantasy, or is everything you know a result of the quest itself?
It's a confusion of not resisting and actual consent. I think it started because in D&D there are spells that require willing targets but "willing" isn't defined anywhere in the game, people had to interpret is for themselves and started interpreting willing as not resisting because many spells made more sense that way, ever since the meaning of "willing" in the context tabletop games has been different than in real life because people have been using it as shorthand for a similar but different concept.
Just reposting that so we're clear on the QM statement here before I make this next reply.
<Side-eyes you back> There's "willing" as in the moral question of consent, and there's "willing" as in the magical question of spell targeting, and I imagine quite a few people were wondering the latter with a background in D&D or similar game, where the rules are:
God damn it that's so cool.
I cant help but wonder what you think of the 'usual suspects' in the thread.Yes, personal policy with joining new quests is to read the entire discussion beforehand for maximum context. Just getting the threadmarks doesn't get you general thread culture and stuff, though its certainly understandable for people who don't have as much free time as I do.
Funnily enough, it was defined back in third edition, and unconsciousness was explicitly called out as counting. Presumably to prevent people from having to make saving throws against the healing spells their friends were casting on them to prevent them from bleeding out. I'd expect that in fifth edition that ruling was just one of the many things that got culturally grandfathered in from third despite not showing up in any of the new rulebooks.
In a future where Gotrek survived.
Given that it is impossible for non-sentient animals to actually give consent in the sense that you are complaining about, you can either junk the entire spell or just accept that your definition of willing has no place here.
They'd probably use their axe and hammer hafts to zip, like in Assassin's Creed.
Any thread culture trends or player reactions from the relative past that genuinely surprised or confused you?Yes, personal policy with joining new quests is to read the entire discussion beforehand for maximum context. Just getting the threadmarks doesn't get you general thread culture and stuff, though its certainly understandable for people who don't have as much free time as I do.
Thread itself was also just entertaining. 'We have decided that Mathilda is actually, literally a Dwarf' had me wheezing. I'm sure seeing it come up in the story would have been funny too, but this was like dropping a bomb and it was glorious.
So being willing to read through 8000 pages of discussion on the topic probably makes it obvious, but @BoneyM your quest is great and I love it. Your worldbuilding skills are nuts, as is your ability to roll with whatever the dice throw at you.
I think it is fair to draw a line between how magic adjucates a soul's willingness and willpower to resist and all those things vs how an ethical society should judge the issue of consent and only discuss the former.
Bunny campaign?
Look closely at Omegahugger's Avatar.
I mean, reminder that it was canonically a disaster with only 3 survivors. With Mathilde here, we might have none at all!
Dwarfs.
I'm afraid it's been brought up enough that Boney's declared a moratorium on the subject, because it's been going in circles.
That was on Rite of Way and Skywalk, not on other magical methods of making the road safer.
