direct intervention of the gods IIRC.
I don´t think so, there are quite a few exotic books in the setting that can give us much more than a mere +1 to skill (just take a look at what we gout out of the Liber Mortis)... The Head Librarian position gives us, among many other things, gives us the chance to actively look for some of those books with the backing of one of the richest Dwarf Kings in the World, and the Polyglot trait makes it much easier to get a netter use of these books.So, Head Librarian is basically going to get us a book-based version of our EIC reports. Pass. Our other plotlines are more interesting, and "words written by BoneyM" is a zero-sum game.
So, Head Librarian is basically going to get us a book-based version of our EIC reports. Pass. Our other plotlines are more interesting, and "words written by BoneyM" is a zero-sum game.
Far as I'm aware, most of them tend to eat your soul or something.there are quite a few exotic books in the setting that can give us much more than a mere +1 to skill
Or be in the hands of people who would rather not someone else take them, and able to enforce that quite effectively.Far as I'm aware, most of them tend to eat your soul or something.
I think there's been a lot of frustration with the EIC because it seems like we had to spend so many actions/words written by BoneyM setting things up. "Let's instill these values. Let's set up the spy network. Let's consolidate this or that. Let's hire a guy to run it."
I sort of understand from a narrative perspective, but it's really drowned out "using EIC to do stuff". I wish that we could have had a lot less set-up actions as the peas and carrots and been allowed or encouraged or whatever to eat more EIC cake by just having it do cool shit.
So, i had an idea, but i am not certain about how viable, politically, it would be.
Newspapers are not a thing in the setting (as far as i know), and i have no desire to force one into being.
But borrowing a bit from the newspaper idea, might we not hire people stationed in all big cities to write reports on what is happening in the area (and maybe also search for books), and then send those to be collated in the K8P library (whatever the name ends up being) into some sort of not quite newspaper archives by time and location?
I suspect this could be fairly useful for our EIC network to keep track of things not in their immediate area.
Main problem i foresee would be local rulers not being fans of the idea, even if they were to only report on publicly available information.
So, i had an idea, but i am not certain about how viable, politically, it would be.
Newspapers are not a thing in the setting (as far as i know), and i have no desire to force one into being.
But borrowing a bit from the newspaper idea, might we not hire people stationed in all big cities to write reports on what is happening in the area (and maybe also search for books), and then send those to be collated in the K8P library (whatever the name ends up being) into some sort of not quite newspaper archives by time and location?
I suspect this could be fairly useful for our EIC network to keep track of things not in their immediate area.
Main problem i foresee would be local rulers not being fans of the idea, even if they were to only report on publicly available information.
Newsappers both are and are not things, one the one hand you have political agitators who walk around with cheap pamphlets and on the other you have books being worth their weight in silver. Where the setting lands on the scale of canon contradictions is up to the GM, but from what I have seen so far it is more on the latter side.