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Taking one last glance at the thing you hold that some call a runestone, you toss it high overhead as you center your mind on your inner strength. With a brutal mid-chest lunge, your scimitar smashes into the falling avaes runestone, lodging it on your scimitar. Grumbling you pull the runestone from your scimitar and toss it aside.
A vision of a fire in an open pit flashes in your mind. You see youself hurling logs into the fire, which roars with each addition. The fire vanishes and you feel refreshed.
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Satfiki wipes a bit of Rmel's spittle from her arm.
na its one of our rune meditations. see http://www.olwydd.org/guilds/barbarian/runes.php
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Naissura squints at the balance beam needle and says, "There's some stuff in here. All told, the backpack weighs about two thousand, one stones," and puts the backpack on the counter.
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Naissura squints at the balance beam needle and says, "There's some stuff in here. All told, the backpack weighs about two thousand, one stones," and puts the backpack on the counter.
Nope. You're able to gain inner fire as well as lose it when you destroy runestones. The GMs still haven't explained to us the details and why we gain and lose it sometimes.
Vinjince
"There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die."
- Sima Yi
Vinjince
"There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die."
- Sima Yi
>>>Id still like to be able to eat spell scrolls and what not.
>>Working on it. :)
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Hmm, two in one week... (^_^)
Denstimar Dustyfoot
Idon Raider - www.idonraiders.com
"Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" - Walt Whitman
>>Working on it. :)
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Hmm, two in one week... (^_^)
Denstimar Dustyfoot
Idon Raider - www.idonraiders.com
"Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" - Walt Whitman
For what it's worth, I'll be removing the prohibition on Barbarians identifing magic scrolls sometime Simu-Soon (tm), alongside a revised skill check for the process. I suggest catching MD classes if you want your character to truck with magic.
-Armifer
"...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
-Viktor Frankl
-Armifer
"...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
-Viktor Frankl
>>I suggest catching MD classes if you want your character to truck with magic.
and if you want MD you shouldn't be in the barb guild.
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Naissura squints at the balance beam needle and says, "There's some stuff in here. All told, the backpack weighs about two thousand, one stones," and puts the backpack on the counter.
and if you want MD you shouldn't be in the barb guild.
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Naissura squints at the balance beam needle and says, "There's some stuff in here. All told, the backpack weighs about two thousand, one stones," and puts the backpack on the counter.
> >>I suggest catching MD classes if you want your character to truck with magic.
I would also insert the caution that the intent all along was for magic experience to reduce magic resistance, so tinker with magic toys (including scrolls) at your own risk! Whether that stays or changes as we rework magic resistance is still up in the air at the moment, but again, tinkering with magic is probably not a very wise thing for the barbarians of today to do.
- GM Dartenian
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford
I would also insert the caution that the intent all along was for magic experience to reduce magic resistance, so tinker with magic toys (including scrolls) at your own risk! Whether that stays or changes as we rework magic resistance is still up in the air at the moment, but again, tinkering with magic is probably not a very wise thing for the barbarians of today to do.
- GM Dartenian
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford
>>If this is something that will be required of all guilds in order to read scrolls I have zero issue with that.
Yup. The basic notion is that understanding a scroll should be a two-step process.
1: Can you understand the language and notations of the scroll? (Scholarship)
2: Do you know enough about magic to understand what it's trying to say? (Magical Devices)
-Armifer
"...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
-Viktor Frankl
Yup. The basic notion is that understanding a scroll should be a two-step process.
1: Can you understand the language and notations of the scroll? (Scholarship)
2: Do you know enough about magic to understand what it's trying to say? (Magical Devices)
-Armifer
"...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
-Viktor Frankl
So basically with no MD, we'll pretty much just get something akin to what we have now. IE we look at scroll, see it has some gibberish on it (a lot of letters/runes/etc that we know individually, but apparently even with high levels of scholarship cannot put together into words).
I'd rather see a scholarship based check (maybe schol/wisdom/intel check) that would yield us at most just the spell name on the dang things. That way I know if it's something worth keeping or another piece of compost TP.
I'd rather see a scholarship based check (maybe schol/wisdom/intel check) that would yield us at most just the spell name on the dang things. That way I know if it's something worth keeping or another piece of compost TP.
>>I'd rather see a scholarship based check (maybe schol/wisdom/intel check) that would yield us at most just the spell name on the dang things. That way I know if it's something worth keeping or another piece of compost TP.
That sounds like the plan. If you want to be able to invoke/study it then that's what the MD ranks are for.
~Thilan
That sounds like the plan. If you want to be able to invoke/study it then that's what the MD ranks are for.
~Thilan
>>So basically with no MD, we'll pretty much just get something akin to what we have now.
Yup, but everyone in that situation will suffer with you.
>>IE we look at scroll, see it has some gibberish on it (a lot of letters/runes/etc that we know individually, but apparently even with high levels of scholarship cannot put together into words).
The idea is that scrolls are highly technical documents -- or else you'd never needed Scholarship to begin with. I could quote you passages from research journals where a layman would recognize every individual word in the document, but not understand what any of it means without the proper background (or some quality time on Wikipedia querying keywords). To understand some papers in my own discipline requires me to go back and trace obscure lines of thought and research. In short, it tests my skill in my discipline.
Formerly, we defined that background knowledge in magic as "screw Barbarians." Very easy to code, but not as flexible as it could be. So, we're changing that to the Magical Devices skill.
>>That sounds like the plan. If you want to be able to invoke/study it then that's what the MD ranks are for.
Nope.
(Scholarship win) You recognize that the strange scrawl is a stilted, short-hand form illustrating a magic pattern...
(Magical Devices fail) ...but do not understand enough of the technical jargon to make sense of it.
-Armifer
"...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
-Viktor Frankl
Yup, but everyone in that situation will suffer with you.
>>IE we look at scroll, see it has some gibberish on it (a lot of letters/runes/etc that we know individually, but apparently even with high levels of scholarship cannot put together into words).
The idea is that scrolls are highly technical documents -- or else you'd never needed Scholarship to begin with. I could quote you passages from research journals where a layman would recognize every individual word in the document, but not understand what any of it means without the proper background (or some quality time on Wikipedia querying keywords). To understand some papers in my own discipline requires me to go back and trace obscure lines of thought and research. In short, it tests my skill in my discipline.
Formerly, we defined that background knowledge in magic as "screw Barbarians." Very easy to code, but not as flexible as it could be. So, we're changing that to the Magical Devices skill.
>>That sounds like the plan. If you want to be able to invoke/study it then that's what the MD ranks are for.
Nope.
(Scholarship win) You recognize that the strange scrawl is a stilted, short-hand form illustrating a magic pattern...
(Magical Devices fail) ...but do not understand enough of the technical jargon to make sense of it.
-Armifer
"...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
-Viktor Frankl
>>Even if an IF skill were something I fully supported, it probably wouldn't happen. We're pushing the number of skills the game is able to allow as it is.
Just a random interjection, but I've always thought it might be interesting to explore the idea of changing he name of MO to something like Battle Tactics or Combat Maneuvers, etc. and thinking of other ways it could be applied besides just MO situations. It's always seemed like a bit of a limited-scope skill, regardless of how useful that limited scope may be.
Denstimar Dustyfoot
Idon Raider - www.idonraiders.com
"Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" - Walt Whitman
Just a random interjection, but I've always thought it might be interesting to explore the idea of changing he name of MO to something like Battle Tactics or Combat Maneuvers, etc. and thinking of other ways it could be applied besides just MO situations. It's always seemed like a bit of a limited-scope skill, regardless of how useful that limited scope may be.
Denstimar Dustyfoot
Idon Raider - www.idonraiders.com
"Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?" - Walt Whitman
