[D&D-3.5e] Sands of fate

[smeowlin]

I've updated my character sheet and added a bit of backstory https://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthre...78#post8781978

I can probably get very basic locks but without it being a class skill, it'd be too difficult to keep up.

Added some armor because I forgot I won't have arcane spells til next level. Description changed too, thanks!

[Ermine]

Might want to change the description, too, since it mentions the old weapon still.

Edit: You're welcome~

[Ermine]

How much would a children's book cost? I've mentioned A is for Ankheg which could teach her some of the basics of reading if someone helped, but she doesn't actually have a copy.

[Crimson]

We could put the twilight enchantment on some armor eventually smeowlin, so that Arandiel keeps the higher armor class.

[Crimson]

Dieuoffire has the final say on this obviously, but looking at the price of paper (4 silver per sheet), the cost of a bookbinding (I'm using a map case as reference here, 1 gold), and the time of whoever made the book, I'd say you're looking at somewhere around 5 gold Ermine.

[Ermine]

I mean, I've seen books at 25g before, which I'd be willing to pay (not much use for money anyway).

For reference, B is for Behir, but I don't know of a Magical Beast starting with C.

Edit: Chimera.

Edit2: I'm fine with it actually being a big picture book with multiple creatures per letter (but still a kid's book and presented in rhyme). Maybe a second on armor and weapons, with just a few pictures in it, from Herzog.

Edit3: Also, updated my application a little. https://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthre...57#post8779757

[orichulum]

Well, it depends on if mass printing is in the setting or if all books are scribed by hand still. If the latter, then a child's book would probably only be made for a noble's first born and very expensive. Remember, previous to mass printing, most people couldn't even read.

[Ermine]

Would be fitting why her father had it then, as a thief or as a rich adventurer with 8 kids, and would be able to pass it down. I mean, she also can't read, so...

But either way, I don't have many other uses for money beyond food, drink, and shelter.

But I mean, a blank spellbook is 15g (which has 100 pages of parchment, and is likely of high quality), so 25g seems on the low end of fair. Plus that's probably quite a bit of money for the average person.

[Dieuoffire]

The book could vary in price but 5 gp would be pretty reasonable.

@ermine: there are a few magical items that help with food, adrin and shelter. The MIC has a few things that basically can let you survive anywhere.

[Crimson]

Ring of Sustenance comes to mind immediately. There's also a weeping flask, which never runs out of water (the water is oily, if I remember right, so it doesn't taste very good). There's also a ration that never runs out of food, I think it was called an everlasting ration, but I can't say for sure.

Last thing I remember is Heward's bedroll, or something like that, which allows you 8 hours of sleep for only 2 hours of real time. Really can't remember the name of it exactly, though.

[orichulum]

Ring of Sustenance is my number 2 favorite magic item, right behind Rod of Rope.

[Ermine]

Don't know why I forgot RoS existed. Going to take that instead of feather falling since it makes sense. She'll just have food as a backup. Or just in case she feels like eating.

Edit: Why did I also not remember that RoS lets you get 8 hours of sleep in 2 hours? Like...this ring does everything important.

[Crimson]

Ring of Sustenance is pretty schwifty, although that week-long attunement thing will kind of bite you. Also, getting other items to do the work of Ring of Sustenance can be cheaper (if I remember correctly), plus not take up one of your valuable fingers that could be wearing a different ring!

That weeping flask is on page 135 of Complete Mage. I'll update this post as I locate the other ones I've mentioned.

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Heward's Fortifying Bedroll - Complete Mage, page 132

Everlasting Ration - Heroes of Battle, page 131.

The everlasting ration and weeping flask together are only 400 gold, and don't take up a ring spot. I'd say that's a great deal, even if you do have to still sleep 8 hours.

[Ermine]

I'm fine with RoS. I can emulate most other ring effects with soulmelds.

Current soulmelds and their full effects with essentia investment:
-Sphinx Claws (totem bind, 2 essentia): +3 to strength checks and strength based skill checks, 2 claw attacks for 1d8 damage each, +2 to attack and damage rolls with the claws
-Ankheg Breastplate (1 essentia): +3 armor bonus
-Blink Shirt (0 essentia): 10 foot dimension door
-Crystal Helm (1 essentia): +1 deflection bonus to armor, +2 to will saves vs charm and compulsion
-Bluesteel Bracers (0 essentia): +2 initiative

Thinking I might change blink shirt and bluesteel bracers, but for now that's where they'll stay. Can change them every day anyway, so nbd.

[Clawsome]

Originally Posted by Dieuoffire

I would allow alternative styles. However arcane strike has a very odd RAW. It says when you channel a spell through your weapon 'you gain a bonus on *all* your attack rolls for 1 round. It does not say with that weapon. As a single class two weapon fighter, with arcane spells, you actually can do massive damage with this.

Funny that this was never errata'ed.

So on a Duskblade every strike in the turn gets the spell effect whether one or four and what about one target vs. many targets debate at 13. If you hit one target 6 times does the spell effect that one target 6 times?

Opps thinking Arcane channeling not Arcane strike. Would dual wield Duskblade get spell on each weapon to hit