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2013-01-07, 12:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
So it seems like once every five decades or so some demon gets a wild hair up its ass and tries to invade a Prime Material World. Is there anything demons in general, or perhaps Tanar'ri or Obyriths in the specific, are hoping to gain by laying siege to the realm of mortals aside from 'break stuff, kill people, sire dozens of half-fiends'?
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2013-01-07, 12:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2013-01-07, 01:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Not that I disagree with you, but being able to say "no" to gods in a single narrowly defined context doesn't necessarily make you more powerful, it just means you have the high ground in that particular conflict. A concrete dam is not capable of everything that a river can do, but it is specifically designed to be more powerful than the river within one specific context, that of stemming the river's flow. The river is still free to flow anywhere else that the terrain allows it to, it just can't go directly through the dam.
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2013-01-07, 01:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
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2013-01-07, 07:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
It takes 80 Mobius to purchase a single +2 sword at market cost. Even that few would be a stack or cord or two, and magic item costs just go up from there. It just seems that the Mobius would be a compact, trustworthy, hard to fake, and easy to test form of currency, especially since it's hard to argue that a Mobius is worth less than 100gp, as an equivalent gem may be. I'm not saying that gems might not be better, I'm just curious as to why Mobius are not used more, especially by adventurers (the multiverse's equivalent of big-spending multimillionaires, at higher levels).
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2013-01-07, 10:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Oh, devils do it too. Remember also that with so many unseen worlds on the Prime, there are places in which the fiends are successful.
Part of it is a power gambit; dominion over Prime worlds supplies great power, whether in belief, souls, resources or just manual labor.
The other part is a bit more cosmic; bringing ruin, darkness and despair into a world reduces the sway of good and the power of deities, while domination (for baatezu) or devastation (for tanar'ri) fulfill their goals of attacking along the ethical axis as well.
Of course, sometimes their goals are stranger. The demon lord behind the Savage Tide was merely out to scratch an itch he couldn't quite reach*; the fact that the ritual to do so required the madness of millions was par for the course where he was concerned.
*figuratively speakingLast edited by afroakuma; 2013-01-07 at 10:17 AM.
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2013-01-07, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Ah, thank you - that makes tons of sense. Somewhat related question:
Fiends often stop and create half-fiends while on the Material, especially when they're invading a world - they do it to create 'improved' versions of their minions, to acquire generals and subordinates to work under them, as parts of "love affairs" or as a matter of cruelty. Half-fiend being a crappy template aside, this seems like brilliant thinking on their part. Do the forces of Good create half-celestials for practical reasons as well (increased capacity to resist evil, greater wisdom to lead the innocent, etc), and if not what DOES tend to be the reasons for the creation of half-celestials?
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2013-01-07, 10:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
80 is too small a number, and merchants who deal with things in that fairly marketable range desire a more granular and fungible currency. Not to mention adventurers don't tend to have this form of coinage anyway.
It just seems that the Mobius would be a compact, trustworthy, hard to fake, and easy to test form of currency, especially since it's hard to argue that a Mobius is worth less than 100gp, as an equivalent gem may be.
I'm not saying that gems might not be better, I'm just curious as to why Mobius are not used more, especially by adventurers (the multiverse's equivalent of big-spending multimillionaires, at higher levels).
The other side of the one-sided coin is: where would adventurers even get such coinage? They're not found in hoards; most employers conduct small transactions in gold and copper; they change hands very rarely outside of Sigil and other massive markets. Suppose you're starting out with a job that pays 500 gp; would you really want that paid out as five coins of limited fungibility?
The real-world equivalent would be $100 bills; many smaller stores in Canada and the US refuse to accept them as they cannot make change/fear counterfeit/worry about theft risk.Need a place to hang? Like Discord? Don't mind dealing with a capricious demon lord? Then you're welcome to join our LGBTQ+ friendly, often silly, very geeky server to discuss food, music, video games, tabletop, and much more.
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2013-01-07, 10:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
No. Good doesn't use unnatural breeding programs purely for the purpose of exploiting the resultant living beings in some fashion. (Actually, evil tends not to either; most half-fiends are unwanted by-blows).
As for the actual *ahem* "reason" why half-celestials are created, I refer you to the birds and the celestial bees.Need a place to hang? Like Discord? Don't mind dealing with a capricious demon lord? Then you're welcome to join our LGBTQ+ friendly, often silly, very geeky server to discuss food, music, video games, tabletop, and much more.
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2013-01-07, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Could you explain that some more? Wikipedia tells me that you're talking about {redacted}, but how was his goal any different from the usual "spread havoc and depravity because that's what I do"? (No worry about it being a spoiler, it's not like I'm ever going to play the Adventure Path.)
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2013-01-07, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Um, well, some other people might... so yes, I'm going to treat it as a spoiler.
SpoilerDemogorgon's two heads are each individual personalities, and each despises the other. The Savage Tide is a component of a ritual that one head believes will eliminate the other personality for good.Need a place to hang? Like Discord? Don't mind dealing with a capricious demon lord? Then you're welcome to join our LGBTQ+ friendly, often silly, very geeky server to discuss food, music, video games, tabletop, and much more.
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2013-01-07, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
If I wanted to hide something - let's say a greater artifact like a Sphere of Annihilation - on the Planes from people, what sorts of locations should I drop it in? I mean, most of the obvious ones that occur to me (hell, neg energy plane, etc) for hiding things of this nature run into problems where either A. Things LIVE there or B. They'd destroy the artifact I'm trying to protect.
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2013-01-07, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-07, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-07, 04:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-07, 05:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
So you'd be hiding a piece of hay in an infinitely large haystack. While a needle storm rages all the while.
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2013-01-07, 05:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Agathion's different from the rest of the plane; it's pockets isolated in a vast and largely impenetrable environment of thick stone. If you don't know exactly where you're going before you enter the layer, you won't get anywhere. It's just not navigable.
And yes, you would first need to descend through at least one layer of windy unpleasantness, in all likelihood.Need a place to hang? Like Discord? Don't mind dealing with a capricious demon lord? Then you're welcome to join our LGBTQ+ friendly, often silly, very geeky server to discuss food, music, video games, tabletop, and much more.
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2013-01-07, 09:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Considering the number of things that can move through stone quite easily, that doesn't seem like enough. Are there other impediments?
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2013-01-07, 09:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
How much do guardinals and eladrins know/suspect/understand about their progenitors?
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2013-01-07, 09:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Well, for one thing, we're talking about incredible distances; oceans of stone. For another, the layer has a nasty habit of answering divinations with maddening screams; being filled with arbitrary, powerful and very nasty wards; closing up parts of itself it no longer deems relevant; and of course there are the monsters. Big nasty ones. You're familiar with the trope Sealed Evil In A Can? Meet The Can.
Then there are the vacuums. Some of the pockets literally have nothing in them. Not a pleasant thing to traipse into. There are also the cyclones; great wrenching twisters that drill through the stone from other layers with such force that they are capable of propelling a creature hundreds of miles at high speed - almost always resulting in brutal death on the merciless walls of the plane.
In other words, if you don't know exactly where you're going, you'll probably end up trapped or dead, and there's never really a way to know other than entering through the designated gate. Then there's the possibility of crossing paths with some other entity that had the same idea as you...Need a place to hang? Like Discord? Don't mind dealing with a capricious demon lord? Then you're welcome to join our LGBTQ+ friendly, often silly, very geeky server to discuss food, music, video games, tabletop, and much more.
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2013-01-07, 09:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
How much influence do the githzerai actually have on Limbo? Also, I remember reading about some lawful slaadi they've allied themselves with in an issue of Dragon. Are those (Gremmel, I think?) canonical, and if they are, have they appeared in anything other than that issue of Dragon?
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2013-01-07, 10:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, it's Limbo, so influence isn't really quantified in standard fashions; instead, it has to be measured in terms of Zarathustra marshmallow skating dimetrodon ebola virus Cabbage Patch Kid.
They're certainly A Force on Limbo, for whatever that's worth on that plane.
Also, I remember reading about some lawful slaadi they've allied themselves with in an issue of Dragon. Are those (Gremmel, I think?) canonical, and if they are, have they appeared in anything other than that issue of Dragon?
They're canonical as far as Dragon ever is, though. As to being used in other materials, I can't recall seeing them.Need a place to hang? Like Discord? Don't mind dealing with a capricious demon lord? Then you're welcome to join our LGBTQ+ friendly, often silly, very geeky server to discuss food, music, video games, tabletop, and much more.
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2013-01-07, 11:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Oh, I didn't mean it like that; I just meant you could save yourself the effort of posting "Well are you sure you want to know? it'd be a spoiler" before posting the answer itself (in spoiler-box, as you did). Oh well, thanks for the answer.
I should really be tired of that joke by now, but somehow it continues to work for me.
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2013-01-07, 11:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-07, 11:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-07, 11:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Aha, I believe I know how I'll be building my character in your next campaign.
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2013-01-08, 12:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-08, 12:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
How common are undead on the Planes in general? Do the Planes see a greater instance of 'pure' undead such as Shadows, Nightwalkers and their ilk, or is the mix similar to that seen on the Prime? Is necromancy a common pursuit for fiends, or are there not enough things that leave Real Actual Corpses to make it worth it?
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2013-01-08, 01:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2013-01-08, 01:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: afroakuma's Planar Questions Thread! (You ask, I'll answer)
Not very. Exceptions exist; there's some form of undead or other on most planes, and of course the Negative Energy Plane and Plane of Shadow are just riddled with the things.
Do the Planes see a greater instance of 'pure' undead such as Shadows, Nightwalkers and their ilk, or is the mix similar to that seen on the Prime?
Pretty much cleaves to the above answer. Planes that are linked with undeath are more likely to host "pure" undead, while the individual nature of other planes tends to restrict undead to adapted forms.
Is necromancy a common pursuit for fiends, or are there not enough things that leave Real Actual Corpses to make it worth it?Need a place to hang? Like Discord? Don't mind dealing with a capricious demon lord? Then you're welcome to join our LGBTQ+ friendly, often silly, very geeky server to discuss food, music, video games, tabletop, and much more.
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