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2012-10-22, 03:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimum requirements for Tippyverse?
I would say that is stretching it. I would argue that it doesn't have those materials until you have a spell that calls for them. Admittedly that just moves the problem, but it's unlikely that there will be a spell that calls for a handful of worthless diamond dust.
Edit:I'm not sure what you are trying to say, would you kindly rephrase that?Last edited by The Random NPC; 2012-10-22 at 03:44 PM.
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2012-10-22, 03:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimum requirements for Tippyverse?
Well, from what I gathered everybody in Tippyverse needs to be level 20 tier 1 class munchkined out to the possible maximum, so here is that.
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except that what should be a pile of 20kg diamond dust has no RAW value until divided in half, or quartered, for the respective Resurrection spells, you then do that and fabricate each pile into a diamond to sell
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2012-10-22, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimum requirements for Tippyverse?
There's no way to make spell component pouches make sense in a way that meets all their listed characteristics. Most of us just take it for granted that you can't use them to make infinite money. Easiest way is probably just to assume that the materials they create only last for a few rounds.
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2012-10-22, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimum requirements for Tippyverse?
No, not really.
All it requires is one caster to look up from the ways of his ancestors, and once where he had prepared lightning bolts and meteor storms, prepare teleports and shapechanges.
There's an event horizon, and that's where wizards stop being dumbasses and actually use their spells for awesomeness instead of inefficiently making smoking craters.
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2012-10-22, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-22, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-22, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimum requirements for Tippyverse?
Not at all. The tippyverse starts when some 17th level caster realizes that a permanent teleportation circle placed in each of two cities each targeting other city effectively makes those two cities one place. How he comes to this realization is up in the air. A background as a caravaneer's kid, an economically minded buddy, whatever.
Bunk. The tippyverse doesn't happen for one reason and one reason only. Not everyone wants to play there.
Sooner or later a caster capable of producing a teleportation circle will be A) uninterested in conquering the multiverse, B) tired of the inconvenience of having shipped goods he wants taking days/weeks/months to get there.
Logically it should've happened ages ago in most published settings with their thousands of years of history in the rough equivalent of the middle ages.
The same thing that prevents the tippyverse is what prevents your ridiculous use of spell-component pouches from working; DM fiat.
Edit: weeeelllllll there are technically a few other hurdles, but they're all in-world, not mechanical.Last edited by Kelb_Panthera; 2012-10-22 at 04:38 PM.
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2012-10-22, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-22, 04:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimum requirements for Tippyverse?
Meant to address this too.
Your economy is blown wide open by those other applications of magitech before the teleportation circle comes online. All of those other things get going before 7th level spells are available to the mastermind caster(s).
This makes the city where it all started ridiculously wealthy before it actually crosses the line and becomes tippyverse. Since its citizenry is pretty much completely taken care of, all of the city's economic factors go entirely into building up more wealth.
Fortunately, genies and mercanes are both very much interested in gold. That's what gets you started in the planar market. Eventually you work your way up from working in base metals and start trading more exotic stuff. Souls, exceedingly rare gems minded in the elemental plane of earth, seafood and pearls from the elemental plane of water, optional spell-components from the outerplanes, etc. This makes your city even wealthier.
Then you lay down the TP circle and start uniting the world into one megalopolis.I am not seaweed. That's a B.
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2012-10-22, 05:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's an inadequate explanation, because the bolded statement cannot be assumed to be true. Some wizards, certainly, have low Wisdom, especially those made by point buy (), but that isn't necessarily true of NPCs with rolled or array stats. Furthermore, just how much Wisdom do you really need to figure some of this out? 20? 24? 33? I'll give you a hint: people on the Internet have figured this out; that sets a pretty good upper bound on how much they'd need. (Personally, I'd assume a +6 enhancement item would be enough to give them the minor insights they'd need, even without aging bonuses, inherent bonuses, or starting any higher than an 8.)
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2012-10-22, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimum requirements for Tippyverse?
Zhentarim (Thug) Fighters, certainly.
Bog-standard Fighters, eh...
Ranger is a much better representation of the training that a competent force of gendarmes would receive at the basic level, and any gendarmerie is going to have a common basis of their training due to their nature and need to be able to come together to work as a military unit in defense of the city when it comes to that.
From what I understand of the rules, lower level wizards could certainly understand and decipher the spell wish from those dusty tomes, they just would be metaphysically unable to prepare and cast it.
As for bards and nobility, whenever I want to play a dandy or gentleman of the world, I pick Bard unless he's part of a line given to soldiery or magecraft.
Even if your argument wasn't predicated on a false assumption, all it takes is one caster, who isn't even necessarily a wizard, and then even wizards with poor wisdom will see the lucrative nature of it, as there's enough wizards who end up adventuring for us to have a game that there's a basis for wizardly greed if one even wanted to attempt to argue otherwise.
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2012-10-22, 06:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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granted, not all wizards are going to be Reed Richards.
the most accurate reason a Tippyverse doesnt become standard is this: Wizards who take the role of generals will more often rely on their own spellcasting and a dense packed meatshield in setting then said dense packed meatshield to get the work done, or they become necromantic lords who prefer to sit on their bony asses and rob tombs. They believe themselves to be the most useful member of the army (and rightly so) to the point where they dont really believe that anyone else is relyable. Standard Class Flaws of "Hubris" and "Minor Insanity" dont help
I could actually see a Conjuration Sorcerer doing better at achieving the Tippy-horizon because they are forced to figure out how, with spells that only shunt people around, they can make most effective use of thier powers and millitary training
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yes, the assumption was on pointbuy.
Here is the thing about the Tippy-Event Horizon: This is one of those Technological event horizons, which people cant see, and cant see past. IRL the comparison would be Sea Knights and Orbital Drop Pods for troop and supply transport. They dont have those in DnD-tech, so we dont see this Event horizon as an impassible barrier like the people caught in the war of the portals do. This is a problem for us to understand, because we are used to thinking of logistics in a 3-4 dimensional perspective. the people we are talking about are notLast edited by toapat; 2012-10-22 at 06:57 PM.
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2012-10-22, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Minimum requirements for Tippyverse?
More bad assumptions.
The typical mild neuroses and paranoia are tropes but that doesn't mean they're psychological prerequisites to becoming a wizard. There's no reason to believe that a high-level wizard who never leaves town might not get fed up with the aggravatingly long shipping times of his favorite dried fruit, and just that once hop over to the town where they come from to set up a TP circle to aid them in getting there faster, since he doesn't like to travel. Then they ask him to setup another one on this end to facilitate the trip home, and boom! accidental tippyverse kick-starter.
As for thinking in three and four dimensions; Know (the planes) says hi.I am not seaweed. That's a B.
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2012-10-22, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's dubious, because the ability that governs tactical ingenuity is not Wisdom, or Charisma, or Dex or Con or Str: it's Int.
Certainly I wouldn't expect the very first wizard who thought of teleportation circle trade routes to immediately think "I need to set up a 3D forbiddance perimeter around my base, man it with dozens of high-end golems and mid-level casters, and make massive use of divinations and spell traps to improve life and security for all the people who will be living there once trade gets moving." However, I do think that, over a comparatively short time, those various refinements and adjustments would be made; each step is fairly small and logical, and driven by fairly compelling factors.
Also, I really have to question why high-level wizards would be so thoroughly incapable of thinking in three dimensions. After all, they've been able to fly with good maneuverability since level 5, and they have hundreds if not thousands of years of scholarly research into spells and their uses. Just how complicated is it to imagine a bubble rather than a circle, a shell rather than a wheel?
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2012-10-22, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Honestly, I've been thinking that lately and been wondering "Perhaps the other planes of existence are simply different dimensional levels where other creatures exist on a higher spectrum of living... Maybe this 'New age' stuff is actually on to something...?"
It is actually entertaining to think of Demiplanes as just planes that have undergone the Lucifer Experiment and cut themselves off from the Unity that is the Multiverse to create its own reality so adding a 'New Age' style of thinking to a campaign certainly does make a lot of sense if you really think about it... But I'm attributing that to how "flexable" the 3.5 system of gameplay is. Take a Paladin of Tyranny and call him a Lawyer and your goodLarloch, The Shadow King (w/ Ioun Stones) avatar by Iron Penguin
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2012-10-22, 09:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Instantly? No, the actual progression of the tippyverse is more likely backwards. The Military applications would be discovered before the economic in terms of TC.
Asto Kelb: here are a number of flaws to your argument:
Wizards fly around because it is fun to them, provides a bit of combat advantage, and lets them bypass terrain (also, screw you walking). They dont typically stick the rest of the party in a bag of holding to dump them inside the castle, they cast mass teleport. This does not lend itself to the idea of Dumping an army through an established rift.
In fact, the planes where 3 Dimensional travel is mandatory, such as the plane of air and Limbo, dont lend themselves to logical thought.
As i Said, there is a Technological Singularity/Event Horizon which We, as people Living in an era when military tactics make helicopters used as supply and support vehicles, can see through. this same point is completely Opaque to anyone on the other side. This is not an Assumption, this is an actual, well known Phenomonon of historyMy Homebrew: found here.
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2012-10-22, 09:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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The biggest issue I have with the Tippyverse is the inadequate explanation of what the wizards get out of it. Once you have Genesis you don't need to create a new society to make bank; just live on your personal dimension and be a god.
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You seem to be contradicting yourself by saying they'd think of dumping an army through a teleportation circle first and then saying that they're too stupid to think of dumping an army through a teleportation circle.
You also seem to be seriously disparaging the intelligence of someone who has either been a successful wizard adventurer or been a wizardly non-adventurer for even longer.
The preponderance of forms of transportation began as vehicles of commerce rather than tools of war from everything I've ever read. The only exceptions that I'm aware of are the horse and flight, and even then with the horse what I've read casts some level of doubt on the exact ordering of events.
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2012-10-22, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm not ignoring that particular phenomenon becaus I'm unaware of it, I'm ignoring it because it doesn't apply in this context. You however are ignoring another historical phenomenon, albeit a much more recent one; science fact is often guided by science fiction. The idea of certain technologies has often preceeded the ability of science to produce those technologies. Example: Jules Verne designed a rocket to fly to the moon almost a century before it was actually done. His design was only different from the actual saturn V rocket in a few fairly trivial ways.
As for my comment about know (the planes) you completely missed my point, though I suppose I really should've spelled it out a bit better. Wizards are often accustomed to thinking about space in not just the typical three dimensions of the prime, but in the 4+ dimensions that divide up the planes. Thinking about things like aerial supply and reconnaisance would be trivial next to such dimensional scope. Nevermind that you yourself have shown that wizards often do think of the tactical applications of flight and teleportation. The idea that they couldn't fathom applying these magicks to more economic pursuits is absurd in the extreme.
As for "flight is fun" or "screw walking," those are individual opinions that don't apply equally to all wizards anymore than "lemon meringue is delicious" would apply to all patissiers. They'll know how to make it, but that doesn't necessarily mean they like it, just as many wizards will have learned how to cast fly or teleport even though they may find the experiences of flying or teleportation unpleasant.I am not seaweed. That's a B.
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2012-10-22, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-10-22, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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you are misinterpretting what a Technological Singularity is, or im not explaining it well enough:
First, and Foremost: It cant be done by a Wizard.
Yes, Int is the skill for intelligence, and governs the knowledge skills.
Knowledge, has this nasty habit of making people rigid and unadaptable.
Adversity? That is a monkeywrench a wizard only has do deal with if they barred all good schools. This guy clearly hasnt barred Conjuration, hes just going to teleport to the battlefield and call in something big and disastrous, he is going to go with the most obvious, efficient, and brutal method he chooses, because it works, and the enemies dont have too much they will be able to do in retaliation.
A sorcerer, in the same position, barred to only to utility spells that do not summon enemies, is going to have to think, he wont be too great at it, but he is going to have to improvise, he will have to figure out what his abysmal spell list can do because he himself is useless.
More specifically, the only way to bust through that technological Singularity is by Tripping face first through it. Tippy put this as a guy notices in his spellbook that Teleportation Circle is under the list of things he can permanance. i Believe its more along the lines of a full caster has to figure out what the hell he can do, and he realizes that he has:
A: an army
B: The ability to scout where he needs that army
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2012-10-22, 10:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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It mostly starts off as money. The wizard that puts a start to the whole shebang stands to make more bank than you can shake a stick at, if he makes a few good deals and a few solid contracts. Other wizards see this success and emulate. Then the tippyverse just kind of happens around them before they realize that the even longer-term ramifications actually result in the value of the massive amount of money they're making off of these deals is substantially less than the value it had when he started because of inflation.
Unfortunately, the wizards that built the tippyverse are probably the most likely people to try and bring it down. Depending on how well they do at either end of that time-period, you may get an age of enlightenment, dark-age, rennaisance cycle, just like the real world did.I am not seaweed. That's a B.
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No, that's enough to make a teleportation circle. Tippyverse requires having widespread use of magic in order to make super-dense cities, and the super-dense cities are created to deal with the threat of teleporting armies. No where in there is a real explanation of why casters would be aiding armies in that way appear, or why the wizards are not committing genocide on the none casters, or each create their own feudal society and simply split the worlds.
It is one way of spinning a world, but it is no more logical than other ways of doing it. The mundane world simply doesn't have enough to offer casters to make a caster based society truly logical. Even humanoid slaves fall apart in front of the ability to planar bind outsiders who are both more obedient and more attractive.
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How about patriotism?
Some wizards will grow up in very nationalist states depending on the worlds political climate. They'll come up being taught that one of the greatest things you can do in life is to support your city-state/nation/empire in whatever way you can. For a wizard, that way lies with magic.
It doesn't even necessarily have to be a nationalist state. Just a particularly patriotic parent or aunt/uncle can get the proper mind-set ingrained in a given wizard to be. Heroes; whether personal, political, or religous; can have a profound influence on people.Last edited by Kelb_Panthera; 2012-10-22 at 10:20 PM.
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A desire to help one's fellow man? I'm not quite sure what you are saying though. If it's that casters wouldn't always create Magocratic cities, then yeah of course. You could have any wizard smart enough to figure out the Tippyverse retreat to their personal plane/paradise to eventually become gods. The Tippyverse isn't the only logical state of existence, but it is one.
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Why would they care? You can't have it both ways, either they care enough to help their fellow man or they don't.Last edited by The Random NPC; 2012-10-22 at 10:28 PM.
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2012-10-22, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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You're not explaining it at all in this post and haven't in any of your other posts, for starters.
Then there's the bit where I reject the idea that it's something beyond the intellectual capabilities of a creature more intelligent than any person currently alive when you've provided nothing in the way of a compelling argument.
Knowing what a teleportation circle does, knowing that they can permanently put it into place, and knowing that transportation of goods is something that's tricky because of all of the monsters he's made good money off of to finance his rise to power definitely makes him rigid and unable to see a patently obvious application of his capabilities.
Right. If the pursuit of knowledge meeting any kind of success led to stagnation then our scientific advance would have dead-ended by now.
Further, you've not actually bothered to show how it *can't* be done by a wizard, you've just continually asserted it when you haven't outright contradicted yourself by going on about how wizards always have armies and want to take things over with said armies and that's the first step on the road to the tippyverse.
And being a hero can sometimes lead to a bit of an attachment to those one protects.
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Yeah, good luck with that
Exactly. It is one way that you could apply logic to a D&D society, but it is not an inherently superior one.
Actually, I can. Casters are not some homogeneous mass, and if some some of them want to make the world better, some of them are going to want to watch it burn. In neither case do they benefit from the action in a monetary way (because they can make anything they can be paid in), but for the personal pleasure of hurting or helping people they can do whatever they want.
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