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[Rolan7]

Aww, that's sweet.

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Funny that they spoke "last week", though.  I guess less time has passed since Durkon passed, then I thought.

I almost jumped to "Durkula sent her a devious message, setting something up!" but that doesn't make sense for a few reasons.

[Egan_BW]

"If I worried about all the things I don't worry about, I'd never stop worrying!"

I feel that way all the time, Roy.

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Funny that they spoke "last week", though.  I guess less time has passed since Durkon passed, then I thought.

I almost jumped to "Durkula sent her a devious message, setting something up!" but that doesn't make sense for a few reasons.

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I just figure that meant that HPoH kept messaging Durkon's mother regularly. Because well, it's a good idea to keep up the habits of the person you're impersonating, you know?

[Akura]

Mundane Utility at its absolute best. Really, you've got a spell that can pass information to literally anyone you know in the entire multiverse, with only a 5% chance of the call failing if they're on a different plane(some planes worse, I assume planes with Wild, Impeded, or Limited Magic traits. Dead Magic planes impossible), and all it takes is a 10 minutes to make the call(and a bit of wire if you're an arcane caster).

Of course you're going to let Mom know you're okay from time to time. And I feel dumb because I never considered that.

[MidnightJaguar]

"If I worried about all the things I don't worry about, I'd never stop worrying!"

I feel that way all the time, Roy.

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Funny that they spoke "last week", though.  I guess less time has passed since Durkon passed, then I thought.

I almost jumped to "Durkula sent her a devious message, setting something up!" but that doesn't make sense for a few reasons.

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I just figure that meant that HPoH kept messaging Durkon's mother regularly. Because well, it's a good idea to keep up the habits of the person you're impersonating, you know?

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According to 1136 it's only been like a week since Durkon got vamped so Durkulla might have never contacted her.

[Mathel]

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I can see a reason for Durkula to not send to Durkon's ma.
If the target knows the caster, they recognise them. As Durkula was a different person than Durkon, there was a chance for Durkon's ma to realise that it is not Durkon and warn whatever dwarves she could.

[scriver]

This is why I love Durkon

[Mathel]

I got a strange idea. Could Sending be used to speak with dead people?
It has listed fail chance for interplanar Sending, that means that the target can be on a different plane.

Which is related to another question. Do dead clerics still get their spells? If yes, one could Send to someone living.
Dead Arcane casters would be limited by their lack of spellbook and material components.

[ChairmanPoo]

This is why I love Durkon

I thought it was just your midget fetish...

[pikachu17]

I got a strange idea. Could Sending be used to speak with dead people?
It has listed fail chance for interplanar Sending, that means that the target can be on a different plane.

Don't see why not.

Which is related to another question. Do dead clerics still get their spells? If yes, one could Send to someone living.
Dead Arcane casters would be limited by their lack of spellbook and material components.

No idea.

[Akura]

Actually, it's only Wizards specifically limited by a lack of spellbook. Sorcerers can simply cast it if they know it and have a 5th-level(or higher) spell left and have the Eschew Materials feat.

That said, can a dead spellcaster regain spells on their afterlife plane? Eugene Greenhilt(a sorcerer) seems to have no problem, but while Eugene can and regularly does talk to his living son, there are apparently rules in place - only at night, while Roy is alone(or everyone else is asleep), and only by channeling through the Greenhilt ancestral sword. Also the "pass information only through cryptic bullshit" rule.

[Egan_BW]

I'm going to guess that Eugine could use something like sending to get around those limitations, but doing things the non-magic-caster way is a convenient excuse to be unhelpful and spiteful.

[Rolan7]

I had to look this up to be sure, but Eugene was (is?) a wizard according to the wiki.  That matches my expectations since he was an apprentice, studious to a fault, and tried to get Roy to study magic.

More like V than, say, that sorceress in the bandit camp arc.  Charisma as a casting stat instead of intelligence.

...Speaking of which, Xykon is a *sorcerer* not wizard.  That really shouldn't have surprised me, he's pure chutzpah and pretty meh about long-term-planning.  That makes the spell list O-Chul worked out far more important than I realized.  I thought they were working out Xykon's spellbook contents, which would probably be "everything he wants", but he's actually limited to a relatively small and static list of spells known.

That's the advantage wizards have over sorcerers, and why they're "always prepared".  If they don't utilize their greater flexibility, by basically predicting the day's encounters, they're just worse than sorcerers.  But a sorcerer can be outmaneuvered once you know their tricks.

[Egan_BW]

I've been playing a 5e low-level sorcerer and most of what I do is blast enemies with the same cantrips and 1st level damage spells repeatedly.
Well, until I picked up a carbine. Technologically advanced ruins are fun~

[Enemy post]

1153

[smjjames]

Disarmed by mama there, heh.