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New page! Web spells normally fill an area, but we tend to house rule it to make them a bit more versatile in my group, so I bent the way it works a little here. Rath’s starting to become a bit more competent, though he still has a looooong way to go until he’s even close to his goal of being the mightiest warrior of all. Thuunians prefer to use magic only and will resort to the crudity of physical combat only if magic is somehow involved (summoned creatures, undead, charmed warriors or using a servant created by your magic in some way for example). Some Thuunians are specially trained to fight as well as being able to use magic (see Kislata) but these agents are quite rare and are looked at with derision and suspicion by many ‘proper’ mages of Thuune.
When footsoldiers are required for war, the nation is able to field a wide array of magically created warriors akin to golems (but with more intelligence and an in-built loyalty to their magic wielding masters) along with legions of well trained slave soldiers. Thuune will use undead servants but they avoid it where possible due to the danger and the lack of utility of such servants in many situations (not to mention the censure of the other ‘civilised’ nations, who frown upon slavery but might go to war with a nation that started using necromancy on a wide scale).
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Shh its okay Maxie, what they dont realize wont bother them..until they do and then it will really bother them.
Okay, who’s stealing the clothes this time?
Kind of like Wile E Coyote running over the edge of a cliff and not falling until he realises 😉
Well, it looks like Kazu might be making up for Hemesh’s scamming them, if that gear is as valuable as it seems. The group will have some decent gear to choose from now assuming Kazu shares after the mages leave.
Yeah, I expect there’s some good loot amongst the stuff she’s nicked 🙂
For my part , i hope Kazu will keep the clothes “safe” in place to let all of it lying on the ground
Well , everybody is so busy to chat and nobody else than Maxie has noticed that Zodohria is totally naked . Or it’s a full illusion for readers ? ^_^”
There’s something funny going on. It may be a temporary glamour created by the Tanuki god 🙂
Wonder when that was going to be addressed.
They’ll realise soon enough (that’s not soon enough!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkJBFHs2cRQ
So the mages aren’t even willing to consider non-magical options? Really shooting themselves in the foot there. If anyone was ever to pop an anti magic field around them they’d be done for. Even with their minotaur “servant”. If he’s controlled by magic like she says that magic would cease and then you’d have a non-controlled unhappy minotaur on their hands.
Well, antimagic field IS a level 8 spell, so it’s not exactly common. You could also say most conventional soldiers would be pretty screwed if they went up against a creature or spellcaster capable of producing lv8 magic 😉 Plus they do use conventional soldiers and weapons (see the text above) but they prefer magic 🙂
It also has no effect on artifacts. Perhaps the Thuunian masters carry artifacts that were created to negate the effects of such a spell? An ‘anti-anti-magic’ effect…
I agree with you though-Leaning too heavily on magic is almost as bad as refusing to use it (as some fantasy nations do). You open yourself up to exploitable weaknesses by being too specialised 🙂
The main flaw for me is not that magic can be countered (as any way of fighting can be countered) but more that magic takes a lot longer to learn properly than firing a musket or even fighting with a sword or spear. It’s also not as common. Fewer individuals within a population will have what it takes to become a powerful magic user. In a war with another large nation the Thuunians would do very well for the first year or two but would start to lose if things went on any longer and would take a long time to recover.
It’s not necessarily just anti magic field as that was just off the top of my head but also things like character classes and alt builds that specifically target magic users by destroying their concentration checks and such and dispell on the slave minotaur for example.
When you say Riff-Raff my mind automagically goes to Riff-Raff and the Catillac Cats. No idea what Crystal Maze is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
‘Crystral Maze’ is a show that used to be on in the UK. The host was Richard O’Brien- who played Riff Raff in ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’. He also wrote that show (Rocky Horror) 🙂 It’s maybe a bit obscure, but that’s how I do my references 🙂 I try to make gags like that a bit obscure or at least not TOO obvious. Some people won’t know what I’m on about (maybe most people) but the ones that get it will enjoy it I hope 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGlMjh5g4sc
Just noticed it but it appears to me that Agonia is doing the Spider-Man webshooter position with her fingers when she cast web. 🙂
Well spotted 😀
I can’t wait to see more of the lovely little blueberry Calamir <3
She’ll be in the comic going forward. Her and Agonia will be our main agents for Thuune at least for the time being 🙂
OH NO , not agonia : she’s too despising towards other peoples . Why Zodohria won’t stay to check about how “negotiations” will run ?