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Let's hope the apple tree is only threatened by trees jealous of the apples.The drones have woodcutting enabled.I think my apple tree will need to be guarded.The apple tree is already guarded by a small army of one-horned elk, drones and players. The service I'm talking about is something a bit more proactive, like tracking down and sacrificing man-eating catfish.
How I don't know..
I lover your logic, you have introduced widly dangerous wildlife which the dwarves are barely holding off, you solution to that? Introduce more wildly dangerous giant wildlifeIt's Neyravah's thing. They're a God of Life, they can't exactly exterminate things. Besides, these guys aren't carnivores at least...
I still suggest corrupting the earth with chaos. Because fuck the environment, WE DON'T NEED NATURE WHERE WE'RE GOING.-1
A bit irrelevant to the issue at hand--the disagreeing assumptions about the intellect of troglodytes.Words.Sentience is experiences. Protein chains and bacteria and even sponges(apparently) and whatnot lack this. They're robots. Input output. Sapience is thought(and yes, language is a side effect), plus reasoning. What we're using right now to discuss this(or should be). Arguably any being that can grasp hefty ideas. Such as ceasing to be in all your entirety, or, possibly, the idea of god. Is sapient. As a side note, apparently some consider chimps sapient, and whether or not it is true it is very interesting.
I assume they(the Trogs) are no better than intelligent canines, or parrots, because we've no idea of their intelligence otherwise, and the chunk of their souls that is missing has to have been removed somewhere- I'm placing my bets on them having animal thought patterns(and have the idea that if we remove that and replace it with devotion, well..). If they're caveman smart, then excellent, we don't have to do much more work in shaping their brains to be built for non-caveman lifestyles.I assume creatures are sentient/sapient/self-aware/intelligent/whatever until otherwise shown. It's easier that way; less of a chance of getting surprised by intellect or moral consequences.
The reason I suggested making them into new creatures was so they could start again as entirely new beings, with new intelligence and understanding. Instead of having to slave away at teaching the Trogs, we could have intelligent, loyal bug people. Or plant people. Or whatever we mold them into.I have no problems with modifying the troglodytes.
Grumugga has had some success with making orcs incredibly loyal. If we can't bind them to us, specifically, we may have to settle with making them enjoy serving under a higher power. Something the knowledge goddess may be able to help us with.Give them work they're happy with, don't force them to be happy doing the work we want them to do.
Also, they still have free will, as beings with souls, and can be spurned and leave, but lacking 'complete' souls, they'd be harder pressed to do such a thing. The only beings that love(serve) us entirely and unconditionally are our soulless creations. Another evil thing would be completely removing their free will, instead of enticing them to work for us.What is the difference between forcing someone to work for us and mindraping them so they need to do so the feel happy?
Also, we're a young god and just considered something like this. The Empire has probably known about this sort of thing for years, if not decades, or even centuries!Then why do you think it's possible?
The only reason I can consider why they wouldn't do something like this is because of internal disputes(heh), or the fact it'd slash their mana income.Internal disputes are no reason to discard something useful to all.
They probably don't even need lesser-souled beings to work for them, after all, they're probably loading their people to the gills on propaganda.More is better than less. Obviously, they don't have enough propaganda if they have people fleeing to villages run by young chaos gods.
Agreed.We can make angels capable of defending our afterlife and repairing it; I don't think we need butterflies in addition to angels. Just seems like an unnecessary additional creation that only fills a single purpose that something else could already do in addition to other useful tasks.I prefer having two specialized creatures rather than a single jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none.
Also I just don't feel like investing time and mana into butterflies.
Why do you think soldiers and engineers are two distinct jobs, like, everywhere?
Thing I found.Gasp. That's copyrighted material. You monster.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
+1 and spelling fixed.Best not to loot, that WOULD make us bad houseguests.>To loot this place or not to loot this place, that is the question.Here's a compromise, half-loot it. Starting with those jars and whatnot upstairs.This would be a better choice tough.((Yay, saw your forum post awhile ago (One on about the RPG info) and i hope for the best and now this is here+1))
Best if we ask the fisherman if he need any help, and if not then we should search the local area
On another note, We could take a Kolaryut. There's six of us, at level 8. That's a level 13 encounter. We are a CR 13 group.EL =/= ECL
"Oh, you too? I mean, I can do cold. But lightning? That is impressive. We will be quite the pair, if I do say so myself. We should experiment to see how we can optimize our breath weapons... but how often are you able to use yours? I only ask because I don't want us to expect anything that the other is not able to provide. But I noticed you were a bit out of the norm. And am I talking too much again? Sorry about that. It happens more than I can prepare.""I can breathe each one three times a minute or so. You?"
...What did you think I thought you meant?Tax-payer dollars.it is illegal to use taxpaper dollars to study surrenderHuh. That's an odd law.
...of course that wizard friend of his might try to resurrect him then. I'd rather not risk it.Silly Darvi, wizards can't resurrect!
Glad to have helped!For reference, The Evolutionist.I must thank you for introducing me to the existence of this thing; I now have far more evidence than should exist that my personal heartfelt fantasies are appearing independently in the general conciousness. Here's to hoping that Alecks survives all the way from merely OP to completely rediculous!
(...that prestige class that lets you give appropriate scales to the chameleon...)Which one?
Yep, it seems to be a pretty hard foe, but not insurmountable. It has a CR of 12, and no resistances or immunities. Here's my plan. We gather a horde of combat scrolls, and when the Kolyarut tracks us down, we paralyse him and bombard him with damage spells until he dies.Also bear in mind that it could have class levels.
Although this isn't something I would advocate, being my zealotous self.
