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drothgery
Posted: Aug 11 2004, 06:59 AM
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Here's something I put together for my game; I wondered if anyone might be interested in it...

Aes Sedai Test Weaves

Conjunction
Level: 0 (Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and/or Spirit)
Casting time: 1 action
Range: Close (25 ft + 5 ft/2 levels)
Target, Effect, or Area: See text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None (harmless)

The series of one hundred weaves used in testing for the shawl have little other purpose, but are known to all Aes Sedai (and most senior Accepted). Although the individual weaves are often complex, their effect is usually similar to a weaker version of Tool of Air; these weavs cannot be used to move anything that weighs more than one pound.

Special: Aes Sedai and Accepted who meet all the pre-requisites for becoming Aes Sedai (they can take their next level in the Aes Sedai Prestige Class, if they pass their test) recieve a +5 bonus on overchanneling checks when using any individual Aes Sedai test weave, due to the intense practice of these weaves before earning the shawl. In the actual Aes Sedai test sequence, the bonus increases to +7.

Note from the author: The bonus to overchanneling checks for this purpose means that an Accepted who has Concentration maxed out will never fail overchanneling checks for using the Aes Sedai test weaves within the framework of the test. There are enough other risks that make the test for the shawl far from a sure thing, but given that I can't see typical Accepted having high Con scores or taking Skill Emphasis (Concentration), there has to be some way to make sure they actually can weave 100 weaves, when a 5th-level channeler with 16s in both channeling stats would only have sixteen slots available.


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Two Rivers Wolfbrother
Posted: Aug 11 2004, 10:50 AM
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Wow, I gotta tell you Drothy, this is an extremely good concept and idea. Thanks for sharing this.
So if I understand correctly, this weave represents 100 different weaves, but they're all so basic and similar that this weave prety much covers and represents them all?


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Posted: Aug 11 2004, 04:04 PM
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QUOTE (Two Rivers Wolfbrother @ Aug 11 2004, 12:50 AM)
Wow, I gotta tell you Drothy, this is an extremely good concept and idea. Thanks for sharing this.
So if I understand correctly, this weave represents 100 different weaves, but they're all so basic and similar that this weave prety much covers and represents them all?

Yup.


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Kakita Aramoro
Posted: Aug 12 2004, 09:02 AM
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this is definitely a good way of seeing the 100 weave test.
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