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Arr MiHardies
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posted August 25, 2002 02:54 PM      Profile for Arr MiHardies   Email Arr MiHardies    Edit/Delete Post
Here is an interesting concept. We know that as per the books it is possible to bond a male channeler as a warder. If that channeler starts going mad.... does the female channeler also start going mad due to the echos in her mind of feelings and mental/physcal state of her warder? Hmm..

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Arr MiHardies
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posted August 25, 2002 04:13 PM      Profile for Arr MiHardies   Email Arr MiHardies    Edit/Delete Post
I hate how slow this board is on the weekends.

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posted August 25, 2002 05:22 PM      Profile for Xythlord   Email Xythlord    Edit/Delete Post
Hey Arr, my brother and me were discussing this and he came up with a very good point. We know that women who link with a man can gain madness as per what Mogh. said to Nyn in Tanchico (this was in refrence to using the male a'dam). I would say that although the bond might cause some deffinate wierdness, if the man who was bonded goes mad. The woman probably wouldn't, same as when a normal Warder gets killed. The woman feels the pain, and suffers emotionally, but for the most part she is still sound.

On the other hand, I would propose a house rule that a woman who is linked to a man who overchannels (and therefore gains a madness point), then she would gain a point as well. Or maybe she has to make some kind of Willpower save or gain a madness point (I would personally go with the link and you get one). This would reflect the linking to the power and being affected by saidin.

By the way, nice idea for a thread, gets the old noodle working.

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Arr MiHardies
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posted August 25, 2002 05:49 PM      Profile for Arr MiHardies   Email Arr MiHardies    Edit/Delete Post
Well, the main reason I ask is that it is about to happen in my game.
I think the female must make a will save for each point of madness that the warder gains after being bonded, or also gain a point of madness. what the base difficulty should be.

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Arr MiHardies
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posted August 25, 2002 06:51 PM      Profile for Arr MiHardies   Email Arr MiHardies    Edit/Delete Post
Remember also, that when a channeler (elayne) bonds someone and that someone (birgette) gets drunk, the channeler also displays the mental symptoms of being drunk. I would say they gain madness also.

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posted August 25, 2002 08:08 PM      Profile for grolm      Edit/Delete Post
With Elayne and Brigit it is a special case since they are both female. The bond acts differently. I don't think that an Aes Sedai would gain madness when bonded to a male who can channel. Alanna has been bonded to Rand for some time now and she doesn't seem to be going mad. With links I can see gaining madness for the leader of the link as they are actually touching and controlling saidin.

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Arr MiHardies
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posted August 26, 2002 09:27 AM      Profile for Arr MiHardies   Email Arr MiHardies    Edit/Delete Post
Well, Since the channeler in question is an npc and the male in question is a pc, I am going to have the madness slowly begin affecting the female too. bwahahaha. and the gleeman who just wrote a wonderful play in game (he remembered the forgotten jack and the beanstalk because of his old blood, and put it into a new play) is going to be mad at me. talk about intellectual property theft. bwahahah. I am so mean to my players, and they love it.

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you dance with the reaper...
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posted August 28, 2002 09:55 AM      Profile for theSaj   Email theSaj    Edit/Delete Post
*mwahaha*

Our campaign beat ya too it bro...

We have a Female channeler who is striking up quite the madness rating thanks to a ter'angreal that essentially seems to be a translater or something between Saidin and Saidar.

We haven't figured it out completely yet...

But, it's been funny as it somehow blocks the taint for men, but when she tried using it she actually felt the taint. We laughed so hard when we watched the GM roll a six-sided die. And we all knew the female channeler just got a madness rating.

[Dropjaw]

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