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Topic: Aes Sedai
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Vazkor
Javhovor Member Member
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posted August 13, 2002 06:42 AM
Hello
all,
I would like to know if any of you has designed a
playable version of the Aes Sedai testing. One of my PCs is
an Accepted : she's still lvl 3, so I'm not too much in a
hurry.
But still, I'd really like to roleplay the AS
test with that PC. All I know is that it involves the ability
to channel very accurately and under extreme
pressure.
So, do any of you has made up something ? I'd
really appreciate it.
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LuciusT
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posted August 13, 2002 06:59 AM
The trouble
is we have no idea what the Aes Sedai really is. All we know
is that it tests a channelers ability to maintain precise
control over the One Power while under extreem
presure.
In pure game mechanics terms I expect it could
be represented by a series of Concentration checks in the DC
15 - 20 range.
You could probably get away with having
your Accepted walking into a small room with a group of
Sisters who proceed to do a variety of unpleasent, distracting
and probably painful, things to her while she channels.
Personally, I'd see if I could hold off until November
on the off chance that Crossroads of Twilight actually
contains the "real details" (which is not impossible if Jordan
get's his act together and gets the wonder girls into the
Tower).
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Katalya Aes
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posted August 13, 2002 08:18 AM
Although
Jordan has given us very, very little by way of actual
information on the test itself, my character has been through
the Aes Sedai test in-game (hence, my display name). This is
only my GM's interpretation, but it may help.
Like the
Accepted test, the Aes Sedai test takes the form of a
ter'angreal that makes use of Tel'aran'rhiod or mirror
universes or what have you. The experience consists of a
series of dangerous situations; when each is resolved, the
scene simply shifts and a new threat is presented. Only
after having successfully demonstrated all the requirements of
the Aes Sedai prestige class does the test end.
For the
record, my character finished the test with precisely zero hit
points remaining (partial actions; woo hoo!) and no remaining
weave slots above second level; she entered the ter'angreal as
a level 8 initiate with 14 Con, and had never rolled less than
a 3 for hit points. You may want to tone down the lethality if
your players don't have ta'veren luck or if your opposition
doesn't involve Myrdraal at 4th level and Forsaken at
10th.
I was chased through a maze by darkhounds;
attacked by stone statues wielding a variety of weapons up to
and including shocklances in a palace hallway; thoroughly
smacked around in Ravel Puzzlewell's maze (for those who have
played Planescape: Torment); pursued by a Myrdraal through
crowded city streets (I got irritated and flung him over a
building with arms of air); and smacked around yet more in the
Stone of Tear by Ishamael and a pair of gholams, making
Composure checks the whole way. Whenever I escaped from one
scene, the next would simply begin.
During this time
period, I used multi-weave and tie of weave, had to make use
of sense residue, and demonstrated mastery of weaves from the
Conjunction and Elementalism talents.
In short, my GM
came up with a handful of dangerous situations, and forced me
to keep finding a way out of them until I had used every
single one of the Aes Sedai PrC
requirements.
-------------------- "Is there no
place in this world for the man with a 105 IQ?" - Homer
Simpson
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Vazkor
Javhovor Member Member
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posted August 21, 2002 06:25 AM
Heck, I
forgot to thank you both ! Well, it's done now
Really, thank you. I think I'll go along
with something like Katalya Sedai explained. Scaled down,
because it's unlikely that the PC will be as powerful, but
I'll keep the core idea.
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Arafel is Full
of Strange Folks Member Member
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posted August 21, 2002 07:49 AM
In addition
to what we see in the Accepted test, you might consider
taking/ad libbing in some of the formal pomp and circumstance
from the ceremony of Egewne's raising to Amyriln Seat.
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