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Vazkor Javhovor
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posted August 13, 2002 06:42 AM      Profile for Vazkor Javhovor      Edit/Delete Post
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      Profile for LuciusT      Edit/Delete Post
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). [Smile]

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Katalya Aes Sedai
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posted August 13, 2002 08:18 AM      Profile for Katalya Aes Sedai      Edit/Delete Post
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.

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Vazkor Javhovor
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posted August 21, 2002 06:25 AM      Profile for Vazkor Javhovor      Edit/Delete Post
Heck, I forgot to thank you both ! Well, it's done now [Smile]

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
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posted August 21, 2002 07:49 AM      Profile for Arafel is Full of Strange Folks   Email Arafel is Full of Strange Folks    Edit/Delete Post
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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