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As a cleric, how rare are diamonds?
As a cleric, how rare are diamonds? Like, is it possible to stock on a bunch of diamonds for my spells like wholesale? That is entirely up to the DM.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) January 23, 2020
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Does Shiftweave take a pile of existing outfits and magically merge them into the suit or is the Shiftweave made into new outfits of your choice that it can switch between?
can you clear up something about Shiftweave for me? Does Shiftweave take a pile of existing outfits and magically merge them into the suit or is the Shiftweave made into new outfits of your choice that it can switch between? When a character creates a set of shiftweave clothes, they choose 5 distinct outfits the shiftweave can become.
The narrative and in-world mechanics of that (whether or not they need to provide 5 actual physical outfits that become 1) is up to you at the table.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 10, 2020
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Can Detect Magic detect Dunamancy? If so would Chronurgy or Graviturgy be detected?
Can detect magic detect Dunamancy? If so would chronurgy or graviturgy be detected?
As in the Dunamancy spells? Of course, they’re still magic. And it would detect whatever school the spell is associated with. Necromancy, Abjuration, etc.So your read is , the Dunamancy trait is not specifically detected, although it’s readable as magic and the school is relevant?
Detect Magic picks up magic and schools, that’s it. It doesn’t detect other distinctions like Arcane, Divine and Dunamancy. This. ^
"Dunamancy" isn't a game rule trait or object any more than "arcane," "divine," "nature/primal," or "psionic" are. Magic is magic.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) March 20, 2020
Appreciate it. I was confused as MM ruled diff in an ep of CR. My answers are speaking from a "baseline rules of D&D" standpoint. Individual DM adjudication, and implementation in their own campaigns can, and very often will diverge from that.
Matt's taking dunamancy in a more specifically strange and special direction in CR.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) March 20, 2020
And @Dan_Dillon_1 I appriciate your RAW response . Just trynna wrap my head around The uniqueness of Dunamancy. I get you! If you want it to be a special, fundamentally different kind of magic, absolutely go for it!
I do all kinds of weird crap with magic in my home game that I wouldn't try to make a general thing for D&D at large, so I feel you.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) March 20, 2020
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Whatever happened with the Magister of Mystra? And would it be possible for a newcomer to claim that title in lore?
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Whatever happened with the Magister of Mystra? That was probably one of my favorite pieces of lore from back in the day and seem to never hear anymore about the office.
And would it be possible for a newcomer to claim that title in lore?— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 25, 2020
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The Magister went insane and then her head literally exploded when the Weave ‘went wild’ at Mystra’s death/the onset of the Spellplague. So there was no Magister for some time. Then there was a flurry of ambitious young 2)
…spellcasters challenging for the office, and either gaining it only to soon be themselves challenged, or failing and dying in the duel.
The office is claimed by challenging and spell-defeating the current Magister, so that’s…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 25, 2020
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…how a newcomer could become Magister. On rare occasions, a Magister resigns (usually to accept death or to enter Mystra’s service as a Weaveghost, leaving their body behind) or perishes by misadventure, and a likely successor 4)
…may be approached by a manifestation of Mystra or Azuth, or a Weaveghost servitor of Mystra, to take the post. If they accept, they gain the insights and abilities of the office instantly (described by some as… #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 25, 2020
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…“the ultimate rapture”).
There have even been Magisters who have peacefully surrendered to a challenger, handing over the office without strife 6)
Elminster hasn’t revealed to me who is Magister at this moment, and neither has any other Chosen or servant of Mystra.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 25, 2020
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Hi Ed, can you tell me a bit about the ecology of the Aranea?
@TheEdVerse Hi Ed, can you tell me a bit about the ecology of the Aranea? It's listed that they can only produce a very limited amount of webbing per day in their statblocks – not enough to trade in it. Are the numbers provided reflected in the lore, or are they perfunctory?
— cluc2020 (@cluc2018) February 16, 2020
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The aranea produce webbing in direct proportion to how much food they ingest. Ere going to bed at night, most exude the webbing they haven’t used during the day (i.e. almost all of it, unless they’ve used some fighting, 2)
…hunting, climbing, or “sticking” tools to their grasps during work that demands such measures), and save it in boxes lined with an ointment that keeps it supple. These collected “sheddings” are woven by skilled elder aranea…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 16, 2020
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…into “sheets” of spidersilk (picture a flexible tablecloth of about the size of a large human warrior’s shield) for trade. So, yes, silk production is slow, but the material produced is so valuable that it’s worth the doing 4)
Many aranea families have indolent elder aunts and uncles who staff the family kitchens all day, and are sampling gluttons, so they, individually, produce a LOT of webbing. (The statblock numbers are a racial average.) #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 16, 2020
Thanks Ed!!! The aranea seem really interesting. I noticed that they also traded in silkworm silk, presumably to supplement (or practice for) their own silk. One assumes they also eat the pupae – do they have any interesting silkworm-based recipes?Silkworm silk interwoven with aranea silk produces a combination with an attractive sheen (highly prized for high-fashion elven, half-elven, and human clothing). The pupae aren't eaten, but left to grow into silkmoths (to produce more larvae/silkworms).#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 16, 2020
Oh, interesting! Do they have some special method of retrieving the cocoon intact without killing the pupae? I’m imagining a mini-mending spell, but I guess that would be somewhat exhausting! Not especially exhausting, as it’s a “collect a basket, take to a table, lay them out, cast a cantrip on them all” task, rotated around among various individuals.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 16, 2020
Ah, I think my head was in 2e mode a bit much (though I am using Jon Winter’s Cantrip proficiency in my games, which gets around issues like this), i.e. a spell slot per cocoon.
One last thing, are aranea able to produce thinner (and thus longer) webs than a ¼”? Thanks so much! Oh, yes. Aranea who produce webbing often soon achieve exacting control over it.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 17, 2020
