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Was good so far. Looking forward to more. I’m not super familiar with D&d but liked it.
Either both of these are meant to be four-
-or this is meant to be five. I'm not really sure which one is the case since I've never played DnD, though I am familiar with its mechanics and basic rules.
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Oh um, I'm not sure what you mean tbh, NMM was so far out of his league he leveled up twice, so he had to do the level 4 features then the level 5 features
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I'm not entirely sure either. In fairness, I woke up like half an hour before I made that comment. It probably makes sense and I failed a reading comprehension check.
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Ay it happens, I tried to add some more line breaks and spacing to make it easier on the eyes, there should be a big gap between LEVEL UP and Level 4 features then a big gap between level 4 and level 5
Nice to see 2 levels up in 1 go.
Ignis should try the sending again, in case earth is on another plane and he was just unlucky with the 5% chance of failure (or if earth's dimensional barriers are thicker, it has a higher chance of failure as stated in an old adventure from a past edition that involved d&d adventurers going to the real life city of London for a little bit).
Speaking of the adventure I alluded to, it was an AD&D adventure which was published in issue 100 of the Dragon magazine. I have the link to a google drive pdf here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1woFM9iSMDkyc44Gf-uKiERA7YKmoqd9b/view?usp=drivesdk
The adventure's cover page is pg.47 and it is called "The City Beyond The Gate"
The sending rules of AD&D appear to work on an increasing chance of failure for "planes of separation", and counts earth as an extra 6 planes of separation between others, with 5% per plane, so if you follow those rule there would likely be a 30% chance minimum of sending failing. (I'd say it should be 30 to 35 percent chance, depending on if you are taking the 5% chance of failure into account for the original casting)
Sorry about the weird extra-nerdy Earth planar knowledge, I had just happened to be looking up the relevent information 7 weeks ago and thought I'd share it here.
11910910 I haven't read this story, but as a self-styled D&D aficionado (who much prefers earlier versions of the game to the current 5th Edition...except 4E, which I dislike even more) who keeps an eye on other D&D fics here, I have to tip my hat to you for recalling that notation about sending re: "The City Beyond the Gate." Very good catch, there.
It's in that spirit that I'll point out that sending only has escalating chances of failure per plane removed in the spell's AD&D 1E presentation (originally in Dragon issue #68 and subsequently in the 1985 supplement Unearthed Arcana). After that, every iteration of the spell (including AD&D 2E) made it a flat 5% chance of failure of reaching out to someone on another plane, regardless of what other plane they were on.
Likewise, the presentation of Earth in "The City Beyond the Gate," where it has no magic (but allows extant magic to be used there), is just one of several instances of Earth as portrayed in D&D, almost all of which have different rules about how magic works there. For instance, as I recall (I confess I haven't gone back to check), the lack of magic is presented even more stringently in IM1 The Immortal Storm, to the point where only certain Immortal (i.e. godly) powers work there. By contrast, the presentation of Earth in the seven Historical Reference sourcebooks of AD&D 2E varied considerably (sometimes even within the same book, as more than one of those supplements offered different options for how prevalent magic was). That's also markedly different from "Gothic Earth" in the AD&D 2E Masque of the Red Death setting (which had an explicit tie-in with the Historical Reference series presented in the article "Seeds of Evil" in Dragon issue #249).
All of which is to say that there's some wiggle room for interpretation with how things are operating here.
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That's understandable. I had not gone that far in my research. Thanks for the knowledge.
Canterlot, friend. Unless you've changed it so camels live there instead of ponies.![:trollestia:](https://static.fimfiction.net/images/emoticons/trollestia.png)
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What the hell.... How has no one pointed this out before?? Lmao ty