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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2015-07-21 03:32 pm

Enter Virgil!

For an upcoming 13th Age campaign, I didn't want to play another low wisdom murder hobo, so without getting into details the GM might object to, I will be playing a sorcerer whose wisdom is above average (1) and who has a really good reason to start totting up points on the good side of the ledger.


1: Granted, only his third best stat. It's his physical stats that are merely average.

[identity profile] timgueguen.livejournal.com 2015-07-22 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't be the only one who saw the post title and immediately wondered if you had acquired another feline companion.

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2015-07-22 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
No more cats, please. I have enough.
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[identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com 2015-07-22 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Enough" is a flexible concept. For me, zero cats would be "enough." But my wife has five. I avoid the question of whether she thinks she has enough.

After I am dead, I fear, she will acquire more and my legacy will be spent on cat food.

[identity profile] stoutfellow.livejournal.com 2015-07-22 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Too many" is likewise flexible. When I adopted my Yorkie Gracie, the paperwork informed me that the previous owners had "too many pets". In the years since, observing Gracie's behavior, I have debated whether "too many" meant "two"... or "one".

[identity profile] scott-sanford.livejournal.com 2015-07-23 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Conservation laws suggest that when you go you will be replaced with an equal mass of cats. Or, I suppose, fewer cats if they are moving at high enough speed...

[identity profile] seth ellis (from livejournal.com) 2015-07-22 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"low wisdom murder hobo" = the Punisher?

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2015-07-22 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Among others, yes.

[identity profile] graydon saunders (from livejournal.com) 2015-07-22 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Is this character deliberately a riff off the Medieval ascription of sorcerous powers to the poet Virgil?

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2015-07-22 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope.

[identity profile] ian wright (from livejournal.com) 2015-07-22 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
A high-wisdom murder hobo? Sounds like a high-status premodern warrior: Kill people, take their stuff, and then compose poetry about it.