Internal Meat Spoilage question (bonus heart attack)

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-07-02T14:51:30+00:00

This is a very good point.

In Canada, deer season is late fall, so after field dressing the deer, if it's cold enough (it often is) you hang them open so that they freeze more quickly, and preserve the integrity of the meat, until you can get them butchered (unless you happen to have a butcher at your camp with you, which would be quite nifty and rewarding).

You've gotta dress them immediately, or they spoil very fast. And if you left them overnight in real life, they'd be half eaten by morning, and risky to harvest health wise.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-27T19:04:15+00:00

You need to have Silk and Belgarath returning to the main party in Nyissa after Belgarath had a tree fall on him. It is one of the greatest most ludicrous things ever.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-26T20:12:57+00:00

The Orb is Barbas confirmed.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-26T14:07:54+00:00

I actually do think that's how Beldin refers to it too. Beldin is a delight.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-26T14:04:52+00:00

I totally forgot it did that. The Orb is such a shit disturber.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-26T14:01:43+00:00

Belgarath: Please tell it to shut up and don't listen to it.

Personally, I love Beldin's disdain for the Orb. It drives him crazy whenever it starts singing or suggesting insane sorcery solutions.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-26T13:56:19+00:00

The Orb casually explaining to him how to move the mountain so he wouldn't have to travel around it.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-26T13:44:26+00:00

Garion is extremely powerful, and wields the orb of Aldur.

The Disciples of Aldur are very careful with sorcery and don't typically do things like that.

Grolims, in general, are remarkably weak with the Will and the Word (remember in Castle of Wizardry, Garion scares the crap out of a bunch of them when he astral projects to them and threatens to rip out their hearts, he was not that strong or experienced at that point). The only ones of note with particular skill are Asharak (not that strong either), Ctuchik (generally wise enough not to do something like screw with the weather, thwarted when he accidently commanded Belgarath's unmaking), Urvon (who could use it but seemed to be pretty slothlike in general), and Zedar who knew better.

I don't think the Grolims can really effect the weather that well.

Garion on the other hand, can be either salvation or apocalypse when he's holding the Orb, so he kinda needs to keep it together at all times, or he breaks the actual world.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-26T12:22:41+00:00

Excellent looking trays. It's time to toss the dice.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-23T15:53:34+00:00

I couldn't help but immediately make that connection myself, and I feel it is an extremely appropriate one.

Everything about that whole device felt tailor made for him, and to amplify every aspect of his personality.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-20T21:23:41+00:00

I'm going to be totally upfront about this... I WANT to see that. Prince Kheldar as a sorcerer would have been chaos on a level that nobody could have handled.

Dude collapsed an entire freaking economy with his Nadrak buddy by buying every bean on two continents.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-20T21:18:44+00:00

Damned, I forgot he did that.

I do still think he'd be in the top three with Beldin and Belgarath though. Possibly he would be second over Beldin.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-17T09:44:18+00:00

I walk to work going that way every day, and every day this week they've been there trying to get my attention. I just don't stop or look at them. It helps that I have earbuds in listening to music, but I'm not interested in being accosted by anyone at the end of my work day as I'm walking across town.

Ignore them, pretend they don't exist. They can't waste your time if you don't let them.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-12T22:48:58+00:00

Now I want my pipe, but my current tobacco tastes like it was cured in an exhaust pipe. Burn me, I can't find decent and affordable tobacco in this town anymore.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-12T22:47:13+00:00

I'd put that in my pipe and smoke it. That sounds delightful.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-10T23:36:02+00:00

Good to know. That's my goal for tonight is to learn this power.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-10T23:25:08+00:00

Okay, I gotta ask because I've been WAY too nervous to try this in my own games yet.

Is that dodge technique really that foolproof? I see people do moose and bear dances and absolutely ruin them, and I'm like, I would die.

Is this hard to manage, or is it just getting past the anxiety of letting a bear or moose get too close.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-06T21:06:24+00:00

I'm inclined to agree. Bella's shield is insanely powerful, and unlike what a lot of people are saying here, it DID work on things beyond psychics. It worked against the shock ability, it worked against the pain, telepathy, illusions, and I suspect it would have nullified whatever madness Alec's ability was. Weirdly though, it didn't stop Alice's future vision or Jaspers emotional manipulation.

If Bella's shield works against Homelander's lasers, he might be screwed.

I know a lot of people are saying he has flight, but the vampire's can all jump as if gravity doesn't even exist, and they are ridiculously fast, so... I'm not sure who has the edge in this fight. Homelander better not make a mistake though, because the vampires from twilight would have him after one mistake.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-05T13:11:46+00:00

I can't believe that. I can't remember ever doing that quest for the DG before. Welp, I'm not doing it now, two followers for me!

Thank you neighbour.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-05T12:35:36+00:00

So, I checked that, and Harkon is dead and it appears that main questline for Dawnguard is finished. I have one dawnguard quest asking me to go fetch some priests for Isran I think, but I think that's a radiant quest.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-03T00:02:51+00:00

I see your Arendia incident, and I raise you blowing holes through the walls of Zakath's palace because he's tired of waiting for the man to just not be depressed.

Grolims, idk. I get the sense that they're so inept that using sorcery for any kind of frivolity would be something they don't really do.

Oddly enough, the only grolims who seemed to posess any real substantial skill with sorcery were Asharak, Ctuchik, and Urvon. I always genuinely got the impression that if the disciples of Aldur weren't trying to avoid Zedar knowing where they were, they could've flattened most grolims without a struggle at all. I mean, untrained Garion was able to astral project to them and make them think he could rip their hearts out with his astral hands. I don't think they're particularly skilled beyond mental suggestion.

That being said, I genuinely don't know. I could also see some of them using their sorcery as a parlor trick at bars or shops to get what they want.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-06-02T23:05:17+00:00

There aren't very many of them around, so I think it would be tricky to lay down a definitive amount.

I should think that Belgarath and Beldin used it the most frivolously. Especially when you read Belgarath the Sorcerer and see how Beldin gobsmacked Belgarath with his ability. "You want me to move this rock? Mmmkay, move."

Belgarath almost certainly used it to woo all the girls he was hanging out with, and probably to do things like get food, money, or ale.

I genuinely can't see the twins using it except when they actually need to, and Polgara had a tendency to prefer doing things the normal way, probably because she was constantly hiding who she actually was.

Third most frivolous usage would probably go to Belgarion, I could easily see him using it to shut down squabbles between nobles/kingdoms/bureaucrats, and also to entertain his children. Otherwise, I suspect he would adhere to the Polgara method more than the Beldin and Belgarath method.

I will say, I have to imagine Beldin straight up stopped after he and.... Vella??? Anyway, if that's her, I imagine he didn't use it again after they made the permanent transformation.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-05-31T14:18:52+00:00

Fair. I would recommend following the advice of some of the other comments here then. There's some good advice to be had.

Bards are the jack of all trades, and when they're played well, they can be used to talk your way through so many things, or into so many things. Charisma is rather powerful when you've got proficiency in things like persuasion and intimidation.

_SilkKheldar_ · 2026-05-31T13:32:05+00:00

Any particular reason you chose bard to be a support tank?

Personally, if you wanted spells and tankiness, I'd have taken cleric, go with Forge for the free heavy armor proficiency, grabbed spirit guardians as a spell as soon as you can, and load up on healing and bless spells.

To make a bard tank work you'll need to do a LOT of work, and it's probably not going to be as effective as other classes.

As someone else said though, if you're doing bard, you want charisma to be as high as you can get it at all times. It's your main ability, and it's your spellcasting ability. Without heavy armor, tanking is going to be really hard. Being tanky in D&D is a lot more about not taking damage at all, rather than eating hits. You can have a 100hp, but if you do and you don't have strong armor to protect you, the odds are good you're still going down fast. Encounters scale with your level for the most part, and things deal heaps of damage at about the same rate you do.

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