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Kawheek was originally a d20 monk instead of a FFRP character; consequently, I have his stats for his early-low mid levels from the game(and a rough blueprint of his progression from there, all the way to level 20). Savage Species is, unfortunately, a horrendously BROKEN book and didn't do the furry community any favors with its builds for anthro animals.
As a practical matter, between being a Monk, having levels in Monstrous Humanoid, having a high Wisdom(from the broken species build, and from being a Monk so it's a core stat), Kawheek started play with a bonus to his Will saves of +11, making him almost invulnerable to level-appropriate attempts to influence his mind.
And as a certain demon here is finding out, that meditation and strong will DEFINITELY pays off when someone is trying to possess you. Seems he hasn't encountered anyone with THIS much self control before, but that's his problem.
Maybe Kaw should have carried the One Ring to Mordor instead of Frodo?
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catmonkshiro (original at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8377545/)
Kawheek copyright me.
As a practical matter, between being a Monk, having levels in Monstrous Humanoid, having a high Wisdom(from the broken species build, and from being a Monk so it's a core stat), Kawheek started play with a bonus to his Will saves of +11, making him almost invulnerable to level-appropriate attempts to influence his mind.
And as a certain demon here is finding out, that meditation and strong will DEFINITELY pays off when someone is trying to possess you. Seems he hasn't encountered anyone with THIS much self control before, but that's his problem.
Maybe Kaw should have carried the One Ring to Mordor instead of Frodo?
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catmonkshiro (original at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8377545/)Kawheek copyright me.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Transformation
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The silly thing for me is that Gandalf had an eagle he could have called upon. A rideable eagle. Who owed him a favor. Even if the eagle couldn't be depended upon to transport and drop a ring on target, it'd certainly speed the journey up for a hobbit and provide an early warning of any nearby orc armies.
Oh, perhaps, but there's a thread running through The Lord Of The Rings that magic can't do much on its' own. Hobbits and Men and Elves and Dwarves and Orcs decide battles and wars, even if Wizards and Nazgul influence them.
Incidentally, I'm doing a Lord of the Rings fanfic with an interesting premise: Saruman with guns. I've tried to make it as accurate as possible (bessmer process, Springfield-pattern rifle, percussion shells, miltrailleuse and dragoons, oh my).
Incidentally, I'm doing a Lord of the Rings fanfic with an interesting premise: Saruman with guns. I've tried to make it as accurate as possible (bessmer process, Springfield-pattern rifle, percussion shells, miltrailleuse and dragoons, oh my).
There IS magic running as a thread through, yes, but it's all "augmenting" magic if you see what I mean. Gandalf, say. His magic is in little things like lighting his staff, igniting pine cones, throwing his voice... and also in inspiring the Free Peoples.
Similarly, the Witch-King of Angmar causes despair to the Free Peoples and inspires his Orcs onwards. The siege of Minas Tirith reads as much like a battle of wills between the two of them as it does like a clash of armies - and there is hardly any magical pyrotechnics going on. Low level stuff, in D&D terms.
Make no mistake, Middle Earth is a world filled with magic... but the magic is not the decisive element. No Elf or Wizard can endure the draw of the One Ring, but two Hobbits can. The Witch King is defeated by a mortal woman and a Hobbit, and while a barrow-blade is involved it is not what deals the decisive blow.
Shadowfax is a magical horse. The Rohirrim do not, however, have magical horses - their horses act like normal horses, with a short charge distance, though that's augmented by how the Lord of the Rings is not a story but an account. It reads like the Matter of France or the Matter of Britain, in short like a legend.
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new tire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
Tolkein was an english professor - his intent was to create a legendarium and a mythological account of european prehistory.
And we must not forget that, in the close of the Return of the King, the Elves and Wizards either pass on or pass into the west. By the end of the epilogue, much of the magic has gone from Middle-Earth.
Similarly, the Witch-King of Angmar causes despair to the Free Peoples and inspires his Orcs onwards. The siege of Minas Tirith reads as much like a battle of wills between the two of them as it does like a clash of armies - and there is hardly any magical pyrotechnics going on. Low level stuff, in D&D terms.
Make no mistake, Middle Earth is a world filled with magic... but the magic is not the decisive element. No Elf or Wizard can endure the draw of the One Ring, but two Hobbits can. The Witch King is defeated by a mortal woman and a Hobbit, and while a barrow-blade is involved it is not what deals the decisive blow.
Shadowfax is a magical horse. The Rohirrim do not, however, have magical horses - their horses act like normal horses, with a short charge distance, though that's augmented by how the Lord of the Rings is not a story but an account. It reads like the Matter of France or the Matter of Britain, in short like a legend.
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new tire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.
Tolkein was an english professor - his intent was to create a legendarium and a mythological account of european prehistory.
And we must not forget that, in the close of the Return of the King, the Elves and Wizards either pass on or pass into the west. By the end of the epilogue, much of the magic has gone from Middle-Earth.
That's something you admittedly don't see much in TF art since I think the loss of control is part of the appeal to a lot of people, myself occasionally included, but seeing a TF only mostly succeed on the physical front while being completely ineffective mentally is quite refreshing. Would he still wind up physically TFing all the way, just with control of himself, or would he be able to reverse that too?
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