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random comments on The Enchantress of Dzur Mountain: Spoilers

Steve Simmons scs at di.org
Wed Apr 14 11:39:24 PDT 2004

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:27:16AM -0700, Jerry Friedman wrote:

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> > 8. Morrolan can't have much to strive for after killing a god.  And why
> > doesn't he go into battle with the J with one of those vorpal-blade
> > enchantment enhancements?
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> He can still strive for killing a Jenoine.

Two possibilities I see here -

The Great Weapons were *designed* to kill gods, so it's probably
not a major surprise that they're good at it.  And if the god in
this case was mostly unaware that a Great Weapon was involved,
he might have taken some chances that weren't warranted.

The other is that the gods are rather like the Jenoine.  When
they're ready in advance to face a Great Weapon (cf Pathfinders
and Blackwands effectiveness in ISSOLA), they can defend quite
well.  But if it's a surprise (cf Godslayer in ISSOLA), they
are in deep fecal matter.