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In Which Korvosans Rally & The Dead Envy The Living
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Various Glowlarions - being written by people who feel the sting of certain questions more keenly than did any of Paizo's staff - have a bevy of different nerfs to the spell. In some Glowlarions you can't have more than one clone (have I mentioned that by default you can have more than one clone?) or it's more expensive rather than less expensive to cast than raise dead (have I mentioned that clone is cheaper to cast than raise dead?) and in one popular take the spell is only useful if cast after death, which is to say, it's hardly of any use at all. (Except for the part where it costs a fifth as much as raise dead and doesn't take diamonds.)

Short of removing the spell entirely, none of these fixes are strong enough to allow the murders of Eodred or Infrexus or Terendelev... who all tend to die in Glowlarions to the same things that kill them in canon.

So what's our fix?

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Just REMOVE it ENTIRELY.

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It's been mentioned in the thread that Toff and Togomor have clones.

And I don't want to remove it as an option for sufficiently powerful wizards - it's a Core spell, it's a classic. 

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Then say it was invented YESTERDAY.

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This version of Golarion is experiencing an advancing state-of-the-art in wizardry, because in this version of Golarion a majority of wizards have invented some useful or useless spell or three and they do ever swap or steal or share. But clone is an eighth-circle spell; it'd have to have been invented by an eighth-circle caster. There are fewer eighth-circles than there are firsts, and consequently, the state of the art in high-circle wizardry hasn't advanced much recently at all.

Furthermore, high-level spells spread more slowly than low-level ones; whoever invented clone would have had many reasons to keep it safe and secret.

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Clone was invented TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO, and has been SLOWLY percolating since then. It has become GRADUALLY less obscure and less JEALOUSLY GUARDED. 

It is NOW widely known as one spell which exists at EIGHTH-CIRCLE, like DISCERN LOCATION and TRAP THE SOUL, but it is STILL unevenly distributed and was even MORE so FIFTY or even TWENTY YEARS ago.

FURTHERMORE you may only have ONE clone and it is more expensive than TRUE RESURRECTION and bestows EIGHT NEGATIVE LEVELS or TWELVE points of CONSTITUTION DRAIN and it DOES NOT WORK ON DRAGONS.

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Hm, I'm going to say that it only does the normal two negative levels if you were the one who cast the spell. It's cheaper too - closer to the 1,000 gp than to 25,000.

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Salgar Irevotnin does not wake up in his clone, because he hasn't got a clone.

He'll need a raise dead.

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Is anyone going to stop Togomor from swiftly stoving in Toff's skull with this quarterstaff and teleporting himself out of this mess with Toff's body and everything on it?

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This guy sure won't!

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But Rem Ornelos will!!

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Oh, wow! Aren't you just loyaler than a struck dog! And back on your feet already?

The gods must have spent longer soldering your nerves than they spent on all Toff's usual mooks combined. Point your chin at the ceiling, little guy! 

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I am a Lord of House Ornelos. You will answer in blood for the insult you've done us.

Also, I'm proficient with martial weapons and you're inside an antimagic field.

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But who's that behind you? A friend of yours?

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What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?

Turn thee, Rem Ornelos; look upon thy death.

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I'm going to level with you, chaps, I don't actually keep track of who's who in feuding Korvosa.

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I do but keep the peace! Put up thy sword,

Or manage it to part these men with me!

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What, drawn and talk of peace?

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I hate the word.

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As I hate Hell, all Orneloses, and thee.

Have at thee, coward!

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It seems there are still old scores and new to settle, within this Vault.

Best to get it out of your system, I guess. Let me know when y'all are done.

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CLUBS, BILLS, AND PARTISANS! STRIKE! BEAT THEM DOWN!

Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace

Profaners of the neighbor-stained steel—

Will they not hear?—What ho! You men, you beasts,

That quench the fire of your pernicious rage

With purple fountains issuing from your veins:

On pain of torture, from those bloody hands

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THROW YOUR MISTEMPERED WEAPONS TO THE GROUND!

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(Cressida Kroft has been extricated from the pile.)

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Togomor has a trick to dismiss his antimagic field and escape in the same round, by teleport or into the Ethereal. But he can't do that, kill Toff, and pick up all of his items in one round.

Also, with this many wizards watching, they'd immediately know how he did it, and his method is a secret he'd like to keep if he can.

Right now, within an antimagic field, the worst that can happen to him is that he's killed by hitpoint damage and wakes up in his clone. With the downside capped, he might as well stick around and see what upside he can win.

With only the slightest (visible) reluctance, he'll take his weight off of Toff Ornelos. 

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