I share Sidous's unease with the casual disregard he displays to something like channeler strength, the identificaiton of individual angreal etc.
I'm curious about why people find relative strengths in the One Power to be so interesting. Being a physicist of the theoretical orientation, I absolutely agree that it can be interesting to study something with little or no practical application, but I've never had that much interest in strength. I'll happily discuss other aspects of the One Power, though, such as <a href="http://www.readandfindout.com/wheeloftime/messageboard/243534/">how Traveling became a lost Talent</a>. If anyone can shed some light on why they are interested in One Power strength, I'd be happy to read it.
That's the kind of the stuff I find absolutely facinating.
Was Darth Revan more powerful than Darth Sidious? How does Darth Bane compare to Darth Vader?
Who is the most powerful mage in the Forgotten Realms? Is it Elminster, Karsus of Netheril, Khelben Blackstaff?
How does Demandred compare to Sammael?
What is the total potential size of the North's armies vs that of the Lannisters or Dorne?
How many ships can the Manderly's support vs the city of Braavos?
How much more gold does Tywin Lannister have than House Stark?
I just find the ability to rank competitors in a hierarchical and proportionate order incredibly interesting.
Seems like most Greyhawk wizards could mop the floor with Frealms denizens, but he would be particularly hard to beat since his player literally wrote 90% of the grimoire (along with all the other rules.) If nothing else, he could chunk Mordys Dis around until Elminster were no more than an anemic fighter with an AC that looked like first level THAC0 (and vice versa.)
Of course, since Greyhawk and Faerun are separate worlds, Mordenkainen can never confront Elminster, which is the biggest problem with "who would win a fight between..." debates: The very premise is usually so implausible, if not impossible, as to moot the discussion; it does not matter who would win a fight that can never be. Worse, the nature of the hypothetical battle between fictional foes precludes resolution of both battle and debate. Elminster throwing down with Khelben is even less likely than Egwene and Elayne flinging balefire at each other, or Mat and Rand dueling to the death. Rand COULD conceivably end up in mortal combat with Gawyn, and if Egwene (or Elayne, for that matter) is turned by a circle via Myrddraal, that could also happen, but even those are of dubious likelihood because of how they would impact the narrative. Any competition divorced from the narrative is divorced from relevance, making the whole thought-experiment diverting (or diversion,) but pointless.
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Very interesting QA with Brandon
20/04/2012 11:19:02 PM
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I found it painful to read
21/04/2012 09:53:31 AM
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Agreed ... He got some softball questions here and couldn't answer them ... But there is a lot
22/04/2012 04:26:27 AM
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Re: Agreed ... He got some softball questions here and couldn't answer them ... But there is a lot
22/04/2012 08:06:38 AM
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Re: Agreed ... He got some softball questions here and couldn't answer them ... But there is a lot
22/04/2012 02:39:41 PM
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Re: Very interesting QA with Brandon
22/04/2012 02:53:38 AM
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This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
23/04/2012 09:50:51 AM
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Re: This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
23/04/2012 02:39:30 PM
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I think you may be giving RJ more credit than his due here
24/04/2012 10:35:28 PM
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Re: This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
24/04/2012 05:46:03 AM
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Re: This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
24/04/2012 08:10:15 AM
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It's got little to do with obsession...
25/04/2012 01:20:48 AM
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Re: It's got little to do with obsession...
25/04/2012 05:05:40 PM
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Re: It's got little to do with obsession...
27/04/2012 12:58:36 AM
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Question about TGS and ToM:
27/04/2012 02:20:34 AM
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Very similar to you
27/04/2012 09:50:52 PM
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Are there plans for rewrites / reordering of the books?
29/04/2012 01:17:48 PM
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of course there's no plan
30/04/2012 06:15:49 AM
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Egwene...
27/04/2012 05:41:13 AM
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Re: Egwene...
27/04/2012 09:30:32 PM
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Re: Egwene...
28/04/2012 09:44:43 AM
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I don't find it all that surprising
28/04/2012 03:56:41 PM
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Re: I don't find it all that surprising
29/04/2012 08:07:55 AM
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Re: I don't find it all that surprising
30/04/2012 07:54:14 AM
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I suspect Cadsuane will die before that happens
30/04/2012 07:06:04 PM
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Re: I suspect Cadsuane will die before that happens
30/04/2012 08:36:44 PM
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Not sure Cadsuane will ever be reigned in by anyone
01/05/2012 01:18:44 AM
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Re: Egwene...
30/04/2012 07:41:11 AM
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Re: Egwene...
01/05/2012 07:10:35 PM
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Re: Egwene...
01/05/2012 10:51:09 PM
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Re: This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
01/05/2012 12:08:33 AM
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Re: This certainly makes a mockery of a lot that us 20-year long readers of Wot used to hold dear...
24/04/2012 10:49:54 PM
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For me it's interesting simply because it is not all that well defined
24/04/2012 11:16:14 PM
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Elminster vs Karsus, Darth Vader vs Darth Revan, Demandred vs Sammael - who has more midichloriants.
25/04/2012 03:13:17 PM
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MORDENKAINEN IS AN UNSTOPPABLE JUGGERNAUT!!!
04/05/2012 05:40:33 PM
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