"A Song of Ice and Fire" characters

[sir_pudding]

On that note Mormont's raven might be IQ 16+ before the racial adjustment.

[Lamech]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

Is there anyone you would put in that 17 or better range for IQ? I just wanted an example to put in the extraordinary range.

I'm guessing some of the maesters will probably have high end intelligence. Especially since high IQ really means "broad range of high IQ skills", and that is something the maesters have. The sphinx I believe was mentioned as quickly picking up links of the sphinx's chain.

[Wildcat]

Originally Posted by Lamech

I'm guessing some of the maesters will probably have high end intelligence. Especially since high IQ really means "broad range of high IQ skills", and that is something the maesters have. The sphinx I believe was mentioned as quickly picking up links of the sphinx's chain.

I guess I could see Aemon having very high IQ, but he's the only maester we've met that I would put quite that high (at least as of the start of A Storm of Swords; I really need to do catch up on my reading this weekend).

[Plane]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Tyrion at ST 7 does run into problems with encumbrance in full harness and Min ST with an axe at the Battle of the Blackwater that I'm not sure is actually supportable in the text.

After Catelyn cuts the rope holding his wrists together, he still appears to need 2 hands to use a shield designed for 1-handed use. He appears to add a 2nd hand for support almost immediately after picking it up. B273/B287 doesn't list ST requirements for shields, nor does LT116, but maybe if the weight of a shield exceeded your basic lift then you would need to use 2 hands to wield it as if it were one-handed?

ST7 would give BL9.8 (only allowing light @ 2lbs or small @8lbs) but 2H lift is 19.6 pounds which would open up the medium's 15lb weight (large still off limits at 25). In terms of the adjusted LT116 weights, this would open up:
1) the Comanche
2) the Large Shield (Light)
3) the Homerick Buckler (Medium)
4) the Medium Shield (Heavy)
5) the Argive Shield
6) the Roman Scutum (medium)
7) the Heater Shield
8) the Kite Shield
9) the Dueling Long Shield

Only the Homerick Buckler (Large) and Large Shield (Heavy) and Roman Scutum (Large) still being off limits at 20/20/22.

Not sure what type of shield he used, it's shown here in season 1.

That or maybe it's possible to use Defensive Grip with shields to apply 2 hands and get +1 damage for -2 to hit? His thrust would be so low he'd need it to avoid 0-damage.

After he bashes the guy in the groin and his foe suffers knockdown, I notice he shifts his grip to the top of the shield (rather than the handles) to get better leverage to strike downward. This would expose his fingers to people striking the shield from the front/top but actually places them further away from a lying-down foe.

Is that maybe a possible combination of Defensive Grip with Reverse Grip? I don't think you can normally combine those grips to get a +2 damage but maybe a Perk could allow it and Tyrion would'be bought the perk since as a low-ST dwarf he would want to maximize all possible ways to enhance his damage.

[Gadget]

looks like a Norman/Saxon Kite sheild

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by Plane

After Catelyn cuts the rope holding his wrists together, he still appears to need 2 hands to use a shield designed for 1-handed use. He appears to add a 2nd hand for support almost immediately after picking it up. B273/B287 doesn't list ST requirements for shields, nor does LT116, but maybe if the weight of a shield exceeded your basic lift then you would need to use 2 hands to wield it as if it were one-handed?

I understood this to be not because he wasn't strong enough, but because the shield was too big...

[Plane]

Originally Posted by Gadget

looks like a Norman/Saxon Kite sheild

That has a weight of 18, so even if we estimated Tyrion at 8 as Wildcat suggested, or 9 as NineDaysDead posited, that would only boost BL from 9.8 to 13 or 16.

Tyrion might have the Lifting skill to get him past the finishing line?

Dwarfism seems suited for shield use since reach-1 would change shields from a Range 1 to Range C weapon, allowing you to bash enemies in Close Combat without needing to take the -4 to hit for "Long Weapons in Close Combat".