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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1599823" data-attributes="member: 4910">Their fashion sense.  Hmm.  Maybe take a note from that Cloaker Lord/Conclave of Shadows thing, where they form a group mind.Cloakers have a very hard time understanding individuality.  To a cloaker there is no real difference between "me" and "we".  Cloaker A is a cloaker, Cloaker B is a cloaker - that's the end of it.  Human Adventurer A is not a cloaker, Drow Merchant B is not a cloaker - and as far as the cloakers are concerned, they both belong to the same group: Not Us.  They just assume that those humanoids, no matter how diverse they are, are all part of the same collective whole, and they don't understand why or how the various sub-groups interrellate.  It's just alien to them.  They don't learn wizardy because not being able to differentiate between who the magic is affecting is crippling to them.  A Range<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />ersonal spell should affect this cloaker; but those cloakers and this cloaker are the same, so this cloaker's spell should be affecting them as well.  So it tries to spread a range<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />ersonal spell's effect over the entire group and the spell just fails.  It would try to have a ray spell affect all its foes equally, and fail.  It would try to have an area spell only affect its foes and not include its allies or non-enemy objects, and fail.  They don't go and try to conquer the surface because well... there's a whole lot more Not Us, than there are Us.  The Not Us would win, easily.  So it's best not to try.</blockquote>

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