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06-18-1998, 11:23 PM #11kirbyvalor@juno.com (BreGuest
Lieutenants
>>>I think the question was "do you have to pay".
>>and?
>"if so how much"
As a player, I can't give any exact answer, but in the CD ROM game,
at least, you pay one gold bar per level and you have their 100% complete
loyalty. You might try that in the game, after all, if you pay a 5th
level mage 5 gold bars (10,000 gold coins, right?) I think he would be oh
so happy to be your loyal lieutenant. Just a thought.
Take care,
Kirby
Valor above all
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06-19-1998, 09:46 PM #12prtr02@scorpion.nspco.coGuest
Lieutenants
> >>>I think the question was "do you have to pay".
>
> >>and?
>
> >"if so how much"
>
> As a player, I can't give any exact answer, but in the CD ROM game,
> at least, you pay one gold bar per level and you have their 100% complete
> loyalty. You might try that in the game, after all, if you pay a 5th
> level mage 5 gold bars (10,000 gold coins, right?) I think he would be oh
> so happy to be your loyal lieutenant. Just a thought.
>
For all but a True mage I would agree. True Mages are so rare as to demand
their price. For a level 2 or 3 true mage to come and be your pet landed
wizard I can see it- but for a higher level (5+) wielder of land magic they
might become an ally but not a lt.
We used the 1 GB/level rule in a campaign (not mine) until someone hired a
level 6 mage for 6 GB and threw the whole campaign out of whack. Remember there's only about 140 of these folks around (of whom about 50 are elves) so the pool
of talent is pretty small. Most of these are already accounted for in published material- leading to another Randaxian rule- only one PC true mage allowed at
any one time. The player who wants to play a true mage must develop a
background story and explain why s/he's on the open market. I've run whole
stretches of my BR campaign without a MU in the party. No problem.
Randax
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06-19-1998, 10:00 PM #13Pieter A de JongGuest
Lieutenants
At 04:46 PM 6/19/98 -0500, Randax wrote:
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>> >>>I think the question was "do you have to pay".
>>
>> >>and?
>>
>> >"if so how much"
>>
>> As a player, I can't give any exact answer, but in the CD ROM game,
>> at least, you pay one gold bar per level and you have their 100% complete
>> loyalty. You might try that in the game, after all, if you pay a 5th
>> level mage 5 gold bars (10,000 gold coins, right?) I think he would be oh
>> so happy to be your loyal lieutenant. Just a thought.
>>
>For all but a True mage I would agree. True Mages are so rare as to demand
>their price. For a level 2 or 3 true mage to come and be your pet landed
>wizard I can see it- but for a higher level (5+) wielder of land magic they
>might become an ally but not a lt.
>
>We used the 1 GB/level rule in a campaign (not mine) until someone hired a
>level 6 mage for 6 GB and threw the whole campaign out of whack. Remember
there's only about 140 of these folks around (of whom about 50 are elves) so
the pool
>of talent is pretty small. Most of these are already accounted for in
published material- leading to another Randaxian rule- only one PC true mage
allowed at
>any one time. The player who wants to play a true mage must develop a
>background story and explain why s/he's on the open market. I've run whole
>stretches of my BR campaign without a MU in the party. No problem.
>
Normally, I would not get involved in this thread. As far as I personally
am concerned, a lt.'s maintenance is part of the normal maintenance you pay
on your holdings. Eg. The lt. is your castle seneschal/guild
secretary/clerical assistant, whom you support by providing a castle/guild
hall/temple to live in and a place at the table when you eat, etc. I do not
normally allow true mage lt's as they are far to uncommon for non-elven
rulers. Magicians are a special case that have not come up yet in my
campaign.
However, Randax, I have questions regarding your statement regarding true
mages. You suggest that there are " about 140 of these folks around (of
whom about 50 are elves)". I must ask are you referring to blooded mages
when you say true mages or are there more human wizards than elven wizards
in your campaign. In my campaign the number of human blooded wizards is
approximately the same the number of blooded elven wizards, simply because
magical training is more available in the elven kingdoms.
Pieter A de Jong
Graduate Mechanical Engineering Student
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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