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  1. #1
    Seb Berendse
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    money and mages

    Going on the thread of Thieves and their huge amounts of money,
    which is by the way not true for all merchants!, one of the players
    in the group I play with came with an intersting idea:
    since they think I have too much money reletive to their holds (yes
    I'm a merchant and indeed my livelyhood is trade and make money, hey
    a priest should think about his flock to guard and to lead, what's
    wrong with money for a merchant?) and they came up with the idea to
    let the mage research a spell or more exactly a reversive one on the
    'change lead into gold bars' spell they use to generate money. I
    don't know if it already exists, but this is a tough one for a
    merchant with 500 GB in his hold, is it not? "And I was sure that all
    this was gold yesterday evening, and now it looks so dull and
    lifeless..."
    What do you say?

    Sebastiaan

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  2. #2
    Franz Berthiller
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    money and mages

    Hi, Seb!

    You wrote:
    >
    > Going on the thread of Thieves and their huge amounts of money,
    > which is by the way not true for all merchants!, one of the players
    > in the group I play with came with an intersting idea:
    > Let the mage research a spell or more exactly a reversive one on the
    > 'change lead into gold bars' spell they use to generate money. I
    > don't know if it already exists, but this is a tough one for a
    > merchant with 500 GB in his hold, is it not? "And I was sure that all
    > this was gold yesterday evening, and now it looks so dull and
    > lifeless..."
    > Sebastiaan

    Look in the rulebook p.82/83. There is a description of the wizard realm
    spell "ALCHEMY". Using this spell a regent wizard can generate wealth by
    spending regency points. (4RP=1GB)

    If you think your mage is far to poor, why not decrease the number of RP
    needed for the spell, to get more cash for his regency?
    I, for my self, think the rule is good, as it is...

    Bye, Franz

  3. #3
    Seb Berendse
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    money and mages

    Ben Ekdahl wrote:
    > Well I play a Mage Regent in our game. My understanding of the Lead to Gold
    > spell was that you needed to be in possesion of said lead. It just seems to
    > fit with alchemy and such. That being my belief, How did they get your Gold?
    > It is only logical that the reverse of the spell would take the same amount
    > of effort. If you don't have to have the lead, where do you go to get your
    > gold?

    Yes, I do agree with you that you still have to be with, or at least
    have hold of the gold in order to be able to change it into lead. But
    since I don't know the exact trouble a Mage regent has te create gold
    from lead, I can't forsee the trouble he'll have with the reverse
    spell. But remember a mage has more than one trick up his sleeve in
    order to get to the gold (if he/she knows where to find it though).
    And if he's there, he can easily (?) make the treasure chest of the
    intended victim some worthless heap, especially if he by some cheap
    way he can lay hands on the Lead Bars when the victim regent puts
    them away. Then he can change them back into gold and he has the lot.
    Since the change process from lead to gold takes many RP's (as I see
    it, it is rather difficult to 'upgrade' the metal) the reverse of the
    spell shouldn't take that much RP's. (I say that even though I fear
    for my own treasure chest.) What do you say?

    Seb

    ************************************************** ***************
    Sebastiaan G.P. Berendse
    148530@student.fbk.eur.nl

    There is a world just around the corner of your mind
    where reality is an intruder and dreams come true.
    You may escape into it at will, you need no secret password,
    magic wand or Alladins Lamp, all you need is your own imagination...
    ************************************************** *******************

  4. #4
    Jonathan Picklesimer
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    money and mages

    On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Franz Berthiller wrote:

    > Hi, Seb!
    >
    > You wrote:
    > >
    > > Going on the thread of Thieves and their huge amounts of money,
    > > which is by the way not true for all merchants!, one of the players
    > > in the group I play with came with an intersting idea:
    > > Let the mage research a spell or more exactly a reversive one on the
    > > 'change lead into gold bars' spell they use to generate money. I
    > > don't know if it already exists, but this is a tough one for a
    > > merchant with 500 GB in his hold, is it not? "And I was sure that all
    > > this was gold yesterday evening, and now it looks so dull and
    > > lifeless..."
    > > Sebastiaan
    >
    > Look in the rulebook p.82/83. There is a description of the wizard realm
    > spell "ALCHEMY". Using this spell a regent wizard can generate wealth by
    > spending regency points. (4RP=1GB)
    >

    I think that his point was to do a reversible alchemy that would convert
    the wealthy regents gold into lead, or some similarly worthless item.

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    Modristo@aol.co
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    In a message dated 97-01-23 16:22:20 EST, you write:

  6. #6
    Modristo@aol.co
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    money and mages

    In a message dated 97-01-23 16:22:20 EST, you write:

  7. #7
    Modristo@aol.co
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    money and mages

    In a message dated 97-01-24 09:03:35 EST, you write:

    >

    yep. I am well familiar with this. My Mage has the blood ability Travel.
    When a Vassal of the baron trashed one of my sources without permission, I
    used Regent site to find where his home was then Traveled to it to give him a
    stern talking to. He was a bit surprised.

    >


    I would have to agree with this. I would think turning gold into lead would
    be alot easier and thus cost less RP.

    Ben

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