Re: (TFT) New file on Economics of Wishes in TFT.

[Peter von Kleinsmid <pvk@oz.net>]

Well-reasoned and very cool. Have you run some numbers to see what 
the new cost/effect/odds are for wizards of different IQ levels using 
this system?

I too had very few if any wizards with IQ 35+ in my TFT campaign 
worlds (even as the pinnacle wizards). Also very few wishes existing 
or being used. Like most high-level magic items, potions, spells, 
etc., wishes were very rarely just on sale.

Clearly though you're right that there does need to be a persistent 
danger, or else there's a point (as you identified at IQ 35) where a 
wizard could crank wishes out with practically no risk. I'm sure they 
wouldn't then go selling them for $200 though. Probably they'd use 
their IQ 35 to think of something much more useful to do (for their 
own ends) with a pile or wishes... which would seem to be a possible 
power dynamic for the campaign to be concerned with, if it's true.

I realized pretty early on when players started heading for town 
wizards' guilds trying to buy stuff, that it didn't make sense for 
much strong magic to be available for general sale. After all, it 
takes a very rare and very powerful wizard, and often a team of 
apprentices, components, time, risk, etc., to make such things, and 
powerful wizards are smart and have their own interests and things 
they'd like to do, other than sell a wish (or even a simple magic 
item) to some random person. And, any items a wizard or the guild 
might actually want to sell, they'd probably tend to sell to 
influential people in their community, such as another wizard, or a 
duke. They also probably have a waiting list of people who want to 
buy magic. As for the "market" price, as Advanced Wizard says, magic 
(especially powerful magic) would be a seller's market, with the book 
prices being more of a minimum, tending up towards whatever someone 
has and is willing to pay.

PvK

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