Re: (TFT) TFT: Wizard's Guild Membership

[srydzews@ix.netcom.com]

tft@brainiac.com wrote:
> Has anyone actually given some thought to what benefit there 
> is to being a member of the Wizard's Guild?  What good is it 
> for a character to be a member?

Well there's some things listed that the guild does, which reasonably
could be cheaper for members (or more expensive for non-members).
These would include things like learning spells, identifying items, 
and making items.  AW definitely has a "if you got the money we got
the goods" sort of bent.  

But if it's nothing more than a discount deal on services, the ever-
mercenary PC's (somehow, 90% of PC's are always chiselling tightwads) would join or not based on whether they think they'll save money. 
That sort of trivializes the whole thing.  I'd say there are two 
better ways to look at the guild:

1) It's a powerful political organization.  If the PC's want to be involved in influencing matters, getting kickbacks, hobnobbing with
the rich and famous, this is a good way to do it.  Of course, depending on the campaign and the characters, this might not really 
apply.

2) It's a "meeting of the minds".  If you look on magic as an 
evolving science (instead of a C&S-like endless, greedy search for
lost secrets that modern day wizards could never exceed) then this
is the place to be--if you are interested in spell research.  Heck,
you could even have scholarly journals and such.  In AW it details 
the lavish rewards the guild bestows on people who research new 
spells.  Well what exactly does it *do* with these spells when it 
gets them?  Lock them in a vault? How dull. Presumably it distributes 
them, or notes regarding the research of them, to its members (or, 
if you like, the upper levels of its membership).  Also, those that 
don't "stay current" in their field could be faced with penalties on
spell research--either that or they get bonuses on it if they *are* 
members, depending on where you want the baseline to be.


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