(TFT) TFT: Magic Item Creation

[Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>]

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>>>>   Mike, what problems do you have with the magic item creation system
in
>>>>Advanced Wizard?  

Here are some of the questions I find painful:
How much is a +1 DX sword worth? 
How much is ANY magic item worth!
How many wizards do you need to create an item? Do they sleep, rest, eat,
etc...
How many apprentices? Do they sleep, rest, eat, etc...
How much fST can you create in a day? Is that in eight hours? 16 hours? 
Can you rush it? 

Things like that. The whole potion and magic item value tables seem
horribly messy to me and arbitrary to me. I'd like to be able to compare
the amount of work that went into the creation of any two magic items, but
it seems like this varies according to the rolls 
each time a magic item is made. 


>>>>   Now the range modifier system in Advanced Melee -- /that's/ messed
up.
>>>>/Four/ different mechanics to determine a DX penalty due to range: One
for
>>>>Missile Weapons/Spells, one for Thrown Weapons, one for Lobbing
Molotails
>>>>and Gas Bombs, and one for Long-Distance Missile Weapons.  Pretty
clumsy,
>>>>but this was back in the days before unified logarithmic range scales. 
(See
>>>>my solution here . . .)

That doesnt bother me so much. I like the work you've done but the problem
is that the two most important ones (-1/Mh and -1/hex) are easier to
remember than a table...

Michael 

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