Re: (TFT) Hedge Wizardy and industrial magic

[Ed Thorn <prophesor@yahoo.com>]

I have always thought that the prices listed were more
of a price that a PC could get _selling_ an item
short-term, and not the prevailing market price. 
Essentially a sort of guarantee that if you're dumping
a Light Item in a reasonably-large city, _somebody_
will give you 500 for it.

--- ErolB1@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/18/2003 10:41:48 PM Central
> Daylight Time, pvk@oz.net 
> writes:
> 
> 
> > However the rare wizard math offers some other
> obstacles. If 1 in 300 are 
> > wizards, how many of those are IQ 18+ with Lesser
> Magic Item Creation? Of 
> > those IQ 18 wizards, how many are liable to spend
> their time enchanting 
> > Light items so they can sell them for $500 a piece
> to farmers so they can 
> > save money on long-term lantern oil expenses?
> Seems like they'd have many 
> > more important, interesting, and/or profitable
> things to do with their time.
> 
> If those item-enchanting wizards are so rare, then
> your argument leads to the 
> conclusion that they will ask for - and get - much
> more than $500 for the few 
> Light items they produce. 
> 
> I can't use this line of argument for my own
> campaign since I've made wizards 
> somewhat more common (1 per 100-200, rather than 1
> per 300), *and* I've 
> reduced the IQ requirement of Lesser Magic Item to
> IQ 15. But if I did use the 
> "Light items are rare, because the wizards creating
> them are rare" then I'd have a 
> hard time *not* justifying a big price boost, not
> just for Light items, but 
> for all magic items. 
> 
> -- 
> Erol K. Bayburt
> ErolB1@aol.com
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