(TFT) RE: Hedge Wizards --> cost of lamps oil potions & other stuff.

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 13:11 -0400 9/19/03, Erol wrote:

> If there aren't enough Light items to supply everyone who would buy them at
> $500 each, then most people will burn lamp oil instead,

I wasn't clear when I kicked off this discussion. Light items are 
great, and IMHO a necessary feature of dwarven cities and dungeons 
and etc., but what I was mainly talking about was the Light *spell*. 
1 ST / 24 hours, and only IQ 8 to learn. A farmer could send his 
bumpkin son (wizard or not!) off to the Wizard's guild to learn it 
for a pretty reasonable price (like, be an apprentice during the 
Winter), and he could come back and light up the barn, the house, and 
the stables every night before he turned in - for life, for free 
(well, the fST might make him hungrier....).

The feature that sets the spell apart from the item is the IQ 
required to cast it (and no Wizard's workshop, to a lesser degree). 
That puts the spell within reach of almost anyone. Heck, with a 
Grimoire and a Wizard's chest, it is within reach of *any* town 
Wizard - maybe the town Wizard is paid by innkeepers to make rounds 
every evening (or send his bumpkin apprentice?) and Light up their 
signs.

So although I'd expect Light items to be pretty prevalent, I'd expect 
Light *spells* to be the main light-pollution issue Cidrian 
astronomers face.
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