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

["Ed Thorn" <prophesor@yahoo.com>]

Considering the major fire threat some cities faced, there is at least some
societal drive for this to occur.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Tapley" <mtapley@swri.edu>
To: <tft@brainiac.com>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: (TFT) RE: Hedge Wizards --> cost of lamps oil potions & other
stuff.


> 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.
> --
> - Mark
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