Bryan Thexton wrote:
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> weasel that I am)
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> OK, that should do.
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> Finally the magisaur came to visit. I went along with
> my clan chief, specifying provision as the most
> important virtue. When the eggs showed up, I kept
> them, intending to train them as a plough team, to
> raise more grain, to provision the clan.
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> Only problem was, I never got that option! I had the
> choice of training them as beasts of burden or war
> beasts, or of sacrificing them or eating them. Well,
> of those options, eating them would best match the
> provision choice, but I tried to train them as beasts
> of burden anyways, without luck. So now I'm trying,
> without much hope, I admit, to train them as war
> beasts, and to the devil-under-the-block with the
> magisaur.
Beasts of Burden = Plough Team
> My only question is: what do you have to do to have
> the option of training them as a plow team? Perhaps
> the lack of an Uralda worshipper (or Barntar
> worshipper, or anyone identifying themselves as a
> herder) on the clan ring had something to do with it?
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Having a person with REALLY good Animal skill on the ring helps, nay is essential. I suspect that having Herd Magic up that year might work wonders too.
Jeff
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