Re: Increasing abilities [was: Wealth]

From: Wulf Corbett <wulfc_at_...>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:54:46 -0000

> Consider what happens if the dragon's wealth is cast into a large
> gold cube. The Hero can cement this new item, to gain an Enormous
> Gold Cube 10W2 (say) ability, for only 1 HP. But heaven forbid that
> the Hero should spend 1 HP to cement the benefit as Wealth 10W2 (or
> even, Wealth +10).

Actually, even this I wouldn't mind too much (although I'd prefer cementing 'found/aquired' valuables directly as Wealth, you could use this to Augment Wealth).

What I DO object to is the situation, after a cattle raid, of cementing the cattle 'Herd of 5 cattle XX' - for a start, what would that 'XX' be? Secondly, after a couple more raids, you'd have 'Herd of 5 cattle XX', 'Herd of 3 cattle YY' and Herd of 10 cattle ZZ'. So, how do I put them all into 'Herd of 18 cattle XYZ'? And what's XYZ?

Oh, and before the usual answers all crop up at once, XX YY & ZZ are all AFTER everyone else has ripped off their share, AFTER all the relationships have been spiced up, and AFTER all the other artificial reasons why Wealth =/= wealth.

Wulf

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