Re: control artifacts

bglassco@email.es.cc.va.us
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 02:19:12 -0600

At 12:54 AM 12/10/97 -0500, you wrote:
>> Control devices cost a NP? Why? So much for one of the more desirable
>> treasures in the game if this isn't a bug or a mistake?
>
>If this is true -- I haven't found one yet, neither have my allies --
>I wouldn't be that surprised. Controlled creatures can do much of
>what you'd have a contract noble do, except they don't cost any
>gold to keep loyal. What's the proper value of that service in NP's?
>If you don't like the price, you can sell it to a player who
>does like that price.
>
Note -- they don't cost an NP when you find them in the wild. However,
they are considered to be worth an NP when transferred between factions, so
the faction who gives one away gains one NP and the faction who receives it
loses one. In general, then, the person who found it will tend to stick
with it.

bg

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