Re: Enhancing Magic

C.M. Yearsley (cmy@cs.keele.ac.uk)
Mon, 29 Nov 1993 15:06:40 +0000 (GMT)

>
> I would have though that the magical spell 'Locate Artifact' would be a simpler
> way of tracking these things down. Probably limited range, but could be
> targeted anywhere.
>

Yes

> The more mana you pump in, the higher % chance of locating a region which has
> one (or more) arifacts in it. You still have to send someone there to explore
> it to find it, of course.
>

Yes

> But hey, you wanted ways for Mages to make money - locating and selling
> (warlike) artifacts is as good as any.
>

Yes! Although as artifacts will probably be rarer and more 'special' than
gates, perhaps the spell should be less precise than 'locate gate' is.
More a sort of 'a great distance away', 'some distance away' 'nearby'
kind of locator.

Chris

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Chris Yearsley
cmy@cs.keele.ac.uk
> John
> 
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