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From: jeff@alberta.UUCP (Curt J. Sampson)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Forming our own gaming system?
Message-ID: <441@alberta.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 01:49:30 EST
Article-I.D.: alberta.441
Posted: Mon Apr  8 01:49:30 1985
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Reply-To: jeff@alberta.UUCP (Curt J. Sampson)
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In article <26000002@siemens.UUCP> steve@siemens.UUCP writes:
>
>			...a magic user can go off and spend
>some huge amount of time making an arbitrary number of potions or enchanted
>swords or whatever and then carry huge amounts of magic with him.  Any
>suggestions on "realistic" reasons why magic users cannot do this, that don't
>restrict the ability to make a few potions or swords or whatever?

My, my, that is a problem.  However, I think that the magicians would have
somewhat more of a problem on their hands when the local inhabitants found
out that they were witches (warlocks?) and perhaps were up to nasty things.
They would probably get enough time to create four or five small things 
or one large thing before they had to skip town.
  Of course, if they avoided populated areas, chances are that they would
get attacked by monsters, if they didn't run out of some item available only
in a town sooner.
  It's little tricks like this that keep a gamemaster a step or two ahead
of his players.  Even if the players know about this kind of thing, there
isn't much they can do about it.  Does anybody else have any hints like
this?
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