Hi all,
There are two suggested methods in the HC for managing the inventory at Skie's shop:
- Under 3,000 gp, she has it; between 3,001 and 15,000 gp, there's a 5% chance she has it; otherwise she can get it through Maavu's Imports in 2d6 days
- The more realistic yet time-intensive method of building and keeping a list of everything she's got on hand
Jumpet has created an excellent Magic Shop Inventory Generator (available from TheRPGenius.com), designed to take the pain out of the second method above, but I haven't quite figured it out, and it may not be completely compatible with Mac Excel's out-of-date VBA support. It looks awesome, though.
I guess the way that DMs handle magic item acquisition in their games has a lot to do with how their players feel about that sort of thing. I'm sure that some players see it as little more than an irritating bit of bookkeeping, but I think that my players will really enjoy the richness that Skie's adds to the game. Personally, I think that Skie's-as-written goes a long way towards reminding the players that Cauldron is both small and fairly remote.
Since my players are about to (unknowingly) try to sell Skie several items infected with the Vanishing, I'm not about to give up the roleplay opportunity. (She'll buy items from Jzadirune, minus a 150 gp-per-item service charge to get the taint removed.) I can't wait to see the looks on my players' faces, especially those who have used some of the infected items!
So...how are you handling magic item acquisition in your game? Have you changed your methods since the beginning of the campaign, and if so, was it based on player feedback or your own needs?
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Since my players are about to (unknowingly) try to sell Skie several items infected with the Vanishing, I'm not about to give up the roleplay opportunity. (She'll buy items from Jzadirune, minus a 150 gp-per-item service charge to get the taint removed.) I can't wait to see the looks on my players' faces, especially those who have used some of the infected items!
So...how are you handling magic item acquisition in your game? Have you changed your methods since the beginning of the campaign, and if so, was it based on player feedback or your own needs?
I was under the impression you cannot tell what items are infected and how to remove such an afliction on an item....?
I was intending to play Skie as interested in the travels of the PCs as is part of her write-up and when they mention that they retrieved the items from Jzadirune she will quickly become disinterested in any of the items: being a gnome herself, she undoubtedly knows the story of the curse and most likely fears falling prey to an infected item.
Robert
Augury would reveal if an item is cursed.
Hi all,
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Jumpet has created an excellent Magic Shop Inventory Generator (available from TheRPGenius.com), designed to take the pain out of the second method above, but I haven't quite figured it out, and it may not be completely compatible with Mac Excel's out-of-date VBA support. It looks awesome, though.
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The Magic Shop Inventory Generator on RPGenius uses the latest version of Excell and the command RANDOMBETWEEN(X,Y) instead of the more conventional TRUNC(RAND()*Y)+1
I fixed it for myself for older versions but have yet to reupload it. Im still adding items and tweeking the probabilities.
Also, I don't really know how the whole thing works either, Just enough to get what I need done.
A couple (few?) years a go I wrote up a document called Skies Treasury that included a description and a background story for each item found on the list included in the SCAP Hard Cover.
I wrote up from Chapters 1 to 5.
If you wish to use this document I have done all the hard work for you already. Swaping ideas that are campaign specific is an easy task as well.
Hope this can be of some use
Delvesdeep
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A couple (few?) years a go I wrote up a document called Skies Treasury that included a description and a background story for each item found on the list included in the SCAP Hard Cover.
I wrote up from Chapters 1 to 5.
If you wish to use this document I have done all the hard work for you already. Swaping ideas that are campaign specific is an easy task as well.
Hope this can be of some use
Delvesdeep
hey DD - would you mind emailing that doc to me? SirKicley@yahoo.com
I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
Robert
hey DD - would you mind emailing that doc to me?
Robert, you can get it from TheRPGenius.com. It's a great doc, typical of delvesdeep's work.
http://www.therpgenius.com/modules.php?name=File_Repository&op=details& amp;file_id=139
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hey DD - would you mind emailing that doc to me?Robert, you can get it from TheRPGenius.com. It's a great doc, typical of delvesdeep's work.
http://www.therpgenius.com/modules.php?
name=File_Repository&op=details&file_id=139
Gracias.
hey DD - would you mind emailing that doc to me? (snip)
I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
Robert
Robert, you may want to edit out your e-mail address. Web-crawlers are infamous for going through text and picking up anything that looks like an e-mail address to add it to a spam list.
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Robert, you may want to edit out your e-mail address. Web-crawlers are infamous for going through text and picking up anything that looks like an e-mail address to add it to a spam list.hey DD - would you mind emailing that doc to me? (snip)
I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
Robert
Schmoe? Is that why I see folks post theirs like
SirKicley(at)yahoo(dot)com ????
I always wondered why that was....
Robert