MEPBM: Encounters on the World Wide Web.

From: phredd@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Phredd Groves)

Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 00:00:00 +0000

I have just put up the Encounters listings for MEPBM ca. 1650
on my MEPBM Info Pages on the web.  The URL is:

http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu/phredd/MEPBM.html

Come one come all!  This section could probably use
a shakedown.

There's one item from the encounters listing that I haven't served
up, because I think that GSI has rendered it obsolete.  This is
the below section about giving Dragons & NPCs artifacts.  Can this
still be done?  I've been told not.

Here's the text:

Tracking NPCs and Dragons

One way to track an NPC or dragon (the latter for easy
re-recruitment, once it
leaves your army) is simply to transfer a minor artifact to it. These
characters tend to be hard to find via 'Locate Character True' spells, but
their artifacts are not.  For example, in game 60 I never once managed to
locate Gandalf with 'Locate Character True'; however,
I tracked him five turns
in a row by locating his ring, Nenya (obviously, Gandalf and Galadriel
already have artifacts, so none need to be transferred to them). In another
game, Throkmaw was transferred a minor artifact,
allowing the evils to run him
down and recruit him every time he left the army or the
army was destroyed.
The goods never did figure out just how they managed to do it....

Another option is to transfer artifacts you capture from the
other side to a
dragon.  This general keeps them out of enemy hands for quite some time.
Dragons are VERY hard to steal from. Galadriel and Tom Bombadil (if you can
find the old buzzard) are also good choices (very high skill ranks, hard to
steal from), although I heard Tom sometimes drops things because he forgets
about them....

phredd
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