LEGENDS: warning about items From: griffith@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith) Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 21:21:54 +0000 Someone posted an article earlier saying how they were able to special action to have any character with an arcane rating of 25 or higher teach any arcane to another character, regardless of the discipline of the teacher. I believe the person plays with Rhenn games in the UK. I called MG to ask them about this, and they said that they had never heard of this, and it was not MG policy. (Just FYI, the justification is that the teaching character could just as easily construct a magic guild, in which any character could learn any arcane skill). The point that comes out of this is that you *cannot* take information from one company's Legends game and apply it to the same module in a different game. Each company does things differently. Personally, I don't use Dean's list except as a very general reference (and since I have my own extensive list, rarely at that), because he accepts information from any source without identifying the source in the list, and I don't want to get stung by assuming an item works the same way in the US as it does in Austria or somewhere else. So far, the worst I've seen are name changes (#1130 Tallison's Helm is called "Nellor's Helm" in Austria, for instance, and I haven't observed the same MR and SAR bonuses with it that the Austrian item reportedly gives), but if they've tampered with the database to that extent, then I'm not willing to assume that they haven't tampered with internals. At any rate, we have at least one solid example of differences between Legends games. So be careful. Jim -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Griffith /--OO--\ | Two great powers are on our side: the power of ...!ucbvax!scam!griffith | Love and the power of Arithmetic. These two are BEWARE BATS WITHOUT NOSES! | stronger than anything else in the world. Referenced By Up