Re: LEGENDS: warning about items

From: vhelm@lysithea.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Volker Helm)

Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 09:25:46 +0000

In article <1sue5i$a56@agate.berkeley.edu> griffith@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith) writes:
>
>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.

I am not sure about it, but I personally think, that someone has mixed up
some artefact from ROI and COA, because this item is a faction goal for
some faction and I saw Tallison's Gauntlet, in German: Telisons Handschuh).
But there are difference in the games, so I suspected, there is a change
in the status-tree in ROI or the article in strategic reserve are wrong.
As I know, Jim Landes didn't remember everything, heod put into this game.

>
>At any rate, we have at least one solid example of differences between
>Legends games.  So be careful.
>
>				Jim
>
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References

LEGENDS: warning about items
griffith@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith)
Thu, 13 May 1993 21:21:54 +0000