Re: Another soon-to-be-dead char

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> Eddie Grove wrote:
>> Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>> Eddie Grove wrote:
>>>> Given the option to trade your blue DSM for
>>>> staff of tele****t self
>>>> light weapon (+9,+9)
>>>> longbow x3 (+9,+9)
>>> In 3.0.9 it costs about 4000 gp to _make_ those, so no, I wouldn't
>>> trade. I would also assume that when you find that DSM (unless it is
>>> your very first trip) you already have enchanted bow and weapon. You
>>> get money easy enough that you don't need to sell your DSM to get
>>> that staff, and getting equally good bodyarmor takes time.
>>>
>>>> and one group from
>>>> 2 rings of int [mages]
>>>> amulet of wisdom + 2 rings protection(or something else) [priests]
>>>> 2 rings of damage [everybody else]
>> 
>> The premise was 150', presumably the very first trip, so probably
>> less than 1K gold.
> 
> Assuming normal player and no warrior 150' is not the first trip. It
> is second or third (so that you can handle Grip and Fang). But less
> than 1000gp is expected if it is that early. OTOH with good luck you
> have 1000gp by your third trip to dungeon.

  As a mostly casual player, 150' is a first trip for me.  Even when I
first started playing (admittedly many years ago,) I figured out how
to survive and kill Grip and Fang.  It wasn't even worth the effort to
play a mage at a slower pace, as dungeon traps killed more of my
early characters than monsters.  150' isn't even a stop for some of
my characters.

  If a player takes more than one trip to reach 150', then I'd
question whether they knew *what* to do with DSM, or even what
would be best to buy with the gold if they sold it.  (I certainly
didn't know back then.)