From: David Dunham , via RadioMail (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Sat 18 Sep 1993 - 08:42:07 EEST
>From: mmlab!cookec%max@uunet.UU.NET (Kiliki)
>I have some questions, if I could. Why is armor so expensive yet spells so
>cheap? At 30 + 15 per spell point Heal-6 is only 120 but good armor is at
>least 10 times that. Ok, outside your cult it's 100+50/pt=400 or am I missing
>something? (Costs from Apple Lane I think) How high can they teach? 4?6?12?
>Do they have to have the spell that high to teach it as such?
I know that a knight's full plate armor took about a year to make. So that's a year of very skilled labor, to say nothing of cost of materials (steel, charcoal, etc.)
But anyone can learn Heal-6, and it doesn't really cost them anything to cast it. They can cast it a couple times a day without raising a sweat.
Or did you mean the cost of learning a spell? A priest casts a Spellteaching rune spell, which he can get back with one day's prayer. Again, not very involved.
The shaman or priest arranging the learning of a spell doesn't have to know the spell.
The RQ3 economics is more or less based on the time it takes to do things (including the time it takes to regain a point of POW spent in an enchantment), and the standard of living of the person doing them.
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