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Subject: Re: Merchant circle (Group idea)

Author:
Elwar

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Date Posted: 06:53:58 05/10/02 Fri
In reply to: Malik 's message, "Merchant circle (Group idea)" on 21:07:07 05/09/02 Thu

Ahh yes, the great money making opportunities. Want to

make big money? Just ask my character and give him 100 gold

and you'll be well on your way to learning the easy ways

of making money in the 4lands. heh

Actually, I played a con-artist once. It was surprisingly

easy. I would tell people that I was hiring people for a

job as a map holder, to hold all my maps to the jewel mines

and gold mines.

They'd be all for it, then I'd tell them I need some money

to go buy their uniform and such. They'd give me the money

then I'd say, ok wait here and I'll be back with your

uniform....heh.

I even conned a Kavka noble saying I was a merchant from

Stonehaven and I had a warehouse in Stonehaven full of

blocks of steel ready for the forging. He was all for

buying it all so I told him I'd need half the money up

front. 5000 gold later and I'm off living the good life

while the noble's making plans for his big steel import.

Not that I'm saying you should go out and con newbies out

of their hard earned cash, but there are plenty of ways

to make money without just buying and selling stuff at the

shops. Good idea though, but if you can get a group of

4 players together for anything you're pretty well set up.

>Merchant Circle - 2 or more merchant classed players

>working together.

>

>It occured to me that, while reading Drayab's post

>that a singular merchant can only do so much work on

>an item in so much time. If he had another skilled

>partner, or even a third or fourth helping on the

>project however, it'd be finished that much quicker.

>

>Here's a group would do the usual, buy overstocked

>items from various shops around the four lands and

>take in scavenged goods to rework but, they'd have the

>reworking done many times faster and be out the gate

>to make their gold.

>

>So they'll have an immense income coming in.

>

>They'll be able to buy various types of servant npc's

>for greatly reduced prices due to their skill at

>haggling.

>

>Theoretically they'd be involved in little combat so

>the group could be long lived.

>

>Income allows them to hire several types of player

>characters to advance protection or plots. Why send

>one of your highly valuable circlemembers (merchants)

>to do battle when you can hand off a few npc's to some

>uppity warrior pc?

>

>Malik

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Re: Merchant circle (Group idea)	Wes_Kalister	16:44:45 05/11/02 Sat