What exactly does Pen do? Does it allow you to make magical scrolls or does it just let you write notes?

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Maybe if Pen skill was high enough percent one could actually make scrolls. Transmuters could make haste scrolls, or whatever spells they can cast. Sell them to people. Within reason I guess. Ive always though Pen was kind of odd.

some small magical affects would be intresting.

I'm not saying I'd rule this out completely for all time, but I've seen something along these lines implemented elsewhere and didn't really like what it did to the game dynamic.

That's not to say that my take on it wouldn't be 100x better, but, you know. ;)

I really hate the idea of being able to make magic scrolls.

I liked it when I started mudding, but now I think it would make for cheesy fights where too many people have too many preps, and ooc groups can help each other out even when not logged on together.

Isn't that a bit of a usless skill, in a practical sense?

You've answered the question effectively, if inadvertantly, with your sig. :)

Information has a price.

I wonder how much you could sell that penned scroll with barrier locations for?

That said, it would be necessary to make sure you didn't try to ply OOC knowledge (wand locs) for in-game rewards (money or items in exchange).

T

>That said, it would be necessary to make sure you didn't try
>to ply OOC knowledge (wand locs) for in-game rewards (money or
>items in exchange).

I don't think wand locs qualify as OOC knowledge.

I think they do if you didn't "discover" the location with the character writing the note. Otherwise, I agree.

T