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GoblinCookie

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Add scribes to major adventure mode sites that have books
« on: November 24, 2018, 08:20:13 am »
At the moment finding reading material for your adventurer to read on adventurers can be a challenge.  The problem is that a lot of books are artifacts and to take them from sites counts as stealing.  However what if we could order a copy of an artifact book on-site from a scribe that would solve the problem.  All we would have to do is add a scribe character to any major sites, based upon their entity being literate.  We can enter a dialogue with them in which we will be handed a book with a binding of our choice and select from a list of all the artifact books stored on site, in addition to any in our inventory. 

The scribe would be found in the library (if there is one) or otherwise would be stationed in the marketplace/depot of the site.  The basic cost of each book copy would be *100, but added to that would be value of the binding we choose from the available materials the site has access to; this would be a debt that would work like tavern drink/room debts currently work. 
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Azerty

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Re: Add scribes to major adventure mode sites that have books
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2018, 01:58:14 pm »
Quote from: GoblinCookie on November 24, 2018, 08:20:13 am
At the moment finding reading material for your adventurer to read on adventurers can be a challenge.  The problem is that a lot of books are artifacts and to take them from sites counts as stealing.  However what if we could order a copy of an artifact book on-site from a scribe that would solve the problem.  All we would have to do is add a scribe character to any major sites, based upon their entity being literate.  We can enter a dialogue with them in which we will be handed a book with a binding of our choice and select from a list of all the artifact books stored on site, in addition to any in our inventory. 

The scribe would be found in the library (if there is one) or otherwise would be stationed in the marketplace/depot of the site.  The basic cost of each book copy would be *100, but added to that would be value of the binding we choose from the available materials the site has access to; this would be a debt that would work like tavern drink/room debts currently work.

Good idea to have scribes there. Could an adventurer be able to ask to be allowed to read them on site?

Maybe we should be able to sell them or gift them books - originals more valuables than copies.
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Re: Add scribes to major adventure mode sites that have books
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2018, 07:06:58 am »
Quote from: Azerty on November 26, 2018, 01:58:14 pm
Good idea to have scribes there. Could an adventurer be able to ask to be allowed to read them on site?

Maybe we should be able to sell them or gift them books - originals more valuables than copies.

That would require them to have something to give us in return for the books.  We don't really need to gift them artifact books because we can just drop it on site.  Question however is with copies of non-artifact books, they ought to have some value but only if they no copy is present; though that is more the Economy consideration.
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