Re: Money (was Re: Nifty Idea)

In our last episode, Kevin Scardino said:
>At 02:01 PM 9/10/96 GMT, you wrote:
>>	All this talk of Glassteel ships riminded me of something we
>>havn't talked about on this list (as far as I remember).  How large
>>are naval space forces for some countries in your campaigns?  It has
>>been said (somewhere) that most nations couldn't afford many helms,
>>so how many ships *are* there in space?  And why is it that most PC's
>>have enough money to construct glasssteel ships?  (:  Then again, maybe
>>I should say "some" PC's.
>>
>>	As a related question, how many shipboard magic items do PC's and
>>NPC's normally have?  I'm talking about things like Planetary Locaters
>>and Portal Locators and air replenishing type stuff.  Is equipment magical
>>equipment "standard", or spread out?
>
>It seems to me that being a space pirate, could be worth your while. (grin)

	Yeah, but I want to be the Good Guy(TM)... (:

>Money isn't a question if you are mage of a high enough level, now is it?

	Right.  But then the only cool ships in space would belong to
highlevel parties and *very* rich kingdoms.  Maybe that's not such a bad
thing... (:

>In my corner of space, helms are alot more available the arcana don't have
>a lock on the helm business like the rest of the limited spelljammer space




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