Re: Money (was Re: Nifty Idea)

>	But glass is *hard* to make.  It's not *just* melted sand.  Sand
>has lots of impurities, and a glass bowl created by a desert fireball would
>be very fragile.  [That whole thing when He-Man (in the cartoon) rubbed sand
>until it turned into glass would have *never* worked... (:]  Purifying glass
>takes equipment, though some spells can cover that.  Shaping glass takes
>equipment, but spells can sometimes do.  Actually putting the ship together
>would be a pain.  A 200' keel (weighing *a lot*) is hard to handle, let
>alone enchant.
>
        You raise A LOT of good points here. I guess that depending on the
DM making glass could be very difficult. That's why I said the resale value
would be so high. A 16+ level mage could have devised a spell however to
make it easy. Ahh.. The wonders of living in a fantasy world.

>	This is fantasy, so anything's possible.  I just find it wierd that
>there's 16th level mages running around who are actually interested in
>building something like that... (:  It's all campaign dependent anyway.

        I don't know. Usually it seems must powerful mages are crazy. In
novels at least powerful mages would often do things like this more or less
on a whim. :)
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