From:	Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: A question of Grand Scale
Date:	Sun, 10 May 1998 10:34:53 EDT

In a message dated 5/10/98 2:36:00 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
dghost@****.COM writes:

<snipped sections about dragon body raiding>

> Hmmm... I would use the stats for normal armor (clothing - security
> armor, maybe Milspec if you're feeling particularly generous [and I mean
> *real* generous!]) the big thing would be the ability to use the scales
> as radicals or whatever (maybe Virgin Telsma or Arcana?) in enchanted
> (see grimmy). Ya might want to get some one more familiar with
> Enchanting.

Yeah, what a nice idea. However, something really interesting occured to us
some time back about this little concept.

If you want to remove the parts of the body for use later in any magical way,
you would have to make the Enchanting (Talismongering) test as per the rules
in Gathering Materials. This takes time. Also, as most enchanters (please
note, I did say most) have probably never dealt with "recovering body parts
from a dragon", it suddenly becomes a +1 modifier to the test as it is a new
thing.

Gathering Tests take some time (24 hours base), and would probably not be able
to yield more RAW units than the body attribute in any case (minimum of 1).
And the more time the person is sitting around, the worse things are likely
gonna get...

-K