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Good point. And yeah, we went way overboard in Jack's game. I feel kinda bad about it now, since it went something like this.

Jack: Ok, so you just defeated the traitors in the warehouse, what do you do now?

Everyone else: Start a caravan! I'm gonna trade in silk, magic items, scrolls, love potions, linen, foodstuffs, gold, and badger cheese. What gets me the best prices?

Jack: . . .

Anyway, the costs of things would be a problem. I was thinking we could just comb over the lists of equipment and services in the SRD and set some basic prices, at which point the DM would wing it whenever we bought stuff. Just have a standard price and adjust it up and down based on the place you're buying it at and whatnot. Maybe we could have a list of multipliers for cost, like if the town is going through a shortage of a certain item, it's price is multiplied by 3 or you can't find it.

Then again, we could just steer the whole thing in a different direction. I like the idea of playing as monsters and having to fight off the PC races and stuff. It'd be like playing DF with the Kobold camp mod!

I got this idea from what happened in a D&D game I played in earlier today. Our group, through our bad skills at guarding caravans, acquired a wagon. Then we bought another wagon. We planned on using said wagons (and trade goods) to bait bandits into attacking us, as well as using them to make money trading. My idea for a campaign is that we expand on other parts of the game than just dungeoneering and questing, so maybe instead of fighting through hordes of mooks to get treasure, we try to set up a trade empire, or conquer somewhere, or ally with a nation, or try to reach godhood, etc. Something on a little larger scale, or maybe with a twist. We could be the bad guys, and the DM could send parties of hero's to fight us. We could play as monsters instead of PC's. This might sound like a dumb idea to most people, but it seems like it could be fun to me. Anyone interested?

Woo! Level up! I was going to multiclass into wizard, but I think I'm gonna take another level of rogue. UMD being a class skill, and all. Next session, I'm buying a wand of Cure Light Wounds.

EDIT: And Grek, thanks for being the group accountant. I'd forgotten about the loot from the ambushers.

Works for me.

I don't believe so.  Anybody got suggestions?

*Reads through character sheet*

The most useful would probably be a bird that gives a bonus to a useful skill, but they mostly seem to help auxiliary skills. Maybe a raven or snake, given your intelligence and charisma. A bird would only really be more useful at 3rd level or on, though.

EDIT: Also, was my guy there during the session, or did he temporarily phase out of reality?

Sorry, I missed the session; I haven't been on the forums in a while and sort of forgot about it. I'll most likely be able to make it next time.

So... Let's see... We're at Talid, the rest of the party is with us now, and we've been attacked by a peasant and some archers. And... there's a ninja? He didn't happen to be one of the caravaneers did he?

Anything else I missed?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Dwarf Fortress uses OpenGL for graphics, right? If so, could some knowledgeable programmer point me in the right direction about how to create DF style roguelike graphics? I have a big fat book on OpenGL, but it doesn't seem to say anything about 2D stuff.

Two weeks would be fine for me.