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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 08:00 AM
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Does anyone know the price for, say, a raken? Or a grolm? I think it'd be kinda nice to have a price list for exotic, mountable beasts in the EC. If there is no info out there, anyone have any idea what it'd cost?


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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 09:56 AM
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I think that they are like all military, owned by the crown and all that. But then I could be wrong, though they do require heaps of training so I probably arn't.
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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 10:03 AM
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Is that so? Hmm. Well, if that's the case, then what would the black market price be?


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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 01:28 PM
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it not just buying the raken etc but the getting a handler, most all of them are "sooouuper Loooyyaal" to the seanchan Blood

make an adventure out of it... Hmmmm

Buying the Raken:
players are approached by a blond man in a small village, in a drink slurred voice he inquires if they wish to buy his mount for 30 golden marks. if they but it they then have all the fun of trying to learn to control a raken, being mistaken for seanchan, and being hunted by the seanchan. oh the drunk who sold it to them well he tripped over his own foot and landed on a pointed stone "nasty way to go" damm those Ta'veren, so if they dont buy it they'll have to deal with an enraged "wild" raken

Getting the Torm out of Doges ferry
our luck band of heroes are sitting arround drinking when suddenly (insert recurring villan here) bursts through the front door with a group of strange men in Insectoid armour "they are the ones who stole your mounts" <points at Players> (fight probably ensues, if the players run out the back way enought Torm for one each are saddled at the rear of the inn, if they fight and kill the seanchan, the Torm are found at the back of the inn) either way the villan makes his annoying (to the players) escape but has also killed their mounts/broken the wagon... just as the players settle down again they notice a long pole with a red and white pennant flapping from the top, and is that three Large winged shaped comming from the setting sun (just keep inserting more seanchan til they run.. Everybody runs) now they have a bunch of Super loyal (to their original rider) Torm, and a horde of seanchan on To'Raken bearing down.. time for a few Handle animal and Animal empathy rolls. oh and by the way the senachan are not happy with the players

see much more fun than trying to buy an exotic on the black market (but you could look up the prices in i think the arms and equipment guide or prehaps Masters of the wild, its got elephants, riding cats, wyvverns, dire bears all in it stats and costs look up the closest stat/description and thats it seanchan cost multiply it but 10 to find its estimated black market cost)


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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 03:08 PM
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Basically, I was just gonna make it like getting a Warder's cloak. Not supposedly possible, but perhaps someone somewhere ended up with one.
I was gonna have it for the EC, but if it's dumb I won't. For some reason they have a blank line next to the Ride skill, which to me means that different things besides horses are possible. Of course they are, but what would it take for a Seanchan PC to attain a torm or raken? Know what I'm saying? I won't fuss about it.


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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 05:27 PM
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You have to think that somewhere some member of the blood has their own personal torn at least, maybe not raken because of their size and usefulness. One of my characters almost ended up with a seanchan wild cat, because my characters were in Falme and looking for an a'dam...so they ended up with the black market. I honestly think that those creatures would definately be sold on the black market...somewhere. Is it the best way to get one in game? no way. but i think that you should include a price for them in the encounters handbook, definately.


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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 05:41 PM
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I'd imagine you can get them on the black market, or even buy them legally... in Seanchan. In the westlands, though, I'd think that an exotic is pretty nearly impossible to get ahold of.


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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 10:20 PM
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Right, well how much do you reckon they'd cost on Seandar?


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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 10:44 PM
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I think in order to buy an exotic you would need to be of the Blood at the very least. These seem to be the only people who can own military type stuff. As for a cost...I have no idea. As a PC if you really want one look in the stuff for Handlers in Prophecies of the Dragon should give you an idea on learning to ride an exotic and such.


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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 10:47 PM
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I guess that's sorta what I'm thinking. They have the Background feat, and if I were playing a Seanchan character, I might want one. I don't think I'd want to be a Seanchan handler and have no animal. True, one could be issued by the government, but what happens if I actually wanna make decisions and adventure or something?


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Posted: Jun 22 2004, 10:53 PM
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I'd do it through storylines myself, start out working for the seanchan and then run away for some reason or another *shrug* But the exotics are a little more deadly than a Horse so as a DM I'd find some way to work it in and make it balanced. No idea how though heh


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Posted: Jun 23 2004, 02:51 PM
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They might be possible to pick up after a battle the Westlands wins against the Seanchan. Wounded or abandoned mounts wouldn't be at all uncommon, neither would desperate handlers looking for a job, any job. We have a perfect example in Valan Luca's circus.


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Posted: Jul 4 2004, 05:49 AM
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try looking at it from the other side how much does it cost to buy an elephant (i dont know so its not sold) but there are elphants and im sure you could find one and train it

so the pc is sold an egg for 100g and this egg hatches into a raken (going to fudge things a bit) as you are the first one it sees you now have the parental bond (treat as handle animal 5 ranks) for this animal, only all others are not affected

it would be a long ordeal but 5 years from now you have a fully grown raken

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