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Paul Fenwick... we need you! Please draw upon your wonderous powers (or at least your reference materials) to answer these questions (and perhaps even update the wiki):

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Unanswered Questions.

I'm extremely confused about how much money Zakhiya actually has.... I'm glad someone else has sorted out my experience. I'll have to sit down with you Paul and talk it out... or you can just email me and tell me. Is this covered by recent updates to the ledger?

The late Gara Duhl apparently has some unclaimed money that I didn't know about. Could this please be passed on to his new and currently un-named half-elf fighter-mage, since I have no idea how much money survived the slime, what is judged to have been on his horse, or whatever. Thanks! This money has recently been put in kitty - should it be given to new character instead?

I placed the money in kitty in accordance with Gara Duhl's will. I'm happy for it to go to a new character instead. --PJF 22:58, 28 Apr 2005 (EST)

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Recently Answered Questions

Rebecca wants to know how much Littleus weights and how much small saddlebags weights.

> Littleus is 36 inches tall (3 feet exactly, a very tall halfling), and weighs 50 pounds (500 cn weight). That's right, Littleus can carry more than three times her own body weight, and Paul's backpack weighs more than she does. Those halflings are like ants in their ability to carry stuff.

> Small saddlebags weigh 150 cn, the same as large saddle-bags according to Gary. That sounds silly, so unless I'm contradicting myself elsewhere on the site, they weigh 100 cn instead.

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Answered Questions

A friend of James wants a guestbook on the public site so he can make comments and ask questions.  :)

> Tis done! Go forth and look at the new ToEE guestbook.

Can we also have a list of xp required to advance up a level/s?

> This is now available on the ExperienceRequired page.

Jill would like to know how to upload her portrait to the wiki ... it can currently be found at www.gothic.net.au/~miasma/jill.gif ... there is actually a tilde before the miasma but the wiki doesnt seem to want to display it

   Andrew knew the answer to this one... %7E is a tilde (obviously!)

Benjamin wants to know how much the HommletTradingPost charges for a Quiver, how much the small helmet and the large metal shield from the HommletSmithy will weigh.

  Quiver prices have now been added.

  Small helmets weigh 45 gp, but do not count towards encumbrance when worn.  The DMG states that great helms (weighing 100 gp) do count towards encumbrance.  Besides their cool value, I'm still wondering why you'd pay extra for one.  A large metal shield (which is technically a metal shield over a wooden frame) is 100 gp weight.

Zakhiya needs to know how much her spellbook weighs, how much her own body weighs, and how much her horsie can carry, thanks.

> Zakhiya is 54 inches tall (4.5 ft) and weighs 89 lbs (890 cn).  Her horse is
> a riding horse, which means it can travel at 24"/12" carrying 3000/5000 gp
> weight over clear ground.
>
> On the matter of spellbooks, Gygax has the following to write (somewhat
> paraphrased):
>
> > A standard spell book is approximately 16 x 12 x 6 inches.  The weight of
> > a standard spell book of median size is 150 gold pieces.  The encumbrance
> > value of such a book is equal to three times its weight (450 gp), although
> > it is correct to assume that a volume will fit within an otherwise empty
> > backpack or large sack.
>
> Mages can also create <i>travelling spell books</i>, although they never start
> with them.  A travelling spell book costs 500 gp for materials, plus 100 gp
> per level of spell entered therein (paid when the spell is scribed).  A travelling
> spell book may only contain 1/4 of the spells that a standard spellbook may
> contain (which is 24 spells of 1st - 3rd level for a standard, or 6 spells
> of 1st - 3rd level for a travelling).
>
> Standard spell-books get bonuses to saving throws, and unless the mage has an
> appropriate backup and disaster recovery plan, the mage is screwed if their
> standard book is destroyed.

Gara Duhl would like to make some non-standard purchases, but needs prices (encumbrance will be minimal - they are little things). Firstly, he needs a whetstone to keep his sword sharp. He also likes to keep the blade in good shape, so he requires some kind of weapon oil (of ya get my meaning) and some kind of extra-soft cloth for polishing, such as a chamois or something similar. I realise the last two items are rather odd and unlikely to be in the books, so I am relying on you to just make some shit up - one of the DM's primary duties, in my opinion. >:D I also feel kind of honour-bound to purchase a very small book, some ink, and a writing quill, since he has to write this diary somewhere. Thanks in advance!

> The expense account is designed to cover your weapon and armour maintenence expenses.  Either the cost of
> occasionally going to the smithy and asking for your armour to be mended, or your sword sharpened, or the
> cost of reasonably doing this yourself.  So a small whetstone, oil for ''personal use'', and chamois or
> similar can be had for-free out of these costs.  When I say personal use, I mean enough for role-playing,
> but not enough to do anything useful in-game (such as trading, oiling hinges, or such forth).
>
> The cost of paper in the DMG is incredible.  You pretty much had the choice of parchment, which is the
> split skin of a sheet that's been specially treated, or vellum, which is whole calf skin that's been
> treated by immersion in lime and then rubbed down with pumice.  These things cost gold per sheet.
>
> However, for the purposes of the game I'm assuming everyone has a small amount of wood-based paper,
> and writing implements for mapping, writing notes, and so on.  So again, you can have a small diary and
> writing implements at no cost.
>
> Provided the above aren't used during adventures, then I'm happy for them to have no encumbrance either.
> Once players start constructing paper-mache castles, or finding ways to use pens as weapons, I'm happy
> not to worry about their cost or weight.