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If it's too powerful make it a percentage chance.

What I was looking at was once your research is done you have a lot of mages that are nearly useless, I was looking at something for them to do.

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You can use them in battle, you know.

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Hell once your research is done you should have gems falling out your *** anyway.

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Might be fun to have a few more Pretender chassis that are gem-producers, or can turn into gem-producers, though. Especially for some of the gems that don't have forgeable item-makers, like bloodstones, clams, or fever fetishes. I can't think of any Pretenders that make Death gems, currently. for instance-but I might be forgetting something.

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There's a bit of that in CB1.3 right now. And some pretenders that used to get one or two get more. Here's the gods that were changed:

Mother of Rivers
Monolith
Oracle
Fountain of Blood
Lord of Rebirth
Son of the Sun
Lord of Plenty
Mother of Lions

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Do any get death-gems? I always seem to run short on those.

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In CBM, Lord of Rebirth gets death gem. Also the famous artifact The Sickle Whose Corp is Pain can reliably produce 10-30 death gems per turn if you use it right.

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It always seems to me that death sites are the easiest to find. It's just that death summons and spells are so good that there is a lot of use for them! And the global Well of Misery, while prolific, is the hardest to achieve.

I really like the gem balance as is, any significant change would upset the game.

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I made one death-gem-making pretender a while ago.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...light=amethist

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No, I don't "know" that; in fact, this is the first time I've ever heard the two games mentioned together.

Ars Magica is obscure enough that I wouldn't be surprised if nobody at Illwinter has ever heard of it.