Er, as opposed to "OK, Zarquon the Burninator, I know you've been wearing the Ring of Wizardry for the last three years, but could you please give it to this azure apprentice over here so we can forge this one thing..."?
I'm playing a god (or wannabe). My armies love/fear me. If I ask them to give the pretty pebbles to the nice old man who blasts the infidels for them, then that's they do.
