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Wandering Trader |
Trigger: The wandering Trader
Gist: Bring him the base-item, that he's looking for to receive a magical variant
Reward: Magical item, that is probably as good as a drop by a boss-monster
This is what the trader was supposed to look like.
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Finally I'm about to present a quest-concept, which appeared in an usenet-post by the lead-programmer named Donald
Tsang and therefore, at least once, no speculation or whatsoever is necessary: (complete post)
From: (Donald Tsang)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Re: Alternate Turning System
Hong Ooi wrote:
(Donald Tsang)
wrote:
>>[some game programming history]
>Okay, working on Diablo cancels out Birthright. I no longer have to kill you. :)
Technically, Hellfire. Blizzard (North) didn't have the developertime to write an expansion, as they were busy
with the sequel, so they let us do it (at the time, Blizzard and Sierra were owned by the same large company). They
wouldn't let us do multiplayer, though (not that we didn't ship a version with multiple easter eggs, including LAN
multiplayer support).
(Reminiscing now) We had a cool feature designed: a wandering trader (the initial artistic concept
was a gnome-like guy with a backpack taller than he was, with pots and pans hanging off of it) who would sing you a
ditty, describing what he was looking for (a nonmagical piece of equipment, like a helm, a shield, or a sword) then
wait for awhile (until you left the level or traded with him). If you traded with him, he'd toss you something
magical in return, probably at the same "goodness level" as a "pack-leader" monster would yield. I think the sound
engineer still has a recording of me warbling the "placeholder" music for that..."blackmail material", I think he
called it.(sadly only the entry 'trader1.wav' found it's way into the hellfire-code, so we'll never know, how
they've imagined the Trader's voice.) (end reminiscence)
...but if you've done all this stuff, how come you're posting from the undergrad server at Berkeley? Finally getting
that piece of paper you neglected the first time round? Nah, I got that piece of paper in '89. I post from here
because Cal has good Usenet service (I was once an officer of the student organization that runs this box, so as a
courtesy they continue to allow me an account; the PlayStation 2 I donated a couple of years ago probably didn't
hurt, either... :) Donald
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Note: As for the question of validity, remember that no image (towners\trader\tradern.cel & traderw.cel
can now be displayed by TDG) or description of the Trader was shared before the 6th of March in 2005, still the
one, that is given here is a perfect match, so it's safe to assume, that this isn't a message by an impostor.
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