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Re: detect curse



> Since I like my horses good and dead, let me relate a story.  A friend of 
> mine recently started playing crossfire.  He quickly learned that the 
> only way to find out if an item was worth anything or not was to wear 
> it.  He also quickly learned that some items are cursed.  He has worn 
> cursed items three or four times now, spending a great deal of effort to 
> gain enough gold to buy a remove curse scroll each time, and has now 
> learned that wearing items just doesn't pay.  What does he do now?  He 
> sells everything.  Period.  No checking, no detection, just sell it.  A 
> low level detect curse would clear up his problem.  He would have a 
> reason to save up and buy the spell, and he wouldn't spend all his time 
> adventuring in a cursed state.  

Not a good idea for your friend there! It is not all that difficult to
get SOME money, and use them well: At the earliest stages, scrolls of
detect magic are needed. One scroll, and all magic is detected. (It's
only a second level, too.)

Then, pick up the magic stuff and buy one identify-scroll - or spend
20GP in the shop, to get the magic items identified. When you sell
them, they're much more valuable...

This is also the reason why 'Detect curse' should not be low-level. I
think (without knowing) that this strategy lies behind not having any
'Detect curse'-scrolls. It isn't nice to make it TOO easy either.

H--