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Standard Warden Equipment?
wyltok:
The fact that Luccio is the only person in the Council making warden swords suggests an explanation for why there's no standard equipment: there just aren't enough enchanters out there to make the stuff.
That said, apparently wardens do get discretionary funding as part of their stipends meant to help them acquire good materials for enchanting their equipment themselves... Harry spent all of his on Little Chicago.
Quantus:
I dont think it's a matter of resources so much as Consensus. Aside from the (thus far) unique anti-magic benefit of the Warden Swords, I doubt there would be any given task where you could get a bunch of different wizards with fundamentally different mindsets to agree on what was the /best/ method of implementing magic Armor or Shields or whatnot. The argument could be made, for example, that Harry's "Obdurate Bastion" style defenses are not the best, they are terribly inefficient and can be overcome with enough brute force opposition.
--- Quote from: wyltok on July 11, 2017, 04:41:48 PM ---The fact that Luccio is the only person in the Council making warden swords suggests an explanation for why there's no standard equipment: there just aren't enough enchanters out there to make the stuff.
That said, apparently wardens do get discretionary funding as part of their stipends meant to help them acquire good materials for enchanting their equipment themselves... Harry spent all of his on Little Chicago.
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Said funds also were minuscule, prior to TC they hadnt been updated for Cost of Living in decades.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Quantus on July 11, 2017, 08:05:30 PM ---I dont think it's a matter of resources so much as Consensus. Aside from the (thus far) unique anti-magic benefit of the Warden Swords, I doubt there would be any given task where you could get a bunch of different wizards with fundamentally different mindsets to agree on what was the /best/ method of implementing magic Armor or Shields or whatnot. The argument could be made, for example, that Harry's "Obdurate Bastion" style defenses are not the best, they are terribly inefficient and can be overcome with enough brute force opposition.
Said funds also were minuscule, prior to TC they hadnt been updated for Cost of Living in decades.
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Not minuscule -- when he unveils Little Chicago, Harry has a big monologue about how the Wardens are paid more than he'd been letting on.
--- Quote ---They'd set the pay rate for Wardens in the fifties--but even the Council wasn't hidebound enough to ignore things like standard inflation, and the Warden's paychecks had kept pace through discretionary funding in--my God, I'm starting to sound like part of the establishment.
Long story short. The Wardens have sneaky ways of getting paid more, and the money I was getting from them, while not stellar, was nothing to sneeze at, either.
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Quantus:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on July 11, 2017, 08:17:16 PM ---Not minuscule -- when he unveils Little Chicago, Harry has a big monologue about how the Wardens are paid more than he'd been letting on.
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A full-time Job that pays for a single Model Train-set, but requires he keep his day job? Minuscule. Not an actual Pittance, but Minuscule.
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Quantus on July 11, 2017, 08:21:03 PM ---A full-time Job that pays for a single Model Train-set, but requires he keep his day job? Minuscule. Not an actual Pittance, but Minuscule.
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A single model train-set? We're talking about Little Chicago. A huge thing built out of hundreds of custom-crafted metal and wood structures. He didn't just buy things off a rack. He had to have every single piece customized, and some of them are pretty hefty in themselves.
Custom metal work on that scale is going to cost a fair amount.
--- Quote ---The skyline rose up more than a foot from the tabletop, models of each building made from cast pewter--also expensive, given I'd had to get each one made individually. Streets made of real asphalt ran between the buildings, lined with streetlights and mailboxes in exacting detail--and all in all, I had the city mapped out to almost two miles from Burnham Harbor in every direction.
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