Drkfathr1
First Post
Yeah but... well, consider me less impressed.
The "you get full residue unless you actually fed the item to the monster to abuse this rule, in which case you only get the standard one fifth" rule is a kludge pure and simple.
Atleast they could have bothered to come up with a semi-believable explanation why Rust Monster poop is less valuable in captivity than when it gets to eat the stuff you don't want it to.
But would it kill the PCs to have their stuff lose a point of plus (five levels)? No, it wouldn't. And it would keep up the RMs reputation.
(And, incidentally, it would solve the "I can't enchant stuff above my level" problem; because it's rather unlikely for an adventurer to carry around a level+6 item.)
Cheers,
Zapp
I guess its fairly easy to explain by keeping in mind that if you kill it, you remove the residue from its stomach...before it's gone through the digestive tract. However, if you wait for things to work through the full digestive tract, the beast absorbs most of it to fuel its weird magical metabolism. Thus only a much smaller amount from the feces.
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