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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6540177" data-attributes="member: 57383">There's no mention of it being intelligent, but in AD&amp;D a sword has to be intelligent to have an alignment or to do ego-damage to dissimilar alignment creatures who handle it - although it'd have been nice for it to have an ego score to indicate how much that damage is!It appears to be a +1/+2 weapon with two extraordinary powers and no ability to speak, so would have an EGO of 7 according to the 1E Dungeon Master's Guide, which also tells us it most likely has Intelligence 12 and empathy.Anyhow, I agree we should make it treasure that can be looted once the General is killed - although I would suggest they would have to permanently destroy the General to be able to keep it (if only because if the General still exists the sword would teleport back to him whenever he calls it).A normal 13th level fighter NPC has a gear value of 35,000 gold pieces, so that seems a decent target number for much loot we ought to give the General, and his magic sword ought to be a hefty chunk of that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6540177, member: 57383"] There's no mention of it being intelligent, but in AD&D a sword has to be intelligent to have an alignment or to do ego-damage to dissimilar alignment creatures who handle it - although it'd have been nice for it to have an ego score to indicate how much that damage is! It appears to be a +1/+2 weapon with two extraordinary powers and no ability to speak, so would have an EGO of 7 according to the 1E [I]Dungeon Master's Guide[/I], which also tells us it most likely has Intelligence 12 and [I]empathy[/I]. Anyhow, I agree we should make it treasure that can be looted once the General is killed - although I would suggest they would have to [B][I]permanently[/I][/B] destroy the General to be able to keep it (if only because if the General still exists the sword would [I]teleport[/I] back to him whenever he calls it). A normal 13th level fighter NPC has a gear value of 35,000 gold pieces, so that seems a decent target number for much loot we ought to give the General, and his magic sword ought to be a hefty chunk of that. [/QUOTE]

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