How does a farmer end up with a magic item?

[AllisterH]

How most farmers find rare items these days, they plow them up. Not so common in the US, but in Italy, Greece, etc. sometimes you can't dig 10 feet without hitting some artifact a 1000+ years old. Rhodes and Crete are notorious for this.

You know, this is something that N.American gamers probably don't get. I remember a friend who had lived in the stereotypical small English town and mentioning how he and his mates while digging a new swimming hole had found artifacts that were from around the time of the Saxons migration to England.

Yet the thing that really shocked me was the blase way he mentioned everyone treated it. It was considered no big deal and didn't even make the front page of the county's paper apparently.

 

[Midknightsun]

I, for one, highly recommend +5 vorpal holy avengers to all commoners.

It makes my farmer death match fights more interesting . . . . .

 

[GreatLemur]

Or leave it as the default? I hate people who do that.

Seriously. This ain't MySpace.

Also, Comic Sans never a good idea. Anywhere.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

You know, this is something that N.American gamers probably don't get.

Many will. Those rocks for the new england stone walls come from somplace, you know. Also if you've been exposed to the land mine debate. (hrm, alchemal rules for unexploded ordinance.....)

 

[Quartz]

And how do you know that that farmer isn't possessed by a ghost and working his penance?

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Many will. Those rocks for the new england stone walls come from somplace, you know. Also if you've been exposed to the land mine debate. (hrm, alchemal rules for unexploded ordinance.....)

We often found arrowheads out in the fields. Not *too* many (as the Natives weren't too keen on hunting in the (now-drained) swamps), but some.

Brad

 

[Lord Zardoz]

Or the farmer may be a former adventurer who decided to be a dirt farmer, and had his +5 Vorpal Longsword reforged into a +5 Vorpal Plowshare.

END COMMUNICATION

 

[Felix]

Or the farmer may be a former adventurer who decided to be a dirt farmer, and had his +5 Vorpal Longsword reforged into a +5 Vorpal Plowshare.

I think he'd rather a +5 Keen Dirtbane Plowshare. But that's just me.

 

[tzor]

Also, Comic Sans never a good idea. Anywhere.

This just in: Comic Sans is never a good idea! Film at 11.

Never say never. It's good for a joke. But generally it's not good for your average post.

 

[howandwhy99]

plow-based excavation.