Role-Playing Merchant Idea

[Cash]

This idea is only cool if you can tame generic humanoids with gold. I dont know if you can, and i do not feel like testing it either. That being said... Say you can tame humanoids with gold , that would allow you to manage the merchant like you would a caravan. Merchants get all kinds of gold and they could use it to tame an outlaw or a bandit not unlike a traveling caravan would pay mercenaries to protect the its goods from highway men goods. Merchants can also double their carrying capacity at level 12 (i think) much like a caravan can haul around a lot of goods. Once you get to dwarftown with this "caravan", try to tame one of the wandering guards and equiping them with the best gear gold can buy! A hostile dwarf confronts you in the big room? Give him a 1000 gold to be your body guard! Well you get the idea, carry around a shit ton of items and pay people to guard you all the while making sure they level up, as well as equipping them.

What do you guys think?

[Dudley]

a hostile outlaw leader does not like less or equal 10k gold. I won't try it therefore

[Twinge]

Well, you can definitely get: cats, racoons, and black hurtlings without music; they'll all work for fish You can also give Barbarians a certain ring to get their assistance. Beggars will also work for food. You can also buy yourself a Golem and get hawkslayer's assistance, and there's always ?oFS as well.

Just taming random humans with gold, however, is not an option.

[Pumpernickel]

Well, you can definitely get: cats, racoons, and black hurtlings without music; they'll all work for fish You can also give Barbarians a certain ring to get their assistance. Beggars will also work for food. You can also buy yourself a Golem and get hawkslayer's assistance, and there's always ?oFS as well.

Just taming random humans with gold, however, is not an option.

For a merchant, it might be. There's that high-level class power (level 40?), but i don't know whether it only pacifies or actually is able to tame things. In a pinch, you could tame monsters in another way, then keep exchanging them until you get your human(oid) caravan. Sounds totally reasonable, ne?

[Cash]

does anybody know if this is the case?

[fazisi]

I've never gotten a merchant past level 8.

[nathrakh]

Merchants need extra care. Remember that merchants can throw coins but it is 1200 energy action, even then it is better than your starting weapon.. probably..