Am I correct in assuming that even though NPCs may carry artifacts that they cannot receive artifacts from PCs? I read some reports that this type of transfer was made in previous games, so I presume that it has been changed in a game update/mod?
Paul
I suppose that depends on whether by NPC you mean what we all think you mean…or do most of the FP in game 66 qualify… 
Sorry, had to get that in. 
They have 5 digit character ID’s…if you can Challenge them and Assassinate them, why can’t you 360 to them?
I’m glad somebody asked this! Recently, as an FP nation, one of my characters attempted to 360 an artifact to Throkmaw. It failed saying that the target wasn’t legal. Why is that? If we can challenge, assassinate, and recruit dragons and other NPC’s, why aren’t we allowed to transfer artifacts to them?
Clint, is there a reason for this? Though I may be delusional, I thought I had known of occasions when you could 360 artifacts to dragons?
I may be delusional, I thought I had known of occasions when you could 360 artifacts to dragons?
Not sure if you are delusional or not but you can’t 360…
Normally I don’t answer ruling questions here but this one amused me enough to answer…
Clint;)
I’m recently returned to MEPBM after a five year break. GSI instituted this programming change, if I recall, to put a stop to players playing games with artifacts like handing artfiacts to dragons to track the dragons, or handing all the good artifacts to Khudrepa, etc. That was never the intent of the game; it was using a rules loophole.
They changed the software to prevent artifacts from being transferrend to NPCs to halt this kind of abuse. I’m guessing that Middle Earth Games inherited the program from G.S.I, because this was a software change taht wasn’t in the rulebook that appears to have remained in place.
There are a few other things like this that I’ve started checking on as well.
Hope this answers the question
And yes, long long ago you used to be able to hand artifacts to dragons.
Bradford
What if you challenge a dragon (With a lowlife nogood char), will the dragon then pick up the artefacts from the char that died in the challenge?
/Per
I too remember tells of using artifacts at tracking beacons though I think it was fixed when I was playing a lot in the late 90’s.
Per,
I don’t know whether a dragon would pick them up or not if your character died in a challenge. An interesting idea.
If you try it, let us all know what happens.
What about dragons that take 1 (or 2) artifacts to recruit? Where do those go?