12-25-2014, 12:49 PM
You can always try to steal an artifact from the "wild" (unresolved encounter) if you don't want to risk any more of your leaders/wizards. You just need to know the artifact's shortname and its location on the map and be within 10 areas away. You even get a different message displayed on your report since you're stealing from, "a lair of an unknown monster".
Though stealing from the wild is tougher to do and is further scaled based upon artifact difficulty level (so Easy artifacts are easier to steal than Medium artifacts). There may be other restrictions as well. You can't steal a Free artifact (like Eklar the Wizard though that may be funny) and you can't steal a Quest artifact (like Ring of Power) even if your agent has the corresponding Key but nearly everything else is stealable.
There are also additional restrictions for some items like Alignment or Race that have to be considered as well. Like how the Last Herd of Winged Stallions is only available for Good kingdoms. If you're not a Good kingdom, you cannot acquire the Pegasi by stealing, trading, encounter resolution, or conquest of another group/pop center (if the pc had possession of the Pegasi). Race conditions are kingdom specific and may deny access to a certain artifact as well (as how dragon kingdoms are not allowed to acquire the Pegasi due to their race).
So I just want to point out that if you're having problems resolving encounters with your group's leaders/wizards, you can always try to steal the artifact instead...
Though stealing from the wild is tougher to do and is further scaled based upon artifact difficulty level (so Easy artifacts are easier to steal than Medium artifacts). There may be other restrictions as well. You can't steal a Free artifact (like Eklar the Wizard though that may be funny) and you can't steal a Quest artifact (like Ring of Power) even if your agent has the corresponding Key but nearly everything else is stealable.
There are also additional restrictions for some items like Alignment or Race that have to be considered as well. Like how the Last Herd of Winged Stallions is only available for Good kingdoms. If you're not a Good kingdom, you cannot acquire the Pegasi by stealing, trading, encounter resolution, or conquest of another group/pop center (if the pc had possession of the Pegasi). Race conditions are kingdom specific and may deny access to a certain artifact as well (as how dragon kingdoms are not allowed to acquire the Pegasi due to their race).
So I just want to point out that if you're having problems resolving encounters with your group's leaders/wizards, you can always try to steal the artifact instead...