Ok, lets take it from the top.<br/><br/>1.You never said anything about slaves not getting any gear in any thread with this group. That being the case I would request that Ming gets a pass on that since it's not her fault that you got confused and ended up throwing this at her blind.<br/><br/>2.The difference in cost between getting someone of my level to cast glyph of warding and getting someone to cast mind probe is all of 20gp. The difference in the cost of power points is 5 for glyph and 9 for the probe. Since I'd have to vanish for several days to work off my bill and we're not even out of the early morning yet (where I am anyway) I'd rather do the glyphs since I can almost do 2 of them for the cost of one mind probe but will get almost twice the credit.<br/><br/>3.Artemis Enteri was never officially a slave, they started as partners and then he was given an "offer he couldn't refuse". It is however documented that many slaves were given equipment of various kinds and that particularly efficient and useful ones where even given magic items and housing to match that of commoner drow soldiers. This is not to say that the gear was a match for what the Drow themselves had or that the slaves were not still treated like crap outside of the house, but there is precedent for slaves having at least the basics of their profession. Those in non-house groups, like Jarlaxle's mercs, may even aspire to equal equipment and authority to drow in the group depending on the focus and tone of the organization.<br/><br/>4.If there is any other important information that may be lost in the depths of the former threads maybe you should go through them and collect it into one post somewhere that you can then refer people too instead of expecting everyone to read through several hundred pages of posts that lack any relevance to them in an attempt to find and remember something you said to a different group of people a year or more ago. Since you seem to be short of time you might also consider hiring someone else to do it in exchange for some kind of in game windfall.<br/><br/>5.If they don't get gear then you should stop them before they pick gear. Doing otherwise is inherently confusing and leads to misunderstandings which, in good conscience, I can only blame on the DM.<br/><br/>6.I don't know if english is your first language or not but I've had some trouble understanding a lot of what you've said, both in and out of character. I can usually puzzle it out pretty quickly once I've sat down and worked it through but I can still see how it would be easy to misunderstand something. Just mentioning this to say that I think a little leeway is in order for people that didn't get exactly what you said.<br/><br/><br/>I apologize if this comes across as some kind of attack or bashing. I'm just trying to express my views as I see it and offer constructive criticism but I'm not very good at getting the tone for this kind of stuff across properly via text. If anyone else sees things differently or has something else to say please do so.