You could make santa drop much much better eq, but versions with timers.

Example: you get a torsomaker from the present, but it has 1week of RL time to
live. Or str/ecrits sothplate drops with a lifetime of 2 weeks etc. The point
is to get fun items that you can use for awhile, but as such they won't really
bring problems into the eqbalance for a long time.

And ofcourse, it would be nice to have some special features to these items,
for instance.

A vorpal blade. => A vorpal blade(with a red ribbon tied around the hilt)
<christmas glow>

And people wearing christmas items would get a special <happy glow> to their
sdesc or something.

You mean you don\'t like wandering around BC for 5 minutes to wind up with \"a
steel mattock\" or various other useless crap every day? Oh wait, me either.
Even if you got a temporary blessing from the gods or some such would be
better than the junk he gives out every single time I visit.

PS. It\'d be nice if temp bans/some other penalty started getting handed out to
people asking santas location/summons to him. Isn\'t half the point to go find
him yourself? BC isn\'t that big...

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On the other hand: isn't santa supposed to visit YOU?
I see no point in this stupid hunt the santa to get free crap -idea, that's
why I don't bother trying to find him. My santa claus would bring my free
crap to me.

++Rhoads