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I don't believe it's possible. The system lets you define a location for an object. The object can be in that location or in the player's inventory. Generally that's it.

If you really, really wanted to do this, you could have an empty room that the player can't get to and use that as the location for all the items. Then you could do some scripting to decide which item was in the room. You could use that script to put the item in the description of the room. You could also set variables there to create a link to allow the player to pick up the item and then have a script that would put it in their inventory.

Or there might be an easier way, but that's the only way I can think of right now.

There is a way.

First, you need to set the number of Uses of any Item you want to randomize to say 10.

Then use a Page Script on your first page to set all the Items to $ITEMSTATEX := 1 AND (in the same script) $ITEMUSEDX := 11.

This will add all the items to the player, but make them disappear (before the player sees them), because they have been used up.

In the Global Script, you add something like IF $ITEMUSEDX = 9 THEN $ITEMUSEDX := 0. This will keep the items usable forever.

When you want an Item to appear, just change $ITEMUSEDX := 0. To disappear, $ITEMUSEDX := 11 again.

For Items you actually want to have limited uses, you need to add a variable to track it and turn the item off when appropriate - or just give the item a number of uses less than your ON/OFF number AND less than the RESET number in the Global Script.

This is how you also get around the $ITEMSTATEX Bug off Page Links.

Neat idea. Though she did clearly say she didn't want to use ITEMSTATE... :)

You had it right, you just needed the BEGIN and END in there around each section. I'm not sure exactly where the problem was but it had to do with the order the game was reading the things in the script in.