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Abstract Wealth

Started by One Horse Town, August 23, 2011, 07:49:58 AM

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One Horse Town

#15
August 23, 2011, 04:21:13 PM
Thanks for the input, guys, but i think i've decided against it. Too much trouble for no real gain.

crkrueger

#16
August 23, 2011, 04:41:41 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;475317Thanks for the input, guys, but i think i've decided against it. Too much trouble for no real gain.

Well, you could get some gain, particularly if you don't want to deal with setting up an economic system that can't be exploited by players.  Sett, for example, could probably find a hole in your pricing system and would disassemble plows, selling off the raw metal and clubs from the wood, for a profit. :D
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One Horse Town

#17
August 23, 2011, 04:50:52 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;475322Well, you could get some gain, particularly if you don't want to deal with setting up an economic system that can't be exploited by players.  Sett, for example, could probably find a hole in your pricing system and would disassemble plows, selling off the raw metal and clubs from the wood, for a profit. :D

Ah, but i wrote the unofficial trade & commerce in the old world document for WFRP and also co-wrote the trade section in The WFRP Companion. ;)

I have trade info coming out the wazoo!

As this system is for my WFRP clone game, i think i'll stick with a more conventional approach.

crkrueger

#18
August 23, 2011, 04:59:59 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;475324Ah, but i wrote the unofficial trade & commerce in the old world document for WFRP and also co-wrote the trade section in The WFRP Companion. ;)

I have trade info coming out the wazoo!

As this system is for my WFRP clone game, i think i'll stick with a more conventional approach.
My apologies sir, I had forgotten.  :hatsoff:

You going to publish the WFRP clone?

BTW, totally off-topic, what section of the SIFRP Campaign Guide did you do?
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

Yes, Sean Connery\'s thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat

Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans

One Horse Town

#19
August 23, 2011, 05:13:36 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;475325My apologies sir, I had forgotten.  :hatsoff:

No worries. I hate that kind of 'project dropping' (a kind of name dropping, i guess), but i thought i'd get it out there.

QuoteYou going to publish the WFRP clone?

Mate, i haven't finished the project i started 4 years ago yet. Truly, publishing or not hasn't entered my mind. I just like the time period and the location that i'm covering and it happens to coincide with many of the themes of WFRP, so it looks a little bit similar.

Not sure whether to have fantasy elements in it or not yet, though.

QuoteBTW, totally off-topic, what section of the SIFRP Campaign Guide did you do?

I didn't. Am i still in the credits? I was on the roster to do the Riverlands, but real-life intervened.

crkrueger

#20
August 23, 2011, 06:38:56 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;475326I didn't. Am i still in the credits? I was on the roster to do the Riverlands, but real-life intervened.

I remembered you were listed in some preview info I saw, I can check the book when I get home.  Probably not.
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

Yes, Sean Connery\'s thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat

Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans

RPGPundit

#21
August 24, 2011, 12:07:54 PM
Wealth systems that are abstract depend on two factors:

1. That wealth not be a particularly central aspect of what your game is for.  In D&D, for example, wealth is absolutely central, its the whole point of why you're going adventuring, for the loot.  

2. That you be dealing with a post-industrial society where the benefit of going abstract is more significant because people are actually living above subsistence level and have a complex economy, and its very hard there to really keep a meaningful track of things like expenses with a straightforward monetary system that isn't abstract.

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