Re: Wealth [was: Re: Re: Increasing abilities [was: Wealth]]

From: Paul Andrew King <paul_at_...>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 22:18:05 +0100

> > The system stands in any culture. It just does not translate
>> directly; that is the virtue of the abstraction, to make it translate.
>
>... by ignoring the culture, and thus "translating" between a
>Wealth rating with no game-world meaning in one culture, to the same
>Wealth rating with no game-world meaning in another culture, if some
>people are to be believed.

I believe that the point was that the SYSTEM would work (or not) in the same away WITHIN any one culture even though the MEANINGS of the wealth values would be drastically different in one culture from another.

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"The T'ang emperors were strong believers in the pills of 
immortality.  More emperors died of poisoning from ingesting minerals 
in the T'ang than in any other dynasty" - Eva Wong _The Shambhala 
Guide to Taoism_

Paul K.