>>Hero Wars had a large cost chart with wealth-level difficulties, but
>>this was not reprinted in HQ. Does everyone keep track of coinage and
>>wealth? Do people guess-timate largess?
PCs get a wealth ability as indicated by their keywords and background. They can buy this up with HP just like any other ability. I've seen the HW wealth table and would probably use it (or something similar) to eyeball substantial transactions - bearing in mind of course that Orlanthi live in communal clan groups, so said substantial transactions will prominently feature Issaries devotees and other community leaders.
>>When players stumble upon/find wealth, do you roughly describe it (a
>>pouch of silver, an antique scroll-case, and some unworked amber), or >>do
you go into more detail (a pouch of 30 L, a scroll-case worth 140 L, >>and a
chunk of amber worth 50 L)?
Roughly describe, but with plenty of loving detail if its an important trove just not with pricetags attached (unless there's an Issaries cultist present who might think in such terms). Cash and bullion might get a rough count, but I'd frame it in terms that are relevant to the characters - "A bag of about three score coins bearing the the mark of an Eyteries mint in Tarsh - even allowing for last year's devaluations, you reckon there's enough silver here to make up thumbrings for everyone just like Oddi Legbreaker's weaponthanes have. There's also a richly ornamented and lacquered leather tube, you have seen something similar in the hands of those Seven Mothers priests who came for the tribute in Storm Season, and there's a piece of unworked sunstone as big as a goose-egg - it looks to be bigger even than the gem set into the centre of the shield Broyan Hearthguard used when he enacted 'Elmal Guards The Stead' in the year of the Culbrea rebellion."
>>How does one handle wealth *increase*? The old HW rules had you
>>converting 1/10 or so of the wealth difficulty to the character's >>wealth
attribute for 1 hero point. Does this seem to much?
Not sure I'd use such a hard and fast rule - I'd probably just say that Wealth was only a 'relevant ability' for cut-price HP expenditure if the PCs had acquired a significant quantity of booty during their most recent adventure. Of course what constitutes 'significant' for these purposes would depend upon how rich they were to start with - I'd probably tie that decision back to the HW wealth table in some way.
Basically I'd try and head off any tendency to think in terms of abstract monetary values and player bean counting and focus instead on the 'use value' of treasures. Will the amber (suitably worked and set by a gem cutter) help one of the PCs follow in Broyan's footsteps as a devotee of Elmal? How easy is it going to be for a bunch of hill-country cattle raiders to offload something that obviously came from a high lunar official? Stuff like that. Plus of course every self respecting heortling orlanthi knows that the only true wealth is measured in steads and cattle...
Regards
Luke
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