There may be two layers with a coin based economy for the merchants and a cow based one for the farmers. Cities are going to tend towards coinage because not everyone wants livestock but nearby farmers may cling to traditional ways.
>Also,
>one of the players has an NPC friend who is in deep gambling debt and I'm
>trying to guesstimate how much is a properly shocking number. I'm going
>to wing it anyway, but I was wondering if in one of these long,
>complicated digest discussions someone had already done the work. :)
That's easy, the debts are greater than his weregeld. So if someone were to kill him the payment wouldn't cover his debts. Probably reason for his bloodline to get him outlawed because they're better off without him.
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