Re: Increasing Wealth

From: Jeff <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:08:12 -0000

> > My players have just been of raiding and ended up with 3 cows
each,
> > they keep them, how much would this increase their wealth?
>
> I'm trying to iron out the problems with this:
>
> A cow, according to ST, is worth 20 Wealth. Use this Rating to
> Augment your existing Wealth, then cement it. Using our default
> system, that means a cow adds 2 Wealth. If you roll really well, it
> might be a spectacularly good cow and add 4 or more.
>
> Problems:
> 1) If a cow is worth 20 Wealth, how come average Wealth is only 15?
> You don't even own one full cow?

Not quite. Most of anyone's goods are tied up in fixed things that produce wealth like herds or your part of the house.

Wealth is more along the lines 'available cash.' I know how much my assets are but the amount of cash I can raise on short notice is a heck of a lot smaller!

I prefer to think of the 'wealth' rating as 'resources'

Remember, the wealth rating is how much profit you'd see coming in over the course of the year, as I recall.

> 2) Since Ratings are not linear, how come a cow adds as much Wealth
> to an existing Wealth 5W as it does to a 15? (but then, that's how
> Augments work...)

Its much easier to turn $100 000 into $200 000 than turn $1 into $2. So the more wealth you have, the more powerful and useful it is.  

> Maybe use the cow's 20 against the Resistance of the existing
Wealth?
> But then what would you add to that Wealth?
>
> Wulf

I use resources. And I just simply divide the inbound wealth by the current resources rating and add it on. But I admit I don't really get very picky over the numbers.

Jeff