RE: Re: Increasing Wealth

From: bernuetz.oliver_at_...
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:35:59 -0400

No offence but I thought this whole wealth business was supposed to make it easier on the narrators and players so they didn't have to worry about how many lunars they were carrying around. If I have to puzzle over what every bit of treasure or cow is worth to the players by doing "only if" sorts of pondering I certainly haven't had my work made any easier. This sort of rough approximation and "well it depends on how you invest/use it" talk doesn't make my job as narrator any easier. So far as narrator I've avoided the whole business of wealth which I probably shouldn't be. What effect does having an iron chain hauberk and sword have on your wealth? Your wealth's a reflection of your goods and status isn't it? I haven't even thought about the character with the hell metal plate and greatsword. Criminy, he must be richer than the clan's chief! There must be an easier way to do this sort of abstracted wealth business. Wealth isn't supposed to be actual cash value. An owned cow should be worth as much as a sold cow. If we have to worry about potential value and sold value this is worse than the old lunars system.

Oliver
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Ellis [mailto:tim_at_...]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:46 AM To: hw-rules_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Increasing Wealth

> Problems:
> 1) If a cow is worth 20 Wealth, how come average Wealth is only 15?
> You don't even own one full cow?

Owninig a Cow is not a zero cost option. A cow might be "worth" 20 Wealth, but only if you sell the cow. A typical Carl's herd of cows provides an annual excess of 15 wealth (which is why adding "Three Cows" might not increase your wealth at all at the scale at which HW operates. a 3% increase on 15,000 is still 15,000 to the nearest 1,000...)

> 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...)
>

I don't think you should be talking about adding "A cow" to your wealth anyway, but "1 Wealth's worth of Cow" or whatever - This probably means the Rich clan leader takes a more cows when everybody gets "1 Wealth's worth" of cows - but then he probably does anyway (unless he forgoes raising his wealth in favour of spending his HP on increased relationships with the raiding party by letting them take more cows....)

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