Graham Robinson:
>
> Ah, once again we agree without seeming to.
>
> I wasn't meaning to suggest that someone with wealth 20 had exactly one cow,
> or the equivalent in the culture of your choice. More that one cow 'relates'
> to 20 wealth - in the manner you mentioned, and also for ideas of whether
> there were enough cows to increase your wealth significantly.
>
> You are, of course, correct about the meaning of wealth on the character
> sheet.
Excellent, I get you now. This is part of the problem I was trying to fix, though, having two different "scales", offset from each other. (The "total net worth" scale, and the "buying resistance" scale.) Better I think to have just one, the net-worth scale, and respresent the other by a difficulty modifier. (A "liquidity penalty" if you will: if your total wealth is the equivalent of 1 cow, your chances of buying a cow will be low, unless you're prepared to use _all_ your wealth to do so.)
Cheers,
Alex.
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