Re: _Adding_ abilities, wealth and wells

From: bethexton_at_...
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:03:34 -0000

This I agree with. I think the wealth system shown in HW is reasonable for Heortlings (maybe not perfect!, but reasonable). However I suspect it fits much more poorly in areas with more of a cash economy and less reliance on personal relationships. No place in Glorantha will be even a fraction as extreme in this regard as is modern North America (and to a marginally lesser degree most industrialized countries). However in the great cities of the great civilizations, the Heortling custom of declaring who you are, and then people treat you accordingly, is simply not feasible. There are too many people, and in some circumstances too much mobility.

Oddly enough, in general I think the wealth rules reasonable at the upper and lower end of things. Most farming villages don't rely on cash, most nobles may have lots of valuables, but their real wealth is their influence. I think it is when you have lots of people who are in-between those two cases where you really need to look at alternative wealth models.

Just my opinion. Hopefully somebody has been playtesting merchants based in Nochet, or some such, and has actual experience trying to make the rules work there.

--Bryan

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