> The above question is a perfectly "legitimate" one in game terms,
> and one that's indeed quite likely to _arise_, in some sort or
> another, if you're playing a game set in Glorantha, rather than
> in a neat little Platonic world of HPs and APs that rarely relates
> to the same.
Not really. The "In Glorantha" question is "How many Cows do I get of I add 10 to 16". The "What's my Wealth" is a "platonic world" construct. Since the method of increasing your Wealth score in game terms is not just to throw Cows at it, and in gloranthan terms you have to more with your cows than just hoard 'em in the byre/field in order to see any benefit from them, the question is pretty meaningless in any terms.
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>>>Or, if I add cows 'valued' at 10W to my Wealth of 5W, how many
>>>cows is that?
> That's a another diversionary attack. Cattle _are_ a unit of
> currency for the Heortlings, it's specious to attack them for not
> being a sufficiently good one. If it makes you feel any less likely
> to light the blue touchpaper attached to straw men, reformulate
> the question in terms of some less "fuzzy" currency. (Such as
> "lunars", either as in the good old bad old RQ2 days, or indeed in
> the empire itself.)
OK. I add Coins Valued at £10 to my Wealth of £5. How many Coins do I have.
Cattle are a medium of exchange for Heortlings, not currency...
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