Re: Wealth

From: ryan.caveney_at_...
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 07:56:35 -0000

>
> I think the main bone of contention is point 4, the issue of how
> much discussion one wants and how much guidance in this discussion
> can be supplied by the rules. In effect the whole wealth thread *is*
> this discussion.

This is certainly part of it, but there is another issue: the 1/10 rule of page 37. Some people say scrap it entirely, some say replace it with something else. I don't really care which, just so long as everyone -- especially the authors of the second edition rulebook -- realizes that the rule as written is broken, and should not be used as it stands in the present edition. The breakage is that the example text instructs you to *add* the values in the cost table, which has as a consequence the obviously ludicrous conclusion that one cow can't buy a canoe but seven can buy a castle. You can either say "just don't add" or "add logarithmically" -- but whatever you do, *please* don't add linearly.

Ryan Caveney