Re: Increasing abilities [was: Wealth]

From: epweissengruber_at_...
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:27:34 -0000

>
> > So I am docked 2 cows. If I had 3W2 Wealth, and I get a 2 cow
> penalty
> > (not a 5 or 10 penalty), what is my Wealth
>
> Your wealth is 3W2. You mentioned nothing about having your wealth
> ability penalised, so it is unchanged.

Geez, this wealth thing is making everyone snarky.

So I am an Orlanthi and I am told that one important way of measuring one's wealth is the number of cows you own.

Let's say I have been concentrating on character development and have never given a thought as to how my character's wealth was actually consituted. Then I run into this little penalty of 2 cows for some infraction.

How can I as a character (or narrator) register the impact that this penalty has on my life if not through the Wealth rating.

So I am barely scraping by on a Wealth of 10 -- how do I assess the major impact that the loss of 2 cows will have on my (abstractly measured wealth)

Are you suggesting that we record wealth values, but also keep a list of every possession we own -- and would the loss of 9/10ths of my possessions (instead of a minute fraction represented by the loss of a pair of cows) still not make any difference to my Wealth rating, because "Wealth" is not identical with "things I own"?