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I've been struggling over this one for a while. Trying to think how to say something sorta simple in an interesting way... and I don't think I found it... Purse Fondling I don't like unlimited imaginary money credit being an on character sheet thing for most of my fantasy games. I made the LT curren...

Maybe you've just never seen the true extremes of a pack rat player. One day you just glance over and realize they've been just casually carrying around a shipping container worth of heavy metal armaments and 12,000 balls of string and enough furniture for a small palace in their 3 pages of individu...

OgreBattle wrote:Theres a Japnese tabletop rpg where gear is a mini game like resident evil where you fit items of different shapes into a grid. Encumberance happens when you go over the grid borders.

And people called my draw it on a stick figure inventory management scheme weird.

I'm sorry but this is basically nonsense, especially the choice and repeated use of "embedded" as jargon utterly unrelated to the plain meaning of the word, and then having it change in meaning to suit whatever you are saying as you progress. You seem to have just now "discovered"...

Well the problem with attributes isn't that classes make them redundant. It's that basically everything makes them redundant. Why have an attribute score that works like 3.x D&D and only exists to derive a bonus? Why not just have a bonus? If your Strength is mostly just a source for a damage bo...

I think the ideal for a tacked on crafting system is... People who know how to use the thing, know how to make the thing. Making the thing isn't meaningfully cheaper or better for game mechanical benefits. But it might get you the exact specific thing you wanted instead of a near match or random alt...

What is a Fortune? Well this is slightly awkward. And not because I think I know better on your term selection, I mean, of course I do, looking at where you seem to be going I would have gone with "Cash" and "Capital" instead of 'Fortune" and "Wealth". But just mo...

I think it's been a day or two and I could roll out something else wealth related I'd like to talk about. Wealth vs Prices Here's a problem with wealth. Haggling. When you give out XP currency people don't argue for a discount to their next level. Much. When you give out Coins as a currency people w...

And at that I'd normally just walk and let this die from it's own dumb.

But I want to ask. Is this the current standard of the Den?

So to be clear. Your plan is to do something that is mechanically the same as, except for where it is objectively strictly inferior to, rolling on encounter tables. Only its Tarot. Only it's not because it doesn't really work like that, nor do you really particularly seem to care for the whole tarot...

I think many games would benefit from having this handled by XP. That's not automatically a problem, but in most cases it would be. In the case of characters being 75% gear it would be more likely to be a problem. If you buy certain parts of your character with XP and certain parts with Wealth and ...

A title may as well be a skill, a skill might as well be an item, you can apply the same availability limit methods of distributing them. So "Find", "Buy", "Craft" or equivalents, the "find" equivalent is the GM telling you it drops from a defeated hydra, this...

Reading that I'm seeing less of a direct discussion of a wealth mechanic and more a discussion of Downtime Mechanics. So as far as I read your thing there's a list of things that happen during "normal play" the thing everyone has agreed to come to the game for. Then there is this list of &...

When it comes to multiple wealth "solutions" I would regard any unwanted solution being viable even sometimes as being a minor "free money" related issue that could use fixing. I'm not inclined to randomize between "owning bakeries" and "hunting dragons" to be...

See I think one problem for wealth is exactly that weird perception that the DM is "giving" players 8,000,000,000 Macaroni Cents and a Sword of Several Cats. It's not so much that it is an entirely inaccurate perception it's more that it's odd that there isn't a matching perception that th...

Ok I'm going to just restrain myself to pick two things to say about wealth one of which is relevant to current discussion and one of which isn't. Wealth Vs Availability OK. So wealth and crafting. What's the point. I have one idea and it's pretty much part of something I've been doing for a while. ...

This is one of those topics I'm actually interested in so I have too many different things to say about it. So rather than swamp your thread in one go with all of that... I think before abstracting wealth you need to know what your goals are. Having currency and shopping isn't bad in and of itself. ...

Actually wait. I looked up the d20modern online resources. Did some reckoning and uh... The D20Modern Wealth Dance According to d20Modern this is the cool dance all the kids should be doing. So basically for context the base mechanic is "buy items by making a skill check with what might as be y...

I don't remember the exact details of the d20Modern wealth system, in that I don't remember the exact numbers involved in exploiting it. Also looking at it now like half of d20modern it looks suspiciously like it got a post release online resource only edit that didn't help but did obfuscate matters...

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Both concepts seem loosely fine in principle.

However though the vengeful ghost of D20Modern makes me fear that if I could be bothered looking it up it would be a trainwreck in actual practice.

Actually the use of Alpha Male is basically a stamp of a stupid person who's understanding of sociology and basic human social dynamics is mired in misinterpretations and misrepresentations of a single ancient study on the behavior of wolves limited specifically to unrelated wolves in captivity that...

I don't know. Crafting has issues. For me it's something you do pretty much for "free" in formal terms and can include whatever ingredients you like on an informal basis. To the degree it interacts with buildings and economy tier breaks, crafting could be a thing you do in buildings and cr...

Now I just need to figure out what kind of higher-tier currency would make sense in a Pokemon game. No, I don't think the answer is "Pokemon". Should I just make up some Pokemon Unobtainium? In all seriousness there already IS a pokemon unobtanium that is a physical object of high value t...

This is for pokemon exclusive use? ...hm... On the one hand I want the economy to immediately break on contact with sanity. Because of course it would, I'm talking to you pokemon franchise, your world is made of nonsense, the smurfs have a better economy. On the other hand I feel it needs a rethink ...

Perhaps you roll I'd need to know more about how many of these rolls happen how often per player/base/time unit/building, how you calculate the windfalls when they happen and what else of value the "random events" roll might also be doing to justify itself. But economics scare me. You cou...