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Now, when you die and stop protecting your castle, that's going to be a huge influx of gold and you'll get a period of local hyperinflation that diminishes the further away you are and then eventually you'll hit some equilibrium point where gold reaches its new value point in all connected markets ...

Why summon gold, when you can build Gold Mine Generators , and have them manned by experts who work their fingers to the bone under the watchful eyes of thugs you're bribing with an insignificant fraction of the profits? It's not like they'll steal from you: you can read their minds and find them an...

Grandpa must be pretty busy if he can't even spend a day to outfit his grandson's personal bodyguard.

Why is the aristocracy not composed entirely of the Wish Economy character's relatives, again?

I guess this means I need yet another assumption: 8. People don't collect magic items they have no use for. After all, a commoner who happens to have acquired fifteen Decanters still has nothing the wish economy characters want . If you deny this one, you end up with a setting where the only way cha...

So here's what happens when you try to avoid my assumptions. 1. You don't have a Wish Economy. 2. You don't have a Wish Economy. 2. b. All characters level 11 or higher in your setting act like gods: epic and irrelevant. Unless they're common enough for the weird golems and magical monstrosities the...

Okay, I added a word. Given how emphatically I've seen people say that sundering is a bad idea, it doesn't seem unreasonable to say that an Everfull Mug you make is likely to stick around forever.

You're right, I don't know what Z, a, R, b, or Y are, because you haven't shown me your D&D setting.

From what I can tell, K, half of your arguments are attempting to prove that 2.b. (revised set) is complete nonsense in a typical setting. While pessimistic, they do seem to be based on the way real humans have acted in the past. The other half of your arguments would apply equally well to non- wish...

K: I hoped that since I tried to state my assumptions, those would no longer be a flaw of the model. The thing is, at the level a character enters the post-wish economy, the items they can make with it are not particularly threatening to them personally. If a specific item is, that might not be amon...

True Tarkisflux, there are items worth much less than 15000 gold for which there are no equivalents worth just under 15000 gold, although it's sort of supposed to be possible to tack additional magic effects onto an item for 1.5 times the normal price. 4b is just an alternate, and probably better ve...

Sure, amateur archeologists tend to die like flies, but if all of these many, many magic items are buried in ruins, finding just one is going to make you set for life, so long as you can find yourself a city where killing people and taking their stuff is frowned upon. The town guard ride on Bronze G...

Saying that you don't have access to wishables in a Wish economy is kind of like saying that you don't have access to giant truck fulls of cash in an economy with rich people. If your hypothesis is that magic items will trickle down, that would imply trickle down made any sense to begin with. But w...

Oh yeah, I remembered another assumption.

6. Population growth is fairly negligible.

You can safely disregard magic items made back when the world's population was several times smaller, if it follows an exponential progression.

Certainly, the precise number of items changes depending on the age of the world, and the number of proactive Efreet-binders, but I also said "the only reason a +1 weapon or +2 armor would exist is because Giant Frog." Even if there are several times fewer Wished items than I said, the D&a...

I find it slightly ironic that the massive profusion of cheap-ish magic items means that you should sometimes find +1 Keen daggers in the stomachs of Quill Rats.

Here are my assumptions: 1. It's possible to bind Efreet to get wishes for magic items worth 15000 gp or less. 2. Some fraction of the population (0.01% is quite sufficient) is capable of binding Efreet. 3. Permanent magic items last until destroyed. 4. The world has been around for thousands of yea...

I thought it would be pertinent to mention that YARPGS uses a special universal stat to handle Save or Dies. It replaces health.

After all, in swordfighting parlance, an attack which isn't intended to kill is called a "feint".

If a level 4 character can kill a level 1 character in 1 hit and a level 4 character in 4 hits, and it's the level difference that matters, then a level 7 character has to do 16X damage.

So... Fighters tend to get tired faster than Casters, because Endurance is a dump stat for them? I might recommend making the Casters specialized and the Fighters generalist. If you're allowed to think outside the box, a single spell like Telekinesis can provide dozens of new options, and things lik...

Those are some rich peasants.

You'd be right about the Stealth thing, Blicero, if ToP didn't let Stealth characters share their Stealth checks with their allies.

Why so I have.

I also switched from 1 second rounds to 4e-ish 6 second rounds, because I cleverly realized that people move more when they are forced to.

There's Dark Heresy too. Being wounded and getting a variety of interesting status effects from it can be fun. I should probably make them much easier to heal, though, because staying wounded is not at all as fun. Edit: Although actually, I'd probably be better off (more variability in tone, more en...

You can in fact determine your hit points in D&D. Simply count how many cat-claw scratches it takes to knock you unconscious.

High-level characters don't just let anyone impersonate them. They have a standing policy of "Before granting me any favors, make sure to stab me in the stomach with a greatsword/ask me to fly 200 feet into the air and then plummet into a vat of lava. If it's me, I'll be fine."