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Post by calithena on Sept 16, 2024 9:07:20 GMT -6
Let's say you're playing in a fantasy setting that doesn't really have consumer banking. What do you do with your big piles of treasure?
Eventually you build a stronghold and hire people to guard it for you I suppose. But that takes a while.
Has anyone made an enjoyable subgame out of things like having to sequester treasure around the countryside, leave it with friends and family, etc.? With occasional ripoffs and failures? Or rules for realistic sorts of investments in a fantasy setting, like sponsoring merchant caravans maybe?
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Post by Megatapirus on Sept 16, 2024 11:20:30 GMT -6
Let's say you're playing in a fantasy setting that doesn't really have consumer banking. What do you do with your big piles of treasure? Eventually you build a stronghold and hire people to guard it for you I suppose. But that takes a while. Has anyone made an enjoyable subgame out of things like having to sequester treasure around the countryside, leave it with friends and family, etc.? With occasional ripoffs and failures? Or rules for realistic sorts of investments in a fantasy setting, like sponsoring merchant caravans maybe? The stock solution for me was always that the coin got invested in easily portable gems and jewelry. |
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terrex
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Post by terrex on Sept 16, 2024 15:25:52 GMT -6
My 4th level fighter currently keeps the party's extra cash and items in a locked storage locker at the local fighters' guild
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Post by waysoftheearth on Sept 16, 2024 16:33:19 GMT -6
Bury it somewhere, and make a treasure map with X marks the spot.
If you are really paranoid, have a wizard "magic" the map so it is only readable by the light of a full moon. (or with a read magic spell).
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Post by howandwhy99 on Sept 16, 2024 18:59:44 GMT -6
With the cost if everything in the local boomtown, or the big city further away, the money tends to go.
Also you can have thieves steal it.
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Post by waysoftheearth on Sept 16, 2024 20:31:58 GMT -6
I also recall a game waaaaaay back where a character ate all his treasure  |
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Post by calithena on Sept 17, 2024 21:25:53 GMT -6
Xorn PC?
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gonyaulax
Level 3 Conjurer
I still miss the 1970s . . . @:^/
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Post by gonyaulax on Sept 17, 2024 21:57:42 GMT -6
Way back in the day, our original group had this problem - what to do with a whole bunch of excess treasure. So we took a couple of game sessions and role-played the buying of several city lots and built a first-rate inn and tavern.
This was the main part of the business, but the building also had the "back third" which was our base of operations: living quarters, rooms for equipment, private stables, etc. Also in this "private area" was a below-ground secure storage vault for our excess treasure and boy did we ever brainstorm over how to make it secure. I recall that we even mixed in (I think) gorgon's blood into the mortar in order to block access via the Ethereal Plane (as was explained in one of the very early books, possibly the 1e DMG.
We hired only the best most reliable people to run the business side of things, paid our taxes, paid our "protection" fees and made sure that all "management" above a certain level got a cut of the profits - so the more money the business side of things made, the more money those managers made.
Sometimes when the dungeon delving didn't work out so well, we made more money from the inn/tavern than we brought back from the dungeon!
And we had fun naming it. You've all heard of the famous New York hotel of a hundred-plus years ago? The Waldorf Astoria?
Well, we had a dwarf in our party, and he was somewhat austere, so . . .
Voila! The Waldwarf Austeria!
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This was all in Lincoln, Nebraska in the late 1970s. The most major newspaper in Nebraska over the last 50 - 100 years is the Omaha World-Herald. So when we decided to start a newsletter for the group (in order to publish results and rumors and new spells and new magic items, etc., etc. we just HAD to name it the "Wald"-Herald! (Actually, it was the "Prissthil Wald-Herald", but I won't go into where the "Prissthil" moniker came from! Ha!)
The dragon and banner in my profile picture is from the "banner" of the newsletter and is now over 45 years old. The P.W.H. = Prissthil Wald-Herald! (And "Gonyaulax" was my druid character's name . . . )
So, yeah, I'm old . . .
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gonyaulax
Level 3 Conjurer
I still miss the 1970s . . . @:^/
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Post by gonyaulax on Sept 17, 2024 22:01:11 GMT -6
As far as the Chinese characters go in my profile picture, that's an "in-joke" that we ran with back in the day.
For those of you out there who are in their late 60s or older: Do you remember a Sunday comic strip by the name of "Smokey Stover"?
That's all the hint you get. But if you actually solve it and PM me, I might send you something cool . . . (I'll have to put on my Thinking Cap!)
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Post by Algolei on Sept 20, 2024 1:56:55 GMT -6
I financed merchant ships in once game. That led to some seaborne adventures. Then all my ships sank!
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Post by calithena on Sept 20, 2024 6:33:00 GMT -6
That's rough, man.
I'm still hung up on waysoftheearth's post. I mean, I've had a thief swallow a gem or two. But eating a big chest of gold pieces? How does that work?
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Post by calithena on Sept 20, 2024 6:33:25 GMT -6
I'm imagining Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke as a D&D character. "I can eat fifty platinum pieces...."
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Post by waysoftheearth on Sept 20, 2024 22:15:46 GMT -6
But eating a big chest of gold pieces? How does that work? Pretty much like this. |
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Post by grodog on Sept 21, 2024 16:23:11 GMT -6
Has anyone made an enjoyable subgame out of things like having to sequester treasure around the countryside, leave it with friends and family, etc.? With occasional ripoffs and failures? Or rules for realistic sorts of investments in a fantasy setting, like sponsoring merchant caravans maybe? Seems like a nice set of tables for downtime play, like carousing, or the old City Catch-up Tsbles from Midkemia Press’ _Cities_ book. I’m sure it would make a great article and set of tables for Fight On #16 or 17 =) Allan. |
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gonyaulax
Level 3 Conjurer
I still miss the 1970s . . . @:^/
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Post by gonyaulax on Sept 22, 2024 9:57:03 GMT -6
Has anyone made an enjoyable subgame out of things like having to sequester treasure around the countryside, leave it with friends and family, etc.? With occasional ripoffs and failures? Or rules for realistic sorts of investments in a fantasy setting, like sponsoring merchant caravans maybe? Seems like a nice set of tables for downtime play, like carousing, or the old City Catch-up Tsbles from Midkemia Press’ _Cities_ book. I’m sure it would make a great article and set of tables for Fight On #16 or 17 =) Allan. I would enjoy something like this. While I like "carousing" tables (or stuff revolving around taverns, etc.), I would also like to see tables involving the marketplace, some dealing with local politics, and maybe some social events.
Yeah, let's get these into a future issue!
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