tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842087556081043371.post6395616121267924091..comments2022-04-01T16:46:42.462-05:00Comments on Board Enterprises: How Much Money Should Someone Have?BoardEnthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15462361536278304286noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842087556081043371.post-58682684197388139062014-10-07T22:09:35.810-05:002014-10-07T22:09:35.810-05:00I agree - hold back on paying the folks to hold th...I agree - hold back on paying the folks to hold their loyalty. But I often use the “company store” style of economy. Your pay is given to the grocery store, and you pull whatever you want from there. Yes, you could pull coin out, but the product seems to be better here than elsewhere. Maybe they can only pull 80% in coin so they’d rather get Xlbs of flour than 10sc. I do the same with trading posts - The trading post is happy to take in the pelts and then hold the “extra” on account, so the trapper has to go back to that trading post or else he may leave some value behind at the last one. I’ll have to find where the trading post comments are - I don’t recall if they are in Grain Into Gold or a blog post.BoardEnthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15462361536278304286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842087556081043371.post-41182975960885406452014-10-07T19:10:02.526-05:002014-10-07T19:10:02.526-05:00That's a crazy amount of coin. Never thought ...That's a crazy amount of coin. Never thought of it that way...<br />I guess I'd have to assume that say, a watch captain, would be given pay slips for his ten men, They would then go to the place where funds are kept to redeem them. If they were at a distant outpost, they might only receive a box of coin twice a year, and then could redeem them all at once. This would help with defections during the harsher months at an outpost, at least. And I could see credit being used a lot for huge transactions, with a (real or imagined) amount of actual coin to back it up. I can't see a fantasy economy easily going beyond a "gold standard" type of currency; it just seems like too much for speculators without the use of computers. A bookie could, but that's a bookie...not an empire. <br /> I've been thinking on the outpost / hamlet level lately in one of my setting. The affluent noble who has hired experts, labourers and settlers has some coin, but determining the value of coin in the hinterland remains a problem. Mostly what the noblewoman in question has done is write pay slips, or cheques, I guess, that can be redeemed from her bank in the region's capitol city. In the developing hamlet and keep, right now, copper and silver coins are worth something only to certain people. The hunters want good arrows, not silver, for their pelts. Or jerky, whatever. Now, the baker wants silver or copper, but will take grain instead now that it is late fall. Delving into even the economy of such a small campaign setting can be so handy for the story. <br /> The experts, like the two engineers, have been granted a verdomain (temporary lordship and tenants) of landholdings to keep them in food and shelter, etc. from the settlers "taxes", which are rarely coins now at harvest time, when veggies and fruit and beans, etc. are worth a fortune come winter. <br /> After reading GiG and other BE products, I've begun building from the ground up, so to speak. A few simple ideas can truly blossom into a very organically detailed setting.<br /><br />Great article. A.Nova Scotia Dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00442827914256027088noreply@blogger.com