From: Wayne Shaw (shadow@qedbbs.com)
Date: Sun 30 Jan 1994 - 12:28:24 EET
jjm@zycor.lgc.com (johnjmedway) writes:
> I'd suggest the reverse.
>
> 1. Assigning everything a barter value reminds players and referrees alike
> that these are mostly barter economies. Once reminded, they'll be more
> likely to play that way.
>
> 2. Allowing referees to determine the coin value of a "barter point" also
> handles an old bugaboo of most games: What happens to an economy when
> some ADVENTURER ( ack! ) brings home a big pile of coin. There are two
Good points. It's certainly as legitimate as setting it in either
generic silver or Lunars, and actually may be preferable for those of us
who use RQ in non-Gloranthan settings.
> P.S. Since this is a cultural question, as well as a RQ4 concern, ought
> this be cross-posted to Henk's list ?
>
Don't ask me. I'm one of the small RQ-as-system rather than
RQ-as-Glorantha-game crowd, so I'm not on any other lists relating to
this.
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