Equipment Prices

[Choinski, Burt]

Paul Ming notes...
||    I have also found that some of the prices in P&P are a little
'hard
> ||to swallow', but overall I don't mind them at all. If something
> doesn't
> ||seem right, I adjust it on the spot. Good thing about prices, you
> can
> ||always blame the price on a good ro bad merchant. ;)
>
> Unfortunately, this makes it hard to work up general rules for
> merchant characters,
> another shortcoming I have had to work around in this latest game.)
>
> ||    The ship stuff (as well as general water info) has always
> bothered
> ||me. I assume that Mr.Schnider was planning on developing another
> ||supplement for sea adventures, but, alas, P&P got the kabosh. :(  I
> am
> ||tinikering with ships, prices, etc. Currently I am using (ever so
> ||loosely) "Sea Law" for Rolemaster.  It works for now.
>
> I looked at the Harn navel supplement, at the ship rules in RuneQuest,
> and at GURPS.
> I'll probably have some Frankenstein conglomeration of all three by
> the time I'm done. :)  Actually, I am using GURPS vehicles to work up
> the ships (making an EXCEL file out of it -- I'll release it to the
> list when I have it finished, if there is interest).  At the very
> least, I'll have a reasonable way to determine crew, cargo, size, etc.
>
> ||    One more thing that P&P could use....prices/info on building
> stuff
> ||like houses, Inns, Keeps and even castles. This is another of my pet
> ||projects that I play with every now and then.  When I do get my
> basic
> ||Sea stuff down and 'character retierment' (re: building prices, etc)
> I
> ||will put it up on my site.  :)  Don't hold your breath
> though...it'll be
> ||a good 8 months to a year.  :(
>
> I had rules for this ages ago in my game of 10 years past...my brother
> and his friends had gotten wealthy enough to purchase an island on a
> Caldan lake and start building a keep.  Unfortunately, they died in a
> later adventure, but even in my current game the "ruins" (they had
> purchased all the stone and had it dumped on the island) are still
> there.
> If I ever find that sheet I'll post it, but I fear it is long lost.
>      -- Burton
>