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[Burton Choinski]

Scott Adams wrote:
> Wow.  Attach and earth giant.  I've had a earth giant or two over the years.
> Yes and no
> on the tearing through monsters.  In some cases, it cane take some time at
> least 2-3

Well, tear through in the terms of taking them down with minimal harm to
themselves, though the earthquake would likely have killed off the hired
guards had it gone off.  There was some minimal loss (a large warhorse
that was being chewed on when they discovered it had followed them), but
otherwise no worse for wear.

> >2) The "doubles on failure" rule I am using bit them 4 times -- 3 times
> >the archer's bowstrings snapped or came undone, taking that bow out of
> >action for the combat.  One warrior flubbed and dropped his weapon,
> >losing a turn of action as he picked it up.
>
> Double on failure? A FULL turn to pick up the weapon?  I could see 3 phases
> max but a full turn?

Sorry, my bad on the terms there.  I meant "turn" and in "it's your turn
to act".  Shows how long it's been since I ran P&P.  It was one phase of
action to recover.

> but a character dropping a weapon seems a bit urealistic at times.  I mean a
> good
> swordsman had control of his weapon the only way it would normally be fumbled
> is the famous scene where the bad guys throws the sword out of the other guys
> hands.

Not necessarily dropped, just unusable -- turned in your hand, out of
position, etc.

> Insub. for 5 days how?  Abysmals should at least be somewhat related to the
> spell I figure
> like a fireball explosion back on you or sunburn badly or something stupid
> makes sense
> but say the person turning to ICE doesn't :).  Oh but thn again I see how you
> did the
> shadow powers relate to the Insub. yeah ok I think I see now.  As to
> possession

I used my "expanded abysmals" tables, found on Wout's pages.

> think it should be just like demon version since the shadow isn't really
> intelligent
> and would basically be a drone and would probably attack anyone it felt it
> should
> or nearby for laughs.

I'll have to take a detailed look at book 2 and decide.  Right now it
just razzes people and makes rude  gestures. :)

> That's a bit steep depending on the popuation.  Being a town I figure what
> 200-500 people?  Say you have alot of stations 0 which you tend to then  and
> then use a tax rate say 5%.  So that person might make   Ugh, its late but
> can't find that chart with

Vascente, 1,580 people.  It's town I marked in my Marentian Population
posting.

> the average wages for folks.  But say hes a laborer that makes 5 CC per
> week so 30 CC per month.  So he'd pay 15 BB per month in taxes which isn't
> much but is a bit steep in some regards.  I've lost my train of thought (long
> tiring day but you get the idea).  Not too complicated to figure out.

A bearer/laborer makes 1SC/month.  Assuming that this is AFTER taxation,
and assuming a base of 20% for all taxes, laborers make 12CC 5BB, of
which 2CC 5BB (25BB) is the tax.  This is 39500BB, or 395SC per month,
or 4,740SC per year. Note, this assumes a town of stick-pickers.
Vascente, located on the junction of roads leading to Maren, Scortsi and
Valeu and the river there (unnamed as of yet...have to do something
about that), it would be more of a trade center, with a higher station
average.

NOTE: This wage has to be after taxes, since 1SC/month is about 3BB per
day, which will barely cover 3FP if you assume 1/2 prices since you
gather/cook it yourself.  "Traditional" taxes were 10% to church and 10%
to king ("Tithe" meaning tenth), so using this as a base, with more
oppressive tax rates eating into the noted wages, is a good rule of
thumb.

Now granted, that 4740SC in taxes belongs to the kingdom...Given the
role of religion in Marentia I would grant it no more than 25% of the
take (it would be half or more in very religios cultures). The baron's
take would be no more then a "tithe" from the crown for his lands, or
10%.  The remaining 65% goes to Maros.  So the baron here takes in 474SC
per year.

Please note that the original "5600SC" figure is from the book one
special event of land ownership, where he owns 5600 acres of land noted
as producing "1SC per acre per year".  My player baron has stated that
he will own several of the business in the town, which will produce more
income but will force me to work out estimated tax outputs of various
industries. When that research project is complete I'll post it here.
        -- Burton

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