tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post9064193607927033420..comments2024-03-27T10:43:30.532+00:00Comments on Known World, Old World: 2kCP? It's 1d8SP that's the problem.Andy Bartletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06683770320671028815noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-13352279198098859732013-02-13T10:20:44.704+00:002013-02-13T10:20:44.704+00:00And, of course, in a world in which personal power...And, of course, in a world in which personal power (represented by levels) is derived from the accumulation of gold (as in a traditional D&D game), we might assume that shiny things might be even more attractive to fantastical versions of real animals.<br /><br />If we're not using a gold for XP system, the requirement that 'monsters' have treasure greatly diminishes... Andy Bartletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06683770320671028815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-68987039427018600722013-02-12T20:05:10.266+00:002013-02-12T20:05:10.266+00:00On the Giant Wasps issue... real life Ravens have...On the Giant Wasps issue... real life Ravens have been known to collect all sorts of shiny things in caches (though not in their nests). Rangers in the Grand Tetons have found everything from wedding rings to watches to worthless balls of tin foil.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07743065995492418172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-78975309140565089012013-02-12T19:53:54.046+00:002013-02-12T19:53:54.046+00:00My assumption always was that goblins use human (o...My assumption always was that goblins use human (or dwarven or elven or whatever) coins in trading amongst themselves for the same reasons humans use them...and they are too lazy (or maybe not smart enough) to make their own. If a gobbie wants to buy a weapon from another gobbie, he can either go make something himself, or go steal human shinys that the weapon gobbie might like. Which way do you think the average goblin would go?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07743065995492418172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-13903006147056595352013-01-29T12:11:45.091+00:002013-01-29T12:11:45.091+00:00Disturbingly, I heard that in the voice of the Cad...Disturbingly, I heard that in the voice of the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny. Who was, of course, Miriam Margolyes. Daddy Grognardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05559857164172090739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-754345668329043632013-01-29T11:27:56.191+00:002013-01-29T11:27:56.191+00:00Deliciously dreamy Wasp Amber. What is the special...Deliciously dreamy Wasp Amber. What is the special, secret ingredient? TPK.Andy Bartletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06683770320671028815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-56984705515911422492013-01-29T09:43:06.206+00:002013-01-29T09:43:06.206+00:00That's an extremely interesting concept, Dr. B...That's an extremely interesting concept, Dr. B. I can see that Waspstone or Wasp Amber (that sounds better) could find a place in a campaign milieu. Expeditions could be mounted to obtain it but they might end up like the colonists from Aliens. Daddy Grognardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05559857164172090739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-53770008446539407322013-01-28T18:04:11.899+00:002013-01-28T18:04:11.899+00:00Maybe Giant Wasps MAKE gemstones? Not true gems, b...Maybe Giant Wasps MAKE gemstones? Not true gems, but something more like amber, or pearls. Some kind of excretion that crystallises? A by-product of the activity of their venom glands. <br /><br />Perhaps they're not used as ornaments. Maybe waspstone is used as a drug? Or something fantastically mundane - like monstrous truffles. Andy Bartletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06683770320671028815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-60878950770317685262013-01-28T17:38:07.179+00:002013-01-28T17:38:07.179+00:00Another interesting discovery I made about treasur...Another interesting discovery I made about treasure and AD&D this weekend was that Giant Wasps have Treasure Type Q x 20; that's an average of 25 gemstones. Why do wasps collect gemstones? Is their natural prey lapidarists? Are there any other monsters where a little effort can net a party so much stash? I feel another post coming on. Daddy Grognardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05559857164172090739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-76308710821382426172013-01-28T15:57:52.058+00:002013-01-28T15:57:52.058+00:00It's not that, in my reading at least, Goblins...It's not that, in my reading at least, Goblins (and the like) aren't trading. It is that - at least in the assumed [A]D&D setting - for the most part, they aren't trading as individuals using human currency. There is no need for them to carry cash, except as 'treasure'. <br /><br />What can these Goblins buy with their 4SP? <br /><br />Like I said, I can imagine the leader of a tribe hauling his chest of coins, accumulated through many deadly encounters with GIANT RATS, to a meeting with a less than scrupulous human trader. But a single Goblin? He can't drop into a tavern and buy a beer, he can't pop to the market for some fresh vegetables. The assumed [A]D&D setting allows little room for much trade or peaceful co-existence.<br /><br />In the late 1980s, this would have merited an essay in Dragon, 'On the Economics of the Humanoids; or Advanced Barter & Banking'. <br /><br />I would rather go with the option that I see as being 'more fun', that there are Goblins in town - maybe despised, maybe discriminated against (and maybe they deserve it too!), but able to spend their purse of silver in the tavern, at the flophouse, with Esme at the Emporium of Trinkets and Charms. But that's not a vision of fantasy society we get in the standard [A]D&D material.Andy Bartletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06683770320671028815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750858425589737642.post-43824320222342331012013-01-28T15:44:32.633+00:002013-01-28T15:44:32.633+00:00I never even considered the possibility that gobli...I never even considered the possibility that goblins weren't trading either with each other or with human (or halforc) merchants. Hedgehobbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17606283586332210195noreply@blogger.com