Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Background: Hoard

The Resources background as it stands right now is too broad.  Mainly because it makes no distinction between liquid resources and revenue stream.  To accurately represent the two I am splitting it into two.

Resources will be as it always is, meaning Cash Flow.

While the new background “Hoard” will be static worth.  Where is Resources of 4 means you can buy within reason any number of Resource 3 purchases and regenerates back to 4 given time, Hoard will only decrease without injection of capital.

So a person a plantation that produces income will have resource.

A person with a mountain of gold but otherwise didn’t invest the money, will have Hoard.

Hoard use the same system as Resources when it comes to purchasing things.  The difference is if you buy a 4 dot purchase with 4 dot Horde you are left with 0 Dot Horde, where is for Resources you are reduced to 3 till you regenerate the wealth.

For lower dot purchases consider reach lower dot to be 1/10th the worth of a higher dot.  So 4 dot Horde can make 10 3 dot purchases before running out.

It is probably best to keep track of Horde as a decimal.

5. 0 0 0 0
Current Rank Purchase of –1 rank Purchase of –2 rank Purchase of –3 rank Purchase of –4 rank

As with most rule modifications, we’ll adjust it if it proves too unwieldy.