Re: [DL] Money: How much is too much?

["Caias Brian Ward" <talespinner@mindspring.com>]

Try the high life.

Fast women, slow horses, and cheap wine do wonders to your money.
High-stakes poker games.  Fancy clothing, and the ego of being part of high
society.  Sure, boots may cost 5 bucks, but wouldn't they just look great in
snakeskin boots?  Expensive women.

And, well, for the horses... if the bad guys stole the horses, and then your
posse sells them... it's stolen horses.  That's a hanging offense. :)

Caias


----- Original Message -----
From: Tabb, David <david.tabb@msfc.nasa.gov>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 3:02 PM
Subject: [DL] Money: How much is too much?


> In my campaign, my players pick up everything that isn't nailed down and
> sell it off at the next opportunity.  I'm talking guns, horses, found mad
> science, stuff like that.  This is causing them to garner vast sums of
> wealth relative to the average annual income.
>
> For instance, the posse goes up against 8 mounted thugs.  When the smoke
> clears, there are 8 dead or captured thugs and 8 horses free for the
taking.
> They sell the 8 horses for half-book, or $75 each.  They sell the guns
(they
> have an aversion to single-action, but that's a different post), gun
belts,
> saddles, everything they can think of.  They collect bounty on the bad
guys
> if there is one.  Even if they don't know whether there is or not, they
> always check.
>
> From a player perspective, this is all reasonable.  When you get the
chance
> you milk it for all it's worth.  But from my Marshall perspective, it's a
> problem because if they're too rich, a $500 bounty on some guy's head
isn't
> going to set them off on an adventure.
>
> I know this is an old problem, and the old answer is "get them to spend
it."
> But if each time they shoot up some bad guys they get maybe $90 per bad
guy,
> and rooms cost $1 a night, it's hard to get them to spend it fast enough.
> And I can't send human bad guys after them without the standard
> accoutrements.  (They haven't gone up against many powerful but cash-poor
> monsters yet because I'm easing them into it.)
>
> What can I do?  Or am I worrying too much?
>
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