Re: [HoE] Sodas!!

[Joshua Thaler <thaler@mactire.com>]

Soda as presented in the HoE books is pre-war, comercially packeaed stuff. Sure,
I coud whip out some root beer or sasparilla in my backyard but that doesn't make
it "soda". In this context "soda" is very rare after 13 years. And as such is a
valuable commodity.

No lack of internal logic there.

    -joshua


Atomicandy@aol.com wrote:

> While we're on the subject of soda.  Soda costs way too much in the listings.
>  Soda is relatively easy to make.  Carbonated water and high fructose
> corn-syrup.  Yum Yum!  Soda should cost next to nothing compared to things
> like coffee, chocolate, pure cane sugar, and spices.  These all come from
> tropical sources and the closest place would be Mexico.  Time for the spice
> trade to re-emerge as a lucrative business.  (Could be some adventures in
> that as guards on a caravan.  Political intrigue and assassination to protect
> routes.)   All kinds of stuff would cost differently than in the books.
> Regional differences would make all kinds of things cost more or less.  A
> glaring mistake in "Leftovers" was the fact that beef cost MORE in Near
> Wichita, where it's relatively plentiful, than in other parts of the wasted
> west.  For players to suspend disbelief, there has to internal logic.
> Sometimes, PEG is sadly lacking in internal logic.  There,  I've vented my
> spleen.
> Rick Paige - Atomic Candy
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