[Glorantha] Re: Rune Magic

[Fred]

Okay, there's no point in continuing this.  You've made your point,
I've made mine, and neither of us are convinced.

On 6/18/06, Donald R. Oddy <donald at grove.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <33d89280606172111m5da21342l860ba9b29e5f6bd1 at mail.gmail.com> Fred writes:
>
> >You get my point, though... if you have a windfall, and you have some
> >cash left over after the annual harvest festival, there isn't much you
> >can do to keep it against the re-minting.
>
> True, but that isn't a reality for a medieval peasant. They're more
> likely to end up owing rent. It's like someone today earning the
> minimum wage getting most of their year's income in a single week.
> So you pay your debts and taxes, buy essential tools for the next
> year and maybe the odd minor luxury. There just isn't going to
> be hundreds of pounds (in modern equivelent) left over.
>
> Then say you have an odd penny. You're going to be charged at least
> a quarter of that to change it so why bother? Keep it until you
> need to spend it when you might have another. At worst someone
> will ask why you didn't change it at the time and you have to play
> ignorant/stupid.
>
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