Daniel Sell

What Everything is Worth

Added 2024-04-26 23:39:57 +0000 UTC

As I said last time, work on Troika 2 is proceeding. One of the things on the list is an equipment and price list, which is what you will find attached here.

Doing this list has sent me halfway to madness, everything I see now is translated through the lens of how many hours a labourer would have to work to get it. I'd be very interested to hear if anyone finds anything egregiously out of whack in the pricing, or is there is some big chunk of consumer life that I missed. I'll expand the estates section after I have finished the domain play stuff, probably including siege related expenses.

Before this is finished, I will do a few more passes to make it more evocative in places. The religious and the provision section are what I would consider finished, 'cos they each tell a little story about what Troika is like. This has value above being a straight shopping list. Things not included, or things focussed on, all say things about the world.

I was reading 0-2e D&D to get some ideas about this stuff, and I was reminded how incredibly specific the world it describes is. Troika is everything the agrarian, feudal world of D&D isn't. Urban, chaotic, bureaucratic, so the list of things should reflect that. Also, no pigs allowed.