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<blockquote data-quote="KenHood" data-source="post: 4749594" data-attributes="member: 4413"><p>Mr. Pinch sniffs. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"><span style="color: DarkOrange">"Essentially, you want more money. Correct?"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"><span style="color: DarkOrange">"Very well, 300 gold pieces for the winner, but you're putting me in a tight spot as far as recuperating my expenditures." </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"><span style="color: DarkOrange">"We have a very slim margin of profit on these matches, offering them primarily as a public service, sort of an ambassadorial extension between the 'civilized' and the 'monstrous'. An olive branch, if you will. Anything beyond our operating costs goes directly the maintenance of orphans and widows of our kith and kin slain by adventurers. In essence, you're stealing from the mouths of starving babes, but if you can rest with <em>that</em> on your conscience..."</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>He shrugs.</p><p></p><p>And seems a little sad.</p><p></p><p>As if there's just a little less light in the world. A little less goodness and decency.</p><p></p><p>But, hey, you got the gold.</p><p></p><p>[sblock=OOC: Skill Checks] Go to this site: <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/" target="_blank">Invisible Castle</a>.</p><p></p><p>I roll this for your character: </p><p><a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2018533/" target="_blank">Diplomacy Check (1d20+5=25)</a>.</p><p></p><p><strong>Point of Consideration:</strong> When you're comparing the gp value of a TURTLEDOME! fight to a regular adventure, you need compare the degree of risk, too. Your characters cannot die in a TURTLEDOME! fight, and you do not expend non-renewable resources. Now, if you were willing to place 'Fight to the Death' on the table, I'd consider a significant increase in the gp value of the match.... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p><p></p><p>Also, you may have noticed that when you ask for more money and get a successful result, you get 100 gp.</p><p></p><p>However, you might want to abandon the 'We should get more money because--doggonit--it sure is inconvenient for us to fight in your arena' angle. That's not going to work for much longer.[/sblock] </p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">OOC: Skill Challenge Progress -- Success: 4 (of 8), Failure: 1 (of 4)</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">And hopefully the players have died a little on the inside realizing that babies will be drowned in the ocean by mothers that cannot feed them as a result of the increased prize money. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KenHood, post: 4749594, member: 4413"] Mr. Pinch sniffs. [SIZE="4"][FONT="Palatino Linotype"][COLOR="DarkOrange"]"Essentially, you want more money. Correct?" "Very well, 300 gold pieces for the winner, but you're putting me in a tight spot as far as recuperating my expenditures." "We have a very slim margin of profit on these matches, offering them primarily as a public service, sort of an ambassadorial extension between the 'civilized' and the 'monstrous'. An olive branch, if you will. Anything beyond our operating costs goes directly the maintenance of orphans and widows of our kith and kin slain by adventurers. In essence, you're stealing from the mouths of starving babes, but if you can rest with [I]that[/I] on your conscience..."[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] He shrugs. And seems a little sad. As if there's just a little less light in the world. A little less goodness and decency. But, hey, you got the gold. [sblock=OOC: Skill Checks] Go to this site: [URL="http://invisiblecastle.com/"]Invisible Castle[/URL]. I roll this for your character: [url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2018533/]Diplomacy Check (1d20+5=25)[/url]. [B]Point of Consideration:[/B] When you're comparing the gp value of a TURTLEDOME! fight to a regular adventure, you need compare the degree of risk, too. Your characters cannot die in a TURTLEDOME! fight, and you do not expend non-renewable resources. Now, if you were willing to place 'Fight to the Death' on the table, I'd consider a significant increase in the gp value of the match.... :eek: Also, you may have noticed that when you ask for more money and get a successful result, you get 100 gp. However, you might want to abandon the 'We should get more money because--doggonit--it sure is inconvenient for us to fight in your arena' angle. That's not going to work for much longer.[/sblock] [INDENT]OOC: Skill Challenge Progress -- Success: 4 (of 8), Failure: 1 (of 4) And hopefully the players have died a little on the inside realizing that babies will be drowned in the ocean by mothers that cannot feed them as a result of the increased prize money. :devil:[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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