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<blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 863662" data-attributes="member: 2673">Just let her know you aren't going to be going into that sort of detail.&nbsp; If nothing else, just pull numbers out of the air.&nbsp; Cost - how much does she have?&nbsp; Tell her that for 50,000 gold pieces she can get a huge plantation in Maztica, complete with a workforce and all.&nbsp; After expenses, she can reclaim up to 5,000 a year if there are no problems.&nbsp; This is where you laugh maniacally.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.&nbsp; Realistically, let her claim half that unless she's most vigilant about keeping the workers happy and keeping the supply lines open.Say its 500 bushels a year.&nbsp; If she wants more detail than that, tell her her character will need to retire to be a coffee farmer.&nbsp; Getting bogged down into minutae will do nothing for the game.&nbsp; Owning a plantation in the abstract ties the character to the world and gives you a place to hook plots into.Just don't destroy it - maybe threaten it, give issues with it, but don't just say &quot;Oh, you get word that your plantation was burned to the ground and all the workers killed&quot;.&nbsp; And don't do it all the time.&nbsp; Let her have her happy place.&nbsp; Heck, maybe even let it become a famous brew, she'll start seeing signs in inns promising &quot;XXX's famous coffee, fresh from Maztica!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="maddman75, post: 863662, member: 2673"] Just let her know you aren't going to be going into that sort of detail. If nothing else, just pull numbers out of the air. Cost - how much does she have? Tell her that for 50,000 gold pieces she can get a huge plantation in Maztica, complete with a workforce and all. After expenses, she can reclaim up to 5,000 a year if there are no problems. This is where you laugh maniacally. :). Realistically, let her claim half that unless she's most vigilant about keeping the workers happy and keeping the supply lines open. Say its 500 bushels a year. If she wants more detail than that, tell her her character will need to retire to be a coffee farmer. Getting bogged down into minutae will do nothing for the game. Owning a plantation in the abstract ties the character to the world and gives you a place to hook plots into. Just don't destroy it - maybe threaten it, give issues with it, but don't just say "Oh, you get word that your plantation was burned to the ground and all the workers killed". And don't do it all the time. Let her have her happy place. Heck, maybe even let it become a famous brew, she'll start seeing signs in inns promising "XXX's famous coffee, fresh from Maztica!" [/QUOTE]

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