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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 2363423" data-attributes="member: 22882">Adventurers throw money around (unless they're skinflints; it happens, especially with dwarves).  All part of the full-blooded spirit of adventure, what!  If a few platinum here and there buy you a smile and a wink from that pretty barmaid, by the gods it's platinum well spent!  Even if it adds up to thousands over the character's lifetime.When they become landed lords, things are different.  Because when you have a castle, deep down, you're not (or not just) an adventurer anymore.  A feudal lord is equal parts country sherrif, middle manager, governor, bureaucrat, army lieutenant, accountant, judge, jury and executioner.How much spare cash did Conan blow in his adventuring days?  Enough to have bought himself a kingdom, if he'd wanted it!  Yet, when he took the crown of Aquilonia, he wore it on a troubled brow not least because the finances of his realm drug upon him.  When Conan the adventurer became King Conan, he stopped thinking of himself (what need had Conan for wealth?) and started thinking about his subjects, and they, now, they needed cash in the royal coffers.  And tax breaks, which Conan apparently favored. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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