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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BriarMonkey" data-source="post: 5929575" data-attributes="member: 95387">For the most part, I'd think it's the honor system.     If you are tithing 10% of your wealth, then that means your wealth - it doesn't discriminate between liquid funds (gold and silver pieces) and other forms of wealth (magic and land and property).  Thus, if you hauled in 100gp and 1000gp worth of art and property, you would owe the church 110gp in tithes.     However, that isn't to say that all churches must work the same way.  The church of "The Sparkly Holy Guy" may require their tithes from all acquired gold, silver, gems, and jewels accumulated during the month; whereas the church of "The Legless Frog God" only asks that all copper accumulated during the month be tithed; and yet another church is well supported by the noble class, so they ask of their adventurer members that they tithe a total of three items of magical healing per year.     As for enforcement, that would really depend on the church, deity, and whatever other resources they have access to.  For instance, if a church is well to do, they may be able to afford enchantments for things like detecting lies.  Thus, when a tither offers their monthly dues, the tithing box may be so enchanted and the attendant clergyman asks the thither about their dues (which may or may not be asked in such a way as to provoke suspicion from the tither).     A poor church however, may just have to rely on the tither's honesty.  But, if a clergyman is out and about and sees said tither in sparkly new plate armor, while astride their new heavy warhorse with new plate barding, yet their last tithe was only 10 copper, yeah, they will probably ask questions and try to extract their proper tithe.     The church's relation with the local nobles, or other centers of power, can also have an impact.  If a tither is found to be a cheat, the church may be able to have that tither declared an outlaw, or have other legal (or other) actions taken against them through the nobles' abilities (given that the nobles [or other power centers] are the ones that make and effect enforcement of the laws).     Given that the rules leave the whole tithing thing pretty basic, you really have a lot of room to do what you want with it.     Heck, you could even make it such that churches assume adventurers to be rich and automatically require a flat tithe of 250gp per level per month.  This could actually force some to go adventuring just to meet the tithe!</blockquote>

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