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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Amal Shukup" data-source="post: 2024271" data-attributes="member: 6291">I'm currently reading Quicksilver (Neal Stephenson) - which is set in the 17th century. Lots of explicit info (REALLY KEWL) scenes showing early 'stock exchanges' (literally buying stuff cheap and storing it in an attic until it could be sold for more), people investing in ventures (mining, etc.).Bit later, folk are buying and selling shares (and fractions of shares, and options on shares ans sell-short options on shares...) in the Dutch East India Company. Not to mention all sorts of shenanigins to artificially increase and decrease stock prices for financial and political gain.Insurance is discussed explicitly as well - How rates determine the profitability of shipping, defrauding insurers through arson...I'm not making the book sound all that exciting - but there are a number of GREAT concepts for D&D, including some wonderfully archetypical Rogues...A'Mal</blockquote>