I don't really care what you do or what other people would do. The only reason I brought it up is because you were using it as a reason to justify your downtime income, and it's not really comparable for the reasons I mentioned.
This whole discussion is about other people. This whole forum is devoted to commenting on what other people do. Saying you don't care is a bit disingenuous.
And they are comparable in exactly the way I was comparing them.
Competing with the other Churches and government hired clerics, sure. I'd have to figure out what sort of system that government used. Probably through a random roll. If a church didn't end up with an exclusive contract, then you could compete with them. On any given day I'd have to see how many people died, how many clerics were available to take care of the repose, whether they were followers of a given faith, etc. and then see if you got work.
Why do you assume that you are the only cleric in the city?
You aren't wrong about people dying. It's just not only going to be you attending to those that die.
Right, randomize it, make the numbers smaller. It can't just work, we can't just do something that gets money.
Why?
I'm probably not the only cleric, but that doesn't mean I can't get hired on to work in exactly this way. Maybe the normal cleric whose spot I'm taking wanted to have a month of vacation. Maybe they got pregnant. There are plenty of reasons this could work... but we can't just let it work. It has to be uncertain, difficult, a pain in the neck and cause more work for you and for me.
Why? What purpose are we serving by causing this to be difficult? Just realism? Or is there some other reason that we consistently shut down players making money in any way that isn't directly tied to adventuring?
Ahh, your Strawarmy has finally showed up. I guess you ran ahead of it this time and had to post a bit before it caught up to you.
Ahh, your accusations that do nothing except muddy the waters showed up. No surprise, you do it all the time. Can't possibly have a conversation with you without me being accused of something.
Just curious, are you familiar with the Fallacy Fallacy?
I didn't say businesses are run how the real world does it. I said making money is a goal of businesses. I also never mentioned marketing at all. I don't even know where you pulled that out of. Unless nobles live in the woods with bows and spears in hand, they aren't going to be hunting all that often and again, hunting injuries are pretty rare.
The only one pulling the real world into this is you, and D&D just doesn't use real world infection rates. If it did, with all the cuts PCs get in combat, no party would live to see 3rd level.
I forgot, you never pay attention to anything someone other than you said, so you will never respond to something like that.
However, you've debated with me long enough to know that I do reference the entire discussion, not just you. Also, supply and demand? That's a real world phenomena. You brought that up.
Nah. It's your obsession with something that ended pages ago. Let it go man.
I'm not letting go of MY CORE ARGUMENT
Do you actually bother to read what I post? Or do you just assume that you know my position and respond to that? Because you keep trying to make it like I was obsessing over a detail, like that was my entire argument.
I couldn't even begin to guess why others missed it.
Or, maybe, they didn't. Maybe Downtime is a minor detail that you latched onto and refuse to see that the actual discussion is about something else.
You do know that there are multiple goals to things, right? If you don't have a goal of making money, then you've failed at everything you listed before you even began.
Go back and re-read, I didn't say THE goal. I said A goal. You don't get to the goal you just mentioned without having a goal of making money as part of it.
"If your means aren't a goal then you have failed from the start, after all, the methods you use are goals unto themselves"
Somehow... I don't think that makes any coherent sense. Methods and means are not goals. And, this doesn't matter at all. You posited that a major goal of my character must be to make money, and I pointed out that that is not a guarantee, could be doing all this for a large variety of goals. Sure, making money is a part of the plan, because money is a medium for value. But that doesn't make it a goal.
Just like using ink isn't the goal of writing a story.