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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 7164809" data-attributes="member: 23484">Or we can talk about individual satisfaction, and the subjective understanding of comfort. Right?There's a lot of slipping between real-world concerns and game concerns here, that I think should be disentangled.You are confusing being able to survive comfortably and being able to survive without any resources. Nor to me, but I am not proficient in Survival. All of these things can be routinely avoided, as you know. I'm not sure what you mean in terms of "long-established" in this case, but (for example) the Northwest Coast ethnographic pattern had large kinship groups, non-nomadic lifestyle, that allowed leisure time for art, social hierarchies, intercultural trade, the development of literature, etc., because they had access to a high-yield, highly predictable resource in the salmon; they were hunter-gatherers. Are you sure you want to generalize about "long-established hunter-gather tribes"? The cultural expectations we possess in a world with antibiotics, industrialization, etc., have not been shared by humans for most of history. Where is the person in the game with a profession that lives poor? And who is encouraging characters to live in the woods? It's a sidebar, separate from the primary discussion about living in cities. It appears you are here talking in terms of the game, but neither of these circumstances is clear to me.I think you are making difficulties for yourself here. Do the rules cover every circumstance? No. Do they give a good benchmark so that most games can get by without worrying about this? yes. Most people playing adventurers are not concerned with day-to-day non-adventuring salaries: these rules come up from time to time, but they are not what the game is about. If I roll up a sorcerer, I am not hoping he'll get a steady job in a bank, free from risk and with long-term job stability.</blockquote>

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