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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 8493096" data-attributes="member: 6677017"><p>And now that I've started thinking about <em>that</em>, I've started thinking about the other side of it. While some strongholds make sense that they are self-supporting, for others they don't seem like they would inherently be able to even support their staff without some additional investment.</p><p></p><p>Take your typical house for instance. Spending the cash to buy a halfling shire house doesn't give you the inherited wealth you need to keep your larder filled and pay a gardener.</p><p></p><p>Farms make sense. Shops and Taverns breaking even without the Income addition make sense. But many of the other ones are more difficult to justify. In most cases you can think up some sort of way they <em>could</em> be self-supporting, but it is not obvious that the owner necessarily <em>would</em> want them to be. So you could rent use of your library, or rent rooms in your home when you're traveling. But many people who have libraries and homes wouldn't really want to do that.</p><p></p><p>So I'm not sure what to do about <em>that</em> complication, lol. I do like the system in general, but I'm going to need to have some sort of adjustments to it to handle this sort of thing for my suspension of disbelief threshold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 8493096, member: 6677017"] And now that I've started thinking about [I]that[/I], I've started thinking about the other side of it. While some strongholds make sense that they are self-supporting, for others they don't seem like they would inherently be able to even support their staff without some additional investment. Take your typical house for instance. Spending the cash to buy a halfling shire house doesn't give you the inherited wealth you need to keep your larder filled and pay a gardener. Farms make sense. Shops and Taverns breaking even without the Income addition make sense. But many of the other ones are more difficult to justify. In most cases you can think up some sort of way they [I]could[/I] be self-supporting, but it is not obvious that the owner necessarily [I]would[/I] want them to be. So you could rent use of your library, or rent rooms in your home when you're traveling. But many people who have libraries and homes wouldn't really want to do that. So I'm not sure what to do about [I]that[/I] complication, lol. I do like the system in general, but I'm going to need to have some sort of adjustments to it to handle this sort of thing for my suspension of disbelief threshold. [/QUOTE]
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