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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3848004" data-attributes="member: 9254">Don't do it without seriously thinking about it.&nbsp; Portals can seriously screw with games.&nbsp; I'd suggest picking up a copy of Magical Medieval Society:Western Europe and calculating the revenue those properties produce.&nbsp; Then you can let the PCs do fun stuff like take loans out against it.&nbsp; Sounds boring, neh?&nbsp; Well that's when you have an enemy buy up their loans.&nbsp; An overt enemy would try to foreclose as soon as possible.&nbsp; A subtle enemy would forget to remind you to make the payments and let the penalties rack up.&nbsp; A sneaky enemy might buy the loan, contract to buy your crops for the next five years, then foreclose after you failed to make a payment, take the crop as a penalty, and then sue you for breach of contract each of the next five years.&nbsp;&nbsp; A downright dastardly enemy would use agent A to buy your loan, Agent B contract for your crop of X, Agent C-E for the crop of X from everyone else in the region), Agent F have a caster destroy your crop when you were gone, force you to buy X at a highly inflated price from Agents C-E for you to sell at a lower price to Agent B but not in sufficient quantity to avoid breach of contract.&nbsp; Agent B will agree to avoid pursuing the penalties in return for a &quot;favor.&quot;&nbsp; Agent A will also verbally agree to put off payment of the loan (carefully avoiding mention of penalties), then next spring claim the seed as payment of penalties (with the option of doing some other &quot;favor&quot;). The favors will be setups for some horrible PR for the party that isn't blatantly obvious from the outset but that could be noticed if the players make a serious effort to investigate the situation.&nbsp; That way the eventual foreclosure and lawsuit (which will be done in as infuriating a manner as possible to get the PCs to do something publicly stupid) will have the weight of public opinion, so the PCs are both landless and disliked.&nbsp; If at all possible, the lawsuits will try to require any retainers stay with the property, not the owner, for at least a couple of years to further separate the PCs from their allies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 3848004, member: 9254"] Don't do it without seriously thinking about it. Portals can seriously screw with games. I'd suggest picking up a copy of Magical Medieval Society:Western Europe and calculating the revenue those properties produce. Then you can let the PCs do fun stuff like take loans out against it. Sounds boring, neh? Well that's when you have an enemy buy up their loans. An overt enemy would try to foreclose as soon as possible. A subtle enemy would forget to remind you to make the payments and let the penalties rack up. A sneaky enemy might buy the loan, contract to buy your crops for the next five years, then foreclose after you failed to make a payment, take the crop as a penalty, and then sue you for breach of contract each of the next five years. A downright dastardly enemy would use agent A to buy your loan, Agent B contract for your crop of X, Agent C-E for the crop of X from everyone else in the region), Agent F have a caster destroy your crop when you were gone, force you to buy X at a highly inflated price from Agents C-E for you to sell at a lower price to Agent B but not in sufficient quantity to avoid breach of contract. Agent B will agree to avoid pursuing the penalties in return for a "favor." Agent A will also verbally agree to put off payment of the loan (carefully avoiding mention of penalties), then next spring claim the seed as payment of penalties (with the option of doing some other "favor"). The favors will be setups for some horrible PR for the party that isn't blatantly obvious from the outset but that could be noticed if the players make a serious effort to investigate the situation. That way the eventual foreclosure and lawsuit (which will be done in as infuriating a manner as possible to get the PCs to do something publicly stupid) will have the weight of public opinion, so the PCs are both landless and disliked. If at all possible, the lawsuits will try to require any retainers stay with the property, not the owner, for at least a couple of years to further separate the PCs from their allies. [/QUOTE]

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