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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5153544" data-attributes="member: 8835">Taxes opens up a can of worms.If you try to tax the PCs, they may go outlaw.It seems Thornir doesn't mind that outcome.The problem I have with that (and somebody will have a problem that I have a problem with that) is that it greatly changes the game.Some would say that's not the GM's business, but by adding the taxaxtion element, you are manipulating the game.So if the current party is a group of nice adventurers who live in town and do nice deeds, if you start taxing them, you may be able to drive them to outlawism (and they may even draw inspiration from Robin Hood).So a part of this impact of adding taxes, is that as a GM, you must accept that you have the ability to manipulate the players and the campaign, thus it is not "wholly' the players choice on what happens next.Money and economics are never fully modeled in an RPG.  To do so would require mapping the history of every item and coin in the game, so you could manage supply and demand.  Money just kind of appears as die rolls for NPCs, and treasure hordes hauled in by PCs.  What impact there is, is kind of fudged, not modeled.So, to what end do you hope to achieve with adding taxation (or any kind of money thing) to the game?  Odds are good, the real intent is to reduce the amount of money the PCs are carrying.  The simplest way to do that is to offer them opportunities to spend it on more expensive things.  Land, titles, businesses and have each of those pay out in intervals is one such solution.As Dasuul said, you can assume a sales tax is already levied and reflected in the prices of things, rather than have a tax man specifically.A question I would ponder, is how do you think the tax man would know what to collect?  How does he know how many swords the weapon shop sold?  A case can be made at the money changer, that could be government run, but regular shops would require a ton of paper work, that in a medieval society would be less likely (though we all know D&D society is more advanced that reality).</blockquote>

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