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<blockquote data-quote="Azenis" data-source="post: 8809058" data-attributes="member: 3117">Not talking about murder.&nbsp; Talking about taxes.&nbsp; Do you pay extra taxes?&nbsp; Do you know anybody that does?&nbsp; Do you like paying taxes?&nbsp; Let alone know someone that wouldn't cheat (or not take every deduction they could) if there were no direct personal consequences for doing so?&nbsp; So travelling merchants come in and as written 'pay high taxes' based on the value of their goods and not think about their own bottom line?&nbsp; Let alone adventurers...I've run for a variety of different groups over the years (decades) and I have never seen any player not basically severely resent getting taxed on the spoils of their adventures (I can only imagine if I tried assessing 'high taxes' based on the value of their booty/magic items<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).&nbsp; Granted, the writer at least realized that could be an issue with murderhobos and provided a mechanism to avoid PCs from telling would-be tax collectors to go pee up a rope, but again that Shieldbearer 'out' limits a number of stories options as well and really forces a certain playstyle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Azenis, post: 8809058, member: 3117"] Not talking about murder. Talking about taxes. Do you pay extra taxes? Do you know anybody that does? Do you like paying taxes? Let alone know someone that wouldn't cheat (or not take every deduction they could) if there were no direct personal consequences for doing so? So travelling merchants come in and as written 'pay high taxes' based on the value of their goods and not think about their own bottom line? Let alone adventurers...I've run for a variety of different groups over the years (decades) and I have never seen any player not basically severely resent getting taxed on the spoils of their adventures (I can only imagine if I tried assessing 'high taxes' based on the value of their booty/magic items:)). Granted, the writer at least realized that could be an issue with murderhobos and provided a mechanism to avoid PCs from telling would-be tax collectors to go pee up a rope, but again that Shieldbearer 'out' limits a number of stories options as well and really forces a certain playstyle. [/QUOTE]

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