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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azenis" data-source="post: 8809088" data-attributes="member: 3117">Heh....does that even cost them anything to maintain?  <Looks>  Don't think so, besides the guards they need to watch it and ask for taxes (for a grand total of two bridges by the way and maintaining roads for an area @a square mile).  The Citadel needs trade for food and other necessities, but moving off point that applying a wealth tax on PCs that aren't interested in being Shieldbearers (with expected service/sacrifice to the State and a code of conduct that frankly could be hard for a Paladin to maintain), is an issue I could see happening if the players just don't laugh in the collectors face.  Just a weird choice that should have been left on the cutting room floor because it adds nothing to expanding the appeal of 'why should I adventure here'.As I pointed out, most settings handwave this making a sort of familiar quasi-Medieval backdrop for PCs to adventure in.  They expect some fees, they don't expect income taxes.  This setting as written would probably make them care however in a way I'm sure the author of this section did not intend.  Or if it wasn't voluntary, I definitely see many PCs not bothering with it (and the DM who bought it wasted their cash if they didn't quickly edit out that bit of unfun).</blockquote>