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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8809616" data-attributes="member: 18">That's just not correct. The text disagrees with you.This is EXACTLY THE PROBLEM with stuff that isn't explicit!!!Here's the text, as you quoted:So we can establish some things:1) Anyone can choose to try and pay by coming out with some kind of song or whatever. Not just poor people.2) Poor people don't have to pay at all. Cool, irrelevant to adventurers.3) People who aren't dirt-poor have to pay, but it's entirely unclear how much, it very much appears that you don't know how much, and you "risk the rebuke of the city's guards", if you get it wrong. What that even means? Absolutely unclear.Nothing is explicit here. Very little is well-explained. This is like something you'd write if you were intentionally trying to cause a problem, especially when neurodiverse people get involved. I think that's a bit ironic given the supposed good intentions of Radiant Citadel and the writers - they created a situation likely totally screw over neurodiverse people (which very much includes the players, here) and people who have trouble with social cues.It's like why can't they be up front about it? They know how much they'll accept from you. The only reason I can see if they're hoping people will "overcharge" themselves in order to get into more swiftly, rather than saying "301gp? No. Okay. 302gp? Still no?" and so on for the rest of eternity.As for gate tolls, the ENTIRE POINT of those is that they're explicit, and if they're not, they're deeply corrupt. They're not like "guess the number or we'll get mad" bollocks like this is. This is absolutely quarter-baked thinking on the part of the writer. They were like "Oh a flat gate toll isn't progressive! Let's make it super-progressive by making it not only not be charge to poor people, but also to be basically the donation you make when you go to a UK museum! Except they get mad and throw you out if it's not enough!".It's like make your bloody mind up mate. It's a mess.</blockquote>

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