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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonAdam" data-source="post: 1433459" data-attributes="member: 2446">The musings of an economics guy:An economic system would be hard. I can't imagine doing one without picking either playability or realism (in relation to the rules set out by the core books) and losing the other.In the modern world, we're continually amazed when new inventions originate from a mass of millions of people. How much more so with magic? However, while such an effect could not be predicted, you could fiat something that is reasonable enough for a fantasy adventure game.An important point is the energy in the system; in any real world economy, energy is used and must be replenished (by more drilling, more labor, etc.). Magic items, as written, are not used up. Thus, as you move forward through time energy accrues. We have no real world phenomenon analogous to this. This is something that can only be ignored if it does not happen at a rate that would disrupt any individual company or political sphere with which the PC's were concerned.The really important things to consider would be game balance (of course), making it interesting for the players (I don't think people roleplay being MBA's; that would be dreadfully boring, so you have something that is going uphill relative to grabbing a sword and whacking monsters in the head), and that makes it so that the players do not quickly have society-wide effects because of one business venture.As far as a variety, I'm not sure to what degree that would be possible. Political order is everything. Magic rules are everything. Between the intersection of those two and the relationship between them (what's really to stop a powerful wizard's guild or church from taking over?) you have a ridiculous number of variables. I think you could account for differences to some degree, but it would probably be better to start with a baseline set of rules.Of course, I would gladly give it a shot if I was getting paid  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> However, whoever said that it would need to be playtested extensively is dead on. It would be worth it though, especially to get rid of the silly labor = value assumption in the core rules. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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