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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonAdam" data-source="post: 1433987" data-attributes="member: 2446">That's what I meant by `realism,' and I'm not even sure that that's doable. If everyone in a D&D world acted according the rules laid out in the core books, none of the assumptions they make about the praxeological world would hold.Any chaotic (and almost any neutral) god would be foolish not to grant spells to any faithful followers. Any peasant with a wisdom 10 or higher would be foolish not to pray for those spells. Imagine a world where most peasants could cast purify food and water and create water. We have no way of modelling that.When wizards and higher level clerics start getting into business ventures, it becomes even more complex.This is all fine, because the D&D spells and classes were not meant to model a world as a whole, but rather adventurers. Because they are presented as rules by which the world operates, however, I think you lose what alot of people would like to pretend is versimilitude.Again, this is not a total barrier to getting it done. It's just to say that, like the adventuring rules, you've got two options: just ignore the consequences of the rules and design everything to be fun for the genre you're modelling (the D&D solution, a fine solution IMO) or have to find a way to model a whole world.My point is that anything that did anything but fiat the existing world would totally break down the minute the players starting showing any initiative. So the rules, like the adventuring rules, have to focus on playability for the PC's and just fiat the rest. Hence the tradeoff that I think is inevitable...And yes, I never claimed to be the only econ guy around here. I just figured that I would let people know which perspective I was coming from, for the sake of full disclosure and all that.Edit: Having thought about it a little more, I guess I'm saying that "economic system" might not be doable, if we understand "economic system" as, you know, an economy. What we might be after is really models for the players to run a business in D&D in the context of whatever economy the DM fiats a kingdom or world to have.</blockquote>

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