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<blockquote data-quote="aboyd" data-source="post: 4845176" data-attributes="member: 44797"><p>In the way that I was trying to drive toward -- economic models have <em>expected uses</em> and if you go outside the expected use, the model cannot sustain itself.</p><p></p><p>In our modern-day USA, dogs are typically bred & sold on a non-bulk basis. You buy one, as a pet or hunting dog. Maybe you buy 2 or 3 or 4 if you're breeding them or if you need them for some other reason. And there are edge cases where someone will need 250, and that's fine. The edge cases don't diminish the <em>typical expected use</em> which is someone buys a couple and then they're done for a while. For a long while.</p><p></p><p>If you usurp that expected use by dropping in for 100 dogs in January and another 100 in February, the systems in place which are <em>perfectly capable</em> of meeting normal expected demand begin to buckle.</p><p></p><p>I use that example, because I am trying to suggest that if a DM used that same logic to decide that there was a dog shortage after I ran through 20 of them, I would be OK with that. So let's say he said to me, "You're buying up specially trained war dogs that don't bark, wear barding, and take combat directives... and they are <em>not</em> used to these animals being bought in such volume. They expect a person to buy 1 and treat it like a druid's bear companion, not send it forward to die on every tripwire." Well, then OK. Their economic model would then be to sell 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 to someone over the course of their adventuring career, and they'd have capacity for that. If I came along and used that same supplier to run through those dogs <em>much more quickly</em> than others do (because I am exposing the dogs to do far more than most -- using the dogs to trigger traps, using the dogs as a meat shield rather than a flanking bonus, and so on) then I'm just saying that I'm not going to object (much) when the DM says that I've got more demand than they have supply.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aboyd, post: 4845176, member: 44797"] In the way that I was trying to drive toward -- economic models have [i]expected uses[/i] and if you go outside the expected use, the model cannot sustain itself. In our modern-day USA, dogs are typically bred & sold on a non-bulk basis. You buy one, as a pet or hunting dog. Maybe you buy 2 or 3 or 4 if you're breeding them or if you need them for some other reason. And there are edge cases where someone will need 250, and that's fine. The edge cases don't diminish the [i]typical expected use[/i] which is someone buys a couple and then they're done for a while. For a long while. If you usurp that expected use by dropping in for 100 dogs in January and another 100 in February, the systems in place which are [i]perfectly capable[/i] of meeting normal expected demand begin to buckle. I use that example, because I am trying to suggest that if a DM used that same logic to decide that there was a dog shortage after I ran through 20 of them, I would be OK with that. So let's say he said to me, "You're buying up specially trained war dogs that don't bark, wear barding, and take combat directives... and they are [i]not[/i] used to these animals being bought in such volume. They expect a person to buy 1 and treat it like a druid's bear companion, not send it forward to die on every tripwire." Well, then OK. Their economic model would then be to sell 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 to someone over the course of their adventuring career, and they'd have capacity for that. If I came along and used that same supplier to run through those dogs [i]much more quickly[/i] than others do (because I am exposing the dogs to do far more than most -- using the dogs to trigger traps, using the dogs as a meat shield rather than a flanking bonus, and so on) then I'm just saying that I'm not going to object (much) when the DM says that I've got more demand than they have supply. [/QUOTE]
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