Re: [HoE] Observations on bartering

[Steve Crow <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>people are stupid. just because it's not supposed to be valuable doesn't 
>mean
>they will chuck it out the window. Many people espcially the rich and or
>greedy would still try to hold on to an established monetary system. Old
>habits die hard.  just because I know smoking will kill me I do it anyway.
>Would you pass up a chance to take a dead man's wallet? you may not need 
>the
>useless cash but there just might be someone stupid enough to want it. Like
>the guys at the mall of america
>

I'm sorry if I was unclear, I wasn't referring to "cash" per se.  I have no 
doubt that the Mall of America works on the same general "generic" 
trade/barter system that the rulebook suggests for the rest of the HOE.  I 
was referring to the more complicated (to me at least) supply/demand 
glut/shortage system that had been proposed in earlier discussions, without 
focusing on it to the extent that your characters stop being "save the 
world" heroes and start becoming "let's plan the trade routes" 
Ferengi-types.

*shrug* It may not be heroic to have to go out and buy guns and stuff.  On 
the other hand, you might have to research a Fearmonger to find out his 
secret way to kill 'em.  But being able to blow him to little bitty pieces 
with a grenade launcher so you can buy yourself some time to adminster that 
"mystery cure" never hurts...

As such, it seems like the system should be friendly as possible.  Which is 
how Pinnacle made it, but which some people seemed to feel should be a bit 
more...complicated, shall we say?

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