Timeline for Castles construction costs in D&D
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| Sep 28, 2012 at 22:50 | comment | added | gomad | @SamuelRussell - I would say instead that militaries are about maintaining concentration gradients of wealth and resources. They can maintain multiple gradients simultaneously. That is, the same soldiers that keep the peasants from taking the king's gold also keep the soldiers next door from killing the peasants and taking their wives and livestock. ACKS also has rules for many other aspects of realm management, including taxation and expenses, vassalage and loyalty, favors and duties. | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 4:31 | comment | added | Samuel Russell | Military apparatus should effectively cost a %GDP (or equivalent total social product/mobilisable labour pool). Militaries are about the man keeping you down (tell it like you mean it). Any technology change is going to complexify the apparatus in use, but it'll still cost an equivalent proportion of social effort. So basically drain player's treasure reserves, and then add 40% to the budget. Also attack the castle while they're setting it up. Hooks galore plus financial motivation and probably a need to infeudate poor peasants. | |
| Sep 26, 2012 at 0:27 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | It does? Cool! I have to review... | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 22:57 | comment | added | gomad | @SevenSidedDie - I had to go back and look at my ACKS book after you said it didn't have piece-wise costs. Turns out, it does! | |
| Sep 25, 2012 at 22:56 | history | edited | gomad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added details about piece-wise costs
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| Sep 17, 2012 at 3:29 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | Yeah, those are rules that can be adapted to any system. The con is that it doesn't give piece-wise costs—no "wall, curtain, per 15 feet" price lists—but the pro is that it bases costs on the amount of territory the castle can control, as well as the various trade, garrisoning, religion, and even roleplaying choices about rulership style that influence your costs and income as your rule continues beyond the mere construction of the castle. | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 3:06 | history | answered | gomad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |