On 8/13/06, Emily Smirle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm working on a character for a TL4 fantasy game with Addiction: Tobacco. The sample writeup in Basic Set lists it as a Cheap addiction, but these levels are based on starting Wealth, and starting wealth changes dramaticaly between TL4 and TL8...
The 19th century Royal Navy tobacco ration was a pound a month, for which the men were charged a shilling (a day's pay for an able seaman, more or less). That's chewing tobacco, more or less, though some sailors smoked it. A modern cigarette is about a gram of tobacco. A pound of tobacco would make about 454 cigarettes, about 16 a day(1), or three quarters a pack a day. That's in line with a moderate smoker, a heavy smoker can do two or four times that, depending. I'd expect a pipe smoker to consume about that much, too.
I'm trying to get a ballpark to see if this is really a "cheap" addiction at TL4, and how much a weeks supply of tobacco is going to run my character (and how much it'll weigh!).
Well, an able seaman wasn't terribly well paid, about typical of a laborour, though they did get room and board. (1) the RN believed in lunar months, not calander ones. -- David Scheidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
