Thanks for this. Some good insights. Your point is taken, but my feeling is that you have to start somewhere, and you have to give some basis to estimating Powerstone/enchantment costs aside from developing an entire society economic simulator (although if someone developed one-- especially if you could tweak supply/demand variables-- I'd consider buying it). One could rationalize some of the expenses in your spreadsheet (e.g. lease/rent) into the cost-of-living assumptions outlined in G4e:Campaigns. Arbitrarily assigning Wealth status to a class/vocation is the starting assumption (and the one I am playing with) to the whole process. While I agree with your Powerstone use in enchantments comment, that, too, in the broader picture, is to my intuition, incorporated in enchantment cost calculations once one assumes the Wealth status designation as the starting point.
The grass root concern as I was factoring in changes in Wealth assumptions for Enchanters was the fact that discounting the total value of a quirked Powerstone led to an absolute overall financial loss due to the relatively larger gemstone value (compared with labor value). Meaning going into business as a Powerstone maker is a bad idea if one devalues a quirked Powerstone based on the total gemstone plus labor value, rather than the labor cost alone: Vic the Mage, IQ14 and Magery 3, recent Mage Academy grad, with Mathematics (VH) IQ-2 [1]-12, set down his quill and vellum. Well, the Powerstone business wasn't what he initially thought it was, what with the market devaluing quirked stones so heavily. Guess I might as well join that adventuring group, he sighed. Gawd, I hate sleeping on the ground. That being said, Alaconius' comment on worthless items being used as Powerstones for quadruple energy is also a good point. Hey! Vic the Mage thought, what if I just made Powerstone out of rocks? Vic picked up the quill, back to work with his calculations. Another column for the Excel spreadsheet... -vk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Jackson" <[email protected]> To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 10:41:36 AM Subject: Re: [gurps] Powerstone Values On 6/16/2011 7:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Um, call me slow, but I think the Powerstone Value table in G4e:Magic > on page 20 is incorrect. Is this old news ? Pretty much, but it's not really possible to generate correct numbers by hand anyway, and there are plenty of more dubious assumptions, such as the claim that powerstones aren't used in enchanting. I have a spreadsheet that I did for more accuracy, which includes a better estimation of powerstone prices; you can view it here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApW1bfeiYYxKdEhJYnRTdGhmMkNaWk0zYnkyTVNmMFE&hl=en_US&authkey=COzRmqAN _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
