[Rq-rules] Re: increasing characteristics/Playing Using MRQRules/Coinage Exchange and Encumbrance

[David Smart]

And I've "exchanged" bolgs for Wheels with a couple of trolls just by
converting their own bolgs to slingstones.

On 7/14/06, Simon Phipp <soltakss at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Frank L Filz:
>
> >> In the old RQ 2nd ed. Copy I have, 10C = 1L and 20L = 1W. 100
> >> coppers or silvers = 1 ENC, and 50 W = 1 ENC.
> >>
> >> Also, 10 Bolgs=1Clack in non-troll areas, but trolls treat
> >> Bolgs as Clacks in troll areas. 1Bolg has the same ENC as a
> >> Clack/Lunar.
>
> > Hmm, according to both editions of Trollpak, at least in the Argan Argar
> > description, a bold is worth 1/10 of a clack to trolls, and worthless to
> > non-trolls.
>
> We always took that to mean that in troll society, they used bolgs in
> place of clacks, but they traded with outsiders at a rate of 10 bolgs = 1
> clack.
>
> So, Derak the Dark Troll buys a piece of spidersilk for 50 bolgs and sells
> it to a human Issaries merchant for 5L (it's worth in bolgs at 1 bolg = 1
> clack), but he demands payment in bolgs. As the Issaries merchant trades
> with trolls a lot, he has some spare bolgs and knows that 10 bolgs = 1
> clack, so he gives Derak 500 bolgs. Cunning, eh?
> Bolgs are only worthless to non-humans who don't trade with trolls. They
> are lead and can be mashed up to make sling stones. They can also be used to
> annoy Yelmalions and other Solars.
>
> See Ya
>
> Simon
>
>
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