opaopajr
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After much deliberation, Opaopajr, the only bean that I want to be counting in my medieval fantasy adventures is Jack's* !
*from Jack and the Beanstalk
So you're saying bean counting needs to be couched in taking advantage of the poor (widows) & gullible (children) ... Yes. Excellent. Your GM has likely gained much opportunity with this admission and would thank you for your honesty.
(Honest answer, it's probably because of the assumed "starting balance" of the shared experience that rubs people at tables the wrong way when exceptions are handed out.
My personal solution to that issue -- issue being not mere reskinning, but gear that comes with actual mechanical effects -- is at my tables I can offer players to go in DEBT with their PCs with my GM case-by-case basis permission. That DEBT can be actual negative coinage, which would directly affect Lifestyle comfort, and future gearing up, OR portioned out to NPCs (known or unknown) who will call it in later (FAVORS). The advantage to that is it creates adventure opportunities, and it also is a nice goad to PC behavior as FAVORS can be traded to other less savory NPCs as one's reputation or attitude plummets. It's bean counting of a seemingly easier but truly more annoying, social sort... and I do love counting those beans. )
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