From: Revenant To: The GURPS Mailing List Subject: Revenant's Deunified Wealth System V2.0 Please find attached version 2 of my system for deunifying wealth. I have taken into account a lot of the comments people made on version 1. I've made a partial concession in the area of hours worked - the cost of this has been halved (the shaved points have been absorbed by Starting Income. This makes Dead Broke cost approximately the same as Poor, the drop in money offset by the extra free time. A couple of quick notes: Where Starting Wealth is mentioned it refers to basic starting Wealth for the *campaign* - not the individual wealth level in any given area. Also, the listed Basic Wealth for modern day of $15,000 was valid when GURPS was brought out. Now, $18,000 is more appropriate. You'll also notice I'm doing income a totally different way. Intermediary or extended levels are included for some of them - these will be marked with a '#'. (Thanx to tbarnes for this) Also note that, in modern societies, individuals who are on the dole should purchase wealth on an individual basis. Dole income is usually poor, but the amount of hours spent 'on the job' vary dramatically from individual to individual. Here goes: 1. Starting Wealth Purchase Starting Wealth as follows: 1/100 x Starting Wealth* -11 pts 1/50 x Starting Wealth -10 pts# 1/20 x Starting Wealth -09 pts# 1/10 x Starting Wealth -08 pts# 1/5 x Starting Wealth -07 pts 3/10 x Starting Wealth -06 pts# 2/5 x Starting Wealth -05 pts# 1/2 x Starting Wealth* -04 pts 7/10 x Starting Wealth* -03 pts# 8/10 x Starting Wealth* -02 pts# 1/2 x Starting Wealth* -01 pts# 1 x Starting Wealth* 00 pts 1 1/4 x Starting Wealth* 01 pts# 1 1/2 x Starting Wealth* 02 pts# 1 3/4 x Starting Wealth* 03 pts# 2 x Starting Wealth* 04 pts 2 1/2 x Starting Wealth* 05 pts# 3 x Starting Wealth* 06 pts# 4 x Starting Wealth* 07 pts# 5 x Starting Wealth* 08 pts 8 x Starting Wealth* 09 pts# 10 x Starting Wealth* 10 pts# 15 x Starting Wealth* 11 pts# 20 x Starting Wealth* 12 pts 30 x Starting Wealth* 13 pts# 40 x Starting Wealth* 14 pts# 50 x Starting Wealth* 15 pts# 60 x Starting Wealth* 16 pts# 70 x Starting Wealth* 17 pts# 80 x Starting Wealth* 18 pts# 90 x Starting Wealth* 19 pts# 100 x Starting Wealth* 20 pts Levels after this cost 10 pts and multiply Starting Wealth by 1,000(!) (Intermediary levels may be inserted in the obvious way). * or $10, whichever is *lower* 2. Income Income is purchased in the standard GURPS Wealth levels and has the effects on income listed in the job income table (p.192 GURPS Basic) and in Job Tables for the appropriate campaign. No Income -13 pts Poor -08 pts Struggling -05 pts Average 00 pts Comfortable 05 pts Wealthy 10 pts Very Wealthy 15 pts Filthy Rich 25 pts There are no additional levels of this as there are no jobs rated higher than Wealthy anyway! Note though that levels of Income higher than Wealthy have the effects listed on the Job Income Table. 3. Work Hours Amount of time spent earning a living is purchased as follows: 50 Hours/week -03 pts 40 Hours/week 00 pts 30 Hours/week 02 pts 20 Hours/week 04 pts 10 Hours/week 08 pts 00 Hours/week 12 pts Additional hours beyond 50 are a disadvantage worth -3 pts per 10 hours. -------------- Revenant [kgb@rosella.apana.org.au] ------------------- "The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak." - author Robert A. Heinlein on censorship.