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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Do not trifle with Appellomancers.

Alt Text: "Anyone who tries to give you a new name is suspicious. Your parents, for example."

Source: https://www.oglaf.com/branding/

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago

I love Oglaf so much

[–] azrendelmare@ttrpg.network 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 110 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No it says right there, 20gp.

But it's still very good price

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Is it a good price though? The average wage for a commoner is 2 sp per day. The equivalent to 100 days wages for a unskilled worker.

Skilled workers earn about 2 gp per day. So this represents 10 days wages. A better bargain for sure.

Adventurers are always loaded with money, so as players our view is skewed.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, the adventurers really skew the economy. They just casually stroll up and loot hundreds of GP from an ancient crypt, awaken a long-forgotten lich, and then fuck off. It’s always up to the city guard to put down the inevitable undead army that the lich has raised. It truly is the definition of “capitalism for thee, socialism for me.”

[–] MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 days ago

Damn Mansa Musa

[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That can be an interesting story. Adventurer with their gold coins wreck a village economy until the taxperson comes

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

I wonder whether an over-abundance of gold or other coins could lead to people using the gold for other purposes (such as magical reagents). I don't know enough about how real world inflation works to speculate about how the fantasy version would work.

[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wizards gotta pay back their wizard school loans somehow. This is a pretty advanced spell after all.

But the real answer is the wizard and the commoners should band together and overthrow the <insert King/Lich/Dragon/Head Wizard> who takes all of the wealth and prevents the formation of a magical post-scarcity society.

The wizard could start by renaming the King "Little Baby Commoner"

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

10-100 days wages for seemingly a lifetime of prevented deadnaming and misgendering? That seems like a good deal to me.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

For the lower end calculating it as minimum wage it's the equivalent of $5,800.

Not a bad deal, but quite expensive still

[–] Iunnrais@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I remember roughly a decade ago I worked out that a gold was equivalent in purchasing power to somewhere on the order of $100, and $100 was a nice round number that’s easy to use to get a ballpark feel for what something is worth, so I pretty much always use that. I’m guessing inflation and/or doomsday preppers (or political culture) has significantly raised the price of gold since then. Inflation too.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

2 gp per day

I'm this economy?

Take my upvote

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It sounded like a scene from liar liar to me.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The shitty person ends up with Daphne written all over them like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago

"The pen is BLUE!"

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Or Jim Carrey in 23

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"THE PEN THAT I AM HOLDING IN MY HAND IS THE COLOR BLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL FEMALE!"

collapses

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

Gotta love a Liar Liar reference

[–] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Hell of a lot faster than going through the courthouse for a name change. Probably cheaper and more effective too.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

And that's how you know you're in the forkin' Good Place

[–] XM34@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fun fact, in a Campaign I'm playing, my Fey Bard simply "stole" the Deadname of our Cleric and now she has a total of four names and it's awesome for everyone 😄

The classic: "May I have your name?" blunder

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd go back to college to study apellomancy in a heartbeat.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

“So why is it 20 GP if all you did was wave your hands around and chant some incantations? Anyone could have done that…”

“Here’s an itemized bill. 1 copper piece for waving my hands around. 1 copper piece for the incantation. 1 copper piece for the scroll... 97cp, 9sp, and 19gp for the education and experience to know which hand waving, incantations, and spell scrolls to use.”

Seriously, every single freelancer or contractor has gotten the “Well I could have done that, what the hell am I paying you for? That only took you like 10 minutes” response after their education and experience makes the job look easy.

"I'm not paying for that!"

Casts Dispel Magic

"Fine, you do it then!"

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

not one hour ago a client emailed me annoyed that I made their 7 emails point to one web page and didn't make a separate but identical web pages for each email, obviously me being lazy.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 3 points 2 days ago

Had to check that this wasn't written by Joss Lake as this seems like a device/power from his novel Future Feeling

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

We need this

[–] TheGreatDarkness@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I suspect you could do that in Mage: the Ascension (CAN YOU GUESS WHAT CAMPAIGN I AM PREPPING?!) I could see it as Prime 5/Mind 3 for super powerful blessing that makes people lose track of thought whenever they're about to deadname you. A Mind 3/Life 2 would be less pwoerful version, you could probably add Correspondence to increase the radius of this passive effect. I do not think it may even cause too much Paradox either, it's very Cointidental magic.

This sounds like the rpg I have been waiting for

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Wtf this sounds fun