Other Resources Thoughts

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• Resources Rating vs Resources Purchases

Investing

• Every investment is rated as a Resource purchase.
• Every investment has what is called a turnaround time, which is the amount of time it takes an investment to determine success or failure,and the degree thereof.

Resources

The Resources rating, for the purpose of these rules, is the number of dots a character has in the Resources Background. It represents an overall, sometimes regenerating buying power of the character in question.

A Resources purchase is a single expenditure of funds. These are rated on a scale comparative to the Resources rating. These ratings reflect how expensive the item is; if someone with a Resources rating equal to the Resources purchase scale makes that purchase, it reduces his Resources by one dot.

Example: Gilded Coin has a Resources •••• rating. The purchase of an estate is a Resources •••• purchase. If he makes the purchase, his Resources are reduced to a rating of •••.

Increasing Resources

Increasing one's Resources rating is fairly simple: by acquiring a single "Resources purchase" of a given level, one's Resources increases to that rank. From that point, it is assume that the character has an amount of money that making purchases of one dot lower or less don't adversely affect his Resources rating.

Accruing ten "Resources purchases" of equal to one's current Resources rating can increase that rating by one dot.

Shielded Resources

Resources that come to a character through Backing of some kind are far more reliable and solid than normal Resources. Where unshielded Resources are based on the character's own wheeling and dealing, making money where he can and generally tending to his own finances, Shielded Resources come to a character through the organization to which he belongs. This may be in the form of a salary, or it may simply reflect investments and income that come about as a result of association with that organization.

A Backing Background can protect up to its rating in Resources. Multiple Backing Backgrounds do not stack; the Resources of that character is simply protected by the best of them.

Benefits: Shielded Resources benefit in the following ways:

• Regeneration: Instead of Resources rating dropping permanently by a single dot when a Resources purchase of equal value is made, the drop occurs only until the next month. This, of course, is only the case if the Backing shielding the Resources rating is of equal or greater rating.
• Immunity to Attack: Shielded Resources ratings are immune to attack by the Silver and Jade system, to a degree. Shielded Resources cannot be eroded below the rating of the Backing serving to shield them.