>Lord imposes a travel tax for foreigners entering the walled confines of his city>Lord imposes a weapon's tax for non-military people entering the city carrying arms>Lord imposes a tavern tax for tavern owners, driving up the prices of food and board>Lord imposes a horse tax for people traveling through the city mounted (to account for the cost of cleaning up from the animals shitting in his streets)>Lord imposes a treasure tax for people selling ancient treasures plundered from old tombs and dungeons>Lord imposes a heathen's tax for people who do not regularly visit the church nor pay proper respects to the gods
>>97982372And anyone who doesn't pay is subject to fines, torture, or potentially hanging
>>97982372Oh look it's a bumpfag thread.
>>97982372>Robin Hood and his Merry Men see this injustice and start getting taking back these unreasonable taxes
>>97982372>Lord imposes death penalty for being Puckee.Kill yourself, Puckee.
>>97982390This post is off topic. /tg/ is for discussing tabletop games. You are disrupting a discussion on tax policies that might be used in at least nominally medieval Europe inspired games involving dungeon crawling. Be aware that if you continue to do so, this may result in a ban.
>>97982390Who is bumpfag?
>>97982372>>Lord imposes a heathen's tax for people who do not regularly visit the church nor pay proper respects to the godshow is he going to enforce this? define regularly. is the church going to compose a list of everyone who's going to church and who's paying attention to sevice? ain't nobody got time for that buddy
>>97982638>is the church going to compose a list of everyone who's going to church and who's paying attention to seviceYes. Heathenry invites demons, who may bring plagues and slaughter villagers. It is imperative that it be rooted out and penalized.
>>97982372This works for more scrupulous adventurers, but eventually a pack of murderhobos will appear and inevitably go on a rampage when the guards try to make them pay for anything.
>>97982372>Lord imposes a travel tax for foreigners entering the walled confines of his citySo the fact that this is a city, specifically, means that this is a trade hub. Which means that a lot of what makes this city work is foreigners coming in to trade goods. Shooting your economy in the foot to own the adventurers.>Lord imposes a weapon's tax for non-military people entering the city carrying armsDefine arms. >Lord imposes a tavern tax for tavern owners, driving up the prices of food and boardShooting yourself in the foot economically to own the adventurers again.>Lord imposes a horse tax for people traveling through the city mounted (to account for the cost of cleaning up from the animals shitting in his streets)Shooting yourself in the foot economically to own the adventurers.>Lord imposes a treasure tax for people selling ancient treasures plundered from old tombs and dungeons"Tombs? Dungeons? This is a family heirloom." No one will ever, at any point, honestly report the prominence of these things to any form of official.>Lord imposes a heathen's tax for people who do not regularly visit the church nor pay proper respects to the godsAnd who's going to administrate the keeping of records for this? The lord's men? What makes you think the clergy will permit tax-men taking census within their walls? The clergy? Then are they the beneficiaries of the tax? If the answer is anything other than yes, the clergy is going to call this a tax upon faith itself.So we have a local lord who has destroyed his local economy, damaged trade relations, upset the clergy and created a black market for relics. All to own the adventurers.And right. I forgot this is fantasy D&D land. Where bad shit involving monsters happens 2-3 times a week. When the ratman in the sewers decide that the next stellar alignment is the perfect time to start their murderous blood rituals to summon their vile god, perhaps you'll find yourself going "where are those adventurers?"
>>97982749Unironically a local lord fucking up his own place to dunk on peasants could be an interesting plothook
>>97982749>>9798282990% of local lord posting is basically just a lord trying to dunk on the players with misaimed realism
>>97982749Why are you taking this seriously? The op doesnt care about any of this, he isnt even bumpfag if I am right, just a passing by troll. Its obviously stupid, thats the point, to rile you up.
>>97982845nta, but I’m taking notes for potential plot hooks for future games where a side quest would be to depose the greedy mad local tyrant on behalf of the people/a duke who heard one of his barons is acting against his interests by going power mad, so it helps me in a small way
>>97982855>but I’m taking notes for potential plot hooks for future games where a side quest would be to depose the greedy mad local tyrant on behalf of the people/a duke who heard one of his barons is acting against his interests by going power mad,>local lord implements a window tax because no one should have more windows than his palace>local lord implements an ale tax, because he owns the breweries>local lord has a moustache tax because he cant stand anyone else looking more fabulous than him
>>97982868Definitely using that mustache tax one now, thank you
>>97982868There is at least genuine historical precedent for a beard tax.
>>97982372"Psssh... I thought you self-proclaimed "warriors" honored the Gaijin variant of bushido and were men of honor, but to tax m'ladies? Unforgivable...>I draw my katanaLeave now, this is my final warning!>I rapidly deflect your countless of polearm strikes with my swift and precise katana blowsSo you have chosen...death!>My battle theme starts playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfsBqJ4vdo&>I dash forward, bisecting countless men-at-arms after men-at-arms at the speed of light while the poor fools try to surround me. I jump upwards and spin around my axis rapidlyNINPO: THOUSAND STEEL SAKURA PETALS!>I remain suspended in the air and slash around wildly, sending out shockwaves of energy that eviscerate most of the remaining men-at-arms. The rest flee in fear and panic except for one. I land on my feet in front of himHmm! At least one of you has the guts to stand and fight like a man. I guess you're their leader. Well then... local lord-dono, let us settle this like men of honor!>He lunges at me with his crude, brutish European sword, I dodge every thrustHeh, that uncivilized weapon of yours is telegraphing your every move! There is no grace to your moves, no flow...>I spin around and strike the blade of his sword with my katana, the inferior blade shatters directly after impactSurprised, lord-dono? This is no ordinary blade, it is the katana: the sharpest and most durable blade known to man!>The local lord stumbles back, I slowly walk towards him in a slow and menacing manner with my katana lifted above my headUnlike us Gaijin, the great Samurai of the East have honor. They know that each m'lady is a queen, a gentle sakura that is not to be touched>I decapitate him with a single blow as faster than the mortal eye can see, wave my sword around once to shake all the blood off my weapon and then sheathe my katanaYou're a disgusting human being, I won't even tip my fedora at you>I walk away silently unopposed
>>97982667it sounds like an immense waste of time to have a bunch of people monitor churchgoers to check if they're faithful enough instead of actually do meaningful work for the faith
>>97982988it wouldnt be a bad idea to include it, if the whole point is that the tax is just an obvious scam to fleece more money out of people and using religion as a pretext
>>97982992Tbh the work of enforcing this task sounds like it would consume more money then it would give. You'd have to keep records of everyone who's going to the church and compare them with other records and then also keep track of everyone who's being faithful (while also defining criteria for the evaluation of "faithful"). All that requires a ton of people and bureaucratic work and records moved back and forth and copied. And also you have to appease the church for doing this work in their grounds so that's even more money down the drain.
>>97983012>just walk up to someone>tell them they arent faithful enough>but a few coins can change that>let the party see this obvious injustice in broad daylight where no one bats an eye, implying that this happens daily
>>97983012The biggest problem with the tax is that defining who or what is faithful is not, ever, supposed to be the local lord's territory. That is the POINT of the church. That is the CONCEPT of a church. The local lord is trying to usurp the fucking church, that's what he's doing. It will end with him being excommunicated and nobody will mourn.
>>97983040unless the lord and church are colluding
>>97982372Shit thread, new idea. Make your own local lord /tg/.
>>97982845Because I'm bored.
Isnt this just life in every modern city? Excluding the heathens tax but i guess thats AIPAC
>>97983378No. Try actually living in a city.
>>97983405I obviously meant absolutely everywhere including cities
>>97983146Do not reward this faggot by trying to salvage his awful threads.
>>97983012A simpler avenue would be to have some sort of fine imposed on anyone the guards catch who isn't attending a regular service. And you can have a rotating shift of guards, so that they can all attend service semi-regularly.Less bureaucracy that way, and you only really have to see someone around town during the time of the congregation in order to slap them with a fine. And if somebody is holing up in their house on a regular basis, then that will be common enough knowledge in a small community that you can basically leave the notice of a fine on their door. That bypasses the need to involve the church directly, aside from possibly chatting with the priest and townsfolk every so often to learn about any repeat offenders.By setting it up as a fine rather than a tax, it also more explicitly allows for inconsistent enforcement. A guard might overlook a normally pious man staying home to take care of his sick wife that week, for instance.
>>97983350Based honestmaxxer
>>97982372Do they tax retards for making threads without at topic OP? This is important for my setting.
>>97982372Traditional games?
>>97983600The same traditional game that causes you to post this dogshit all the time.
>>97984012Huh?
>>97983600>Lord imposes a tax for spam shitposting faggots. Penalty for not paying is death by crucifixion
>>97982924Window tax has multiple precedents. It was originally introduced as a roundabout way of doing income tax, because getting accurate data on income proved really difficult in the 17th century, so the basic idea was that the more windows your house had, the richer you were, and the more tax you had to pay. Of course, this just led to the rich removing their windows.
>>97984142>Lord imposes a windowless tax, because clearly if you can afford to remove your windows you are wealthy
>>97982577Trolling is against the rules. You will stop immediately.
>>97984047You first, pukee
>>97984240>Lord imposes a tax on Puckee
