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I haven't read the downtime rules yet, but thank you all for the feedback. The DM is very mechanical, indeed. Been a fun first campaign, though.

I don't know if this is in those rules or not, but sorc said that 50% is for the worker, 40% is to her, and 10% is to the Crown. So that's nice.

We're not trying to game the system. We're just concerned because the trolls were almost a TPK and my character only survived because of the DM's mechanical interpretation. "They attack until ko and then move on." This saved me at -9 (against ten CON) and one more attack from his full round.

As for the gameyness of it, I would point out that unrest for withdrawals is already gamey. In the medieval world, there wasn't a treasury, only the king/duke/count/Baron's purse and all debts were owed personally instead of at a "state" level. So they're getting mad that I'm using my money to buy things...

Also: Sorc is a longtime player who could've broken the system to smithereens by now, if that was her intention. Tmk, she plans to blow most of the gold on fluff an filler.

However, now that we're in agreement that it's gamey, are there other ways of generating wealth for the pc's? I've seen the salary suggestion, but he is pretty cautious about adding new books, so I don't know if he'd go with home brew.

Fair enough. It just seems that we're under equipped at some points. Ah well. I suppose things will work out as the downtime rules start helping with that.

Edit:
I realized that our equipment problem may be simply magnified by the fact that we're very rapidly moving from challenge to challenge instead of spending time getting our affairs in order. It doesn't help that our GM had 3 major threats appear all at once and we had a timelimit to take them all out. (Not saying what they are to remain spoiler free.)

She has since clarified her position, Andostre. She's the most experienced of our group, so I misunderstood her intention. She meant it would be a waste of a feat if I used it in the vein of making a knightly order or something. Using it to make money, she'd recommend.

She has suggested that I take Leadership to make the first national bank. (Though this really rustles my jimmies, due to the complete historical inaccuracy of state treasury, much less national banking.) Anyways, I think following her suggestion and having each of our members take Leadership for various economic endeavours would make the most cents.

Anyone got other suggestions, though, or is this really the only way for PC's to generate income?

(I preface this that this is my first dedicated campaign, so I'm a novice.)

My GM is the very literal sort when it comes to alignments, and has already threatened my Pally king with punishments for acts we disagreed about the morality of. (We bombed a knowledge check and offered the Kobolds the bandit bodies as a friendly gesture. He called it chaotic, I called it practical use of resources.) So I can't pull funds from the treasury, even if I can afford it unrest-wise. So my question is what ways can I generate personal income?

Our Sorcerer is using Leadership to have a guild produce and sell items. She's insistent we not do the same because we'd be wasting feats, but it's hardly right to rely utterly on her income. I could invest in a Craft skill I suppose, but I'm unsure of the effectiveness of that route. Would taking another profession be a better route? (I picked up Cartography for the mapping in book 1.)

Third-party, Paladin, LG, lvl7
Str: 10
Dex: 10
Con: 10
Int: 18*
Wis: 12
Cha: 14

*Third-party race has a feat that allows Int instead of Str on melee rolls.

70. Attempting to get on the kobold's good side by offering them bandit bodies to eat because no one in the party knows.

My character has the "Blood of Dragons" bloodline trait and I plan to level into the Dragon Disciple class. I am curious if the half-dragon transformation would affect the age rate and age stages of my character.

In case I haven't been clear, I mean these age stages:

Human -
Middle Age: 35 years
Old Age: 53 years
Venerable: 70 years

Would becoming a half-dragon extend those? I assume I'd start in my current stage and not the chronological age (adult stage, not the year equivalent) and that I'd not get anything near the aging slow down of full dragons.