BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I don’t think this quite works as written as Debt isn’t tracked by Noblemen themselves; the daily action would have to be to message me and then I do it, updating Power accordingly, and I don’t think I want that kind of a workload on a daily basis.

A prestige / power trade off would be better, I think.

but pretige and power are both hard to get, converting an abundant resource into a scarce one seems more useful.
is there no way to have a noble man edit their own money while not being able to see others debts and letting you see them all?

Maybe we could have an amount of money “on hand” that we can use to remove debt or spend on stuff like this.

We can already convert Debt into Power by winning auctions: Items have “an impact upon the Power and Prestige of the possessor”. The existing antique Ottoman chess set is +1 Power, +1 Prestige.

Remember also that Power can go negative, so technically is as infinite as Money, albeit in a way that should carry a negative effect.

My idea for Prestige is that it’s not a currency - it’s the dynasty’s Victory Points equivalent - while Power is a side-currency that can be used to powerfully impact other mechanics but at a risk.

“is there no way to have a noble man edit their own money while not being able to see others debts and letting you see them all?”

There could be a wiki field for “pending transactions” that I can blank once every period and incorporate into Debts, I suppose.

for this but would be interested in further thinking along these lines.

“Pending transactions” is a good call: since the Debt victory block is secret anyway, it wouldn’t make it any more complex to make it a Debt+Pending victory block.

Per Louis XIV. (I’d vote DEF, but it would be invalid.)