House Rules

[thirdkingdom]

1)Cost of Living: Rather than spend time an energy having you guys pay for food, lodging, taxes on treasures wrested from the bowels of the earth and so forth I'm going to institute a monthly cost of living. Play begins with the assumption the adventurers have already paid their first month. This cost is in addition to their starting wealth, and is essentially handwaved. The relevant table is on p. 39 of the Core ACKS rules: we will use the higher of the two numbers. The monthly cost of a 1st level adventurer is 40 gp. This amount will be prepaid when the game begins. If the adventurers are still 1st level after a month of game time passes another 40 gp will be due on the first day of the second month. If they are, however, 2nd level, 100 gp will be due on the first day of the month.

This simply means we won't need to track minor expenses such as standard food, drink or lodging, taxes paid on income, etc.

[thirdkingdom]

2)Shields Shall be Splintered. When using a shield it may be sacrificed to negate the damage from a successful physical attack. If a magical shield is used, it removes each sacrifice uses one "plus". A magical shield reduced to no pluses becomes non-magical.