One, the “natural resource” of monster hoards has been drying up as the heroes over-hunt. So when a beast takes down a well-trained hoard adjustor, it’s generally expected to have more valuable loot.” The most deadly monsters have usually done the most pillaging, you see. Sent a hoard adjuster out and everything.” Snithe.” Snithe had clearly been expecting this line of questioning. “This hoard was projected to be valued at fifty thousand giltin, Mr. Mixed in with the main action, we get behind-the-scenes glimpses of that side of the industry. Bankers and investors take out stakes in each adventure, funding them for an expectation of a strong return when the quest is successful. They are also backed by a whole investment system. Professional heroes are part of a guild and assigned ranks (which are suspiciously like character levels), and they take out contracts for a cut of the treasure. A sizeable chunk of the economy is the Hero industry. In this case, capitalism comes to fantasyland. All those aspects of fantasy that we accept as part of the genre, but wouldn’t possibly fly in a realistic setting can become hilarious when when there are accountants and bureaucrats making them possible. It takes fantasy tropes and shows what kind of infrastructure it takes to make them work. Zachary Pike does one of my favorite things in comic fantasy.
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