Re: Costs in GURPS dollars
Indeed, Gurps "dollar" ($) is NOT inflationary. Prices may be rising in the market, but Gurps $ does NOT reflect that. Lets say that a group of adventures earned $1000 "Gurps dollars" in a dungeon. And that, in the setting currency, this is the same as "1000 gp (gold points, local currency)". And lets say that this double the amount of currency in the village they dumped that all out.
So, after a week they hit the dungeon again. They earn another $1000 (Gurps dollars), and yet the prices for the adventures remains the same (in Gurps dollars).
If you wanna say that there is inflation, fine, there is inflation - but that's in the setting currency (gold points), NOT in Gurps dollars.
This means that the adventures have actually earned 2000 gp this time - which by the "new cotation" is worthed $1000 just the same.
Since I highly doubt any one is willing to constantly do math around DF's "bitcoin" (gurps dollar) and yet another fictious currency for a fictious world, you just take things at face value and do not bother about it.
If you do wanna play "Gurps DF: accountability sciences" however, go ahead and do it, but it's important to say that Gurps $ doesnt require this to properly function
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