Comments on: The Influence Of Distance Part 3: Far (The first half) and bonus worldbuilding tools https://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/influence-of-distance-far-3/ Expert advice on creating and running exceptional campaigns. Winner, Silver Ennie 2016 for Best RPG Blog! Tue, 03 Apr 2018 03:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike Bourke https://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/influence-of-distance-far-3/comment-page-1/#comment-144673 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:59:12 +0000 http://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/?p=21267#comment-144673 In reply to Michael Price.

My sources suggest otherwise, but it’s always possible that they are incorrect. See, for example, “An Economic History of Australia” by By Edward Shann, pages 44-51.

As an experiment, it didn’t last very long, ending in the Rum Rebellion.

]]> By: Michael Price https://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/influence-of-distance-far-3/comment-page-1/#comment-144658 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 07:47:33 +0000 http://www.campaignmastery.com/blog/?p=21267#comment-144658 “The Colony had been conceived as a social experiment, a moneyless community, but – as always happens in such cases”
The colony was never intended to be moneyless, and if fact there were repeated government attempts to import coinage, which continually left the colony. Eventually they punched the centers out of the coins so that nobody outside of the colony would use them.

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