Cooking?

I keep running into "Oh, that part of the rulebook is out of date," so frankly I figured that section was either the same or the kitchen ran on different rules. Since I was told that food cannot be purchased with OOG money, the latter seemed pretty strong. I wouldn't be complaining about the difficulty of earning gold if I could fork over some actual dollars for food. I've never even bought a fate with gold because I have to save it for food. Ironic, since everyone I know would rather do just that.

I also figured that a portion of the IG payment would go to the bank as a usage fee (and help get gold back into the economy, such as it is).

Caldor, I'll send you a PM.

I don't know who told you food cannot be purchased with IG money. It can be, and often is.

He said OOG money, Jason, and I think it's a bit of a misunderstanding, there are many folks who sell food that don't take "Baronial Notes," but plenty others will take real money as payment, I thought.

To be clear, as that statement was a bit confusing, Baronial Notes and real money are the same thing.

Anything sold by the kitchen officially (breakfast and lunch, occasional leftovers based plates) can be bought with Ig or OOG money. Anything sold by a player is entirely at their discretion, subject to the cost restrictions for charging ig money quoted above.

I know I'm not the only new player who was told that this is not so. I checked with someone else, and he confirmed it. Neither of us remember who it was, because, well, we're new.

I've had to save all my gold, such as it is (I've earned a total of 35 over three sessions) for food, and still had to depend on others to buy food for me, or leave the camp entirely to go get something fresh. I hadn't wanted to depend on storage at the kitchen, and I had been told (also erroneously, it seems) that I couldn't have food at a cabin because of animals. I've never even bought a drink at the bar because I needed to save my gold.

Considering how many things I've been told as a new player and later found out was wrong, or read in the rulebook and found out was out of date, I think the information flow to new players is sorely lacking. It's getting really frustrating.