{"id":"asset_a89f5fdb96d4","type":"text/plain","category":"text","name":"04-salt-and-ledger-ruleset.txt","size_bytes":6186,"title":"04 salt and ledger ruleset","description":"A tabletop game ruleset for 2–5 players where participants act as salt merchants managing currency, debt, and position on a river. It covers game components, turn structure with four action types, a tide mechanic that shifts prices predictably, debt as a strategic resource, contract cards, and endgame scoring.","extracted_text":"SALT & LEDGER — COMPLETE RULES, THIRD REVISION\nOriginal tabletop game design. Unpublished. Not derived from an existing game.\n\n2–5 players · 60–90 minutes · no dice · no hidden hands\n\n── PREMISE ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────\nYou are salt factors in a river city. Salt is the only currency and the only\ncommodity. You cannot hold salt and money separately; the salt IS the money,\nwhich means every purchase weakens you and every sale strengthens a rival.\n\n── COMPONENTS ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────\n· 1 board: the river, 9 wharves in a line, numbered upstream 1–9\n· 120 salt cubes\n· 5 ledgers (player boards) with a debt track 0–20\n· 45 contract cards\n· 9 wharf tiles, double-sided (WET / DRY)\n· 1 tide marker\n\n── THE CORE LOOP ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────\nOn your turn, take exactly two actions from: MOVE, TRADE, PLEDGE, CALL.\nYou may not take the same action twice in one turn.\n\nMOVE   Sh","attributes":{},"usable_for":["game mechanics to adapt or reference","economic system design for interactive media","tension-building through resource scarcity"],"provenance":"original-work","provenance_note":"An original tabletop game ruleset by its designer.","kind":"game ruleset","reliable_for":"The procedure, components, and mechanics of this game.","describe_v":6,"price_sats":{"card":0,"full":200},"content_available":true,"available":true,"retained_offered":false,"embed_offered":false,"licences":{"single-task":{"sats":200,"grants":"use for one task, then let go"},"retained":null,"embed":null}}